Words You Find Irritating, part 2

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Where to begin? For starters:

“Suppose to” for “supposed to”. “Use to” for “used to”. Not understanding the correct application of which/that/who/whom. Concatenating words: “Break up” doesn’t mean the same thing as “breakup”. Same for “every day” and “everyday”. “Cause” for “because”. Even worse - “cos” or “cuz”. Like for around or approximately - “I was like thirteen years old”. “An” for “and” - this is a new one. “Pass” for “die”. “So...” at the start of a sentence. It adds nothing to its meaning. “Cringe” as an adjective. “Clutch” as an adjective.

Well as long as we’re on the topic, r2, what about people that don’t know where punctuation goes when dealing with quotation marks?

Every one of your periods go INSIDE the quotation marks.

Actually, R3 - that rule depends on country. I’m not American.

Let's HOOK UP instead of saying let's FUCK.

If you’re typing and reading English, the rule applies.

The British leave their punctuation outside of their quotation marks.

Leave it to the Brits to be leaving things dangling where they don’t belong.

No wonder the British lost their empire.

Off to a bad start here, guys.

The first thread covered a lot of ground. Diminishing returns are to be expected.

Just saw on a Gus Kenworthy thread: thicc.

R10, we’re just funnin’. At least there’s a conversation going.

And r11 is right. The last thread closed at 600 responses. Even if half were direct responses to OP, that’s 300 words we covered.

“I could care less.”

Really? I couldn’t. But I’d be glad to recommend a remedial English tutor.

[quote] "Love" is an adjective?

It is when used in highly irritating expressions such as "He's such a love muffin!"

Actually, there are any numbers of phrases in which "love" is used as an adjective. Not quite the same annoyance factor as when nouns are stupidly turned into verbs.

then/than than/then

What in hell is so fucking hard about these two words?

And what, may I ask, is so hard about lose vs. loose?

Also, your vs. you're.

Definately. Definetly. Defiantly.

Could of. Would of. Should of.

Abit. Asmuch. Aswell. Alot.

r16 Technically, you're correct. That is how the sentence would diagram. But "Love Boat" translates into "boat for love," so it's not the adjectiviest adjective you could modify a noun with. It's another noun, in fact, the way I wrote it in the second example. But yes, technically, you're correct.

R7, the period/full stop always goes inside the quotation marks if it belongs to the material quoted:

I said to him, "get your hand off my dick."

This is true in British English as well. However, if the period/full stop is not a part of the material within the quotation marks, it goes outside the marks in British English:

The transman told the woman to get her hand off his "dick".

In American English, according to strict usage, the period would go inside the quotation marks even in the second example. I'm an American, but I think the British system is more logical, so I prefer to follow it, editors be damned.

These three words all have different meanings, and are not interchangeable:

pallet

palate

palette

"Supposably" is not a word.

I detest «pass » for die.

I like pass. Much gentler than died. It still hurts to say my mom died, my dad died, my brother died. Saying my mom passed is something I can do.

They're, there, their. Fewer, less. And what is with looser instead of loser?

Poor r27.

For all intensive purposes.

No. Just no.

I just take it for granite that many people are illiterate.

Fuck you, r30. I have imminent knowledge of the English language.

The phrase "coupled up" always makes the person saying it sound like they're a second away from choking on something.

Bae.

The constantly misused infer vs. imply. The speaker implies, the listener infers.

Chillaxin. Not really a word, but I HATE it nonetheless.

Plethora.

I like it in a way but find it irritating at the same time.

R2 and R4 here - funny how so many smart arsed posters initially assumed that I was American then, once advised that I wasn’t, assumed that I’m British.

I’m neither.

Personally, I couldn't give a shit where you're from, r37l, but I agree with you about the words and expressions you find irritating.

^R37, not R37l, doh.

arsed

I love "arsed."

Slay and killing it in place of doing great is mind numbingly irritating.

"On accident" instead of "by accident", as in "I did it on accident."

I read about this (mis)usage in a grammar column a few years ago and scoffed. "Nobody says that", I scoffed. Now I hear it fairly often, and it grates on the ear every time.

I used to say "on accident" when I was a kid. It was, to my way of thinking, the opposite of "on purpose." I didn't hear it from my parents, or anyone around me, AFAICR, because my mother used to tease me about saying it.

Drop, as in "so and so's new album dropped today." When and why the fuck did this crap start?

Moist, moister, moistest

Luncheon

Costly. Nourish.

R45, it comes from back in the day when a record in a jukebox would drop down to the phonograph to play.

A good example is the opening sequence on Happy Days.

"Fit for purpose"

“you’ve got this!” Calling people “rock stars”

Both these things are so condescending. Used a lot by low level bureaucrats and retail bosses.

[quote]Just saw on a Gus Kenworthy thread: thicc.

I keep seeing little white girls using this on social media. It’s based on a Crip tradition of not using the letters C and K together but I’m sure they don’t know that.

[quote]It’s based on a Crip tradition of not using the letters C and K together

Because they hate Calvin Clein?

Literally

gives no fucks = has no brain

When someone uses “succinctly” to describe four paragraphs of rambling.

"Fun" as an adjective. Drives me wild.

^^??

"kicky"

[quote]"Fun" as an adjective. Drives me wild.

Indeed. I almost orgasm when I hear someone say (correctly) "this is so much fun" instead of the nouveau, everyone else is doing it "this is so fun."

"Hard pass" is becoming overused here, and "exhausting" is wildly overused.

When I read "hard pass," I can almost feel a rock-solid cock in the small of my back.

"weaponize"

Folx

"cascade" as in "HR will cascade the new messaging around mindfulness training through line managers"

frenulum

Ugh, r65, I hate all of that stupid office jargon.

"Cascade" this, middle management motherfucker.

Seminal Iconic Shambolic Whip-smart. Problematic. Privilege as a verb

Speaking of "hard pass": "Hard stop", as in "I have a hard stop at 2." It just means they have to end the meeting promptly at 2. Apparently, saying "let's wrap this up because I have a conference call [or whatever] at 2" is not jargon-y enough.

R67

One of the comedians at my former place of business created a bingo game using words and phrases of office jargon--we'd play it on our phones and I'm sure to this day our Dilbertian boss thought we were all fired up for whatever Policy du Jour they were rolling out from the number of "Bingos!" He was particularly fond of "moving forward."

We also had a workplace training video on sexual harassment that used the hated phrase "you've got this" that always set my teeth on edge.

[quote]"Hard pass" is becoming overused here, and "exhausting" is wildly overused.

I’ll see your two words and raise you two:

Sociopath

Narcissist.

The most overused words on DL, and most people haven’t a clue to what they really mean.

r49 So not true. It used to be "release date" or "street date," and the whole "my album drops on whatever date" is fairly recent, and coined by people who have no idea what you're talking about.

Madame X