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

Yeah there are definitely American word usages that are cringey when used by non-Americans and expressions that originated from the UK that sound cringey to me when Americans use them …

Also hearing “y’all” in certain American accents is also cringey to me

that "look" thing on cable news. every talking head has to start their rant with "LOOK, here's the thing about trump..." and sometimes they have 4 talking heads and they ALL do it.

Australian cricketers have been prefacing every reply to every question with "Look" since there's been Australian cricketers being asked questions.

Actually a lot of it is contextual re accents that aren’t Southern or AAVE … still I remember cringing in college hearing “y’all” from a housemate from New Jersey using it because she thought it was cute when my roommate from Tennessee said it…

I once got a lesson from a Texan person about the subtle difference between "y'all" and "all y'all."

Note, I cannot precisely articulate it but they are different.

obama did/does the 'look' thing a lot

all y'all means everyone in the group, y'all might just indicate some of many. if my friends Bobby and Jean introduce me to four of their acquaintances at the bar, and while everyone is standing there I say "y'all should come back to my place for whiskey after" the four acquaintances will assume I'm talking to Bobby and Jean and will likely not consider themselves invited too. But if I say "all y'all should come back to my place for a whiskey" then they know that they too are invited.

Thank you f hazel

that is a v. good explanation

Or, you could be talking to two members of a family and refer to them as "y'all," but if you say, "all y'all should come visit us some time" it means those two people and everyone else in their family even if the rest of the family is not present.

saw a twitter post turned into an instagram meme that was quite comprehensive of every phrase I hate:

"I did a thing"
"adulting"
"I'm not crying you're crying"
"I'm just gonna leave this here"
"This."
"So that happened"
"My person"
"Fur baby"
"All the feels"
"The Struggle is real"

I'd also add: "So it begins" and about 700 other things

do these awful things exist in languages other than english? maybe I should re-learn German. I have a feeling they don't allow this in German.

Ich weiß nicht, wer das hören muss

Is just *chefs kiss*

Kill me

Kill me being a phrase that’s terrible, not a response to *chefs kiss* (but if you were the type to say kill me, it’d be appropriate in that case)

On that note, is there a worse acronym than kys?

"Y'all" migrated out of the south and became a universal American expression decades ago. All y'all need to get over it. I'm still pissed that "youse" never gained similar acceptance, but I've gotten over that.

There are certain times when the implied friendliness of "y'all" is unsuited to the occasion. "Youse need to shut the fuck up" is much better, for example.

i like when Australians say reckon i reckon.

The accepted usage is “fuck all y’all.”

(it used to just feel like a south thing to me for most of my life. i reckon.)

so weird seeing that word in isolation. It’s either whadayareckon? Or yareckon? Never a clearly enunciated “reckon”

(i watched a lot of mcleod's daughters during the pandemic...we all had our ways of coping i reckon.)

It’s definitely still in use in the more countrified parts of the American south.

I reckon the bloody south’s stealing our bit

I reckon the usage stems from a common source.

hillbillies without borders.

Bogan/hillbillie solidarity

hate to do it, but y'all are gonna make me insist on yinz

yinz're gonna make me say yuns.

i used to love the way my mom said honk in her long island by way of queens accent. she would say "hunk". her accent wasn't strong - or she hid it - but it would come out in little ways like that.

I have socks that say yinz.

"Yous guys" was big where I grew up. I hate it.

Yeah there are definitely American word usages that are cringey when used by non-Americans and expressions that originated from the UK that sound cringey to me when Americans use them …

Yep. I pretty much never use British slang or terms. It feels too weird.

I don't have a long island accent at all but can turn it on it if want to. I can't think of how she would have said honk!

I fought against y'all forever in favor of you guys and then at some point I started saying it because I needed to seem friendlier and folksier for work and then it just stuck. "You guys" is pretty ugly so I'm okay with losing that one.

she would say to my dad if my brother wouldn't get out of the house when we were going somewhere: "Ashley, hunk the hooowrn."

it stuck with me. i dunno. she left queens for L.I. when she was 8 or 9. so maybe its a jackson heights in the 40s kinda thing.

Youse is West of Scotland, though it comes out more as "yiz" usually.

... or "yeez", the plural of "ye" basically.

my great regret is not taping my grandmother (my dad's mom) speaking. a completely different lost world of a voice. cold spring harbor via henry james. i loved listening to her.

All of these are good for anyone to say, & just saying you works well too

i miss having great aunts who would call me "ducks". who calls you ducks anymore?

Try watching Coronation Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1BOBK8iBQU

Yeah anywhere in Derbyshire gives you a solid chance of being called duck

Not “ducks” though, tbf

it might have been duck. i just remember it as ducks.

it must have been duck, but it's over now

The only person who ever called me ducks was a former/erstwhile ilxor and I had no idea what she was talking about at the time and wondered why she was calling me ducks. It did not annoy me I just didn’t get it.

I have definitely come across old English ladies calling people "ducks" in books or movies.

i had an aunt with a shanghai china british private school accent from the early 20th century. she looked like douglas macarthur. she was friggin' awesome.

dougs