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

"I get it" as in "I understand" or "Enough already"? feel like the latter has been around a lot longer than the decade

It sort of splits the difference. It's in the tone--I'd have to provide audio.

“firebrand”

"thank you for coming to my ted talk"

yes

any reference to the bastardin things tbh

Whataboutism-- this concept seems too obscure to have gained the amount of usage-sans-explanation that it has

and like Gaslighting, it has come to mean "you are saying something I disagree with"

continually telling someone they're gaslighting you when they're not is the next level move

whataboutism is just tu quoque

What about whataboutery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUH4Kgmyk2Y

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/What_About_Bob_%281991%29.png/220px-What_About_Bob_%281991%29.png

Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of Richard Dreyfuss

and like Gaslighting, it has come to mean "you are saying something I disagree with"

― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:57 (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everything means this post imma say 2012

"say the quiet parts out loud" already over.

my problem with "gaslighting" is that it's meant to distinguish between "you disagree with me" and "you agree with me but are lying to trick me" which is essentially just an accusation of bad faith. i'm sure there are ppl who "gaslight" as a control +abuse mechanism but 99% of the time i've seen it used [online only] it's really "you are acting like your disagreement with me is in good faith but that's impossible so you must be trying to trick me," which is often fairly delusional and self-serving.

overton window yes yes we get it

"let me be clear"

"rocked up"

"so she turned around to me and said..."

Got some more awfulness. Yesterday my students couldn't understand that starting sentences with "because" was fine.

Because they do not hope to learn again

Wait Alfred you object to "very" as an intensifier? You are hard line.

You'd object to if "very" was stuffed into every sentence.

"so she turned around to me and said..."

― dogs, Friday, January 11, 2019 7:12 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idgi... the redundancy of "to me"?

"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud

bc of Alfred I am more conscious of overusing intensifiers

im fierce aware of it now

I’m still bad at it though

so
very
really
fucking
significantly
incredibly
too

I use often, sometimes in the same sentence

rather!

I swear Bernie Sanders precedes every utterance with "let me be clear".
Let me be clear, honey, I am going to eat the fuck out of your pussy

I had a terrible, terrible boss a couple of years ago that I hated. During a one on one meeting where I just didn't want to talk to him anymore about work I brought up how he said "at the end of the day" and "let me ask you a question" so many times during a conversation that it was distracting. For the next six months he was incapable of saying 3 sentences in a row without taking longs pauses or making "ughs". It was so great.

I've had multiple bosses that do stuff like this, it really wears you down after a while.

You'd object to if "very" was stuffed into every sentence.

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January

I'm not sure I would, but I am somewhat relaxed about these things.

"Let's link"

No

the ubiquitous use of "like".

mainly because i am horribly guilty of it myself and it sounds even worse coming from someone with my accent

You could repurpose that list as 'Pet Shop Boys albums, ranked!', Alfred.

Mark Twain famously claimed that every time he was tempted to write "very" he'd substitute "damned" in order to make certain the editor would remove it for him.

I have a few verbal crutches which I always wince at myself for using: "kind of," "really," "maybe," "I think."

I've also been told that I say "sorry" way too much, even by Canadian standards.

strunk+white call rather and very "leeches that infest the ponds of prose, sucking the blood of words" iirc

Those clods are dead though

"rather" is undead

li-cherally.

everything is a matter of personal style and deployment and offering anything here in the spirit of correction as opposed to an "i dont like this meself" is snobbery

controversial position

xp You are correct, sir. Even the most tired of cliches has valid uses in the hands of a good writer. But it is not the purpose of this thread to inveigh against writers whose skill surpasses the bounds beyond which normally lie annoyance.

let it never be said about me that I am not a snob

xps alf m8 tisnt gold yere given a fella to work with yknow

Affirming a negative in a question - “Santa Claus isn’t real, right?”

Full stop.