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

Don't think I could straight-facedly say that as an AmE speaker

i've lived in the south, but as someone not born there i am unable to say y'll

it seems like an effort to remain detached, untouched, unaffected
only we have never been able to afford being that detached so the detachment is poisonous/bad

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 March 2018 15:54 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rather, only the most privileged among us can afford not to care

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 March 2018 15:54 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

irony still has aristocratic associations for a lot of ppl, I see ppl react like it's an extravagance to be played out to the court, a piece of out of touch tyranny of a piece with nero fiddling while rome burns, but I don't think it's true. ime the awareness that drives detachment comes through bitter experience. there's a great james baldwin bit on the irony in the blues in the fire next time but I can't find it

there's a particular type of bright-eyed earnestness/engagement that feels intrinsically (upper-) middle class to me, a certain sense of security and not having to be on your guard at all times?

the word "bias" used as an adjective

imo the worst (best?) is when you proclaim you're on a team for something that has no opposition? or at least not an obvious polar opposite

I was reminded the Team Whatever thing irritated me when looking at a poorly-constructed defense of some Canadian musician accused of assault over on ilm. The writer was "Team <Bandname>". Like, who is the other party, here? Bands without rapist lead singers?

I like this because it's a good example of semantic broadening... the phrase has gone from declaring allegiance to one side to simply indicating you support someone or something. A very reasonable interpretation, as being on a team is as much a declaration of identity as it is one of conflict. Also illustrative of the fact that meaning arises from the ongoing parsing of utterances by all speakers, which often ends up different from what the speaker meant. Like, this is not signal degradation or corruption, simply that the act of people hearing you say something always involves acts of bespoke definition. And the valence of what you say is mainly a function of the experiences of the people that hear you, and never exactly what you meant. Civilization overloading human language itself with more semantic discretion than it can bear being something of a privileged act, and the resulting judgements that arise from it. Makes for some really good novels though.

excuse my rambling there is work I don't want to do

the word "bias" used as an adjective

― Number None, Monday, 9 April 2018 08:19 (seven hours ago) Permalink

I didn't know that this was happening. Gross.

Where did "it me" come from?

http://www.papermag.com/an-interview-with-pastaversaucy-the-inventor-of-the-it-me-meme-1427658503.html

might even be true, I think "on fleek" has a similarly attested online origin

"erasure" gets tossed around too much these days

considering they haven't had a decent hit since the mid '90s

they still have a right to be tossed around dammit

f hazel otm como siempre

Also illustrative of the fact that meaning arises from the ongoing parsing of utterances by all speakers, which often ends up different from what the speaker meant.
esp when the utterance is loaded with references that carry meaning, which is why you should try to avoid using references to indicate anything important because not everyone even knows what you're referring to. assuming comprehension of a message containing a reference is a recipe for misunderstanding. if that's your aim, go for it. if you aim to communicate clearly, avoid using references to imply anything you truly want your audience to understand as you intend. that is why we have words, no?

'Friend' as in 'acquaintance'.

This has probably been mentioned but I find the rhetorical flourishes of "I'm really glad there's...." (when the writer isn't glad) or "It's almost like there's..." (when something is obvious I guess) hard to parse and quite annoying to read. It gets widely used here and on twitter.

"we don't deserve ___"

"___ is the ____ we deserve"

heard a girl say v card the other day which i haven't heard for so long i figured its use was over

Should we really be teaching our children that losing their virginity involes punching something?

We shouldn’t be teaching our young people that “virginity” is a real thing tbh.

"what were you thinking"

pointless expression as it usually implies you weren't thinking at all

xp otm, get rid of the concept

otm get rid of the concept -- it's a cudgel for the oppressor if i am being grandiose

OTM the whole concept is ridiculous.

Keep it for olive oil, though. I ain't eatin' no slut-ass olive oil.

I usually prefer extra raw dogged olive oil.

once you go black, etc

"bop" feels so forced to me

"bop" has been vetted

a few:

"spicy" - overheard a guy use this when saying he brought a date to grad - phrase needs extinction asap unless you're describing food

next one's more of a conversation i seem to hear endlessly from young students on the bus I take home (probably 21 ish)

"I feel so old. I want to stay young, when you're young you make mistakes and learn from them, but when you're old, you should know better"

to which i said "I'm 34, you can still progress in life".

I wish in the past I had tried more things 'cause now I know that being in trouble is a fake idea

(my friend gave me a framed version of the achewood comic containing that particular aphorism and I sometimes stare at it and ponder https://achewood.myshopify.com/products/comic-strip-ray-gets-sort-of-stoned)

Thot makes me so angry

"architecting"

I'm not crying, you're crying.

"Electronic" instead of digital, online etc. "I'll send an electronic copy" ... so you're going to build a circuit from voltage sources, resistors, capacitors etc which mimics the document?
It's 2018, people. Handling information with a computer doesn't make it "electronic". Send me a digital copy as an attachment, sure. I'm not "logging on" to your website when I access it, either.

the only person who gets to use thot should be John Berryman

"eye candy" is dehumanizing in the extreme

AFAIK you can use it to talk about things that are not human

if only it were confined to non-human objects, I'd be more ok with it.

MatthewK does it bother you when people say "email" and do you think it should be changed to "digimail" ?

The crying with laughter emoji

The phrase "made me spit out me tea" and it's variants

Basically anything that's "I have a sense of humour, me"

LOL, so true. ROTFLMAO RN.

That crying with laughter emoji (the one on its side) is the absolute worst.

emojis are neither words, usages, nor phrases

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2015

well deserved award. i stand corrected

had enough of "I'm screaming" now

If it’s not a word, please inform my work WhatsApp thread, as it’s approx 60% of all characters