i always think of ralph wiggum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKg2ZzPKl2M
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
“All - “ as a salutation on an email
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
lol that’s funny to me. like:“Friends -“
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
xpost I do that when I don't know who is the right person to address for someone, idk what else would be any less awkward? like "COLLEAGUES? fellow employees? to whom it may concern?"
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
“Fuckers,”
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Group:
― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
I just say “Hi”
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
yep
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
the chefs kiss thing annoys me
― brimstead, Thursday, May 20, 2021 11:54 AM (six days ago)
agreed! Actually I think it is even more annoying than some of the most annoying words and phrases because it tends to be accompanied by gross non-verbal sounds ... like the only worse thing I can think of is if "choiceful" was accompanied by an armpit fart or something
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
chef's fart
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
people just missed putting their fingers in their mouths i guess
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
learnings sounds like you've taken a continuous practise and tried to break it down to something atomistic.misplaced plural like vinyls.Is it tied in with having gold stars for each piece you can identify when you should be trying to build up a more complex knowledge or something to that effect.
I've got the idea of experiential knowledge running through my head and the inherent inability to break everything down to actually teachable units without the experiential part being included. Also the map is not the territory and confusing the 2 is not a healthy process. I would be stuck with the idea taht one had to do the physical process and learn how it felt to do it right and how it felt to know where you were going wrong. Which breaks down to practise and trial and error. THough you do need an overarching narrative as to what you want the desired result to be. Still not something you arrive at from simply looking at a blackboard .Learnings seems to trivialise something that should have a better term but then again should maybe just be part of a wider learning curve anyway. Do you identify the increments and if so does that teach you totally the wrong focus?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 27 May 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
This doesn't annoy me but I just heard someone say, "Grit and bear it", and apparently this wasn't a mistake but something that people say... now... or maybe they always have?
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 31 May 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
Took me a moment to twig that they wouldn't have been talking about gritting roads with Gritty McGritworth McGrit the road gritter, but rather gritting teeth.
― adrian "voodoo" chiles (Matt #2), Monday, 31 May 2021 10:55 (three years ago) link
It seems a pointless and sort of tautological thing to say whereas "Grin and bear it" is very descriptive and useful.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 31 May 2021 11:14 (three years ago) link
Greet and bear it, Tom.
― Alba, Monday, 31 May 2021 11:37 (three years ago) link
Grin and bear say hi to me
― Nostradamusferatu (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 31 May 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
"pouring over" a file or a picture, etc. What are you pouring on it? aaaargh
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 4 June 2021 05:24 (three years ago) link
that's just a misspelling. It's supposed to be poring over
― pj, Friday, 4 June 2021 05:25 (three years ago) link
yes I realise that, it's a misspelling which grates on me with the same irritation as "warrantee"
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 4 June 2021 05:26 (three years ago) link
I love a nice pored-over coffee
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 4 June 2021 06:24 (three years ago) link
hmmm I'll allow it
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 4 June 2021 06:36 (three years ago) link
"bio break"
Nope. No need. Just say short break. Ugh.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, March 1, 2018 10:04 AM bookmarkflaglink
yes, this comes up a lot at work lately.
I JUST NEED TO KNOW YOU'RE AFK, I DON'T NEED TO KNOW STUFF IS COMING OUT OF YOU
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 June 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
The thing where people name some supposedly relevant characteristic about themselves followed by "here". I'm not sure why this makes me want to puke so but it does. Considerably worse than "as a...", which is bad enough.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 7 June 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
User of "here" here. I'd just like to say you are irrationally intollerant of a perfectly reasonable usage, Noel Emits.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 7 June 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
ppl using 'begs the question' because they think it's a fancy way of saying 'raises the question'
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 June 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
at this point, that is what it means
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
NO IT ISN'T
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
I'd guess that it is used correctly a tiny fraction of the time. The incorrect usage comes up so much more often that it has essentially taken on that meaning.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
it's definitely a lost cause but it makes me think twice about whether whoever's using it is a good writer
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
We should just stop using the phrase, it’s illegal now
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
it's a medieval mistranslation from Latin, which is turn was a bad translation of the original Greek, so it was already wrong to begin with
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
it's an awkward phrase when used correctly; used incorrectly, it's posing of the worst sort
brad otm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:41 (three years ago) link
I think it’s too commonplace to be seen as posing. I hear it misused all the time and it never fails to jar even though I rationally agree with Moodles.
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:58 (three years ago) link
Tbf for all the descriptive use it serves it might as well be replaced with "humouring the buzzard." I'm afraid you have presupposed the conclusion in your argument there my good man, quite plainly humouring the f out of that ole buzzard, I dare say.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 08:38 (three years ago) link
(I don't think people think it's fancy, I think they just think that's what it is).
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 09:27 (three years ago) link
This is slightly outside where this thread normally goes, but the terms "Brother-in-law" and "Sister-in-Law" have always annoyed me because they are used both to mean your spouse's sibling and your sibling's spouse. And then there's also no word for your spouse's sibling's spouse, so you just have to say "my wife's brother's wife" which is very awkward.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
oppor-chance-ity
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link
you would say "my brother-in-law's wife", no?
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
xpost
You mean people other than couthy Glaswegian pensioners say this?
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
And then there's also no word for your spouse's sibling's spouse, so you just have to say "my wife's brother's wife" which is very awkward.
We need a word that means that, which also means your sibling's spouse's sibling.
― Alba, Thursday, 10 June 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
I hear it misused all the time and it never fails to jar even though I rationally agree with Moodles.
It was being misused from the moment it was translated into English, so there's no real basis for approving of the "correct" usage and disapproving of the more recent "incorrect" one. At best, they're equally wrong. Using "begging" as the English translation for the Latin "petitio" is like translating the English phrase "running the show" into another language as "flowing the show". And then hundreds of years later people try and justify the bad translation by saying something like "water is so powerful that its flow sweeps away everything, so it is in control".
You should just use "assuming the conclusion". It's an accurate translation of the original Greek phrase.
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Thursday, 10 June 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
I won’t be doing that. But thank you for the explanation. I think I’ll still get annoyed by it being used instead of “raise the question” though. The phrase must just die.
― Alba, Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
let’s just bugger it instead
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
I assume your pardon?
― Alba, Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
Usages that annoy the shit out of a mathematician acquaintance of mine: people describing things (usually coronavirus infections) as growing 'exponentially' when they're merely increasing at an uneven rate. Basically if it's not the formula in the first paragraph here (that I can't figure out how to paste in): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth, then it's not exponential. Apparently.
― I gave it my all and my all wasn't enough (Matt #2), Thursday, 10 June 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
I'd noticed that and let it slide cos it seemed to be a byproduct of the same reason some people think "penultimate" means "really really ultimate"
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
people should stop using words
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
and start making sense
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link