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Words or phrases that annoy you (even if you can't explain why) . . .
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Apparently you missed the phrase "over-the-top" and also the other parts of the post that clarified I'm talking about fake outrage, not genuine concern. But seeing as you came up with that straw man in the first place, it doesn't surprise me that you would try to twist my post as well. I will not discuss this further--my post was clear.
I disagree, the phrase is just an accurate description of an obnoxious act generally performed by obnoxious people.
"Well you can't blame a baby for her pregnant ma" - Jack White
Another one that irks me is when my eye alights on a sentence that includes "I could of" when, of course, what should have been written is "I could have".
I suspect that this error arose because of the sound - the phonetics - of the compressed, contracted, form of "I could have", which is written "I could've", and this can, indeed, sound as though what was said, is "I could of".
Nevertheless, it annoys me.
I suspect that this error arose because of the sound - the phonetics - of the compressed, contracted, form of "I could have", which is written "I could've", and this can, indeed, sound as though what was said, is "I could of".
Nevertheless, it annoys me.
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I typically find the people who use the phrase to be equally as insufferable as the people they apply it to. 🤷🏻♂️
Here's one that just annoys me the heck out of me, which is when I ask a favor of someone, or even just send them a message or a link or something, and they respond with something like, "I'm busy now, so I'll have to check it out later." WELL YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME THAT... just don't respond until you can check it out! I don't know why that annoys me so much, but wow... just had it happen twice in the last half hour with two different people.
And it's almost like they're implying, "Hey, unlike you, some of us have to work, and you're bothering me. You have too much free time." Of course, more than likely it's just their way of thinking they're being polite by acknowledging receipt (which at least is better than people who simply never reply or take ages to), but still I can see how it would be annoying the way they word it.
"Can I ask you a question?" sent as an instant message.
Just ask it. How likely is it, especially in a business setting, that I'm going to answer "no"?
For bonus points, I reply immediately with some variety of "yes" and then sit there waiting for the question... which finally turns up two days later.
Game changer
At the end of the day
Anyways (not even a word!)
To your point
Blah blah blah
At the end of the day
Anyways (not even a word!)
To your point
Blah blah blah
Game changer - hate it, never use it
At the end of the day - also hate it, never use it
Anyways - use it all the time. I also think it's a dialect thing
To your point - don't really hate it, but never use it.
My typical answer is -- "You just did."
If it's a meaningful question, they usually apologise and ask the real question.
If they are just time-wasting, they usually back off.
But then, I'm just a grumpy old man...
Speaking of questions, a funny thing I've been noticing with some of my more "popular" friends on Facebook (you know, the ones who will post the most inane things and get 200+ likes/loves/etc. in an hour 🙄)--they will often go through all the comments on their posts after a while and just indiscriminately "like" every one of them, including direct questions. Yet they never answer the questions! Apparently they're not even reading the comments.
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I get annoyed with marketing/corporate jargon that catches on to the point that everyone is using it. "But will it scale?" "Is it scalable?" 
"Cringe". A word that has somehow been changed from a verb to an adjective when I wasn't looking. Seeing that word misused everywhere is cringe inducing.
Except it's not "misused." English is not a dead language--it's still evolving. The adjectival use is even in the dictionary (and, surprisingly to me, labeled as "mainly British"--I would've thought for sure it was more of an American thing):
So, not "misused," but I'll buy "I don't like it used like that," since that's obviously subjective. I feel the same way about "legit" used as an adverb (as mentioned in my OP), but I'd never claim people are "misusing" the word like that, because it is indeed a legitimate use of that word, no matter how "cringe" it may sound to me 😉
Well I had no idea. I've never heard it used like that until the last 5 years or so and figured it was just a lazy way to say 'cringe inducing'. Being mainly an informal British term is likely why I've not come across it. Anyway, I hate it and wish people would stop.
Well I had no idea. I've never heard it used like that anywhere until the last 5-10 years at the most and figured it was just a lazy way to say 'cringe inducing'. Anyway, I hate it and wish people would stop.
I normally say "cringey" (alt. spelling: "cringy") instead of "cringe" when using it as an adjective.
I dislike seeing the verb "invite" now being turned into a shortcut for the proper word "invitation." "We're sending out invites to our party next week!" instead of "We're sending out invitations to our party next week!"
That looks like the built-in Dictionary app, yet the text is different from mine!
Mine only lists "cringeworthy" and "cringey" as adjectives.
I wonder if that's a regional thing—you're not in the US, are you? Maybe that's what it's about.