Please don’t think I’m here to complain about rizz or skibidi toilet etc. Thats all fine by me.
The term I dislike strongly is ‘eeeh’ before you make a statement disagreeing with someone. (This is over text only). Now maybe I’ve been pavloved bc it’s always used by someone disagreeing. But I’m happy with people disagreeing with me normally its just the ‘eeeh’ or ‘erm’ that annoys me.
So what’s a random term that annoys you?
PS. Saying “eeeh actually ‘eeh’ is a perfectly fine term” would be a ridiculously easy joke and I will judge you for making it. And I know atleast one person will. Especially bow that I’ve said all this.
I do the “eh” thing sometimes without thinking about it but I agree with you, I don’t like being on the other end of it either. I’m trying to work on that
“bend the knee”
“Sweet summer child”
And other phrases from GoT that people now pretend they’ve been saying their whole livesThe latter might have had a resurgence because of GoT, but I definitely heard the phrase before the show came out. I had to look it up to make sure, but it’s origins go back to the 1800s.
I definitely heard the phrase before the show came out.
No you absolutely did not, unless you were talking to dorks who started using out-of-context nonsensical phrases from their favorite fantasy book. If you think you heard the term not as a reference to ASOIAF you are misremembering. Its origins do not go back to the 1800s. The term in this context refers to a child who has lived their entire life in the years-long summers of the world of ASOIAF. That is what it means.
“The proof is in the pudding.” It makes zero sense! The actual adage is, “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” It means that a dessert can look perfect and enticing, but if the cook used salt instead of sugar it will taste disgusting.
I don’t know what people even think they’re saying with “the proof is in the pudding”.
“Who hurt you?”
These days, that’s shorthand for “I’m an emotionally stunted liberal who is so incapable of self-reflection that anyone who disagrees with a point I have must be acting from a place of unresolved trauma”. It’s always felt like people-who-definitely-used-to-post-to-4chan burning extra words to get to the r-slur they so desperately want to use; but with the exact kind of plausible deniability that gets their squishy bits either hard or wet.
“Who hurt you?”
I utterly fucking despise the contextual ableistic assholery inherent to that put-down. “Teehee, the person I disagree with must have trauma that distorts their view of the world and that’s LE FUNNAY and worth mockery!”
Liberals are just unscratched fascists and this is evidence toward that statement.
“Would of” annoys me to no end. Which is silly because English isn’t my first language and I know I make many mistakes, but would of is just… Ugh. Ick.
More of a grammatical mistake, but “should of” instead of “should’ve” or “should have” annoys the hell out of me for some reason. I completely get how people make the mistake, but it’s more effort than just typing it correctly.
I judge the shit out of people for this. It suggests that they don’t even grasp the meaning of the words they are typing or saying.
Never mind I found it
…took the effort to nvm-d the post, but did not share how, where, or what etc
Fucking “pre-prepare”. Prepare already means to get ready ahead of time.
“Hence why”
Syntactically makes no sense. Just say “that’s why,” that’s what you are trying to say.
“I could care less” to mean “I could NOT care less”
Thing is… this sort of makes sense if you say it with a hint of sarcasm. But curiously the only people that use this phrase are Americans. And we all know how much they understand sarcasm 🤣.
I sometimes say “I could care less, but not by much”
Same with “Do you mind doing x?” “Yeah sure”; so you mind doing it? I get what they mean with the response, but it annoys me every time haha
This exactly! I always get so confused when people say that.
Is it really confusing? You know what they mean
In the example I gave it was pretty clear, but in other phrases it can get pretty confusing
I’ve always interpreted it as meaning that I care so little for something I can’t even be bothered to put the effort in to not care about it as much as I should… but, yeah, it’s used incorrectly way too often and makes no sense most of the time.
Especially in news headlines: slams, blasts, mind-blowing, hack (or lifehack)
I’m sure there are others, but that’s all my brain can handle at the moment.
@CuddlyCassowary ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS this topic!
“BREAKING:”
It’s always superlatives, even for the most mundane and boring things
I really like your username btw… I now wanna cuddle a cassowary and/or you
Aww, thanks! I tried to find a very uncuddly animal and show it some love. Their claws (talons?) are terrifying.
They’re beautiful creatures, though
Like living dinosaurs. So cool!
Ah all the typical clickbait words. I hate them too. Lifehack in particular is a word I’m sick of now
'Should of" instead of “should’ve”
Oh God that’s got to be the worst one.
Enshittification. Everyone just learned a new word and has to use it at least once in every comment section to feel smart.
Marxists have a hundred years of text dedicated to alienation from labor, the falling rate of profit, degeneration of art and creative disciplines under later capitalism due to the profit motive, cycles of class struggle, all based on a materialist analysis of changing production and class relationsi
But for some reason a trendy term like enshittification that vaguely means things are getting worse, without going into the basis about why they’re currently getting worse, has caught on.
I’m convinced it’s part of the tech grifter trend to take things that were already invented, slap a new name on it, repackage it, and sell it.
I suggest you read up a bit on how and by whom the term was coined and what it actually means. It’s by no means ‘vague’ and it is also a bit more than just repackaging and selling something already known. I suspect many people using the term aren’t even fully aware of what it describes and, crucially, what is being proposed to reduce the effects it describes.
Sure, but 80% of people stopped reading after that first word because of “socialism”
I’m also sick of it, but I also sort of like how it’s gone viral. I had a very non-techy friend mention it to me the other day. I feel like most of the people who I see talking about it are jazzed because it makes them feel seen. My friend, for example, said to me that before she learned of “enshittification”, she felt like she was going mad because of how things don’t seem to work like they used to, especially in tech; she said that for the longest time, she had assumed it must be something that she was doing wrong.
Okay but if we use “Late stage capitalism and the quest for profit above all else is causing the quality of goods and commodities to drop while their value stays the same or goes up,” it’s going to result in 20 minutes trying to explain things correctly followed by 20 hours of anti-communist arguments.
That will at least explain why things are getting worse tho. The term enshittification is just nostalgic idealization with no real theory behind it.
It’s the enshittification of internet discussion
Literally could care less.
But yet it explains so much about the modern world. All this time we’ve been abused and mistreated, had our data collected and income extracted in so many scammy ways …… and now we have a word that fits it so perfectly
Calling someone a bot or a shill because they post something you disagree with. It’s so stupid. Like even if the person is a bot, would that matter if the point they’re making is salient and sourced?
“I don’t need to engage with the fact Biden has deported more people than Trump, because you are actually russian. Thus I have no reason to investigate my worldview.”???
It’s also such a tell. Like the person can’t imagine anyone thinking anything other than what they think, so they must not be real people with internal lives. Can’t imagine independent thought, literal NPC behaviour.
Especially because it’s always the most average of redditor-take-havers that say it.SME (pronounced smee)
My company is flooded with SMEs who aren’t even good, let alone experts at anything
