What word or term annonys you?

@CuddlyCassowary ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS this topic!

"BREAKING:"

It's always superlatives, even for the most mundane and boring things

I really like your username btw... I now wanna cuddle a cassowary and/or you

Ah all the typical clickbait words. I hate them too. Lifehack in particular is a word I'm sick of now

Thing is... this sort of makes sense if you say it with a hint of sarcasm. But curiously the only people that use this phrase are Americans. And we all know how much they understand sarcasm 🤣.

I sometimes say "I could care less, but not by much"

This exactly! I always get so confused when people say that.

Same with "Do you mind doing x?" "Yeah sure"; so you mind doing it? I get what they mean with the response, but it annoys me every time haha

https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw?si=tKM8xq1MLdvvkxa_

The entire way recipes are written is trash.

"Add the flour and stir gently": How much flour? Why do I have to scroll back up to check?!

Oooh yeah. Even saying, 'this'.

I’m allergic to corpospeak in general.

Marxists have a hundred years of text dedicated to alienation from labor, the falling rate of profit, degeneration of art and creative disciplines under later capitalism due to the profit motive, cycles of class struggle, all based on a materialist analysis of changing production and class relationsi

But for some reason a trendy term like enshittification that vaguely means things are getting worse, without going into the basis about why they're currently getting worse, has caught on.

I'm convinced it's part of the tech grifter trend to take things that were already invented, slap a new name on it, repackage it, and sell it.

It's the enshittification of internet discussion

Okay but if we use "Late stage capitalism and the quest for profit above all else is causing the quality of goods and commodities to drop while their value stays the same or goes up," it's going to result in 20 minutes trying to explain things correctly followed by 20 hours of anti-communist arguments.

I'm also sick of it, but I also sort of like how it's gone viral. I had a very non-techy friend mention it to me the other day. I feel like most of the people who I see talking about it are jazzed because it makes them feel seen. My friend, for example, said to me that before she learned of "enshittification", she felt like she was going mad because of how things don't seem to work like they used to, especially in tech; she said that for the longest time, she had assumed it must be something that she was doing wrong.

But yet it explains so much about the modern world. All this time we’ve been abused and mistreated, had our data collected and income extracted in so many scammy ways ….. and now we have a word that fits it so perfectly

They're the same types that appear in comment threads with contradictory arguments to literally fucking anything -

"We should save the whales"

"Yes but my cousin got splashed by a whale on a boat trip as a toddler and now has a terrible phobia that makes her wheeze whenever she sees one. Do you want that, is that what you want?"

"We should plan walkable cities"

"OH MY GOD SHES IN A WHEELCHAIR TOO DO YOU ONLY EVER THINK ABOUT YOURSELF YOU ABLEIST"

😂

My theory is that they're just unbelievably bo-o-o-o-oring, humourless people with nothing to add to a conversation but a desperate need for attention

Sometimes, a settler needs for shaming.

Oh God that's got to be the worst one.

OK yeah

Similarly, not a fan of when teachers and parents talk about their "kiddos."

Feels like they're needlessly using a more playful childish term to make themselves part of a separate "in group" who "gets it."

I'd like to introduce to my friend Freud.

That never bothered me all too much. Then yesterday i watched a video on youtube to kinda doze off. Dude made some insane stuff in Minecraft. Now i usually don't really watch these videos or Minecraft videos in general. But the production value, time and effort that went into it was beyond everything i have seen so far. The usage of the word literally kept me awake. Every time i had to flinch and at some point i had to turn it off, despite my interest.

I don’t mind people using “literally” to refer to things that they don’t literally mean because that’s just perfectly normal exaggeration.

What I hate is that the dictionary definition changed to formalize the nonliteral meaning as a literal meaning.

I literally could not care less about literally. MANY words over time end up meaning the opposite of what they did, its just the nature of how humans use language. I love that we've seen this change happen right in front of us.

RIP "literally"

That’s now how people in my subculture use it.

They use it to mean “it’s too late to avoid this problem; let’s talk about things we can change at this point”.

Example:

“If you hadn’t stopped at that rest area the killer never would have slashed our tires”

“Well if you hadn’t jumped for those cheap tires maybe he wouldn’t have been able to slash them with a butter knife”

“And if you’d paid for the triple A we’d have a ride by now”

“Look, it is what it is. Let’s just figure out a way to get back to town without having to follow the road”

I’m currently going through a pretty bad divorce where my wife cheated on me, drained my accounts, lawyered up and send a letter demanding $280,000 and isn’t signing documents or responding to her legal council.

I’d love to get it all finalised and end that chapter of my life but realistically I can’t force her to do anything. I can’t make her sign documents, I can’t make her talk to her lawyer. So ultimately it is what it is.

Frankly, that saying has (since our separation) become an anthem to me. I can understand why you’d think it’s defeatism etc if it’s someone speaking of something they can legitimately do something about but truely sometimes it really is what it is.

I bake a lot of bread, including for my coeliac stepmother, so I've taken to labelling the loaves gluten-free and gluten-expensive

Yeah wouldn't it be "celiac-disease-haver-friendly"?

Man if that isn't just empty manager-speak, rephrasing things to BS you and be manipulative. Lol

Those sound so wrong

To quote Shakespeare, "Or not?"

My brother-in-law says the dishes "need washed" and it's nails on a goddamn chalkboard every time I hear it.

It’s always to mitigate something heinous. “I’m just sayin’, Mussolini made the trains run on time.”

Also "Not gonna lie..." to start a sentence. Well thank you for that decency?

YES

"Know what I'm sayin'?"

"Not really. Do you know what you're saying?"

Any corporation or even companies social media account being memey is annoying.

I just hate it when people try to elongate the word GO with more Os.

It’s now a new word. It’s GOO. Any further Os just make it gooier, not goier.

Can we just mean corporate speak in general. I can’t fucking stand all the buzzwords that get tossed around

Lemme get that shark cootchie board of curated meats

I feel like museums should get a pass on this one.

But along these lines, I’m SO over “bespoke.”

Would you settle for a single clergyman?

I don't even like when people say that in context of a playlist on a music streaming platform...

I mean maybe they spent a lot of time picking individual songs but it's still just a digital playlist, nothing that special IMO

I'm a waitress and "regular coffee" means different things across regions. Some people mean just "drip, not decaf" with no indication of cream or sugar. Some people mean "drip, black" with no indication of caffeine content. And where I grew up, "regular" means "2 cream 2 sugar", as in you'd be asked if you wanted your coffee "regular or black". It's the worst.

That latte lady was just crazy though... unless she meant "my regular"?

Ah, the four basic types of coffee, Regular, Posh, Italian and Wrong.

Regular coffee is a coffee. People say regular coffee because they've gotten fatigue from "which type?" questions. I'm more annoyed that the understanding of coffee has shifted away from the default just being an espresso. Over here in Spain if you ask for cafe you'll get a cafe solo.

Here a regular coffee would mean a milk based drink. Something like a cappuccino but not quite. Nestle ass drink.

I judge the shit out of people for this. It suggests that they don't even grasp the meaning of the words they are typing or saying.

"Who hurt you?"

I utterly fucking despise the contextual ableistic assholery inherent to that put-down. "Teehee, the person I disagree with must have trauma that distorts their view of the world and that's LE FUNNAY and worth mockery!"

Liberals are just unscratched fascists and this is evidence toward that statement.

It's a perfectly valid way to win an argument, end of sentence.

Q.E.D.

"Hands down"

I like both Rustles my jimmies and burns my biscuits, although I'm not sure I've ever heard it

I'm literally doing that rn

Indian here. Redditors say that Indians say this a lot. I'd like to tell you that while Indians do use this sentence, it's almost always placed only after a long, somewhat-gone-off-tangent-in-some-places conversation that explained everything well.

Maaaaaaybe it was to convince you without describing tasks, but... mostly, it's not so.

Also, I don't remember hearing it IRL at all. Just felt like I have heard it at least twice in my 18 years of humaning around.

The history of that phrase and how it re-entered modern English is fascinating though!

I'm so pleased to hear you admit that you did it. Your honesty is appreciated.

I didn't do no nothing wrong now, didn't I?

I'm afraid to say I kind of like that, although don't particularly use it much.

"bank grade security" grinds my gears, too

Having worked at actual banks, too, don't follow their lead....

I thought you'd never ask!

Oh yeah absolutely. I'm a programmer and I see so many companies and recruiters etc use Cyber instead of Cybersecurity. It drives me absolutely mad, but these type of people drive me mad anyways. It's probably the same crowd who ruined AI by overhyping it into its grave, the same crowd who were hyped by web 3.0 and the whole Blockchain craze, and probably all those other dumb crazes before it.

Still, this cyber thing seems to permeate everything, and I've heard people using the term who I otherwise respect. For me it's a quick way to instantly become very sceptical of whatever follows the term

Which is exactly what they don't want us to be able to discuss.

Perchance is a great word though. I think I'd probably use it if I knew how to do so appropriately in a sentence (though I imagine only a fraction of people who do use that word use it properly. That tends to be the case with formal or archaic words used in informal contexts)

The latter might have had a resurgence because of GoT, but I definitely heard the phrase before the show came out. I had to look it up to make sure, but it's origins go back to the 1800s.

Sometimes it's meant like "I'm about to ask what might sound like a dumb question, but I'm genuinely asking, so please take me seriously."

Sometimes it's meant like "I'm about to ask what might sound like a dumb question, but I'm genuinely asking, so please take me seriously."

So just like L words?

ｌｅｖｅｒａｇｅ

and they even have subtly different meanings that the talker often doesn't seem to realize.

you use something for what it's meant for. use a bucket to carry water.

you utilize something for something it works fine for, but it's not really the intended use. you utilize a shoe to prop opena window.

let's split the difference: usetilize,

This one is mine too. It's used in a way that can give it more meaning (mainly, this is something out of our control), but logically the phrase is just corpo filler-speak that means absolutely nothing.

I've always interpreted it as being equivalent to "what's done is done"

This is known as a thought terminating cliché. They can be more than just annoying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

Per se

Is that for spaghetti? I actually love people who naturally say words in a different way. Especially if they speak a different dialect or language.

when i was a kid, i figured it was a reference to some now obscure detective story, where a bowl of pudding contained the important clue as to who the killer was or something. it wasn't until much later that i heard of this etymology.

This is now top of my list

I quite like influencer I think it's good that they are called what they are being paid to do and not trying to hide. It's surprising honestly from a very dishonest industry.

You would have hated my highschool essays

Hm, I do this sometimes to mark that I am unsure about the statement I made, asking for confirmation. I think that is okay?

At the end of the day, it is night

Get a new son

Start using it yourself. Use it in awkward, wrong, uncool ways. They'll drop that shit like, "What the sigma Dad!?!"

Yeah, just "sigma" goes back to sigma male claptrap. But as with all internet memes, it evolved super rapidly and took on layers. "Sigma" started to mean just "the best", not in reference to male hierarchy necessarily. Then there was a cartoon clip with Squidward from SpongeBob where he said "what the sigma" and it went viral.

Websearch "what the sigma meme" today and you will get text and video explanations of the meme for old folks like you and me. I prefer ones from teachers who interact with middle schoolers; our frontline troops facing the bleeding edge of internet memespeak.

Hit your kids harder, dude.

I think it might be from a SpongeBob SquarePants meme. You might wanna start there. Not sure why that’s tickling my brain.

Oh and I just found this: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/whats-erm-what-the-sigma-meme-about-the-catchphrase-and-overstimulation-video-explained

So it looks like started as a TikTok thing and then spread into the SpongeBob world.

I’m not sure why my ADHD brain latched on to this question but I HAD to find the answer. I don’t know if this is definitive but it’s at least a direction.

Supermassive?

This is how I feel about several acronyms at work! There's a three letter acronym recently that was coming up a lot on a meeting. I had to search for a definition to understand the discussion. The meaning is fully encompassed by just using one four letter English word that nobody past kindergarten will be confused about. But this acronym is everywhere! Also, the single word has fewer syllables than the stupid acronym, so it's faster to say. Not by much, but it just adds insult to injury every time I hear it.

This

What's the correct usage? and the wrong one you've been hearing?

Me with nonplussed. I have a friend who uses it and he says it in situations that are ambiguous enough that I can't tell if he actually knows what it means.

I will use irregardless to my dying breath. In fact I go out of my way to use dumb combinations of synonyms all the time, mayhaps, possentially...

All intensive purposes

Wait a minute...

IM SORRY ITS MY SECOND LANGUAGE. THIRD TECHNICALLY.

I am someone who really likes the term for myself, because it can encompass a whole bunch of complex identities across gender and sexuality. It feels like it simplifies things for me, and has helped me to properly understand the necessity of LGBTQ solidarity. There have been times when I have been told it's inappropriate for me to personally identify as queer because some people find the term offensive, which I find absurd because such a large and heterogeneous community will never be unanimous on what terms or labels to use.

However, much more frequently than that, I have seen people being insensitive to the reality that there are a ton of people who have pretty legitimate beef with the term and who don't want it applied to them. I'm talking about situations like "queer folk like us " or "the queer community". It's a pretty reasonable request if someone says "hey, if you're referring to a group that involves me, I'd prefer you not use queer as a blanket term". The appropriate response to that is "I'm sorry, my bad", but I have seen way too many people start arguments that actually the (usually but certainly not always) older gay men are obstacles to Progress.

I like the way that a friend of mine framed it when he said that he's actively jazzed to see a word that did such harm being reclaimed by a new generation who are finding great power and solidarity in it. But that's never going to erase the sting he still feels when remembering being victimised for years by people who'd shout that word. "You can't reclaim a slur if you ignore all its history and disown the members of your community who experienced it as a slur".

It boggles my mind that there are people who are heavy advocates of the power of self determination of one's identity, but who don't see the issue in forcing the label of "queer" onto individuals who have expressly rejected it.

I've always thought queer had 2 connotations. The first being the slur. The second is a catch all for someone not lgbt or someone who doesn't know what they are yet.

I do this too much. My defence is that I am a bad writer who's working to be better.

on the internet everything is true. therefore if you don't preface your thoughts with "CW: opinion" your writing permanently alters reality and people will be angry at you for inconveniencing them.

imho.

Valid opinion on the phrasing. Disagree with the premise that anything someone says is necessarily their opinion.

Example: "For me, potatoes are easier to peel with a knife than a potato peeler" vs "Potatoes are easier to peel with a knife than a potato peeler". The former says that this is my experience and yours may differ. The latter says that this is true in general and if you find it easier the other way, there's a good chance you're doing something wrong.

what is bofa

Nah that's rizzler shit on God sigma 10k

Feels like fake caring?

At least the video game lemmings look nothing like real-life ones.

It could become accurate. I mean, with global warming and extreme weather increasing.