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

but the way people do it now is different.

xpost

yeah what that guy said.

people do it with every word now.

pedantic-y

the way people do it now is the same, and fine

Okay, I just don't get why twelfth-century Anglo Saxons can coin words but 20th century Americans can't.

oh yeah – cooking shows and reviews are awful about it. "This has got a cinnamon-y, licorice-y, kind of bitter-y taste to it."

Okay, I just don't get why twelfth-century Anglo Saxons can coin words but 20th century Americans can't.

― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin

Often these new words are embedded in flat, poorly conceived sentences.

“It’s a jazzy vibe” oh no

"jazzy vibe" is awful because often the critic means "Oh, it's got horns" or "Oh, it's long."

Actually it means they’re reviewing bobby hutcherson

"Okay, I just don't get why twelfth-century Anglo Saxons can coin words but 20th century Americans can't."

they can and do and it can also annoy. hence this thread.

u mean its annoyy

"Yo Aethelfred, hwaet's up with this weather? Woden's nutsack, it hath been raining a lot lately."

"Thou spake sooth and art on the money, Lothar. It hath been 'rainy,' by my trow."

"Let me estop you there, homeflice! What is uppe with everymanne just wantonly putting a Y on the end of nouns and yclepting it an adjective? What the fucke?"

the thing is it is less "inventing new words" and more "being lazy"

ditto for everyone thinking lame puns are funny because we know they are lame and thus it's a hilarious meta joke and not just, you know, being lazy

"lazy" is a fake idea

laze-y

actually that's a good example of how things have changed. back in the day it used to be La-Z

incredible post ymp

haha yes!

Woden's nutsack

whan that aprille with his shoures soote

punching up / punching down

get a new excuse for why it's ok for u to punch but not for someone else

― Mordy, Wednesday, July 5, 2017 10:38 AM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like i've seen this phrase like 200 times this week

vibes are vibes, vibey is vibey, there are no modifiers

literally never heard vibes used without a modifier

https://img.discogs.com/nsa8ORSn-bsk_VBclfsFken4mHs=/fit-in/500x493/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6741737-1425687237-7316.jpeg.jpg

He played the vibraphone that does NOT count sir

literally never heard vibes used without a modifier

― I am George III, I went a little cray (rip van wanko), Monday, May 7, 2018 11:52 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we care

I'm not emotionally invested in this debate either tbh just passing the time

sorry that was mean

and very un-vibey

punching up / punching down

get a new excuse for why it's ok for u to punch but not for someone else

― Mordy, Wednesday, July 5, 2017 10:38 AM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like i've seen this phrase like 200 times this week

― marcos, Monday, May 7, 2018 2:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's been a while since i've been subjected to this but reminds me of "good / bad faith"

"good faith / bad faith" much worse obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TSRVgI15OQ
YMP post is all-time

BEST phrase/words i read this morning. spent my morning reading shaw letters. this at the end of a 1908 letter to h.g. wells:

"Now I swear that the next time you take that attitude in my presence I will ask you for a farthing paper of pins. I will make a decent public man of you yet, and an effective public speaker, if I have to break your heart in the process."

is that an actual expression or did he make that farthing paper of pins thing up?

the whole letter is great and very emo. there is even a great all caps moment. message board pioneer.

Oh shit ymp, im so glad i wandered to this thread.

There's something really depressing about liberals trying to turn the word "snowflake" back on conservatives, like bullied kids sniffling "no, YOU'RE a loser!"

"fur babies"

xpost OTM. ban all attempted-cutting-humor usages by simpleminded tribalistic democrat tweeters responding to conservative bots and trolls imho.

I am trying to figure out the farthing paper of pins.

wastin' away again in ilxorville
figuring out a farthing paper of pins

kinda stumped me too. i mean i know what that is, but the way he uses it...

oh wait maybe he means he will use the pins to deflate h.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Z7MAgLV14

farthing paper of pins would have been an excellent late-60s psych single title.

i'm going to start using it.

"Wow, you are really full of yourself. Do you have a farthing paper of pins I can use?"

that'll show 'em.

(xp) It's like a Bee Gees b-side from 1968.

Hmmm..what were they talking about before the farthing moment? I found a children's song but that does seem to work for this.

you mean in the letter? GBS was pissed at HGW because HGW was acting like a dick at a fabian society meeting.

Ha, I guess asking for the paper of pins so he can prick him every time he says something stupid?

re: farthing paper of pins

In the context of 1908 society, asking Wells for a farthing paper of pins would be treating him as a social inferior, on a level with a shop girl or a street peddler. Such underlings had no education, no manners and no standing, and were expected to efface themselves or even abase themselves in the presence of their social superiors such as a Shaw. Such social distinctions were universally understood and strictly observed.

In short, it would be a very british sort of insult carrying a very pointed social sting.

ah, okay. then i was wrong.