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

and often used before things that aren't actually true. the one that most infuriated me was...

"I was today years old when I learned Michael Jackson was singing 'Ima say it one more time, I'm not gon stop' on Wanna Be Starting Something"

"classically trained"

like who cares how you were trained?? what does that even mean?
or maybe I'm just insecure because I learned chords with a Mel Bay book

i get annoyed by "i love your face," "so great to see all your beautiful faces," "i miss your face!" etc.

also calling people "human" as in "they are a beautiful human," "look at this human," "my human," etc.

annoyingly precious and very grating imo.

"Classically trained" also is used to cover an extremely and almost uselessly broad range, from "took some piano lessons" to "advanced degree in music".

"well, it is and it isn't"

Classically trained milkman, Jon Anderson (xps)

classically trained means "didn't learn music mainly by playing along to records, can kind of read a score"

and it's fine (it's a useful fact) but everything in this thread is fine so

Well, it is and it isn't.

^^my human

lol

"we are going to leverage those learnings"

"Blast radius".

This spanky new (to me at least) golden verbalrrhea issues from the mouths of anyone above director level at my employer, at least 10 times an hour if they know someone is watching them.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

"blast radius" is hardly new and it's a useful concept

I hate this thread honestly

just stop using words if you hate them so much!

Just stop reading this thread if you hate it so much, lol.

tbh I think this thread annoyed me when it started but now I enjoy egging it on to become a repository for every word, usage and phrase in the English language.

we'll get every word in here if it takes all week

I hate the word "word", we don't need a word to tell us we're saying a word.

everyone's heard about the word

just stop using words if you hate them so much!

That's fine; I just want to stop hearing them without losing my job.

Blast Radius is a global digital agency helping build our clients' businesses by connecting brands and consumers in creative and innovative ways.

"blast radius" is hardly new and it's a useful concept

― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, August 19, 2021 9:54 AM (yesterday)

i had to look it up (outside of the literal meaning) and yeah ... that is useful in a software engineering context. Will it be adopted to refer to other things? ... The blast radius of the unfortunate racist comment made by a company leader ... The blast radius of the typo in the subject line of this week's sales email ... idk. Honestly a lot of this stuff is jargon that I don't hear until much later than a lot of people and I have to do cognitive work to figure out what it means, while the other people at the meeting or email thread are familiar with it, so I thank this thread for saving me from potential embarrassment.

agency partner

businesses footprint

brands creators

in creative and innovative ways iteratively in the social space

possibly also global impactful, but could be a step too far

"chief musical export"

lmao sarahell and mooks

christ, the rise of the "impact statement" aka "write the press release for us"

Aren’t impact statements typically written for use in court to allow a victim of a crime to publicly state the impact of the crime on their lives?
That’s how I know the term, or at least what I thought I knew

i think it's like blast radius -- and has been repurposed for other things

Impactful statements.

Sitting in interminable middle school in-service meetings right now. Just heard someone say v. urgently (re a schedule with recess on it) "We don't have recess at ____ School, we have wellness time."

I just encountered the word "glocal" and may need to lie down for a while

was it written by thomas friedman y/n

it’s how birds have oral sex

have a 'fauci-ouchie' and you'll be back on your feet again

I find that glocalamine does wonders for my arthritis.

are we talking literal avians?

I've started developing an irrational rage for anyone using the phrase "hump day".

I think it's because I associate it with 6music morning DJs, that kind of condescending "we're all one big family getting through the week together" motivational spiel that feels horribly insincere. It...sickens me.

right there with you, brother

:)

I had never heard the phrase till it was used as the title of a film about two friends having sex, so that's all I hear it as.

Luncheon. Office managers have perverted this word to death.

I get that it is a formal lunch, and there are such things. But getting tacos brought in to the office (remember that?) or going out to eat around noon with some co-workers to discuss an upcoming project is not a luncheon.

Oh, I thought it was just said by jolly nerds of the type who also like to say 'methinks'.

Its a meat imo

Used to share an office with a guy who would rise from his desk every day at 1pm and announce he was "off for lunchingtons". Don't miss him, tbh.

I am laughing out loud at my vision of this guy, thank you.

Off for lunchingtons!

picturing this guy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/wallpaper/images/colin_1024.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rj1SFtxRTg

they missed a trick by making a spinoff Swiss Toni series rather than a Colin Hunt one

i thought luncheon (or its elongated cousin "luncheon service") was used by the same generation of people who say "progrum"