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

"tweeted out"

basically fuck every superfluous preposition

Retcon/retconned. Is Twin Peaks to blame for the resurgance of this? I acknowledge the word serves a purpose, it's just so damn ugly a word. And it seems to be everywhere right now.

it has always been omnipresent in fandoms

Twin Peaks must have been my first brush with the word. Not a comic reader, nor have I been attached to any kind of "fandom". Just think it's an extremely ugly word to use.

it's a shitty word but it seems to do the job of no other word ("he totally retconned laura" v "he totally altered laura's continuity retroactively")

I wouldn't know of a better word for what it's trying to convey, it's just such an ugly combination of two abbreviated words merged.

repurposed

might work for retcon

worse yet, "praxis" when you can just say "practice"

I had to resist doing this earlier today. My inner critic was a little bit of a dick about it, too

i knew "retcon" from comics internet fandom in the early 90s but my assumption is that it is much older, and most likely comes from star trek. agree that it's ugly and it has this Newspeak quality where it just does not roll off the tongue whatsoever in real life, even if it works very efficiently as a character-saving noun and verb on Usenet. but it does describe something.

I thought it was from Dr. Who / Torchwood. Shows what I know.

'chow down' has to be one of my most hated expressions

In that case you definitely shouldn't watch this video

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

Twin peaks is more like proactive discontinuity anyway

"folx" instead of "folks" in twitter social justice circles is ... annoying

Not really a sj thing?

Also just a thing for any ks, cs, cks word

I bought some comix for 50 bux -- an SJW

Engaging with the issues

Not really a sj thing?

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Tuesday, September 19, 2017 1:35 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk i see it used as a common abbreviation too but significantly more among the sj folks i know

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/05/09/womyn-wimmin-and-other-folx/vjhPn82ITGgCCbE12iNn1N/story.html

Maybe in activist circles, they add the x to folx to make it similar to latinx? It would be stupid, because the word 'folks' is already gender-neutral, but pretty much everything is stupid these days.

uh, exactly what marcos just posted.

do a twitter search for "folx" and it is almost all social justice-oriented tweets

That's because it's fucking Twitter

true

sleepingbag wrote this on thread Ideas for ILX on board I Love Everything on 20-May-2017

I Love Trump board, for all the folx who love discussing US President Donald Trump every hour of every day

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius) wrote this on thread Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible on board I Love Everything on 20-May-2017

u folx don't take any time off from this? live a little

Literally 1st page of search results, maybe the 2 posters least concerned w social justice

Ahem

Insert inverted commas where necessary obv

A "he" m

legos

afaict this is an american idiocy

^^^^

Surely good food procured from a bar can be described as something other than 'elevated pub grub'

partitive "lego" just makes me feel like they're something I can eat

"Gaslighting" whenever used beyond its original meaning. Actual gaslighting requires some kind of close relationship. It's not something the media or public figures do or that people do to public figures.

I'd rather "pub grub" than "gastro pub" which is bizarre and makes me think of food poisoning.

agreed, gastro is a bit... anatomical

Yeah same, it makes me picture a pub located within someone's innards.

pub that gives you diarrhea

Only mildly annoying, but 31% of all sports highlights nowadays must have an announcer screaming "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" overtop.

Political commentators using the South Park underwear gnome joke. Why did this become a big thing in 2017?

our culture needs more metaphors for situations with strong action but no clear path to success

shock and awe

pretty much every Trump alt-name meme is dumb (orange blah blah etc.) but none is more grating or unfunny than "2 Scoops"

agreed

although "Yam" runs it close

Honestly "President Trump" is much funnier than anything they can come up with.

i always try to say President Trump whenever i can bc i feel like the situation is v serious and we should be v clear about what that situation is

The mind always steers the mouse clicking finger to FP when seeing 'Drumpf', '2 scoops' or 'Yam' (hi Morbs). Fortunately the sole ilxor using 'Turnip' seems to have called it quits.