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

Four Words: Use Other Words Please
"Use other words please."
Commonly used phrases that inexplicably bug you
Most irritating cliche/phrase/expression
"Taking Things to a Whole `Nother Level!"
words that annoy
Words that should earn the author a slap
PROVERBIAL and other tip offs to poor writing

-- caitlin (wpsal...) (webmail), December 23rd, 2003. (caitlin)

Oh yes, yes yes. I second that one. And the people who say it, say it over and over.

I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.

This is true.

But, this is a topic that should be dealt with routinely and harshly... the only way we can correct the language and suppress it's organic growth is by exposing and banning every new usage as it occurs... Isn't that what the French do?

Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....

'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.

Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.

Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?

I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"

ok this may belong in the IA thread for me

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 4:06 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

everything on this entire thread belongs on the IA thread (unlike nearly everything on the IA thread)

At least once a year I combine "my pleasure" and "no problem" into "my problem" or "no pleasure"

Literal audible lol (LALOL)

A) I wasn't worried and B)

Pretty sure you can find me way upthread annoyed about customer reps reassuring me with gentle words not to worry, as though I had called them in panic rather than exasperation.

Some palare-isms, I guess:

I don't like "yisssss" in the place of "yes" but that's more because of bad past experiences with a yisssser

I don't like [Elektra voice]: "stunning" mostly because I really hated Pose by the end of S2

And I don't like "totes" in the place of "totally"

my pleasure

you're welcome

I'm happy to help

don't mention it

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so many good options!

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol all of those are worse options for certain instances where "no worries" is used

what are those certain instances

like if someone I know, personally, sees that I am actually worried about something and is making an effort to assuage my worries

ok

but if I decided to enter your place of business and bought somthing from you, and thanked you (?) idgi

lol it must be fun getting bent out of shape by innocuous phrases

thread title to thread

say if a colleague apologizes for something that is totally fine, didn't actually bother you at all. "don't mention it" would be fine there...but so would "no worries".

well yeah, the "no worries" scourge I'm talking about is not in response to an apology! It's in response to being thanked.

ahh ok no worries then :D

no worries

are we anti-no problem? i find i mumble it a lot when someone rotely thanks me for holding a door open for them - somehow 'you're welcome' seems so formal for what was ultimately an insignificant favor

you're grand

i so 'no sweat' to british people and they look at me like i'm fuckin clint eastwood

clint eastwood is 89 which is how old you'd expect someone to be who is still saying no sweat in the UK

in the US too probably tbf

I'm annoyed by the push to say "you're welcome," because it so happens that sometimes a person is NOT categorically welcome to whatever I just did for them. Maybe you got lucky. Maybe the beautiful subtext of the alternatives is "you don't need to worry about it this time, but definitely don't get used to it"

yeah i mean usually I'm saying no problem because it was a slight problem but I'm being nice

When I moved to the city, I had to get used to people saying "uh huh" in response to "thank you". It took me two years to adjust, and I remember at least two instances where I said, "...can you please stop saying 'uh huh' in response to 'thank you'? It's really... weird and sounds dismissive." Both times, they smiled a big shit-eating grin and said, "...well, you're welcome."

The Marine in my class this year would regularly respond to thanks with “easy day.”

semper fucked up

It's so much better than no worries or no problem

sound
no bother

btw the idea that anyone should note so closely, let alone wish to exert control over, let alone actually attempt to pull customer rank over service industry or whatever staff about shit as petty as how they acknowledge your tossed-off thanks is fucked up have a fuckin look at yourself if this is a thing for you

Asking someone to change how they respond to a thank you seems way worse than responding to a thank you with "uh huh"

Xp

lol darraghmac

btw the idea that anyone should note so closely, let alone wish to exert control over, let alone actually attempt to pull customer rank over service industry or whatever staff about shit as petty as how they acknowledge your tossed-off thanks is fucked up have a fuckin look at yourself if this is a thing for you

― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Friday, October 4, 2019 7:35 PM (eleven minutes ago)bookmarkflaglink

otm

The only correct response really to “thank you” is “yes”

or "babooshka ya ya"

or "you're welcome"

Just say 'for nothing', the French/Romanian/Spanish/etc. way.

i'm amazed some posters on this thread haven't been killed by hypertension yet

Needs even more salt.

I find a simple "fuck you" sends people on their way with a smile

bitte schon is good you have to admit

often go with 'salright in response to fairly trivial thanks, or just the dreaded/gracious blink nod

"have a ratchet day"

Nae tother a' ba'

Yeah, ‘no worries’ is like ‘nae bother’ to me.

I like the contrast between language change in aggregate being culturally alarming and people day-to-day getting tired of "no worries" and drafting in some other phrase for basically no reason at all.

lol Tom here at 2:40:00, this was gratifying

https://thebestshow.net/episode/the-secrets-of-life-debut-of-spiral-heads-song/

OTOH I do think these phatic expressions vary geographically (and generationally), so maybe this^ reaction is just our shared age/region demo

terrible argument. as we discussed already, retail employees are doing customers a huge favor by helping them and not murdering them, so "no worries" or "no problem" is perfectly appropriate.

ok thank you

I'm still processing some related trauma

The phrase "best television show of all time" really annoys me, regardless of the show it refers to. At least the 50 million mugs that say "World's Best [Dad/Mom]" exist to express some minimally justified sentimentality, but television isn't your mom or dad, so just say you enjoy a program with some enthusiasm and step away.

but television isn't your mom or dad

Obviously not a latchkey kid.

The Sopranos is my mother and my father.