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

When someone says something didn't "land". Like you didn't get it. This expression is fine for jokes but it's horrible in any other application

ooo cosign on that one

Critics calling things “airless”

I thought there was something particularly awful about this phrase in this context, but also bad in general:

Woman found holding her own eyeballs

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An Upstate community is in shock after a 19-year-old was found holding her eyeball and then gauged the other one out outside a church.
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gauge away
you can gauge away

ffs some guy in WH press corps referring to just-resigned wife beater as "gentleman"

also increasingly hearing this as cop-speak in press briefing re: some murder or whatever, "the gentleman then fired a second shot"

“Home invasion”

Was ‘burglary’ insufficiently bellicose?

I usually think of home invasion as the burglary of a home when the residents are present. Threats of force, that sort of thing.

"burglary by the individual," even. Not the man or the woman or even the person

Still sounds stupid though. (xp)

Wouldn’t ‘robbery’ imply the victim’s presence?

nope!

if you get home and your house has been cleaned out, you were robbed

or your wife finally got wise, I guess

no, you were burgled. robbery involves the threat or use of force, intimidation, etc.

that’s the legal definition!

no one shouts “we’ve been burgled!”

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no one shouts “we’ve been burgled!”

They don't?

I’m open to accepting new views

i would say "we've been burglarized" in that case.

In the US, you'd never say that in the UK.

So, yes, in the UK, you would shout, "I've been burgled", if you'd been burgled.

Depending on circumstances I might burble, "I've been burgled", or I might blubber it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tit5gHtVEls

that’s the legal definition!

no one shouts “we’ve been burgled!”

― mh, Thursday, February 8, 2018 6:25 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this happened to me a year ago and yes we were burgled. i say we were burgled. it's completely different than being robbed, which is obviously worse because of the potential for violence and the lingering anxiety and terror. i've always feared it but weirdly felt safe enough in my home after being burgled. don't know how i'd feel being robbed tho, especially via force.

burgled sounds kinda dirty though

where do we stand on "incrediburgible" tho

yeah it is dirty. your shit got stolen, your house was broken into. it sucks. they (usually) don't even take their shoes off

indeed that sounds like a terrible drag, sorry

yea its fine we got most of the stuff back, got a security thing... it is funny though, every time i would talk about it, i would be very conscious of the burgled/robbed difference, for whatever reason, even those most people don't know. frankly i'm surprised more people fuck up "hanged" and say "hung themselves." i actually feel that one has gotten worse in recent years

it's to the point now that when someone says "hanged" it's sort of impressive

Right. it's strange because I remember a decade ago, whenever that phrase would come up and someone would say "hung," another would correct with "hanged." now it's just a free for all

IDGAF, correct at all costs, you can't cede any territory to these cretins

Lol it's a little difficult when you're talking about a mutual friend that just committed suicide lmao

one time i left my house to to pickup a friend from the train station 5 mins down the street. when i got back i realized we were robbed. the windows were open and some things were missing, doors and cabinets were opened, etc. the thing is, at the time i didn't know if anyone was still in the house or not. this is why we called the cops. not sure what they wrote down and i don't really care. they arrived and accused us of lying and being on drugs. it sucked.

you shoulda said burgled, they would have believed you

"The prisoner was hung" has connotations that bring to mind horses more than executions.

there is actually such a thing as "death erection" though, in which case, unfortunately, one could be both hanged and evidently hung

it always bugs me that the term is "pleaded guilty (or innocent)" rather than "pled guilty" because the preferred use of language was variable

I also realized that the dictionary version of "robbed" I was looking at had general theft under "informal dialect" and listed "burglary" as a synonym

so there you go, I'm just from a bad dialect area

legal language is a gated system used to control those who in general do not understand it. there is a legal class that can understand the accepted contexts of all of these words and then there is everybody else, the vast people the laws are applied to, many of them legally illiterate. in a way we haven't changed much since the days of the Holy Roman Empire controlling everything through Latin.

To my ear, "pled" is about as correct as "syllabi."

That is, I understand the arguments in favor, but it seems just too stilted for normal use. For almost every audience, I'd prefer a more conversational choice.

I was taught pled either in civics class or mock trial and I wonder what was up with that

pled/pleaded drives me insane -- I can never remember which one to use when and I'm a fucking lawyer

He pled "innocent" to the capital crime he was charged with and during the sentencing he pleaded for his life.

syllabuses?

i work in one of the least orthodox higher education environments known to me and mankind and even we say syllabi

i was at a gig once where the singer was talking about someone being hung and the guy behind me kept yelling 'hanged!' and shaking his head

anyway that's how I remember the difference

Twas poor form of him indeed to go so far as to mime it

couldn't see a thread for malapropisms so i'll park this here. sales guy just emailed me to explain some pricing inconsistencies on his company's website - apparently they were due to "some clichés on the system"