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

"This is how we do"

e.g. "Another snowstorm in Boston? No biggie. This is how we do"

I cannot wait for "disrupt" to pass out of the tech lexicon

― DJP, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 7:27 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as long as it also stays out of the educational sphere i'm ok with that

lol, too late...

gaydar

Use of "tech" to describe 'anything we don't understand' and applied to everything from a Leatherman to a webpage has REALLY started to grip my shit over he past couple of weeks.

τέχνη basically covers any manual skill or craft. technology in its broad sense can refer to cans and can openers just as much as to iPhones and routers. we used to call out specifically "high tech" to make this distinction.

"He is a good man"

"Good person" is fine by me, but "good man" has this vague air of gravity or officialness or I don't know what that's just irritating.

"I could tell you what that stores' name was, but I've slept since then."

Hoo boy yeah, misplaced apostrophes, don't get me started

Soon as I posted that, I thought, "Oh, great. A typo on the pedantic thread."

not sure pedantic is the right word

B-|

There's a sentence fragment up there too.

I've slept since then.

I don't know what this means.

^ I've never even heard that!

"you're better than that"

http://i.imgur.com/K3XHPKK.png

"Elite" as applied to sports. (Just read John Dewan, whom I generally like, refer to Jonathan LuCroy's "elite framing.") Isn't "excellent" good enough?

Still no blaze of comprehension--not even a spark. Is this a regionalism? Or...a quote from something?

This is maybe where I should say that it took me several years to understand the thread title "Don't go back on your raisin" because I couldn't figure out what raisins had to do with anything.

I don't get it either!

Or the raisin thing, but I'm not really trying there.

I thought it was a Southern thing, but it might be just an Old Man thing.

http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/04/solution-phrase-slept/

Ha. came across this one and I think I went to college with this guy. Maybe it's a Midwestern thing.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g60927-d4455771-i77660510-Bleu_Bistro-Corpus_Christi_Texas.html

http://i.imgur.com/VpfuBk3.png

And I'm fully on the record of not having either heard or having a clue what that raisin phrase meant before it was added into an ILX thread title.

Adam Raisoned a Cain

probably been mentioned but "Crossfit box"

http://www.waywordradio.org/ive-slept-since-then/

is "box" their special snowflake word for "gym"?

Big Data

Big Pharma

Big Ag

Big Pharma really annoys me because I mostly hear it from anti-vac people

It's like turning over the chess board -- "Well the CDC is controlled by BIG PHARMA"

Anyone still using "I can't even..."

"late capitalism" - sorry guys capitalism is going to be around regenerating itself and fucking up the earth forever

i think its useful as a way of indicating that this is the last stage capitalism will be recognizable in its traditional form. the foundation of how a market works may stay the same but micro transactions, high frequency trading, 3d printing, online crowdfunding, automation/robotics etc (all phrases that annoy...) all point to a much more unrecognizable form that's clearly right around the corner. the generation born a few decades from now may not even recognize physical currency, which would be a pretty big break from everything thats come before.

nevermind, wikipedia says i'm off with my definition, didn't realize it was a marxist term. i'm now fully onboard with it being annoying

it keeps getting later
and later and later
i feel like i'm in
a falling
elevator

"late capitalism" is pretty useful IMO, just not if you're using it in an apocalyptic way (like you're reading the tea leaves that it's doomed, doomed!). at the least, it's possible to have meaningful and interesting discussions about whether the term is applicable or whether the purported changes are just spatial (i.e. it's the same capitalism as before but many of its classical formations have been disappeared to Somewhere Else in globalization).

Using "pup" instead of dog

using parental/child terms for pets

I've called my dog "pups" forever and have started referring to my baby the same way (though sometimes he's "bubs"). I'm doing it wrong all ways and in reverse.

xp "baybehs" in particular

"late capitalism" is permanently cursed with that Hegelian/Marxian conceit of predicting world history we should not still have to suffer through. These guys were lousy prophets. Anthropology exploded the idea that there are specific repeatable paths of cultural progress long ago. Find another term.

yeah sure, but a phrase that describes "thing that emerged somewhere in the last century, different from the capitalism observed by marx through lenin," divorced from the above, isn't without use.

basically you can actually use it productively in a conversation about something, which puts it wayyyyy above most of the stuff in this thread by default IMO.

late capitalism is less obfuscatory than neoliberalism, which to me seems to imply that the exploitative elements of our current world system are due to something new, rather than just a reformulated capitalism

kudos to anthropology