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

Stochastic af.

Good enough for Xenakis, good enough for me tbh.

xp No I'm horrible at it

We tripped the light stochastic

'automatic', in the context of, or as a misappropriated synonym for 'instant'. i seem to see this a lot - perhaps when someone is explaining the rules of a game: "that's an automatic lose". no! stop!

Another interpretation is that people are using "automatic" instead of "instant" because automatic also carries the sense of something happening due to systemic conditions instead of the result of a volitional act. Anyone who has experience dealing with, say, Amazon customer support, can intuitively understand the frustration of being subject to the automatic while being promised the instant.

when you're writing and You Do This Thing instead of "this thing"

Sorry, This Thing is very current and is good not bad

fb otm itt over the past 48h.

It's An Annoying Tic Popularized By David Foster Wallace That Is Insufferably Precious

this book from 1975 is amazing and Ballard rightly considered it one of the best books about politics ever written
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The cool kids are saying "automagically."

that does sound cool

"this thing" and This Thing have different uses

[ x ] is a Big Deal
vs.
[ x ] is a "big deal"

are we okay with dis ting

Depends

ok but how about dat ting

not until you're old der

not all capitalisation is Ironic Capitalisation

Millions of German speakers agree.

And Emily Dickinson.

not all capitalisation is Ironic Capitalisation

I cant stand it when I hear someone say 'impactful' is that even a word? Impact is not a property, its created.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:45 PM (fifteen years ago)

Visionary post.

"In a rapidly changing world/society/environment, ...." or other trite filler lines to that effect.

Also not a fan of those standard form funny phrases people add to their tweet, like "thanks for coming to my ted talk" after the message or something like that. If you don't have the confidence to let your thing stand on its own then it's probably no worth tweeting.

DM overtaking PM, seemingly overnight, is an inexplicable irritant.

"checks notes" is especially bad xp

I agree pomenitul

I mostly avoid this thread for its "old man yells at cloud" feeling, but I just got unreasonably annoyed after doing a silly quiz, when I was confronted by this:

Permission this app to share your results with friends!

Permission this app?! FFS.

getting a bit fed up of 'wholesome' now.

is there another word for wholesome?

salutary? restorative?

not the same!

its root is an old german word for "healing", so my suggestions are quite similar in meaning, but it has acquired a penumbra of connotations that are hard to duplicate.

deadass

a lot of this thread is just Words You Don't Care About

'fair play' - most recent example was something like 'Boris Johnson might be a dickhead but at least he's backing HS2 so fair play to him'

Fair play - acceptable when used by heavily-accented West Midlands types.

Fair play

counterpoint: fair play is the best phrase in the world

Ireland wouldn't function without it

sick to fuckin death of "this is the worst of all timelines", "in this reality [among others]" etc - devoid of meaning and trying to sound sophisticated/wry.

What about 'the best of all possible worlds'?

i dunno as long as there are Panglosses among us we're gonna need that one

tired of the inability of people to simply do things; instead, they have to verb their way to things

I have a deep-seated hatred for the word ‘bespoke’ - it really grates on me for some reason.

I've come to accept it as one of those Britishisms I'll never entirely wrap my mind around. See also: fortnight.

I'd have an easier time with the latter if it were 'fortnights' fwiw.

it's not difficult, a fortnight is two sennights

Now the scales have fallen from my eyes.

the only thing worse than bespoke about is to not bespoke about