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

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."

It is kind of annoying--though sometimes it's preferable to the claim that "(Band) played an in-studio concert for us" when its just the singer and guitarist doing an acoustic set of two songs with the interns hooting in the background.

If you're being interviewed, you're probably really busy. they are literally "stopping by to chat". Somebody kill me.

"long reads"

aren't these just called articles. or essays

long articles

longticles

it's just a way for people to low-key humblebrag. by posting "great longread in ____ on _____" on twitter you're subtly saying "look at me, i can read more than 1000 words at once"

"this link might not be for everyone. there are a LOT of words in it. but for those of you who are smart like me..."

i saw a "best longreads of 2015" link on twitter today

i can read more than 1000 words at once

huh at most I can read maybe a dozen words at once

imho ymmv there are ppl who like reading longform non-fiction and for them the neologism has some value in terms of locating more things to read (nb i sub to 2 ilx longform threads)

what is long-form

how is it different than an essay or an investigative piece or

long articles?

Ugh can someone concise mordys post 4me pls

or any new yorker article

there's a website that specializes in these: http://longform.org nb they probably should've just called themselves essays.org

yes i understand that the term has some currency

i find it a useful term to lump in all narrative, investigatory, or literary nonfiction articles that are over a certain length - i.e. the kind of stuff lots of people, including myself, want to read.

admit that there's something aesthetically displeasing about the term

there's also longreads dot com which popularized the word i think
i use it as a way to get my reading-averse students interested in reading

Just got out of a meeting, maybe this belongs on some business jargon thread, but "client-facing." As in, " Please don't include the Search Channel Specialists on client-facing emails." This started popping up frequently in the past few weeks, is it a buzz word now?

-facing is a common usage these days (outward-facing = public? vs internal i guess)
idk

jargon is disgusting