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

For which

"Choiceful."

smh

Can't even

"Choiceful."

it's as ugly as Mitch McConnell, but at least it fits the rules of english

Yes but some perfectly good words - like selective, choosy, cautious, purposeful, intentional, and deliberate - were already there.

in case it isn't clear, I consider Mitch McConnell to be multi-dimensionally ugly

any product "reimagined"

I’m not crying, you’re crying

does reimagined smack of pretentious menus.
I can see some benefit in trying to rework the good bits of what has become cliched. Which is what I assume is the motivation behind that process but done wrong it can come off as very pseud.

Xpost ugh yes

It's doesn't annoy the shit out of me or anything

i'm not even sure it's bad

but "rest in power" (seeing a lot of it wrt George Floyd today)...feels weird to me sometimes

Recently the wildly popular corporate-speak vocab word “learnings” has infected my workplace, and I hate it. “We recently attended Marketing Fest ‘21, and we’d like to share some of our learnings with you”

What's worse, "learnings", or "learns"?

Just say "lessons"!

Learnings is vile, and sounds like the person using it has filtered their dialogue into Google Translate and then back again.

i always think of ralph wiggum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKg2ZzPKl2M

“All - “ as a salutation on an email

lol that’s funny to me. like:

“Friends -“

xpost I do that when I don't know who is the right person to address for someone, idk what else would be any less awkward? like "COLLEAGUES? fellow employees? to whom it may concern?"

“Fuckers,”

Group:

I just say “Hi”

yep

the chefs kiss thing annoys me

― brimstead, Thursday, May 20, 2021 11:54 AM (six days ago)

agreed! Actually I think it is even more annoying than some of the most annoying words and phrases because it tends to be accompanied by gross non-verbal sounds ... like the only worse thing I can think of is if "choiceful" was accompanied by an armpit fart or something

chef's fart

people just missed putting their fingers in their mouths i guess

learnings sounds like you've taken a continuous practise and tried to break it down to something atomistic.
misplaced plural like vinyls.
Is it tied in with having gold stars for each piece you can identify when you should be trying to build up a more complex knowledge or something to that effect.

I've got the idea of experiential knowledge running through my head and the inherent inability to break everything down to actually teachable units without the experiential part being included. Also the map is not the territory and confusing the 2 is not a healthy process. I would be stuck with the idea taht one had to do the physical process and learn how it felt to do it right and how it felt to know where you were going wrong. Which breaks down to practise and trial and error. THough you do need an overarching narrative as to what you want the desired result to be. Still not something you arrive at from simply looking at a blackboard .
Learnings seems to trivialise something that should have a better term but then again should maybe just be part of a wider learning curve anyway. Do you identify the increments and if so does that teach you totally the wrong focus?

This doesn't annoy me but I just heard someone say, "Grit and bear it", and apparently this wasn't a mistake but something that people say... now... or maybe they always have?

Took me a moment to twig that they wouldn't have been talking about gritting roads with Gritty McGritworth McGrit the road gritter, but rather gritting teeth.

It seems a pointless and sort of tautological thing to say whereas "Grin and bear it" is very descriptive and useful.

Greet and bear it, Tom.

Grin and bear say hi to me

"pouring over" a file or a picture, etc. What are you pouring on it? aaaargh

that's just a misspelling. It's supposed to be poring over

yes I realise that, it's a misspelling which grates on me with the same irritation as "warrantee"

I love a nice pored-over coffee

hmmm I'll allow it

"bio break"

Nope. No need. Just say short break. Ugh.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, March 1, 2018 10:04 AM bookmarkflaglink

yes, this comes up a lot at work lately.

I JUST NEED TO KNOW YOU'RE AFK, I DON'T NEED TO KNOW STUFF IS COMING OUT OF YOU

The thing where people name some supposedly relevant characteristic about themselves followed by "here". I'm not sure why this makes me want to puke so but it does. Considerably worse than "as a...", which is bad enough.

User of "here" here. I'd just like to say you are irrationally intollerant of a perfectly reasonable usage, Noel Emits.

ppl using 'begs the question' because they think it's a fancy way of saying 'raises the question'

at this point, that is what it means

NO IT ISN'T

I'd guess that it is used correctly a tiny fraction of the time. The incorrect usage comes up so much more often that it has essentially taken on that meaning.

it's definitely a lost cause but it makes me think twice about whether whoever's using it is a good writer

We should just stop using the phrase, it’s illegal now

it's a medieval mistranslation from Latin, which is turn was a bad translation of the original Greek, so it was already wrong to begin with

it's an awkward phrase when used correctly; used incorrectly, it's posing of the worst sort

brad otm

I think it’s too commonplace to be seen as posing. I hear it misused all the time and it never fails to jar even though I rationally agree with Moodles.

Tbf for all the descriptive use it serves it might as well be replaced with "humouring the buzzard." I'm afraid you have presupposed the conclusion in your argument there my good man, quite plainly humouring the f out of that ole buzzard, I dare say.

it's definitely a lost cause but it makes me think twice about whether whoever's using it is a good writer

(I don't think people think it's fancy, I think they just think that's what it is).

This is slightly outside where this thread normally goes, but the terms "Brother-in-law" and "Sister-in-Law" have always annoyed me because they are used both to mean your spouse's sibling and your sibling's spouse. And then there's also no word for your spouse's sibling's spouse, so you just have to say "my wife's brother's wife" which is very awkward.

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