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

cornpwn

i don't like the world progressive in most contexts that it's used - progressive politics, progressive rock, progressive house. i like the meaning that means going forward from step to step

agreed, it's an unpleasant word for some reason. "prog rock" is even worse.

ah, but the progressive income tax is a fine thing to behold

Pwned = teh l0lz

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teh n00b

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l337

"navigate expectations"

There is a complex science to avoiding letting anyone expect anything from you

when ppl use modernity to mean modern aka contemporary times as opposed to its term of art use as a particular era in history idk this is prescriptivist but esp in intellectual or political contexts bugs me

hmm

https://i.imgur.com/2KjMuOC.png

also lmao me literally clicking from a thread where someone used it (perfectly correctly imo) directly to this one. like... aren't you describing modernism?

i'm w Mordy on this one

'Whilst'

― estela (estela), Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:38 PM (thirteen years ago)

A terrible, terrible word unjustifiably enjoying a resurgence round here.

*Whilst'd've

“within” as a substitute for “in” to fancy up pedestrian writing. “The solution was placed within a beaker for stirring,” et alia.

it's been over two years since 2016-11-08 and I would like all organizations to cease saying "now more than ever"

good call

there’s never been a better time

"Dispatches from ...."

"L'affaire russe"

the reason i'm rooting against giant strides in human longevity is so i don't have to see the phrase "fin de siècle" again a hundred times a day in 80 years

I assumed "I get it" (in the dismissive way people use it nowadays--conceding a point so you can brush it away) would have turned up here, but no--there are three or four posters actually saying "I get it," but not like that. It doesn't annoy me all that much, but you do hear it way too often. Paul Reiser's character says it a couple of times in Season 2 of Stranger Things (set in the mid-'80s, if you don't know). They've got the timeline wrong there, no? I don't remember it being commonplace until 5-10 years ago. There was a movie cliché in place back then--"You just don't get it, do you?"--that may have even been the foundation for "I get it," but not, I don't think, "I get it" itself.

Really annoying guy who uses "I get it" constantly: Chris Cuomo.

"I get it" as in "I understand" or "Enough already"? feel like the latter has been around a lot longer than the decade

It sort of splits the difference. It's in the tone--I'd have to provide audio.

“firebrand”

"thank you for coming to my ted talk"

yes

any reference to the bastardin things tbh

Whataboutism-- this concept seems too obscure to have gained the amount of usage-sans-explanation that it has

and like Gaslighting, it has come to mean "you are saying something I disagree with"

continually telling someone they're gaslighting you when they're not is the next level move

whataboutism is just tu quoque

What about whataboutery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUH4Kgmyk2Y

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/What_About_Bob_%281991%29.png/220px-What_About_Bob_%281991%29.png

Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of Richard Dreyfuss

and like Gaslighting, it has come to mean "you are saying something I disagree with"

― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:57 (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everything means this post imma say 2012

"say the quiet parts out loud" already over.

my problem with "gaslighting" is that it's meant to distinguish between "you disagree with me" and "you agree with me but are lying to trick me" which is essentially just an accusation of bad faith. i'm sure there are ppl who "gaslight" as a control +abuse mechanism but 99% of the time i've seen it used [online only] it's really "you are acting like your disagreement with me is in good faith but that's impossible so you must be trying to trick me," which is often fairly delusional and self-serving.

overton window yes yes we get it

"let me be clear"

"rocked up"

"so she turned around to me and said..."

Got some more awfulness. Yesterday my students couldn't understand that starting sentences with "because" was fine.

Because they do not hope to learn again

Wait Alfred you object to "very" as an intensifier? You are hard line.

You'd object to if "very" was stuffed into every sentence.

"so she turned around to me and said..."

― dogs, Friday, January 11, 2019 7:12 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idgi... the redundancy of "to me"?

"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud

bc of Alfred I am more conscious of overusing intensifiers