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

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

Or, you could be talking to two members of a family and refer to them as "y'all," but if you say, "all y'all should come visit us some time" it means those two people and everyone else in their family even if the rest of the family is not present.

saw a twitter post turned into an instagram meme that was quite comprehensive of every phrase I hate:

"I did a thing"
"adulting"
"I'm not crying you're crying"
"I'm just gonna leave this here"
"This."
"So that happened"
"My person"
"Fur baby"
"All the feels"
"The Struggle is real"

I'd also add: "So it begins" and about 700 other things

do these awful things exist in languages other than english? maybe I should re-learn German. I have a feeling they don't allow this in German.

Ich weiß nicht, wer das hören muss

Is just *chefs kiss*

Kill me

Kill me being a phrase that’s terrible, not a response to *chefs kiss* (but if you were the type to say kill me, it’d be appropriate in that case)

On that note, is there a worse acronym than kys?

"Y'all" migrated out of the south and became a universal American expression decades ago. All y'all need to get over it. I'm still pissed that "youse" never gained similar acceptance, but I've gotten over that.

There are certain times when the implied friendliness of "y'all" is unsuited to the occasion. "Youse need to shut the fuck up" is much better, for example.

i like when Australians say reckon i reckon.

The accepted usage is “fuck all y’all.”

(it used to just feel like a south thing to me for most of my life. i reckon.)

so weird seeing that word in isolation. It’s either whadayareckon? Or yareckon? Never a clearly enunciated “reckon”

(i watched a lot of mcleod's daughters during the pandemic...we all had our ways of coping i reckon.)

It’s definitely still in use in the more countrified parts of the American south.

I reckon the bloody south’s stealing our bit

I reckon the usage stems from a common source.

hillbillies without borders.

Bogan/hillbillie solidarity