words that annoy

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.

insinuate

i swear whenever someone uses this word in an argument, my mind just automatically assumes ur rong

my new boss (and I actually like her a lot in general) keeps saying proactive, and... well actually I think it's awesome

"opulent" is an amazing word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqeJ2qNIcqg

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).

huh? "vale" is the Latin word for "goodbye". are Latinisms trendy these days, or am I missing something?

I like opulent a little better now

I've grown to hate the word "actually" as it's used by millennials, i.e. coming at the beginning of the sentence and adding no meaning e.g. "actually could you do this for me"

aw wait, I missed the earlier vale discussion upthread. now I'm kinda hoping that Pelé dies soon so that millions of Brazilians will prostrate themselves in the streets and wail, "vale, Pelé!"

shit, I say "actually" all the time, xpost. but I say it meaningfully in the sense of, "actually you just made a tiny factual error, so please allow me to explain why I'm smarter and better than you."

that works I think — you're making a correction

also it has to be said in the nasal tone of a white girl wearing Ug boots

already
isn't it a yiddish anglicisation or something?

This would make a lot of sense! I've been learning German and translating spoken German seems to involve removing the word "schon" from pretty much every other sentence

(and translating my sentences would involve removing the words "pretty much" from pretty much every other sentence)

also guilty of the "actually" thing as a signifier of feigned spontaneity - like, "oh hey, I just ~happened~ to think of this thing you could do just there now", because that somehow seems less rude and demanding than just telling someone to do something

phrase not a word, but "in a sense"
can't wait to graduate

Spoken German should be your worst problem already!

i often read "actually" as the articulation of a change of mind. it gets used as an oppositional word, for use in corrections, suggestions and asks.
my favourite deployment comes in the form of a strained, hysterical validation of fact. "i'm actually starving" "you're actually annoying me now". it should carry the same hellish annoyance of "literally", but for some reason i just love it.

lol i had been assuming that "vale" was as in "vale of tears"

My basic college Latin makes me want to start "vale" with a W.

Words don't annoy me NEARLY as much as usages. "Simplistic" is a perfectly good word with a perfectly useful meaning. Substituting it for "simple" is where it all goes wrong.

I'm with cherry blossom on "Beats". Awful word, unless its used to describe, literally, plural instances of a beat. People describing any form of instrumental dance music as "beats", (i.e. "what are you listening to?" "oh, just beats" - or worse "dope beats") has ruined it for me.

Also, being in serious writing mode right now, my hatred of, but inability to avoid using, "indeed" has flared up.

inbeats

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2742334151_3223f216f4.jpg

"what are you listening to?" "oh, just beats"

ha, speaking of which:

http://i54.tinypic.com/154kgo7.png

obv he gets a pass because he's Carl fucking Craig

ok, serious laughs at "what are you listening to?" "oh, just beats"

I mean, the kerouac picture.

preggers, preggers, preggers

Ha. I once formed what, for me, would be the most annoying sentence ever. It was something to the effect of: "Hubbers got his wifey preggers with a stinky baby".

Just typing that makes me want to go wash my hands.