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

In any case, if you think Scots or Scottish English is considered just hunky dory you should visit the UK sometime.

oh right of course

I understand the point being made, and it's one I was already aware of. I'd also understand your fervor on this point if I had actually complained about a non-standard usage that was specifically associated with a particular ethnic or other group. Complaints about non-standard or "wrong" usage may in general be conservative or even reactionary (to use your word), but I don't think every one has to be necessarily rooted in racism or other forms of oppression. I don't generally view any language as being diseased or decaying, rather evolving, and my use of the word "plague," while perhaps ill-advised, was tongue-in-cheek.

A plague on both your usages!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydUgAr3xek

Out of curiosity, I searched every post I've made to this thread and found only three instances where I expressed annoyance at particular words or phrases: "eye candy" as dehumanizing when applied to humans, "pissed" used as equivalent to "pissed off" instead of meaning "drunk", and the mock-sophisticated phrase "not unlike".

Incidentally, during my search I ran across f. hazel's most resplendent otm post among all 8000+ posts in this thread:

the amount of info we can convey with language across even the noisiest channels should make you weep with joy each morning upon waking, it's probably one of the most amazing things in the entire universe. and all the various things people complain about are, for the most part, manifestations of an underlying playfulness that is essential to making language work as well as it does.

― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, April 13, 2020

let's table that for now

I'll piggyback on that and say we need to calendar it for next week, we'll touch base then.

grammar maven BS

Quoth the maven,"I'm a bore."

f.hazel OTM, but speakers being pissed off by words, usages and phrases is part of the resilience and durability of languages, which otherwise would dissolve into a soup of catchy argot and burn their continuity with past writers.

language is a land of contrasts

Truly is a "land of confusion"

on the contrary, I would say it’s a tower f. hazel

A cloud of unknowing

A miasma of mystery

A chocolate-coated mystery

wrapped in an enigma

Then a layer of paradox

Then a tasty nougat center

With peanuts

Unless you're allergic

In which case, no peanuts

Not my personal annoyance, but I was in line with some people on Record Store Day and was getting along with them pretty well, but then one of them turned out to be the type of person who has a revulsion towards the word "moist". It's a fairly common dislike, but to me it seems maybe too common? Like, it's the bacon of words that annoy.

Yeah, I feel like I remember discussing this phenomenon recently (maybe even on ILX?) of how it started out as being something that genuinely annoyed certain people, and was even slightly funny in that Seinfeld sort of way, but a bunch of people who had never given a second thought to the word "moist" jumped on the "I hate moist" bandwagon in a bacony way. Personally, I am indifferent to "moist."

a good friend of mine in the early 90s told me of her disgust for this partic phrase:

"moist gusset"

…and so they went with Wet Leg

#onethread

nice

Moist metaphors are the trombone in the soup of language.

she also hated all forms of the verb "to pump"

but the worst was probably "pumpin'"

i have warmed on moist but will never give up on mouthfeel

Probably not the correct thread, but I fear that the word 'losing' (in its correct context) is slowly morphing into the spelling 'loosing', I keep seeing old and young people misspelling it online.

I'm sure that was happening before online too

A chocolate-coated mystery

wrapped in an enigma

Then a layer of paradox

Then a tasty nougat center

With peanuts

Unless you're allergic

In which case, no peanuts

TS: pump vs bobo honkin'

Something about being "at the pump" is really funny to me.

A ton of people substitute weary for wary.
“I’m weary of strangers”

Maybe they mean weary, tho

"I'm wary of stranglers"

Yeah, I feel like I remember discussing this phenomenon recently (maybe even on ILX?) of how it started out as being something that genuinely annoyed certain people, and was even slightly funny in that Seinfeld sort of way, but a bunch of people who had never given a second thought to the word "moist" jumped on the "I hate moist" bandwagon in a bacony way. Personally, I am indifferent to "moist."

And disapproval of wearing socks with sandals.

some ppl actually are afraid of clowns tho

Some

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21835-coulrophobia-fear-of-clowns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLtwtE4wuJc

i think i'm on record as absolutely with the idea that fear of clowns is a tired exaggerated meme

never heard the elbow thing

i realize that blurbs on novels have one foot in hell to start with, but please, enough with

'one of our (X)est writers'
'deeply human'

My 11-year-old son asked me the other day if I had trypophobia. That was a new one on me.

Buffandmaxsson?

first heard the elbow thing in The Singing Detective, I think.

I’ve conflated two things in my mind. “Elbow is the loveliest word in the English language” is indeed from The Singing Detective, and it annoyed me when indie plodders said they’d chosen it as their band name for that reason - like, find your own word to like. But I don’t think anyone else really goes on about it much. The phrase “cellar door” is the one that has become a phonaesthetic cliche. I mean, yes it’s nice but let’s move on.

“Countercultural” is beginning to annoy me in its wide usage, lazy/hazy associations and general lack of meaning.

so much for jimbeaux to enjoy on this thread:
Trypophilia and Trypophobia: A Picture Thread? (Not exactly NSFW but some deeply disturbing images in here)

'Cellar door' ???!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hP34ky5H_0

I have a recording of this which starts with John Peel saying 'CELLAR DOOR'.

Hope poster Alba doesn't hear it.

i blame tolkien

in earthsea the westernmost island, where none but dragons and dragonlords go, is called SELIDOR (which is like an annoying way of saying "cellar door")

"this is us, just, you know, ideating"