words that annoy

"Yup."

Mostly just when drawn out: yuuuup.

A guy at work uses the word "excellent" an obscene amount — but never just once, it's always "EXcellent, EXcellent!", with an accent on the first syllable.

Palimpsest is a great word when deployed well, great in meaning, etc. The "sest" part, and the associations with "incest" just give it a weird feeling.

The recent trend of overusing "extrapolate".

I really hate the word "douche."

Yeah, only douches say douche.

My pet hate is "already" used completely wrongly and arbitrarily at the end of sentences.
"Like, hey, enough with the kitten pictures already..." IT MAKES NO SENSE!

I blame Friends.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:33 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I remember hearing/saying this as far back as the mid-80s. Not as a *thing* but just as the way people talk. I remember b/c my brother thought it was funny to repeat the "already" multiple times. But yeh, saying "Will you get out of my way already!?" or "enough already" seems just normal to me.

yeah, i think it's just a way that people talk - though of course people do emulate popular culture - i wonder if the "already" thing is related to how people in some parts of the midwest say "anymore" sorta arbitrarily at the end of sentences?

I'm trying to think of an example of "anymore" being used that way.... can you provide one?

I don't think I heard that once in the 18 years I lived in the midwest anymore

LOL

^^ it is kinda like that in construction! it's kinda a redundant double negative that comes at the end of sentences - i had a friend from Indiana who talked like that. It was not annoying.

i must have picked up the "anymore" thing in ohio because it seems so normal to me anymore i can't think of an example oh i just did while typing this lol

Ohio and Indiana are definitely their own little world in the midwest; no one in the upper midwest does that

xp - yeah, ok harbl's post is a good example - it is sometimes a redundant double negative, but i think, more precisely, it's just used for emphasis - like "it seems to normal to me anymore" - that's along the lines of what I was thinking

I work with a guy who keeps saying "what we need to do is whiteboard this."

I used to say that, then they took away my whiteboard

;_;

is it just because you're black?

Oh, I get that use of "anymore." I don't think I use it, but it makes sense to me.

xpost to whiteboarder:
He is probably trying to incent you with deliverables coming "down the pipe".

Actually, can we bring up the incessant incorrect use and/or construction of clichéd phrases??

Or is there a malapropism thread?

I used to say that, then they took away my whiteboard

;_;

That is so sad and cute, it makes me giggle.

Afterparty - used too much for things that aren't afterparties

I have an irrational hatred for the terms "hubby" and "wifey".

I use wifey here on the internets but actually I agree it is sort of lame

I should say MY BELOVED SPOUSE instead

Best Beloved Spouse!

I don't know what it is about them but both those terms just irritate me.

They're reductive

For Spencer: http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2010/7/25/tad-beck-palimpsest?utm_source=losangeles&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issue_389

"preggers" pisses me off

preggers makes me laugh, because it makes me think of "beggin' strips" - dog food - so if someone says that someone is preggers, i imagine they are saying that person is dog food, which makes no sense, so it's funny

every time I hear preggers I picture this guy saying it:

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/harvey_head_big.jpg

preggers of yore

dave preggers

exculpate grosses me out... sort of suggests onomatopoeia

preggers, prego etc. all bug me too

Prego? Like the spaghetti sauce?

I don't get annoyed by faddy turns of phrase, but this one really winds me up: People who say "Myself" or "Yourself" when "me" or "you" would do. I used to cringe in my old job where this was used liberally to speak to customers: "Is it okay if I send an email to yourself?". It's what thick people do to sound clever - particularly, in my experience, sales people. Fitting that I'm reminded of this by a new work monitoring application at work where you have to click a button that says "Myself" to log in. Argh!!

My friend says he once saw a note in a book at the hotel where he worked where some twit had written, 'Myself and my wife had a great time'.

People like this should be sentenced to a lifetime in prison on an island full of rapist gorillas with massive boots, where they're forced to sell timeshare over the phone for eternity so they can then say "Myself was abused by a rather large gorilla last night. I don't suppose yourself could send over a lifeboat to help me off".

Surely you meant to say "send over a lifeboat to help myself off". ;-)

"Allow myself to introduce... myself..."

meal

folktronica

clonetrooper

I was talking to a kid and his Mum yesterday and asked what he was dressing up as. She said a stormtrooper...and he corrected her & said, no, a *clonetrooper*.
Frakking Lucas and his clownwar bullshit. Grrr.

Dressing up as for Halloween, I meant to say

"individuals" a la cop/politician speak. These individuals those individuals. It's a group. Call them people, folks, nappy-headed hos but please not "individuals."

i must have picked up the "anymore" thing in ohio because it seems so normal to me anymore i can't think of an example oh i just did while typing this lol

People in Dublin stick the expression 'an'(d) anyway' into sentences as meter filler: 'I was up above in the bookies, an' anyway, an' he say to me "put a score on her", so I did, an' anyway'

that would be 'metre filler' of course: not parking change...

"As such" used completely wrongly and arbitrarily at the end of sentences. "We don't have the right paperwork for this project so I can't finish it now and am going out for lunch as such." Co-worker does this all the time. I know it's popular among certain classes in the UK but I live in America so stop it as such. Perhaps "I suck" would sound better. Yes I will try to hear it as that from now on.

"i often see attractive goth/industrial styled girls with nebbishy or otherwise wtf dudes." (from 'Defend the Indefensible: films in which gorgeous, independent, "edgy" women have nothing better to do than break uptight whiny squares out of their bubbles' thread)

I'm bored ever so slightly shitless these days by 'wtf' and other similar look-at-me-i'm-so-jaded bulldust generally, but if it ever hits general use as an adjective, The Terrorists Have Won!