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

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.

^ both loathsome

I really can't stand when people do this? It's almost as if they don't have the confidence to state their opinions? It looks really precious and pathetic? I hate it?

in light of the Tlaib controversy I kind of want to stake out a middle ground and say that, while I think there is nothing offensive about cursing in politics, I find it very corny. The use of "motherfucker" in political settings has the feel of the valedictorian trying to be "bad."

Politicians are all very corny, it has been observed elsewhere on this borad recently.

Like it's not that people like Tlaib are contributing to the degeneration of the society, it's that they are actually so NOT doing that that it sound ridiculous when they call the president "motherfucker."

the amount someone makes described as "cool"

"makes a cool $10 million a year"

why is it cool

i mean yes money is cool but

especially when it's like "brings home a cool $10 million a year"

it's a relic. money used to be metal. thus, "cold, hard cash", too.

i did a thing

^ 100%

"performative"

lol i can see that but if you live on the internet and have strong opinions on what everyone should be doing then.... you're going to hear a lot of that word

soupçon

skosh is better than soupçon

bombshell allegations

Probably not the right thread for this but it seems no one is able to tell 'defuse' apart from' diffuse' anymore, including The Graun: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/21/native-american-mocked-by-students-i-saw-my-country-being-torn-apart

"Fulsome", when people use it as an intensified version of "full". What is frustrating is that there is no effective substitute to what people think "fulsome" means but it does not. "Comprehensive"? idk

xp unless it has since been corrected that appears to be correct use of “defuse,” no?

It has indeed been corrected.

Guardian keeping close tabs on thread

As it should be.

The situation probably was more diffused than defused.

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"work" as aggrandisement of stuff you wanted to do that nobody asked you to do

lmao otm

I WAS TALKING ABOUT YOU

lol j/k thats not tru <3

I haven’t said that since i was an undergrad!!

hmm that means yr still on probation in my book tbh

Ratioed

"... said no one, ever"

thousandths

*chef kiss* and *checks notes*

i'm *checks notes* still on board with "*checks notes*"