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

"daddy?"

I compiled these commandments

Anyway, now that I've read then: well done.

KINDERGARTEN CUM COMMUNE

seriously

oh you mean you never got around to it. gotcha

tracer hand is a cop

What age are your students, Alfred? I'm going to use some of those with my Y11s (15/16 yr olds). Cheers.

Thank you! From eighteen to sixty-five.

Charles Boyer turning into Juliette Binoche.

My memoir title.

Lol

Using the Latin cum (pronounced "koom"), rather than the English "with", is an affectation, but not the worst affectation around. When spoken, it is easy to detect. When written it should be italicized to emphasize that it is Latin.

even italicization seems a bit affected when the meaning is apparent. am I wrong? isn't it commonplace now to just type out Latin phrases normally, or at least the more common ones?

but even when cum doesn't mean splooge, it really shouldn't follow the word kindergarten. especially not when the next word is a noun that can be modified by this pairing to make a really lulzy phrase like that

It could have been solved by putting dashes to indicate that it is a three-word phrase, like garage-cum-workshop.

Or heck, both dashes and italics. But that wouldn't have kept me (or you lot) from snickering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorlton-cum-Hardy

... the Bee Gees spent a large part of their childhoods there.

... not to mention Chorlton & the Wheelies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo6C_CebBqc

the cum wheelies, call them by their name

also: in latin it certainly means "with", but in english (as for example in that new yorker tweet) it doesn't mean "with", it's something more like "a cross between" -- hence it *isn't* latin and is only being put in italics to indicate it doesn't mean jizz (which of course draws even more attention to this meaning it doesn't have but can't shake off)

(lol shake off)

RIP chorlton on medlock

Getting increasingly pissed off with "gifted", which no-one (apart perhaps from lawyers) used in the UK until about five years ago, as I recall. We were all perfectly happy with "given" and "gave" back then. I heard a radio DJ announce at the weekend that Bowie had "gifted" All The Young Dudes to Mott the Hoople, which is almost certainly not the case.

i saw 'mouse' used as a verb earlier today.

https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/04/20-years-ago-microsoft-changed-how-we-mouse-forever/

i mouse
you mouse
we mouse

"mouse over" has been computer-speak for "hover" for more than 20 years!

I have never heard that before.

there's a JavaScript "event" called "onmouseover" which means "when the user puts their arrow over this bit"

i will admit this is pretty niche

gift as a verb goes back to at least to milton, mouse as a verb is as old as cats

nouns becoming verbs has been an utterly absolutely basic process in (and strength of) english since the elizabethans at least tbh, if it genuinely distresses you go learn some other weedier language with declensions or equivalent nonsense

calvin is correct, hobbes is wrong

― mark s, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 8:49 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mouse#Verb . 1988 for computer mousing (mouse-over is, i think different, and more common). but there are 4 other definitions there i'd never heard of (a mouser, i guess is a thing that cats can be)

"Please and thank you" is a trash way to ask for things

calvin is correct, hobbes is wrong

― mark s, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 8:49 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one that drives me nuts in my office is "sunset", as in "we'll be sunsetting this program over the next few months"

It drives me nuts when people abbreviate ‘thanks’ (an abbreviation itself) to ‘thx’.

sry

THANKING YOU

'thx' is better than being gushed upon

hey we've all got our own kinks

It drives me nuts when people abbreviate ‘thanks’ (an abbreviation itself) to ‘thx’

okay "suzy"

Ta.

Can we at least agree that ‘thanx’ is a bit infra dig?

I can see how 'thankyou' could be used as a noun - as in 'he'd been given so many thankyous it was starting to get embarrassing'. Clumsy (and ugly), but has a grammatical logic.

one that drives me nuts in my office is "sunset", as in "we'll be sunsetting this program over the next few months"

― One Eye Open, Monday, April 29, 2019 12:42 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg change jobs now even if it's taco bell for a season just GET OUUUTTT imo

That 'thankyou' was supposed to be on the 70s album thread! Duh.

4 lettin me be mice elf

This recent adoption of "extra" as something of an abbreviation for extravagant.

"They had alpacas as ring bearers, it was so extra!"

Never heard of that one.

how cringe

my kids say this thing now all the time when they're mocking someone (which is all the time) which sounds like:

"GAH-dee!"

i assume it's fortnite related, like everything else they do. it drives me up the wall (which I'm sure is part of the point)

I can get grumpy as fuck about some "the youth using old words in new ways" things, and the likes of the casual "decimate," but my first "extra" was a thrilling moment. seeing an entirely new context around an ancient word (or word fragment), grokking it completely at once, and raising an invisible salute to whatever millennial in a purple crop-top had presumably conceived it.

I like onimo's attempt to translate it as a contraction of extravagant, too, a usage surely never contemplated by any of the first 200 ppl to deploy it in its new form

taking it back for the old ppl

Booming post sic

yea 'extra' = histrionic (m/l)

I'm paying more attention to basketball these days..."looks" kind of drives me up the wall. Confined to shot-taking--"he had some open looks"--it's somewhat bearable. Defensively--"you can expect the Sixers to give Kawhi some new looks tonight--it grates.