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

Prior to when? Prior to that point in time.

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When students use the phrase, at least I get it: word count requirements. For example: "Prior to lunch, I went to the gym."

Consonance is occasionally a factor.

tbh my attitude to most stuff in this thread is: go for it! not only don't get OFF my lawn, get ON it! my generation left yours an utterly fucked world, even if most of us don't acknowledge this yet, and i'd rather spend time being charmed by the babble of the invention of new silly habits than aggrieved that it's no longer something i get to do

― mark s, Thursday, January 18, 2018 1:03 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the problem with "nailed it" and "spot on" in my experience is less to do with age than with judgment: the people who use it are always wrong, and what they're pointing at excitedly is always bad not good

Besides, doesn't "nailed it" carry unsavory associations in this Me Too era?

I disapprove of this slangy use of "went" as the past tense of "go", tell your students they should be using "yode"

there's nothing wrong with disliking some innovations in language (or even some older parts of language) and if enough ppl dislike them they probably won't have staying power. acknowledging that language is an evolving thing and that there isn't an abstract or platonic right way to speak it doesn't preclude finding certain innovations in it clumsy, redundant, obscuring meaning, trite, vapid, etc.

Maybe but then why is this thread so unrelentingly bad

level 1. SAE the way i was taught in school (or by my grammatically anal retentive parent) is the correct way to speak and write and people who stray from this are monsters
level 2. any way ppl want to speak and write is fine bc language evolves and we should be descriptivists and ppl who criticize are monsters
level 3. lots of ppl use language in stupid + clumsy ways often cribbing cliches that they learnt yesterday on twitter/in the boardroom nonetheless we should always be open to creative + novel uses of language bc it can enrich our lives

put some exploding brain meme pic next to each of those or something

this thread is bad for the same reasons ilx is bad would be my guess

ILX is brimming with journalists, copy editors, teachers and the like.

Because there are as many Englishes as there are English speakers, and while some defer even their own native speaker intuition to Standard English(es), as I noted earlier we don't have as much control over language as we think we do - there is a part of you that hates certain novel language features, but there is another part of you, call it your animal language, that eats that shit up because it is wired that way. That conflict won't go away, and being both literate and Internet-saavy will make it worse.

The rest are closet classicists.

xp

I just want to congratulate the whole web team, we set some very ambitious targets for last quarter and all of us, everybody who worked late nights during the launch -- and Rich of course -- we really smanged those goals. Thanks, guys.

I avoid these uncomfortable work exchanges by never accomplishing anything

lmao mick

this thread is bad for the same reasons ilx is bad would be my guess

― Mordy, Wednesday, June 12, 2019 1:40 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when one reads ilx all day the typical ilx-isms like "imo" "iirc" "otm" "bad not good" "that's my Raggett" "thanking you" etc. all kind of get old/annoying after awhile

"bad not good"

hm

ilx isn't so bad, this other forum i frequent, it's like 'fighting to preserve white identity' this 'fighting to preserve white identity' that, every 2 seconds. we get it, enough already!

maybe it's time you stepped up and told them you're sick of them being so repetitive. they may even thank you for letting them know and apologize. after all, online relationships can't flourish without a willingness to be honest.

'smashed my gym goals'

Seriously?

Yes, seriously, but this is from a very lovely gentle person who isn't showing off in this case as it's related to a physical problem - it's not so much the 'showing off' element but the 'smashed'. I just hate it.
"Crushed it" I associate with Rebel Wilson that is not a fat joke

The rest are closet classicists.

Closecists.

"your biases are showing"

Solecists.

xp

'I'm not crying, you're crying.'

that should be the title for this thread

'I'm not crying, you're crying.'
ugh i will join in on this one
what a scourge
i'm not crying and if i were i would not be posting about it on the internet

starting to be annoyed by all words & phrases

Language is bad not good.

irritability/crankiness and anger can be a manifestation of depression

pom otm

worth pointing out that lots of ppl are ~really bad~ at picking apart subtleties of language and very often -perhaps understandably- feel personally attacked by usages of language that are not 100% literal

Also: possible cultural variations.

Ezra Pound came to this conclusion as well.

I don't object to literalism or florid metaphor either. I keep reposting this sentiment but it's really just grating to see anyone write anything that anyone else has ever written before. Not that I'm not guilty of doing that; surely we all are. But I already have enough deja vu without people resorting to stock sentiments.

ilx injoke phrases are good not bad though

xp hm I'm probably obliged to take the opposite stance as Ezra Pound on anything

Cratylus would have loved for 100% literalism to be achievable and I concur. But I've yet to encounter it anywhere, including (perhaps even especially) in imagism.

being densely, anarchically literal is fun and funny as Amelia Bedelia proves

worth pointing out that lots of ppl are ~really bad~ at picking apart subtleties of language and very often -perhaps understandably- feel personally attacked by usages of language that are not 100% literal

Yeah, that makes sense. But there's another reading of that scenario... most people are actually pretty damn good at picking up subtleties of language, as long as they are the subtleties of their in-group. Feeling personally attacked by having to make efforts to understand others is not a linguistic problem, it's a kind of privilege. Taking the time to figure out other sociolects you frequently encounter isn't super hard, but "this is too hard for me to learn" is a great excuse to be lazy and let others continue to do the hard work of understanding.

i should aha make clear aha that i am decidedly not of the on group to which i refer

Dialectical counterpoint: when everything is ironic, nothing is.

hahaha, no, no reference implied to anyone here!

'the exact same'

Going waaaaaaaay back, here's a couple of jokes me and my brother made up:

Q: What do you call a Glaswegian rock 'n' roll singer who is a recovering alcoholic?
A: Chuck Bevvy.

That was mine, this was my brother's:

Q: What do you call a Glaswegian impressionist?
A: Zack Same.

I'm sure there's more I can't remember right now.

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 August 2016 10:10 (two years ago) Permalink

I really hate "stuck the landing".

"Double-click" as a synonym to "follow through". E.g., "I will double-click on you later this week."

excuse me what?

yeah im sorry nobody has ever heard that and been free to post on a message board after, even with a kind judge its eight to ten for manslaughter

i don't have the bandwidth to double-click on you right now