words that annoy

Sometimes, when someone signs off on an email with "cheers," it looks to me like some kind of stage direction, and I'm like ... it wasn't that great of an email, man

irregardless

(the word, not in reference to xpost)

"anyhoo" ... I don't know where it came from.

I sort of see it as the language equivalent of wearing ties with cartoon characters on. Not saying that the two overlap, just that it seems to be trying to imbue the mundane with gruelling, bleak cheeriness.

Lots of candidates for me - although for the moment all I can think of are the review cliches 'tour de force' (not a single word I know, but the particles don't irritate) and 'magisterial'.

It just annoys the fuck out of me.

The word "blog" to mean "blog post," as in "In my last blog, I mentioned..." or "I'm going to go home and write a blog about it!"

cheers meaning thanks is fine by me because when I'm signing an email/letter, thats what I want it to mean!

ladder of email formality:
cheers/thanks
regards
kind regards

I dont think Ive ever written "yours sincerely" in an email but possibly in a job app one.

This:

"ok, talk to you later"

"ok, cheers"

"yup...wait what?"

Is completely wrong. I'd say "cheers" to the guy at the bottle shop after he hands me my change and drinks, but not as a "goodbye" to someone wtf?

well you could if you considered it a contraction of 'cheerio'

Hmm I suppose so!

hubby

^^^new display name 4 u and i'm srs this time

no i'm HHooHHHooHH-oob

fair enough.

contumely

A phrase, but:

"No room in the inn."

(said to me by a stranger on the subway last week as a number of people tried to get onto the packed car we were on)

A big fat fuck-you to "Cack-handed."

Blame it on Jess Harvell; he made it up.

Nice Jaymcing, Jaymc.

i don't like the word "forefront"

"Snob."

Sounds disgusting, looks disgusting (thanks to associations with "snot"), often used in an annoying way.

Stop saying this, people!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojY1Sj1-E0Q&feature=fvw

"Palimpsest" which is another one of those big-vocab words that people acquire and then overuse and try to steer conversations in directions where it can be dropped. It's like a post-grad stoner word.

I can't see there being a lot of use for that one! Or are they all using it metaphorically?

I've actually noticed artists overusing it as a work title.

Haha, I have used "Palimpsest" as the title of a work!

But I have, you know, a genuine abiding interest in palimpsests! What else would you call them?

I should add that the work in question was quite literally concerned with a surface which had been inscribed upon again and agin over time. You know, like a palimpsest!

Maybe the subject is a little tired rather than the word?

And maybe people should stop using literal titles.

dang dude this is just embarrassing

No it isn't. Just because Spencer says so doesn't mean the whole WORLD has to agree

It is definitely used a lot though, I agree

I should add that the work in question was quite literally concerned with a surface which had been inscribed upon again and agin over time. You know, like a palimpsest!

don't mean to tell you yr work, but i'm pretty sure you were actually looking for 'pimpliest'

http://www.jangalang.com/images/acne-bad.jpg

Adam, you have a special dispensation. It's all copacetic, bra!

"Yup."

Mostly just when drawn out: yuuuup.

A guy at work uses the word "excellent" an obscene amount — but never just once, it's always "EXcellent, EXcellent!", with an accent on the first syllable.

Palimpsest is a great word when deployed well, great in meaning, etc. The "sest" part, and the associations with "incest" just give it a weird feeling.

The recent trend of overusing "extrapolate".

I really hate the word "douche."

Yeah, only douches say douche.

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.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:33 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I remember hearing/saying this as far back as the mid-80s. Not as a *thing* but just as the way people talk. I remember b/c my brother thought it was funny to repeat the "already" multiple times. But yeh, saying "Will you get out of my way already!?" or "enough already" seems just normal to me.

yeah, i think it's just a way that people talk - though of course people do emulate popular culture - i wonder if the "already" thing is related to how people in some parts of the midwest say "anymore" sorta arbitrarily at the end of sentences?

I'm trying to think of an example of "anymore" being used that way.... can you provide one?

I don't think I heard that once in the 18 years I lived in the midwest anymore

LOL

^^ it is kinda like that in construction! it's kinda a redundant double negative that comes at the end of sentences - i had a friend from Indiana who talked like that. It was not annoying.

i must have picked up the "anymore" thing in ohio because it seems so normal to me anymore i can't think of an example oh i just did while typing this lol

Ohio and Indiana are definitely their own little world in the midwest; no one in the upper midwest does that

xp - yeah, ok harbl's post is a good example - it is sometimes a redundant double negative, but i think, more precisely, it's just used for emphasis - like "it seems to normal to me anymore" - that's along the lines of what I was thinking

I work with a guy who keeps saying "what we need to do is whiteboard this."

I used to say that, then they took away my whiteboard

;_;

is it just because you're black?