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

Ffs

Reminded of a Minneapolis scene legend who was a bit of a perv to local teen girls, but his humour and oddity always shone through:

"This is cotton, that's rayon, these must be ...felt!"

That Dan Perry is incorrigible.

"changed the world" or "changed the course of history"
Both wildly overused, and often speciously. Plus, EVERYTHING changes the world. Doing a fart changes the world, if only slightly, and for the worse.

Says you.

Hey, look, I rediscovered the wallogina pic earlier today, does that count as changing the course of history?

wallowing changed everything

wallogina changed everything (thank you autocorrect)

wall-o-wing eh? I'd like to catch a little flap of that, if you know what I mean.

I'm ashamed to admit that wall-o-wing is basically my fantasy

using the word "practice" to make yourself sound rigorous and academic. i.e. instead of art "artistic practice" or instead of theatre "theatre practice"

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, February 8, 2017 5:37 PM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

worse yet, "praxis" when you can just say "practice"

Allahu akhbar

It's everywhere all a sudden

there is a "critical librarianship" cadre in my field and they are all good people, many of them friends, but we don't have to say "archival praxis" come the fuck on

i forgot to add to this thread that i was in a meeting with this blatant spoofer recently and someone asked a question about future plans for the thing he's building and he said: "yes that's something we hope to be visioneering soon"

unless he was discussing a renovation of the Figment ride at Epcot that is disgusting

it wasn't like he dared to say it either, it was as if he was saying anything else, just flowed out like sewage

"tweeted out"

basically fuck every superfluous preposition

Retcon/retconned. Is Twin Peaks to blame for the resurgance of this? I acknowledge the word serves a purpose, it's just so damn ugly a word. And it seems to be everywhere right now.

it has always been omnipresent in fandoms

Twin Peaks must have been my first brush with the word. Not a comic reader, nor have I been attached to any kind of "fandom". Just think it's an extremely ugly word to use.

it's a shitty word but it seems to do the job of no other word ("he totally retconned laura" v "he totally altered laura's continuity retroactively")

I wouldn't know of a better word for what it's trying to convey, it's just such an ugly combination of two abbreviated words merged.

repurposed

might work for retcon

worse yet, "praxis" when you can just say "practice"

I had to resist doing this earlier today. My inner critic was a little bit of a dick about it, too

i knew "retcon" from comics internet fandom in the early 90s but my assumption is that it is much older, and most likely comes from star trek. agree that it's ugly and it has this Newspeak quality where it just does not roll off the tongue whatsoever in real life, even if it works very efficiently as a character-saving noun and verb on Usenet. but it does describe something.

I thought it was from Dr. Who / Torchwood. Shows what I know.

'chow down' has to be one of my most hated expressions

In that case you definitely shouldn't watch this video

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

Twin peaks is more like proactive discontinuity anyway

"folx" instead of "folks" in twitter social justice circles is ... annoying

Not really a sj thing?

Also just a thing for any ks, cs, cks word

I bought some comix for 50 bux -- an SJW

Engaging with the issues

Not really a sj thing?

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Tuesday, September 19, 2017 1:35 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk i see it used as a common abbreviation too but significantly more among the sj folks i know

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/05/09/womyn-wimmin-and-other-folx/vjhPn82ITGgCCbE12iNn1N/story.html

Maybe in activist circles, they add the x to folx to make it similar to latinx? It would be stupid, because the word 'folks' is already gender-neutral, but pretty much everything is stupid these days.

uh, exactly what marcos just posted.

do a twitter search for "folx" and it is almost all social justice-oriented tweets

That's because it's fucking Twitter

true

sleepingbag wrote this on thread Ideas for ILX on board I Love Everything on 20-May-2017

I Love Trump board, for all the folx who love discussing US President Donald Trump every hour of every day

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius) wrote this on thread Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible on board I Love Everything on 20-May-2017

u folx don't take any time off from this? live a little

Literally 1st page of search results, maybe the 2 posters least concerned w social justice

Ahem

Insert inverted commas where necessary obv

A "he" m

legos

afaict this is an american idiocy