words that annoy

i hate the way we in the uk now say "nine eleven" when for us it's obviously eleven nine.

"lovely jubbly" makes me want to kill.

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

I blame Friends.

"paradigm" is also starting to get on my nerves. It's another overused favorite of the MBAs.

there are other many other examples of corporatespeak that irk me but I am trying not to think about them.

juxtapose

POSTMODERN

Let's start again from scratch.

also, you use a hammer to pound nails, but
you utilize a crescent wrench to cave in the head of an officemate who doesn't care about the difference between the two words.

http://www.kastar.com/product_pages/images/Kastar_Crescent-Wrench.jpg

I think I will try to popularize the term "protes" for proteins.

For example, all the words in Chinese annoy me, because why can't they fucking standardize on an alphabet and some basic usage patterns, and why do the damn Shanghainese have to pronounce everything different from everybody else and etc. Fuck Chinese words, they annoy me.

All the words in Japanese annoy me because what in the jesus do you need three writing systems for. Especially anything written in Katakana, jesus. MA KU RO DO NA RU DO!!!! Arrrrrgh, fuck them words.

And all the words in Korean ESPECIALLY annoy me because I hear them and I read them and I learned all of them and I should know them and be able to understand them very well and I don't because I haven't used a lick of it in like two years. That shit is about the most irritating thing on earth. Fuck some Korean words.

And all the other foreign languages? Those words annoy me too because what are you, talking in code? Are you saying shit about my girlfriend? I ought to kick your ass. Speak English, you twerp. This is America! Learn the rules!!

I heart the Tombot.

I'm going to go get lunch now. It will be... food. With food in it.

By the way, restaurantese is REALLY annoying. They use a lot of nouns in verbs: "Plate that right this time!" meaning "put it on a plate and use all the proper garnishes in our standard hideous arrangement or you will be fucked with by your manager for the rest of the day."

"Magnificently plated!"

Every job I've ever had has turned me into a bigger language crank.

There is such a shock of recognition from post to post, as phrases I didn't know I hated alternate with ones I use too much...

'Action' - "We need to action this now..."

'Paradigm' - you can blame Thomas Kuhn for this one I think. It arrived into common parlance (ugh! hate that phrase) via the caring professions (ow!) ex-students of which had digested it as part of their philosophy units (in spite of the fact that Kuhn thought the social sciences and philosophy were preparadigmatic - which makes you wonder whether he thought his own theory of paradigms was preparadigmatic). As his critics never tired of pointing out, Kuhn never defined the word consistently either, using it in all kinds of ways. Now all it really means is 'area' or 'field'.

'Do a 360' when it should be 'do a 180' was mentioned above; what about 'it's a steep learning curve' to describe a task that is hard to pick up? Now, if time is on the Y axis and competence is on the X-axis, as is the convention, then a steep curve indicates a job that is picked up very quickly. It's a _shallow_ curve that indicates difficulty. Perhaps people have the mental picture of a steep curve being hard to climb.

(Also, I am a dick but not THAT much of a dick.)

Short for "We need an action item for this now..."?

"Schizophrenia" used to refer to multiple personality or other psychological disorders.

Certain people's way of pronouncing "ask" as "ax."

That's because Freud represents your father to you; no doubt the fear is related to a childhood incident where you were discovered doing something naughty. You are now projecting your fear on to authority figures of all kinds, and on to theories which may, so to speak, 'find you out' by revealing the psychodynamics of your neurosis. But, due to the psychological defence of reaction formation, you may find this hard to accept during the initial phase of treatment.

look people, we don't need to BOIL THE OCEAN, we just need a DEEP DIVE into ACTIONABILITY and OPERATIONALIZATION of our STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

tisane

it's time to leave France and return to an Anglophone country

gifted
thrifted

both as a verb an as an adj in the past participle

How is 'thrifted' used as an adjective?

i used to be thnow white but i thrifted

dammit, so close

long day

example: "ugh this thrifted jumpsuit really grabs at my crotch; the one i got at urban outfitters fits better"

colorway

how can u be annoyed by words u made up

lol

I wish.

the overuse of the following has been irritating the fuck out of me lately

"phenomenal"
"huge"
"brutal"

my job involves a lot of big law fuckwits

"sammich"

penalized

doesn't the word "earthquake" seem a little cartoonish or dramatic

most earthquakes are a bit cartoonish, in that all you feel is a bit of a shiver. the big ones are, of course, not so cartoonish

earthquakes are not cartoonish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUJ6yCURzM

quintessential is not a bad word at all, essentially, but in practise it seems to mostly be poorly used

shd be reserved for alchemists

The word "brave" used to describe anything involving publishing a blog post, listicle, Instagram photo, etc assuming you don't live in a repressive regime.

'perfectly', as used in clickbaity articles that 'perfectly sum-up the world today'

Guys at the office who still think it's okay to call female colleagues "adorable"

Just the word "adorable"

it feels completely disgusting to be called adorable so thanks for the support!
i mean that.

people using "begs the question" incorrectly. When someone uses it correctly it really makes me want to weep for joy.

I've been thinking about this. I'm genuinely curious how many instances there are of someone using this expression 'correctly' outside the context of philosophy academia - unless it is just for the sake of 'correcting' the 'incorrect' usage. When I Google "beg the question", the first five pages of results consist entirely of either definitions or people discussing what the correct usage should be. It is only on the sixth page that I come across someone using the expression to describe a fallacious argument - and this is in a scholarly article in Informal Logic. Are there many actual instances of e.g. an opposition MP saying "the Honourable Minister begs the question when he argues for increased military intervention on the grounds that the Middle East has been growing more unstable since our involvement began"? For comparison, I can find several examples of "strawman". In any situation I can think of where one might use "beg the question" 'properly', it seems like it might be clearer and simpler to just say "you are assuming x without proving it".

it seems like it might be clearer and simpler

I'd say it not just "might be", but it would be.