counterpoint: fair play is the best phrase in the world
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
Ireland wouldn't function without it
― Number None, Thursday, 19 September 2019 07:32 (four years ago) link
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.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 19 September 2019 08:08 (four years ago) link
What about 'the best of all possible worlds'?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 08:09 (four years ago) link
i dunno as long as there are Panglosses among us we're gonna need that one
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
tired of the inability of people to simply do things; instead, they have to verb their way to things
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 September 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
I have a deep-seated hatred for the word ‘bespoke’ - it really grates on me for some reason.
― epistantophus, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
I've come to accept it as one of those Britishisms I'll never entirely wrap my mind around. See also: fortnight.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
I'd have an easier time with the latter if it were 'fortnights' fwiw.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
it's not difficult, a fortnight is two sennights
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Now the scales have fallen from my eyes.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
the only thing worse than bespoke about is to not bespoke about
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
It's a term from Old/Early Middle English, for which some speakers the plural of night was (roughly) "nighte" and not "nights" so: fourteen night and seven night.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
'homebody'
― meaulnes, Thursday, 3 October 2019 09:56 (four years ago) link
It doesn't exactly annoy me, but every time I read or hear the phrase "white supremacist" it strikes me as tonally wrong. The 'supreme' part of it sounds far too positive. I can imagine that for people potentially attracted to this shit it could even sound appealing. Is there a better word to use? Or is this just down to people being scared to say "nazi" or "fascist"? "Racist" obviously is nowhere near strong enough.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:07 (four years ago) link
isn't fascism positive? what's wrong with uniting people and thereby giving them strength?
― conrad, Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:11 (four years ago) link
yes, lots of people like that idea, but the word itself is tainted
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
I'd argue white supremacy has become tainted also
― conrad, Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
for my imaginary edgy teenager who is flirting with joining the alt-right, it's not anywhere near as tainted.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
you're saying no self-respecting fascist would call themselves or even consider themselves to be a fascist?
― conrad, Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:21 (four years ago) link
no, I'm not saying that at all
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
I've misunderstood you
― conrad, Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
Growing tired of people saying everything surprising/that tests the limits of credulity is “wild”- clearly a substitute for ableist “crazy”- rarely genuinely wild - yes this is a petty gripe- still, watching the adoption and spread of “wild” as it makes its way from prestige users (AOC for example) to the average person.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 October 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
I’m already embarrassed about having griped about this wordWild!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 October 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
when people say “i feel like …” followed by something they cannot possibly feel like, e.g. “i feel like too much sugar is bad for you”. no. you don’t feel like this at all.
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 4 October 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
I hear "I feel like" about fifty times a day now, I say it too.
Following up on the fortnight/sennight mentions upthread, I was reading some 17th century trial testimony and they repeatedly say "twelvemonth" instead of "a year" which is interesting.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 4 October 2019 03:57 (four years ago) link
The whole substitution of "I feel that X is so" for "My opinion is that X is so" has been around since I was young and it irritated people back then, too.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 4 October 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
iirc people who use this sentence construction are likely to be "hands-on" learners? So if someone instead says "I hear that too much sugar is bad for you", they would prefer auditory learning techniques? I'm sure I read that somewhere once.
― Vernon Locke, Friday, 4 October 2019 05:27 (four years ago) link
― kinder, Friday, 4 October 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
feelz before realz, amirite?
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=793630104424865&set=a.350332562087957&type=3&theater
I love this so much
The phrase that I hate with a simmering rage atm is "It has recently come to my attention..." like who are you? Principal of a private school? It is like a BBcode suffix for [santimony]
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
*er, [sanctimony]
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
or the overuse "The opportunity to," i.e. "I would like the opportunity to discuss your grade before kicking your shins."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
People seem to use "twelvemonth" to refer to any consecutive twelve-month span -- what businesspeople call "year-over-year" or sometimes "YoY" -- instead of saying "year" which is easily taken to mean a January-to-December year.
― mick signals, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
all these online articles are saying "I feel like" is a millennial thing but aimless otm that it's been around a lot longer than that. I overuse "like" everywhere. I don't really care because I kind of like it.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
January-to-December is a calendar year. Distinct from school years and fiscal years.
Any twelve-month period? I would find another way to express it than "twelvemonth."
― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Happily, "no worries" has largely seemed to dissipated. I hope it's because it's a dopey expression and not because people are generally worrying more
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
'I'll pencil you in.'
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
An old-timer I've known a long time at the university asked me about a decade ago when did people replace "I think" with "I feel"? If he wanted to hippy-punch, I wouldn't have stopped him.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
Oftentimes when I read the prefix to a sentence "Sadly," it is not deployed to indicate any sadness at all, but as a signpost for the author's malicious glee at the following list of their target's shortcomings. "Sadly, his results have not improved" that's right your idiot boy is repeating grade six lol
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
I mentally substitute 'distressingly' or 'grievously' for 'sadly' whenever I come across it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
If I were a teacher I'd be real about it: "It is with delicious pleasure that I have, in Maths, given your Nigel a failing grade."
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, October 4, 2019 10:44 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'm not so sure—I still hear it everywhere and TWICE in the past month I've had a phone tech / customer service person from south asia conclude w/ "No Worries" and it took everything I had not to say, hey, I know you mean the best and you are busting your ass in a second language but *please* don't pick up that habit, A) I wasn't worried and B) it sounds like you think you did me a favor or something when in fact I've lost my entire afternoon to your company's shit service
ok this may belong in the IA thread for me
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
I find "no worries" is tossed around a lot more when it's an international group of people.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
isn’t it an Australian thingyou people are so irritable
― brimstead, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
my pleasure
you're welcome
I'm happy to help
don't mention it
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
so many good options!
srsly lads
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
At least once a year I combine "my pleasure" and "no problem" into "my problem" or "no pleasure"
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
I hear a lot of people saying it (and inserting it when they don't typically use it) when speaking to other nationalities. It's like, a safe space of phrase.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link