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

Ah OK like Severance

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".

It's just nice to see that the singer for Kajagoogoo is still the talk of the town.

the neverending usaaaaage

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?"

This post resonates with me (I do not resonate with it): https://annehelen.substack.com/p/i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard

"Do you like this post? Are you already thinking of all the people you want to forward it to and debate it with? Consider Subscribing! Support the things THAT RESONATE WITH YOU"

Heh

speaking of xennials...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/magazine/singles-rom-com.html

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

Since I read that thing about resonating I have heard three separate people (in two different states/time zones) say they resonate with xyz

tbf I know he can be a bit abrasive at times but he's often otm

just after seeing thread i was walking near my teen’s blaring blabbering phone i immed noticed a woman saying “…MADE SO THAT IT RESONATES WITH U AND…” so yeah

today’s vibes

"source of truth"

Got a "welcome in" from a doctor the other day.

I’m even a fan of “I appreciate you” because it’s not a referendum am I good y/n it’s an appreciation.

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(

― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I appreciate you has begun to make inroads at my workplace in the past few months. I enjoy seeing it written to me in an email, but it feels so intimate that I'm uncomfortable writing or saying it myself. I've definitely told colleagues, "I appreciate it," or the more casual "Much appreciated." I hadn't thought too deeply about those before now, but in the light of I appreciate you, they do seem to put a little distance between the speaker and the receiver. So, I'm a fan, but it doesn't feel natural enough for me to say yet.

its stilted to my ears, i couldnt see where id ever hear it or use it where it wouldnt come out as a bit....much

but its a game of opinions and we are all using these phrases in very different contexts

people who take issue with the less formal versions of any such sentiment are a little weird tho i think

"sando" for sandwich

is that an australianism?

Japanese-ism

Yeah, and it's a term I only recently came across — an Asian fusion food cart that I buy from sells three different "sandos" (pork, chicken, and fish), and they're all good but that term is very annoying.

TBF "sando" the word is Japanese so kinda doesnt count here.

"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.

._.

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