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

well if mordy thinks so I might have to reconsider

I keep on thinking about Bryan Ferry.

xp idk it maybe is more of an industry term of art? but ime it's super common esp regarding cars & industrial equipment

punching up / punching down

get a new excuse for why it's ok for u to punch but not for someone else

'make' as a noun was also rife at my high school but it didn't stop everyone sounding like non-native speakers

lol telling someone to 'get' something and bad faith use of 'excuse' both strike me as much more heinous than fisticuffs as a shorthand for power dynamics

i take exception to about 99% of that response

"power dynamics" also a terrible terrible idiom tho

ilx is the best place to take exception imo

iirc I """"called"""" out pu/pd within about ten mins of first ilx use Mordy so you'll have to relinquish the rights to this one iirc

thought it was okay for everyone to punch this year

i'd expect nothing less xp

I really hate seeing the word "band" used to describe a one-person studio-only project.

calling Trump "45." get over yourself

unless it's used to replace the number 2. as in, i'm going to take a 45 right now.

i am really tired of this weird trend in mostly article writing of referring to any group of marginalized people as "folks" ie "black folks", "trans folks", "lgbt folks" even "folks of color" (???)

it seems like it's supposed to be careful wording but it always sticks out and i have no idea what the point of it is. just say people ??

― qualx, Tuesday, July 4, 2017 2:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anti-oppressive practice and narrative therapy folks are really into this

i see "white folks" quite a bit, too

weird variation of the Haley Joel Osment affliction

oh hey, here's a major one: "shitposting." why has this entered mainstream usage?

I'm always expecting to hear the word "home" following folks, as in Old Folks Home.

xp: I have to imagine reddit and 4chan. I hate it too. Grosses me out.

In fairness it appears to map pretty closely to the sharp rise in shitposting

Always thought 'punching up/punching down' was meant to place a situation in context rather than make out the innocence of one puncher as opposed to another

Nope. It's what Mordy said.

Can we have an example though?

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/Search/search.jsp

Punching up is to brighten a script. If it's a comedy, add in more jokes! If it's a drama, heighten the tension!

Punching down is a dance move at hardcore shows.

One also punches down when making pizza or bread dough.

I really hate seeing the word "band" used to describe a one-person studio-only project.

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, July 5, 2017 11:27 AM (one hour ago)

this also bugs me a little, and it can be confusing when the one-person is referred to using the gender-neutral "they" -- a dj on the radio just did this about 45 minutes ago. But I couldn't tell whether she was just using "band" as a generic term, "they" as a gender neutral term (the artist in question is a guy that I'm pretty sure is okay with being male), or she didn't know that the "band" was just one person's project.

the word "alignment" used to describe where your life is at

"hope you find alignment"

this kind of pillowy language can fuck off

xp idk it maybe is more of an industry term of art? but ime it's super common esp regarding cars & industrial equipment

― Mordy, Wednesday, July 5, 2017 7:35 AM (six hours ago)

have seen it commonly used for electronic equipment and musical instruments

the word "alignment" used to describe where your life is at

"hope you find alignment"

this kind of pillowy language can fuck off

damn this is wack and smacks of west coast

I'm west coast 4 life and I've never heard this. Here we have lots of "balance" and "healing"

^ lol

i'm west coast too sarahell :-)

Re-Brand/Re-Model

xp cool

lots of artists here now describing themselves as "healers" ... doesn't really annoy the shit out of me, but it's a trend I've noticed, and it doesn't really fit my sensibility

there's always been this new age-y obsession with "healing" like the whole scene is a hypochondriacs' convention

I guess it's the result of the artists' desire to have their work do something other than just be "art for art's sake" -- some sort of functional role. I feel like it's more aspirational than realistic.

it's like being the unacknowledged legislators of the world just isn't enough for some folks

alignment is for chiropractors

1. re punching up/punching down, there was a Slugger O'Toole post last week calling out* "mischaracterisation and 'punching down' of Ulster Protestants", which v much confused me until I noticed the article refers to caricatures in Punch magazine of old

* apologies if "calling out" is a phrase that annoys the shit out of you, I'm not that keen myself but always seem to end up using it because I can't think of a similar suitably vague alternative

2. as a hypochondriac of nebulous imaginary woes which are undiagnosable as actual illness but I could still do with "healing", I can live with its use in new age treehugging contexts, but for art... I don't like it

I like art to rip me a few new wounds and ruptures I s'pose (NB not really but it sounded cool to my inner teenager), and don't you tell me whether your art is effective in any positive or negative sense

Punching up is to brighten a script. If it's a comedy, add in more jokes! If it's a drama, heighten the tension!

Punching down is a dance move at hardcore shows.

I like to say of an overworked script "this could have used a little punching down"

xp u get a pass on most things spacecadet <3

<3 <3 tho I might need a list of the thing I don't get a pass on, for research purposes

or even things plural

perhaps there is only one but that's not a great list

O don't worry you'll know when it happens

imho the punching up/down metaphor has proved legitimately useful and valuable for, e.g., female comedians pointing out to male comedians that rape jokes aren't funny. is it the most precise and on-the-money way of making this point, idk, but ime it's not really about finding an "excuse" to do anything.

u get a pass on most things spacecadet

I got this joke

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