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

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not in every accent and certainly not mine

mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 15:59 (one year ago)

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 …

sarahell, Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:02 (one year ago)

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

sarahell, Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:04 (one year ago)

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.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:17 (one year ago)

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…

sarahell, Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:20 (one year ago)

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.

Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:35 (one year ago)

obama did/does the 'look' thing a lot

mookieproof, Thursday, 26 October 2023 23:54 (one year ago)

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.

the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 26 October 2023 23:57 (one year ago)

Thank you f hazel

Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 27 October 2023 00:00 (one year ago)

that is a v. good explanation

mookieproof, Friday, 27 October 2023 00:13 (one year ago)

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.

Josefa, Friday, 27 October 2023 00:32 (one year ago)

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

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:06 (one year ago)

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.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:11 (one year ago)

Ich weiß nicht, wer das hören muss

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:14 (one year ago)

Is just *chefs kiss*

Kill me

#1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:55 (one year ago)

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)

#1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:57 (one year ago)

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

#1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:58 (one year ago)

"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.

read-only (unperson), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:05 (one year ago)

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.

read-only (unperson), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:06 (one year ago)

i like when Australians say reckon i reckon.

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:28 (one year ago)

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

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:30 (one year ago)

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

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:30 (one year ago)

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

#1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:31 (one year ago)

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

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:36 (one year ago)

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

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:36 (one year ago)

I reckon the bloody south’s stealing our bit

#1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:40 (one year ago)

I reckon the usage stems from a common source.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:42 (one year ago)

hillbillies without borders.

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 02:46 (one year ago)

Bogan/hillbillie solidarity

#1 García Fan (H.P), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:55 (one year ago)

hate to do it, but y'all are gonna make me insist on yinz

mookieproof, Friday, 27 October 2023 05:45 (one year ago)

yinz're gonna make me say yuns.

Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:41 (one year ago)

i used to love the way my mom said honk in her long island by way of queens accent. she would say "hunk". her accent wasn't strong - or she hid it - but it would come out in little ways like that.

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:48 (one year ago)

I have socks that say yinz.

"Yous guys" was big where I grew up. I hate it.

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 …

Yep. I pretty much never use British slang or terms. It feels too weird.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:50 (one year ago)

I don't have a long island accent at all but can turn it on it if want to. I can't think of how she would have said honk!

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:51 (one year ago)

I fought against y'all forever in favor of you guys and then at some point I started saying it because I needed to seem friendlier and folksier for work and then it just stuck. "You guys" is pretty ugly so I'm okay with losing that one.

papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:53 (one year ago)

she would say to my dad if my brother wouldn't get out of the house when we were going somewhere: "Ashley, hunk the hooowrn."

it stuck with me. i dunno. she left queens for L.I. when she was 8 or 9. so maybe its a jackson heights in the 40s kinda thing.

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:58 (one year ago)

Youse is West of Scotland, though it comes out more as "yiz" usually.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:59 (one year ago)

... or "yeez", the plural of "ye" basically.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:00 (one year ago)

my great regret is not taping my grandmother (my dad's mom) speaking. a completely different lost world of a voice. cold spring harbor via henry james. i loved listening to her.

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:00 (one year ago)

All of these are good for anyone to say, & just saying you works well too

Boris Yitsbin (wins), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:02 (one year ago)

i miss having great aunts who would call me "ducks". who calls you ducks anymore?

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:02 (one year ago)

Try watching Coronation Street

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:05 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1BOBK8iBQU

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:06 (one year ago)

Yeah anywhere in Derbyshire gives you a solid chance of being called duck

Tim, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:21 (one year ago)

Not “ducks” though, tbf

Tim, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:22 (one year ago)

it might have been duck. i just remember it as ducks.

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:28 (one year ago)

it must have been duck, but it's over now

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:29 (one year ago)

The only person who ever called me ducks was a former/erstwhile ilxor and I had no idea what she was talking about at the time and wondered why she was calling me ducks. It did not annoy me I just didn’t get it.

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:31 (one year ago)

I have definitely come across old English ladies calling people "ducks" in books or movies.

read-only (unperson), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:31 (one year ago)

i had an aunt with a shanghai china british private school accent from the early 20th century. she looked like douglas macarthur. she was friggin' awesome.

scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:31 (one year ago)


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