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

i did a thing

^ 100%

"performative"

lol i can see that but if you live on the internet and have strong opinions on what everyone should be doing then.... you're going to hear a lot of that word

soupçon

skosh is better than soupçon

bombshell allegations

Probably not the right thread for this but it seems no one is able to tell 'defuse' apart from' diffuse' anymore, including The Graun: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/21/native-american-mocked-by-students-i-saw-my-country-being-torn-apart

"Fulsome", when people use it as an intensified version of "full". What is frustrating is that there is no effective substitute to what people think "fulsome" means but it does not. "Comprehensive"? idk

xp unless it has since been corrected that appears to be correct use of “defuse,” no?

It has indeed been corrected.

Guardian keeping close tabs on thread

As it should be.

The situation probably was more diffused than defused.

chud kids
chud kids
chud
kids

"work" as aggrandisement of stuff you wanted to do that nobody asked you to do

lmao otm

I WAS TALKING ABOUT YOU

lol j/k thats not tru <3

I haven’t said that since i was an undergrad!!

hmm that means yr still on probation in my book tbh

Ratioed

"... said no one, ever"

thousandths

*chef kiss* and *checks notes*

i'm *checks notes* still on board with "*checks notes*"

"Let's link"

No

i have usually heard "link up" which is also horrible

it means "meet at some future date"

yeah, let's meet, let's exchange numbers, let's become friends. I thought I was posting that one into the void because this is the first time anyone has shared my dislike of "Let's link"

yeah, let's meet, let's exchange numbers, let's become friends. I thought I was posting that one into the void because this is the first time anyone has shared my dislike of "Let's link"

"Famously", as used by journalists when describing something not at all well-known, in which case it's condescending; or when describing something very well-known, in which case it's a get-out for the writer's laziness. In either case it's redundant.

i still like and use chefs kiss bc it still makes me think of a cartoon chef and thats still funny to me

Using "reboot" rather than "new adaptation of the original source." Dune isn't being "rebooted" any more than your local theater's staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream is rebooting Shakespeare.

_yeah, let's meet, let's exchange numbers, let's become friends. I thought I was posting that one into the void because this is the first time anyone has shared my dislike of "Let's link"_


Good god dislike doesn't do it justice. It shld be illegal.

"having a moment"

Every time I see 'booming' the Vengaboys take over.

clapback

when i read use of it in news articles it just feels like how do you do, fellow kids

"Colorway" which afaict exists only because "color scheme" is not cool enough for hypebeasts?

clapback

when i read use of it in news articles it just feels like how do you do, fellow kids

― meaulnes, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:59 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

clapback is especially egregious, not least because of the literal meaning

People who preface their “signal boosting” posts with phrases like “Tell us again how...” — like who are you arguing with, and “us”?

surely someone's mentioned "sliding into DM's" which was okay at first, now they're saying it on CNN etc, time for it to die

omg i could not agree more with that ^^ it's repulsive-sounding, for starters
so many things wrong with that phrase unless it is exclusively being used to describe a precise type of unwelcome attention grasped for via personal message
if it's being used to indicate "wrote me a message" it needs to die

“Shade”

Pretty much every black and or gay slang bit that goes through the twitter xerox machine five times before an extremely grainy version of it gets passed around by político-dorks.

I guess I am even more just frustrated by the internet’s impotent glee at a congressperson clapping at the President.

"cancelled"

fuck off

smh deems cancelling u rn

ill be picked up on cable like *that*

I recently dreamt I entered a physical manifestation of this thread (i.e. a circle of people talking) and noted how I hate when people will say “a little bit of” to mean they have a pretty good amount of it: e.g. “I’ve made a little bit of money this year.” “Yeah, I have a little bit of experience with that.”

This never really bothered me until I dreamt about it, now I can’t get past it.

another understatement that bugs me is "it's been a minute!" etc. don't know why but i HATE it