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

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Heh, that's fair.

Evan, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link

Are you in the UK? In America all people doing any kind of business have spoken like they are always leaning back in their office chairs, about to launch a crumpled paper ball across the room into a trash can, for at least the last 25 years.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link

No, I'm in America. But yeah that vibe is starting to grate more for me when forced.

Evan, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link

three weeks pass...

stop using 'goals' as an adjective!

scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Sunday, 6 December 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link

i.e. 'your hair is goals','your relationship is goals'. stop it.

scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Sunday, 6 December 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link

That's a new one for me -- what does that mean? Usage demographic?

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Sunday, 6 December 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link

Your hair looks great?

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Sunday, 6 December 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link

basically 'I aspire to make my hair look as great as yours'. I'm pretty sure it started out as a hashtag but then people started inserting it into sentences because that's what people do on twitter.

scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Sunday, 6 December 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link

Well the good news is that it'll probably pass soon enough.

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Sunday, 6 December 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link

New to me, too. I'm going to test it to see if I can annoy #goals

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 6 December 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link

"it's worth pointing out" please stop

reginald lin (alomar lines), Monday, 7 December 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link

xp idk if it's the oline in particular, although they haven't exactly shone. eagles have blitzed well and pass def should be the thing they do best. but NE also made it too easy for them by dropping back to pass too often.

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 7 December 2015 00:17 (eight years ago) link

rong thread obv

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 7 December 2015 00:19 (eight years ago) link

When an obviously planned performance/interview is described as someone "stopping by" ("Lianne La Havas stopped by the NPR Music offices to play two new songs — "What You Don't Do" and "Unstoppable" — as well as "Forget," from her first album, at the Tiny Desk.") I'm sure that was cutesy the first few times but it's so grating now.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 14 December 2015 02:23 (eight years ago) link

on point

Iago Galdston, Monday, 14 December 2015 03:09 (eight years ago) link

"sunsetting" - corporate speak for retiring logos, mission statements, etc.

I would like to sunset people every time they uses this phrase.

Darin, Monday, 14 December 2015 07:52 (eight years ago) link

Otm re 'stop by', also e.g. 'the Forget singer will appear...'

kinder, Monday, 14 December 2015 13:34 (eight years ago) link

Well isn't "appear" as in an "appearance"? I thought that was more of a professional term. "Stopped by" is so forced folksy. "Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph Stieglitz stopped by the studio, you know, to just shoot the shit about his studies calling into question the efficient market hypothesis. We happened to have our lil old tape machine running, give it a listen."

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 14 December 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link

It is kind of annoying--though sometimes it's preferable to the claim that "(Band) played an in-studio concert for us" when its just the singer and guitarist doing an acoustic set of two songs with the interns hooting in the background.

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 14 December 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link

If you're being interviewed, you're probably really busy. they are literally "stopping by to chat". Somebody kill me.

lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link

"long reads"

k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link

aren't these just called articles. or essays

k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link

long articles

Mordy, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link

longticles

Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link

it's just a way for people to low-key humblebrag. by posting "great longread in ____ on _____" on twitter you're subtly saying "look at me, i can read more than 1000 words at once"

k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link

"this link might not be for everyone. there are a LOT of words in it. but for those of you who are smart like me..."

k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link

i saw a "best longreads of 2015" link on twitter today

k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link

i can read more than 1000 words at once

huh at most I can read maybe a dozen words at once

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link

imho ymmv there are ppl who like reading longform non-fiction and for them the neologism has some value in terms of locating more things to read (nb i sub to 2 ilx longform threads)

Mordy, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link

what is long-form

k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link

how is it different than an essay or an investigative piece or

k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link

long articles?

Mordy, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link

Ugh can someone concise mordys post 4me pls

MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link

or any new yorker article

k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link

there's a website that specializes in these: http://longform.org nb they probably should've just called themselves essays.org

Mordy, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link

yes i understand that the term has some currency

k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link

i find it a useful term to lump in all narrative, investigatory, or literary nonfiction articles that are over a certain length - i.e. the kind of stuff lots of people, including myself, want to read.

Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link

admit that there's something aesthetically displeasing about the term

Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link

there's also longreads dot com which popularized the word i think
i use it as a way to get my reading-averse students interested in reading

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link

Just got out of a meeting, maybe this belongs on some business jargon thread, but "client-facing." As in, " Please don't include the Search Channel Specialists on client-facing emails." This started popping up frequently in the past few weeks, is it a buzz word now?

Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link

-facing is a common usage these days (outward-facing = public? vs internal i guess)
idk

jargon is disgusting

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link

Xxpost 2015 Best American Toolongdidn'treads

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link

When the tedium is intense, business jargon can inject some brief excitement into the day. embracing it with real enthusiasm is a sign of desperation.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link

Otm re 'stop by', also e.g. 'the Forget singer will appear...'

― kinder, Monday, December 14, 2015 1:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well isn't "appear" as in an "appearance"? I thought that was more of a professional term.

I meant the phrasing 'the X singer' where X is literally any song they have released; I really hate it and it's everywhere

kinder, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link

Alternative to client-facing?

MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link

emails that may be seen by clients?

as I sit here at my desk I am (roughly) facing the north pole. while it would be accurate to call me a north-pole-facing ilxor, this seems to say something more than it does.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link

what's a search channel specialist?

Mordy, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link

Client-facing is useful b/c it succinctly describes a lot of different things that are intended for, likely to be used by clients, as well as positions that involve directly interacting with clients.

It's a neologism but that doesn't mean it's bad, and it's not even jargon, IMO.

Je55e, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link

I guess "client-side" preceded "client-facing," but the latter isn't any worse.

Je55e, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link

"raise awareness", "provide support"

basically all modern uses of "support" as some vast vague sea in which the concept of "help" is drowning

japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 10:53 (eight years ago) link


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