― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
-- 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.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
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?
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Melly E (Melly E), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Monday, 29 December 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Monday, 29 December 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 December 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
'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.
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 29 December 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
― ermes marana, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
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?"
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelf)xxx, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link
When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Or a colon.
COINKY-DINK, "guestimate," and any time someone ends an interrogative sentence with "at," as in "Where's my keys at?" or "Where's your head at?"
― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
"hating on"
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
"Action" used as a verb. (Especially with regards to some annoying little thing I had already been doing.) "Can you please action this?" Actually, no I can't. Action is a noun. If you would like me to DO it, then just ask. Argh.
Especially when coming from the same irritating marketing bods who last week asked me to "manage the relationship" with one of our suppliers. Fuck. Right. Off.
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link
A term of address directed at Turkish shopkeepers by 13 year old boys and directed by Turkish shopkeepers at everyone else. The most annoying ever.
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link
DON'T MADAM ME, YOU LITTLE...!!! OK, according to Watching The English, this means that they have socio-status assessed me as middle class or higher. But it irritates me because it makes me feel old.
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Americans often use the vile ‘sammiches’, so nobody is covering themselves in glory here.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:49 (two weeks ago) link
Never heard either of those thankfully.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:05 (two weeks ago) link
I don't mind "resonates".
It's a shorthand way of saying "that thing you've just described is really meaningful to me, but it would probably be too boring and unrelatable to explain, so I'm just going to say 'resonates'"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:22 (two weeks ago) link
The word "resonate" itself isn't the issue, it's saying "I resonate with x" instead of "x resonates with me."
― jaymc, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:51 (two weeks ago) link
'i resonate with x' makes more logical sense to me. i'm the one reacting, the x isn't doing anything.
― ledge, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:14 (two weeks ago) link
following the logic of the analogy it does make more sense for the object to resonate than the subject
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:24 (two weeks ago) link
Agree with J - "i resonate with x" sounds very strange to me the same way that it sounds weird to me when people here say "you suit green" rather than "green suits you".
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:26 (two weeks ago) link
I resonate with sarnies.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:37 (two weeks ago) link
._.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:40 (two weeks ago) link
I have gotten used to it but I still will sometimes think of it literally… like sandwiches causing the speaker’s voice to become an operatic vibrato
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:43 (two weeks ago) link
I definitely don’t say it… it also sometimes makes me think of vibrators and like the person getting off sexually on the inspirational meme about collective farming
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:47 (two weeks ago) link
Sarnies resonate with me = Sarnies get a sympathetic response from me
I resonate with sarnies = I get a sympathetic response from sarnies
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:52 (two weeks ago) link
isn't Sarnies that theatre bar in NYC
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:55 (two weeks ago) link
physically speaking that just seems completely the wrong way round (i know it's what we old folk have always said)
― ledge, Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:02 (two weeks ago) link
I wonder if "I resonate with x" has become more popular recently because of analogous constructions like "I vibe with x" and "I fuck with x."
― jaymc, Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:24 (two weeks ago) link
my guess is yes
it's another way of saying vibe with
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:32 (two weeks ago) link
Or more often sammies — which tbh of all of these I don't mind.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:34 (two weeks ago) link
who wants a hammy sammy
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:42 (two weeks ago) link
Federal prosecutors can indict them iirc
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:47 (two weeks ago) link
Both the sandwich infantilism and the resonating are usages I have come to accept but I still don’t like and never say … and have to consciously avoid having a negative facial expression in response
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:13 (two weeks ago) link
I used to really hate the term “apps” to refer to appetizers, but I have come to accept it. I still reflexively think of the scene in “The Thick of It” where the Tory minister has to say “I call app Britain” and his obvious annoyance at it
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:16 (two weeks ago) link
https://y.yarn.co/8278afd4-3549-4980-8d55-4f30bd4b82db_text.gif
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 May 2024 03:12 (two weeks ago) link
imo, the creation and use of diminutives should remain in the exclusive domain of Australians. Doesn’t feel right any other way. Get your own culture, ya know?
― H.P, Saturday, 4 May 2024 03:26 (two weeks ago) link
Liverpool might say the Australians are the thieves here.
― steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 4 May 2024 05:54 (two weeks ago) link
xps gif notwithstanding, no Aussie would call them fckn “sandos” unless trying to pretend their cafe is a konbini. For starters it would cause massive confusion with the Sandringham Hotel in Melbourne. Which IS the Sando.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 4 May 2024 08:03 (two weeks ago) link
Sarnies are ok in the bacon usage. Doesn’t work with cheese, peanut butter or other fillings, but bacon sarnies are ok.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 4 May 2024 08:13 (two weeks ago) link
Where I come from, they call big sandwiches "grinders", so it can always be worse.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:14 (two weeks ago) link
Grinders are fine …
― sarahell, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:27 (two weeks ago) link
GrindersHungry for meat
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:08 (two weeks ago) link
I guess if we really want to be technical, they're "grindahs"
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:14 (two weeks ago) link
What's up with the "fish" in "tuna fish sandwich"?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:34 (one week ago) link
possibly related: beef brain instead of cow brain
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:40 (one week ago) link
xposts - when I was in HS I worked at a clothing shop with an older girl who liked to tell me about her hookups. She was from somewhere in New England where subs are called grinders but I had never heard that before so was v v confused when she described someone as having a d like a grindah. Only figured it out years later when I moved to Boston.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:54 (one week ago) link
Lol when Grinder the app came out, my first thought was grindah size d
― sarahell, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:10 (one week ago) link
Ahhh please drown me right this minute
But her rant backfired when she was deluged with criticism. She has now turned the comments off underneath the Instagram video.
'When I first outed the restaurant on TikTok, it reached the wrong audience of non-creators and influencers who didn't understand what was happening,' Ms May said.
'creators' is bad enough, but 'non-creators'?? KILL ME PLEASE
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 20 May 2024 23:59 (yesterday) link