Words or Phrases you hate

It is What it Is

Please Advise

When a supervisor I hate says that to me I want to advise them that I am giving notice and leaving as soon as I complete my time sheet.

"Let me speak my truth"--there's only one truth, you stupid cunt!

"More or less"

"Nothingburger"

"FAKE NEWS"

"Benghazi"

"new normal"

And a bonus glare wishing your death itself if you say it is a perky, HR Department sort of way.

Tupac referred to as "Pac" by his fans

Michael Jackson referred to as the "king of pop". He should be referred to as "King of the Pedos".

Grow the business

My truth

My best life

Fierce

Slay

All cringeworthy and I instantly check out from really listening to the person that burps them

Hunker.

Hunty

Slay

CLAPPED BACK. The fact that every other news headline on yahoo has this phrase pisses me off.

“As well” when it’s overused.

Veggies Hubby Bestie

Agree to disagree

When a right winger says "It's just an opinion". No, saying "covid isn't dangerous" isn't a fucking opinion, stupid.

Granular

Luxury

Building my brand

Instagrammable

YouTube Beauty Community

Influencer. Thread closed

TRUMP 2020!!!!

Another vote for “problematic” also cancelling people on twitter.

Covid19

Black Lives Matter

All Lives Matter

Trans Lives Matter

Nigger

Niggah

The Jews Run Hollywood

Metoo

Wetoo

Donald fuckin' Trump

"GoFundMe", the words and the concept.

Catch Me Outside

American Imperialism

Western Imperialism

Usually these phrases are said by people who are big supporters of Russian Imperialism.

Cultural appropriation

Tone Policing

[quote]”Erasure"

C’mon, how about a little respect?

Boss Babe and Girl Boss

What’s your objection to “oligarchy,” OP? That’s not a trendy, PC word.

Moist

"We're all in this together."

No we're not...unless your helping to pay my bills and buy my groceries. I'm unemployed. and became so before the virus hit and the shutdown happened, so I don't qualify for unemployment benefits. I'm in this alone.

[quote] What’s your objection to “oligarchy,” OP? That’s not a trendy, PC word.

It is often used by Bernie Bros to degenerate any Democrat who does not agree with their messiah--"you're just for establishment candidates!" and "Pete and Biden just support the oligarcy!" are statements that they use together.

"Super" as an adverb

cis

Hierarchical

Fake News

Preferred Pronouns

Karen

"Baked in"

Queer Theory

Race Studies

Gender Studies

"Communist"

Pressed

Woke

Swole

Thick mispelled as thicc which should refer to cock

Extra

"Tea"

Shade

Bro

Brohan

Broseph

Swag which is supposed to be stolen jewellery

Brosky

Homies

Homegirl

"Social distancing"

The 'RONA instead of CORONA Does not save time saying it or characters typing it.

Chambo

systemic racism

existential threat

Intersectionality

Cis, or Cisgendered

Non-binary

Problematic

LGBTQIA+

^^^^YES

"make bank". I always assume that the person who says this phrase is a douchebag.

"Reach out" and "I get it".

Lose the mindless phrases, For Fuck's Sake!

Tremendous

Greatly

Cancelled

Awesome

"Amazing".

Sunsets, ocean views, and mountain views are amazing. Your coffee, waiter, and hotel room are not amazing. When I go on a travel review site, everything is "amazing". "The hotel was amazing. Our room was amazing. Joel the bellhop was amazing. The food was amazing."

Massengil.

Affect and effect.

Flammable and inflammable.

Any variation of "In these ___________ times."

Rape

Sexual Harassment

Unwanted Advances

Stalking

Protection Order

Under-age Prostitute

Damn R55, it good dark in here

“that’s not your story to tell.” And imagination died.

"Stay in your lane."

At the end of the day used multiple times when making a single point. DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. STOP.

"Kamala Harris"

Singing from the same sheet of music Spot on Good enough for government work

Folk instead of people

R62 I thought I was the only one who secretly raged at “folks.” It’s always used in a patronizing manner by the biggest assholes.

Preggers

Post haste.

Fake News.

[quote]It is often used by Bernie Bros to degenerate any Democrat who does not agree with their messiah--"you're just for establishment candidates!" and "Pete and Biden just support the oligarcy!" are statements that they use together.

Well, they're not wrong.

My bad.

Circle back.

"Husbear" - it's not cute, it's another reason for others to laugh at you and the fat partner.

"Totes." It wasn't cute when Perez Hilton said it, it sure in the hell isn't cute when grown men do.

People who say OMG and/or the actual phrase OH MY GOD all the time - like the least thing isn't so shocking.

Kiddos

Insta

Truth to Power

Comfortable in my skin

NO WORRIES ( can't stand that)

It's replaced No problem.

Saying "spaces" instead of "places"

Saying "bodies" instead of "people"

Puppers! Doggos! Kiddos! FUCK OFF with that babytalk SHIT! Oh, and JOURNEY. Jesus PETE!

LITERALLY

"I literally couldn't believe it, like, no, literally, like it was so crazy and I literally had to stop myself from literally killing someone. Literally, I was so mad"

I also do not like “bodies “ instead of people.

Paradigm - although it seems to have fallen out of use, thankfully

A phrase that serves no useful purpose: "The greatest nation on earth."

"Why don't you tell us how you really feel".

Maybe I should tell you how I don't feel since you can't handle the real me.

"I hear you."

R64 - and Preggo is even worse

And while we’re on the subject Uggo is a stupid word

r74 and add to one of those words your adjective of choice, like "queer", "black" or "brown" etc.

"queer spaces"

"black bodies"

"trans spaces"

Choad. Wtf does it mean??

OP is a Refucklican bot. A Klan Granny. F&F and ignore. Piece of shit.

"Oligarchy" is a great word.

R84 the second you type the word in google, it tells you

Nuance. "There's nuance to this, there's nuance to that... Oh won't someone think of the nuances!!"

I loathe the word and I hate anyone who uses it. Every debate, conversation, or argument this word pops up and it's never explained.

"Yeah, no."

The Russia hoax. The virus hoax. The Chinese virus. Kung flu.

Performative.

When people say "Can you speak on this" .

"Gross" as a catch-all word for things you don't like.

"Lovely." For some reason, it bothers me unless you're British.

R92 I hate "can you speak TO this" even more.

Mama bear. My journey, usually uttered by some fat fuck who has been on a "weight loss journey" for years and is fatter than when they started. That's not okay!

I have to repress violent urges when people substitute "whenever" for "when."

R97 you and me both! I was beginning to think that I was the only one. The fact that people would rather say 3 syllables as opposed to 1 so many times in their daily vocabulary when they hear plenty of other people not doing the same thing baffles me. It's as if they think they are speaking the Queen's English and the rest of us are idiots. I want to punch every one of them into a first grade grammar class.

"Per se" or, shudder, "per say." It means "by definition."

Per se is a good phrase, but it's the current and common use that's so stupid.

Societal. What's wrong with social? What's the difference

having to make a speech in front of an audience puts me OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE.

Hubby to describe a husband. He's a man, not a fucking hippo. Well, most of them aren't.

"That's cringe"

"Cis", *Latinx"

The fact of the matter is you know discreet or worse, discrete.... meaning you’re in the closet or cheating

"literal murder!!!"

“the fact of the matter is” “You know” “Discreet, or even worse...discrete”

mussy

Boy pussy

Boipussy

microaggression

Libtards

Snowflakes

SJW (s)

tranny licker

"That's not who we are".....stupidest cliche ever.

"That's against my religion!". Too bad.

Misuse of reflexive pronouns is a red flag of idiocy.

"If you have any questions, talk to myself or Ginny."

"So..." as the first word used to start an answer to a question.

R111, that's very Irish. For whatever reason, some people consider it more "modest" than using "I." Irish men will also refer to their wife as "herself."

As in: "Herself and I are heading to Lanzarote right after Christmas." I used to hear this all the time.

"What does [a given person] bring to the table". People who use this phrase are too full of themselves.

"Diaspora," which reeks of wokefulness.

I think "diaspora" is a beautiful word. It's also quite useful when referring not just to the scattering of Jews but also to an increasing number of nationalities living outside their countries, including Irish people, Nigerians, Filipinos, Lebanese, etc.

People who refer to HIPAA as HIPPA.

"Queen Bey"

“Community” - I don’t know why but always hated it

Performative

"Shuts down" in headlines, used in the same sense as "claps back." "Gaga shuts down critics!"

^^^YES.

BOOTY CALL

Folks

Anytime on HGTV when a house hunter says, "I can see myself......." or "I can see us......" Most of these phrases occur when the buyer is looking at a patio where they say, "I can see myself drinking coffee and looking at the beach every morning" BS!

In addition, if I her one more Karen say, "I need an open kitchen so I can watch the kids". If you can't manage your kids on the other side of a wall then we are in trouble because those little rug rats will become the new Karens or Kyles.

"Drizzle," particularly when used as a noun, in a food context.

"Unctuous" as said by anybody on Food Network Mouthfeel Nurturing Nourishing

Normalcy

I have to agree with someone upthread who noted the misuse of "myself." I hear it used so often, and always incorrectly. There is rarely a reason to use the word 'myself.'

"Talk to James or myself if you have questions." NO

"Myself or Aaron will provide directions soon." NO

"It's all good" - particularly embarrassing out of the mouth of anyone over 30

"speaking my truth" - what does that even mean? Everyone else disagrees, but this is my story & I'm sticking to it?

"micro-aggression" - just sounds like another term for "petty behavior" to make it sound worse than it actually is

Even the word “hate” has become tiresome

I weirdly like “myself,” or of-ten or other sort of piss-elegant usages. I also like when older people say “he says to me, I says to him.” I know it’s wrong but there’s something amusing about it

"Me and [insert name of other person here]...."

MY PRESIDENT

[quote]—He’s all our president you cult follower!

Not mine.

New normal

Normalcy

Girl, we need to talk about the importance of holding space that centres [insert adjective] voices. This is what that will look like...

The [insert noun] we never knew we needed!

The [insert noun] we don't deserve!

Free-bleeding

WOD, box, and Uncle Rhabdo

Lines of Venus, dimples of Venus, and Adonis belt

Da goodest boy, doggo, dogger, doge, and kitteh

Can we do names? Because I'm going to: Taika Wai-TEE-dee.

The accent is on the first syllable; the i's are clipped; there is no d.

R115 Perhaps you would feel differently about the matter if you were Jewish, and that was your history. You ought to provide a bit of context with your disdain. It isn't "woke" to acknowledge history, our diaspora or the Exodus.

Um. I really hate sentences that start with it.

"My type bro"

“Add a pop of color!”

In another thread, a DLer called his microwave "the 'wave." More vicious slapworthy than fixded earrings and caftans on a side of cak.

Woke

R2 nailed it! "My/her/his truth." That's why we have Trump and his conniving ilk.

No, it's "THE truth." Believe it or not, a seemingly meager semantic change like that could bring about momentous changes in our political scene.

Moreover, whoever says "my/her/his truth" is only weakening the case that that person wants to propound.

R155, I beg to disagree. Everyone who leaves their place of origin to live somewhere else is automatically part of a diaspora. It's a term used by the cognoscenti of both the progressive and conservative circles.

"Touch base" 🤮

Apparently "diaspora" has been millennialized, like "random" and "gaslight."

"I appreciate you."

When did this start and why?

"Reach out."

Tsk tsk tsk and I oop and I oop!

Agency

We are inviting you back to the office.

That’s not how an invite works!

"Turd".

"Panties"

"I'm not for sure."

In regard to that last one: my ex-boyfriend used to use this phrase, and I hadn't ever heard it before. In the years after our relationship ended, I began noticing it coming from a lot of other people. I don't hate it because of the attachment with my ex, but because it's incorrect.

Pretty much everything that comes out of mother in law’s fat mouth.

Fleek, on point, woke AF. Anything AF. Telling Folks to stay in their lane and sit down and educate yourself, then telling them that white silence is violence.

Thank you R2 and R144. People do not know the difference between their experience or point of view and the truth..

Fake news.

Alternative Facts! Facts are facts are facts!

Welp

POOP

I prefer the slang word that was popular in the 1970's- DOODIE.

HOOKED UP bugs me almost as much as I WENT TO BED WITH HIM.

Just say I FUCKED HIM or more politely- I HAD SEX WITH HIM.

Thank you, R162. "Poop" was always not a nice way to refer to that. We said "BM."

I don't know how "poop" became acceptable. I imagine the same time as it became acceptable to wear sweats on airplanes.

I NEVER liked- I'm gonna get LAID tonight.

"Cash me outside."

"Bougie"

"Bougie is stupie!"

"I don't know who needs to hear this, but..." Just fucking say whatever you were going to say. I'm definitely tuning out if that's the opener.

Loved Obama but God he annoyed me answering every question ever asked of him with "LOOK......."

Diagnosing everyone a narcissist. People making posts online beginning with "My narcissist ex" or "My narcissist mother" and then proceeding to tell their life story. How do I know the person posting isn't the narcissist?

Chuckles Todd uses that same verbal crutch R169

"Make Love". Just say you had sex, you stupid twat.

You’ve got this.

Woke (for some reason I find it more grating when I hear people from the UK say it).

Privilege.

“I’m straight”

“I have a gf”

“I only want a bj”

MASC for MASC

When people calls themselves "masculine" or "masc", it means they are very insecure or delusional. It would be like a person telling people "I'm a VERY humble and nice person". No. No, you're a douche. a

Postmodern Neo-Marxist

Metaphysical substrate

Competence hierarchies

Ideologically posessed

THE NEW NORMAL

“Her cancer”.

"Kanye is running for president."

"We need to talk about" / "Let's talk about"

It is what it is.

It’s fun until it wasn’t.

Lately it would be:

“4 More Years”

“Is there anything else I can help you with“?

Yes bitch; resolving my complaint, you useless s.o.b.

Excited. Used way too much in business settings when making an announcement. Actually, I hate when it's used at all in that context.

And suddenly it seems that everything is "fascinating."

In the words of every sitcom character in the early 90's, and everyone in the Midwest through the rest of the 90's:

Don't go there.

LOL ROTFL Robust My bad Ramp up Irregardless Shit the bed It is what it is Sucks to be you Screw the pooch Imma [insert verb] Locked and loaded Been there, done that What happens in Vegas Plural nouns with apostrophe “s”s

LOL

ROTFL

Robust

My bad

Ramp up

Irregardless

Shit the bed

It is what it is

Sucks to be you

Screw the pooch

Imma [insert verb]

Locked and loaded

Been there, done that

What happens in Vegas

Plural nouns with apostrophe “s”s

“So,.....”.

Think outside the box.

"Added value"

_________ be like....

I saw this horrifying word today on a frau's Instagram: Yummos

"Let's be 'The Golden Girls,' Rose!"

This car is fully loaded it has ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES.

"Only in New York"--this phrase hasn't been relevant since the 80s, at least. Yet people really seem to believe it.

THE ------ FROM HELL.

I hate when perfectly good words and phrases get co-opted by people trying to sound smart and can't be used anymore without risk of sounding douchey:

- Curated

- Vector

- All of the Latin names for logical fallacies

^^^ Don't forget the pathetic, regular DL poster who loves, loves, LOVES to use the word "obtuse" at every opportunity. Makes him sound so very, very brilliant!

"GOING FORWARD" - THAT PHRASE IS LIKE FINGERNAILS ON A CHALKBOARD TO ME!!!

24/7

queer

I hate that fucking word.

going forward/moving forward

“Let’s unpack that...”.

social distancing

Kung Flu

Let’s look at this through a different lens

dismantle/dismantling

deconstructing

“ Back at cha’ “

So douche-bro....

'Let that sink in'. No, it's fine - I can read and comprehend things, thanks.

'This👇' or 'So much this👇'.

Recently someone was such a douche, he shortened "the microwave" to "the 'wave." In one of today's photo threads, I think, someone mentioned or showed a pic of Auschwitz. It occurred to me that the 'wave douche probably calls Auschwitz "the 'schwitz."

The use of “an” for “and”.

"Knowledges"

Veggies. So infantile.

Amongst.

We haven't been Elizabethans for a long time, among is perfectly fine.

^^ I've been seeing "amongst" a lot on DL lately. Stop it at once!

"Y'all". It is used wayyy to much, especially by people who try to act "woke" love to virtue signal.

Lately, “4 more years”. If you know what I mean. 😱

Already mentioned at R119, but "(fill in the blank) community". Every group of people has to be described as a fucking community these days.

This week, it's people using "loathe" (a verb) when what they mean is "loath" (an adjective). It's the new "loose." I wonder if it's the same person, over and over.

"Am I the only one who..."

YES! You and only you are the ONLY one!

"I am NOT the one". Such a stupid saying. Also the phrase 'finna".

Fluid gender

[quote]Challah French toast, drizzled with real Canadian maple syrup.

[quote]Yogurt drizzled with honey

People who use "drizzled" to describe anything except light rain deserve to drown.

“Everyday” instead of “every day” - the former is an adjective, the latter is a phrase.

"The fandom"

R177, you fucking got it. "Postmodern Neo-Marxists," junkie faux-intellectual Jordan "Kermit the Frog" Peterson's cult's favorite buzzword. When they use it, they all sound smug and trying hard to be the independent thinkers they are not.

For starters, no Peterson isn't a maverick. He bases a lot of his (fallacious, might I highlight) assertions on Jungian thought. So much so that he falls into the trap a lot of the nascent commies he means to lambast are in. He's totally not that different from the groupthinkers his dumb followers would sanctimoniously harrass.

More notable and to the point however is the fact that that phrase doesn't really mean anything. From what I have studied, postmodernism and Marxism are like oil and water. Hence, no one respected in philo circles have deployed that meaningless term.

All this just speaks to, first, how much of a grifter this drug addict famewhore is, and second, how cultish and gullible his incel followers are.

R88: "nuance" (and its sibling, "context") is used so often because it's so often sorely lacking. Instead of hating the word, why not deplore its absence in so many debates?

"Cancel culture" is devoid of nuance.

Cis gender.

Thread closed.

My friend who does identify as queer got offended when I sent out a text to a group of friends, including "ze"(their preferred pronoun). I started the text with "hey you guys". This friend responded "you guys? lol". So I guess some people out there hate the phrase "you guys".

President Donald J. Trump.

FML - no thanks that is all you

It Is What It Is - when the fuck did anyone make you think it wasn't

Sooner Rather Than Later - passive aggressive cunts use this in an attempt to conceal their bossy asses

Do the heavy lifting - more corporate bullshit jargon.

"legit"

Curated.

Thicc

Dude and Bro. I am not a Dude and we are not related asshole!

Datalounge

Performative

"Lived experience."

Faux-intellectual and repetitive: "experience" is enough.

I preferred "lived experience" when it was simply called "anecdotal evidence."

Or "empirical evidence."

For R230.

"LITTLES" in reference to children 🤮

RECEIPTS

finsta

TRIGGERED

I want to see the elevator video! For morbid reasons

Some people use the word "lickle" instead of little. Stop.

Sammiches, or "sammies."

So basically anything Disney Princess Incest Survivors or Histrionic Femme Bottoms say?

"welcome to the view welcome to the view welcome to the view welcome to the viewwwwwwwwwwwwww "

Happy wife, happy life.

I can just imagine the jobless, uneducated Karen that coined that phrase as she slowly clamped her hands harder on her husband's balls.

"Stinky linky." Ugh.

Another corporate one. "Cascade." As in, "Please cascade." (which is supposed to be shorthand for, "Please forward this stupid email to all of your underlings because I'm too lazy to do so."

"Drinky-poos."

"Bliss" and "heaven" to describe something you like.

"Reach out to"

Stakeholders

Pussy grabber

Gaslighting Bullying Narcissist Abusive

For any slightly unkind or inappropriate action. They now get used as general descriptors.

R261 = Trumptard asshole

[quote] Happy wife, happy life.

Don't forget "Honey-do list"

"Bottoms up". Whenever I stick my ass out to that one, people give me the dirtiest looks.

R263, don't forget "We're pregnant", spoken by the daddy.

cis

I don't know. Some queen throwing her ass up when some says "bottoms up" is pretty weird to me. If you get weird looks they are deserved.

I think we’re “getting into the weeds” here.

“I’m living my best life”. Absolutely fucking hateful expression.

I saw someone who used "I'm just living my best life" on their jack'd profile and I wanted to spam them so bad. Well, not really, but you get the picture...

[quote] “I’m living my best life”. Absolutely fucking hateful expression.

Why? It's not an expression that I use, but I don't understand how it's "hateful." Maybe it's conceited.

We need to talk about:

R270, I find it hateful because it's over-used. Resorting to a cliche instead of finding an original way to express an idea is lazy and results in boring speech/writing.

white fragility

^^Not coincidentally, I've heard the book White Fragility is both condescending and bad. What a surprise!

Model kindness

INCENTIVIZE

Strategery

"Just leaving this here."

Everyone is finding everything "fascinating" now.

Just heard this AGAIN for the billionth time on MSNBC... " We have to use all the "tools in our tool-box" to address this issue ". Puke.

r268

starting sentences with "LISTEN"

to die for

R267 agree, originally that was meant for drinks. Ad fundum.

Per R281, starting sentences with the word "Look" is also pretty condescending.

The otherwise admirable Barry Obama did / does this all the time, all the time, all the G-D time.

Anyways

must be protected at all costs

To who

“Conversation”

“Literally”

These two words literally seem to dominate every conversation now!

do better

Hot wash

Socialize (in lieu of vetting or clearing)

Transmisogyny

Also, "perfect response"

Decolonizing

And, though I haven't heard it too recently - pro-family.

Quite the .... insert noun of choice Reach out to Space ( as in creating a listening space) Another vote for moist The fashion singular : pant/ lip/ eye/ Pièce

Cringing as I type these. I could go on, but can’t bring myself to.

God sorry it messed up my spacing :(

Corporates-speak:

Agency. As in "a person with agency".

Deescalate.

Team player

Cascade

r292 Hit

'enter'

twice.

ANY PHRASE that includes the term “the narrative”

Utopia - cool concept, irritating word.

"....And GO!' If I hear this one more time after someone has asked for recommendations or something from a group of people on line, I will hunt the author down and stab him/her in the throat with chopsticks. So overused and babyish. And like everyone is supposed to IMMEDIATELY hop on solving the douchebag's problem or satisfying their needs.

please d..

Hung when they mean hanged.

Use your words.

Obviously and "to be honest".

"Not going to lie" -- what kind of reputation must one have to feel the need to state this?

Watch this space.

R30 you should call your unemployment office because you may qualify for an extension. My nephew's firm shut down 5 months before COVID. The holidays and some interviews at crappy firms and then boom, no jobs. So he had exhausted his benefits and found out he qualified for an extension. By that time he had become depressed and ready to accept anything to get out of the house and make money and move back alone. At least now, if he stays with my sister until he finds something he contributes a bit to the mortgage and bills and has grocery money. He is pretty independent so he hated moving back at 24, but at least with some money he has time to apply non-stop and doesn't feel so depressed.

In times like this, he says once the extension runs out and if he can't find another marketing job, he will take a sales job if they re-open just for the feeling of having your own money and contributing a fair share.

^^^ You're lost, aren't you, Poster at R305?

Incorrectly using the term "bi-polar" to excuse any asshole behavior...

Epic

“Basically,”

"Random." I just spoke with someone age 35, and he reacted to something I said by calling it "random." And it had nothing to do with anything's being random. I guess it means "surprising" or "weird" in the millennial dictionary.

Yes, R310. It took me quite awhile to realize that "random" doesn't mean the same thing that "at random" does. So why confuse the issue by using part of an established phrase to mean something different? Why not use an apt word like "surprising" or "weird"? If communication were the goal, modern speech would be so much better (and more useful) than it is.

I do like what's been done with "random" in the medical field of clinical trials -- "randomize" means to divide the pool of patients at random into one group to receive a drug and another group to receive a placebo. It's the kind of word that Kingfish in "Amos and Andy" would use to sound important but sounds ridiculously pretentious instead. When an earnest medical type in a white coat assures me that "the patients in this trial have been completely randomized", I always think "OUCH!" and have to stifle a laugh.

Folx

Slax

Marg

Kiddoes

I'm gonna love on my husband. No dear, love does not require a preposition.

I'm loving or I'm hating - the simple present will suffice, thank you

Impact as a verb

Mentally ill when you mean to say asshole. They are not synonymous

Panties.

I'm so OCD

I have PTSD from last night

Non-words such as alot, abit, asmuch and aswell.

Also nevermind, R315, which is never two words except as an album title.

^^Sorry, Never one word except as an album title. ^^

Soundtrack, when you meant Cast Recording or Cast Album.

"Not wrong."

God'll get you for that!

"AF."

"I'd eat the shit out of that." Ugh, sounds disgusting.

"Deeply". No one is just saddened or disappointed or grateful or what have you -- they must be DEEPLY affected. I've heard it so often that my gut instinct is to disbelieve it -- it's as if the speaker can't sound sincere about his/her feelings because he/she doesn't really give a shit, so emphasis must be added in the form of some dramatic adverb and the only one that comes to mind for everybody is DEEPLY.

r323, OK, but you have to admit that Miranda Priestly made that word all her own, as in "the female paratroopers are all so deeply unattractive."

This is gonna hurt me more than hurts you.

I'm on reddit. Nearly 30 percent of the posts begin with the extra words, "I mean,".

And the word "literal" seems to appear in every five posts.

"May I ask you a personal question?"

" No offense but..." always means someone is trying to offend you.

“So...”. “...basically...” “I’m like...”. “...suppose to...”. and nouns used as adjectives, e.g. “grill cheese”, “ice tea” etc.

I used to (as opposed to “I use to”) roll my eyes at the whole French concept of “le patrimoine”, however these days, with the ongoing assault on the English language, it’s becoming a much more reasonable concept.

R323: I would add "profoundly"

R326: not to mention all the posts starting with "so..."

Rabbit Hole.

This seems to be part of the latest corporate lingo.

These uncertain times... they aren’t uncertain, they are certainly awful

Constantly using the term "white people" to deem everything you don't like as uncool or bad.

ANYHOO

Lovely, wonderful, sublime, bliss, heaven.

Your test results are in....

r336 "Bliss" makes me want to punch its typist's face each time I see it. I hate it more than "veggies." Not as much as "loose" instead of "lose," but it is truly odious.

"Legit" used idiotically, as in this recent example: "AOL chats were legit too."

Going forward

Devastated

Stakeholders

"my no no hole"

The words "Literally" and "Like" because literally and like are both like literally used literally like all the time.

"My Journey," as well as its close cousin "My Experience."

"Nasty" and "retarded."

“Just Doing Me”

Written on some gym rat’s, Grindr headline.

“Just Doing Me”. Well, tell me roid-boy; who else could you POSSIBLY be doing, but you?

“Hysterical” as a word for funny.

"Kang" and "Kween"

"Gross" as a word of general disapproval.

"Hunty"

But I digress

"You don't get to"

"Bro" or "Brah"

Our prayers are with...

I don't think anyone who has uttered that statement, particularly a public figure, has actually said one sincere prayer that was not for show at his church for anyone.

^^I only liked it when Mariah Carey said it because she was sarcastic. Christina Aguilera claimed in some magazine interview that Mariah was a bitch to her at some party and she proceeded to say something like "I think this was when sjhe was going through that big breakdown so that's why". Mariah was asked about it and said something like "I would hope Christina is better than when she crashed one of my parties, drunk. I will keep her in my prayers".

R354 - funny. However, Mariah is also a hot mess just like Christina. Those two REALLY need Jesus.

Yes R10. Wish they'd stop with that shit. They sound like 7th grade girls.

Can't help it, Mariah is funny to me. She is heading into Baby Jane territory, though.

R357, when Mariah insults someone, she does it so effortlessly. She has been approaching Mae West territory for a long time though.

I continue to hate “reach out”. Just say you will call or email because I know you aren’t going to reach out and touch somebody’s hand.

Good grief! A pundit on Rachel Maddow's show just said that "today we funeralized John Lewis". Ali Velshi is subbing for Maddow tonight and was too polite to laugh or gasp or otherwise react (though the camera wasn't on him so his facial expression might have changed) -- or he might be inured to this sort of shocking display by constant exposure to such horrors as "incentivize".

R355 - imagine those two old hoots at that age...scary.

R360 - Rachel has been off her game. My roommate loves her show so we stream it now that we are in Romania and she was saying Rachel has been very open about her struggles with severe depression. With the COVID situation affecting folks with mental health issues we were wondering if she is suffering again.

"Social media presence". That's just not a goal of mine I'm sorry.

R362, just imagine that there are people who brag to others about their social media "presence". They care more about their social media accounts than real life.

Influencer

thx / ty

"How rude!"

rn (right now)

"Lookin' good!"

Grandbabies

Granddogs

Yummy (spoken by anyone over the age of 12)

WHET ("What Happened Ever To") instead of WEHT

Don't worry, be happy!

nouns as verbs.

"Chill" as a compliment. "He's really chill."

"people of color"/POC/WOC

The wonderfully misspelled / dyslexic WHET is CLASSIC DL, R369! Og mjup ni hte aelk!

BIPOC as a replacement for POC seems...divisive. Apparently it's "black, indigenous, people of color," so basically: blacks, Native Americans, and all the rest. Some minority groups are more important than others, it seems.

[quote]WHET is CLASSIC DL, [R369]!

That doesn't mean it isn't stupid, r374.

"Bro and Dude", I fucking hate when someone calls me either one. "Clean Food", what does that even mean? As opposed to dirty food, what the hell? Another vote for "Moist", my lips feel nasty as the sound exits my mouth. "Really", I mean come on dude this clean food is moist and really tasty.

“Back in the day”

Putting someone “on blast”

So-and-so just “dropped” an album

Now movies and TV shows also "drop."

r377 It means natural whole foods prepared with real ingredients, as opposed to all the artificial junk.

Love sexy

Social distancing (I do it)

Cancel culture

I’m gonna nut

I love that phrase!

Zaddy!

LGBTQIAZWPFH

Pivot

Spot on

Curated

"Problematic" "Oligarchy" "Establishment"

Anyone who would hate those particular words would be someone for whom those words definitely apply.

Baby-daddy and Baby-momma.

Please

OP types Deplorable.

"_____ much?" It's passive-aggressive sounding. Just say what you want to say.

Stating your opinion starting with "Umm ..." Weak, passive-aggressive.

No.

When posters say, "You're welcome," at the end of their post. As if they have just imparted some precious pearl of information with their post.

Drops, As in "Taylor Swift's new album drops tonight"

I think it's because it makes you sound like you're getting an exclusive. What's wrong with released?

Fuck you OP

"Taylor Swift's new album drops today."

Like dropping a turd or your bladder.

husbear

"Crushing it"

"Killing it"

"Opening the kimono"

Millennial business slang meaning "I'm a certified phony selling snake oil to hopelessly broke schmucks and, by the way, I'd run over your grandmother for a nickel."

[quote] "Opening the kimono"

That's a saying? Shows how out of touch I am.

One in the ass is worth two in the mouth

It's Too Small. It's Too Big. It's uncut. It's cut.

R401, fortunately, "open the kimono" seems to be waning in popularity (perhaps because of its obvious racist/sexist undertones). It basically means "letting someone in on secret information or inner workings of an enterprise."

YUCCCH.

R404, yeah, good. It sounds stupid!

[quote] "Taylor Swift's new album drops today."

Wow, it's like Mozart has come back from the dead!!!

Live. Love. Laugh.

Eat, Pray, Love.

Eat this, not that.

Basically, any short, pithy command that tells me what I need to be doing to be a better, more enlightened person.

Oh, and while I'm at it....

Listicles with the word NEED or MUST in the headline.

[italic]17 crocheted toilet paper roll covers you NEED to have this fall!

We need to talk about Trans BIPOC erasure and the Star Wars canon

7 GroSho cocktail hotspots with irreverent takes on the Negroni that you MUST try! [/italic]

Immediate reaction: Bitch, let me stop you right there. I don't need to do jack fuckin' shit.

Suck my cock

Eat !

When already seated at the dinner table with a fork in my hand.

"Interrogate" when it refers to concepts.

OK: "The police interrogated the suspect."

Go die in a grease fire: "We must interrogate the link between intersectional feminist Marxism and TERFs"

[Quote]Non-words such as alot, abit, asmuch and aswell.

I started to see the word 'payed' for 'paid' so often that I had to look it up to see if it was an alternate spelling I wasn't aware of.

As is

Asshole

Adding "shaming" to the end of shaming. I've heard all of the following: art shaming, ass shaming, slut shaming, etc.

[quote]"Diaspora," which reeks of wokefulness.

Where did you get that idea, R115? It's odd the kinds of contexts people who lack experience with certain words or concepts assign to them. In this case, it's a bit like claiming the term "Holocaust" reeks of wokefulness.

The fact that you're triggered by perceived "wokefulness" is a strong indicator that you're a right wing reactionary.

[quote] It isn't "woke" to acknowledge history, our diaspora or the Exodus.

I sincerely hope you're not conflating "history" with "the Exodus," R138.

“Just to piggyback on what so-and-so said...”

Go find a grease fire and jump in it please.

R417 - they will piggyback into it.

"Goodnight, John-Boy". I've heard this all my f***ing life!

Why oligarchy, OP?

FUR BABIES. Christ on a bike, people!!!!

Easy peasy

Anyways. Drop that "s" you twats.

[quote]Why oligarchy, OP?

OP explains in R31, although his objection is a bit subjective and contrived. R67 points out that it fits in those instances.

When I first read that in OP's list, I thought immediately of right-wing Trump-supporting crank U.S. District judge T.S. Ellis who, in 2018, while overseeing the Manafort trial, threw a piss-fit over the use of the word "oligarch" in reference to actual Ukrainian oligarchs with whom Manafort did business (i.e. Viktor Yanukovych and his associates). I suspected that that was the reason he objected - simply repeating Ellis' lame talking point.

OP's posts on this thread swing to the right.

Personally, I'm getting mighty fed up with "Gurl, you in danger!", which invokes the image of white middle-aged gay men trying to channel sassy black women (bobbing their heads from side to side, holding up the palm of their hand, and going, "Mmmmm-mmm!"). It's cringe-inducing, and way overused here on the DL.

[quote]Personally, I'm getting mighty fed up with "Gurl, you in danger!"

Quite possibly you meant to type "You in danger, girl!"

(Sorry. I just can't spell "girl" with a "u," no matter how many "Oh, Dear" points it may yield.)

[quote]Quite possibly you meant to type "You in danger, girl!"

No, R426. I didn't. Type "datalounge, gurl, you in danger" into Google and you'll see.

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐧 - 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐥

𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐥, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚, 𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐥, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫

𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐚, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐥!

𝐎𝐡-𝐎𝐡! 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐥!

𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐞𝐭𝐳, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐥!

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫!

𝐉. 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐰, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐥!!

...and many more. And these are just the 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠 of threads - not the hundreds of times the expression is being spammed within the replies.

Sorry about that, r427. I messed up. What I meant was that "You in danger, gurl" is the right way to say it, not "Gurl, you in danger." And then my inner Oh, Dear took over.

It doesn't make any difference to me, R428, whether it exactly matches the Whoopi Goldberg phrase it's being drawn from. I'm tired of reading it in any permutation. I see it at least once every time I come to the Datalounge.

The dogmatic insistence on the part of some posters that every celebrity death, even that of DL icon Olivia de Havilland, MUST be announced by " . . . is DEAD to me" has gotten pretty moldy, and was never very funny to begin with.

Huffy, the PoisonedDragon, sounds all alone,

Gets worked up over nothing, and prob'ly needs to get BONED . . .

Huffy, the PoisonedDragon, sounds all alone,

Gets worked up over nothing, and prob'ly needs to get BONED . . .

^^^ (It bore repeating)

YAAASSSSSS

THOT. What a stupid ass term. It’s not even funny.

AF (as fuck).

Fake it until you make it.

BOGO

"Hack" in clickbait headlines. "Simple hacks to keep bedbugs our of your house."

R439, the most common one--"simple hack to lose 50 pounds in a day!".

“What a hoot?” 🤮

Adjectives as adverbs. E.g. “crazy busy”, “scary dangerous”.

Nouns as adjectives: “That idea is genius!”.

"Thank you for patiently waiting".

"Your call is important to us. Please continue to hold."

Why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel? (Spoken with sarcasm when you express an opinion).

Doors to manual

"leery"

“I can’t hardly”, which, like “I could care less”, means the opposite of what the speaker is trying to convey.

Probably used by the same people as well.

"Fart"

“Suppose to be” - when I read this I know that I’m dealing with a halfwit.

R450, the other half of your guy's wit belongs to the guy who writes "use to": "I use to be fat", "They use to go there", etc.

"I seen" instead of " I saw".

“Clapped back”

[quote]“Clapped back”

And it's clickbait companion, "shuts down."

“abit, “asmuch”, “aswell” and “alot”.

WHET

And "moreso."

"Murieled," as in "Muriel just Murieled the William O'Connor Part 3" thread.

His/Her Trump card...

Easy peasy

Literally meaning figurately.

^ * Figuratively, sorry.

" Just sayin.' " Maybe you should just STFU?

Team/ Manager Meeting: “Let’s throw some ideas against the wall, and see what sticks“.

-Adjacent

"At the end of the day... "

[quote]It is often used by Bernie Bros to degenerate any Democrat who does not agree with their messiah--"you're just for establishment candidates!" and "Pete and Biden just support the oligarcy!" are statements that they use together.

Then by that logic, Bernie supports the oligarchy.

Hegemony

I use these disgusting phrases despite being a writer and hate myself every time I do it. Before I entered the corporate world I was an elegant, self-respecting homosexual in grad school who read Wilde and Baudlaire and had a beautiful vocabulary. God, I wish I had inherited money and never set foot.

Jesus, R468, I know. Isn't it heinous what we have to do just to keep body and soul together?

Reality show contestant: "I"m not here to make friends."

R466, get ready for the excuses: "Bernie was forced!", "It was the DNC that made him do it!", bla bla bla.

R469 - Indeed. I often hate what I became. Yeah, I saved and inherited some money but not nearly enough to live in the place where I would be happy. I often remember the heady years I was a student in Paris and lived a Bohemian life...oh well, had to get back to reality at some point. I used to fancy myself a "flaneur" and can't believe now I once had the patience and naivete to think that would be my life. Hah....

[quote] " Just sayin.' " Maybe you should just STFU?

Agree. "Just sayin'" or, worse, js, is passive-aggressive, for people who don't have the balls to make their point like an adult.

"I call shenanigans."

"I call bullshit."

When you type these sentences, I call douchebag.

Emblematic. For some reason, just sick of that word.

Dude

Bro and especially Bruh

Boss

Or any other douchewords of that nature.

MAGA

"Chill" as an adjective.

Iconic. Today everything and everyone seems to be iconic.

R479, just the other day, Janbot was arguing that Janet has been an icon since 1977. The reason why? Some iron scene on Good Times lol.

.....

[quote][R479], just the other day, Janbot was arguing that Janet has been an icon since 1977. The reason why? Some iron scene on Good Times lol.

At what point do you wonder whether Norman Lear's writers actually enjoyed subjecting his show's characters to this kind of torture? I mean besides giving Tony fucking Danza work after [italic]Taxi[/italic] was cancelled.

“My truth...”

Black Girl Magic

"Cute" to describe works of art/ entertainment. I heard it more than ever with the single/music video "Single Ladies". Sooo many white women saying "omg this is so cute!" and "awwwwww". Cute is not an appropriate word to describe art/entertainment OR that song.

“Back at cha”

“Living my best life”

“Just doing me”

“For real”

“Literally”

Speaking truth to power; rest in power. Ugh!

“Plenty to unpack here“

“ Plenty to unbox here”

“Be your best you” (I really fucking hate this one)

sizemeat

Foodie.

Be best

‘It’s not rocket science ‘

So lazy.

"This is Amurca!"

‘Enjoy’ after being presented with food Ina café or restaurant. Always sounds like a threat.

Gaybourhood

"Gin and regret" was amusing the first 10,000 or so times it got posted here. No more.

not sorry.

"Make America great again."

I liked "reference" better when it was just a noun.

^ or an adjective.

Do u eat ass?

[quote]It’s not rocket science.

Years ago, I had an employee who would say, “It’s not rocket scientry.” Ugh.

I like fuk n suk

“Suppose to be” = stupid stupid stupid.

WHET for What Ever Happened To. Idiots.

Life Rips

Mompreneur

Let's "unpack" this...

🚫 📸 🚫 🗣

"artisan" when applied to food

"F-bomb." If what you mean is "fuck," say "fuck."

"I don't like to use labels." People who say this strike me as self-righteous and vapid, since putting labels on things is what language is all about.

"Labels are for jelly jars."

[quote] Let's "unpack" this...

That’s offensive to people who cannot carry things in bags and backpacks. It’s funny how many attempts to be sensitive to other peoples’ feelings just end up being offensive in a different way than the thing that they are trying to address.

weaponize

"Weaponize" can be useful in the right context, but like so many words it's become overused. To be avoided for that reason.

That's not a real word, R516 -- it's a construction but not a word. Same with "monetize", which is even worse. At least "weaponize" sounds like something Bugs Bunny might say to be funny -- "monetize" just sounds like an unsuccessfully muffled sneeze.

I don't hate the word per se, I just hate its obnoxious millennial overuse.

I'm admittedly not a native English speaker, but I like the creativity and flexibility of the language in that you can turn almost anything into a verb--see "incentivize" and the aformentioned, apparently reviled "monetize" and "weaponize." Granted, they're not pretty words, but like I said, they can be useful in the right context (used sparingly, of course). The equivalent sounds much clunkier in my own native tongue.

("Disneyfied" is another example, plus the various forms of -washed: whitewashed, pinkwashed, etc.)

R519, just because one CAN do something doesn't mean that one SHOULD do it. Bank robbery, for example. In case you and I ever meet, be forewarned that anyone who says "incentivize" in my presence is promptly shunned. Even if I were to cut you some slack for being a non-native English speaker and grant that you were more to be pitied than scorned, we could never be friends.

I never said I actually *used* those verbs; I was just acknowledging the flexibility of the English language.

GroSho

[quote](the various forms of -washed: whitewashed, pinkwashed, etc.)

I do hope these various "-washed" abortions are being presented as examples of "words or phrases you hate," r519.

"Legit" when you mean "legitimately."

That's not a real word, [R516] -- it's a construction but not a word. Same with "monetize", which is even worse. At least "weaponize" sounds like something Bugs Bunny might say to be funny -- "monetize" just sounds like an unsuccessfully muffled sneeze.

R517 When they become part of everyday language, the ARE real words.

R525, whose everyday language? Not mine, I assure you.

"Broke the Internet"

"Ratchet"

"Finna" (as in "fixing to"/"getting ready to")

It isn't slang, it's pure ignorance and laziness.

-bomb. As in "calorie bomb", "fat bomb", "sugar bomb," "f-bomb", etc.

“Only pay for what you need”..... Liberty, Liberty.... blah blah blah.

Isn’t that true with most purchases? That you only pay for what you need? Talk about stating the obvious. It’s insulting to rational thinking. The deceptive falsehood in these commercials, is that insurance companies are notorious for slapping on surcharges/ fees. Well, Mr. Liberty, et al, I don’t NEED surcharges and fees. I call bullshit.

Doug, Emu, Flo, and the lot need to repeatedly fuck themselves with an insurance bill. (metaphorically speaking, of course)

Because it can't be said often enough, and because I'm seeing it pop up more and more (unironically) on DL: veggies.

"Dollface". I have to put it in quotes because I would never actually say it. Possibly more hateful than "veggies."

"That's it. That's the tweet."

"Full stop."

"Snack," as in

[quote]Paul Simenon was called the handsomest man in London for quite some time, and is still half a snack.

I've never heard that phrase, R534 -- nor have I ever heard of Paul Simenon. Must be a British thing.

R535: it's on the "Hot 'n' Ugly Classic Rockers" thread here on DL. It's a meme, apparently.

Thanks, R536. It's stuff like this that makes me glad I'm old and out of touch.

"Inflection point"--popularized to the point of insanity by Nicolle Wallace English people saying "Brilliant!" about anything that they like or is OK "Anyhoo...." DRIVES ME WILD for some reason.

"comfy"

"He was TASKED with ... "

Omfg.

Coronavirus Freakout

"puny cocklet"

I hate the phrase 'Senate Majority Leader" when used in connection with Mitch McConnell"

"just ask" or "hit me upt"

Translated this means, "I'm so busy, fascinating. popular and entitled that you'll need to take the lead in initiating any communication".

I am hearing the word "fascinating" way too often now. And "conversation," used when they really mean "discussion."

"Taking up space"

"Black and brown bodies" - sounds so fucking creepy! Where did this come from and why???

Heard this one this morning from some MSNBC pundit about the hysteria over Justice Ginsberg’s replacement:

“let's keep our powder dry”. Ugggh.

Male Gaze

The 'male gaze' has some value as an academic theory but the phrase became overused and is now worn out, like so many of these phrases and expressions after they were introduced into the "real world." Same with 'intersectionality' and 'toxic masculinity': the original ideas were valid and merited examination and consideration, but are now overused by all the wrong people. Eye-rollingly so.

"Bombs," as used in

[quote]they were fat bombs!

[quote]We want foot-long (or six-foot-long) meat- and cheese-stuffed flavor bombs

I still have no idea what the "male gaze" is. And in context, it has never seemed interesting enough to google.

The male gaze is the depiction of women and life in general from a male heterosexual POV that represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of men.

Thank you, r552. More 21st century word rape.

When people say or write "no pun intended" to, tee-hee, point out that they made a pun, or, even more stupidly, to demonstrate that they do not understand what a pun is, because they interject "no pun intended" after a word or phrase that is quite clearly NOT a pun.

I hate that too, R554. It seems as if no one knows what a pun is -- just like no one knows what "ironic" means and they use it to mean "coincidental" or "facetious". A disturbing number of people also seem to be "mortified" by things that make the rest of us "disgusted" or "terrified" or "furious".

“You rock!”

I hate the way everyone on TV seems speech impaired when it comes to the word 'definitely'. Typically, the T is completely dropped so that the word sounds like "definilly."

HGTV example, "I can definilly see us entertaining out here. I will definilly drink my coffee on this balcony. We will definilly have to rip up this carpet!"

R557, the "T" that's missing from "definitely" can be found intruding into "often".

[quote]"Black and brown bodies" - sounds so fucking creepy! Where did this come from and why???

I never gave this one much thought, but you are right. So so creepy. Some grade A sjw creepery.

r546 I think saying "bodies" instead of just saying "people" comes from academia and critical theory. They substitute words like "places" with "spaces" and they think it makes them sound more educated. Read any article in an academic journal (mainly in the arts) and most of them write like that.

pandemic

I'm with her.

In these challenging times

"curvy" when talking about obese women

Saying something is ironic when it’s not

r564 I remember when 'curvy' referred to shape, not size. An hourglass figure. You could be thin and curvy. If you were fat and shaped like a brick, you were most certainly not curvy. Now it's a more polite way to talk about fatties. When did this start exactly?

Dumb euphemisms for genitals

Tinklebox, hoohoo. etc

Only a no-no hole would say "no-no hole." Or anything in r567.

“first world problems”

"Clapped back."

My teetee hurts when I tinkle.

"Sleep with" as a euphemism for sexual relations.

"Calling" bullshit or shenanigans.

r558 "T," always intruding

Build Back Better

Veggies

Kiddo or Kiddos

Any word said with vocal fry.

[quote] Now it's a more polite way to talk about fatties. When did this start exactly?

"Thick" is also used to describe fat and obese women now. Curvy and thick never referred to obese women until the past few years. I saw an SJW refer to Lizzo as "thick" versus Nicki Minaj. That's funny for many reasons, but I would definitely call Minaj thick before Lizzo.

Doggos.

all the things

I despise "easy peasy," which I see quite often on DL.

smokeshow

Moist

R580, "easy peasy," is English slang -- so is "spot on". I don't "despise" either, but it sounds affected when Americans use them. We have our own slang, no need to borrow phrases that are no improvement on ours. And no need to parrot other speakers over and over and over again, as if we were incapable of expressing our own thoughts in our own ways. (Although everyone on TV does seem to be afraid of making an original statement about anything.)

Y'all, especially when written

Brad

"gay card"

Toddler

I good friend hates the words enabler. (He spent much of his working life working of the company known as 'The Catholic Church' and that is probably why)

Cindy Adams when she would say “Kiddies”, Y’all,

Corporate talk like 'wellness' & 'reinventing'

R168, omg I was coming here to say the exact same phrase. That seems to be turning up everywhere these days and it is so fucking annoying.

Sad.

Giving back. Can't you just "want to contribute" or something like that? Saying that you "want to give back" sounds like you're proud of how humble you are -- as if you recognize that you've been fortunate and realize that you should reciprocate and are therefore better than those who don't bow and scrape in gratitude.

"I thought the neighborhood kids might enjoy this playground" sounds pleasant and friendly -- we know you got a billion dollar signing bonus and can easily afford to give a big expensive gift to the ghetto where you grew up, you don't have to rub in how generous you're being and how you deserve praise for "giving back".

R570, what does "clapped back" mean? I get confused. I know on DL fave Roxane Gay's Twitter she says: "If you clap, I clap back" - does clap in this instance mean to insult or verbally attack someone, or does it mean to applaud?

R593, yeah, pretty much just means "responded to an insult with an insult", with the implication that this is a superior inssult.

People have trouble with plurals and sibilants: “I have notice”; Plural of (for example) “specialist” is “specialists” not “specialist”; and Any word ending in “st” cannot make a plural - e.g. “dentist office”.

“An” for “and”; “Suppose” to; “I was surprise”; People not understanding the correct application of “who” and “that”; Nouns used as adjectives: ice tea, grill cheese...; And “Step foot” instead of “set foot” - this one came from nowhere and is everywhere now.

^^ and jumping in before the inevitable pile-on - apologies for buggering up the formatting,

#MeToo

"Playing The Gay Card" & "Playing The Race Card" - An attempt to silence people when they call you on your bigoted BS.

Gifted

“With that said”.....

We know you dumb fuck, you just said it!