― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
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― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:21 (twenty years ago) link
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― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
Four Words: Use Other Words Please"Use other words please."Commonly used phrases that inexplicably bug youMost irritating cliche/phrase/expression"Taking Things to a Whole `Nother Level!" words that annoyWords that should earn the author a slapPROVERBIAL and other tip offs to poor writing
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
-- caitlin (wpsal...) (webmail), December 23rd, 2003. (caitlin)
Oh yes, yes yes. I second that one. And the people who say it, say it over and over.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
This is true.
But, this is a topic that should be dealt with routinely and harshly... the only way we can correct the language and suppress it's organic growth is by exposing and banning every new usage as it occurs... Isn't that what the French do?
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Melly E (Melly E), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Monday, 29 December 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Monday, 29 December 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 December 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.
Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 29 December 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
― ermes marana, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
"Can't wait" has started to annoy the shit out of me. Especially in its first person plural form."We can't wait to see all you lovely people for what promises to be a very special night." "Guess what, it's nearly Easter and we can't wait to show you our special Easter menu!"
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 23:32 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3xICOc13wk
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 23:42 (three weeks ago) link
In the speciality corner "Abbreviations that annoy the shit out of you", I've just realised that a common denominator for me might be abbreviating a word to end on an "O". Don't like "mayo", don't like "Glasto".
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 21:53 (three weeks ago) link
Avo
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 21:54 (three weeks ago) link
I blame Australians.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 April 2024 21:58 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah, but I don't mind it if it's added to a word that didn't have an o in the first place. Arvo? Smoko? Go for it.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:09 (three weeks ago) link
I know afternoon has is in it but I mean it hasn't been truncated at one of them. Afterno.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:10 (three weeks ago) link
'sunnies' for sunglasses
Pretty sure 'selfie' originated in Australia
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:16 (three weeks ago) link
i also find these cutesy truncations annoying, except when australians do it! idk why. it just seems so hot and dusty over there they deserve a little fun
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 April 2024 19:05 (two weeks ago) link
I can't go a day without encountering the word "liminal" and it drives me nuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 April 2024 15:13 (two weeks ago) link
That's a great word!
― beard papa, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:37 (two weeks ago) link
I like it, aesthetically, but I'm pretty tired of encountering it.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:39 (two weeks ago) link
Yeah "liminal" is a word that all of a sudden i started seeing every day.
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:41 (two weeks ago) link
i just played superliminal last week for the first time and i loved it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:41 (two weeks ago) link
i wonder if it's related to everybody being a "switch" nowadays ;)
― budo jeru, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:44 (two weeks ago) link
Liminal became an aesthetic identity. It always happens to the best words.
― Jeff, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:45 (two weeks ago) link
It's just nice to see that the singer for Kajagoogoo is still the talk of the town.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:38 (two weeks ago) link
Umm, he was actually the bass player
― Andy the Grasshopper, Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:40 (two weeks ago) link
Ha i was thinking earlier this week how liminal has been ruined
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:23 (two weeks ago) link
and 'liminal space' in particular. which doesn't have any good synonyms but now means the creepypasta thing where everything looks like the video to one of moby's ambient tunes
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:25 (two weeks ago) link
except when australians do it! idk why. it just seems so hot and dusty over there they deserve a little funIt kills me when people say this, as I stare out the window after a week of miserable pissy drizzle and 14C days, th weak watery autumn sun trying its best on grey Melbourne cobbles.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:52 (two weeks ago) link
i was purely joking, sounds like you do deserve a little fun though!
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:02 (two weeks ago) link
“liminal space” synonym is “the backrooms” according to the kids iirc
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:38 (two weeks ago) link
^ yes
I kept getting backrooms stuff on Tik Tok and had to figure out wtf it was supposed to be.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:46 (two weeks ago) link
The what? What’s the back rooms?
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 15 April 2024 12:55 (two weeks ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 15 April 2024 12:57 (two weeks ago) link
John cale to thread
― subpost master (wins), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:00 (two weeks ago) link
Ah OK like Severance
― kinder, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:42 (two weeks ago) link
Doesn't annoy me that much except when watching US State Department press conferences (like right now) where absolutely everybody says it every minute or so: "speaks to" instead of "speaks about" or "speaks of".
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2024 17:21 (two weeks ago) link
the neverending usaaaaage
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:16 (two weeks ago) link
based on that wikipedia article, I'd identify that backrooms stuff as just yer basic "objective correlative" for a particular kind of dread that has been showing up in post-armageddon films and stories for half a century at least. otherwise known as "here's the church and here's the steeple, open the doors, where are all the people?"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:43 (two weeks ago) link
This post resonates with me (I do not resonate with it): https://annehelen.substack.com/p/i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:44 (two weeks ago) link
"Do you like this post? Are you already thinking of all the people you want to forward it to and debate it with? Consider Subscribing! Support the things THAT RESONATE WITH YOU"
Heh
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:18 (two weeks ago) link
speaking of xennials...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/magazine/singles-rom-com.html
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:52 (two weeks ago) link
Steward / stewardship … it alternately makes me think of the Dickies song “if stewart could talk” or flight attendants…or the Love Boat … I don’t hate it, it is just annoying because the meanings in my head are so unrelated to the intended meaning
― sarahell, Saturday, 20 April 2024 00:29 (one week ago) link
Since I read that thing about resonating I have heard three separate people (in two different states/time zones) say they resonate with xyz
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 April 2024 05:24 (one week ago) link
tbf I know he can be a bit abrasive at times but he's often otm
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 20 April 2024 08:28 (one week ago) link
just after seeing thread i was walking near my teen’s blaring blabbering phone i immed noticed a woman saying “…MADE SO THAT IT RESONATES WITH U AND…” so yeahtoday’s vibes
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Saturday, 20 April 2024 15:05 (one week ago) link
"source of truth"
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 20 April 2024 17:14 (one week ago) link
Got a "welcome in" from a doctor the other day.
― jaymc, Saturday, 20 April 2024 18:11 (one week ago) link
I’m even a fan of “I appreciate you” because it’s not a referendum am I good y/n it’s an appreciation.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(
― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I appreciate you has begun to make inroads at my workplace in the past few months. I enjoy seeing it written to me in an email, but it feels so intimate that I'm uncomfortable writing or saying it myself. I've definitely told colleagues, "I appreciate it," or the more casual "Much appreciated." I hadn't thought too deeply about those before now, but in the light of I appreciate you, they do seem to put a little distance between the speaker and the receiver. So, I'm a fan, but it doesn't feel natural enough for me to say yet.
― peace, man, Monday, 22 April 2024 11:46 (one week ago) link
its stilted to my ears, i couldnt see where id ever hear it or use it where it wouldnt come out as a bit....much
but its a game of opinions and we are all using these phrases in very different contexts
people who take issue with the less formal versions of any such sentiment are a little weird tho i think
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 22 April 2024 11:51 (one week ago) link
"sando" for sandwich
― pj, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:28 (yesterday) link
is that an australianism?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:31 (yesterday) link
Japanese-ism
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:33 (yesterday) link
Yeah, and it's a term I only recently came across — an Asian fusion food cart that I buy from sells three different "sandos" (pork, chicken, and fish), and they're all good but that term is very annoying.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:46 (yesterday) link
TBF "sando" the word is Japanese so kinda doesnt count here.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:49 (yesterday) link
"Sanga" is the Australianism.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:03 (three hours ago) link
― reggae mike love (polyphonic)
Useful jargon with a specific meaning sorry
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 2 May 2024 02:24 (two hours ago) link