Four Words: Use Other Words Please"Use other words please."Commonly used phrases that inexplicably bug youMost irritating cliche/phrase/expression"Taking Things to a Whole `Nother Level!" words that annoyWords that should earn the author a slapPROVERBIAL and other tip offs to poor writing
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
-- caitlin (wpsal...) (webmail), December 23rd, 2003. (caitlin)
Oh yes, yes yes. I second that one. And the people who say it, say it over and over.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
This is true.
But, this is a topic that should be dealt with routinely and harshly... the only way we can correct the language and suppress it's organic growth is by exposing and banning every new usage as it occurs... Isn't that what the French do?
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Melly E (Melly E), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Monday, 29 December 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Monday, 29 December 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 December 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.
Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 29 December 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
― ermes marana, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelf)xxx, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link
When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Or a colon.
COINKY-DINK, "guestimate," and any time someone ends an interrogative sentence with "at," as in "Where's my keys at?" or "Where's your head at?"
― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
"hating on"
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
"Action" used as a verb. (Especially with regards to some annoying little thing I had already been doing.) "Can you please action this?" Actually, no I can't. Action is a noun. If you would like me to DO it, then just ask. Argh.
Especially when coming from the same irritating marketing bods who last week asked me to "manage the relationship" with one of our suppliers. Fuck. Right. Off.
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link
A term of address directed at Turkish shopkeepers by 13 year old boys and directed by Turkish shopkeepers at everyone else. The most annoying ever.
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Ahhh please drown me right this minute
But her rant backfired when she was deluged with criticism. She has now turned the comments off underneath the Instagram video.
'When I first outed the restaurant on TikTok, it reached the wrong audience of non-creators and influencers who didn't understand what was happening,' Ms May said.
'creators' is bad enough, but 'non-creators'?? KILL ME PLEASE
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 20 May 2024 23:59 (four weeks ago) link
The GOAT
So sick of this one
― new wave of pictish heavy metal (Matt #2), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:34 (three weeks ago) link
baahhh
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:40 (three weeks ago) link
one of my writer friends lamented that he had to add an explainer to a sports-theme comic she had written because nobody remembered the original meaning of "goat" in sports, meaning the person who fucked up and is ostracized for their mistake, so people who read it kept asking why Garo Yepremian was the greatest of all time for throwing an interception that lead to another team's touchdown.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:43 (three weeks ago) link
Garo kind of exemplifies both meanings of goat. One kind when he “threw” (being generous) that interception but on the positive side he was a crucial piece of a GOAT team, and markedly ahead of his time as an early soccer-style kicker.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 20:55 (three weeks ago) link
Having said that, I don’t like the new meaning of GOAT either, it’s just obnoxious. I think Muhammad Ali popularized the phrase in the ‘70s but it was more humorous the way he utilized it.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 21:02 (three weeks ago) link
https://preview.redd.it/invest-in-professor-calculus-who-is-acting-the-goat-v0-5opcp92zobja1.jpg
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 21:07 (three weeks ago) link
It sucks because it’s often used by people with pretty basic taste about obvious middlebrow exemplars.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 12:40 (two weeks ago) link
goat talk is the worst
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 12:41 (two weeks ago) link
meh
― kinder, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:45 (two weeks ago) link
The GOATSE
(Greatest Of All Time Says Everyone)
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:33 (two weeks ago) link
the worst though is calling someone "a" goat; similar to how the word unique can't be modified, you can only be "the" goat in a particular field, by definition. but does that stop these basic motherfuckers no
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:33 (two weeks ago) link
Words, usages, and phrases that really get your goat
― jmm, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:41 (two weeks ago) link
it's baaaaa-ad
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:44 (two weeks ago) link
I'm glad this was brought up since I too remember "goat" being a bad thing in sports, or at least seeing something where it was used that way
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:44 (two weeks ago) link
No point bleating about it though.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:44 (two weeks ago) link
Reminder of the level of competition for GOAT:
Goat on roof 'only respects one man'
― jmm, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:59 (two weeks ago) link
So, "goat" means he's "bad"..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 15:04 (two weeks ago) link
the other thing is that sports GOAT arguments are really boring especially since you're often comparing guys who played in totally different eras since a totally different set of players. you can just say whatever you want.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 15:09 (two weeks ago) link
yeah during football season FB kept suggesting these groups where people were basically taking two players, posting their stat sheet from this stat app that allows side by side comparisons, and writing SEE, XXX IS BETTER...
and one guy would be a QB from the 80s and the other would be like, Josh Allen.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 15:11 (two weeks ago) link
I really don’t like seeing the word “re-sent” when the dash is left out, it causes undue alarm initially
― brimstead, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 17:42 (two weeks ago) link
“no problem, I just resent it”
― brimstead, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 17:43 (two weeks ago) link
Maybe I've lowkey had it with lowkey now
Why does it lowkey feel like nobody has a Dalmatian anymore— pris (@pwiscila) May 26, 2024
― Alba, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 17:54 (two weeks ago) link
For starters it would cause massive confusion with the Sandringham Hotel in Melbourne. Which IS the Sando.
citation needed
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:38 (two weeks ago) link
x-post - She is right though. I literally said this to someone within the last week. I feel like I've seen 2 Dalmatians in my whole life.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 30 May 2024 08:45 (two weeks ago) link
The problem with Dalmatians is that many are born deaf or blind or both because the gene pool is kind of shallow.
― guillotine vogue (suzy), Thursday, 30 May 2024 10:20 (two weeks ago) link
Makes that 101 all the more miraculous.
― Jeff, Thursday, 30 May 2024 10:23 (two weeks ago) link
xpost - Ah, ok. Didn't know that.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 30 May 2024 10:40 (two weeks ago) link
they are also notoriously difficult to train
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 31 May 2024 14:18 (two weeks ago) link
Before I moved to my new flat in my old neighbourhood I'd see a couple of Dalmatian/Great Dane cross-breeds out on their walk. Nice change from all the Cockapoos and Dachshunds (all v good boys and girls tho they be).
― nashwan, Friday, 31 May 2024 14:22 (two weeks ago) link
dalmatians are lowkey goated when spots are the vibe
― jaymc, Friday, 31 May 2024 14:35 (two weeks ago) link
The puppies are just so cute.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 31 May 2024 14:40 (two weeks ago) link
FPed you for that jaymc
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 May 2024 14:47 (two weeks ago) link
'high-touch'
Saw this for the first time today. I really hope I never have to use it.
― jmm, Friday, 14 June 2024 19:05 (four days ago) link
thought that was gonna be about high-fiving in a library
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 14 June 2024 19:28 (four days ago) link
Heard that one a few years ago as my former employer scrambled to rebuild under new “leadership”
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 14 June 2024 19:59 (four days ago) link
the 'high smooch', however, is an elegant baseketball shot
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 June 2024 00:13 (three days ago) link
Oh yeah, high-touch all up in my industry.
― Jeff, Saturday, 15 June 2024 01:15 (three days ago) link
Low key high touch is mid
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 15 June 2024 01:34 (three days ago) link