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

Something is written in the dust. You read: 'know ycilop.'

Disconnect. The word is disconnection.

Any eatery that refers to itself as kitchen, e.g. a shitty local chain bar that serves food referring to itself as "kitchen and wet bar". Wet bar even worse than kitchen obv but thankfully haven't seen that much elsewhere.

Sunny's boss the other day wanted to know if she "had a sufficiency of work to do."

Annoys me so much, especially since using the word "sufficient" would have been... sufficient.

lol I say sufficiency

it is but one example of a kind of jocular scots grandiloquence I picked up from my granny

Any time wins uses the word ghostbusters i get ia

For some reason I hate that you can say 'resilience' or 'resiliency' interchangeably.

I vote for resilience and relevance and compliance ("compliancy" ugh).

But for some reason I think I think of "competence" and "competency" as different things.

She displays competence. (mass noun)

Pickling and tickling are among her competencies. (count noun)

Though I guess you could do away with this use of "competencies" by concluding that it means the same thing as "skills."

ymp otm

stop saying t-minus two days when something is happening in two days, please

Only two sleeps left! Is even worse.

the fuck is a wet bar?

Sunny's boss the other day wanted to know if she "had a sufficiency of work to do."

my maternal grandmother liked to describe a satisfactory meal as "an ample sufficiency", so i'm rather fond of that one.

Legend/legendary/epic for everything from a shitty pop star to a pizza

Any time wins uses the word ghostbusters i get ia

And yet you persist in asking me who I'm gonna call

Nonesuch

Y u wanna troll morelike

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- "So this sufficiency has a bath, a stove, and a mini-fridge. What do you think?"
- "Eh, it's enough."

"___-shaming"

like a lot of these phrases, it starts from the right place politically but gets mindlessly overused in clickbait headlines and becomes grating

phrase-shaming

"Street Food"

This seems to only be used to fine dining places that are decidedly not on the street. Plus the supposed authenticity it's supposed to invoke (in the sense of "from the streets" or "out on the streets" which I also hate) really bugs me.

Yeah the more I think about it there's no other context in which "street food" makes sense. Like you would just say "let's go get tacos from the cart," not "let's go eat some street food." So "street food" only gets used off the street.

the fuck is a wet bar?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, July 14, 2016 9:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I don't know, there's literally only one place here that ive seen that uses the term, but it's a god awful term!

... have you guys never been in countries where street food is a literal thing

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like you go out on the street and there's someone with a fryer or a gas range making eggs or donuts or tacos or whatever

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lil bit of dirt w ur burger

even ate fish that was baked covered in dirt and rocks

the latter is not so much street food but village food i guess bc they dont even have streets

true I'm thinking primarily of latin America + Asia where cheap food prepared in the street (and not in an actual restaurant/kitchen). I get that high-end places trying to appropriate this style of preparation to claim "authenticity" is annoying and lame but that doesn't mean street food is not a thing

where cheap food prepared in the street (and not in an actual restaurant/kitchen) is widely available in both urban and rural locales.

I meant to say there

peen

boink

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this was in latin america

no word/phrase/usage currently annoys me btw

"rare" in reference to items where the scarcity is manufactured

I got a marketing email from Gustin: "Our two rarest selvedge denims"

btw, also: "selvedge"

"Thanking you" instead of "thank you". Notice this too often since I moved to Scotland.

ha this is totally the kind of thing a little old lady says to you when you pay at greggs

It's said a lot here (Fife), and I've never understood it.

I always thought it was a twee British ilxism, as in "thankin u"

it's got that nice meta *writes middle of sentence* sense of removed commentary

xxpost Isn't "wet bar" a holdover from Prohibition (e.g wet = serves alcohol vs dry = doesn't)?

"Thanking you," I think, is the colloquial version of a tendency in, eg. news media, to turn active verbs into gerunds for dramatic effect.

NB:
http://www.newslab.org/2012/01/17/tv-news-needs-verbs/

"When verbs do turn up in copy they’re often disguised as gerunds or participles, trailing an “-ing” behind them. On Fox News, for instance, Shepard Smith’s scripts are notorious for overdoing that “-ing” thing. “Cops and demonstrators clashing openly in the streets of the nation’s capital, pepper spray, smoke bombs, night sticks, beating back the crowds.” That’s not active copy. It’s a run-on sentence fragment. And it violates a central principle of good writing. As George Orwell put it, good prose is like a windowpane. It does not draw attention to itself."

It comes across really passive-aggressive.

I always thought a wet bar was one where you just swim up and order a pina colada or something.

No, that's a swim-up bar.

A wet bar is real estate parlance; it simply means a household bar that has a sink. It makes zero sense when describing professional bars, because they are presumed to have running water.

The opposite, "dry bar," is p much never used because no one in real estate would ever advertise a household feature by saying what it didn't have.

http://www.drybar.co.uk/

In nyc I think "dry bar" is a type of hair salon or something. I remember a woman we know saying she wished the neighborhood had a dry bar and me being like "???" and then her explaining it.

Resurgence of "thanking you" is down to Still Game surely.

I saw "pre-madonna" instead of prima donna yesterday.

in reference to Jews?

Resurgence of "thanking you" is down to Still Game surely.

― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, July 19, 2016 2:16 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno, it's been common with folk of a certain age my whole life and im 32.

It comes across really passive-aggressive.

― ewar woowar (or something), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 17:10 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the usage of "comes across" here isnt quite right

there's a lot of Scottish-English phrases were you use the gerund in ways you wouldn't in standard English e.g. "are you wanting to go out?" instead of "do you want to go out?"