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

I said "biopic" once in high school and a kid said "bio-pic? I think you mean biopic [to rhyme with myopic]" I wonder whatever happened to him

eaten by a lion

one of my colleagues just now on the telephone said he'd go through something with a "tooth comb" perhaps a slip of the tongue but just as likely that he thinks a there is a thing called a "tooth comb"

replacing flossing iirc

My friend told me someone he knew was "Vapor acted" the other day

eaten by a lion

always pronounced it "lee-on" and didn't understand the warning shout

also people who pronounce Sci-fi as "Siffy"

i say "ess eff" cos i know some SF nerds who get really pissy about "Sy Fy"

i watched one of those cheesy in-class movies in Biology once in high school where the dude kept referring to the element as "al-yoo-min-ee-um" and laughed at him only to realize years later that we in North America are the only idiots who say it/spell it "aluminum"

i know! i seem to recall reading a long time ago that your pronunciation is older/more etymologically established tho

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

there you go, U-S-A, U-S-A

but then weirdly i guess Americans don't use "calcum" or "potassum" or etc

I'm not a fan of wait-list being a verb in the first place.

"Placed on the wait list" is fine. Why is anyone in such a hurry, since we're already literally talking about WAITING?

Also I have seen SciFi (the cable TV channel) jocularly spelled as if it were pronounced "Skiffy." (On Facebook, so, take that for what it's worth.)

They changed their name to SyFy which is like... so much worse than "skiffy" jokes

when I worked in a call centre it seemed like the majority of customers over the age of, say, 60 pronounced WiFi as "wiffy" - it didn't annoy me, though

but it was weird when they pronounced "spiffy" as 'spy-fy'

I know a person from the Netherlands who says wifi as "veefee," which is correct for many Yurpean languages, and I actually find it kinda charming. I don't do this myself in USian contexts, as I do not enjoy getting punched in the mouth

I've heard it pronounced "weefy" across Central and South America.

ya wifi is pronounced weefee in a lot of places which is cool

in south america i've heard it pronounced interneto which is awesome

interneato

Mine: People saying 'mischievious'

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'tweetstorm', as though someone typing with their thumbs on a phone is some awesome display of majestic rage. 12 consecutive sentences is not a storm. It's a paragraph.

"sessions." Every fucking music blog/wanna be publication calls their live sets "sessions."

Haha, good friend of mine who is a professional event DJ, has lots of radio experience, etc. puts up Instagram photos all the time of what he's listening to on his turntable and labels them "vinyl session."

"session" just screams tongue-clicking indieboy thoughtfulness to me idk it makes my skin crawl

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'tweetstorm', as though someone typing with their thumbs on a phone is some awesome display of majestic rage. 12 consecutive sentences is not a storm. It's a paragraph.

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, August 4, 2016 12:25 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the term and the genre equally irritate me. Just write a fucking op-ed.

Your opinion about Trump is not the fucking tractatus logico-philosophicus

xpost yeah, there's something super annoying about all the knuckle-cracking and here-we-going before someone fires off 20 tweets. But I suppose confining that much self-righteousness to a single paragraph might cause some kind of black hole to appear in the internet.

JM laying down a tweetstorm truthbomb

tweetstorm truthbomb thumbstrain

I'm getting pretty tired of the ironic usage of lizard people/person

otm making light of a serious issue imo

they need to be stopped

should be scaled back

i don't like "sessions" that much either but it's one word. it's hard to find another one-word description of a live performance that quite fits. "gigs" sounds kind of wanky and somehow tied into selling tickets at a venue. "live set" is two words and sounds a bit insiderish. ???

and don't even get me started on "performance"

i hate crooked now

by David Sedaris

:D

Overuse of acronyms on this forum and on twitter drive me crazy. So many of them are not obvious at all and difficult to search. "nagl" is an abomination.

"atm" is my least favorite, especially since that acronym already has a meaning: Ass to Mouth

Overuse of acronyms on this forum and on twitter drive me crazy. So many of them are not obvious at all and difficult to search. "nagl" is an abomination.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 12 August 2016 16:55 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

lol

reasons for use on twitter are pretty obv, imo

idgi

Yes, it makes sense but I still hate what twitter does to people and language.

It taken me a year to figure out what "otm" meant, it was difficult to search. It means "oh that's marvellous".

But honestly it did take me it year to get "on the money".

clearly ilx needs faq

X-post had me confused for a while too.

ofc is the worst currently popular abbrev, tempted to say the only bad one