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

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Growing tired of people saying everything surprising/that tests the limits of credulity is “wild”
- clearly a substitute for ableist “crazy”
- rarely genuinely wild
- yes this is a petty gripe
- still, watching the adoption and spread of “wild” as it makes its way from prestige users (AOC for example) to the average person.

I’m already embarrassed about having griped about this word
Wild!

when people say “i feel like …” followed by something they cannot possibly feel like, e.g. “i feel like too much sugar is bad for you”. no. you don’t feel like this at all.

I hear "I feel like" about fifty times a day now, I say it too.

Following up on the fortnight/sennight mentions upthread, I was reading some 17th century trial testimony and they repeatedly say "twelvemonth" instead of "a year" which is interesting.

The whole substitution of "I feel that X is so" for "My opinion is that X is so" has been around since I was young and it irritated people back then, too.

iirc people who use this sentence construction are likely to be "hands-on" learners? So if someone instead says "I hear that too much sugar is bad for you", they would prefer auditory learning techniques? I'm sure I read that somewhere once.

when people say “i feel like …” followed by something they cannot possibly feel like, e.g. “i feel like too much sugar is bad for you”. no. you don’t feel like this at all.

feelz before realz, amirite?

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I love this so much

The phrase that I hate with a simmering rage atm is "It has recently come to my attention..." like who are you? Principal of a private school? It is like a BBcode suffix for [santimony]

*er, [sanctimony]

or the overuse "The opportunity to," i.e. "I would like the opportunity to discuss your grade before kicking your shins."

People seem to use "twelvemonth" to refer to any consecutive twelve-month span -- what businesspeople call "year-over-year" or sometimes "YoY" -- instead of saying "year" which is easily taken to mean a January-to-December year.

all these online articles are saying "I feel like" is a millennial thing but aimless otm that it's been around a lot longer than that. I overuse "like" everywhere. I don't really care because I kind of like it.

January-to-December is a calendar year. Distinct from school years and fiscal years.

Any twelve-month period? I would find another way to express it than "twelvemonth."

Happily, "no worries" has largely seemed to dissipated. I hope it's because it's a dopey expression and not because people are generally worrying more

'I'll pencil you in.'

An old-timer I've known a long time at the university asked me about a decade ago when did people replace "I think" with "I feel"? If he wanted to hippy-punch, I wouldn't have stopped him.

Oftentimes when I read the prefix to a sentence "Sadly," it is not deployed to indicate any sadness at all, but as a signpost for the author's malicious glee at the following list of their target's shortcomings. "Sadly, his results have not improved" that's right your idiot boy is repeating grade six lol

I mentally substitute 'distressingly' or 'grievously' for 'sadly' whenever I come across it.

If I were a teacher I'd be real about it: "It is with delicious pleasure that I have, in Maths, given your Nigel a failing grade."

Happily, "no worries" has largely seemed to dissipated. I hope it's because it's a dopey expression and not because people are generally worrying more

― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, October 4, 2019 10:44 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm not so sure—I still hear it everywhere and TWICE in the past month I've had a phone tech / customer service person from south asia conclude w/ "No Worries" and it took everything I had not to say, hey, I know you mean the best and you are busting your ass in a second language but *please* don't pick up that habit, A) I wasn't worried and B) it sounds like you think you did me a favor or something when in fact I've lost my entire afternoon to your company's shit service

ok this may belong in the IA thread for me

I find "no worries" is tossed around a lot more when it's an international group of people.

isn’t it an Australian thing

you people are so irritable

my pleasure

you're welcome

I'm happy to help

don't mention it

so many good options!

srsly lads

At least once a year I combine "my pleasure" and "no problem" into "my problem" or "no pleasure"

I hear a lot of people saying it (and inserting it when they don't typically use it) when speaking to other nationalities. It's like, a safe space of phrase.

'no pleasure' is very trumpian.

I notice all the 'no worries' being used because I hate it. It's as bad as 'cool beans' to me.

I say 'no worries', partly because of 'pas de souci'.

no wuckers

my pleasure

you're welcome

I'm happy to help

don't mention it

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xdsZhfrcA

(for the non Australians, short for “no wuckin’ forries”)

I still use no worries even though I hate it, like I hate adding in an exclamation mark to an e-mail for softening.

No furries!

No problemo

ok this may belong in the IA thread for me

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 4:06 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

everything on this entire thread belongs on the IA thread (unlike nearly everything on the IA thread)

At least once a year I combine "my pleasure" and "no problem" into "my problem" or "no pleasure"

Literal audible lol (LALOL)

A) I wasn't worried and B)

Pretty sure you can find me way upthread annoyed about customer reps reassuring me with gentle words not to worry, as though I had called them in panic rather than exasperation.

Some palare-isms, I guess:

I don't like "yisssss" in the place of "yes" but that's more because of bad past experiences with a yisssser

I don't like [Elektra voice]: "stunning" mostly because I really hated Pose by the end of S2

And I don't like "totes" in the place of "totally"

my pleasure

you're welcome

I'm happy to help

don't mention it

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so many good options!

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol all of those are worse options for certain instances where "no worries" is used

what are those certain instances

like if someone I know, personally, sees that I am actually worried about something and is making an effort to assuage my worries

ok

but if I decided to enter your place of business and bought somthing from you, and thanked you (?) idgi

lol it must be fun getting bent out of shape by innocuous phrases

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say if a colleague apologizes for something that is totally fine, didn't actually bother you at all. "don't mention it" would be fine there...but so would "no worries".

well yeah, the "no worries" scourge I'm talking about is not in response to an apology! It's in response to being thanked.