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

it's less sharp right?

btw any media outlets not properly diacriticizing Spanish names (let alone French, or Vietnamese) in 2018 needs to get their acts together, you look illiterate when you write "Bogota"

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby)

Yes, and there's a big difference between "año" and "ano," NY Times Crossword editor

you guys are ripping nytimes a new ano

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waht

quartertones baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vZURdhucM

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What is this madness.

it's where the fun starts

I approve.

cof break fellas

It's a gateway drug and it inevitably leads to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWxBlj-R8OQ

or that metal dude imago likes

"Wins the internet"--track down whoever came up with that idiocy.

wins iirc

People Who Have Won the Internet

People who deftly dramatize and inhabit the internet; people who have read the whole thing; people who determine the rules of internet engagement. There aren’t a lot of them but there are too many to name–so maybe it is time we started a list. I will offer my top five: Molly Lambert, Julian Assange, Tavi, Andrey Ternovskiy, and Ned Raggett.

twitter explodes

A tad immodest from Ned there tbh.

Whatever. This. Is. Called.

Stupidest. Thing. Ever.

(This has probably been mentioned already, but I don't know how to search it.)

pseudo frenchisms like oui'd, heaux etc

seriously wtf

That thing where people say "[something like 'no one cares'/'whatever you say'], Karen/Carol/Generic Unhip White Woman Name" to condescendingly call bullshit on something.

It seems like a bad fusion of the concept of emotional labor in the workplace and unpaid domestic labor at home.

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, October 23, 2017 12:23 PM (one year ago)

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/arlie-hochschild-housework-isnt-emotional-labor/576637/

HOCHSCHILD SPEAKS

Beck: Okay, so that was the lightning round. Thank you for doing that. It’s interesting because it seems like people are trying to have an important conversation about the work that women are expected to do outside of their jobs, about the way they have to smooth social interactions, or sometimes it’s about having to remember all this stuff for the household, or sometimes in the office. Or about just chores? And all of these things are getting kind of smooshed together and being called emotional labor, as far as I can tell.

Hochschild: I agree. We’re trying to have an important conversation but having it in a very hazy way, working with [ a] blunt concept. I think the answer is to be more precise and careful in our ideas and to bring this conversation into families and to the office in a helpful way.

If you have an important conversation using muddy ideas, you cannot accomplish your purpose. You won’t be understood by others. And you won’t be clear to yourself. That’s what’s going on. It’d be like going to a bad therapist—“Well, just try to have a better day tomorrow.” You’re doing the right thing, you’re seeking help, but you’re not getting clarification and communicating clearly. It can defeat the purpose; it can backfire.

when 'automatic' is used instead of 'instant', or thereabouts. for example, in the context of a game, or something: "if you roll a 4, that's an automatic lose". NO! there is no automation here.

also, this is very much a regional english thing, but i'm noticing a lot of yorkshire/lancashire folks developing a trend of omitting prepositions:
"I'm going Tesco"
"Wanna go cinema but not sure what to see"
"Anyone going Thee Oh Sees tonight?"

*to*. you're going *TO*. your words. use them.

telegraphic language is damned easy to misunderstand, but the tendency toward terseness appears to inhere in our ever more technological and complex culture. at some point this kind of lossy compression will collide with the ever increasing complexity and specificity of modern capitalism and create so much drag and inefficiency that the whole apparatus will cease to function. I already see signs of this happening.

Examples

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tbh most ppl use too many words

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thread load bollocks usual

Beginning sentences with "Am" rather than I'm or I am is currently grinding my gears.

will try to dial it back chief.

in the context of a game, or something: "if you roll a 4, that's an automatic lose". NO! there is no automation here.

i think it's specifically ok in the context of a game, where the rules are the mechanics of the game. so as an adjective, automatic works fine.

doesn't mean it can't bother you, though.

There's a Pitchfork headline about Mac Miller's "posthumous" Spotify session and maybe I'm a pedant but I wish it said "posthumously released"

impactful

“Look, I’m not going to lie...”
Ok, so everything you’re been saying EXCEPT this next statement has been bs

^ given that the phrase is consistently used as the prelude to saying something you would prefer to be a falsehood, regardless of whatever was said prior, that seems like a perverse interpretation designed to neutralize having to accept whatever is said next as true by casting your interlocutor as an inveterate liar.

look, gird your loins for what i'm about to lay down here...

^ given that the phrase is consistently used as the prelude to saying something you would prefer to be a falsehood,

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"

otm i alvvays luvd that qvote

Sometimes that phrase comes to my mind when I walk into the bar. Though I’m not sure what result I’m expecting

*checks notes*

really, ffs. do not.

that's not a reply to anyone on this thread, btw, it's a new offence.

“big spoon”/“little spoon” – spoons of different sizes do not nest together; spoons of the same size do. That’s why it’s called spooning

“The Venn diagram of A and B is just a circle” – this is not how Venn diagrams work. They do not represent proportions. Generally.

impactful

― mookieproof, Wednesday, November 28, 2018

I've waged a Sommes-level battle against it for years. We've lost.

whoa @ spoon

“Business Garden”

on-boarding

“Business Garden” is a terrible euphemism