words that annoy

In fact all Internet clichés - references to beverages all over the keyboard in particular

The word snarky

"Go figure"
"Barf"

Similarly 'literally'.

If you can't write English properly then you're literally fucked.

also, people tend to say "i could care less" when they mean "i couldn't care less"

and i detest the word "irregardless". no one uses it correctly, and it sounds very awkward.

i hate the way we in the uk now say "nine eleven" when for us it's obviously eleven nine.

"lovely jubbly" makes me want to kill.

"Like, hey, enough with the kitten pictures already..." IT MAKES NO SENSE!

I blame Friends.

"paradigm" is also starting to get on my nerves. It's another overused favorite of the MBAs.

there are other many other examples of corporatespeak that irk me but I am trying not to think about them.

juxtapose

POSTMODERN

Let's start again from scratch.

also, you use a hammer to pound nails, but
you utilize a crescent wrench to cave in the head of an officemate who doesn't care about the difference between the two words.

http://www.kastar.com/product_pages/images/Kastar_Crescent-Wrench.jpg

I think I will try to popularize the term "protes" for proteins.

i'm all for imprecision in speech, the world seems pretty imprecise

"REPPING" for shit

i will always rep for shit, it's how i get rid of unnecessary waste products in my digestive tract

don't know that i've ever heard anybody say "I want to say..." Are you guys sure this isn't from South Africa or New Zealand or something?

don't know that i've ever heard anybody say "I want to say..." Are you guys sure this isn't from South Africa or New Zealand or something?

here's an example of when this phrase might be uttered:

"Ever since Bono was gunned down in a West Hollywood brothel, I've been feeling an unusual sense of well-being."
"Wait-- Bono's dead? When did this happen?"
"Hm... I wanna say, like, 2 weeks ago...?"

oh, ok! in terms of estimation! that makes total sense. I was reading it like "I have something that I really want to say."

I wanna say that he died two weeks ago, but I lack the precise information or specific expertise required to guarantee that number.

"oh is that what you mean? what a convenient way to say something. you americans sure are innovative. swooon..."

"proctored"

"skinny" and "naked" when applied to food

http://www.readthesmiths.com/articles/Images/Entertainment/Banned/nakedlunch.jpg

that's fine but i'm never going to actually ask for a "naked burrito" or a "skinny sandwich" by name even if that is what i'm ordering

automagically. ick.

automagically is a perfectly presentable word, if it is being used by Billy in Family Circle.

"obviously" peppered liberally into sentences where nothing described is at all obvious.
A weird twist on this: I encountered a guy who has changed it up to "ironically" - he kept saying "ironically" about twice per sentence and there was no irony whatsoever! I mean maybe THAT'S ironical idk

I find myself using obviously a lot as a crutch and I hate it, obviously

motobecane

i like it; it makes me think of french people in the 80s

bangarang

what are you even skillex person

so tired of "piece" -- the assessment piece, the evaluation piece, the blablabla piece the piece the piece the piece

piece of what?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4FF6MpcsRw

that's a v impt piece

redditors

look people, we don't need to BOIL THE OCEAN, we just need a DEEP DIVE into ACTIONABILITY and OPERATIONALIZATION of our STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

tisane

it's time to leave France and return to an Anglophone country

gifted
thrifted

both as a verb an as an adj in the past participle

How is 'thrifted' used as an adjective?

i used to be thnow white but i thrifted

dammit, so close

long day

example: "ugh this thrifted jumpsuit really grabs at my crotch; the one i got at urban outfitters fits better"

colorway

how can u be annoyed by words u made up

lol

I wish.

the overuse of the following has been irritating the fuck out of me lately

"phenomenal"
"huge"
"brutal"

my job involves a lot of big law fuckwits

"sammich"

penalized

doesn't the word "earthquake" seem a little cartoonish or dramatic

most earthquakes are a bit cartoonish, in that all you feel is a bit of a shiver. the big ones are, of course, not so cartoonish

earthquakes are not cartoonish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUJ6yCURzM

quintessential is not a bad word at all, essentially, but in practise it seems to mostly be poorly used

shd be reserved for alchemists

The word "brave" used to describe anything involving publishing a blog post, listicle, Instagram photo, etc assuming you don't live in a repressive regime.

'perfectly', as used in clickbaity articles that 'perfectly sum-up the world today'

Guys at the office who still think it's okay to call female colleagues "adorable"

Just the word "adorable"

it feels completely disgusting to be called adorable so thanks for the support!
i mean that.

people using "begs the question" incorrectly. When someone uses it correctly it really makes me want to weep for joy.

I've been thinking about this. I'm genuinely curious how many instances there are of someone using this expression 'correctly' outside the context of philosophy academia - unless it is just for the sake of 'correcting' the 'incorrect' usage. When I Google "beg the question", the first five pages of results consist entirely of either definitions or people discussing what the correct usage should be. It is only on the sixth page that I come across someone using the expression to describe a fallacious argument - and this is in a scholarly article in Informal Logic. Are there many actual instances of e.g. an opposition MP saying "the Honourable Minister begs the question when he argues for increased military intervention on the grounds that the Middle East has been growing more unstable since our involvement began"? For comparison, I can find several examples of "strawman". In any situation I can think of where one might use "beg the question" 'properly', it seems like it might be clearer and simpler to just say "you are assuming x without proving it".

it seems like it might be clearer and simpler

I'd say it not just "might be", but it would be.