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

Been around for ages now but this use of "do a ____" in an attempt at being winsome is just awful and needs to stop (I did a cry, you are doing a frighten, &c)

"did a racism"

Knock yourself out

'Like', that fatuous word sticking out like a sore thumb in conversational English. It's like killed American podcasts for me, like, the word just pops up like every five seconds. I used to think littering sentences with 'like' was solely an American thing, but last time I was in England I heard it quite a lot?

My podcast bugbear is Americans starting an answer with "So" and ending it with "right?"

Starting an answer with "So" is just what politicians et al do in the UK these days.

'Like' has been a thing in UK and US English forever really and I'm guilty of it myself. But there's a certain tone to a lot of podcasts that amplifies it, definitely

"So" used to annoy me as the classic opener for broadsheet columnists and Guardian letter writers ("So Celebrity X claims..." etc). As the beginning of an answer to a direct question it just signals to me that evasion will follow.

State of this, state of that...

Screw 'so', go 'hwæt' or gtfo.

one of my supervisors does the "so..." opening to a "...right?" closing for nearly every sentence uttered. one of those things where once you notice it, it's very distracting and grating.

Chicken cacciatore.

No idea why.

across from the medical center

Been around for ages now but this use of "do a ____" in an attempt at being winsome is just awful and needs to stop (I did a cry, you are doing a frighten, &c)

"did a racism"

― Sam Weller, Monday, November 18, 2019 9:08 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah these are really bad but I think widely mocked for what they are, infantile regression... see also 'doggo,' 'heckin,' etc.

'Like', that fatuous word sticking out like a sore thumb in conversational English. It's like killed American podcasts for me, like, the word just pops up like every five seconds. I used to think littering sentences with 'like' was solely an American thing, but last time I was in England I heard it quite a lot?

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, November 18, 2019 11:57 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

creeping americanization.

i mean, like, i say like a lot, but i have been living with canadians for 7 and a half years. british people in britain should not be saying like

As an American I can say that saying “like” totally rules

Everyone should do it

Probably have said this before, but using BCE/CE rather than BC/AD is some shit-eating namby-pambyness. First of all, "common era" is a meaningless phrase. Secondly, if you want to pretend your dating system has no connection to Christianity, maybe start it in a different year.

stuff it, sick of seeing BC/AD still in 2019 CE, they're in different languages even.

Guess I could start using the Hebrew calendar exclusively tho

xp Fair enough, except that those abbreviations don’t say merely “Jesus,” which would be okay...they say “lord” and “Christ”

I’m happy to start writing “BJ” and “HJ” (for “h’after Jesus”)

lollll

Indeed quality of life has truly declined over the millennia

Secondly, if you want to pretend your dating system has no connection to Christianity, maybe start it in a different year.

Yeshua ben Joseph didn't start in that year either, but our commonly-agreed era of dating did

I thought this was some kind of criticism of Jdate before I scrolled up

Yeshua ben Joseph didn't start in that year either, but our commonly-agreed era of dating did

Even for you, sic, this is feeble trolling.

*wipes brow* lucky I wasn't trolling then!

(obv the dating didn't actually start that year either)

Lived in blissful ignorance of this crime against the English langauge until this Joshua v. Ruiz fight tbh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportswashing

Such and such an artist/album 'slaps' is a construction I'll happily see the back of.

'We need to talk about... [ultra-niche, super-ephemeral, almost certainly insignificant cultural moment]'

“slab”

slab?

scottish labour?

Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

to be clear I was saying "slab," not objecting to it

God, "thanks for coming to my Ted Talk" is still going around like it's clean. jesus christ

"i turned around to them and said..."

"i'm a _____ kind of person" or "i'm a _____ type of person"

these words, usages, and phrases annoy the shit out of me, ilx

"nothing burger"

― Number None, Sunday, July 16, 2017 6:08 AM (two years ago)

Pssh, what a nothingburger of a complaint!

(Yeah, it's real fucken dumb.)

'I'm a nothingburger kind of person.'

Omfg. My boss likes to throw the line “it’s so rock ‘n roll” at random in a conversation. IT MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT. urgh. It annoys the shit out of me.

Shut them down with an 'ok boomer'.

speaking as a boomer this seems an entirely appropriate use tbf -- all the more so if it works

(caveat: 99.9% of the words usages and phrases in this thread are perfectly fine so my approval here may not carry the weight i feel it shd)

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SaltyNeighboringAmphiuma-size_restricted.gif

(Stings a bit as I get within spitting distance of that age but the sentiment abides.)

Tell her 'rave on'

"I'm speechless" at the start of a long rant

And 'long story short' towards the end.

Once again: “weaponize”