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

It's a short stumble and fall from "let's do lunch" to "I'll do the chicken".

All in all its possibly a bigger sin in this world to not take available and clearly expressed information where you can and instead to focus on the detail of how it was formatted as if that were a major problem in the bigger scheme of things I mean if we all insisted that things not exactly as we would have them were by dint of that objective discrepancy actually incorrect and requiring of realignment disregarding the miracle of language as a communicative device between two or more soulships in an incredible universe of sensation and experience why it's a poorly window from which to view your fellow man is all I'll say.

Like how ppl decide to order from a fuckin menu youd be some cunt of a waiter not to get the message and if your part is neither waiter or waitee then what the fucks it to you mind yr business and do some multiplication in yr head instead you know you need the practice I mean I do def and I'm p good at multiplying but either way it's a better way of passing thru life than critiquing overheard lunch orders I'm talking about life here for chrissakes

I am more annoyed by people who use constructions where a lack of precision leaves out important information or even actively misleads from or misstates their intended meaning, who, when I request clarification or more detail, act offended and insist that their original communication was more than sufficient and I am just harrying them for no good reason and making a big deal about "semantics".

But let's be clear here that we are not in such an instance referring to a guy in a restaurant or similar holding a bill of fare in his hand that presumably includes in it some styling of chicken stating to another guy whose role in a well-understood transaction involving the listing of one or more items from said bill of fare that he will "do" that chicken

I'm not picking on y'all (deal with that too) I'll be bumping the irrationly angry thread in a minute to let em know that the shit listed is either rational cause for anger or is cause for concern

xp

In that scenario, the number of plausible translations of the phrase "I'll do the chicken" is limited to a very narrow range, all of which require bringing said chicken into the presence of the customer. The waiter would be well advised to interpret this statement as requesting such a transaction.

Darragh do the senses of language really not matter to you? Is language just a crude vessel of information?

We can take it as understood unless further context -which I would tbh have expected to have been provided as relevant- were to reveal that the establishment were engaged in such transactions besides as to make a statement such as "I'll do the chicken" an ambiguous one.

I offer a 50's style dance settings as one alternative, you may consider other possibly less innocent variations but the fault in any such eventuality lies imo with the original complainant not having laid out such vital detail.

xp we may assume that language is a constant delight to me, and it is in very much this spirit that an unwillingness to engage fully in it (or to critique or correct it in others unnecessarily) may bytimes irk

Mainly the thread seemed ripe for nonsense

Valid (imo, imo) digs itt include the type of ringfencing that aimless noted, the misuse of a phrase where clear ignorance of meaning is apparent, and the modern american academic phrase "speak/s to" which is an incarcerable abomination

All in all its possibly a bigger sin in this world to not take available and clearly expressed information where you can and instead to focus on the detail of how it was formatted as if that were a major problem in the bigger scheme of things I mean if we all insisted that things not exactly as we would have them were by dint of that objective discrepancy actually incorrect and requiring of realignment disregarding the miracle of language as a communicative device between two or more soulships in an incredible universe of sensation and experience why it's a poorly window from which to view your fellow man is all I'll say.

― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Tuesday, April 12, 2016 11:06 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all i could hear was

https://vimeo.com/36788443

former waiter here, can verify from experience that "i'll do the chicken" usually, 9 times out of 10 means "i'll have the chicken," but occasionally it can also mean "i'll fuck the chicken." just have to play it by ear. took me a few years to really get it down.

Also waited tables for a bit and more than once the phrase was followed by a series of odd dance moves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDJsgtoizj8

lololololol

I mentioned to my roommate's friends who were watching broad city with me that i found "do the chicken" kind of a funny idiom (broad city was where i first heard it), and they had a similar kinda bitchy condescending reaction to me just for having pointed it out. Probably that's why the phrase annoys me now instead of just sounding funny ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

50's

I was with you till you did this. The proper way to abbreviate decades is as follows: '50s. Learn it, live it.

It's a fair cop

My executive director says "bubble up" a lot, and it is starting to annoy, especially because it means "I'm not actually going to do anything about that, but I'll bubble it up to some even higher levels of management, who aren't going to do anything about it, either."

people can't bubble things up imo, they bubble up by themselves or not at all

A worse offense: adding "up" to certain verbs ("Let's connect up," "meet up at the mall")

http://www.meetup.com

Meet up is perfect and necessary

they had a similar kinda bitchy condescending reaction to me just for having pointed it out. Probably that's why the phrase annoys me now instead of just sounding funny ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― davey,

Thoughts offered more as reaction to thread in general, without rancour and at about 4am, if it eases

in your annoyed reaction you seem to have confused annoyed reaction with confusion

I just sit down at a table when a singer tells me to "Do the funky chicken"

though "doing" a food is far less grating than "enjoying" it. "I'll enjoy the lamb."

no worries darrahmac :) president keyes lol actual people say that

There is a cashier at my usual grocery store who, whenever you buy beer, asks "are you old enough to enjoy this beverage?" Then he chuckles and says, "I didn't ask if you're old enough to _buy_ it, just if you're old enough to _enjoy_ it. Heh heh."

The first time, I gave an accommodating half-laugh. The second time, I smiled patiently. Nowadays, I try to go to another line if I'm buying alcohol. I've spent my share of time behind cash registers myself, and I sympathize with him for trying to make the transactions a little less monotonous, but there are limits.

haf to agree w d that it dont matter none how youse says it

as aimless wrote its more bothersome when u leave out important info instead

very few words usages or phrases annoy tho

one of my exes was notoriously bad with convoluted messages. she sent me one text once that looked like she was upset with me and really she was just asking me to come over

Agree with dmac for the most part, but I think he misses out the importance of sociolinguistic stratification. The annoyance of "do the chicken" doesn't necessarily arise from the construction itself, but connotation, e.g. the ingroup perceived to use it is solely made up of "wacky bankers" or some such. You could argue that if the construction itself isn't the problem, then it's not meant for the thread, but the thread does include usages of language in the title, and I would say ingroup lexical production counts as usage.

(Sorry if that sounds wanky.)

"I didn't ask if you're old enough to _buy_ it, just if you're old enough to _enjoy_ it. Heh heh."

And you say, "You damn betcha I'm old enough. I've been enjoying it since I was 13."

caught myself saying i did the fish today lol

emil.y otm in re: things depend on who says them

ie. when i say them it's ok ;)

when i am president i am going to ban people from saying "adult beverages"

Hear hear. That term should only apply to spirits aged over 18 years.

For example, this

http://i.imgur.com/dkZtR7b.jpg

is not an adult beverage.

Oh barf what is that.

hairspray?

Lol that's worse than Redd's

"I'm not crying...YOU'RE crying"

I've got a rolling awful words and phrases list.

I'd have thought The Simpsons would have killed "proactive," but I still hear it, albeit usually from a very specific business-oriented, Type A sort.

"Literally" annoys me too, mostly because it is so often used figuratively.

I hate 'literally' because now everybody has gotten so used to calling out people for using it incorrectly that they've also started calling them out for using it wrong when it's actually used correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx8B-3ZGVg0

the non-literal sense of literally has made it into most dictionaries now