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

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I don't really mind me any colloquialisms, but'n when my ex-boss gets hisself an itchin' to use simplistic when simple will do, I just got me a right hankerin' to pat his pretty little haid 'n' set the poor fellah straight.

The main problem with business writing isn't neologism - it's a kind of stiff, flowless formality. People come into business, think "hmm this is serious writing, when was the last time I did serious writing, oh yes..." and so everything is written in the passive-voice style of a GCSE science project.

Ugh, so OTM. In one office job I had every email was "I advised her X and she advised me Y" as though 'advised' was just a synonym for 'told'.

Also "from whence" aarrggghhhhh

Also someone mentioned Rachel Stevens upthread, "Sweet Dreams my LAX" is the worst for this kind of thing - "If I were in your shoes I'd worry OF the effects" wtf.
"Do you think I'm the fairer S-E-X" , so what, Rachel Stevens is a whole gender now?
"Can't you stop playing that record again" also bugs me.

And on another track - "The sweeter you taste, the bitter I feel" nnnhhhhnnngggg

Yes - I probably listen to too much Rachel Stevens....

imagine, song lyrics not conforming to standard usage.

it's easy if you try

imagine, someone mentioning the words, usages and phrases that annoy the shit out of them on this thread.

Seriously though, that many weird usages in one song that consists mainly of just a few repeated lines? It's pushing it.

I dislike "so-called".

"On-trend" *vomit*

The Australian thing (ha) of calling any baby 'bubs'. Makes me cringe.

'irregardless' makes me want to unfold my pocketknife

The Australian thing (ha) of calling any baby 'bubs'. Makes me cringe.

-- Not the real Village People, Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

also, everything else australians say

For some reason, "no worries!" bugs me.

Also, the fact that it bugs me bugs me, because it makes me feel like Andy Rooney or something.

Oh well. No worries!

"Badboy" as a general purpose noun.

"Be inside in a min, just gonna smoke one of these badboys."

"not for nothin"
is this just an east coast thing? i can't stand to hear it.

The Australian thing (ha) of calling any baby 'bubs'. Makes me cringe.

-- Not the real Village People, Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

also, everything else australians say

-- and what, Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:06 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

otm

"shits and giggles"

"just putting that out there"

dapple

under the bus
soup to nuts

earbuds

I had an Australian boss a few years ago who dropped no worries like crazy and now I say it all the time and even I hate it.

bro
son

damn son why you hatin

usu irl the bro's are coming from douchbags and i knew that damn son shit had to just end the first time i heard it. like, we barely know each other don't call me son and don't be ironic white guy rapper anyways.

not you HOOS, obv

:D

undergrowth

'perfect!'

"rather" as an affirmative
"same difference"

soup to nuts

^

this, urge to kill rises whenever i hear it

"Whenever" when what is meant is "when." Possibly a Texas/South thing, but I hear something like "Whenever I was in college I drank a lot of beer but never gained a pound!" all the fucking time.

wtf is soup to nuts?

I used to have a buddy who said things like "Everwhat."

"They were down there in the parking lot, waiting for some pizza or everwhat."

"put the world to rights"

I used to have a buddy who said things like "Everwhat."

Are you positive he wasn't referring to his unfinished trilogy of fantasy novels?

"CALLING ALL"

"Calling all budding"

"CALLING ALL BUDDING...ARTISTS"

"CALLING ALL VILE PAROCHIAL ACTIVITIES"

I hear something like "Whenever I was in college I drank a lot of beer but never gained a pound!" all the fucking time.

― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:36 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

i used to say this a lot when i was younger, heard it a lot in the valley

"They were down there in the parking lot, waiting for some pizza or everwhat."

So it's a substitute for "whatnot"? I used to know someone who said "whatsuch" in situations like that.

come back andy!!

"Porno" as a singular noun. I'm reminded of this every day thanks to the marketing campaign for the new Kevin Smith movie, which is irritating for all sorts of other reasons as well.

"He's done brilliantly well there"

and similar. Seems to be popular with football pundits at the moment.

also

"intangibles"

wtf is soup to nuts?

Everything. Comes from when a multi-course meal went from soup to nuts.

"comprising of"

"put the world to rights"

This appears in the lyrics to "Oliver's Army" and is therefore awesome.

i hate "that being said" and "at the end of the day" and "the reason being is that" and anything annoying businesspeople say

i use "also" too much :(

"said"

US:

this train will be moving "momentarily."

"Oh my god."

"it's cliche, but..."

"off of"

Ooh, "momentarily" for "in a moment" and "presently" for "at present" annoy me too. A pedant of my acquaintance says the former a lot, but I restrain myself because I like to pretend that I am holding the moral high ground for not picking it apart every time like he would.

(Maybe someone will now come along and say that the usages I don't like predate the ones I do, but that's fine, etymological citations of any kind gratefully received even if they disagree with me)