words that annoy

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.

ew

xp - what about "hubster"?

Dope as in it's very cool. I wish dope still only meant heroin.

I like this usage of dope, 1. a varnish applied to the fabric surface of model aircraft to strengthen them and keep them airtight.
-a thick liquid used as a lubricant.

I think it's probably the fumes from that usage that led to the druggy one!

I mean airplane glue, that's like synonymous with huffing, isn't it?

Ha! I never really thought you could get high from glue, just a headache? My grandmother has told me for many years, "As long are you aren't smoking that Dope!" I have no idea if she differentiates between any drugs in her mind, I think it's all just dope.

Yes, "dope" has bothered me for years. If nothing else it feel very dated at this point.

(see above post about "dope beats". Also see other usages of "dopeness".)

I don't know about high, but I do love the smell of solvents. I think part of the feeling you're supposed to get from them is simple oxygen deprivation?? Which somehow sounds more stupid and dangerous than all the other really dangerous drugs out there.

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

ha ha im with you on this. there are exceptions but 'beats' is mostly used by the music-as-art types of the dance world and urrgh

many many americaniSations fuck me off, but there's a special place in my gut for broil. such an ugly and part-confusing word, makes me think of boiling an old grey gran bra in a big pot with some overdone brocolli, and you stick your food in that - that's broiling.

"Hey Abe, I've invented a new way of cooking."
"What, is it like submerging a piece of food in boiling water?"
"No no, nothing like that, this involves external heat from above."
"Oh ok, nothing like boiling then?"
"Nope, nothing like that. What shall we call this technique?"
"Hmm, how's about BROIL, that won't be confusing at all."
"WINNER"

It's like saying I'm going for a WRALK when I'm actually going hangliding.

@JacobSaunders & Laurel - you can definitely get high off of certain types of strong glue, for example the stuff they use to put rearview mirrors back on cars in auto body shops. It's definitely stupid and dangerous.

"many many americaniSations fuck me off"

Yeah, man-we're not too happy about your perversions of the language either, i dont care that you invented it. Go stick that lorry up your ass.

^ irony

tee hee

FLAVORFUL

Reminds me of this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-grandmother-tries-indian-food,2472/
but it annoyed me even before that.

definitely, that and 'cooked to perfection'. who judges perfection? you? YOUR magical lofty tastebuds? get to fuck

Etymology of "broil"

From Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”) and Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of Old French bruir (“to burn”), of Germanic origin; and Old French usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulāre (“to scorch”).

"galore"