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
People seem to use "twelvemonth" to refer to any consecutive twelve-month span -- what businesspeople call "year-over-year" or sometimes "YoY" -- instead of saying "year" which is easily taken to mean a January-to-December year.
― mick signals, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
all these online articles are saying "I feel like" is a millennial thing but aimless otm that it's been around a lot longer than that. I overuse "like" everywhere. I don't really care because I kind of like it.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
January-to-December is a calendar year. Distinct from school years and fiscal years.
Any twelve-month period? I would find another way to express it than "twelvemonth."
― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
Happily, "no worries" has largely seemed to dissipated. I hope it's because it's a dopey expression and not because people are generally worrying more
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
'I'll pencil you in.'
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
An old-timer I've known a long time at the university asked me about a decade ago when did people replace "I think" with "I feel"? If he wanted to hippy-punch, I wouldn't have stopped him.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
Oftentimes when I read the prefix to a sentence "Sadly," it is not deployed to indicate any sadness at all, but as a signpost for the author's malicious glee at the following list of their target's shortcomings. "Sadly, his results have not improved" that's right your idiot boy is repeating grade six lol
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
I mentally substitute 'distressingly' or 'grievously' for 'sadly' whenever I come across it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
If I were a teacher I'd be real about it: "It is with delicious pleasure that I have, in Maths, given your Nigel a failing grade."
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, October 4, 2019 10:44 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'm not so sure—I still hear it everywhere and TWICE in the past month I've had a phone tech / customer service person from south asia conclude w/ "No Worries" and it took everything I had not to say, hey, I know you mean the best and you are busting your ass in a second language but *please* don't pick up that habit, A) I wasn't worried and B) it sounds like you think you did me a favor or something when in fact I've lost my entire afternoon to your company's shit service
ok this may belong in the IA thread for me
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
I find "no worries" is tossed around a lot more when it's an international group of people.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
isn’t it an Australian thingyou people are so irritable
― brimstead, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
my pleasure
you're welcome
I'm happy to help
don't mention it
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
so many good options!
srsly lads
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
At least once a year I combine "my pleasure" and "no problem" into "my problem" or "no pleasure"
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
I hear a lot of people saying it (and inserting it when they don't typically use it) when speaking to other nationalities. It's like, a safe space of phrase.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
'no pleasure' is very trumpian.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
I notice all the 'no worries' being used because I hate it. It's as bad as 'cool beans' to me.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
I say 'no worries', partly because of 'pas de souci'.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
no wuckers
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xdsZhfrcA
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
(for the non Australians, short for “no wuckin’ forries”)
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
I still use no worries even though I hate it, like I hate adding in an exclamation mark to an e-mail for softening.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
No furries!
No problemo
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 4:06 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
everything on this entire thread belongs on the IA thread (unlike nearly everything on the IA thread)
― mark s, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
Literal audible lol (LALOL)
― mick signals, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
A) I wasn't worried and B)
Pretty sure you can find me way upthread annoyed about customer reps reassuring me with gentle words not to worry, as though I had called them in panic rather than exasperation.
― mick signals, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
Some palare-isms, I guess:
I don't like "yisssss" in the place of "yes" but that's more because of bad past experiences with a yisssser
I don't like [Elektra voice]: "stunning" mostly because I really hated Pose by the end of S2
And I don't like "totes" in the place of "totally"
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
my pleasureyou're welcomeI'm happy to helpdon't mention it― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglinkso many good options!― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol all of those are worse options for certain instances where "no worries" is used
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
what are those certain instances
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
like if someone I know, personally, sees that I am actually worried about something and is making an effort to assuage my worries
ok
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
but if I decided to enter your place of business and bought somthing from you, and thanked you (?) idgi
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
lol it must be fun getting bent out of shape by innocuous phrases
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
thread title to thread
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
say if a colleague apologizes for something that is totally fine, didn't actually bother you at all. "don't mention it" would be fine there...but so would "no worries".
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
well yeah, the "no worries" scourge I'm talking about is not in response to an apology! It's in response to being thanked.
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
ahh ok no worries then :D
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
no worries
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link