Oh christ, that's obnoxious.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
(That is, "regardless of whether it is grammatically incorrect," which run-on sentences are.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
That usage is most obnoxious when it's a professor using it, esp. as they assess your writing! It makes me start writing. In clippy little sentences. That are worse than the alleged original "problem."
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Ugh, those clippy little sentence fragments are the worst.
― EDB, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yes. I once had a professor edit something I wrote by just changing the commas to full stops. I was. I will say. Not pleased. Give me interminably long sentences or give me NOTHING.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
'cooked to perfection' irritates the fuck out of me. generally heard coming from some snooty nob who've appointed themselves as king culinary arbiter. bugs me because it gives off this incredibly self-centred view that *their* taste is THE correct one and only they can pronounce things perfect or not.
― NI, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
To be honest, I'm not a fan of online acronyms. If I recall correctly, it once wasn't considered that onerous a task to type out four- and five-letter words in full.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
rce u
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I was assuming I'd get either a "Clemenza OTM" or whatever stands for "Clemenza full of shit." I'll have to look that one up...
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
arsey you
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks. Got it.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I was merely pointing out that (and in my case, especially while I'm at work) it is often rather convenient to convey the thrust of your point in abbreviated form- it's quicker, you see.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Not a problem. Everyone has their reasons, I think the saying goes.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
brvt sl wt iirc
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Brevity is the soul of wit, yes. Unless it's so brief that it's the soul of "Huh?"
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the push to use latin when pressed for typing time starts here. let's get classy out there people.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, that was the point I started out to make: use Latin, everybody. I should have made that clearer.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Quite serious, to be honest.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
How does "veggies" even sound australian? It sounds midwestern or something to me.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
You know, I'm thinking that if your job is so busy that the time difference between typing "tbh" and "to be honest"--which is what, half-a-second?--is an issue, another alternative would be not to go on message boards at work? I mean, I hope you're not in the middle of performing open-heart surgery or anything.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Had to literally stop someone yesterday from finishing telling me that the trailer he saw for an upcoming film probably showed all the best parts.
― Kerm, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
concubitus per lavatio a hat
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ha my job is clearly not that busy, i was making the best case benefit-of-the-doubt scenario
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
people resuming correspondence with "i trust you are well"
― caek, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
My mom used to describe things she thought were strange but didn't want to disapprove of as "very..... different" or "quite.......interesting" but these days she's been using "unique", which normally wouldn't bother me but she always uses them with intensifiers so I'm stuck hearing "it's very unique" and even sometimes the dreaded "well, it's more unique than..."
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
'That's different' - pronounced 'diff-urnt' - is an insult in the US Midwest.
― are you robot? (suzy), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
People who say 'the proof is in the pudding'
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING, OKAY?
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
suffix "-monger".
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
"... it's not true"
^ Stupid construction. Heard a guy saying it on the news this morning:
"Our athletes are looking forward to the competition IT'S NOT TRUE"
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry:
"Our athletes are so looking forward to the competition IT'S NOT TRUE"
"like the lovechild of [ x ] and [ y ]" / "if [ x ] and [ y ] had a baby"
stop with this lazy shit, the formulation is not inherently funny or clever, & there are other ways to describe the combination of two influences
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
saying someone looks or sounds "like a muppet"
if they do not bear an uncanny resemblance to a specific muppet then i don't want to hear it, just more lazy cleverness, plus the muppets rule so fuck u
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"cosign"
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
elmo argonaut looks like Lew Zealand.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
muppet is an insult over here, probably not independent of the actual muppets tho tbf
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
"Fey" in any context not meaning "doomed". I think that some people think it's a synonym for "gay".
The twee kicks in quickly with opening track “The Stars Of Track And Field,” with its references to “kissing girls” and “innocent boys” in the first few lines. This may sound silly, but there’s something about the way frontman Stuart Murdoch says “boys” and “girls” that sounds especially fey, and it inexplicably irks me. Maybe it’s because Murdoch’s accent enhances the preciousness, or maybe it’s because I find it annoying when grown adults refer to each other as girls and boys, like they’re on a playground or playing kickball in an adult recreational league.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/belle-sebastians-if-youre-feeling-sinister,47346/
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
creative as a noun
― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
as in "let's get a couple of creatives in here"?
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/may/29/advertising-creatives/print
― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to be a destructive.
― Flavors: Onions and other flavors (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
feyadj \ˈfā\Definition of FEY1a chiefly Scottish : fated to die : doomed b : marked by a foreboding of death or calamity2a : able to see into the future : visionary b : marked by an otherworldly air or attitude c : crazy, touched3a : excessively refined : precious b : quaintly unconventional : campy
― zvookster, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I've never seen "fey" used in the first or second contexts there
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Morgana le Fey is probably the only one in any kind of common usage (though people probably think it's her surname.)
― Wheal Dream, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't understand what definition 3 has to do with definition 1 or 2, which are the ones I'm familiar with.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
marked by an otherworldly air or attitude -> elven in a contrived manner (see, say Elfine from Cold Comfort Farm) -> Definition 3.
― Wheal Dream, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
also see: Joanna Newsom
― sarahel, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I could see that. But my strong suspicion is that it's not as complicated as that. I'll bet that it evolved from people misusing language. Anyone have an OED account here?
xp
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Fée is also 'fairy' in French.
― you've got foetus in a jar (suzy), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
the key word here is "evolved"
― sarahel, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link