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

Or maybe I just used xpost wrong, pre-coffee. Anyway, responding to something upthread.

The latter is only a pejorative term if you want it to be – and why would you?

It's a hobby for many.

i like 'unhoused' because it emphasizes a verb - 'to house' - that implies a subject i.e. the state, or society. the state, or society are implicated. 'homeless' is like, hmm maybe i misplaced my home somewhere along the way.

Sure, but you lose some emotional gut-punchiness along the way. Not having a house is instinctively not as tragic as not having a home.

I don't have a beef with 'unhoused' btw, I just take issue with the notion that it's fundamentally more ethical than 'homeless'.

See, for instance, the NYC subreddit's ban on the latter word ('h*meless'):

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/j056u8/moderatorial_antihmeless_posts_and_comments_are/

On the other hand, everyone seems to think that mod is completely insane so I'm just gonna file this under 'highly idiosyncratic take on language'.

I have no trouble with either term - the thing I've been hearing lately on public radio is "people who are experiencing homelessness," or "people who have experienced homelessness," which I gather is a circumlocution meant to express that a lot of people are in more fluid situations than the binary homed vs. homeless. Like, sometimes you can crash on somebody's couch, and sometimes you go to your parents' house and sometimes they let you in, and sometimes they don't. I get that, but it's pretty clunky in regular usage.

First rationally or not, "homelessness" means specific things to ppl--bums, beggars, shopping carts--the chronically or "persistently" homeless--and that's not how most people actually experience being unhoused.

Sorry, there was a "second" point but I couldn't organize my thoughts and deleted it. lol

'A homeless' is the one that annoys me, as a former homeless person.

the plural of virus is viruses, not virii

I endorse any inaccurate plurals that end in "i" if they make a sentence more fun

unless there's an even more fun possibility, like octopodes

boo

walrii

scampoes

"Thanks, PM!"

Clitorides

was 'stay safe' a thing pre-pandemic? something about it feels so insincere and useless.

I liked how in the movie "The English Patient," the posh European desert explorers said "safe journey" to one another instead of "goodbye."

Oh, you're about to fly across a forbidding desert in an airplane made of cloth, during wartime, without maps or navigation equipment. Best of luck, old chap. Safe journey.

'farewell' originally meant pretty much the same thing as 'safe journey'

xxp I don't know, I've been sincere in saying this to people in recent months that I don't stay in regular touch with. Feels right considering the circumstances.

"stay safe" means to me "I care about you and hope you will be well" - seems pretty appropriate to say?

I know if I"m on the receiving end, it's fine by me

At the end of a night my mate will say “safe home” for goodbye which I think is an Irish thing. It is good not bad, like everything mentioned in this bad not good thread

stay frosty

“world bulding”

*building

let’s lean in on that

when you're not strong

I liked how in the movie "The English Patient," the posh European desert explorers said "safe journey" to one another instead of "goodbye."

a former colleague once claimed the use of 'safe journey' was an indicator of freemasonry

If you are white (and you are not, like, a tatted up guy with a shaved head and a couple prominent scars) please do not say "fuck around and find out"

ok bro

man alive what would you say would happen if I did use that phrase

cash me outside then

when did this thread become a Dr Phil episode

referring to marketing campaigns or advertisements as 'activations'

hmm i work for a service that has an app and we refer to new users as 'activations' which i also detest but does make a nominal bit of sense

does this thread have a counterpart of words, usages and phrases that rock your world/float your boat/tickle your fancy/insert your phrase of choice?

the last post was 16 years ago, but yes!

The Best Words In the English Language

16 years of words annoying the shit out of us without one good one! That's so us with our loving of everything.

Words is quite limited in scope but thank you TH. I was thinking more of literary tropes/devices/idioms I like.

Favourite words, usages, phrases etc

ledge you're a ledge

GARU G bringing the content VMIC on the words thread (albeit with a disappointing lack of FLANGE)

Favourite words, usages, phrases etc🕸

the single good use of this thread is to encourage a more intense and felt deployment of any word, usage or phrase brought to it

can't believe everything mentioned on this thread is actually good

what about my post about the phrase, "he turned around to me and said"?

Then he turned to me and said...
"Baby boy, put down your iPhone 3. Because I think that there's a chance you wanna get with me

turned around to me

bright eyes