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

If it's being used as a noun now, then yes, that is annoying.

this thread is now basically "new school slang u don't like"

i hate it, i've said this many times in this thread

it's meant to be annoying, it's a mocking criticism

saying the quiet part loud is over two decades old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMHt481HsFU

If it's being used as a noun now, then yes, that is annoying.

This has been around since 1950:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cringe

language isn't enough of a virus imo

(xpost) Honestly didn't know that--I've never heard it used that way ever. Is that more of a British thing?

yes if by british you mean australian

They have more to cringe about. Probably not. I first heard the phrase used in connection with Scotland of course!

This thread is cringe

they mean cringe in this formulation: "this entire thread is cringe"

― mark s, Saturday, 18 April 2020 22:19 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

language isn't enough of a virus imo

― mark s, Sunday, 19 April 2020 11:52 (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wait, to my ear, in the phrase "this thread is cringe," cringe is an adjective. Not a noun.

Like "this thread is long" or "this thread is stupid."

Am I missing something?

yeah its totes cringe man this is a thing that happens nouns now

"this thread is garbage"

garbage is a noun

what kind of swashbuckling planeswalker of the English language retains a stoic yet fluid command devoid of annoying things

yes if by british you mean australian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X1LThFfA8U

every time I post in this thread I set off a grenade

fwiw people have said those things for years now

― mookieproof

"Cringe" as a noun is brand new. "That's cringe" = NEW! "here's some cringe" = NEW! "That's cringey!", "that made me cringe," "ugh...*cringe*".... = NOT NEW!

also they're all good

― mark s

No

It isn't brand new. Do I have to post the link about the Cultural Cringe again?

"that's cringe" get me the etymology on this

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cringe

'That's cringe' is cringe as an adjective not a noun?

we already did this tom

cringe has been a noun since like 1600

probably earlier since turning verbs into nouns is like eng lang trick one

we have NOT done this, mark!

"that's cringe" could be both adjective and noun or either/or. but lately, more and more, it is used as a noun

one cannot deny the increase in the use of the word "cringe" in all ways recently

every time I post in this thread I set off a grenade

yes, you have the best ratings, just tremendous

like you FB i tend to think it's noun not adj in the formula under discussion hence said so upthread = "we've done this tom" to tom, plz pay attention in the very bad thread

mark otm!

xp more and more, people are saying this!

I don't post often. But when I do? Get the sawdust out

Am I the only person below the age of 30 who is familiar with the phrase "second banana"?

You're the only person below the age of 30.

hate when sports media ppl get lazy and say “number one” instead of “first round”

xp tfw children of men 😔

there's a sports media story today on which hockey players are 'most unique' and i had to restrain myself

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/da/b6/75/dab6756c5f15759ac87100e772097254.gif

in re: cringe. it is getting play because it is new and different. it will fade soon because it will become old and overdone. then we can move on to the newest cringe-inducing slang.

Seems like every new response to Covid-19 is "a potential game-changer" - I'm starting to suspect that this phrase just means that they've found another way to make disaster capitalism work in their favor, because the game of actually saving people's live isn't changing all that much.

there's a sports media story today on which hockey players are 'most unique' and i had to restrain myself

if a person by some criteria is one in ten thousand and another person by some different criteria is one in a million, the latter is arguably more unique. you'd expect to hear this from a sportscaster, since they spend all their time ranking athletes according to arbitrary criteria.

if a person by some criteria is one in ten thousand and another person by some different criteria is one in a million

unique means one of a kind, not one in some finite number. use 'unusual' or some other more suitable term

there's a bit in the radio version of Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge when he is interviewing an immensely annoying child prodigy who corrects him on his use of "unique" and I have never been able to listen to complaints about it without hearing him saying "one cannot have gradations of uniqueness, one either is, or is not unique" - for this reason I have never corrected anyone on this in my decade and a half teaching English.

LOL that is a classic episode.

Cringe as an adjective is a pretty decent playful shortening of cringeworthy, which feels rather old fashioned, no? Having said that, I heard an American politician on the news earlier describe the current situation as "troublesome" and even "worrisome", both words that I feel must be on their way out, esp. the latter; I can't imagine anyone here in the UK using it.

Troublesome will be around for a while yet.

there's a bit in the radio version of Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge when he is interviewing an immensely annoying child prodigy who corrects him on his use of "unique" and I have never been able to listen to complaints about it without hearing him saying "one cannot have gradations of uniqueness, one either is, or is not unique" - for this reason I have never corrected anyone on this in my decade and a half teaching English.

lol, yes me too. Whom!

unique means one of a kind, not one in some finite number. use 'unusual' or some other more suitable term

Uniqueness always has a context, otherwise everything would be unique. "Unusual" also doesn't work, only "more unique" conveys both the uniqueness in that context and the rarity of that uniqueness in a larger context. Also "unusual" has a lot of connotations.

Someone ought to tell that prodigy that a synonym for unique is singular. Consequently, to say "one is either is, or is not, unique" is equivalent to saying "one is either is, or is not, singular". However, by definition, one is always singular, therefore your statement contains a logical error. Take that, you snotty kid!

None of my posts are unique Worst TV adverts of the moment