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

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this was in latin america

no word/phrase/usage currently annoys me btw

"rare" in reference to items where the scarcity is manufactured

I got a marketing email from Gustin: "Our two rarest selvedge denims"

btw, also: "selvedge"

"Thanking you" instead of "thank you". Notice this too often since I moved to Scotland.

ha this is totally the kind of thing a little old lady says to you when you pay at greggs

It's said a lot here (Fife), and I've never understood it.

I always thought it was a twee British ilxism, as in "thankin u"

it's got that nice meta *writes middle of sentence* sense of removed commentary

xxpost Isn't "wet bar" a holdover from Prohibition (e.g wet = serves alcohol vs dry = doesn't)?

"Thanking you," I think, is the colloquial version of a tendency in, eg. news media, to turn active verbs into gerunds for dramatic effect.

NB:
http://www.newslab.org/2012/01/17/tv-news-needs-verbs/

"When verbs do turn up in copy they’re often disguised as gerunds or participles, trailing an “-ing” behind them. On Fox News, for instance, Shepard Smith’s scripts are notorious for overdoing that “-ing” thing. “Cops and demonstrators clashing openly in the streets of the nation’s capital, pepper spray, smoke bombs, night sticks, beating back the crowds.” That’s not active copy. It’s a run-on sentence fragment. And it violates a central principle of good writing. As George Orwell put it, good prose is like a windowpane. It does not draw attention to itself."

It comes across really passive-aggressive.

I always thought a wet bar was one where you just swim up and order a pina colada or something.

No, that's a swim-up bar.

A wet bar is real estate parlance; it simply means a household bar that has a sink. It makes zero sense when describing professional bars, because they are presumed to have running water.

The opposite, "dry bar," is p much never used because no one in real estate would ever advertise a household feature by saying what it didn't have.

http://www.drybar.co.uk/

In nyc I think "dry bar" is a type of hair salon or something. I remember a woman we know saying she wished the neighborhood had a dry bar and me being like "???" and then her explaining it.

Resurgence of "thanking you" is down to Still Game surely.

I saw "pre-madonna" instead of prima donna yesterday.

in reference to Jews?

Resurgence of "thanking you" is down to Still Game surely.

― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, July 19, 2016 2:16 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno, it's been common with folk of a certain age my whole life and im 32.

It comes across really passive-aggressive.

― ewar woowar (or something), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 17:10 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the usage of "comes across" here isnt quite right

there's a lot of Scottish-English phrases were you use the gerund in ways you wouldn't in standard English e.g. "are you wanting to go out?" instead of "do you want to go out?"

I always thought a wet bar was one where you just swim up and order a pina colada or something.

― how's life, Tuesday, July 19, 20

same!

Yep. Same here. The present tense as gaeilge is a very evocative thing and in particular the usage of it in describing emotional state, akin to the formal use of the present participle to describe an ongoing action in english.

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It comes across really passive-aggressive.

― ewar woowar (or something), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 17:10 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the usage of "comes across" here isnt quite right

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, July 19, 2016 10:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Coming across?

See I don't mind tense usages like "are you wanting in?" or "I need paid" and yeah they can be quite evocative but "thanking you" nah.

I saw "pre-madonna" instead of prima donna yesterday.

Thats a whole nother thing that we must have gone over at some point, shit like "to all intensive purposes" and "I would of done that". Urghh.

Let's nip that stuff in the butt

I've only heard "Thanking U" on ILX, where I've always thought it was inspired by Bimble???

"Supper Club" – this became big among douchebag restaraunts here like 6-7 years ago, and I often associate it with "wet bar" re: douchey places that try to distinguish themselves through meaningless titles (cf anything that isn't a bar that calls itself a bar).

"...if that makes sense"

Hate it because what the person is usually trying to express is pretty simple, and by asking if that makes sense, they're revealing how little they think I'm able to comprehend. Especially annoying when it's part of some basic state of being a human, ie, "When I visited my parents, I had fun, but didn't have fun, if that makes any sense." Yeah, duh, it can be awkward visiting your parents, for the same variety of reasons it's been awkward visiting parents since the dawn of visiting parents.

Touchy

ime when people say "if that makes sense" it's due to a fear that they are incomprehensible and less that the listener is a rube (although i don't disagree that it's unnecessary, if that makes sense)

I'm flabbergasted no one's mentioned this ITT: "What part of ___ don't you understand?"

TBF, I generally only hear it in TV or movies but it's become such lazy "talk to the hand!" shorthand that I cringe every single time I hear it.

yeah, I hear it so much, I kind of suspect it must me getting annoyed more than people are being annoying. If that makes sense. Which it better!!!!

A while back when the "____ For Dummies" books were becoming popular, I had the idea for a knock-off series called "What Part of ___ Don't You Understand?!"

The tone of the series should be one of extreme irritation at having to explain such simple concepts to someone as thick as the reader.

My series is called: "I'm Not Going to Enact the Labor of Explaining _______ to You"

Dear reader,

Oh my god, are you serious? You seriously don't know about _____. Are you able to make it to the bathroom without soiling yourself? Really? That's surprising.

I support all of these series, but only if the ____ is always MS-DOS.

Probably been on this thread somewhere but I really hate the British news obsession with the word "snub".

DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename" :(

Probably been on this thread somewhere but I really hate the British news obsession with the word "snub".

my wife has 2 friends who consistently misuse the word 'snob' to mean 'snub', and it makes me cross

when they do this, imagine they are using the word 'snob' to mean 'snog'. it may improve your mood.

The blogsite word of the moment seems to be "weaponize"

really really tired of "dumpster fire"

fuck the phrase "garbage person"

"_______ much?"

― just1n3, Monday, January 26, 2015 2:28 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

corollary to this is replacing much with ", anyone?"

really really tired of "dumpster fire"

― joygoat, Monday, 25 July 2016 01:37 (1 hour ago) Permalink

yeah this is big in clickbait, and phrases that become big in clickbait are usually terrible

This Twitter perfectly explains what dogs would have been like in school
The hero of 'The Big Short' perfectly explained why you shouldn't try to be the next Warren Buffett
Joseph Brodsky Explains Perfectly How to Deal With Critics and Detractors in Your Life

Let me make up my own mind whether or not it's perfect! And paired with 'explains' like you definitely didn't understand in the first place...

to me "if that makes sense" is more like politeness in a self-deprecating manner. like "am i rambling here or do you understand what i'm trying to say? should i be more clear?"

it would be part of a polite work conversation to me. i am fairly sure, for example, after i make a comment on a piece of work i'm editing, i may end it with "does that make sense?" - again not patronising, more the opposite, "i'm offering you the chance to say you don't have a clue what i'm rambling on about, you disagree, or that i'm full of shit."

aka a comprehension check
it's definitely more polite than "did that makes sense to you?"

oops make not makes

Yeah, I don't see that one as hateworthy - lots of valid uses in the larger project of keeping an exchange of ideas or collaborative decision-making based in listening to other people.