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

calvin is correct, hobbes is wrong

― mark s, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 8:49 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one that drives me nuts in my office is "sunset", as in "we'll be sunsetting this program over the next few months"

It drives me nuts when people abbreviate ‘thanks’ (an abbreviation itself) to ‘thx’.

sry

THANKING YOU

'thx' is better than being gushed upon

hey we've all got our own kinks

It drives me nuts when people abbreviate ‘thanks’ (an abbreviation itself) to ‘thx’

okay "suzy"

Ta.

Can we at least agree that ‘thanx’ is a bit infra dig?

I can see how 'thankyou' could be used as a noun - as in 'he'd been given so many thankyous it was starting to get embarrassing'. Clumsy (and ugly), but has a grammatical logic.

one that drives me nuts in my office is "sunset", as in "we'll be sunsetting this program over the next few months"

― One Eye Open, Monday, April 29, 2019 12:42 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg change jobs now even if it's taco bell for a season just GET OUUUTTT imo

That 'thankyou' was supposed to be on the 70s album thread! Duh.

4 lettin me be mice elf

This recent adoption of "extra" as something of an abbreviation for extravagant.

"They had alpacas as ring bearers, it was so extra!"

Never heard of that one.

how cringe

my kids say this thing now all the time when they're mocking someone (which is all the time) which sounds like:

"GAH-dee!"

i assume it's fortnite related, like everything else they do. it drives me up the wall (which I'm sure is part of the point)

I can get grumpy as fuck about some "the youth using old words in new ways" things, and the likes of the casual "decimate," but my first "extra" was a thrilling moment. seeing an entirely new context around an ancient word (or word fragment), grokking it completely at once, and raising an invisible salute to whatever millennial in a purple crop-top had presumably conceived it.

I like onimo's attempt to translate it as a contraction of extravagant, too, a usage surely never contemplated by any of the first 200 ppl to deploy it in its new form

taking it back for the old ppl

Booming post sic

yea 'extra' = histrionic (m/l)

I'm paying more attention to basketball these days..."looks" kind of drives me up the wall. Confined to shot-taking--"he had some open looks"--it's somewhat bearable. Defensively--"you can expect the Sixers to give Kawhi some new looks tonight--it grates.

if there are no good looks, you'll have to get it inside to the bigs

pound it inside and get the rock to the cup.

I'm with sic, I love new usages and fucking with language. I think this generation of teens are super good at it - they're hyper-literate and the dominant cultural vibe seems to be one of jamming and undermining. I love the shitty repurposed memes, deep fried images, grammar hacking, embracing lameness, and the-reference-is-the-message. I'm sure "extra" just comes from the "an added extra" sense, it's a bonus (whether wanted or not).

"the shitty repurposed memes, deep fried images, grammar hacking, embracing lameness, and the-reference-is-the-message" - enjoyed reading this

"I like onimo's attempt to translate it as a contraction of extravagant, too, a usage surely never contemplated by any of the first 200 ppl to deploy it in its new form." Yeah, I've never thought of it in this way before and don't expect that's the origin but it works!

About 5 mins after I read Onimo's post yesterday one of my co-workers referred to a meeting we're trying to arrange with some famous ppl as being "so so extra". I thought of this thread and smiled. It's not really a new thing though, is it? Feel like it's been around at least a couple years.

more -- it's tumblrspeak from five-six years ago at least

(the ppl i know that said it then are all now in their early 30s) (i.e. mid-range millennials)

Yeah, I thought so.

I don't mind "extra," and I see it in kinship with similar usages from earlier generations. I can see like a free-spirited young woman in a miniskirt and boots in a 60s movie saying "Oh, Trish, you're so VERY," or "too TOO," and having it mean the same thing. Even just "you're too much" is not far off, and that's firmly idiomatic.

isnt that direct from french or

ooooh c'est trop and all that

only ilx can make fetch happen (when we delete this thread)

F Kogan's "superwords" to thread

As a Star Wars fan I've been exposed to "extra" for a few years now because there's a segment of fandom devoted to discussing Darth Vader in just that way, e.g.

https://www.ranker.com/list/darth-vader-is-hilariously-extra/jacob-shelton

we just call things “ott” among us olds

ooooh c'est trop and all that

See also: 'c'est too much'.

Btw it's usually 'trop, c'est trop', i.e. 'enough is enough!'

Include me among the fuddies who've just begun hearing "extra" in 2019 -- so it must be spiking -- and who gruffly approve of it.

Similar newish usage, "Sorry, I know I was a lot last night!"?

Also not new.

"I was a lot last night" has been around as long as I've been an adult that's gone out, at night

Amazing! I wonder why it's just trickling now into my circle. Citations?

it's a shortening of "a lot to handle" iirc

Never heard of it either.

how about "you're too much!"

Maybe it's a US/UK thing as well as an age thing?

Sometimes I can be a real pill when I'm drinking

"too much" is among the hipsterisms in 1960's "Alley Oop":

Look at that caveman go
He sure is hip ain't he
Like, what's happening
He's too much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZPg0pm8YM

long-simmering hatred: I really hate "wide swath", especially when said aloud

or is it "swathe"?