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

also most of the art that is sold as being a "giclee" was usually horrible. Like, I associated the term with, "bad art digital print"

Sounds hawt tbh.

same kind of thing happened with the term "lithograph", most of those you see for sale aren't

I may have mentioned this before and sorry in advance for sports but it drives me up the wall when people refer to a first round draft pick as a “number one draft pick”

yes, because that is just factually wrong and misleading

'jokingly'

the worst of the adverbs.

My housemate always says "assumedly" instead of "presumably," and I guess it's technically a word but it doesn't feel like a word.

My boss says "irregardless" all the time

irregardless is a real word

if enough people use a word and enough people understand what it means, it's a real word, however awkward or ugly it is, like "crunk".

Crunk >>> irregardless.

low bar

when I was learning Spanish it was related to me that gringos always overused -mente adverbs and it annoyed the shit out of the native Spanish speakers (for example, you CAN translate "probably" as "probablemente" and they'll understand what you mean, but they just don't pepper their speech with -mente adverbs the way English speakers do with -ly adverbs in English, they tend to use various phrases instead)

I'm not sure I've ever used "probablemente." I use "Puede ser."

Irregardlessamente is probably frowned upon then

The debate rages on: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/06/is-irregardless-a-real-word-dictionary

I'm trying to think of an equally irritating Spanish equivalent... nondesconsideración?

Romanian keeps it simple with adjectives that double as adverbs ('probabil', 'sincer', 'deschis', etc.), although you do see the occasional 'realmente'. French is chock-full of '-ment' adverbs, of course.

from that article:

"confirming that it is a proper, dictionary-verified word"

...fuck this gatekeeping settler colonialist bullshit, by the way, 1000x more infuriating than someone saying irregardless

People believe in the authority of the dictionary until someone plays an obscure two-letter word in Scrabble

'za

(xpost) May you and your qi peacefully co-exist.

getting a double 'xi' or 'za' with the x or z on a triple letter score is the ultimate scrabble buzz for me

or indeed the same with 'qi'

playing literati with challenge mode set where,if the opponent challenges the word and the word is valid, they lose a turn is fun.

people too afraid to challenge "gambanans" and "buttafuocous"

Things can be true

Irregardless can be a meaning-recognized word while also being used dreadfully and wrongly when the actual word regardless exists

Not a hill to die on either way but the gatekeeping protestation aint the one here for me

people don't like irregardless but are fine with unravel, it's just obnoxious to make such inconsistent appeals to logic in language usage

Some sins are worse than others!

there's no such thing as sin

Now we're getting somewhere

Yes, but there is syntax

vg

that's semantics

sometimes you need an extra syllable imo

(pvmic)

He said, dropping three syllables

Some flapdoodle right there

sometimes!

"Off-ramp," as in "McConnell needed an off-ramp." There's nothing inherently bad about it, I just hate anything when everybody starts saying it all of a sudden. (I liked the off-ramp they took in The Godfather: "We goin' to Jersey?")

"It's ______________'s party now." Marjorie Taylor Greene's. Josh Hawley's. Lionel Hutz's. Whatever.

But it can only be Lesley Gore's party. That's it.

The Chiffons recorded the republican party first.

"this human"
Random IG post: Had the best takeout cocktails with this human

Acceptable if the speaker is from another species, imo.

The baboon/human divide is real

acceptable if the activity in question is something one commonly does with a non-human: e.g. had a chill trip to the vet with this human or had to get up early to take this human outside to pee

Maybe one for the co-workers thread, but:

A colleague who regularly 'pings' emails and refers to rough drafts a 'starter for ten' has just used the phrase 'long-term quarterbacking of delivery strategy' in a presentation.

I generally like this person but their jargon is unbearable.

do they also say things like

"now, this doesn't mean we have carte blanche to do whatever we want"

"although we believe this is how it will work, we are still massaging the details a bit"

"we have a lot of balls up in the air"

“Can you begin to socialise the details of this new process with your teams ?”

'starter for ten' is... horrifying

I would be too tempted to insert intentional malapropisms into my daily speech with them to see if they picked up on it