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

what we talk about when we talk about words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of us

'cope' and 'cry more'

"flop" instead of "dive"

deep flop

think the annoyance with "deep dive" is like when writers call a song a "deep cut" just because it wasn't a single, which is really fucking annoying, it's true.

not a word or phrase but i've finally found the name for a thing that bugs the shit out of me, partic on social media and that word is:

APORIA

as in:
"not sure why everyone's making such a big deal about the fact that i simply didn't like a movie"

YES YOU ARE actually, you know exactly why

my favorite response to shit like this btw is something along the lines of "huh really? i always thought you were pretty plugged in!"

i don't know, i have to admit that i don't see why that bugs you so much. if i had to guess i'd say you're spending too much time on social media, or perhaps you're reading too deeply into it?

it_is_a_mystery

aporia is a sweet important word in post-structuralism and i support its extension or i would but i can't put my finger on why not

yeah it’s messy because people like derrida used it not in that faux-ignorant sense but in the sense of a genuine impasse in the logic of thought - maybe there is a better word

i was making a bad joek and you're not wrong

it's the not that unravels somebody's whole shtick is as good a way of using it as any

and i typoed "knot" and even that is perfect

hella derridean

EXACKLY

and i typoed "knot" and even that is perfect

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hella derridean

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virtue-signaling (the first time I heard it; not sure it is in common usage, but given the speaker, who does not have the courage to say anything original, it is assumed)

Probably been mentioned before: "do" in place of "get" or "have" or "accept" or who knows what else. Someone's ordering a dozen donuts: "I'll do three chocolate, three honey glazed..." One of the other moderators in a Facebook group I'm in: "Sorry, we don't do posts from out of town." Just hate it.

100% agree, idk why but i die a little bit inside every time i go to the coffee shop, seems like that's just the way people order drinks now

actually i think i do know what bothers me about it, at least w/r/t ordering food, and it's that it somehow makes it sound like the customer is passively acquiescing to their order. like the barista is just dying to make you a drink, so you suppose you'll accept a latte or whatever.

this is obviously an illogical notion on two counts. first because "to do" is an active verb, and second because selling you a drink is exactly what the people operating a coffee shop want to be doing! and yet ... maybe it's that you're not "doing" anything but forking over money?

I work at a restaurant and people use this construction all the time. It doesn’t bother me at all. They do the steak, the chicken, the salmon, the lamb pizza, they’ll do anything on the menu. Maybe it’s a reaction to “I’ll have what she’s having” ? Idk.

"I will kill and butcher the cow myself."

Maybe it’s a reaction to “I’ll have what she’s having”?

Billy Crystal: "I'll do what she's doing."

(Actually, it's another woman in the restaurant--messed up my joke.)

Similar to the Australian construction of "go" as in "I'll go a pie with a Carlton Draught"

A lot of times words have little semantic value in a given exchange and context is doing most of the work. When you're ordering food, any of the basic verbs will do... do, have, make, get, go, be, etc. The server knows you're asking for menu items and that's all that really matters. Try it. I'm doing a burger, I'm having a burger, Make mine a burger, Get me a burger, I'm going with a burger, It'll be a burger for me, or simply "a burger" with no verb at all. No need to lean too hard on the print paradigm and waste effort trying to make every utterance function context-free. Notice nobody fucks around too much with tense, negation, or pronouns... that would actually be confusing in context. That we can do this is pretty amazing when you think about it!

capt save a do

"Burger me do"

Hit me with the burgness and drag it through a garden.

Drinkswise? Beer me.

Server: Say no more fam

https://www.burgerme.de/standorte/kiel/
rather unfortunate

Probably been mentioned before: "do" in place of "get" or "have" or "accept" or who knows what else. Someone's ordering a dozen donuts: "I'll do three chocolate, three honey glazed..." One of the other moderators in a Facebook group I'm in: "Sorry, we don't do posts from out of town." Just hate it.

Not sure I've heard this! In the Facebook example, does "we don't do posts from out of town" mean "no one from out of town posts to this group" then?

“I/we don’t do” seems like a separate usage from the other example & v well established? We don’t do requests, I don’t do mornings, I don’t do drama, we don’t do average — I’m surprised you haven’t encountered this, it’s been around forever. The food ordering thing feels newer def (both are fine)

Oh, I've heard it in those contexts, for sure, but the Facebook one doesn't really fit with that, I don't thin,.

Sounds a bit of a rum do.

For me, "accept" would be the normal thing to say: "We don't accept out-of-town posts."

I realize that "do" gets the point across in all these contexts; language is for communicating, and complaining that you're annoyed by certain words that accomplish that just as well as the words you want is fundamentally irrational. To me, that's an inherent feature of this thread. But it's also a reality, and certain words and phrases do make me wince.

("Accept," by the way, because said posts are waiting in a queue to be approved by a moderator. If it is, we all gather around and chant "Gabba, Gabba, we accept this, post away.")

I think "Let's do lunch" became a thing in the '80s?

I think De Do Do Do was also a thing then

the muppets do manhattan

“Do” usually seems to me to be the person saying that the activity in question is beneath them and really only engaged in by disgusting savages and their ilk.

https://bcdbimages.s3.amazonaws.com/warner/ltmm/dough_dodo.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOP_cPX7JDw

("Accept," by the way, because said posts are waiting in a queue to be approved by a moderator

Ah, the premoderation thing makes the whole thing make more sense to me. But yeah, clumsy I agree.

I don't really do Dallas

The usual food-ordering phrase around me (NJ) is "lemme get." Lemme get two bacon cheeseburgers, large fries, large Coke.

xp it's okay, Debbie does

actually i think i do know what bothers me about it, at least w/r/t ordering food, and it's that it somehow makes it sound like the customer is passively acquiescing to their order. like the barista is just dying to make you a drink, so you suppose you'll accept a latte or whatever.

it also annoys me a bit tbh ... but I think the reason why it bothers me is that it construes the act of having a coffee or food as some "experience" that implies a greater amount of activity and initiative than, paying for someone to make you food, at a place that does such a thing, where you have already chosen to eat there, and you are given a menu of options, and your agency consists of selecting items off the menu, and then eating the food. Like, compare it to other things people "do" that are more active and/or require more agency/initiative: "we're going to do karaoke!" or "We're going to do the El Capitan hike!" or "we're going to do the parenting thing!"

'i did a thing'

lol