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

i'm pretending that this talk about quirk being a synonym for smirk never happened

genderquirk

"You just proved these signs work."

No I didn't, leave me alone.

i'm pretending that this talk about quirk being a synonym for smirk never happened

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 26, 2024 2:09 PM (fifty-four minutes ago)

oh I should have said that that's not quite right. It's that "quirk" as a verb means "to curve or twist" (so you can quirk your mouth into a smirk)

It's really annoying when somebody uses "quirk" as a name.

https://i.postimg.cc/br04vMZC/quirk.jpg

Hilariously, one of the bibles of descriptive English grammar (A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language) is referred to by many as "the quirk book" because one of the authors is Randolph Quirk!

Fine for eyebrows, pushing it for mouths, hesitate to even imagine for anything else

Man, my dick sure is quirking today

Lol

His mouth twerked at the corner

Something that drives me berserk when I'm editing fiction manuscripts is what I call "disembodied parts action" like "His eyes rolled" or "Her fists clenched." Also, I don't know which YA writer pioneered the verb "huff", as in, "'I can't believe it!' she huffed," but that person should be set on fire.

and huffed on

that person should be set on fire

well you don't need to get so huffy about it

Gettin huffy on my Huffy

The Amador Club, formerly Wingtip, a haberdashery with a barber shop and wine cave that was geared toward wealthy Silicon Valley and FiDi finance workers, plans to offer seasonal oysters and caviar bumps alongside craft cocktails...

what's the consensus on 'caviar bumps'?

Oh, and this new spot is members only

i think it's shoving fish eggs up your nose

using a key that only members have

I've had caviar a couple times and just don't see the appeal

well you obviously weren't pushing it up into your nose, the way the rich and connected do

aiui a 'caviar bump' refers to a serving of caviar washed down with well-iced champagne. the existence of such a thing is outside my personal experience, but the rumors of it have reached me.

I did somehow go to a party in a big house where they had caviar, which I (accidentally) dropped on the floor and rubbed it into the carpet. I then got another and nobody noticed. I remember that but no idea where it was or how I got there. anyway it was shit

British people pronouncing Gen Z as Gen Zee.

I’ve never once heard Gen Zed uttered by anyone

That's because they don't want to confuse it with General Zod.

gen zee is correct because all of this stuff only really applies to yanks tbh

"appearances can be deceiving"
&
"beloved" 2 syllables with a swallowed e

so do you say striped or stri-ped

different word, false equivalency.

see: adjective vs past forms of "to learn"

I don't think it's the fact that people are welcoming people that is the issue. I welcome people all the time at work and it would be weird not to. It's the weird phrase "welcome in". I have never heard nor used that in my life.

So I was in the US last week and I have to report that I heard this phrase no less than 3 times. I heard it both used both in Florida and in Mass. Still don't like it but at least I know you all weren't pulling my leg.

the only rule with stuff like belov'd vs belovèd is to use the one you need for the meter

People need to stop calling things "Love Lies Bleeding." It only makes me think of Hemorrhage in My Hands by Fuel. This can be applied retroactively to Elton John and Victorian botany and anything else, as well.

It's a good Thompson Twins song

No, ONLY the Elton song should be allowed to keep it

The Nik Kershaw I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me is also superior

but not to the george michael duet obv

gen zee is correct because all of this stuff only really applies to yanks tbh

Is there a generations timeline, maybe a flowchart available online somewhere? I can never remember the difference between gen Z(ed) and millennials. If I was born in 1968 (which I was) am I gen X? And what would someone born in the early 1960s be? Also, there wasn't a post-war baby boom in the UK I don't think, so 'boomers' hardly works. Maybe 'rationers'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_social_generations

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Generation_timeline.svg/1920px-Generation_timeline.svg.png

not sure why Alpha isn't 2013-28, but if that's a sign we're giving up on some of the more obtuse aspects of this bs then I applaud it

Good to find out that Gen Y and Millennials are the same thing

Alpha? ugh

aniston

Greatest Generation ugh. You're right it's for Yanks.

No one gives a shit about these now. Anyone over 30 = "boomer" and anyone under 30 = "millenial" as far as half the media/internet's concerned.

I don’t get most of the hyper specific cultural generational stuff - afaict generation names only really apply to very broad socioeconomic effects on a demographic. Like I was born in 1979 but I don’t relate to most of the gen x OR millennial memes I see all over the internet. Most of these memes seem to only really cover like a 5 year range of ages.

I was born in 65 and very strongly identify with Gen X. My folks were born just before the start of the baby boom, I just missed it but those people are definitely a different cohort.

yeah i’m born 67 and gen x is quite accurate as to norms imo.

Born in 1970, pretty much horrified by how most of the rest of early GenX acts.