words that annoy

Best Beloved Spouse!

I don't know what it is about them but both those terms just irritate me.

They're reductive

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"preggers" pisses me off

preggers makes me laugh, because it makes me think of "beggin' strips" - dog food - so if someone says that someone is preggers, i imagine they are saying that person is dog food, which makes no sense, so it's funny

every time I hear preggers I picture this guy saying it:

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preggers of yore

dave preggers

exculpate grosses me out... sort of suggests onomatopoeia

preggers, prego etc. all bug me too

Prego? Like the spaghetti sauce?

I don't get annoyed by faddy turns of phrase, but this one really winds me up: People who say "Myself" or "Yourself" when "me" or "you" would do. I used to cringe in my old job where this was used liberally to speak to customers: "Is it okay if I send an email to yourself?". It's what thick people do to sound clever - particularly, in my experience, sales people. Fitting that I'm reminded of this by a new work monitoring application at work where you have to click a button that says "Myself" to log in. Argh!!

My friend says he once saw a note in a book at the hotel where he worked where some twit had written, 'Myself and my wife had a great time'.

People like this should be sentenced to a lifetime in prison on an island full of rapist gorillas with massive boots, where they're forced to sell timeshare over the phone for eternity so they can then say "Myself was abused by a rather large gorilla last night. I don't suppose yourself could send over a lifeboat to help me off".

Surely you meant to say "send over a lifeboat to help myself off". ;-)

"Allow myself to introduce... myself..."

meal

folktronica

clonetrooper

I was talking to a kid and his Mum yesterday and asked what he was dressing up as. She said a stormtrooper...and he corrected her & said, no, a *clonetrooper*.
Frakking Lucas and his clownwar bullshit. Grrr.

Dressing up as for Halloween, I meant to say

"individuals" a la cop/politician speak. These individuals those individuals. It's a group. Call them people, folks, nappy-headed hos but please not "individuals."

i must have picked up the "anymore" thing in ohio because it seems so normal to me anymore i can't think of an example oh i just did while typing this lol

People in Dublin stick the expression 'an'(d) anyway' into sentences as meter filler: 'I was up above in the bookies, an' anyway, an' he say to me "put a score on her", so I did, an' anyway'

that would be 'metre filler' of course: not parking change...

"As such" used completely wrongly and arbitrarily at the end of sentences. "We don't have the right paperwork for this project so I can't finish it now and am going out for lunch as such." Co-worker does this all the time. I know it's popular among certain classes in the UK but I live in America so stop it as such. Perhaps "I suck" would sound better. Yes I will try to hear it as that from now on.

"i often see attractive goth/industrial styled girls with nebbishy or otherwise wtf dudes." (from 'Defend the Indefensible: films in which gorgeous, independent, "edgy" women have nothing better to do than break uptight whiny squares out of their bubbles' thread)

I'm bored ever so slightly shitless these days by 'wtf' and other similar look-at-me-i'm-so-jaded bulldust generally, but if it ever hits general use as an adjective, The Terrorists Have Won!

renege

is there a more pretentious word than 'luxe' ?

nice dn

hah! accidently relevant

wysiwyg.

Dumbest non word ever

Condolences

This is a really cumbersome and awkward word to spit at someone in the throes of grief.

It merely means that you share their dolorousness.

gubernatorial

Similarly on the grief front, when people say "vale" when someone's passed away, where the heck did that one get traction from?

aaaagh I HATE vale

it's like those people stand around waiting for someone to die just so they can scream 'VALE' like ocd vultures

My pet hate is "already" used completely wrongly and arbitrarily at the end of sentences.

"Like, hey, enough with the kitten pictures already..." IT MAKES NO SENSE!

I blame Friends.

isn't it a yiddish anglicisation or something? think it dates back much further than Friends anyway. Tend to mentally picture it spelt aWready for some reason too

"First and foremost" (i.e. "Primarily and also at the beginning")

Disorientated. A Britishism, I think, when disoriented is perfectly reasonable.

Simplistic, esp. when misused to mean 'simple'. Bit of a rash of this on the radio lately.

"It is wonderfully simplistic to use." ick ick ick

admitted
opulent
insouciant
shortlist
expounded
paradigm
beats

i think i've used all those words except "paradigm" in the past week

"opulent" is an amazing word

wtf is wrong with "beats"?!

colleague although that is more the concept than the word

i dunno i just don't like the sound of the word beats

what do you suggest people say instead

i also dont like 'explained'.

Oh, no they should probably use all these words - apart from the hated 'admitted' - its not a rational thing

is 'beets' as bad as 'beats' to your strict ear, cherry blossom?

I prefer drums to beats. I'm not sure why I have a things about beats I think its partly this one time when someone was telling me a story about when they took their friend to a moodymann show and she stayed for about a minute and then turned round with a disgusted look and said "beats" in a contemptuous way and I always hear 'beats' that way now, though I don't think I liked it all that much before anyhow

ive never heard anyone talk about beets!

Vale is a new one on me. I looked it up and it's in the OED but not in my collegiate-sized Webster's, so could be more of a British thing. (And pronounced vah-lay for those who don't know).

Of course, the Spanish say vale to mean "that's cool," hence it would be inappropriate to blurt it out at a Spanish funeral.

"to be sure" drives me absolutely bananas when deployed in a written sentence. unless it starts a sentence and we're going on a boss level investigation of terms, then it simply rings as superfluous, messy or at best evocative of a conversation in mrs o'sheas village shop.