Words or phrases that annoy you (even if you can't explain why) . . .

[Scepticalscribe]

I think Kay Kay meaning OK. We sometimes quickly say K instead of OK when responding to someone.

My son does this stuff:

"kk"
"Alr" (alright)
"nm" (never mind)

🤦‍♂️

Gosh.

Thanks for the explanation; much appreciated.

That sounds almost like a new language to me.

And yes, I know, I know, language always changes and evolves, and the young always coin, or invent, fresh forms of slang that are impenetrable - and that is the point - to their elders.

 

[Kung]

Gosh.

Thanks for the explanation; much appreciated.

That sounds almost like a new language to me.

And yes, I know, I know, language always changes and evolves, and the young always coin, or invent, fresh forms of slang that are impenetrable - and that is the point - to their elders.

What my son doesn't count on is the fact that

- I'm an IT guy and therefore online and usually aware of this stuff
- AND I research the crap out of stuff.

So it's insanely hard for him to pass stuff by me, and it almost always gets found out later on anyways.

 

[usagora]

Actual YouTube comment about a song:

30 some years later and I’m scared to admit this song still belts me hard in the feels.

The guy must be at least 40-50 years old. That's something I'd expect to hear from a teen (and even then it's still super cringey) 🤦🏼‍♂️

 

[Kung]

Actual YouTube comment about a song:



The guy must be at least 40-50 years old. That's something I'd expect to hear from a teen (and even then it's still super cringey) 🤦🏼‍♂️

It sounds like his comment belted you hard in the feels.

 

[usagora]

It sounds like his comment belted you hard in the feels.

Not the same kind of "feels," but yeah, if you want to phrase it in that cringey way 😂

 

[LedRush]

Gosh.

Thanks for the explanation; much appreciated.

That sounds almost like a new language to me.

And yes, I know, I know, language always changes and evolves, and the young always coin, or invent, fresh forms of slang that are impenetrable - and that is the point - to their elders.

I have a lot of fun responding to my children by taking their abbreviations as literal, or by deliberately misconstruing what they are saying in their acronyms or slang. If they abbreviate "thank you" as "ty", I mention that our friend Ty isn't in the conversation and that you should capitalize his name. Of if "thank you" becomes "thx", I will start talking about the history of THX in theaters. Fortunately, my children still love me and find my stupid jokes [mostly] funny.

 

[yaxomoxay]

My son does this stuff:

"kk"
"Alr" (alright)
"nm" (never mind)

🤦‍♂️

I can understand the last two, at least they save time and letters. It sucks but it’s functional. But kk???

 

[yaxomoxay]

I have a lot of fun responding to my children by taking their abbreviations as literal, or by deliberately misconstruing what they are saying in their acronyms or slang. If they abbreviate "thank you" as "ty", I mention that our friend Ty isn't in the conversation and that you should capitalize his name. Of if "thank you" becomes "thx", I will start talking about the history of THX in theaters. Fortunately, my children still love me and find my stupid jokes [mostly] funny.

Doing that stuff is funny especially to grumpy teenagers. The other day my kid was preparing some frozen pizza in the oven for himself (“a snack” he said, I envy his metabolism), and set up the oven’s timer. Instead of asking me to help or to call him when the timer was beeping he simply said “message me when it’s beeping please”. The precise request AND the please let me believe that he was going to talk to some of his friends or (worse) his girlfriend and didn’t want my voice to be heard. So, the timer beeped at the appointed time, and I started to spam him with a sad tale of a sad oven; here’s the beginning:

 

[usagora]

"KK"

Girls write it back all the time in text messages instead of saying OK. I die a little inside each time I see it.

I can understand the last two, at least they save time and letters. It sucks but it’s functional. But kk???

Urban Dictionary: kk

OK, cool. closest to gotcha or sure in conversation. very similar to roger in CB usage. Importantly, using "kk" instead of "Okay" avoids any suggestion of sarcasm or doubt. There are lots of ways of inflecting Okay. kk is just pure acknowledgement; your message is received. And it is fast to type.

www.urbandictionary.com

 

[floral]

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Urban Dictionary: kk

OK, cool. closest to gotcha or sure in conversation. very similar to roger in CB usage. Importantly, using "kk" instead of "Okay" avoids any suggestion of sarcasm or doubt. There are lots of ways of inflecting Okay. kk is just pure acknowledgement; your message is received. And it is fast to type.

www.urbandictionary.com

"I hate people saying "Ok" all the time, it's so sarcastic and fresh!"
invents a new "Ok" for avoiding any suggestion of sarcasm and attitude
"I hate people saying "Kk" all the time, it's so lazy and mindless!

 

[mollyc]

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Urban Dictionary: kk

OK, cool. closest to gotcha or sure in conversation. very similar to roger in CB usage. Importantly, using "kk" instead of "Okay" avoids any suggestion of sarcasm or doubt. There are lots of ways of inflecting Okay. kk is just pure acknowledgement; your message is received. And it is fast to type.

www.urbandictionary.com

My daughter (17) uses "kk" a lot to me, and I will say that she only uses it in a positive way. If she is even slightly annoyed for some reason, she will type out "okay."

There was also a trend a few years ago about repeating last letters in general just in text speak. I don't know why, but I know Gen Zers who, if they wanted my user name, would instead choose "mollycccccc." Some of it was probably just to differentiate from a name already taken so they just repeated the last letter till a free user name came up. I kind of thought the "kk" was born from that, but I don't actually know that.

 

[Chuckeee]

"KK"

Girls write it back all the time in text messages instead of saying OK. I die a little inside each time I see it.

Actually it’s more wide spread than just texting. I have had occasion to actually hear “Kay Kay” used in conversation

 

[Kung]

I have a lot of fun responding to my children by taking their abbreviations as literal, or by deliberately misconstruing what they are saying in their acronyms or slang. If they abbreviate "thank you" as "ty", I mention that our friend Ty isn't in the conversation and that you should capitalize his name. Of if "thank you" becomes "thx", I will start talking about the history of THX in theaters. Fortunately, my children still love me and find my stupid jokes [mostly] funny.

I inadvertently discovered what bugs the living CRAP out of my son:

"Bruh."

Overheard him a few weeks ago saying "bruh" to his buddies 243 times in a half hour period, so for the next few weeks I'd liberally sprinkle 'bruh' into all of my conversations with him. After about 2 days he almost literally begged me to stop using it.

"No one says that anymore Dad! OMG...please don't let any of my friends overhear you saying that..."

As it turns out they thought it was hilarious 😆

 

[DMG35]

"I hate people saying "Ok" all the time, it's so sarcastic and fresh!"
invents a new "Ok" for avoiding any suggestion of sarcasm and attitude
"I hate people saying "Kk" all the time, it's so lazy and mindless!

Only a very sensitive demographic of people (which I won't name) would say that saying "Ok" is sarcastic and fresh and I'll leave it at that. And I still hate KK.

 

[usagora]

Actually it’s more wide spread than just texting. I have had occasion to actually hear “Kay Kay” used in conversation

Ugh **shudders**. Reminds me of that episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where the lady does "verbal texting" by literally saying "el oh el" (LOL) in spoken conversation instead of laughing 🤦🏼‍♂️ Just why?!

 

[yaxomoxay]

two other uses that I don’t like are for “cringe” and “creepy”, both overused to the death.

 

[adrianlondon]

Most of the new-ish words I hate have come from my bad habit of reading Reddit threads.

They give me the ick.

That's one right there. Ick.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Most of the new-ish words I hate have come from my bad habit of reading Reddit threads.

They give me the ick.

That's one right there. Ick.

That’s so sus bruh.

 

[B S Magnet]

I have a million of those, although I've never thought about that aspect. However, I've refrained from posting those in this thread, because mispronunciation is not the topic.

On the contrary: words and phrases which annoy — the remit of this thread title — relates directly to how people communicate, and how that communication can come across as completely off-flavour, off-key, or crass for the reader/listener.

Drawing notice to such words, in which phonemes get lodged clumsily into them, lazily and even mysteriously (or not so mysteriously, as may be the case with the example of “nukular”), generating a completely absurd result in the process, is perfect grounds for discussing a word which is deeply annoying (and one for which one can probably explain why it’s annoying.

[This is my 4,000th (official) post on MR forums — ”I wish I knew how to quit yew!”. I guess I’m now that basement-slow Power Macintosh 6100/60 huffing and puffing with Mac OS 7.6. 🐹🎡]

 

[usagora]

"nope out" meaning deciding to have nothing to do with something.

e.g. "I told Rob the boss wanted us to work late, and he noped out of the office really fast."

 

[B S Magnet]

"nope out" meaning deciding to have nothing to do with something.

e.g. "I told Rob the boss wanted to work late, and he noped out of the office really fast."

Oooh, that’s a new one to my ears! I actually kind of like it, putting it up there with “hard nope” (as another way of saying, “Aw, hell naw”).

The fairly recent elevation of the word “nope” in casual usage, as shorthand for situations not meriting of more than one syllable, is a usage I’m guessing Engie would express his vehement disagreement.

So I shouted and asked him from across the lot. He stopped wrenching the pipe he’d been fitting, ran up, and said,

(I guess you could say he was pretty emphatic about it, because he came back and repeated himself. I left him there, as he beat a circular trail on the lot.)

 

[usagora]

as another way of saying, “Aw, hell naw”

That reminds me of this hilarious clip I saw recently 😂

 

[Macky-Mac]

"oh look! you've got a a parking ticket!"

I never like hearing that one

 

[decafjava]

That’s so sus bruh.

OMG so cringe of you to say that.

 

[Kung]

That’s so sus bruh.

Dead@ss, no cap.