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

my friend's local church had one that said:

"I bet jellyfish wish there was a peanutbutterfish".

they are famous for secular joekz on one side, religious sayings on the other.

xp
lol that makes no sense from any angle

https://64.media.tumblr.com/c4fa0d447a0c8e7b3cda4d01f5e01916/tumblr_n74jcz8d9j1sykpjyo3_400.gif

any iteration of "creating jobs / job creation"

The current advertisng slogan for Aperol in the UK is "Together We Joy". It's lke fingernails down a blackboard to me everytime I see the posters.

sounds vaguely nsfw tbh

this more SFW or nah?

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67706c0000bebbb00db9924b136621e68bdc41

When will the copywriting trick of using a word a novel, ungrammatical way die out? It's been a long time since "Find your happy".

Here's someone unhappying it in 2014, lol:

https://weallneedwords.com/find-your-happy-sad/

How we feeling about this?

https://i1.wp.com/reelchicago.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/whiteclaw.jpg

pretty good, all for it

Apple's "Think Different" is in this category

that’s using the adjective as an adverb, very common in informal English

those White Claw billboards are legion here right now, make me think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS9zBaBmZxc

In around 1984 or 1985 I had to explain to my father that not only was the band he was driving me and my friends to see called Echo and the Bunnymen, but the band supporting them was called Let's Active. It was painful. Later, after we'd escaped my father's scorn, a drunkenly belligerant man approached me during the support set and demanded to know what the band was called. It was very loud and communication was difficult. Hey! Let's Active: fuck you guys.

(oh, my first ever gig was those two in Gloucester Leisure Centre)

"I appreciate you" in the same context that one would usually just say "thanks" or "thank you" ... because so much of the time I hear it, it seems perfunctory and polite as opposed to actually appreciative. But presumably, the speaker is saying "I appreciate you" as opposed to just "thanks" in order to convey more sincerity or warmth or ... idk ... it reminds me of when everyone had to say "Have a Nice Day!" at shit retail.

'Pingdemic'

I appreciate the neat construction, but overuse has worn me out already, I'm afraid.

It's probably going to end up as 'word of the year' as well, or at least somewhere in the list in the UK.

"I was today years old when I learned..." very much one of those "it was clever the first time" things

and often used before things that aren't actually true. the one that most infuriated me was...

"I was today years old when I learned Michael Jackson was singing 'Ima say it one more time, I'm not gon stop' on Wanna Be Starting Something"

"classically trained"

like who cares how you were trained?? what does that even mean?
or maybe I'm just insecure because I learned chords with a Mel Bay book

i get annoyed by "i love your face," "so great to see all your beautiful faces," "i miss your face!" etc.

also calling people "human" as in "they are a beautiful human," "look at this human," "my human," etc.

annoyingly precious and very grating imo.

"Classically trained" also is used to cover an extremely and almost uselessly broad range, from "took some piano lessons" to "advanced degree in music".

"well, it is and it isn't"

Classically trained milkman, Jon Anderson (xps)

classically trained means "didn't learn music mainly by playing along to records, can kind of read a score"

and it's fine (it's a useful fact) but everything in this thread is fine so

Well, it is and it isn't.

^^my human

lol

"we are going to leverage those learnings"

"Blast radius".

This spanky new (to me at least) golden verbalrrhea issues from the mouths of anyone above director level at my employer, at least 10 times an hour if they know someone is watching them.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

"blast radius" is hardly new and it's a useful concept

I hate this thread honestly

just stop using words if you hate them so much!

Just stop reading this thread if you hate it so much, lol.

tbh I think this thread annoyed me when it started but now I enjoy egging it on to become a repository for every word, usage and phrase in the English language.

we'll get every word in here if it takes all week

I hate the word "word", we don't need a word to tell us we're saying a word.

everyone's heard about the word

just stop using words if you hate them so much!

That's fine; I just want to stop hearing them without losing my job.

Blast Radius is a global digital agency helping build our clients' businesses by connecting brands and consumers in creative and innovative ways.

"blast radius" is hardly new and it's a useful concept

― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, August 19, 2021 9:54 AM (yesterday)

i had to look it up (outside of the literal meaning) and yeah ... that is useful in a software engineering context. Will it be adopted to refer to other things? ... The blast radius of the unfortunate racist comment made by a company leader ... The blast radius of the typo in the subject line of this week's sales email ... idk. Honestly a lot of this stuff is jargon that I don't hear until much later than a lot of people and I have to do cognitive work to figure out what it means, while the other people at the meeting or email thread are familiar with it, so I thank this thread for saving me from potential embarrassment.

agency partner

businesses footprint

brands creators

in creative and innovative ways iteratively in the social space

possibly also global impactful, but could be a step too far

"chief musical export"

lmao sarahell and mooks

christ, the rise of the "impact statement" aka "write the press release for us"

Aren’t impact statements typically written for use in court to allow a victim of a crime to publicly state the impact of the crime on their lives?
That’s how I know the term, or at least what I thought I knew

i think it's like blast radius -- and has been repurposed for other things

Impactful statements.

Sitting in interminable middle school in-service meetings right now. Just heard someone say v. urgently (re a schedule with recess on it) "We don't have recess at ____ School, we have wellness time."

I just encountered the word "glocal" and may need to lie down for a while