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

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

I'd argue that emojis count, mostly because I want to denounce their existence itt.

😂

you are all monsters

The one that bothers me is 'feelsgoodman' vs 'feelbadman', which seems to make up about a third of all online discourse.

the 100 emoji is bad and overused

100 I mean otm

"pain points"

i haven't heard pain points, hit me with an example. make my head hurt

"feels good/bad man" is awful but definitely seems like that one has receded in the past 2 or so years.

Hacking on the ILX codebase has a lot of pain points due to accumulated technical debt. We’re scoping some major refactoring for the next sprint.

^ that's quite beautiful, but only if you look past everything it exemplifies

the 100 emoji is bad and overused

― marcos, Friday, April 27, 2018 5:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven’t seen this used much at all this year!

perhaps the most monstrous construction of our age is any patronising, pernickety, hectoring or aggressive comment prepended with "sorry"

it's for ppl whose esteem is based on pedantry and a self-congratulatory sense of correctness. i'm not sure what ppl think they mean when they write it (it's too obviously dickish to be common in spoken english), but it's amongst the most smug uses of ironic politeness going, but ofc it does at least serve the function of marking out its users as pure evil

"sorry" became "sorry (not sorry)" with the sarcasm baked in at some point

is it okay to point out that the people who support Trump fundamentally don't care if he had an affair with multiple porn stars, covered them up, paid them off, then lied about them repeatedly, let alone if he violated a campaign finance law

— Adam Sternbergh (@sternbergh) May 3, 2018

"it it okay to point out"

all meaningless prefaces should be eliminated

sorry let me try that again
i was wondering if there is any way that we could possibly come to some kind of an agreement that all meaningless prefaces should be eliminated

meaningless and also the smug "watch out, i'm going to say something very smart and original now!" overtone to it

"dark timeline"
"lawful good/chaotic neutral/etc." being applied to everything like everybody is a D&D player now

a more disingenuously tentative cousin to "Can I just..." "I'm just gonna..." etc. xp

if only i were the sort of person to respond to all of these people with "yes it is ok" or "yes you may"
"go right ahead"
"permission granted"

That is SO not okay to point out.

I often fall into the habit of appending "I think" to the front of posts. Declarative sentences feel too exposed.

*prepending? whatever

"I think" is useful when you want to infer "This is my belief but feel free to disagree and I'm not stuck on it or anything"

(As opposed to "My opinion is the literal truth, no other opinion counts.")

"i think" is useful when you don't want to look like one of those ilmos who post like their personal opinions are coming straight from Mount Olympus

i've noticed that men have started to "i think" and "i feel like"/ other softeners more than they used to
we were advised to remove all hedging and softeners from our communications so we could sound more like men, more assertive, and look what happens next

we could still carry on moving in opposite directions just to see how it works out