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

^^^ "Concerning" is the fucking worst.

I'm currently reading a book (academic study of pop music) that uses "problematic" as a fucking noun.

'Problematic' qua academic noun has been around for ages and is unrelated to wokeness.

i think the pinefox started a thread about it

(or anyway a discussion in a thread, he was amused by what exactly academics think they're asking when they used it -- it's usually plural in the academic sense tho, maybe)

It's so concerning

will they cancel the parade?

"my dude"

anthropocene

"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, January 11, 2019 8:14 AM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I know both usages have been around a long time but one is correct and the other makes me want to twist someone's foot off

"nothing burger"

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

― pomenitul, Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:04 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

"cringe"

― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, December 22, 2019 11:34 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

‘we need to talk about _______’

― mookieproof, Sunday, December 29, 2019 2:33 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

any reference to Twitter as "this website"

― Number None, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 6:52 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

any reference to Twitter as "this bird app"

― groovemaaan, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 7:05 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I haven't seen this but I like it :)

"DEEP DIVE" is becoming toxic. I didn't mind it at first (3 years ago), kinda liked it, now a contagion.

like genital warts

I've noticed this for a few years now, but lots of people don't seem to understand what 'opaque' means. I just saw it used to describe a transparent piece of perspex.

"[...]. That's it. That's the tweet."

I've noticed this for a few years now, but lots of people don't seem to understand what 'opaque' means. I just saw it used to describe a transparent piece of perspex.

I'm afraid the situation is even worse with "transparent," because it has acquired two functionally opposite meanings: the quality of not being hidden, and the quality of being invisible.

You can say that a government process is "transparent," meaning that everyone can ostensibly see what is going on.

You can also say that e.g. a cloud migration is "transparent to the user," meaning that you don't notice it happening and don't have to do anything.

It's like "oversight" meaning either carelessness or close attention.

heartlands

all power to the overlooked organs

spleenlands

2020 "stop saying tonnes in metaphors when tons works fine" challenge

maybe liverlands should be the actual name for merseyside and thus labour's truest turf

2020 "stop saying tonnes in metaphors when tons works fine" challenge

tuns 🛢️🛢🛢️🛢

(why no beer barrel emoji, only oil barrels)

my analogy don't want none unless you got tonnes hun

otm re opaque and transparent, I have now given up on working out what these actually mean except when used 100% literally about the see-through-ness of a material I can actually see (through, or not) there and then

further evidence that words mean anything which means they don't mean anything, also metaphors are bad

also metaphors are bad

also similes are like a thing that is bad

no matter how many times I look it up, my brain cannot hold onto the meaning of "ornate"... it always reads as "featureless" or "plain" to me, even though I know that's wrong

Nothing featureless or plain about The Shape Of Jazz To Come or Dancing In Your Head.

I always have to struggle to remind myself that "enervated" means drained of energy.

Huh, I had no idea.

And that nonplussed means perplexed not unimpressed

it's all very plussing imo

'noisome' always confuses me

I think the meaning of nonplussed is changing bcs so many people use it to mean unimpressed, esp. in the US(?)

Restive another one like enervated

The way ppl misuse nonplussed is so random and leaves me nonplussed - I have a crackpot theory I’ve mentioned before that it’s because it sounds a bit like “not fussed” maybe? Similar to how ppl think craven means shameless instead of cowardly cause it sounds a bit like brazen. Neither is probably true but it’s what my dumb brain came up with to explain everyone else’s dumb brains

Been reading up on kombucha brewing and every time I see Scoby I get angry.

and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids

Speaking to a calendar year as if it's a person, eg "2020 you SUCK!"

Go home, (year), you're drunk.

"Second of all,"

^^^^

makes me nuts

'aesthetic' used used to suggest one specific aesthetic

"Thanks for coming to my TED talk" was bad enough when it became a meme, but now it seems to get talked on to like any opinion or affirmative statement as a sort of ironical "QED" which is not what I understood the meme to even mean.

not into the word 'eatery'

re: 'TED Talk' - maybe it's time to ironically revive 'Rant over' at the end of long social media posts about quotidien bugbears

Don't like "good faith/bad faith".

many of you would never encounter most of these phrases if you logged out of twitter

"trolling"

many of you would never encounter most of these phrases if you logged out of twitter

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:25 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oooh otm, gonna die on this hill

Folks emphatically saying 'facts!' in reply, so annoying and ironic given the general shitshow we all inhabit at the moment.

"[...]. That's it. That's the tweet."

This, along with "whomst" and "period" are good signifiers for "unfollow this person"

The handclap icon between each word in a Tweet is the worst. And mostly morons use it