Now, a small cadre of philistines in my office has been using the word "outreach" as a NOUN... "Were you able to establish some outreach with the printers?" etc.
What language abuses have been rubbing you raw lately?
― andy, Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link
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― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
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― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
Four Words: Use Other Words Please"Use other words please."Commonly used phrases that inexplicably bug youMost irritating cliche/phrase/expression"Taking Things to a Whole `Nother Level!" words that annoyWords that should earn the author a slapPROVERBIAL and other tip offs to poor writing
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
-- caitlin (wpsal...) (webmail), December 23rd, 2003. (caitlin)
Oh yes, yes yes. I second that one. And the people who say it, say it over and over.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
This is true.
But, this is a topic that should be dealt with routinely and harshly... the only way we can correct the language and suppress it's organic growth is by exposing and banning every new usage as it occurs... Isn't that what the French do?
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link
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― barbara wintergreen, Monday, 29 December 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 December 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.
Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 29 December 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
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― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Got a "welcome in" from a doctor the other day.
― jaymc, Saturday, 20 April 2024 18:11 (four weeks ago) link
I’m even a fan of “I appreciate you” because it’s not a referendum am I good y/n it’s an appreciation.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(
― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I appreciate you has begun to make inroads at my workplace in the past few months. I enjoy seeing it written to me in an email, but it feels so intimate that I'm uncomfortable writing or saying it myself. I've definitely told colleagues, "I appreciate it," or the more casual "Much appreciated." I hadn't thought too deeply about those before now, but in the light of I appreciate you, they do seem to put a little distance between the speaker and the receiver. So, I'm a fan, but it doesn't feel natural enough for me to say yet.
― peace, man, Monday, 22 April 2024 11:46 (three weeks ago) link
its stilted to my ears, i couldnt see where id ever hear it or use it where it wouldnt come out as a bit....much
but its a game of opinions and we are all using these phrases in very different contexts
people who take issue with the less formal versions of any such sentiment are a little weird tho i think
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 22 April 2024 11:51 (three weeks ago) link
"sando" for sandwich
― pj, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:28 (two weeks ago) link
is that an australianism?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:31 (two weeks ago) link
Japanese-ism
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:33 (two weeks ago) link
Yeah, and it's a term I only recently came across — an Asian fusion food cart that I buy from sells three different "sandos" (pork, chicken, and fish), and they're all good but that term is very annoying.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:46 (two weeks ago) link
TBF "sando" the word is Japanese so kinda doesnt count here.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:49 (two weeks ago) link
"Sanga" is the Australianism.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:03 (two weeks ago) link
"source of truth"
― reggae mike love (polyphonic)
Useful jargon with a specific meaning sorry
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 2 May 2024 02:24 (two weeks ago) link
sanger wokkas mate
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 07:52 (two weeks ago) link
yeah nah
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:28 (two weeks ago) link
What about "sarnie"?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:56 (two weeks ago) link
also bad
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:07 (two weeks ago) link
V bad.
Just call it a damn sandwhich. Cutesy nicknames that aren't any shorter drive me nuts. Brekkie, Crimbo, sunnies etc.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:19 (two weeks ago) link
we had a place here that went the other way and it was worse - 'wiches
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:30 (two weeks ago) link
Americans often use the vile ‘sammiches’, so nobody is covering themselves in glory here.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:49 (two weeks ago) link
Never heard either of those thankfully.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:05 (two weeks ago) link
I don't mind "resonates".
It's a shorthand way of saying "that thing you've just described is really meaningful to me, but it would probably be too boring and unrelatable to explain, so I'm just going to say 'resonates'"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:22 (two weeks ago) link
The word "resonate" itself isn't the issue, it's saying "I resonate with x" instead of "x resonates with me."
― jaymc, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:51 (two weeks ago) link
'i resonate with x' makes more logical sense to me. i'm the one reacting, the x isn't doing anything.
― ledge, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:14 (two weeks ago) link
following the logic of the analogy it does make more sense for the object to resonate than the subject
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:24 (two weeks ago) link
Agree with J - "i resonate with x" sounds very strange to me the same way that it sounds weird to me when people here say "you suit green" rather than "green suits you".
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:26 (two weeks ago) link
I resonate with sarnies.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:37 (two weeks ago) link
._.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:40 (two weeks ago) link
I have gotten used to it but I still will sometimes think of it literally… like sandwiches causing the speaker’s voice to become an operatic vibrato
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:43 (two weeks ago) link
I definitely don’t say it… it also sometimes makes me think of vibrators and like the person getting off sexually on the inspirational meme about collective farming
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:47 (two weeks ago) link
Sarnies resonate with me = Sarnies get a sympathetic response from me
I resonate with sarnies = I get a sympathetic response from sarnies
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:52 (two weeks ago) link
isn't Sarnies that theatre bar in NYC
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:55 (two weeks ago) link
physically speaking that just seems completely the wrong way round (i know it's what we old folk have always said)
― ledge, Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:02 (two weeks ago) link
I wonder if "I resonate with x" has become more popular recently because of analogous constructions like "I vibe with x" and "I fuck with x."
― jaymc, Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:24 (two weeks ago) link
my guess is yes
it's another way of saying vibe with
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:32 (two weeks ago) link
Or more often sammies — which tbh of all of these I don't mind.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:34 (two weeks ago) link
who wants a hammy sammy
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:42 (two weeks ago) link
Federal prosecutors can indict them iirc
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 2 May 2024 15:47 (two weeks ago) link
Both the sandwich infantilism and the resonating are usages I have come to accept but I still don’t like and never say … and have to consciously avoid having a negative facial expression in response
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:13 (two weeks ago) link
I used to really hate the term “apps” to refer to appetizers, but I have come to accept it. I still reflexively think of the scene in “The Thick of It” where the Tory minister has to say “I call app Britain” and his obvious annoyance at it
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:16 (two weeks ago) link
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― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 May 2024 03:12 (two weeks ago) link
imo, the creation and use of diminutives should remain in the exclusive domain of Australians. Doesn’t feel right any other way. Get your own culture, ya know?
― H.P, Saturday, 4 May 2024 03:26 (two weeks ago) link
Liverpool might say the Australians are the thieves here.
― steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 4 May 2024 05:54 (two weeks ago) link
xps gif notwithstanding, no Aussie would call them fckn “sandos” unless trying to pretend their cafe is a konbini. For starters it would cause massive confusion with the Sandringham Hotel in Melbourne. Which IS the Sando.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 4 May 2024 08:03 (two weeks ago) link
Sarnies are ok in the bacon usage. Doesn’t work with cheese, peanut butter or other fillings, but bacon sarnies are ok.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 4 May 2024 08:13 (two weeks ago) link
Where I come from, they call big sandwiches "grinders", so it can always be worse.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:14 (two weeks ago) link
Grinders are fine …
― sarahell, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:27 (two weeks ago) link
GrindersHungry for meat
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:08 (two weeks ago) link
I guess if we really want to be technical, they're "grindahs"
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:14 (two weeks ago) link
What's up with the "fish" in "tuna fish sandwich"?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:34 (one week ago) link
possibly related: beef brain instead of cow brain
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:40 (one week ago) link
xposts - when I was in HS I worked at a clothing shop with an older girl who liked to tell me about her hookups. She was from somewhere in New England where subs are called grinders but I had never heard that before so was v v confused when she described someone as having a d like a grindah. Only figured it out years later when I moved to Boston.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 14:54 (one week ago) link
Lol when Grinder the app came out, my first thought was grindah size d
― sarahell, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:10 (one week ago) link