not all capitalisation is Ironic Capitalisation
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
I cant stand it when I hear someone say 'impactful' is that even a word? Impact is not a property, its created.― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:45 PM (fifteen years ago)
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:45 PM (fifteen years ago)
Visionary post.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
"In a rapidly changing world/society/environment, ...." or other trite filler lines to that effect.
― ninthyoung, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
Also not a fan of those standard form funny phrases people add to their tweet, like "thanks for coming to my ted talk" after the message or something like that. If you don't have the confidence to let your thing stand on its own then it's probably no worth tweeting.
― ninthyoung, Thursday, 15 August 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
DM overtaking PM, seemingly overnight, is an inexplicable irritant.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 15 August 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
"checks notes" is especially bad xp
I agree pomenitul
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 August 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
I mostly avoid this thread for its "old man yells at cloud" feeling, but I just got unreasonably annoyed after doing a silly quiz, when I was confronted by this:
Permission this app to share your results with friends!
Permission this app?! FFS.
― emil.y, Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
getting a bit fed up of 'wholesome' now.
― meaulnes, Friday, 13 September 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
is there another word for wholesome?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
salutary? restorative?
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
not the same!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:57 (five years ago) link
its root is an old german word for "healing", so my suggestions are quite similar in meaning, but it has acquired a penumbra of connotations that are hard to duplicate.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 13 September 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
deadass
― fremmes with neppavenettes (rip van wanko), Friday, 13 September 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
a lot of this thread is just Words You Don't Care About
― fremmes with neppavenettes (rip van wanko), Friday, 13 September 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
'fair play' - most recent example was something like 'Boris Johnson might be a dickhead but at least he's backing HS2 so fair play to him'
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 08:29 (five years ago) link
Fair play - acceptable when used by heavily-accented West Midlands types.
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 09:31 (five years ago) link
Fair play
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 09:33 (five years ago) link
counterpoint: fair play is the best phrase in the world
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 10:25 (five years ago) link
Ireland wouldn't function without it
― Number None, Thursday, 19 September 2019 07:32 (five years ago) link
sick to fuckin death of "this is the worst of all timelines", "in this reality [among others]" etc - devoid of meaning and trying to sound sophisticated/wry.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 19 September 2019 08:08 (five years ago) link
What about 'the best of all possible worlds'?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 08:09 (five years ago) link
i dunno as long as there are Panglosses among us we're gonna need that one
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 September 2019 08:15 (five years ago) link
tired of the inability of people to simply do things; instead, they have to verb their way to things
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 September 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
I have a deep-seated hatred for the word ‘bespoke’ - it really grates on me for some reason.
― epistantophus, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
I've come to accept it as one of those Britishisms I'll never entirely wrap my mind around. See also: fortnight.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
I'd have an easier time with the latter if it were 'fortnights' fwiw.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
it's not difficult, a fortnight is two sennights
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
Now the scales have fallen from my eyes.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
the only thing worse than bespoke about is to not bespoke about
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
It's a term from Old/Early Middle English, for which some speakers the plural of night was (roughly) "nighte" and not "nights" so: fourteen night and seven night.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
'homebody'
― meaulnes, Thursday, 3 October 2019 09:56 (five years ago) link
It doesn't exactly annoy me, but every time I read or hear the phrase "white supremacist" it strikes me as tonally wrong. The 'supreme' part of it sounds far too positive. I can imagine that for people potentially attracted to this shit it could even sound appealing. Is there a better word to use? Or is this just down to people being scared to say "nazi" or "fascist"? "Racist" obviously is nowhere near strong enough.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
isn't fascism positive? what's wrong with uniting people and thereby giving them strength?
― conrad, Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link
yes, lots of people like that idea, but the word itself is tainted
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:13 (five years ago) link
I'd argue white supremacy has become tainted also
― conrad, Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:14 (five years ago) link
for my imaginary edgy teenager who is flirting with joining the alt-right, it's not anywhere near as tainted.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:17 (five years ago) link
you're saying no self-respecting fascist would call themselves or even consider themselves to be a fascist?
― conrad, Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:21 (five years ago) link
no, I'm not saying that at all
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:24 (five years ago) link
I've misunderstood you
― conrad, Thursday, 3 October 2019 10:27 (five years ago) link
Growing tired of people saying everything surprising/that tests the limits of credulity is “wild”- clearly a substitute for ableist “crazy”- rarely genuinely wild - yes this is a petty gripe- still, watching the adoption and spread of “wild” as it makes its way from prestige users (AOC for example) to the average person.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 October 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
I’m already embarrassed about having griped about this wordWild!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 October 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
when people say “i feel like …” followed by something they cannot possibly feel like, e.g. “i feel like too much sugar is bad for you”. no. you don’t feel like this at all.
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 4 October 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
I hear "I feel like" about fifty times a day now, I say it too.
Following up on the fortnight/sennight mentions upthread, I was reading some 17th century trial testimony and they repeatedly say "twelvemonth" instead of "a year" which is interesting.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 4 October 2019 03:57 (five years ago) link
The whole substitution of "I feel that X is so" for "My opinion is that X is so" has been around since I was young and it irritated people back then, too.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 4 October 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
iirc people who use this sentence construction are likely to be "hands-on" learners? So if someone instead says "I hear that too much sugar is bad for you", they would prefer auditory learning techniques? I'm sure I read that somewhere once.
― Vernon Locke, Friday, 4 October 2019 05:27 (five years ago) link
― kinder, Friday, 4 October 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
feelz before realz, amirite?
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=793630104424865&set=a.350332562087957&type=3&theater
I love this so much
The phrase that I hate with a simmering rage atm is "It has recently come to my attention..." like who are you? Principal of a private school? It is like a BBcode suffix for [santimony]
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
*er, [sanctimony]
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
or the overuse "The opportunity to," i.e. "I would like the opportunity to discuss your grade before kicking your shins."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link