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

Before I had had enough coffee to laugh it off, somebody said to me today "I think this will be a good solve" and I didn't mean to just stare at them slackjawed for a moment but somehow I did.

“Fixed that for you” w strike through and “joke” edit never need to see this again

agreed

People who pronounce “timbre” as “timber”
X-post to the disgusting savages thread

lol yeah like Howard's dad

Haha yes. Everyone on the HS show is now pronouncing it like the morons they really are, even smartypants Robin

"...gives me pause"

Have we had that? I hate it so much.

sounds like a plan

gives me pause gives me cause to post here

Someone on my fb was saying that kids in school music classes are calling the sharp# a hashtag. blech.

I like "gives me pause" because I always picture the speaker with little paws, sitting up and begging.

Lol

"Level best". Is it just me or is this suddenly being used a lot recently?

i've been around programmers/developers my whole life so i've always heard "#" being referred to as hash, so it's not a huge deal to me

i've never heard anyone refer to it as a sharp outside of music though, it was mostly number sign or pound

thanks for the info, Fhash Ahash

yup yup yup

TIL there are a lot of signs similar to the sharp sign, and a lot of names for them! i already sorta kinda knew abt "octothorp" (tho i couldn't actually remember it, which is why i looked all this up)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

foctothorp

when i'm canada the recorded voice when calling places say "number sign"

when in the us, they say "pound"

some odd exceptions in the us, because murica

says*

yeah I know a few teachers and they've all brought up the flat/hashtag thing to me, totally exasperated

what do those kids think of the "phone" icon on their smartphones?

flat/hashtag would actually be exasperating

flattag

The sharp sign is obviously not a hash/pound sign

♯ vs #

i used to use an actual sharp sign for my dn but people wanted all my pithy comments to be searchable

#fanservice

btw any media outlets not properly diacriticizing Spanish names (let alone French, or Vietnamese) in 2018 needs to get their acts together, you look illiterate when you write "Bogota"

Bah-GOAT-uh, Columbia

I just realized that when I used to notate music I never wrote the sharp slanting the right way.

you really don't have to

I can definitely hear when it isn't slanting tbf

it's less sharp right?

btw any media outlets not properly diacriticizing Spanish names (let alone French, or Vietnamese) in 2018 needs to get their acts together, you look illiterate when you write "Bogota"

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby)

Yes, and there's a big difference between "año" and "ano," NY Times Crossword editor

you guys are ripping nytimes a new ano

http://www.rpmseattle.com/of_note/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/03_QT_Symbols-500x171.png

waht

quartertones baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vZURdhucM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Llpd%2B1%C2%BD.svg/164px-Llpd%2B1%C2%BD.svg.pngmicrotone4lyfe

What is this madness.

it's where the fun starts

I approve.

cof break fellas

It's a gateway drug and it inevitably leads to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWxBlj-R8OQ

or that metal dude imago likes

"Wins the internet"--track down whoever came up with that idiocy.

wins iirc

People Who Have Won the Internet

People who deftly dramatize and inhabit the internet; people who have read the whole thing; people who determine the rules of internet engagement. There aren’t a lot of them but there are too many to name–so maybe it is time we started a list. I will offer my top five: Molly Lambert, Julian Assange, Tavi, Andrey Ternovskiy, and Ned Raggett.

twitter explodes

A tad immodest from Ned there tbh.

Whatever. This. Is. Called.

Stupidest. Thing. Ever.

(This has probably been mentioned already, but I don't know how to search it.)