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

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"

xp, You working at a gym?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssA4Pht5Moc

that's it!

I can't even

"seamless pipeline"

"one personal item"

"sickmaking"

"throwing shade"

throwing shapes?

why is "throwing shade" annoying? it fulfills a very linguistically precise function.

scans too try-hard white media-class tweeter imo

tay throwing so much shade rn omg

"sorry, I didn't mean to implicitly insult you by making a passive-aggressive remark in your presence"

i mean yeah it can be appropriative for sure but so much that is conjecture, like who is allowed to say a word?

in the 50s referring to someone as "dude" "man" etc was black/beat slang

it's not the appropriateness that bothers me, it's the forced casualness - cloaking smoldering rage behind a cute idiom

appropriativeness* but that isn't a word acc to spellcheck

another option is not to (hate-read) ppl who use such terms

okay i see what you mean xps

my spellcheck doesn't recognize "appropriative" (or "spellcheck")

another option to what? complaining about them? why not both?

idg twitter, it just seems like a way to yell at people

maybe i do get it actually

xp - it's up to you i guess

i think u get it that is my impression of twitter too, idk maybe the internet in general xp

"life hack" and all variants

agree that is obnoxious, like amoral little eichmann-eqsue tech worker culture jargon seeping into the cultural memory

everyone who encounters a problem improvises ways to deal with it or make life easier/less time-consuming, you don't have to make up a special status indicating shibboleth word for it.

EXACTLY

as i get older shit like this irks me so much, it's just inanity.

(stand by for my jeremiad w/r/t "EIT" instead of "enhanced interrogation techniques," a term which was already way problematic)

being annoyed by something is a far stretch from what's going on with EIT -- that's a deliberate distancing from unsavory thoughts, and that's legitimately harmful imo

Good point.

"EIT" is a little too much like "ED" - like the diminishing of something that's really very troubling into being equivalent to a minor, embarrassing personal issue that should be mentioned once briefly then forgotten about

Maybe the first comparision of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques to Erectile Dysfunction?

eh, maybe i'm reaching a bit there