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

Ezra Pound came to this conclusion as well.

I don't object to literalism or florid metaphor either. I keep reposting this sentiment but it's really just grating to see anyone write anything that anyone else has ever written before. Not that I'm not guilty of doing that; surely we all are. But I already have enough deja vu without people resorting to stock sentiments.

ilx injoke phrases are good not bad though

xp hm I'm probably obliged to take the opposite stance as Ezra Pound on anything

Cratylus would have loved for 100% literalism to be achievable and I concur. But I've yet to encounter it anywhere, including (perhaps even especially) in imagism.

being densely, anarchically literal is fun and funny as Amelia Bedelia proves

worth pointing out that lots of ppl are ~really bad~ at picking apart subtleties of language and very often -perhaps understandably- feel personally attacked by usages of language that are not 100% literal

Yeah, that makes sense. But there's another reading of that scenario... most people are actually pretty damn good at picking up subtleties of language, as long as they are the subtleties of their in-group. Feeling personally attacked by having to make efforts to understand others is not a linguistic problem, it's a kind of privilege. Taking the time to figure out other sociolects you frequently encounter isn't super hard, but "this is too hard for me to learn" is a great excuse to be lazy and let others continue to do the hard work of understanding.

i should aha make clear aha that i am decidedly not of the on group to which i refer

Dialectical counterpoint: when everything is ironic, nothing is.

hahaha, no, no reference implied to anyone here!

'the exact same'

Going waaaaaaaay back, here's a couple of jokes me and my brother made up:

Q: What do you call a Glaswegian rock 'n' roll singer who is a recovering alcoholic?
A: Chuck Bevvy.

That was mine, this was my brother's:

Q: What do you call a Glaswegian impressionist?
A: Zack Same.

I'm sure there's more I can't remember right now.

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 August 2016 10:10 (two years ago) Permalink

I really hate "stuck the landing".

"Double-click" as a synonym to "follow through". E.g., "I will double-click on you later this week."

excuse me what?

yeah im sorry nobody has ever heard that and been free to post on a message board after, even with a kind judge its eight to ten for manslaughter

i don't have the bandwidth to double-click on you right now

Weird, when I've heard people say "double-click", they used it to mean dig deeper into a topic, also horrible.

Well it means that too. But specifically the double-click-on-a-human usage is what punks my pancake.

'Deep dive'

nice try but nothing will ever be as bad as 'double click'

its made me twice as sorry as usual to have opened this thread, certainly

somehow to some 'cool beans' has become 'cool bananas' :[

none of this is true, you're putting me on

cool bananas is good not bad, i am going to use it non-stop

Who approved 'cool beans' in the first place?

feels like a California thing

love the mouthfeel of cool beans

http://www.word-detective.com/2009/11/cool-beans/

I think that what we have in “cool beans” is actually an updating, unconscious among its users, of the colloquial US expression “some beans,” which has been used since the mid-19th century to mean “quite something” or “excellent, awesome” (“By golly, you’re some beans in a bar-fight,” 1850).

Aw, I want someone to tell me I'm some beans in a bar-fight.

Hmmm:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=double%20click

That's every urban dictionary entry.

cool beans went big with cheech and chong i think

This right here is peak urban dictionary tho:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=challop

Cool bananas is Australian slang, has been around since at least the 70s, but has perhaps only recently debuted in the rest of the anglosphere

The use of “myself” and “yourself” when “me”/“I” or “you” would do the trick.

Gaun yerself, big man.

weve done this

I blame The Apprentice UK.

i blame people of celtic extraction

Like michaellambert.

take the blame away from michaellambert and what have you?

michaelrt

michael RT

hes a plant sent to sow division

so says meself anyway

OTM yourself.

once saw one of those custom painted bug shields you can get for your child molester van and it said "HIMSELF" (including the quotation marks) in green with shamrocks on either side

little enough of that makes any sense but as its yourself im happy to operate on trust

like this but "HIMSELF"
https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-43538418999218/bug-shield-lettering-2.gif

[statement.] full stop.

Did “cool runnings” fall out of favor because of the movie?

I have never heard the phrase “cool runnings” in a context unrelated to the movie

I should have been clearer, no issue with celtic-extraction variants such as “yersel’”. It’s the faux-formal Apprentice UK form that grates.

"asking for a friend"