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

if I were to order a giclee print i would hope it wasn't printed on someone's desktop canon.

'pigment-based ink'

"i would hope it wasn't printed on someone's desktop canon" - I literally have an 8-colour Canon A3 inkjet which uses the same pigment based inks (yes that's a thing, pigments are photostable mineral based colour, as opposed to dyes which fade) sitting on my desk at work. It produces exactly the same quality output as a gallery would sell as "giclée". The word was literally coined as a way to sell inkjet prints in a fine art context.

ok i would hope it wasn't printed on *my* desktop canon.

I'd like to publicly apologise for making a post containing the word "literally" twice, it was a rough night.

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The word was literally coined as a way to sell inkjet prints in a fine art context.

at a time when that technology wasn't cheap ... and there's a great variation between types of inkjets and the paper, etc. .... anyway, regardless of the method, you are getting a copy, and not an original, if that means anything re value. the term does bother me when the artwork literally looks like something printed on 8 1/2 x 11 HP photo paper on a desktop Canon.

I'm absolutely fine with buying a pigment-ink archival quality inkjet reproduction (or original, if it's a digital image), it's just the use of a pretentious term as if it were a centuries-old printmaking technique perfected in 19th century Paris, instead of just the French word for "squirted". Which was coined by a Californian in 1990, to be clear.

I actually think it’s very funny

a fly marrying a bumblebee

As with any art that depends on a particular technique for reproducing an image multiple times, the quality of the output varies with the skill of the artist and how compatible the image is with that technique and the materials used. Carved woodblock prints come easily to mind.

things sold as squirto prints are not typically art that has been especially conceived and crafted for the medium of squirto

I was going to suggest a bubbling-under chart for annoying phrases, like Billboard used to have as a supplement to the Top 100, but I guess "whataboutism" has been around longer than I thought--its first appearance on ILX was in 2017 (at least when spelled as one word). It's getting a real workout this week because of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

ailsa wrote this on thread Rangers Have gone into Administration on board I Love Football on 15-Feb-2012

I believe I've also been quite complimentary toward the twitter output of Rangers' Official Media Partner, btw, to give another example to counteract your flailing whataboutery.

bad enough on its own but particularly unbearable when combined with the suggestion that a basic appeal to hypocrisy is some kind of devious russian propaganda trick (the context in which I first came across those words)

it's just the use of a pretentious term as if it were a centuries-old printmaking technique perfected in 19th century Paris, instead of just the French word for "squirted".

oh definitely! In my years of exhibiting art, I would always go with "archival inkjet print" as opposed to using that term

also most of the art that is sold as being a "giclee" was usually horrible. Like, I associated the term with, "bad art digital print"

Sounds hawt tbh.

same kind of thing happened with the term "lithograph", most of those you see for sale aren't

I may have mentioned this before and sorry in advance for sports but it drives me up the wall when people refer to a first round draft pick as a “number one draft pick”

yes, because that is just factually wrong and misleading

'jokingly'

the worst of the adverbs.

My housemate always says "assumedly" instead of "presumably," and I guess it's technically a word but it doesn't feel like a word.

My boss says "irregardless" all the time

irregardless is a real word

if enough people use a word and enough people understand what it means, it's a real word, however awkward or ugly it is, like "crunk".

Crunk >>> irregardless.

low bar

when I was learning Spanish it was related to me that gringos always overused -mente adverbs and it annoyed the shit out of the native Spanish speakers (for example, you CAN translate "probably" as "probablemente" and they'll understand what you mean, but they just don't pepper their speech with -mente adverbs the way English speakers do with -ly adverbs in English, they tend to use various phrases instead)

I'm not sure I've ever used "probablemente." I use "Puede ser."

Irregardlessamente is probably frowned upon then

The debate rages on: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/06/is-irregardless-a-real-word-dictionary

I'm trying to think of an equally irritating Spanish equivalent... nondesconsideración?

Romanian keeps it simple with adjectives that double as adverbs ('probabil', 'sincer', 'deschis', etc.), although you do see the occasional 'realmente'. French is chock-full of '-ment' adverbs, of course.

from that article:

"confirming that it is a proper, dictionary-verified word"

...fuck this gatekeeping settler colonialist bullshit, by the way, 1000x more infuriating than someone saying irregardless

People believe in the authority of the dictionary until someone plays an obscure two-letter word in Scrabble

'za

(xpost) May you and your qi peacefully co-exist.

getting a double 'xi' or 'za' with the x or z on a triple letter score is the ultimate scrabble buzz for me

or indeed the same with 'qi'

playing literati with challenge mode set where,if the opponent challenges the word and the word is valid, they lose a turn is fun.

people too afraid to challenge "gambanans" and "buttafuocous"

Things can be true

Irregardless can be a meaning-recognized word while also being used dreadfully and wrongly when the actual word regardless exists

Not a hill to die on either way but the gatekeeping protestation aint the one here for me

people don't like irregardless but are fine with unravel, it's just obnoxious to make such inconsistent appeals to logic in language usage

Some sins are worse than others!

there's no such thing as sin

Now we're getting somewhere

Yes, but there is syntax

vg

that's semantics

sometimes you need an extra syllable imo