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

[dotzero123]

"Literally". I'll literally be very happy when the trend to literally add "literally" to every sentence literally dies.

This. I won’t even repeat it for fun as it’s so annoying.

 

[halledise]

Shouldn't the car be the drivee?

that’d be the passenger surely?

 

[halledise]

This. I won’t even repeat it for fun as it’s so annoying.

i’d have to agree with you there … lit****ly

 

[halledise]

Wha? FOUR defenestrations! So, you're saying Prague aint got no mo trees?

plenty trees still but an awful lot of busted windows

 

[Ledsteplin]

"Alot"... alot.......

What?

Why?

Reminds me of the they're/there/their thing.

"Alot" is not a word. It is 2 words. A lot.

 

[halledise]

spoil chickers

 

[Iwavvns]

I'm tired of seeing question marks on simple declarative sentences? I think these question marks often make the actual question unclear?

Some people even speak like that when clearly it is a statement rather than a question?

 

[halledise]

upward inflections

 

[halledise]

Some people even speak like that when clearly it is a statement rather than a question?

see link in previous post that enhances your point ?

 

[Iwavvns]

see link in previous post that enhances your point ?

Thank you for that link, I haven’t laughed that loudly in years!

 

[halledise]

Thank you for that link, I haven’t laughed that loudly in years!

it holds so very true to this day …. you know?

 

[rm5]

"Alot" is not a word. It is 2 words. A lot.

I know.

 

[halledise]

Thank you for that link, I haven’t laughed that loudly in years!

what teachers make

 

[usagora]

According to the Dictionary app, it's behoove, but behove is an alternate spelling.

Actually, the correct spelling is:

be

😂

Seriously, that's what I think about every time I hear that word.

 

[halledise]

Actually, the correct spelling is:

be

😂

Seriously, that's what I think about every time I hear that word.

behold the cloven hoofs - or should that be hooves?

 

[rm5]

"Staycation." I know it's a completely legitimate word, but it is annoying after all.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

"Staycation." I know it's a completely legitimate word, but it is annoying after all.

Very annoying, agreed.

I suspect that this may be something to do with a veneer of (patronising, if not smug) virtue with which that term has come to have been invested.

 

[halledise]

i’m sure it has been noted before - influencer.
i loathe the word.
it is so pretentious … 😒

 

[Scepticalscribe]

i’m sure it has been noted before - influencer.
i loathe the word.
it is so pretentious … 😒

But this is not just that noun, that word, that is unsettling, - for it does describe something that the monetisation of the online space has allowed to happen - but that whole online world - that virtual universe where "influencers" dwell and without which they couldn't exist - that is equally pretentious and discomfiting. They simply (and appallingly) reflect the world that gave rise to them.

 

[sgtaylor5]

one of my current favourite words is defenestration, especially when speaking with green type people as they think it has something to do with cutting down old growth forests, which is a bone of contention hereabouts on the north coast of NSW (Australia) where i’m residing for Xmas.
it actually means to throw someone out of a window 🤓

I’m a “founding member” of the so-called Computer Anti-Defenestration League, insofar as I repair computers for (mostly) seniors…

 

[yankees992013]

Lets Be Real and FR (For Real). I noticed more people using these words.

 

[halledise]

'you can't be serious' is another annoying phrase to my ears.
wait what?
of course i'm serious otherwise i would not have made the statement!
or, if it's someone i really want to p**s off, i may respond with - i couldn't be any more serial/cereal on this matter if i tried.
which usually elicits - wait, what?
the problem is that grammar, punctuation, elocution and english comprehension is no longer taught in schools.
there are so many delicious nuances in the hinglish language that younger people rarely latch onto them these days.
for example: ask someone under the age of 25 what is a double entendre? …

 

[joeblack007]

One of the most annoying words for me is: glitching. Customer’s phone is glitching? It’s fair to say that this word bothers me 😂

 

[dotnet]

'you can't be serious' is another annoying phrase to my ears.
wait what?
of course i'm serious otherwise i would not have made the statement!

Really? You couldn’t have said it in jest? “You can’t be serious” is another way of saying “you must be joking”.

 

[dotnet]

i may respond with - i couldn't be any more serial/cereal on this matter if i tried.

You should respond “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley”.