What word or term annonys you?

@CuddlyCassowary ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS this topic!

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

"BREAKING:"

Ah all the typical clickbait words. I hate them too. Lifehack in particular is a word I'm sick of now

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"

This exactly! I always get so confused when people say that.

https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw?si=tKM8xq1MLdvvkxa_

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

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.

The entire way recipes are written is trash.

"Add the flour and stir gently": How much flour? Why do I have to scroll back up to check?!

Oooh yeah. Even saying, 'this'.

"Earth calls Mars"

Oh God that's got to be the worst one.

This guy helped a lot of people from coming off stupid

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

Similarly, not a fan of when teachers and parents talk about their "kiddos."

Feels like they're needlessly using a more playful childish term to make themselves part of a separate "in group" who "gets it."

I'd like to introduce to my friend Freud.

I’m allergic to corpospeak in general.

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.

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.

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

OK yeah

That never bothered me all too much. Then yesterday i watched a video on youtube to kinda doze off. Dude made some insane stuff in Minecraft. Now i usually don't really watch these videos or Minecraft videos in general. But the production value, time and effort that went into it was beyond everything i have seen so far. The usage of the word literally kept me awake. Every time i had to flinch and at some point i had to turn it off, despite my interest.

I literally could not care less about literally. MANY words over time end up meaning the opposite of what they did, its just the nature of how humans use language. I love that we've seen this change happen right in front of us.

RIP "literally"

You could remove 99.9% of instances of “literally” and it wouldn’t change the meaning of the sentence at all. It’s just like “um” by now.

They're the same types that appear in comment threads with contradictory arguments to literally fucking anything -

"We should save the whales"

"Yes but my cousin got splashed by a whale on a boat trip as a toddler and now has a terrible phobia that makes her wheeze whenever she sees one. Do you want that, is that what you want?"

"We should plan walkable cities"

"OH MY GOD SHES IN A WHEELCHAIR TOO DO YOU ONLY EVER THINK ABOUT YOURSELF YOU ABLEIST"

😂

My theory is that they're just unbelievably bo-o-o-o-oring, humourless people with nothing to add to a conversation but a desperate need for attention

Man if that isn't just empty manager-speak, rephrasing things to BS you and be manipulative. Lol

It’s always to mitigate something heinous. “I’m just sayin’, Mussolini made the trains run on time.”

Also "Not gonna lie..." to start a sentence. Well thank you for that decency?

"Know what I'm sayin'?"

"Not really. Do you know what you're saying?"

YES

I bake a lot of bread, including for my coeliac stepmother, so I've taken to labelling the loaves gluten-free and gluten-expensive

Any corporation or even companies social media account being memey is annoying.

I just hate it when people try to elongate the word GO with more Os.

It’s now a new word. It’s GOO. Any further Os just make it gooier, not goier.

Can we just mean corporate speak in general. I can’t fucking stand all the buzzwords that get tossed around

Lemme get that shark cootchie board of curated meats

I feel like museums should get a pass on this one.

But along these lines, I’m SO over “bespoke.”

Would you settle for a single clergyman?

I don't even like when people say that in context of a playlist on a music streaming platform...

I mean maybe they spent a lot of time picking individual songs but it's still just a digital playlist, nothing that special IMO

I actually love the word curate :(

Unless used pretentiously. But then any word is annoying

That’s now how people in my subculture use it.

They use it to mean “it’s too late to avoid this problem; let’s talk about things we can change at this point”.

Example:

“If you hadn’t stopped at that rest area the killer never would have slashed our tires”

“Well if you hadn’t jumped for those cheap tires maybe he wouldn’t have been able to slash them with a butter knife”

“And if you’d paid for the triple A we’d have a ride by now”

“Look, it is what it is. Let’s just figure out a way to get back to town without having to follow the road”

I’m currently going through a pretty bad divorce where my wife cheated on me, drained my accounts, lawyered up and send a letter demanding $280,000 and isn’t signing documents or responding to her legal council.

I’d love to get it all finalised and end that chapter of my life but realistically I can’t force her to do anything. I can’t make her sign documents, I can’t make her talk to her lawyer. So ultimately it is what it is.

Frankly, that saying has (since our separation) become an anthem to me. I can understand why you’d think it’s defeatism etc if it’s someone speaking of something they can legitimately do something about but truely sometimes it really is what it is.

Those sound so wrong

To quote Shakespeare, "Or not?"

My brother-in-law says the dishes "need washed" and it's nails on a goddamn chalkboard every time I hear it.

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.

I'm a waitress and "regular coffee" means different things across regions. Some people mean just "drip, not decaf" with no indication of cream or sugar. Some people mean "drip, black" with no indication of caffeine content. And where I grew up, "regular" means "2 cream 2 sugar", as in you'd be asked if you wanted your coffee "regular or black". It's the worst.

That latte lady was just crazy though... unless she meant "my regular"?

Ah, the four basic types of coffee, Regular, Posh, Italian and Wrong.

Regular coffee is a coffee. People say regular coffee because they've gotten fatigue from "which type?" questions. I'm more annoyed that the understanding of coffee has shifted away from the default just being an espresso. Over here in Spain if you ask for cafe you'll get a cafe solo.

Here a regular coffee would mean a milk based drink. Something like a cappuccino but not quite. Nestle ass drink.

“To be fair…”

I like both Rustles my jimmies and burns my biscuits, although I'm not sure I've ever heard it

It's a perfectly valid way to win an argument, end of sentence.

Q.E.D.

"Hands down"

I thought you'd never ask!

Oh yeah absolutely. I'm a programmer and I see so many companies and recruiters etc use Cyber instead of Cybersecurity. It drives me absolutely mad, but these type of people drive me mad anyways. It's probably the same crowd who ruined AI by overhyping it into its grave, the same crowd who were hyped by web 3.0 and the whole Blockchain craze, and probably all those other dumb crazes before it.

Still, this cyber thing seems to permeate everything, and I've heard people using the term who I otherwise respect. For me it's a quick way to instantly become very sceptical of whatever follows the term

Ironic considering your username is almost an ASL

I'm so pleased to hear you admit that you did it. Your honesty is appreciated.

I didn't do no nothing wrong now, didn't I?

I'm afraid to say I kind of like that, although don't particularly use it much.

Which is exactly what they don't want us to be able to discuss.

I'm literally doing that rn

Perchance is a great word though. I think I'd probably use it if I knew how to do so appropriately in a sentence (though I imagine only a fraction of people who do use that word use it properly. That tends to be the case with formal or archaic words used in informal contexts)

Get a new son

Start using it yourself. Use it in awkward, wrong, uncool ways. They'll drop that shit like, "What the sigma Dad!?!"

Yeah, just "sigma" goes back to sigma male claptrap. But as with all internet memes, it evolved super rapidly and took on layers. "Sigma" started to mean just "the best", not in reference to male hierarchy necessarily. Then there was a cartoon clip with Squidward from SpongeBob where he said "what the sigma" and it went viral.

Websearch "what the sigma meme" today and you will get text and video explanations of the meme for old folks like you and me. I prefer ones from teachers who interact with middle schoolers; our frontline troops facing the bleeding edge of internet memespeak.

Hit your kids harder, dude.

I think it might be from a SpongeBob SquarePants meme. You might wanna start there. Not sure why that’s tickling my brain.

Oh and I just found this: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/whats-erm-what-the-sigma-meme-about-the-catchphrase-and-overstimulation-video-explained

So it looks like started as a TikTok thing and then spread into the SpongeBob world.

I’m not sure why my ADHD brain latched on to this question but I HAD to find the answer. I don’t know if this is definitive but it’s at least a direction.

Indian here. Redditors say that Indians say this a lot. I'd like to tell you that while Indians do use this sentence, it's almost always placed only after a long, somewhat-gone-off-tangent-in-some-places conversation that explained everything well.

Maaaaaaybe it was to convince you without describing tasks, but... mostly, it's not so.

Also, I don't remember hearing it IRL at all. Just felt like I have heard it at least twice in my 18 years of humaning around.

ｌｅｖｅｒａｇｅ

and they even have subtly different meanings that the talker often doesn't seem to realize.

you use something for what it's meant for. use a bucket to carry water.

you utilize something for something it works fine for, but it's not really the intended use. you utilize a shoe to prop opena window.

let's split the difference: usetilize,

At the end of the day, it is night

So just like L words?

And (they) still can't understand similes.

"bank grade security" grinds my gears, too

Having worked at actual banks, too, don't follow their lead....

when i was a kid, i figured it was a reference to some now obscure detective story, where a bowl of pudding contained the important clue as to who the killer was or something. it wasn't until much later that i heard of this etymology.

This is now top of my list

I quite like influencer I think it's good that they are called what they are being paid to do and not trying to hide. It's surprising honestly from a very dishonest industry.

Sometimes it's meant like "I'm about to ask what might sound like a dumb question, but I'm genuinely asking, so please take me seriously."

Sometimes it's meant like "I'm about to ask what might sound like a dumb question, but I'm genuinely asking, so please take me seriously."

What's the correct usage? and the wrong one you've been hearing?

I will use irregardless to my dying breath. In fact I go out of my way to use dumb combinations of synonyms all the time, mayhaps, possentially...

All intensive purposes

Wait a minute...

So like … what’s your answer?

IM SORRY ITS MY SECOND LANGUAGE. THIRD TECHNICALLY.

I am someone who really likes the term for myself, because it can encompass a whole bunch of complex identities across gender and sexuality. It feels like it simplifies things for me, and has helped me to properly understand the necessity of LGBTQ solidarity. There have been times when I have been told it's inappropriate for me to personally identify as queer because some people find the term offensive, which I find absurd because such a large and heterogeneous community will never be unanimous on what terms or labels to use.

However, much more frequently than that, I have seen people being insensitive to the reality that there are a ton of people who have pretty legitimate beef with the term and who don't want it applied to them. I'm talking about situations like "queer folk like us " or "the queer community". It's a pretty reasonable request if someone says "hey, if you're referring to a group that involves me, I'd prefer you not use queer as a blanket term". The appropriate response to that is "I'm sorry, my bad", but I have seen way too many people start arguments that actually the (usually but certainly not always) older gay men are obstacles to Progress.

I like the way that a friend of mine framed it when he said that he's actively jazzed to see a word that did such harm being reclaimed by a new generation who are finding great power and solidarity in it. But that's never going to erase the sting he still feels when remembering being victimised for years by people who'd shout that word. "You can't reclaim a slur if you ignore all its history and disown the members of your community who experienced it as a slur".

It boggles my mind that there are people who are heavy advocates of the power of self determination of one's identity, but who don't see the issue in forcing the label of "queer" onto individuals who have expressly rejected it.

I've always thought queer had 2 connotations. The first being the slur. The second is a catch all for someone not lgbt or someone who doesn't know what they are yet.

I do this too much. My defence is that I am a bad writer who's working to be better.

I've always interpreted it as being equivalent to "what's done is done"

This one is mine too. It's used in a way that can give it more meaning (mainly, this is something out of our control), but logically the phrase is just corpo filler-speak that means absolutely nothing.

Per se

This is known as a thought terminating cliché. They can be more than just annoying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

Nah that's rizzler shit on God sigma 10k

on the same note, "guesstimate"

Supermassive?

Game Changer was a game changer.

But that is them accepting it.

Kevin Gates?

Feels like fake caring?

At least the video game lemmings look nothing like real-life ones.

Property, when referring to a key

on the internet everything is true. therefore if you don't preface your thoughts with "CW: opinion" your writing permanently alters reality and people will be angry at you for inconveniencing them.

imho.

Valid opinion on the phrasing. Disagree with the premise that anything someone says is necessarily their opinion.

Example: "For me, potatoes are easier to peel with a knife than a potato peeler" vs "Potatoes are easier to peel with a knife than a potato peeler". The former says that this is my experience and yours may differ. The latter says that this is true in general and if you find it easier the other way, there's a good chance you're doing something wrong.

I disagree. I play the devil's advocate every now and than just to show how biased people can get. I want to introduce some reflection into the discussion so people could at least try to see a different point of view.

It's useful when talking about race issues. Instead of saying white/black people you can say white folk or black folk. It just seems more friendly when discussing something that could be sensitive.

It could become accurate. I mean, with global warming and extreme weather increasing.

The only thing worse than people misusing the term 'enshittification' are people who criticise that but can't be bothered to get their facts straight.

No, it's not a meaningless buzzword. And no, it was not made up by nostalgic millennials. It would have taken you a mere minute of online research to figure that out yourself.

Do you mean English loanwords or when people switch back & forth?

I hate this too.

im takin it back

The "default" for lack of a better term

There is a better term, it's 'cis'

Cis and straight are... Entirely different axes, though. How would you describe someone who is cis and gay, or trans and straight while applying "straight" to both sexual orientation and gender identity?

I find "cis" useful, personally. I'm bisexual, so certainly "straight" isn't applicable. In a lot of contexts I'd use "cis" to refer to myself, I suppose "not trans" would also work, but it'd be clunkier.

Plus, there are times when the thing I want to centre in my communication is the cisgender perspective that I have. For example, I was recently discussing with a friend that seeing trans friend's gender euphoria improved my own relationship to my gender because it made me ask myself whether cis people could experience gender euphoria and if so, why couldn't I recall any instances of experiencing it?

I feel like the term "cisgender" implicitly acknowledges that voices and experiences like mine are important in building a shared understanding of gender — i.e. trans people aren't the only ones who have a gender. Like, obviously I can't speak directly about trans experiences, but that doesn't mean that I'm expected to shut up and contribute nothing to the wider conversation.

• There are two kinds of races, white and political.
• There are two kinds of gender identities, male and political.
• There are two kinds of sexual attractions, straight and political.
• There are two kinds of gender congruences, cis and political.

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“Cis” is not an extra term for straight any more than “trans” is. These terms have nothing to do with sexual orientation. If you can handle the word “straight,” as opposed to “boring/default/whatever,” then you can also handle the word “cis” by the same logic.