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

Is there an abbreviation for "all of y'all"?

yeah, "all y'all"

Da Brat approves

'ya'll' and 'youse' are great things and every english dialect ought to have an equivalent, but sadly most don't.

y'all are fixing to get on my nerves.

Misheard lyric that I was recently corrected on:

Y'all all was kissing under bridges, kissing in cars, kissing in cafes

xxp don't forget "yinz" for the Pittsburghers/western Pennsylvanians.

It's stupid that English as a whole no longer has a distinctly plural second-person pronoun. I guess 'yall' is the prime candidate if it evolves into having one any time soon.

"unapologetically" is starting to bother me. like i just saw someone on twitter describe a stage play, in a theatre which does modern takes on plays, essentially aimed at young liberal people, as "unapologetically grungey", like as if the regular attendees would be outraged to hear 90s rock music in a show, as opposed to attending a theatre show solely because all the advertising said "this has music you already know and like in it".

another one. possibly british only. people using "well" with a comma before and after it in the middle of a sentence. usually feature writers. like "it's unpleasant and, well, rude". feels like one of these things that middle of the road writers just borrow from each other to sound smart and fill spaces.

xpost i'm glad my parents are from the south of ireland so i can get away with occasional "ye"

I'd like to see an "apologetically grungey" play. "We're very sorry, but we could only afford to use Silverchair songs."

WARNING: This play contains scenes of a severely retrograde music scene.

Youse does the job well enough. Like the sound of 'yinz' though.

Why would you use the word "unapologetically" on twitter anyway? You wouldn't have a lot to work with after that.

Thinking about it, it's more of a Yeez/Yiz than a Youse. (xp)

Has 'yinz' got some connection with the Scots, 'yin'?

Yes.

I've heard "yizzer" or "yizzers" in Dublin before, to mean "your". Like "yiz" as you plural then "yizzer" as your, in the same sentence.

Indeed, wikied it, though, as usual, the Irish are getting the credit for it. (xp)

the misuse of decadent doesn't annoy me as much as amuse me.

like there was a musical in our town that was put on by high school students and a mother put together the program and she referred to it as a "decadent romp through musical theatre history" and it was just inoffensive showtunes. I was expecting onstage fornication set to the music of Gypsy.

but then again that's an Ethel Merman video that's been vaulted for good reason

possibly british only. people using "well" with a comma before and after it in the middle of a sentence.

Not British only -- I see/hear that regularly in the NY Times and on NPR and it drives me nuts too.

What else could I be?
Unapologetically.

lol

I have always been a fan of "yous" as heard in NW England (pronounced like the verb "use")

hear that in ireland too

'ya'll' and 'youse' are great things and every english dialect ought to have an equivalent, but sadly most don't.

― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Tuesday, April 12, 2016 8:59 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes!!!!

altho that said i hate the version of it i hear sometimes in ottawa (it may be an ottawa valley thing, or a broader ontario/canada thing) which is like... yuzz? like rhymes with buzz? it's like its so lazy it can't even go to the effort of being pronounced fully. "what are yuzz doin'?"

I'd heard anecdotes about "yuinz" but when I first heard it for real (rural north carolina) i was just staggered

While "yuinz" may be a better phonetic representation, "you'uns" would make the derivation clearer.

I have always been a fan of "yous" as heard in NW England (pronounced like the verb "use")

― ogmor, Tuesday, April 12, 2016 3:24 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hear that in ireland too

― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, April 12, 2016 3:51 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

pronounced like the noun in Donegal

Ye out west and down south, youse in donegal, yis in the east, to the northeast I go not

When did people start ordering at restaurants with "I'll do the...", as in "I'll do the chicken"? I recently started to hear ppl saying this, it annoys the shit out of me.

It's a short stumble and fall from "let's do lunch" to "I'll do the chicken".

All in all its possibly a bigger sin in this world to not take available and clearly expressed information where you can and instead to focus on the detail of how it was formatted as if that were a major problem in the bigger scheme of things I mean if we all insisted that things not exactly as we would have them were by dint of that objective discrepancy actually incorrect and requiring of realignment disregarding the miracle of language as a communicative device between two or more soulships in an incredible universe of sensation and experience why it's a poorly window from which to view your fellow man is all I'll say.

Like how ppl decide to order from a fuckin menu youd be some cunt of a waiter not to get the message and if your part is neither waiter or waitee then what the fucks it to you mind yr business and do some multiplication in yr head instead you know you need the practice I mean I do def and I'm p good at multiplying but either way it's a better way of passing thru life than critiquing overheard lunch orders I'm talking about life here for chrissakes

I am more annoyed by people who use constructions where a lack of precision leaves out important information or even actively misleads from or misstates their intended meaning, who, when I request clarification or more detail, act offended and insist that their original communication was more than sufficient and I am just harrying them for no good reason and making a big deal about "semantics".

But let's be clear here that we are not in such an instance referring to a guy in a restaurant or similar holding a bill of fare in his hand that presumably includes in it some styling of chicken stating to another guy whose role in a well-understood transaction involving the listing of one or more items from said bill of fare that he will "do" that chicken

I'm not picking on y'all (deal with that too) I'll be bumping the irrationly angry thread in a minute to let em know that the shit listed is either rational cause for anger or is cause for concern

xp

In that scenario, the number of plausible translations of the phrase "I'll do the chicken" is limited to a very narrow range, all of which require bringing said chicken into the presence of the customer. The waiter would be well advised to interpret this statement as requesting such a transaction.

Darragh do the senses of language really not matter to you? Is language just a crude vessel of information?

We can take it as understood unless further context -which I would tbh have expected to have been provided as relevant- were to reveal that the establishment were engaged in such transactions besides as to make a statement such as "I'll do the chicken" an ambiguous one.

I offer a 50's style dance settings as one alternative, you may consider other possibly less innocent variations but the fault in any such eventuality lies imo with the original complainant not having laid out such vital detail.

xp we may assume that language is a constant delight to me, and it is in very much this spirit that an unwillingness to engage fully in it (or to critique or correct it in others unnecessarily) may bytimes irk

Mainly the thread seemed ripe for nonsense

Valid (imo, imo) digs itt include the type of ringfencing that aimless noted, the misuse of a phrase where clear ignorance of meaning is apparent, and the modern american academic phrase "speak/s to" which is an incarcerable abomination

All in all its possibly a bigger sin in this world to not take available and clearly expressed information where you can and instead to focus on the detail of how it was formatted as if that were a major problem in the bigger scheme of things I mean if we all insisted that things not exactly as we would have them were by dint of that objective discrepancy actually incorrect and requiring of realignment disregarding the miracle of language as a communicative device between two or more soulships in an incredible universe of sensation and experience why it's a poorly window from which to view your fellow man is all I'll say.

― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Tuesday, April 12, 2016 11:06 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all i could hear was

https://vimeo.com/36788443

former waiter here, can verify from experience that "i'll do the chicken" usually, 9 times out of 10 means "i'll have the chicken," but occasionally it can also mean "i'll fuck the chicken." just have to play it by ear. took me a few years to really get it down.

Also waited tables for a bit and more than once the phrase was followed by a series of odd dance moves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDJsgtoizj8

lololololol

I mentioned to my roommate's friends who were watching broad city with me that i found "do the chicken" kind of a funny idiom (broad city was where i first heard it), and they had a similar kinda bitchy condescending reaction to me just for having pointed it out. Probably that's why the phrase annoys me now instead of just sounding funny ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

50's

I was with you till you did this. The proper way to abbreviate decades is as follows: '50s. Learn it, live it.

It's a fair cop