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

“amazing” and ”awesome” are so overused they’re basically meaningless now

Isn’t that a 20 year old complaint

The fewer words left that mean anything the better

yea I hate "woof."

"woof" and "oof"

Spanish speakers have been saying "¡Uf!" for decades if not since time immemorial

cf “uff da”

every time a fucking dog says "woof" I cringe at their lack of originality

what the fuck @ “woof” and “oof”, I’m going to need more details

idk i've only heard a couple people use it and it's annoying.

A reaction to another person describing an unpleasant situation. Similar usage to "ugh"

It’s a simple way to express sympathy, we could use more of those imo
Bring on the oof

Ah ok, it’s like when people return from a long journey and say “oof” after sinking into an armchair... sometimes followed by “ooh my dogs are barking” or something

woof is different iirc

"yeah so" is there some kind of audio filter I can apply to NPR that will remove these two words which is apparently how everyone now starts their sentences?

It’s a simple way to express sympathy, we could use more of those imo
Bring on the oof

Up on the Oof

oof of today

i use woof and oof regularly and refuse to stop

Even though I haven't lived in Scotland for almost 20 years I still say 'och' [ɒx], it's so much more expressive than 'oh', which sounds feeble in comparison. I also say 'aye' all the time and 'the noo' occasionally ... but not all together.

och aye the noof

och aye the neuf, the French influence on Scots can never be overestimated.

speaking of NPR, some of the younger more smartypants intellectuals do this thing where they say "right" after each of their piercing observations, even if they are quite specialised observations you could have never known before, much less agreed with. so you are like yes duh of course mr expando-brain (it is always mr) i probably knew that already, right. you are right! either that or it's something speculative and subjective they've just said in which case it's relatively more straightforward micro-hustling you into agreement. either way CUT IT OUT

Indeed…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Celtic

xp

ooft

Ooftish?

(xxp) Not really, more Norman French and the Auld Alliance et al. Scots is not Celtic after all!

I was being pedantically facetious.

But yeah, sorry, I tend to get Lowland Scots and Scots Gaelic mixed up.

Talking of Lowland Scots, Oos is one of may favourite words (plural of Oo).

... pron. oose, not ooze.

(it is always mr)
Not always a man! I hear people of all sorts doing the “right” at the end of a sentence. I’ve taken to slotting it into a category of semantically insignificant time-buyers, gives a pause to remember yr next point. Seems to be prevalent among people who have practiced giving long answers to the questions they’re asked. It does seem to be highly contagious.

the worst sentence-filler is "obviously". some people pepper their sentences with that multiple times over.

oof and its metropolotan-nyc variant OOFAH are timeless and satisfying alternatives to "oh boy" or "good grief" etc.

I don't know how one would use "woof" though?

I mean "oof" isn't even a word so much as a spontanous, gutteral exclamation

I assume flappy finds the sympathetic "oof" or its near-synonym "woof" to be bad in typed communication, where it carries a faux spontaneity. I sort of sympathize but still I see how it's useful.

I guess I don't hate "woof," but it's something I hear a lot that I don't want to say.

I guess american vernacular english has a shortage of good ways to express sympathy in a range of registers. You can sound lite, or you can sound somber, not enough else.

oof and its metropolotan-nyc variant OOFAH are timeless and satisfying alternatives to "oh boy" or "good grief" etc.
I don't know how one would use "woof" though?

same usage

Yes the ways to express sympathy without detail or saying “sorry” are very few. Oof is casual sorry-lite.

woof different usage, can be approving for a start

i think the first person i heard say it was James Richardson, in football weekly, and he always seemed to say it at just the right time. an exclamation of surprise but variable as per dmac - can be admiring, can be damning. a bit like ' oh la la ' actually

it's happening again

https://i.imgur.com/exV8GZZ.png

keep it in the cigar box, people!

gear's roommate to thread

guessing that lady learned in English in India, where that usage of "cum" is more common than it is here in the US (for obvious reasons)

not annoyed but v bemused at the emergence of "slapper" (in the US) to denote a song that slaps

Knee-slapper.

not annoyed but v bemused at the emergence of "slapper" (in the US) to denote a song that slaps

this term has been around for over 20 years

Was blissfully unaware of its British & Irish meaning.

ok some searching reveals you're right Outic, though it seems to have migrated from (bay area?) rap usage to more general application--I encountered it twice today. And if you are aware of the other meaning, this sub-headline is a little startling: https://www.thefader.com/2019/08/01/rosalia-j-balvin-con-altura-song-of-the-summer-el-guincho-frank-dukes

keep it in the cigar box, people!

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guessing that lady learned in English in India, where that usage of "cum" is more common than it is here in the US (for obvious reasons)

Also when ppl innocently fall into that trap it belongs in “words, usages and phrases that delight the shit out of you” obv