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

I saw that word in a headline today and thought the same thing!

Even worse, the headline also included the word "groping".

"coeds" for college girls

yeeess I had real trouble understanding this usage when I was in the US.

LG I'm in a civil service (-adjacent) job too and the team really try to make sure we're writing in that active, plain way - it's something that is really appreciated by myself (joeks)
Our copy editors are lovely but kind of unusual folks. There are a few bits and pieces from old style guides that had hung on for way too long that we used to argue about, like 'web-site'.

it's not just the fellas gettin a education no more

PP, I know the exact article you reference and it pissed me off for several reasons.

But that's for another thread. Or not.

I didn't exactly faint from surprise that it was in there.

dying @ o'bama

"co-eds" still exists because it suits the needs of headline writers for short, punchy words that can substitute for several longer words and even the online world needs short punchy headlines

I am kind of surprised @ "coeds" still being used.

Ugh, do not search "coeds AND groping" at work!

I'll just drop this here so no one has to search coeds groping. Got some real problems with this. Not just the headline.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/aug/19/deal-hit-in-ua-coed-s-bogus-groping-cla/

But again, don't wanna derail.

no one has to search coeds groping.

'course no one's forcing you...

Can't stand when people say "Why does this not surprise me?" when they just mean "this doesn't surprise me" and it's obvious why.

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colocation different from collocation?

colocation = two businesses/entities/schools/etc. sharing a facility.

oh
did not know!

Like when a for-profit charter school headed up by a famously evil woman person has taken over your entire 4th floor and is planning to engulf part of your 3rd floor, you are what's called a "co-located" school. Just as a hypothetical example.

i see
does her name rhyme with whee?

good hypo xp (conveniently that worked both as "x-post" and an emoji of me wanting to barf on Eva Moskowitz)

"close of play"

'what we talk about when we talk about ______'

poor Raymond Carver...

That is annoying, in part because the original title relies on the assonance between 'what' and 'love' to give it balance. You can't just stick any word there and get the same effect.

yeah, I feel like I have posted about/we have discussed that somewhere before. I similarly hate "The Unbearable Lightness of ____" "A Farewell to ___" or pretty much any unearned use of a literary title, particularly where the new title has little to do with the referenced work other than sounding catchy.

When people refer to music —or any art, for that matter— as "smart."

Oddly, no one ever uses "Will You Please ___ Please" or "Where I'm ___ing From"

'[cultural product] is a poor man's [more critically acclaimed cultural product]'

Mumford and Sons are a poor man's Fleet Foxes.

'I'll see your [cultural product] and raise you [more obscure cultural product]'

I see your Mumford and Sons, and raise you Trampled By Turtles.

subtext (for both): 'my taste is better than yours, [internet message board poster]!'

The "see you __ and raise you __" one doesn't even make sense. If you see someone's bet of 10 and raise them 5, you're not saying 5 is better than 10.

OTM

"Let's chat with [talk to] some of those folks [clients/vendors]. I'll send a note [an email]"

The needlessly precious terminology is getting irritating. I think it's to encourage a rapport with contacts that constantly feels like friends getting tea and "catching up", but it comes off as forced to me.

i prefer notes being sent over emails being shot

Heh, that's fair.

Are you in the UK? In America all people doing any kind of business have spoken like they are always leaning back in their office chairs, about to launch a crumpled paper ball across the room into a trash can, for at least the last 25 years.

No, I'm in America. But yeah that vibe is starting to grate more for me when forced.

stop using 'goals' as an adjective!

i.e. 'your hair is goals','your relationship is goals'. stop it.

That's a new one for me -- what does that mean? Usage demographic?

Your hair looks great?

basically 'I aspire to make my hair look as great as yours'. I'm pretty sure it started out as a hashtag but then people started inserting it into sentences because that's what people do on twitter.

Well the good news is that it'll probably pass soon enough.

New to me, too. I'm going to test it to see if I can annoy #goals

"it's worth pointing out" please stop

xp idk if it's the oline in particular, although they haven't exactly shone. eagles have blitzed well and pass def should be the thing they do best. but NE also made it too easy for them by dropping back to pass too often.

rong thread obv

When an obviously planned performance/interview is described as someone "stopping by" ("Lianne La Havas stopped by the NPR Music offices to play two new songs — "What You Don't Do" and "Unstoppable" — as well as "Forget," from her first album, at the Tiny Desk.") I'm sure that was cutesy the first few times but it's so grating now.

on point

"sunsetting" - corporate speak for retiring logos, mission statements, etc.

I would like to sunset people every time they uses this phrase.

Otm re 'stop by', also e.g. 'the Forget singer will appear...'

Well isn't "appear" as in an "appearance"? I thought that was more of a professional term. "Stopped by" is so forced folksy. "Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph Stieglitz stopped by the studio, you know, to just shoot the shit about his studies calling into question the efficient market hypothesis. We happened to have our lil old tape machine running, give it a listen."