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

earbuds

I had an Australian boss a few years ago who dropped no worries like crazy and now I say it all the time and even I hate it.

bro
son

damn son why you hatin

usu irl the bro's are coming from douchbags and i knew that damn son shit had to just end the first time i heard it. like, we barely know each other don't call me son and don't be ironic white guy rapper anyways.

not you HOOS, obv

:D

undergrowth

'perfect!'

"rather" as an affirmative
"same difference"

soup to nuts

^

this, urge to kill rises whenever i hear it

"Whenever" when what is meant is "when." Possibly a Texas/South thing, but I hear something like "Whenever I was in college I drank a lot of beer but never gained a pound!" all the fucking time.

wtf is soup to nuts?

I used to have a buddy who said things like "Everwhat."

"They were down there in the parking lot, waiting for some pizza or everwhat."

"put the world to rights"

I used to have a buddy who said things like "Everwhat."

Are you positive he wasn't referring to his unfinished trilogy of fantasy novels?

"CALLING ALL"

"Calling all budding"

"CALLING ALL BUDDING...ARTISTS"

"CALLING ALL VILE PAROCHIAL ACTIVITIES"

I hear something like "Whenever I was in college I drank a lot of beer but never gained a pound!" all the fucking time.

― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:36 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

i used to say this a lot when i was younger, heard it a lot in the valley

"They were down there in the parking lot, waiting for some pizza or everwhat."

So it's a substitute for "whatnot"? I used to know someone who said "whatsuch" in situations like that.

come back andy!!

"Porno" as a singular noun. I'm reminded of this every day thanks to the marketing campaign for the new Kevin Smith movie, which is irritating for all sorts of other reasons as well.

"He's done brilliantly well there"

and similar. Seems to be popular with football pundits at the moment.

also

"intangibles"

wtf is soup to nuts?

Everything. Comes from when a multi-course meal went from soup to nuts.

"comprising of"

"put the world to rights"

This appears in the lyrics to "Oliver's Army" and is therefore awesome.

i hate "that being said" and "at the end of the day" and "the reason being is that" and anything annoying businesspeople say

i use "also" too much :(

"said"

US:

this train will be moving "momentarily."

"Oh my god."

"it's cliche, but..."

"off of"

Ooh, "momentarily" for "in a moment" and "presently" for "at present" annoy me too. A pedant of my acquaintance says the former a lot, but I restrain myself because I like to pretend that I am holding the moral high ground for not picking it apart every time like he would.

(Maybe someone will now come along and say that the usages I don't like predate the ones I do, but that's fine, etymological citations of any kind gratefully received even if they disagree with me)

Also here I am bitching on a linguistic annoyances thread when it is very possible that my display name isn't what I was aiming for, so, Dutch-speakers, please take the zing opportunity; corrections are welcome.

It's annoying when people use the phrase "geeking out" to describe the practice of talking enthusiastically about some band or movie or genre or whatever that they're into. "We found out we both like Brazilian post-punk, we were geeking out about it for an hour." To be excited about some cultural product, or even to possess detailed knowledge of it, does not make you a "geek." Stop being so goddamn self-deprecating. If you're proud of how "geeky" you are, even worse.

Every time I hear someone say that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" I go to the dictionary to see if it has been updated with this "definition".

"Hate on"

damn son why you hatin

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:29 PM Bookmark

"Hate on"

either amend the language so it's inflected like a proper language or leave us to our prepositions

wide swath

itt: we hate on a wide swath of words, usages, and phrases

I hate when someone says "we're going to do X" where X is a place, e.g. "we're going to do the Louvre today".

"Shit or get off the pot"

Ew dawg, that is nasty.

"Hate on" is kind of useful, actually. At first it might seem like a needless variation of "hate," but "hate on" implies an active demonstration or vocalization of one's hate, which might otherwise be passive/internal.

What's passive about, say, "I hate broccoli" or "Don't hate broccoli"? Adding "on" puts distance between the subject and object.

just heard one on the radio:

fashionista

gah.

(was sandinista when -ista entered american slang as an all-purpose suffix? or was it earlier?)

"quite frankly"

"Hate on" is kind of useful, actually. At first it might seem like a needless variation of "hate," but "hate on" implies an active demonstration or vocalization of one's hate, which might otherwise be passive/internal.

― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Sunday, December 20, 2009 4:32 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

not really.

itt old people hating on hating on