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

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

well yeah...sorry it took looking at some other cultures to get (some of) us to realize our process of development was not "THE" process of development.

capitalism is a global system though. i think it makes sense to look at it as a whole instead of assuming that societies have their own culturally specific "capitalisms"

when people call men 'men' and women 'females'.

whenever i hear that, i always recall that rubbish skit by anti-pop consortium called 'tron man speaks' where someone says 'there's nothing wrong with females'.

They're strong as hell

estela OTM

"Lashes out". I am lashing out at people who use the phrase.

i'm lashing out rite now *eye flutter*

starting to feel like "zero fucks given" should be put into a fucking trash bag

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/716/134/b1a.jpg

irl lol

For consistency, I feel like the first line should say "thy fucks," right?

uptrend

committing acts of journalism, committed journalism, or any variant upon

having skin in the game

When some financial or political disclosure is described as "opening the kimono"

yeesh. never heard that one before.

"shit the bed"

it's just horrible and it doesn't make sense in the context it's used.

yeah, Dana Gould uses that one all the time and it's making me hate him

There was a lot of discussion on "opening the kimono" if not on this thread then I think on a thread about business speak. Consensus: gross and racist. Or maybe I just feel so strongly about how gross and racist that is that I'm projecting my feelings into a consensus. Either way, it's gross and racist.

Oh no I use "shit the bed" sometimes to describe a catastrophic or spectacular failure over which I had no control.

The way I've heard it used is: Shit the bed = Died

Oh, I don't care for that.

Lately, "veggies" has been bugging the shit out of me...

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prob preaching to the choir here but p much day in day out i rewrite civil service documents into plain english. the weak sentences and non-committal use of words is extremely sad and irritating, there are thousands of examples but off the top of my head:

certain (when used to actually create uncertainty. eg "you must follow certain measures" but no indication as to what these are.)
appropriate (you must take appropriate measures - again, i'm not telling you what these are)
relevant (see above)
classified (one of about 300 words that are only ever used in a passive way, like "these are classified as" - classified by who? - see also "considered", "expected" etc)

beyond that the passive voice has come to infuriate me, it is the tool of a moron trying to sound intelligent.

it's got to the point that now anytime i see anyone use it anywhere i bristle. like i submitted a short story recently and the reply was like "submissions will be assessed" or some shit - why would you write this way?

also there's something in civil service speak and its constant lily-livered need to hide the truth or avoid responsibility that breeds these sentences where the subject is even less than an inanimate object, a scheme or a grant or a law.

like this scheme requires you to do xyz - as if no person is behind this, it's the fault of a set of words on a page if you get fined, no human being was ever involved.

scheme be the scheme

also there's something in civil service speak and its constant lily-livered need to hide the truth or avoid responsibility that breeds these sentences where the subject is even less than an inanimate object, a scheme or a grant or a law.
<3 syntax-based sociolinguistic observations
and lily-livered otm

out of curiosity, why does your job require you to interpret this type of language?

i write for gov.uk - basically i take old 'guidance' for people on how to follow laws or do things they need to do and i turn it into plain english based on a style guide and set of layout principles. i mainly work on environmental/farming/food topics so there's some really archaic content up there, often really complicated scientific stuff as well.

here is an example - i hope it has no typos: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/issuing-plant-passports-to-trade-plants-in-the-eu

nothing is ever perfect though, eg in that one we link off to a ton of lists because after a lot of fighting and swearing this was a compromise we made to the people who are experts.

it's prob the most challenging/interesting/frustrating job i've done - it's full of conflict, everyone we work with hates us in the end. this just amuses me though because at the start they can be all positive and civil service in their tone, like "regards, etc" and i'm just thinking enjoy this last time we are civil, as soon as you see my draft you'll fucking hate me and that's how i know i'm doing my job, lolz.