What over-used, or wrongly used words and phrases annoy you the most

[strollingbones]

"let me tell you this" one of my friends used that line all the time....unfortunately he is dead now and i would give anything to hear him say that just one more fucking time....

 

[Gracie]

"Are you kidding me???"

Ex friend always said that. Probably why she is an ex friend now.

 

[usmbguest5318]

I have plenty of linguistic pet peeves, but when a writer uses any of the styles, phrases, words, etc. that normally irk me to some small degree and also uses it with adeptly "poetic" effect, I'm not at all bothered by them or that the writer chose to use the term, etc. in question. Annoying words and phrases and whatnot are, I suppose, like everything else: in their time and place they are fine, even when they are

For example, when quoting someone and having to in writing accurately convey the speaker's sound, elocution, inflection, and cadence, I find it acceptable, provided the author isn't mocking the speaker (particularly a speaker who isn't present or able to defend themselves), to phonetically spell a speaker's words or use a deliberate misspelling for satiric purposes. For example:

• She put the "e" in "ignernt."
• Replacing the "g" with an apostrophe for any word ending in "ing." Ditto for other syllabic/phoneme elisions.
• Indicating non-rhoticity by replacing "r" with "ah."

There are other types of phonetic spellings. I think they add a bit of character to the written word. I'm okay with all of them provided the writer punctuates them properly so I can tell what's going on.

• Mayans worshiped gawds they thought came from alien worlds. --> I'd think the writer was saying that Mayans worshiped tschotskes they thought came from visitors from outer space.
• Mayans worshiped "gawds" they thought came from alien worlds. --> I'd know that's a phonetic spelling of "god" and that Mayans didn't worship trinkets knowing full well that they were trinkets and not gods. LOL

 

[Gracie]

Oh...oh...THAT WORD! "Gawd". Drives me bugshit.

 

[usmbguest5318]

"How so?"


Bloody hell....that one really gets to me.

My kids disliked my asking them that, usually because they didn't know how so. LOL They also, for much the same reason, weren't keen on "why so?" LOL

 

[Gracie]

My sister in law is 62 years old and has the mentality of a 15 year old. So, when she learns a new word, like any teenager, she uses it constantly like a teen would blow a gum bubble.

Her new word for the PAST FUCKING TEN YEARS I AM DOOMED WITH is....

"oh, isn't that ADORABLE?"

"Oh, how ADORABLE!"

 

[usmbguest5318]

My sister in law is 62 years old and has the mentality of a 15 year old. So, when she learns a new word, like any teenager, she uses it constantly like a teen would blow a gum bubble.

Her new word for the PAST FUCKING TEN YEARS I AM DOOMED WITH is....

"oh, isn't that ADORABLE?"

"Oh, how ADORABLE!"

Wow! Ten years, eh?

Most folks binge on a new word they like, but not often for ten years.

 

[Marion Morrison]

"How so?" "How so?" How so?"




Lord above.... only YOU know how much I despise that little phrase

In what way?

 

[strollingbones]

okay ....

when you say thank you and get..no worries...no problem everything but your welcome

yes i am old and bitchy

 

[Gracie]

I do that sometimes. I'm not used to thank yous or even compliments, so I never know what to say.

 

[strollingbones]

as i tell the toddlers....manners are free...good manners are priceless....

 

[usmbguest5318]

"How so?" "How so?" How so?"




Lord above.... only YOU know how much I despise that little phrase

In what way?

Touché!!!

 

[keepitreal]

Cultural diversity used to redefine/reclassify
perversion(homosexual lifestyles)
and mental illness (gender bending)

 

[usmbguest5318]

okay ....

when you say thank you and get..no worries...no problem everything but your welcome

yes i am old and bitchy

I agree.

The only response to "thank you" is "you're welcome." One can follow or precede "you're welcome" with whatever one feels necessary, but "you're welcome" must explicitly exist among one's reply. Implied "you're welcome" is insufficient.

There are a small few phrases that, if one knows them in four languages -- English, French, Mandarin, and Spanish -- one can, for short periods, get by almost anywhere on the planet. "You're welcome" is one of those phrases. All cultures have several "you're welcome" variants, but they all also have the basic version that is never too formal nor too casual and that is never misconstrued. That's the version one needs to know.

 

[Geaux4it]

This is just meant to be a fun thread for the linguistic nit pickers among us.

Here’s what I mean: I was listening to an interview on the radio today, and the interviewee used the phrase “you know” about fifteen times in just a couple of minutes (then I nearly ripped the button off the radio when I switched it off).

The interviewee also began many of her sentences with the word “so,” even though there was no previous thought being referenced. From what I’ve read there's no grammatical reason not to use the word ‘so’ at the beginning of a sentence. Still, it sounds wrong (to me) when the word ‘so’ is not tying thoughts together (when used at the beginning of a sentence). And it quickly becomes annoying when overused in this way.

While ‘so’ is a versatile and useful word, some people make it an annoying word by using it at the beginning of nearly every sentence.

www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/is-starting-a-sentence-with-so-condescending

Another irritating word is “irregardless”. Again there is no rule against its use. But it’s a double-negative. The word “regardless” already has the suffix, “less”, on the end of the word. Some dictionaries list the word ‘irregardless’ but they note that it is non-standard.

So what are your pet peeves when it comes to word usage, or those over-used phrases that are quickly tossed out in place of doing the work required to express a real thought?

Need to have a 'conversation'
At end of the day
'that's a good question'


there you have it

And you can add that ^^^^^ to the list

-Geaux

 

[Geaux4it]

When I was about sixteen, a bunch of friends went to the mountains for a day-long picnic. There was a cute girl who used the word ‘wonderful’ to describe every damned thing.

I liked the girl, but couldn’t stand listening to her — so I spent much of the day trying avoid her. Lol...

Maybe that’s how we begin to learn a bit about the power of words.

Like today with Amazing. That word gets hammered more than Madonna

-Geaux

 

[usmbguest5318]

A "little bit." -- Redundant. All bits are, by definition, little.

 

[blastoff]

I go...he goes...in lieu of I said...he said, etc., etc.

 

[ChrisL]

I say what I want when I want. If someone doesn't like a "word" I use, then they can go . . . well LIKE, you know?

Better run to your safe spaces!

 

[Billo_Really]

This is just meant to be a fun thread for the linguistic nit pickers among us.

Here’s what I mean: I was listening to an interview on the radio today, and the interviewee used the phrase “you know” about fifteen times in just a couple of minutes (then I nearly ripped the button off the radio when I switched it off).

The interviewee also began many of her sentences with the word “so,” even though there was no previous thought being referenced. From what I’ve read there's no grammatical reason not to use the word ‘so’ at the beginning of a sentence. Still, it sounds wrong (to me) when the word ‘so’ is not tying thoughts together (when used at the beginning of a sentence). And it quickly becomes annoying when overused in this way.

While ‘so’ is a versatile and useful word, some people make it an annoying word by using it at the beginning of nearly every sentence.

www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/is-starting-a-sentence-with-so-condescending

Another irritating word is “irregardless”. Again there is no rule against its use. But it’s a double-negative. The word “regardless” already has the suffix, “less”, on the end of the word. Some dictionaries list the word ‘irregardless’ but they note that it is non-standard.

So what are your pet peeves when it comes to word usage, or those over-used phrases that are quickly tossed out in place of doing the work required to express a real thought?

I hate it when people break up their speech with the guttural sound "...uh..."

I mean....uh.....it takes....uh....twice as long....uh....to finish....uh....sentence.​