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

In The Flowers of Tarbes: or, Terror in Literature, Jean Paulhan distinguishes between rhetoricians – those who believe that language is a pre-existing reservoir of commonplace tropes – and terrorists – revolutionaries who demand that language be perpetually reinvented. I assume most of us itt are terrorists.

I like that construction

I'm absolutely a terrorist, there's nothing I love more than the abject crimes against comprehensibility I sometimes find in the wild

you might think of advertising and other forms of commercial text as tropey but the innovations I've seen in ads and headlines and marketing-speak have affected me profoundly

jazztalkers 4lyfe

on NPR I heard the termed "pwned" pronounced like "owned" with a p at the beginning ("poned" if you will). i don't know that i've ever attempted to pronounce pwned but would you say "poned" or just "owned" or "owned with a p"?

I still hear it in my head as "pawned"

I'd say it the NPR way.

made me cringe for some reason, but it's always a little embarrassing when internet lingo gets thrown around irl

That word should never be spoken

otm

pronounced "oat-um"

always heard poned, but have heard pawned before. i remember hearing the correct pronunciation is "owned", the p is not pronounced, but that's some dot-jiff shit best left in history's dustbin. actually the whole word is

like lets stop saying pwned we are no longer eagerly awaiting the 1.6 iteration of counterstrike

In my head pwned sort of rhymes with swooned. Not with boned.

Pwn basically rhymes with swoon.

This is partly by analogy with "cwm," a word derived from Welsh, meaning "valley," and it may be the only other English word in which way is a vowel.

But I acknowledge that this is not the general consensus.

* in which w functions as a vowel (I meant to say)

the term abu amza

when i used to play counterstrike and be on ventrilo back in the early 00s we (mainly British people with a few northern Europeans) used to say "poned"

cornpwn

i don't like the world progressive in most contexts that it's used - progressive politics, progressive rock, progressive house. i like the meaning that means going forward from step to step

agreed, it's an unpleasant word for some reason. "prog rock" is even worse.

ah, but the progressive income tax is a fine thing to behold

Pwned = teh l0lz

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teh n00b

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l337

"navigate expectations"

There is a complex science to avoiding letting anyone expect anything from you

when ppl use modernity to mean modern aka contemporary times as opposed to its term of art use as a particular era in history idk this is prescriptivist but esp in intellectual or political contexts bugs me

hmm

https://i.imgur.com/2KjMuOC.png

also lmao me literally clicking from a thread where someone used it (perfectly correctly imo) directly to this one. like... aren't you describing modernism?

i'm w Mordy on this one

'Whilst'

― estela (estela), Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:38 PM (thirteen years ago)

A terrible, terrible word unjustifiably enjoying a resurgence round here.

*Whilst'd've

“within” as a substitute for “in” to fancy up pedestrian writing. “The solution was placed within a beaker for stirring,” et alia.

it's been over two years since 2016-11-08 and I would like all organizations to cease saying "now more than ever"

good call

there’s never been a better time

"Dispatches from ...."

"L'affaire russe"

the reason i'm rooting against giant strides in human longevity is so i don't have to see the phrase "fin de siècle" again a hundred times a day in 80 years

I assumed "I get it" (in the dismissive way people use it nowadays--conceding a point so you can brush it away) would have turned up here, but no--there are three or four posters actually saying "I get it," but not like that. It doesn't annoy me all that much, but you do hear it way too often. Paul Reiser's character says it a couple of times in Season 2 of Stranger Things (set in the mid-'80s, if you don't know). They've got the timeline wrong there, no? I don't remember it being commonplace until 5-10 years ago. There was a movie cliché in place back then--"You just don't get it, do you?"--that may have even been the foundation for "I get it," but not, I don't think, "I get it" itself.

Really annoying guy who uses "I get it" constantly: Chris Cuomo.

"I get it" as in "I understand" or "Enough already"? feel like the latter has been around a lot longer than the decade

It sort of splits the difference. It's in the tone--I'd have to provide audio.

“firebrand”

"thank you for coming to my ted talk"

yes

any reference to the bastardin things tbh

Whataboutism-- this concept seems too obscure to have gained the amount of usage-sans-explanation that it has

and like Gaslighting, it has come to mean "you are saying something I disagree with"

continually telling someone they're gaslighting you when they're not is the next level move

whataboutism is just tu quoque