Verbal tics that tick you off

I've not once heard anyone say "Ye, Ye, Ye, Yeah."

People who say "buh - in" for button. It's clearly a desperate need for attention.

Sooooo........

Sooo.........

So

Not sure it's a 'tic' but people who can't have a conversation without using "literally."

It is literally raining so hard.

I'm literally exhausted.

There were literally people everywhere.

I'm literally starving.

This is literally ridiculous.

R1 You travel in a rarified strata.

GirlLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

People who constantly repeat themselves - a couple YouTubers I follow do this. "I've never had a problem here. Never had a problem."

Used to have a boss who muttered "you know" countless times when she spoke. I used to count them, and some of them went by super fast, so one had to pay attention. I mentioned this to other people, and it became a game between us to count them as she crop dusted the air with her "you knows" all day. She still does it on her social media posts as well.

Seriously? Seriously.

I mean I mean I mean I mean

Ay, Dios Mío!!!!!

[quote] People who say "buh - in" for button. It's clearly a desperate need for attention.

They’re from Lonk Guyland.

"Like, you know, go to like the mall or a Target or whatever, and get like, a ton of super cute clothes and it's, like so funny- just run out the store and don't pay! The cops don't even care, you know! It was amazing!"

r13 Like, for real

Yeah daddy, yeah daddy, yeah daddy

I have an acquaintance who adds unnecessary “a” or “an” before certain words and phrases. For example, he’d say “I saw a news today about…” or “My account earned a compound interest”.

Billy two times, Billy two times

My sister says “kwotter” instead of “quarter” and it pisses me off. She knows better and never pronounced it that way most of her life.

^ I know a MAGA guy who talks like that

R1 amazingly, just because something isn’t in your experience doesn’t mean that it never happened.

r20 "amazingly"

Yikes

100%, instead of "honestly" or "completely".

Bro, which is the new 'dude'.

It must be an Urban thing.

R1 Not even Devo?

Whatever...

Woosh R21!

"You know what I mean?" and "Does that make sense?" after every other sentence.

will do something

is/are going to do something

the going to "future"

85% of speakers now exclusively use "gonna"

I'm gonna. We're gonna.

I was ok with 33%-50% frequency - which would cover informal speech.

I hear gonna in formal register settings all the time and it sticks in my craw.

Incredible turned into amazing over 20 years ago, how about a new one?

I get annoyed with "do you know what I mean?" Sometimes I want to say, no, I don't know what you mean.

Acronyms uttered as a word or letter by letter.

1. L-M-A-O said as La-Mow needs to die in a grease fire

2. I recently heard a Gen Z say the letters I-M-O as in "in my opinion" just stopvfor the love of all that is holy ✋️

sammich

libary

R2 - that’s called a glottal break - and it’s popular with shallow young chicks in NJ. Sounds revolting.

“Like I said . . . (repeat)”

“I’m just saying.”

Twenty-three skidoo

Gen Z loves affirming something you are saying with ‘Ye, Ye, Ye, Yeah.’ I noticed Sophie Thatcher does it in interviews if she has a good rapport with the interviewer. I’ve seen it in several others of her generation also.

“My daughter is FAT, no offense!”

Using “stopvfor” in the middle of sentences.

R39 fuck you gramps, we all have to make due with no edit button.

People who randomly insert Spanish words into sentences, even though they're the whitest person alive.

[quote]Incredible turned into amazing over 20 years ago, how about a new one?

R29 "Awesome" belongs somewhere in that mix.

I mean, I agree with you, R10. I mean, it drives me crazy. I mean, when athletes and reality stars use it, I mean, excessively in interviews. I mean, I'm just telling you what happened.....

¿How you say cucumber r41?

R2, there's a Tv reporter who says Manhattan as Man-HA-in. If I recall, this is called a Glottal Stop. Can a Speech Therapist here confirm?

Judge Judy goes ballistic when anyone before her says "Basically." "I don't like filler words" Wish I could blow a fog horn when I hear "basically, "like" and "ya know"

R41 announcers on NPR speak perfect English. When a Spanish word is in the copy, they switch to a dialect. Paris is never heard as Paree and we don't hear Milano. What's with the affect?

I ran across a video recently with "like" once per sentence (or so it seemed).

Oops! It's JIMMY TWO TIMES

Jenna Bush Hager pronounces all her T’s as D’s. I.e. “Tell us about the book you’ve ridden.”

[quote] The ever-increasing number of people who affirm with "Ye, Ye, Ye, Yeah".

He said ye, ye, yeah, she said ye, ye yeah, we said ye, ye, ye, YEAH!

What’s with the repetition of responses? Do these people use that for emphasis? As mentioned above, I’ve heard a lot of “yeah-yeah-yeah.” I’ve also heard these idiots say:

“Gimme, gimme, gimme!”

“Right, right, right!”

“Yo, yo, yo, yo!”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!”

“Bro, bro, bro, bro…"

Speak in complete sentences, drop the slang, and don’t waste my time. So thugish and trashy.

The three "yeahs" is annoying as fuck. When I hear it in a conversation, I say that they need to repeat it because I did not hear it.

R37 R53 Yes, I hear it everywhere, so it's puzzling that R1 and several others claim not to have heard it once.

Fuck you R40 - it’s “make do”, not “make due”, you idiot.

..Ssooooooooo...

R52 Rih Rih Right!

Gay guys in their late 20s and 30s and 40s who add a full syllable to sentences, as in:

“Is that supposed to happen-nuh?”

“Are you serious-suh?”

“This is fire-ruh!”

*side-eyeing you, Elliott Norris*

R58, that reminds me of who say "nuh-uh". That's grating.

BarTHelona!

EYEbiTHa!

R33 R45 Right, glottal stop, most commonly where the stop replaces a 't' in the middle of a word. Best known in the Cockney accent, for words like wau'uh for water.

Enough with the glottal stop. We all understand it now.

Wha'eva you say. guv'na.

I've already had "Period!" to the back teeth. It seems to have replaced the mic drop gesture, but those who use it do it INCESSANTLY.

R55 OK true but you're still a cunt.

“Knowwhutimsayin’?”

A woman I work with adds "...and whatnot" to every third sentence.

It's really become too much to bear.

R65. I know it probably goes way back, but it was Sean Spicer who introduced it into the lexicon for me. I hear him in my head. Period!

Period!

More contestants on Jeopardy are now saying "hunerd" instead of "hundred". They seem to be less intelligent than their peers of earlier decades. Last week, it was a triple stumper when they provided a picture and a clue of Ella Fitzgerald. None of them knew it. We could devote a whole thread to simple questions none of them knew.

R2 Similar to when people say "fiddy" instead of "fifty", or "dis" instead of "this." It's as if they're deliberately talking like a four year-old to sound cool, or from "the streets." Rap music is mainly to blame for a lot of it.

[quote] All right, all right, all right.

Years ago, when I first began working in Tech, a developer I worked with would say "dub dub dub" instead of "WWW" when talking about a specific web address/URL. It bothered me. He might as well have been leaning against a tractor with a long blade of grass dangling from his lip. I still hear people use it, occasionally.

People who excessively enunciate each syllable of the word "ever"—often in a drawn-out, performative tone reminiscent of Valley Girl speech—e.g., "This is the worst day EV-ERrrr."

Em, em, em, em.

The word tic really ticks me off.

So does tick for that matter.

We are misunderstood creatures. Stop persecuting us. We exist. We take up space.

My husband cannot stand the way Karina Longworth over-enunciates every syllable on her podcast, 'You Must Remember This', it drives him crazy. He won’t stay in the room if I’m listening. I don’t love it either, but I like the podcast enough to deal with it.

Sometimes, though, especially when I want to bug him. I’ll say something like *TiT·il·LaTe* with extra care, just to watch him squirm.

R77 So cute. Until the Lyme disease kicks in.

Then I’m even cuter, right r79?

RIGHT, r79???

Burnt matchhead at the ready. Oh well, had to be done.

Sort of. Kind of. "It's sort of like being a kind of sort of thing that I used to sort of see in my head."

Karina Longworth has a very artificial way of speaking when she's doing her podcast, r78. I checked out her podcast after hearing her as a guest on another podcast. I lasted about 3 minutes.

Honestly....