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

where did the dying on hills thing come from

just to clarify, you do understand that choosing to die on a particular hill is a military metaphor for holding a position at any cost, don't you?

clarity is important

yeah yeah i know it's an old term i meant why has it spread so suddenly in pop culture/discourse in the last week or two

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%22hill%20to%20die%20on%22

Kamikaze attacks on hills up seventy percent state office would make no comment when approached by this reporter

is this the hill you want me to kill you on

Hill killton

Abe said where you want this killin done
God said up on hilltop 61

“a phenomena”

Criteria instead of criterion.

Not 100% on point in this thread, but in my tiredness the phrase "have sex" just suddenly struck me as odd. The active "have" is already odd to begin with ("I'm having a slice of cake"). But "have sex" is this weird level of abstraction from the act. "Fucking" clearly describes a specific action/activity. "Engaging in intercourse" is more abstracted but it's still clear that you are doing a thing. But "having sex" sounds like some kind of strange, suspended state rather than an action.

xp yes fucking yes

weird xp

having sex is holding it in your hand

i’m having a sex right now

^now that's a phrase/construction i dislike

apparently people still don't understand how to use hashtags

"it's #raining in #melbourne!!! #watchout for #floods and #rain #thisisscary #dontgooutside #bringyourumbrella"

no

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/smartphone-apps/apples-date-related-bug-causes-headaches-for-device-users-20171202-gzxhua.html

A bug in Apple's software is causing headaches for many device users, with apps that use local notifications causing their devices to crash as of Saturday.

Apple users took to the internet to complain of the glitch

http://www.theage.com.au/world/despite-condemnations-donald-trump-is-impervious-to-the-uproar-he-causes-20171130-gzvvpe

On Wednesday, local time, Trump took to Twitter before sunrise to share three unverified videos

how do you "take to" something when you're already using it

like a duck takes to water
like a Trump takes to Twitter

okay that works

takin' it to the tweets

the revolutionary moves among the people like a duck takes to twitter

how do you "take to" something when you're already using it?

I don't see a particular problem with this. 'Took to' to me means someone logged into their account/opened an app in order to post. And even if the app is already running, the action of bringing it to the foreground is still required in order to post.

but... he's already on twitter

how do you "take to" something when you're already using it

I don't understand the objection unless he's literally using Twitter 24/7?

It's like, if a ship is harboured and then takes to sea... isn't it?

If Trump has a thought, picks up his phone, opens the Twitter app, and posts, then you can perfectly legitimately say he 'took to' Twitter. But in the case of him sharing the Britain First videos, you might assume he saw them on Twitter in the first place, in which case he was clearly already using Twitter and the 'took to' idiom is not appropriate (unless, that is, he watched the videos on Twitter, left Twitter, then thought to himself, 'I'm going to share those videos I saw', and opened up the app again in order to do so).

Yes, of course, duh... except a ship at harbour is still 'on the sea', sort of, it's just not sailing on the sea, to extend my tortuous analogy to breaking point... ummmmmmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm3SNk3ffoA

What if a boat spends all afternoon sailing round and round the harbour, is it at sea?

A harbour is not the sea, of course, so even that doesn't work. I did say a ship and not a boat though, a ship sailing round and round a harbour wouldn't be the done thing.

Come to think of it, the phrase normally used is 'put to sea'.

A presenter used the word "deprivatize" at a workshop I was at last week--as in, "Deprivatize your strategies with other teachers at your school." As in, "share."

People just standing about are already on their feet, yet if they begin to run we may say they "took to their heels and ran".

lol @ deprivatize

makes sense though -- the word focuses on the proprietary nature of some teachers and their teaching materials

The ameliorating language of receptionists/similar junior-staff gatekeepers: asking you to do something eg. “Could you wait over there FOR ME?”

AAAARGH

come on, do it for mommy! :)

In office terms, the people saying it to me are basically twelve.

Sir! Please reprivatize yourself immediately!

"slutshame" is kind of ridiculous word esp used by a us senator in reference to another us senator

"late capitalism"

yeah, for sure, on it's way out, any day now...

it keeps getting later
and later and later
i feel like i'm in
a falling
elevator

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, March 12, 2015 9:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i stand by my defense of "late capitalism" offered ages ago in this thread. though i am sure it is annoying in many hands. maybe "later capitalism" would be better.

The term "late capitalism" was first used by Werner Sombart in his 1902 magnum opus Der Moderne Kapitalismus

Basically if we've been in "late capitalism" for like 48% of the years since Wealth of Nations was published it does seem like we're ready for a new phase

have i complained about the "you don't get to..." formulation as a substitute for "you shouldn't do..."

"you don't get to tell me what i think" etc.

increasingly, "the middle class"

mental gymnastics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m17rt_xo9x0

"constitutional crisis"

don’t come to australia ever then