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

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

yeah some people have a hard time understanding that language goes through changes. especially old people

What's passive about, say, "I hate broccoli" or "Don't hate broccoli"

I don't mean passive as in "passive voice," I just mean that hating something might be (although it need not be) an internal act, whereas "hating on" something suggests an external gesture or expression.

See, I love hating so much that I've no trouble showing it.

hating and hating on are not the same
mr. que otm

if you actually write "hate on" outside of a blog/msg borad you are an idiot.

yeah, yeah, language changes, what a startling revelation.

I heard a forty-year-old say in an actual conversation, "I love me some Stones."

i hate "i love me some"
i just hated on "i love me some"

i love me some hating on old people

like, at all

"Challops." First couple of times I saw it on this board, I had no idea what it meant. I suppose it has validity sometimes, but it's also just a really annoying and lazy scare word.

When did "run-on sentence" come to mean any long comma-laden sentence, regardless of whether it is grammatically corect?

Oh christ, that's obnoxious.

(That is, "regardless of whether it is grammatically incorrect," which run-on sentences are.)

That usage is most obnoxious when it's a professor using it, esp. as they assess your writing! It makes me start writing. In clippy little sentences. That are worse than the alleged original "problem."

Ugh, those clippy little sentence fragments are the worst.

oh yes. I once had a professor edit something I wrote by just changing the commas to full stops. I was. I will say. Not pleased. Give me interminably long sentences or give me NOTHING.

'cooked to perfection' irritates the fuck out of me. generally heard coming from some snooty nob who've appointed themselves as king culinary arbiter. bugs me because it gives off this incredibly self-centred view that *their* taste is THE correct one and only they can pronounce things perfect or not.

To be honest, I'm not a fan of online acronyms. If I recall correctly, it once wasn't considered that onerous a task to type out four- and five-letter words in full.

rce u

I was assuming I'd get either a "Clemenza OTM" or whatever stands for "Clemenza full of shit." I'll have to look that one up...

arsey you

Thanks. Got it.

I was merely pointing out that (and in my case, especially while I'm at work) it is often rather convenient to convey the thrust of your point in abbreviated form- it's quicker, you see.

Not a problem. Everyone has their reasons, I think the saying goes.

brvt sl wt iirc

Brevity is the soul of wit, yes. Unless it's so brief that it's the soul of "Huh?"

the push to use latin when pressed for typing time starts here. let's get classy out there people.

Yes, that was the point I started out to make: use Latin, everybody. I should have made that clearer.

Quite serious, to be honest.