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'

the phrase-final use of do used in (some) British dialects is a pro-verb that refers to an already-introduced verb:

Have you unpacked your things yet? -> I have done (ref. unpacked)

It's not a use-it or not-use-it distinction though, as variants of it are found in different contexts in most English dialects:

Have you tried these petit fours? -> No. -> Please do!

or

You should order the petit fours for dessert! -> That's what I was gonna do!

or

Go to bed early since we have to wake up at 6am tomorrow. -> I will do so.

and of course

I'm going to jump off this bridge! -> Don't!

i am so satisfied and informed re my comment by all. thanky.

They do, though, don't they, though?

I've been having fun this afternoon thinking of lexical verbs where you can in fact still negate them without employing "do":

fear not
worry not
be not afraid

all imperatives!

Does “mustn’t” fit this category? I’m pretty hazy on grammar.

I was about to add “I suppose not,” but …

"must" is a modal verb so not can attach directly to it, "suppose" is interesting though, as "I don't suppose" and "I suppose not" don't feel like they have quite the same meaning!

Be Not Afraid is one of the only religious songs I remember from my parochial education

That may not be the title of the song, I’m afraid

ask not

xp I think it is the title. First line of the chorus at any rate.

xxxxp "warshed" also big in Michigan

interesting, i always think of warsh as more of s central midwest not appalachian adjacent or eastern midwest

and def not mich ftm

My aunt who grew up in Ohio and Illinois says warsh, but oddly my mom who grew up in the same house does not. I attribute this to my aunt being three years older, which means she was in Ohio for three more formative years before they moved to the Chicago suburbs while my mom was still fairly young.

pellow, melk

Melky Pellow, lead singer of Wetttt.

That reminds me. There's a tonne of Wikipedia articles that begin with "(Bridge) is a steel truss bridge and was opened in 1972". Or alternatively "(Bridge) is a steel truss bridge, supported with cantilevers, and was opened in 1972".

It's the word "and" that annoys me. It really should be "that". Something is a something that was opened some time. Does it violate the rules of grammar? I have no idea, but it looks wrong.

I mean, you wouldn't say "Challenger is a Space Shuttle and famously exploded".

For example, the current opening line for The Swarm is "The Swarm is a 1978 American natural horror film directed and produced by Irwin Allen and based on Arthur Herzog's 1974 novel of the same name", which is fine. But imagine if it was "The Swarm is an American natural horror film directed and produced by Irwin Allen and was released in 1978". That would be bad and wrong.

The link to "natural horror" reminds me of the tagline for the classic, and ahead-of-its-time, eco-horror film Frogs and was released in 1972, which is "COLD GREEN SKIN against SOFT, WARM FLESH!". Now, between you and me, at the age of fifty I'm not as frisky as I used to be. But some mental images can at least remind me of what it was like to experience physical lust, and if that involves frogs, so be it.

i would say that about challenger

both aspects are true

the ability to communicate is perhaps the great wonder of meaning in the universe and 98% (ive counted) of the entries in this thread really do strike me as a study in pettiness against the joys of different paths to the same result

no i dont feel like behaving porportionately about this

i guess a good portion of this thread (and this point has been made before) is complaining about corny normie people cornilly appropriating outdated slang from subcultures they do not belong to

that second l in cornily will drag them out of the gutter- good work

just doing my best to keep everybody activated

In short, I Love Everything once more fails miserably to live up to its name.

I helped organize a wedding last weekend where the bride was black, and the very normie suburban white woman who ran the facilities started saying stuff like "Girl, you do you!" and it was really awkward and cringe

(and yes, I recognize that cringe is also cringe)

xxxp us great unwarshed denizens of Michigan only got "today the pond, tomorrow the world" as the Frogs tagline.

and has about 900-1000 years of being used as a conditional conjunction (all Wiccans know "an' it harm none, do what ye will" although that is from the 1960s) so it being used as a subordinating conjunction isn't so odd

Is an (with no apostrophe, meaning "if") really derived from and? I thought they were different words.

it is indeed

(worth noting that Doreen Valiente was in fact trying to make the words sound ancient even though they weren't, but she did use "an" correctly)