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

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

http://earnthis.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fugazi1.jpg

'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/

"crazy making"

"Selfie" aaaaaaaagggghhh
"Yum" or "nom" agggggrrrghghgh

learning management system

ilx passed through its "om nom nom" stage ages ago. you can look it up.

"guesstimate"

"Subversive" to describe anything in television or film

"truth bomb"

for alfred: "the reason...is because"

Yeah, selfie is horrible, and it has completely taken over.

every sort of '-bomb' neologism is terrible

the main editorial in the daily telegraph was about obama's 'e-bomb', referring to.....energy supplies

"creativity" -- you had a good run, but they've shot you full of arrows and now it's time for you to be laid to rest

"No room at the inn"

"Feel free to..." when what you really mean is "Do this."

"TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE"
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, December 23, 2003 3:35 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ay i remember this

I have started to see the word "edit" show up in marketing lately -- a clothing store had a "gifting edit" (I'm not sure what that means!" and South Street Seaport advertized their "Holiday Edit" or something like that. Is this an awkward borrowing from dance music or something?

From Oxford Dictionary online:

edit (noun)

A featured selection of clothes, accessories, beauty products, etc. from a particular season or collection: 'this is ELLE’s personal Autumn/Winter 2012 edit'

A 'radio edit' involves taking stuff out to make the running time shorter, but I suppose it also effectively means choosing the bits to 'feature'. Photographers talk about doing an 'edit' (choosing the images to use from a shoot or whatever). That again involves getting rid of the out-takes and choosing the best images. Same with film-editing and the 'cutting room floor'.

most online fashion stores have an 'edit'. I guess it comes from 'fashion editors' picks'

Is that a relatively recent usage? Dictionary example is a fashion mag from 2012.

way shape or form

xp I think it's one of those words that probably serves its purpose well but still irritates me because it elevates something that's actually pretty simple, kind of like "curate" -- we chose some stuff that we like.

"yeah buddy"

just as an exclamation on its own with a raised intonation on the first syllable of "buddy"

i hear this in workplaces all the time

not this one tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryjpQUtOxsw

eah buddy"

just as an exclamation on its own with a raised intonation on the first syllable of "buddy"

i hear this in workplaces all the time

― kobaïas fünke (clouds), Sunday, November 30, 2014 2:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so you don't remember pauly shore then

i'm sorry, is that a friend of yours?

oh wait I think you're actually talking about a different "buddy" than I was hearing in my head

btw ads for used goods in "loved condition"

fucking no

"tacky condition"