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

"Naming" things - meaning mentioning them, but with some vague connotation of bravely telling the truth - is very common in my place of work.

I just wanted to name that...
Thank you for naming that!
What you just named is interesting because...

Often used in conjunction w/piece, meaning element of teaching practice - "that piece you just named..."

"And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field"

“always already”

I tend to picture the writer leaning back smugly like they know they’ve just blown my mind

"Speaking my truth"

"talking around" as in "today we're going to be talking around X", which is inadvertently a good description of those point-missing meetings. The better ones are "focusing in on X".

let's really bottom that out

we need to really drill into that

Misread that as dril and was about to quibble.

what now

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoWRPLOVgAIMUYc?format=jpg&name=small

whoa let's pump the brakes on that

i’ve got some builds i can share on that one, holy canneloni!

Wrote this four years ago and I'm sticking to my story:

When the tedium is intense, business jargon can inject some brief excitement into the day. embracing it with real enthusiasm is a sign of desperation.

I was about to go off on the "Resolute Desk" for being insufferably pretentious, but it turns out that the president's desk was made from salvaged oak from the Arctic explorer ship HMS Resolute, presented by Queen Victoria as a gift to Rutherford Hayes in 1880.

tbf rutherford b. hayes was a . . . melt

what are the knock-on effects? we need to iron that out

The only downside of vaccination is that I have to hear the phrase 'roll out' all the time now.

I realized just now, whilst innocuously browsing online for outdoorsy gear, that the word “snood” gives me instant rage.

"anecdata"

“learnings”. wtf why plural?

Ugh that one has me out in hives tbh

Borat’s to blame.

Athleisure

"Deep dive" is already on here a few times (including from me). Let me add its almost-as-annoying twin: "drilling down." I don't know if there's anything intrinsically obnoxious about either, it's their ubiquity.

Never liked "nosh." Never.

It's a serviceable noun that migrated from yiddish into english and then underwent verbification by the Twee Set. Just try to remember that it once had a dignity that its new owners have robbed from it.

I had no idea it was used in the US tbh.

Only dates from the late 50s too, surely not?

Having consulted The Joys of Yiddish, I see 'to nosh' was an accepted verb form, in addition to using 'a nosh' as a noun, by speakers who mixed yiddish and english. So, the verbification began well back.

can never see it now without thinking of giles coren's massive hissy fit:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey

David Mitchell might be a posh twat, but you have to feel a little sorry for him having a brother-in-law who's that much of a cunt. Anyway 'nosh' is a word I associate exclusively with The Beano, not blowjobs.

Yes, it's very much a Leo Baxendale type word.

What I liked best about that letter was that he "wrote that entire paragraph for the sake of that joke" and it was a totally unfunny worthless joke. He happened to be right about the sub editor screwing up by removing "a" from "a nosh", but -oh my!- all that fury for the sake of a crap joke he grossly overestimated the value of.

A much-missed Jewish deli in Minneapolis had an ad campaign in the 1970s with the tag line ‘KIBITZ AND NOSH’.

I’d never encountered ‘nosh’ before opening this thread just now.

I also didn't know it was Yiddish, I thought it might be some word the British Army brought home from India.

Y’all need to meet some Jews

I know plenty (and one of my exes is Jewish), but that word never came up fwiw.

I doubt that English Jews deploy it as in-group jargon so assiduously as American, after so many decades with it gallivanting freely in general discourse.

Anyway 'nosh' is a word I associate exclusively with The Beano, not blowjobs.

"noshing off" is the more common blowjob-related form, rather than "a nosh," afaik

i know it as a word co-opted into Polari

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nosh

nosh (countable and uncountable, plural noshes)
(slang) Food; a light meal or snack.
(Polari) Fellatio.

the NHL is putting ads/corporate logos on players' helmets this year

and it insists on calling the sponsors 'helmet entitlement partners'

Eyyyy i got ya helmet entitlement right heeeeah

"Into people's arms..."

I mean, I know that's where vaccines go, but I've heard it like 15X today

i know a place, where i can go when i'm alone a vaccine

"Political donors"

These are not fucking donations! They're loans, and expected to be paid back with excess interest in one way or another. Talking about big-money shit here, not someone bunging a tenner over to Sir Keeth. Better to call them "political investors" imo.

i'm really tired of the "shot in the arm" language too. i was thinking it must be really triggering for people in recovery from iv drug use and that is not cool

Vaccinate your arms, everyone.

the cockroach-like persistence of "alternative" as a music genre, already meaningless in its conception as an overreaction to hair metal

that this still shows up in mp3 metadata 30+ years after the fact is so, so dumb

fuck you dexter hoyos

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good book tho?