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

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when people say they're "investing in" expensive gadgets that will be out of date in 3 years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

^^^

“happy wife, happy life”

'the'. So overused, sounds like 'duh' and is just as much a signifier of stupidity imo. Use other articles, sheeple, gawd.

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

Still less annoying than 'not a good look' or, worse yet, 'nagl'.

First they came for the good looks, and I said nothing, for I was not a good look

not good lookin'

I probably posted this already, but I'm tired of being told to let things "sink in"

"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

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, September 22, 2018 2:05 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

"so stinkin' (cute, adorable, etc)"

what’s especially annoying is that they never wait

xp

social media managers having to gin up verbiage in places that really don't even need verbiage has become the bane of my eyeballs.

see also the sub-headlines under any form of web-quiz (Sporcle is a relentless offender here), which are invariably just restating the title but with the addition of some attempt at being casual, chummy, and sassy, or making an 'insider' reference (which could have been generated by a robot) to the subject matter. like if the quiz is called "Which Gryffindor Student Are You?" it really doesn't need "Break out the Polyjuice Potion and prepare to get lit...erature!"

you sure about that?

getting really tired of the use of "bullied" outside of actual bullying contexts. Heard reference to Elizabeth Warren being "bullied" by Trump. I think it's kind of a stretch to suggest that national politicians can "bully" each other.

perhaps elizabeth warren is not *being* bullied, but 'bullying' is a pretty accurate term for trump's attitude and world view

imo he is global king of DARVO -- it's way beyond bullying
DARVO is my new favorite acronym

me too
I need to moan about DARVOing somewhere but I'm paranoid the offender will find it and keep on DARVOing even more

omg it just dawned on me
donnie darvo

haha

carrots and sticks

Greta Darvo, and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio

iplayer trails keep talking about "box sets". it's digital, there is no box.

(see also those angry letters to papers / bbc complaints email about how they should be called "boxed sets", because "box set" is a set of boxes)

Or even iTunes changing its nomenclature from Disc 1, Disc 2 ... to Disk 1, Disk 2 ... - it’s freakin me out.

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

lol

did "scantily clad" show up here yet?

'scantily clad' is an all-time yellow journalism coinage

Ungrammatical use of ‘myself’ when ‘me’ would be correct and sufficient. As just used by the chancellor of the exchequer (who ought to know better) on the Andrew Marr politics show.

that shits me right the fuck to tears

Suzy otm. Whenever you can use “me” or “you,” do so. “Myself” should only be used as a reflexive - “I washed myself.”

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay myself down

seems to be a willingness to overlook subtleties of dialect or vernacular in that pov tbh, "myself" does a lot of running in at least one strain of anglic id be passing familiar with meself

Another shit trend to blame on The Apprentice (UK) where all of them are at it.

The use of the word "spoiler" to function as an exclamation mark at the start of a sentence.

if you put it at the end of the sentence it defeats the purpose tbf