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

oh i am the sincere person missing puns

what a turnup

Was gonna say, thought ol' treesh had gotten your login info for a sec.

I appreciated your impassioned riposte, nonetheless.

Unless you're literally talking about extraction into a liquid, don't say "infuse."

So this is bad:

In a flat world, infused with the complexities of contracting over information, off-the-shelf contracts and standardized legal reasoning and approaches don’t cut it. What’s needed are creative ways to manage strategic relationships. https://t.co/LJ3leh1szb

— Gillian Hadfield (@ghadfield) June 19, 2018

This is fine though:

This shampoo and conditioner is literally infused with love: https://t.co/sUnAt19g76 pic.twitter.com/473mYSVx8X

— InStyle (@InStyle) June 18, 2016

The bigger problem with tweet #1 imo is that it is word barf.

In a flat world, barf is critical to proactively steer our dynamic word logistic advantages.

in a flat world, apparently fields need to be leveled, despite being flat

It requires a means of responding to the very unevenness—the nonflatness—that has persisted, even been exacerbated, in the wake of the ways in which the global platform has rearranged work and resources.

Regardless of the world's shape or what it's been infused with, I feel like it would be difficult to cut anything using only contracts or reasoning. That's not how cutting things works.

For the 21st century, we need virtual contracts literally infused with titanium that can selectively cut the DNA of the blockchain.

I think we need to respond to low-hanging fruit both proactively and reactively, while answering the mail and not drinking our own bathwater. That's the long pole in the tent that will help us avoid the sharks in the water.

When our bathwater is literally infused with low-hanging fruit, we need aggressive contracts to manage the sharks that drink it.

Pooh-pooh them all you like, I think mixed metaphors are quite delicious.

are they epic bacon awesomesauce?

Careful, we don't want Mr. Fieri's attorneys filing any copyright infringement suits.

i think about ___ a lot

'Have you actually?' or 'did you actually?' is the one that winds me up the most at the moment. It's impossible to say without sounding as dense as a neutron star.

"Name a better (whatever variety of thing it is). We'll wait." <---this is a social media account manager's lame attempt at being sassy, and has never been anything else

“love too” has run its course I feel

“feature, not a bug”

"love too"? what is this usage?

posts in which a reprehensible / stupid action is endorsed, as in "love too undermine sexually assaulted women to endorse my SC nominee" (usually "too" or "2").
I kind of like them.

wow i am totally unfamiliar with this but it sounds awful

Today I caught myself starting a conversation with “you know how people like chips?”

xp nah it was one of those ones that was funny for a bit and then reached critical mass and will probably be on greeting cards next year

sorry LL I should have clarified that it's used in a satirical / arch manner, i.e. what kind of moron could endorse this view

"as a ....."

The topic on the sports call-in show tonight was "Your hot take on the Leafs"--they were especially encouraging "steaming hot takes on the Leafs."

I've hated "hot take" since the first time I heard it, and the more ubiquitous it gets, the more I hate it. It sounds so creepy. I'm not even sure of its precise meaning: is it supposed to be an instantaneous opinion without any thought, or does any willfully controversial opinion count? Or both? No need to answer--I absolutely don't care.

Just in general: why do people want to say the same things everybody else is saying? If you're suddenly hearing the same phrase over and over, that's like a big red flag: never say or write these words. But so many people just want to grab on and be part of it.

a hot take is a controversial opinion, but its ubiquity has diluted almost all meaning

doesn’t it just mean an instant reaction in the heat of the moment, and not fully thought through? Doesn’t need to be controversial afaik.

“love too” has run its course I feel

yeah there could be a whole subthread within this one about these types. i'd add:

"sure sex is great but have you tried ..."

"optics" -- kill me. hearing this ALL the time now

People failing to pronounce 'Bros.' as brothers, in Super Mario Bros, Super Smash Bros. etc.

It was always pronounced 'brothers'!

http://entertainment.ie//images_content/rectangle/620x372/bros2.jpg

Obviously the band Bros confuses things, but I don't think that has much to do with the shift.

(xpost!)

counterpoint: Moss Bros, always pronounced to rhyme

Even then, its not the 'bro' vowel sound.

opened eyes
turned heads
raised eyebrows

"Prior to"

turned stomachs

opened eyes
turned heads
raised eyebrows

― mookieproof, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4:37 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can't lose

a colleague never 'goes upstairs to' do something; he insists on 'going upstairs in order to' do something

see also: egregious use of 'within' rather than 'in'

when people say they're "investing in" expensive gadgets that will be out of date in 3 years

3 year investment

checks out

one I've started noticing recently in political reporting: "have a [good] story to tell"

because political reporters, like everyone else, now think they are writers

"deadass"

repeated use of 'proceeded to...'

^^^