Every time I hear someone say ‘eh’ in a questioning tone or to mean ‘um actually’ I lose my shit. Or even just to play something down.
Like I literally come to hate the person instantly. Its a very strong feeling on a very small sound.
Instant downvotes if I see it on Lemmy too. HATE IT.
How about all y’all?
“No offence, but …” followed by an insult.
Or starting off with an insult, then ending it with “Just saying …”
As if these phrases nullify being a dick. If you’re going to be an asshole, own it. Don’t make excuses up.
People who add periods to their acronyms (which is unnecessary to begin with), and then omit the last period.
When talking politics:
“It’s plain as day” “Common sense” “I don’t know about that” “We all know” “It’s just natural” “Normal” “Everybody (verbs) (x)”
Like that kind of stuff irks me in normal conversations but when we are talking about something that is part of common debate, obviously it’s fucking not already known “common sense”, and dismissing evidence that clearly contradicted it by saying “I don’t about that” or similar just sends me.
It’s a problem with trolls, strangers, and even loved ones for me. It’s just wild
I dont know about that… :p
“What I think she was trying to say is that- 🤓☝️” Stop trying to put words in my mouth or speak on my behalf when I am right here to put my point across to everyone.
That followed by those public event speakers that brush off the first round of goodmornings and then say “SAy iT lOuDeR! wHeRes yOuR eNeRgY! DIdNt yOu aLl eAt bReAkfAst?! 🤪” Idk what it is about hearing this sentence early in the morning that inspires so much hatred in me. You could have the most riveting, inspiring and thought provoking presentation in the world and have done lots of commendable deeds but if that string of words exits mouth before showing all of it, I automatically dislike you and whatever you have to say next.
I think what youre trying to say is that you want to communicate your own ideas in the way you wish to and not funneled through another mind.
Also yes anyone in public speaking wanting more of a response is annoying.
How do I leave a 50/50 downvote and upvote for this lol. The downvote is for that banger of an opening sentence and the upvote is in agreement to those kinds of public speakers being annoying.
You don’t have any downvotes there??
“It is what it is” when describing a bad situation.
No, that’s defeatist as hell, it will be whatever it will be when I’ve given it everything I can to make it better.I have come to dislike this saying quite a lot. I have heard friends, family, the general populace utter this saying so often for the last 4-5 years It’s become grating to hear.
“Most people think ___.” No, unless you’re citing a statistic or roughly quantifying how many anecdotes you’ve heard agreeing with you to support that statement (both of which rarely happen), that’s just your opinion wrapped up in language to avoid actually justifying it.
Additionally, even if most people think something, I don’t care what most people think. In my experience what most people think vs what the best thing to think is are often not aligned.
Most forms of slang have a bit of that experience for me. The whole point of language is an attempt to make it possible to transfer information from one person to another. If someone is going to intentionally obscure what they are saying, they’re just being an asshole, making other people do mental work, either so they don’t have to (‘So I was, like, mluh’ instead of ‘I felt angry for being mistreated.’) or just to assert dominance. (using heavily obscurant slang their friend group came up with outside of the group, ‘totes mcgrotes crackin’ being used to mean ‘very horny’)
In writing: “A Masterclass in X” to describe some sort of exemplary behavior. Hate hate hate seeing it.
I’m more forgiving with spoken language, but agree with the use of “literally” to mean “figuratively”, it bothers me.
And in niche hairstyling lingo I hate when people use the word “micro-plopping” to describe scrunching or blotting with a cloth, because that technique precedes the word by at least 25 years, it wasn’t invented recently and didn’t need a new word. Plopping is tying your wet hair up in a cloth in a accordioned arrangement for awhile, and scrunching is just scrunching. What they are describing is better explained by saying they blotted with a cloth and/or scrunched with a cloth.
Similar to a ‘masterclass in x’ that I dislike is ‘the art of x’
Since you asked, “Touch grass” bothers me.
Ive noticed that so many people are bothered by minor things in life.
That being said, I hate the “lets circle back to that”. :)
I’ve seen/heard a few Americans (old and young) saying something like “it has been a minute” to indicate “it has been a long time”. What the hell is that? How did that start? Please someone enlighten me
I guess it’s the opposite of “I won’t be a minute”, which means I’ll be fast.
Great flag, by the way.
That one’s been around long enough I doubt anyone really knows its origin. It does follow a pattern of using the minute to describe various amounts of time.
For instance, a ‘New York minute’ means extremely quickly and a ‘hot minute’ is a long time, but much less than just ‘it’s been a minute’.
It’s just a euphemism, it’s a sentence made funny by how much it understates the reality of the situation
“Literally” meaning figuratively. I’m fine with most words changing with use; but we need that word! It’s how you indicate you’re not exaggerating or speaking dramatically! Especially these days, that clarification is important!
I’m also seeing a lot of corporate buzzwords in job descriptions. I get that these are essentially technical terms, but they’re not being used for accuracy or clarity here. You just don’t like how short your description is.
I’ve taken to using ‘actually literally’ to indicate I’m not being literally figurative. It’s a losing battle, though. Anything we come up with to mean being literal will become a dramatic enhancer eventually.
Eh, to make a long story short, corpos have been using jargon and buzzwords in job descriptions, literally forever. 🤪
“to make a long story short” - especially when used multiple times in one story and/or as a mindless audiospace filler to hold control of the conversation while assembling more thoughts/words… without knowing both the long and short version it literally adds nothing to the communication, it literally makes the story longer every time you use it (wasting my time), it’s probably the longest socially acceptable way to say that (one could just say: “in short”), and it’s got just enough word-scramble verbal complexity to occupy the higher order English parsing logic.
Perfect chance to interrupt their story:
“Please make your long story short.”
“Ding ding ding!”
I think it’s condescending as fuck.
100%
“I have nothing to hide” -Man wearing pants
You “hold the fort”. It’s a military position.
Only a fort molester would “hold down” the fort.
wait what
a) can forts be molested b) does holding something down meaning it’s being molested? think paper weights c)
Two questions:
Is it a pillow fort?
Where is JD Vance in this scenario?
JD vance is jealous of my fort game is all I’m gonna say
a) can forts be molested b) does holding something down meaning it’s being molested?
I don’t know, but that’s what I think off when someone says “hold down the fort”.
think paper weights c)
And if the expression was “hold down the bouncy castle” that would make a lot more sense. Not as an expression … but on a windy day at least.
ngl this conversation got me kinda randy
I bet it comes from people also hearing “batten down the hatches” which makes a little more sense.
