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

I'd like to not read or hear "The British People" ever again.

What's wrong with Britons? No, don't answer that.

"I'm keeping a list of who is silent"

'that's my happy place'

Surely it’s been mentioned in this thread before, but I crawl within myself and die when I see “so I did a thing” on social media.

Poms is the correct way to refer to the brits fwiw

+1 on 'so I did a thing', major barf

I am fine with it depending on the thing… if it is related to the Carpenter movie I will generally lol

"the conversation around (x)"

"Do better"

English, ersatz English, Anglos, exbrits.
Disolvers of the holy bond that United the kingdom.

As the nation dissolves into smaller city states one will be known by the area one comes from. Bound to happen.
Or become more evolved and become Europeans again innit

"my guy"

social media posts that start "i don't know who needs to hear this but"

or sometimes "i don't know how many of y'all need to hear this", these type of people always call you "y'all" even if they come from fucking dunedin or somewhere

"Louder for the people in the back"

doo rag!!!!!

amazing to see you here

i agree completely btw

All of these are terrible but "do better" might be the worst. If someone says that you can be guaranteed they're a self-righteous asshole.

"y'all" seems to be everywhere.

It’s fucking abysmal, that, but I guess not everyone speaks a prestige dialect that has a native second person plural. 😎

Tell me about it

I keep seeing “having a moment”, eg:

”Belfast is having quite a moment, it really is,” says hotelier Melanie Harrison with an infectious laugh”

Is there an Irish equivalent? Best I can guess is "ye"??

"(x) is...... different"

maybe acceptable if you literally came up with it yourself as an offhand comment, but as a meme comment to repeat after any instance of remarkable ability or behaviour, welll..... DO BETTER

I think ‘x is….different’ is similar to the studied inarticulateness of “ Is x a thing now?”

"Because … thing"

^i don’t know the origin of this but it always seemed sub-Whedon to me, and that’s not a compliment to Joss Whedon at all

internet speak was basically sub-whedon for a couple of decades there

Yeah, the rot has been in place for a while

"studied inarticulateness" no doubt, but interestingly the terms for long-form journalistic writing already in use pre-thing are generally examples of a similar affect

i: an article (from 1700s; means "a thing")
ii: a piece (from 1500s; means "a bit of a thing")
iii: a feature (from 1850s; short for featured article, means "a thing we are publicly excited about")
iv: an essay (from 1500s; means "i tried to write a thing")

v: wedding announcement/new job: some personal news 😏

It's this thing

that's not a thing. this is a thing:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/03/5d/92/035d925f690d6cc0dc620421b88b86d3.jpg

Left is right (heh), this is a thing

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

‘Some personal news’ has the same intonation as ‘a very special episode’.

"y'all" seems to be everywhere.

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, October 26, 2023 5:56 AM bookmarkflaglink

well, I'm actually from the south, so it's part of our vernacular here

about to drop a lengthy rant? best to preface it with a

*deep inhale*

Preaching to the choir requires a lot of hot air

It’s fucking abysmal, that

your fragile ears would probably melt the first time you heard someone point to a bunch of half-full glasses on a bar table and ask "are these y'all'ses?"

Yourns

xp not if it was in the American south where it makes sense! Tom D I believe is speaking of people here(in the UK) who use it, in which case it’s kind of like

https://i.postimg.cc/bwFHhxRY/IMG-1265.jpg

Y'all should be used everywhere by everyone, it's versatile and sonorous

that "look" thing on cable news. every talking head has to start their rant with "LOOK, here's the thing about trump..." and sometimes they have 4 talking heads and they ALL do it. i mean, we are looking. we are watching you speak. make your point. no need to preface. it must be in some How To Get Your Point Across On Cable News For Dummies book. but like i sad on another thread, it would make a sick drinking game. they do it 20 times an hour.

not in every accent and certainly not mine

Yeah there are definitely American word usages that are cringey when used by non-Americans and expressions that originated from the UK that sound cringey to me when Americans use them …

Also hearing “y’all” in certain American accents is also cringey to me

that "look" thing on cable news. every talking head has to start their rant with "LOOK, here's the thing about trump..." and sometimes they have 4 talking heads and they ALL do it.

Australian cricketers have been prefacing every reply to every question with "Look" since there's been Australian cricketers being asked questions.

Actually a lot of it is contextual re accents that aren’t Southern or AAVE … still I remember cringing in college hearing “y’all” from a housemate from New Jersey using it because she thought it was cute when my roommate from Tennessee said it…

I once got a lesson from a Texan person about the subtle difference between "y'all" and "all y'all."

Note, I cannot precisely articulate it but they are different.

obama did/does the 'look' thing a lot

all y'all means everyone in the group, y'all might just indicate some of many. if my friends Bobby and Jean introduce me to four of their acquaintances at the bar, and while everyone is standing there I say "y'all should come back to my place for whiskey after" the four acquaintances will assume I'm talking to Bobby and Jean and will likely not consider themselves invited too. But if I say "all y'all should come back to my place for a whiskey" then they know that they too are invited.

Thank you f hazel

that is a v. good explanation