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
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:27 (eight years ago) link
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
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:30 (eight years ago) link
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
― 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
― yellow despackling power (Will M.), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 04:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― qualx, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 05:28 (eight years ago) link
Also waited tables for a bit and more than once the phrase was followed by a series of odd dance moves
― Forever LXI (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 05:57 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDJsgtoizj8
― how's life, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 08:37 (eight years ago) link
lololololol
― davey, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 10:18 (eight years ago) link
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)_/¯
― davey, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 10:31 (eight years ago) link
50's
I was with you till you did this. The proper way to abbreviate decades is as follows: '50s. Learn it, live it.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:25 (eight years ago) link
It's a fair cop
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:34 (eight years ago) link
My executive director says "bubble up" a lot, and it is starting to annoy, especially because it means "I'm not actually going to do anything about that, but I'll bubble it up to some even higher levels of management, who aren't going to do anything about it, either."
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
people can't bubble things up imo, they bubble up by themselves or not at all
― ogmor, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
A worse offense: adding "up" to certain verbs ("Let's connect up," "meet up at the mall")
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:53 (eight years ago) link
http://www.meetup.com
― Just can't get Eno, ugh (ledge), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:53 (eight years ago) link
Meet up is perfect and necessary
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:34 (eight years ago) link
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)_/¯
― davey,
Thoughts offered more as reaction to thread in general, without rancour and at about 4am, if it eases
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
in your annoyed reaction you seem to have confused annoyed reaction with confusion
― conrad, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
I just sit down at a table when a singer tells me to "Do the funky chicken"
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
though "doing" a food is far less grating than "enjoying" it. "I'll enjoy the lamb."
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
no worries darrahmac :) president keyes lol actual people say that
― davey, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
There is a cashier at my usual grocery store who, whenever you buy beer, asks "are you old enough to enjoy this beverage?" Then he chuckles and says, "I didn't ask if you're old enough to _buy_ it, just if you're old enough to _enjoy_ it. Heh heh."
The first time, I gave an accommodating half-laugh. The second time, I smiled patiently. Nowadays, I try to go to another line if I'm buying alcohol. I've spent my share of time behind cash registers myself, and I sympathize with him for trying to make the transactions a little less monotonous, but there are limits.
― up is where sentence-ending prepositions make me throw (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
haf to agree w d that it dont matter none how youse says it
as aimless wrote its more bothersome when u leave out important info instead
very few words usages or phrases annoy tho
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:15 (eight years ago) link
one of my exes was notoriously bad with convoluted messages. she sent me one text once that looked like she was upset with me and really she was just asking me to come over
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link
Agree with dmac for the most part, but I think he misses out the importance of sociolinguistic stratification. The annoyance of "do the chicken" doesn't necessarily arise from the construction itself, but connotation, e.g. the ingroup perceived to use it is solely made up of "wacky bankers" or some such. You could argue that if the construction itself isn't the problem, then it's not meant for the thread, but the thread does include usages of language in the title, and I would say ingroup lexical production counts as usage.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
(Sorry if that sounds wanky.)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
"I didn't ask if you're old enough to _buy_ it, just if you're old enough to _enjoy_ it. Heh heh."
And you say, "You damn betcha I'm old enough. I've been enjoying it since I was 13."
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link
caught myself saying i did the fish today lol
― davey, Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:41 (eight years ago) link
emil.y otm in re: things depend on who says them
― davey, Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
ie. when i say them it's ok ;)
― davey, Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:47 (eight years ago) link
when i am president i am going to ban people from saying "adult beverages"
― #amazing #babies #touching (harbl), Thursday, 14 April 2016 10:27 (eight years ago) link
Hear hear. That term should only apply to spirits aged over 18 years.
― up is where sentence-ending prepositions make me throw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:07 (eight years ago) link
For example, this
http://i.imgur.com/dkZtR7b.jpg
is not an adult beverage.
― pplains, Friday, 15 April 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
Oh barf what is that.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Friday, 15 April 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link
hairspray?
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 15 April 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link
Lol that's worse than Redd's
― Neanderthal, Friday, 15 April 2016 04:01 (eight years ago) link
"I'm not crying...YOU'RE crying"
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 22 May 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
I've got a rolling awful words and phrases list.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 May 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
I'd have thought The Simpsons would have killed "proactive," but I still hear it, albeit usually from a very specific business-oriented, Type A sort.
"Literally" annoys me too, mostly because it is so often used figuratively.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 22 May 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
I hate 'literally' because now everybody has gotten so used to calling out people for using it incorrectly that they've also started calling them out for using it wrong when it's actually used correctly.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 22 May 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx8B-3ZGVg0
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 May 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
the non-literal sense of literally has made it into most dictionaries now
― Number None, Sunday, 22 May 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
Literally is the worst because people get to be anti-pedants about it now tooThanks dictionaries!
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Sunday, 22 May 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
"around" to mean "about," i.e. "conversations around..."
the timidity is similar to this - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/stop-saying-i-feel-like.html?_r=0 - with the addition of a layer of imprecision on top
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
i am totally guilty of "do"ing the chicken
take that how you will
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
...as you said to the chicken
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
(xxp) even worse is "I want to say". But I think I've mentioned that before on this thread.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
I dunno. I think IWTS describes a thought-process in progress.
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
"shop" used by certain brands/websites:
"shop our collection" - I'll allow it - just"shop our Daily Magic Moisturiser" - you mean BUY"shop our edit" *shoots self*
― kinder, Sunday, 29 May 2016 11:24 (eight years ago) link
ew
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 May 2016 11:29 (eight years ago) link
shop our edit!?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 30 May 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link