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

i agree with deems

let me irrationally rail against teens, it’s all i have

teens do a lot of language innovating and some of it is pioneering but a lot of it is lousy. obv posterity will judge which words, usages, and phrases stand the test of time (tho everything ultimately changes) and not us people who are no longer teenagers now and certainly not teenagers in the future. still i think criticism is totes cool bc we still get some say in how the language works now and if it's ugly the dumb teens should be told.

I'm not a fan of "thirsty" to denote sexual/romantic desperation. Maybe it just hits a nerve for me?

Mark S otm, I fucking love the way the current teens kick and mash language into crazy new shapes. Endlessly entertaining and so so droll.

I thought “extra” was kind of a “this is too much” indicator, not really complementary? kind of indicates someone is doing something that’s a little too try-hard

maybe it already passed into that, or from that back into a complement

compliment, sheesh

yeah Mark S OTM. But I'm less annoyed by teen neologisms than blunt-repetitive guru-eaucratic things of the 'blue sky thinking' vein

"Too extra" / "so extra" strikes me as an update of "she's so _very_" or "you're too much."

For some reason, I associate the usage with campy drama / theater / showbiz types rather than food-court teens.

otm^

yr all a bunch of teen apologists imo

like, whatever

eat some more tide pods and check back in an hour

Some whisky related words and phrases that are increasingly infuriating me in various FB groups with heavy US memberships... calling whisky "juice", referring to "pours" or "fingers" or "ounces" for a dram, talking about "bottle kills" let alone if combined with "man down" or "lost a brave soldier" type nonsense. Even calling whisky "Scotch" is grating to me.

I want a glossary of how people refer to bourbon whiskey corresponding UK messageboards in order to make a judgment call, here

omg that whisky language is something else
so unnecessarily hypermasculine!

what does man down/lost a brave soldier mean?

finished a drink/bottle presumably

"juice" is horrible, "fingers" is a colloquialism referring to holding two fingers to the side of the glass to know how much to pour, ounces refers to.. what americans measure liquor in

nobody other than a scotch (or scottish, if you prefer) whisky drinker in the US is going to talk about measuring their drink in drams, unless they're in some bar with old-timey trappings

all the death/soldier stuff is horrible

Most of those measurements seem fine to me

Why is calling it "Scotch" grating? Should people say "Scotch whisky" every time they refer to it? Or should calling it "whisky" without an e be enough for others to know you're referring to Scotch?

Does calling Bourbon whiskey "Bourbon" grate too?

I understand where the fingers, ounces etc terminology comes from, but the usage simply annoys me. Isn't that the exact point of this thread?

true

I'm ok with "fingers" because it's a pretty old school drinking term, and I don't get why anyone would have a problem with "Scotch", but the rest of those terms are hot garbage from deep within fedoraland.

imo it’s more old dads who see scotch whisky as a hobby language

Old dad is a good whiskey iirc

I don't even know what a dram is tbh, I just go with metric. An ounce is close enough to a single iirc

better the dad in the bottle than the dad drinking the bottle

In terms of the use of "Scotch"... I think it's just narrow-mindedness and/or superiority on my part that causes the annoyance there, because of course one simply says whisky here in Scotland to refer to Scotch whisky. Maybe the same applies to some of those other terms too, I guess, as I glossed over that they're more commonly used in the USA, so fair enough. I'll try to keep my irritation in check... and leave the offending FB groups, they're probably the real problem.

if you just order “whisky” here you get some sort of well liquor that is brown and probably adheres to a legal definition of the term

tbh cheap bourbon >>> cheap scotch

Oh hell no

there’s some john barr scotch variety for $15/bottle at my local shop that’s probably better than bourbon at that price

I think in general nobody’s exporting anything drinkable at less than export price sooo

hot garbage from deep within fedoraland.

electric miladiland

“architecting”

✓ xp

electric miladiland

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:13 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haaaa

golf clap/slow clap

"draw" for "drawer"

most commonly encountered in the phrase "top draw"

Venn this: the people who say ‘draw’ to mean ‘drawer’ and the people who say ‘brought’ to mean ‘bought’.

PERFECT FUCKING CIRCLE.

dj dingleberry is top draw and a top drawer on the festival circuit

and the people who say ‘brought’ to mean ‘bought’.

australia has a phenomenon of overcorrection in which over-60s who say ‘bought’ mean ‘brought’, usually while complaining about swear words or the internet

In terms of the use of "Scotch"... I think it's just narrow-mindedness and/or superiority on my part that causes the annoyance there, because of course one simply says whisky here in Scotland to refer to Scotch whisky. Maybe the same applies to some of those other terms too, I guess, as I glossed over that they're more commonly used in the USA, so fair enough. I'll try to keep my irritation in check... and leave the offending FB groups, they're probably the real problem.

― brain (krakow), Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:41 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

FWIW in the US bourbon is probably substantially more popular than scotch so you have to specify scotch. For related reasons, just saying "whiskey" sounds sort of old-timey to me, like you're going into some western saloon that would only have one or two kinds of whiskey behind the bar.

"concerning" as a gerund, not a preposition, as in, "Trump's temper is concerning." It's a bureaucrat's way of saying "worrying."

or disturbing!

Saying whisky/whiskey here would just invite the question whether you mean bourbon, Scotch, Irish, Tennessee, rye, moonshine, etc., all of which are different things.

I drink bourbon all the time (usually not caring which), but would need a specific occasion and a knowledgeable guide to navigate Scotch whiskies.

If I were to ask for bourbon and ginger and get served Jack Daniel's (which is Tennessee whiskey, most definitely not bourbon whiskey), I would object with vigor.

tennessee whiskey is bourbon that someone poured through some charcoal before aging

I maintain some sentimental preference for the notion that Bourbon whiskey is made in Kentucky. Which Tennessee is not.

Blah blah California Champagne, vodka martini, yadda yadda, I'm not really up in arms about it.

"Rest in Power" is starting to grate when used in every facebook post about every cool person that dies

oh my god tell me about it

Yep

agree