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

I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.

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?

Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....

'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.

Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?

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?"

As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form

When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?

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?"

"hating on"

"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.

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.

DON'T MADAM ME, YOU LITTLE...!!! OK, according to Watching The English, this means that they have socio-status assessed me as middle class or higher. But it irritates me because it makes me feel old.

'Whilst'

i don't actually have a personal vision statement but if i did, 'badass' would be a 'pillar'

I don't mind it as general adjective — "That's totally badass" — but the specific way it's used about women feels hackneyed at best by now. Seems very 1990s or something.

friends episode vibe

Or maybe not 1990s. Google Trends shows two big spikes — in early 2015 (Hillary launching her campaign) and spring 2017 (Women's Marches and pussy hats). Which helps crystallize how I often hear it, it's very #ResistanceLib.

I was gonna say I don't mind it as an adjective but like it less as a noun. I do think tipsy is correct in identifying a particular condescending gendered application — my partner is getting inhuman amounts of work and emotional labour heaped on her right now and has been called, by those doing the heaping, a badass, a warrior, etc. It's gross.

gatekeepy music terms that describe something really siple but in a way that makes it sound like you need special knowledge to have an opinion on them, like "guitar tone" or "sound design" in the context of electronic music

simple

lol that reminds me of how confused I was by the term "hook" when I was first starting to read music reviews. I really thought it had to mean something more complex

gatekeepy music terms that describe something really siple but in a way that makes it sound like you need special knowledge to have an opinion on them, like "guitar tone" or "sound design" in the context of electronic music

Dude go fuck yourself. Guitar sound okay with you?

like, you’re actually a dumbass

Rfi are the following acts Americana or alt-country or folk or is it all a mishmosh:

Honeycutters / Amanda Anne Platt

Eilen Jewell

Richard Shindell / Cry Cry Cry

Cheri Knight / Blood Oranges

kinda feeling annoyed by the word 'gatekeeper' lately tbh. like, some gates are good to keep lol. this is in the context of people posting online about hikes and red rock scenery, slot canyons, etc. and rock art. since covid there has been a huge explosion of 'putting the outdoors online' which means you get a lotta randos with disposable income gaw-gawing in places that used to be a lot quieter and less 'visible'. desert ecosystems are fragile. idk.

i would sort of love it if, some day, there was a trend or push to 'remove' trail info from the internet, like in some specific area, spearheaded by a town who doesn't want all the tourists. probably never going to happen but i think it's a beautiful idea.

this is one of ilx's all-time worst threads and brimstead, *that's* the post you're losing your shit and begging for fps over?

xp if someone declines to say where it is they took their cool photo, inevitably some lady in california is going to say 'stop gatekeeping'

brimmy is just having a moment don't mind him.

but to na: hating fairly neutral words that try to describe how something sounds is pretty weird but i bet you're mad about something else idk.

i am not mad, i am (mildly) annoyed (per the thread title), and i said why - those terms (and others) seem to imply that you need some special knowledge to opine on them but anyone with ears can listen to a song and say "i like how that guitar sounds" or "that guitar sounds like shit" (or "it's cool how that snare is all the way over on the left and has a bunch of reverb on it" which is what sound design is as far as i can tell)
i do agree that some gatekeeping is good and that the term itself is often itself annoying

‘guitar tone ´ strikes me as one of the most neutral, straightforward terms you could use to talk about how a guitar sounds in music?

i don’t disagree with you in theory but baffled by that example

maybe it's just me! i remember reading guitar magazines as a teen and they would always talk about how eric johnson had the best guitar tone and it seemed like a technical term and you had to have special knowledge/listening ability to appreciate it

yeah i mean in the context of those mags it's clearly a dumb magic word.

agree on that context for badass mentioned above, it's used a lot like that and is just sort of weird.

separately, i am starting to tire of 'superpower' being used so much.

'sound design' is a funny one, it sounds a little like a chapter in an audio engineering book, but with a lot of electronic music it's what people are literally doing, designing sounds.

xp oh i hate mcu words being used irl so much. sort of related in vibe, though i'm not sure where it comes from, is 'i got you'

ohhhh i hate that

I use badass as a noun almost exclusively i.e. "he is an Excel badass" or "they're a bunch of Christmas-tree-decorating badasses"

i think because the people i hear say it are white and it’s a black thing so it sounds phony? or something? am i gatekeeping?? idk but i don’t like it

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i say 'badass' when i see a bro send it. kinda kidding but i feel like i say it the most (in my head usually) when i see someone doing something hard outside.

yeah 'i got you' has a little bit of black speak going on. for some reason i associate it with the movie 'the incredibles' seem to recall that 'you got this' was like a catchphrase or something.

stop trying to use the language, people. especially, especially you. you know who i mean.

Or maybe not 1990s. Google Trends shows two big spikes — in early 2015 (Hillary launching her campaign) and spring 2017 (Women's Marches and pussy hats). Which helps crystallize how I often hear it, it's very #ResistanceLib

yeah I don't see it as much as I used to, but it definitely became widespread in the early 2010s in similar contexts. i recall this 2015 Atlantic article was early in identifying it as a trend. and back in 2018, i searched and found that "badass women" was a content tag on buzzfeed, thought catalog, and feministing.