Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

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?

Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....

'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.

Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?

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?"

As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form

When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?

Or a colon.

COINKY-DINK, "guestimate," and any time someone ends an interrogative sentence with "at," as in "Where's my keys at?" or "Where's your head at?"

"hating on"

"Action" used as a verb. (Especially with regards to some annoying little thing I had already been doing.) "Can you please action this?" Actually, no I can't. Action is a noun. If you would like me to DO it, then just ask. Argh.

Especially when coming from the same irritating marketing bods who last week asked me to "manage the relationship" with one of our suppliers. Fuck. Right. Off.

A term of address directed at Turkish shopkeepers by 13 year old boys and directed by Turkish shopkeepers at everyone else. The most annoying ever.

DON'T MADAM ME, YOU LITTLE...!!! OK, according to Watching The English, this means that they have socio-status assessed me as middle class or higher. But it irritates me because it makes me feel old.

'Whilst'

"AARRGGHHH!!! I certainly hope it will be taking off longer than that - we're flying to London!"

"Sanga" is the Australianism.

"source of truth"

― reggae mike love (polyphonic)

Useful jargon with a specific meaning sorry

sanger wokkas mate

yeah nah

What about "sarnie"?

also bad

V bad.

Just call it a damn sandwhich. Cutesy nicknames that aren't any shorter drive me nuts. Brekkie, Crimbo, sunnies etc.

we had a place here that went the other way and it was worse - 'wiches

Americans often use the vile ‘sammiches’, so nobody is covering themselves in glory here.

Never heard either of those thankfully.

I don't mind "resonates".

It's a shorthand way of saying "that thing you've just described is really meaningful to me, but it would probably be too boring and unrelatable to explain, so I'm just going to say 'resonates'"

The word "resonate" itself isn't the issue, it's saying "I resonate with x" instead of "x resonates with me."

'i resonate with x' makes more logical sense to me. i'm the one reacting, the x isn't doing anything.

following the logic of the analogy it does make more sense for the object to resonate than the subject

Agree with J - "i resonate with x" sounds very strange to me the same way that it sounds weird to me when people here say "you suit green" rather than "green suits you".

I resonate with sarnies.

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I have gotten used to it but I still will sometimes think of it literally… like sandwiches causing the speaker’s voice to become an operatic vibrato

I definitely don’t say it… it also sometimes makes me think of vibrators and like the person getting off sexually on the inspirational meme about collective farming

Sarnies resonate with me = Sarnies get a sympathetic response from me

I resonate with sarnies = I get a sympathetic response from sarnies

isn't Sarnies that theatre bar in NYC

Sarnies resonate with me = Sarnies get a sympathetic response from me

I resonate with sarnies = I get a sympathetic response from sarnies

physically speaking that just seems completely the wrong way round (i know it's what we old folk have always said)

I wonder if "I resonate with x" has become more popular recently because of analogous constructions like "I vibe with x" and "I fuck with x."

my guess is yes

it's another way of saying vibe with

Americans often use the vile ‘sammiches’, so nobody is covering themselves in glory here.

Or more often sammies — which tbh of all of these I don't mind.

who wants a hammy sammy

Federal prosecutors can indict them iirc

Both the sandwich infantilism and the resonating are usages I have come to accept but I still don’t like and never say … and have to consciously avoid having a negative facial expression in response

I used to really hate the term “apps” to refer to appetizers, but I have come to accept it. I still reflexively think of the scene in “The Thick of It” where the Tory minister has to say “I call app Britain” and his obvious annoyance at it