Now, a small cadre of philistines in my office has been using the word "outreach" as a NOUN... "Were you able to establish some outreach with the printers?" etc.
What language abuses have been rubbing you raw lately?
― andy, Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link
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― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
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― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
Four Words: Use Other Words Please"Use other words please."Commonly used phrases that inexplicably bug youMost irritating cliche/phrase/expression"Taking Things to a Whole `Nother Level!" words that annoyWords that should earn the author a slapPROVERBIAL and other tip offs to poor writing
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
-- caitlin (wpsal...) (webmail), December 23rd, 2003. (caitlin)
Oh yes, yes yes. I second that one. And the people who say it, say it over and over.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
This is true.
But, this is a topic that should be dealt with routinely and harshly... the only way we can correct the language and suppress it's organic growth is by exposing and banning every new usage as it occurs... Isn't that what the French do?
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Melly E (Melly E), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Monday, 29 December 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Monday, 29 December 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 December 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.
Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 29 December 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
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― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
shart to the Lord
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:00 (one week ago) link
Hoist a cold frosty one up to the Lord
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:30 (one week ago) link
High five the Lord
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:33 (one week ago) link
I don't think I've been to mass in 15 years and yet reading the above I was lifting my heart to the lord and giving hella thx and praise. It crazy how you just don't forget those things.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 8 April 2024 18:08 (one week ago) link
In MS Teams you can "send praise" to someone, and also view your "praise history" and we use it for comedic effect but it's a little bit triggering tbh.
More in the spirit of this thread: In a direct service-style environment where people/organizations do a lot of service provision, there's an unfortunate tendency to say that you have "serviced" someone, and I just...I respect people who don't hear this with sexual connotations but I myself can't escape it. I'll say we "served" our guests but my brain just won't engage with "servicing" them.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 8 April 2024 18:12 (one week ago) link
lol
― budo jeru, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:31 (one week ago) link
I saw a sign on the road yesterday that read "Fines Double When Workers Present" and I kept thinking of "present" as a verb (think primates and sex) and laughing. If a highway maintenance worker presented at me like a mandrill, I might never recover.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 8 April 2024 19:39 (one week ago) link
I realize that Empire Records is terrible, but a few notes as someone who watched it every few weeks for many years: - I still say "shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior"- the music in it is actually, like, not terrible? the soundtrack has some great songs on it, including "Bright as Yellow" by the Innocence Mission, the Christian alt-folk band that I have a thing for. - Brendan Sexton III is a fine actor
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 8 April 2024 20:18 (one week ago) link
why would empire records have a higher bar set for it than any movie aimed at cool teenagers ever tbf
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 8 April 2024 20:34 (one week ago) link
It suffers a lot when compared to other movies aimed at cool teenagers.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 8 April 2024 20:49 (one week ago) link
― sarahell, Monday, 8 April 2024 21:09 (one week ago) link
I have been in many meetings where “service their unit” has been said
― sarahell, Monday, 8 April 2024 21:11 (one week ago) link
And then there is “service the members” …
― sarahell, Monday, 8 April 2024 21:12 (one week ago) link
"Why isn't there a thread about (_________)?" thread titles
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Monday, 8 April 2024 23:36 (one week ago) link
Lol what
Someone sent me a cold email proposing a novel project. Then I noticed it used the word "delve."— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 7, 2024
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:08 (one week ago) link
"Can't wait" has started to annoy the shit out of me. Especially in its first person plural form."We can't wait to see all you lovely people for what promises to be a very special night." "Guess what, it's nearly Easter and we can't wait to show you our special Easter menu!"
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 23:32 (one week ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3xICOc13wk
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 23:42 (one week ago) link
In the speciality corner "Abbreviations that annoy the shit out of you", I've just realised that a common denominator for me might be abbreviating a word to end on an "O". Don't like "mayo", don't like "Glasto".
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 21:53 (one week ago) link
Avo
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 21:54 (one week ago) link
I blame Australians.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 April 2024 21:58 (one week ago) link
Yeah, but I don't mind it if it's added to a word that didn't have an o in the first place. Arvo? Smoko? Go for it.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:09 (one week ago) link
I know afternoon has is in it but I mean it hasn't been truncated at one of them. Afterno.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:10 (one week ago) link
'sunnies' for sunglasses
Pretty sure 'selfie' originated in Australia
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:16 (one week ago) link
i also find these cutesy truncations annoying, except when australians do it! idk why. it just seems so hot and dusty over there they deserve a little fun
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 April 2024 19:05 (one week ago) link
I can't go a day without encountering the word "liminal" and it drives me nuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 April 2024 15:13 (six days ago) link
That's a great word!
― beard papa, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:37 (six days ago) link
I like it, aesthetically, but I'm pretty tired of encountering it.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:39 (six days ago) link
Yeah "liminal" is a word that all of a sudden i started seeing every day.
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:41 (six days ago) link
i just played superliminal last week for the first time and i loved it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:41 (six days ago) link
i wonder if it's related to everybody being a "switch" nowadays ;)
― budo jeru, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:44 (six days ago) link
Liminal became an aesthetic identity. It always happens to the best words.
― Jeff, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:45 (six days ago) link
It's just nice to see that the singer for Kajagoogoo is still the talk of the town.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:38 (six days ago) link
Umm, he was actually the bass player
― Andy the Grasshopper, Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:40 (six days ago) link
Ha i was thinking earlier this week how liminal has been ruined
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:23 (six days ago) link
and 'liminal space' in particular. which doesn't have any good synonyms but now means the creepypasta thing where everything looks like the video to one of moby's ambient tunes
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:25 (six days ago) link
except when australians do it! idk why. it just seems so hot and dusty over there they deserve a little funIt kills me when people say this, as I stare out the window after a week of miserable pissy drizzle and 14C days, th weak watery autumn sun trying its best on grey Melbourne cobbles.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:52 (six days ago) link
i was purely joking, sounds like you do deserve a little fun though!
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:02 (six days ago) link
“liminal space” synonym is “the backrooms” according to the kids iirc
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:38 (six days ago) link
^ yes
I kept getting backrooms stuff on Tik Tok and had to figure out wtf it was supposed to be.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:46 (five days ago) link
The what? What’s the back rooms?
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 15 April 2024 12:55 (five days ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 15 April 2024 12:57 (five days ago) link
John cale to thread
― subpost master (wins), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:00 (five days ago) link
Ah OK like Severance
― kinder, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:42 (five days ago) link
Doesn't annoy me that much except when watching US State Department press conferences (like right now) where absolutely everybody says it every minute or so: "speaks to" instead of "speaks about" or "speaks of".
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2024 17:21 (five days ago) link
the neverending usaaaaage
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:16 (five days ago) link
based on that wikipedia article, I'd identify that backrooms stuff as just yer basic "objective correlative" for a particular kind of dread that has been showing up in post-armageddon films and stories for half a century at least. otherwise known as "here's the church and here's the steeple, open the doors, where are all the people?"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:43 (five days ago) link
This post resonates with me (I do not resonate with it): https://annehelen.substack.com/p/i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:44 (three days ago) link
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Heh
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:18 (three days ago) link
speaking of xennials...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/magazine/singles-rom-com.html
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:52 (two days ago) link
Steward / stewardship … it alternately makes me think of the Dickies song “if stewart could talk” or flight attendants…or the Love Boat … I don’t hate it, it is just annoying because the meanings in my head are so unrelated to the intended meaning
― sarahell, Saturday, 20 April 2024 00:29 (four hours ago) link