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

i'm game to up my game game with this venison, but i hope i'm not gaming the system.

I put in a new staircase this weekend -- really upped my step game

sounds like you took it to another level

landinged that one

I remember this gross dude I knew in the 90s that referred to his facial hair as his "flavor savor" so that.

"saver", surely

Favor Savior

Yeah flavour saver is so gross. OTOH, the pidgin for moustache is "mouth grass" which totally rules, so.

Hello. I clicked on this thread to express my disgust with the misuse of "penultimate" but it appears I already did it ten years ago under the moniker "Anyone For Newcomb." Not for nothin' but I have no recollection of making that post.

Submitted for your displeasure: the incredibly annoying suffix "licious" Booty-licious, Jersey-licious, etc. Barf out man!

simultaneous cranial anal bi-location.
Or at least people with this rare skill do. Or is it that rare, hope it is.

basically all food blogs are awful and full of irritating words/usages/etc, not to mention boring longwinded stories about the origin of a recipe interspersed between a dozen 'arty' pictures of ingredients laid out on an artisan chopping board or whatever the fuck, like stfu and just tell me how to make the thing

lol otm, i just immediately scroll down to the bottom where they finally post the recipe

if i'm not in a rush i can enjoy some photos or artisan chopping blocks but otherwise it can be very tedious

i don't look at food blogs at all anymore because that was irritating me so intensely
i get that way about everything where the person explaining something inserts themselves too much into what they're explaining
like teachers who make too many jokes

I was just listening to an otherwise really good lecture from iTunes U. where the (famous) professor kept saying "I'm oversimplifying..." -- it drove me crazy.

It's like saying "I have five cards with important information on them, but I'm just going to show you one of them, try not to think about the other four"

I clicked on this thread to express my disgust with the misuse of "penultimate"

People do this? It seems like a weird word to pull out if you aren't planning to use it exactly as intended. Like using 'septuagenarian' as a descriptor for all old people.

M-O-U-T-H-F-E-E-L

yes

That one popped up hilariously in a recent Bob's Burgers.

http://38.media.tumblr.com/0c813e20312065adbedc5cbb94189dc0/tumblr_ngjdj2Ntri1rj8nzio1_400.gif

/I clicked on this thread to express my disgust with the misuse of "penultimate"/

People do this? It seems like a weird word to pull out if you aren't planning to use it exactly as intended. Like using 'septuagenarian' as a descriptor for all old people.

I was reading about misused words and found this:

Turns out, the San Francisco Symphony had used “penultimate” improperly in a recent program description of a certain Mozart symphony....

“All the otherworldly ability that Mozart possessed was brought to bear in the Jupiter Symphony, the final—and perhaps penultimate—symphony he produced.”

Maybe they mean it was perhaps the second best?

This use never occurred to me!

Australian TV reported a few months ago, “AMP clears penultimate hurdle to buy AXA AP,” which, the news presenter explained, meant that the corporation’s takeover bid had “cleared the final hurdles.” Here, the use of “penultimate” is as a synonym for “final”

I always assumed everyone learned the word from the Monty Python "penultimate supper" joke, and hence knew what it meant.

misuse of whom and whomever

i have been trying to think of a good analogy for this phenomenon of doing something that is sort of an 'advanced level' move, but actually totally unnecessary in the first place, and then completely fucking it up. the ultimate of course is doing this while supposedly correcting someone else.

it is...extremely annoying to me

dunnism

wassat?

http://youtu.be/x4fsLeCjB4s

beautiful, thank you. i am ashamed that didn't register immediately.

altho it is not exactly the same thing i lump "feel badly" in with this too

'so this happened' or it's permutations

'This is the moment...' It's used a lot on news websites, usually where an embedded video, or still image from one, shows a CCTV camera capture of a crime or other incident:

This is the moment a “senseless” yob pushed an 82-year-old lollipop man to the floor and ran off with his stick.

This is the incredible moment a man is mugged for his bag - and gets up to chase after his assailants.

This is the heart-melting moment an adorable little kitten is saved after finding herself stuck under a Land Rover's bonnet.

THIS is the moment a former showjumping horse had to be dramatically winched upside down out of a metre-wide WELL in an unbelievable rescue mission.

file under: I couldn't stop sobbing
and what happened next changed my life
you'll never believe what this toddler/grandma/teacher did

all the same thing

this 'weird trick'

How about "10 Things You Didn't Know About ______ That You Actually Totally Knew About _____" or "5 Obscure Albums You've Never Heard Except For The Fact That You Have"

It's like...you don't know me. How dare you. How dare you.

misuse of whom and whomever

i have been trying to think of a good analogy for this phenomenon of doing something that is sort of an 'advanced level' move, but actually totally unnecessary in the first place, and then completely fucking it up. the ultimate of course is doing this while supposedly correcting someone else.

it is...extremely annoying to me

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection

nice, ty

James Thurber should always have the last word on who v whom:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3955

"Furever home".

STOP IT.

Nooooooooo really??? No.

No as in youve never heard that one? Ugh they use it all the time at pounds/shelters. "take me to my furever home!". NO.

"Inbox"

'_______ is one of our finest ______'

just say they're good ffs

But Mookie is one of our finest proofs!

'cray-cray'

Confusing/confused use of "percent" or "percentage" in journalism. For example, you sometimes see an article claiming that homeownership rates "fell four percent" when what's actually meant is "fell four percentage points.'

How else would you interpret fell four percent?

Number of homeowners dropped by four percent. E.g., say there are 100 million people in a country, and half of them are homeowners. You have 50 million homeowners, and a 50% homeownership rate. If the homeownership rate falls by 10 percentage points, you now have a 40% homeownership rate, and 40 million homeowners. If homeownership falls by 10 percent, you now have 45 million homeowners.

because the "price point" of homes is too high prob