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

"I loves me some..."

"Build a bridge and get over it". I've been seeing this often lately. It's a sanctimonious phrase used in a self-satisfied manner by pretentious clots who have no more than three phrases in their repertoires.

"Reeling", especially in the context of a traumatic event. Commonly assumes the unified emotion of an entire suburb/town/city.

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".

Yes. Hate this. Fulfil your mission, robotic achiever.

My manager also says "irregardless", invariably. I've tried to correct by subtly interchanging the confused words in conversation. There's no hope for him.

"Like something out of a movie" -- most nondescript, nonspecific thing a person could possibly say

ha I almost searched for this thread earlier so I could add "cool beans" but then I didn't.

"A girl I had a huge crush on used to say "Cool beans!" I momentarily fell out of love with her each time.
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:33 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

HA!

ha!

a similar thing happened to me, but the word was 'anyways'

in the end she was kerrray-zy so

the word 'ping' when used to mean 'send an email'

"I'll ping it over to you."

stfu no you won't, you'll email it to me.

very common, that one. weird.

i have to admit i like ping, used generally for any quick communication

I like it, but could totally see getting sick of it. Was there some submarine movie that brought it into the common lexicon?

i say "fire it over to me".

i might start saying "horse it over to me"

I say "sink my aircraft carrier"

i simply say "engage".

enjoy me on my e-mail

i assume it is from the networking test, a nerd repurposing that was appropriated by business types

"My bad"

"No worries" is the worst and possibly the only reason I haven't moved to AU

I use no worries all the time.

I use "ping" but not in the sense described above - to "ping" someone is to call/email/message them when there's nothing urgent to talk about, but just to keep in touch.

I'm irked by clumsy business-speak of all sorts, like "core competencies" when "strengths" would work just fine. And the alarming increase in the use of "space" as in "xxxx company is the leading vendor in the video-streaming space".

xp Why? There are so many things to worry about.

Honestly I'm better with the Aussie "n'arries" pronunciation than the clipped Canuck "no worries!" thing they always do when holding the door for you. Hakuna matata yourself you shitbird

lg spells 'horsh' funny

smurf me maybe

tbf 'ping' is less stupid than other things frequently said/written around my workplace

'learnings' is the stupidest but I didn't want to go on a tirade earlier and start posting everything dumb I hear at work each day. it'd never end.

these discussions always become dominated by work lingo, though in the wider world it's often things people don't actually say, like "blue sky thinking" or whatever.

when i worked in bbc everyone used to always say "are you across that?" or "ronan's across that, have a word with him", meaning that person knew about a particular story or was dealing with it.

I'm not a fan of using "said" to mean "aforesaid"/"aforementioned" in everyday informal speech. I know that it's a correct usage, but it has this unpleasant pseudo-formality.

"Just sayin'"

"amongst"

"Just sayin'"

worst ever

I hate "no worries" with a passion.

it's our problem-free philosophy

I've been in some meetings lately with a marketing exec, and she used "ping" the other day -- I wasn't sure exactly what she meant.

when you reply you should say you ponged her message

I am very sad to find an error in subject-verb agreement after a prepositional phrase in the subject of a sentence in an email that I wrote. My own grammatical errors bother me no end. I seem to make errors more frequently when I am tired. An error in writing is inexcusable.

i first encountered "ping" when i joined my current workplace back in '06, it is a functional enough verb for saying that you plan to contact someone though you haven't decided whether you will call them, e-mail them, im them, or just wait until you run into them while getting coffee.

I know of definite unix orgins for "ping" as a verb. it more likely goes back to sonar.

benghazi

why did none of these people get this excited when we discovered our war to interdict weapons of mass destruction was founded upon a hoax?

http://www.ladyyes.com/40-110-large/ben-gay.jpg

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'Work colleague'. 'COLLEAGUE' MEANS SOMEONE YOU WORK WITH YOU IMBECILE

"thinks on his/her feet"

is it supposed to be easier to think sitting down or something

there was a free training at work a few months ago called "THINKING ON YOUR FEET". the snarky joke going around was that it was totally unnecessary because we're always sitting on our asses

thethinker.jpeg

(he is sitting down)

I wish ppl would stop saying "manic pixie dream girl". I was never that gone in the phrase but I dislike it more now that the complaint seems to have shifted from "this is a kind of sexist trope" to "this is a kind if woman I hate"

In, on

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/english-has-a-new-preposition-because-internet/281601/