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

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sanger wokkas mate

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 07:52 (two weeks ago) link

yeah nah

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:28 (two weeks ago) link

What about "sarnie"?

I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:56 (two weeks ago) link

also bad

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:07 (two weeks ago) link

V bad.

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

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:19 (two weeks ago) link

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

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:30 (two weeks ago) link

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

steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:49 (two weeks ago) link

Never heard either of those thankfully.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:05 (two weeks ago) link

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'"

Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:22 (two weeks ago) link

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

jaymc, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:51 (two weeks ago) link

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

ledge, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:14 (two weeks ago) link

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

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:24 (two weeks ago) link

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".

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:26 (two weeks ago) link

I resonate with sarnies.

I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:37 (two weeks ago) link

._.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:40 (two weeks ago) link

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

sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:43 (two weeks ago) link

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

sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:47 (two weeks ago) link

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

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

Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:52 (two weeks ago) link

isn't Sarnies that theatre bar in NYC

ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:55 (two weeks ago) link

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)

ledge, Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:02 (two weeks ago) link

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."

jaymc, Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:24 (two weeks ago) link

my guess is yes

it's another way of saying vibe with

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:32 (two weeks ago) link

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

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:42 (two weeks ago) link

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

sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:13 (two weeks ago) link

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

sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:16 (two weeks ago) link

imo, the creation and use of diminutives should remain in the exclusive domain of Australians. Doesn’t feel right any other way. Get your own culture, ya know?

H.P, Saturday, 4 May 2024 03:26 (one week ago) link

Liverpool might say the Australians are the thieves here.

steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 4 May 2024 05:54 (one week ago) link

xps gif notwithstanding, no Aussie would call them fckn “sandos” unless trying to pretend their cafe is a konbini. For starters it would cause massive confusion with the Sandringham Hotel in Melbourne. Which IS the Sando.

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 4 May 2024 08:03 (one week ago) link

Sarnies are ok in the bacon usage. Doesn’t work with cheese, peanut butter or other fillings, but bacon sarnies are ok.

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 4 May 2024 08:13 (one week ago) link

Where I come from, they call big sandwiches "grinders", so it can always be worse.

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:14 (one week ago) link

Grinders are fine …

sarahell, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:27 (one week ago) link

Grinders
Hungry for meat

RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:08 (one week ago) link

I guess if we really want to be technical, they're "grindahs"

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:14 (one week ago) link

What's up with the "fish" in "tuna fish sandwich"?

jaymc, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:34 (one week ago) link

possibly related: beef brain instead of cow brain

brimstead, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:40 (one week ago) link

xposts - when I was in HS I worked at a clothing shop with an older girl who liked to tell me about her hookups. She was from somewhere in New England where subs are called grinders but I had never heard that before so was v v confused when she described someone as having a d like a grindah. Only figured it out years later when I moved to Boston.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:54 (one week ago) link

Lol when Grinder the app came out, my first thought was grindah size d

sarahell, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:10 (one week ago) link


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