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

I blame Australians.

Yeah, but I don't mind it if it's added to a word that didn't have an o in the first place. Arvo? Smoko? Go for it.

I know afternoon has is in it but I mean it hasn't been truncated at one of them. Afterno.

'sunnies' for sunglasses

Pretty sure 'selfie' originated in Australia

i also find these cutesy truncations annoying, except when australians do it! idk why. it just seems so hot and dusty over there they deserve a little fun

I can't go a day without encountering the word "liminal" and it drives me nuts.

That's a great word!

I like it, aesthetically, but I'm pretty tired of encountering it.

Yeah "liminal" is a word that all of a sudden i started seeing every day.

i just played superliminal last week for the first time and i loved it

i wonder if it's related to everybody being a "switch" nowadays ;)

Liminal became an aesthetic identity. It always happens to the best words.

It's just nice to see that the singer for Kajagoogoo is still the talk of the town.

Umm, he was actually the bass player

Ha i was thinking earlier this week how liminal has been ruined

and 'liminal space' in particular. which doesn't have any good synonyms but now means the creepypasta thing where everything looks like the video to one of moby's ambient tunes

except when australians do it! idk why. it just seems so hot and dusty over there they deserve a little fun
It kills me when people say this, as I stare out the window after a week of miserable pissy drizzle and 14C days, th weak watery autumn sun trying its best on grey Melbourne cobbles.

i was purely joking, sounds like you do deserve a little fun though!

“liminal space” synonym is “the backrooms” according to the kids iirc

^ yes

I kept getting backrooms stuff on Tik Tok and had to figure out wtf it was supposed to be.

The what? What’s the back rooms?

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

John cale to thread

Ah OK like Severance

Doesn't annoy me that much except when watching US State Department press conferences (like right now) where absolutely everybody says it every minute or so: "speaks to" instead of "speaks about" or "speaks of".

It's just nice to see that the singer for Kajagoogoo is still the talk of the town.

the neverending usaaaaage

based on that wikipedia article, I'd identify that backrooms stuff as just yer basic "objective correlative" for a particular kind of dread that has been showing up in post-armageddon films and stories for half a century at least. otherwise known as "here's the church and here's the steeple, open the doors, where are all the people?"

This post resonates with me (I do not resonate with it): https://annehelen.substack.com/p/i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard

"Do you like this post? Are you already thinking of all the people you want to forward it to and debate it with? Consider Subscribing! Support the things THAT RESONATE WITH YOU"

Heh

speaking of xennials...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/magazine/singles-rom-com.html

Steward / stewardship … it alternately makes me think of the Dickies song “if stewart could talk” or flight attendants…or the Love Boat … I don’t hate it, it is just annoying because the meanings in my head are so unrelated to the intended meaning

Since I read that thing about resonating I have heard three separate people (in two different states/time zones) say they resonate with xyz

tbf I know he can be a bit abrasive at times but he's often otm

just after seeing thread i was walking near my teen’s blaring blabbering phone i immed noticed a woman saying “…MADE SO THAT IT RESONATES WITH U AND…” so yeah

today’s vibes

"source of truth"

Got a "welcome in" from a doctor the other day.

I’m even a fan of “I appreciate you” because it’s not a referendum am I good y/n it’s an appreciation.

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(

― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I appreciate you has begun to make inroads at my workplace in the past few months. I enjoy seeing it written to me in an email, but it feels so intimate that I'm uncomfortable writing or saying it myself. I've definitely told colleagues, "I appreciate it," or the more casual "Much appreciated." I hadn't thought too deeply about those before now, but in the light of I appreciate you, they do seem to put a little distance between the speaker and the receiver. So, I'm a fan, but it doesn't feel natural enough for me to say yet.

its stilted to my ears, i couldnt see where id ever hear it or use it where it wouldnt come out as a bit....much

but its a game of opinions and we are all using these phrases in very different contexts

people who take issue with the less formal versions of any such sentiment are a little weird tho i think

"sando" for sandwich

is that an australianism?

Japanese-ism

Yeah, and it's a term I only recently came across — an Asian fusion food cart that I buy from sells three different "sandos" (pork, chicken, and fish), and they're all good but that term is very annoying.

TBF "sando" the word is Japanese so kinda doesnt count here.

"Sanga" is the Australianism.

"source of truth"

― reggae mike love (polyphonic)

Useful jargon with a specific meaning sorry

sanger wokkas mate

yeah nah

What about "sarnie"?

also bad

V bad.

Just call it a damn sandwhich. Cutesy nicknames that aren't any shorter drive me nuts. Brekkie, Crimbo, sunnies etc.