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.
Someone could take all the answers here and create a copypasta equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.
“Irregardless”
“living my/your/their best life”
Please gtfo
OK yeah
People using double negatives incorrectly. Like “I didn’t do nothing!”
I’m afraid to say I kind of like that, although don’t particularly use it much.
I’m so pleased to hear you admit that you did it. Your honesty is appreciated.
I ain’t talkin to nobody without my lawyer!
I didn’t do no nothing wrong now, didn’t I?
You don’t deserve your existence
“Solidarity” as it’s too often used to make others do things you want.
What, like not be a transphobic piece of shit?
New bot dropped: Transphobia count bot. Goes thru the modlog and counts amount of times they’ve been moderated for transphobia
I am making a list with all my bots for when I learn computersOkay that is a really good one. We should implement that asap
Ideas guy strikes again. I’ll return in 18 months once I’ve learned how to type on a keyboard with more than one finger
People that use question marks in non-question sentences just to be extra snippy and condescending. Fuck that.
Bemused
It’s used incorrectly so often that even when I suspect it’s being used correctly I can’t be sure. At this point it’s ambiguity makes it a bad word choice.
What’s the correct usage? and the wrong one you’ve been hearing?
It means something in the vein of confused but people think it means amused
It means puzzled and/or confused.
Many authors seem to think it means amused mixed with some confusion or puzzlement or something else like that.
Some dictionaries have started to include definitions along those lines, which is correct to do if that is becoming a common usage. But that makes the word bullshit because it no longer conveys a clear meaning. Unlike some words that gain new meanings through misuse, it’s usually not clear which meaning is intended from context. Usually I can easily imagine a character’s response to something to be either of these definitions so I often can’t understand the author’s intention. I often find myself taken out of the story while I try to understand which meaning I should use. Because of this I think the word has become useless and shouldn’t be used.
Many authors seem to think it means amused mixed with some confusion or puzzlement or something else like that.
I actually kind of blame that abominable terf Joanne Rowling for this one; I know I’ve seen her use this word a dozen different ways that never line up with each other back in the days before we knew the Harry Potter woman was about as hateful as a southern Baptist
Me with nonplussed. I have a friend who uses it and he says it in situations that are ambiguous enough that I can’t tell if he actually knows what it means.
Bofa
I recently heard someone say after they almost accidentally went in a wrong building entrance, “Good thing I didn’t do that or I would regret my life choices.”
A bit much for something minor that created no more than two seconds of awkwardness.
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“Beloved” in so many articles. Yes I tend to use a specific browser. No, it is not and never will be “beloved”.
That word is so jarring most of the time and seems to be everywhere online in the last two years. I can only assume it’s some sort of SEO, trying to convince Google it’s a personal article or something. I hope to god it’s not ai assuming that’s what attracts our attention
“It is what it is.”
It is lazy, circular, a cop out and means next to nothing. Vague enough to pass as a wise quip, to some. It is not.
Also not so much a saying per sé, but people who use quotes of famous people at the bottom or ends of emails. As if that implies a personality. If you are going to use something you think sounds smart, at least try to come up with that something yourself.
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
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 as much effort as just typing it correctly.
When people refer to metal balls as ball bearings. A ball bearing is an assembly of outer ring, inner ring, balls, and a cage/retainer. I worked in bearing manufacture for years and they’re just referred to as balls. To be more specific, it would be a bearing ball, not a ball bearing.
