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I cringe so hard at the twitterist carebear-hugbox way of smugly claiming the intellectual high ground and shaming somebody:
"Be better." or "Do better."
The sentiment isn't terrible, but it's prevalent use is obviously just dripping with arrogance and thrown out in the most petty ways. Ugh!
"It is what it is"
I get the sentiment behind it, it's just usually so defeatist/dismissive of a situation to me.
"Oftentimes"
Its always interchangeable with Often. Just use Often.
"I could care less" to mean "I could NOT care less"
I sometimes say "I could care less, but not by much"
Someone could take all the answers here and create a copypasta equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.
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.
Not a term, but a lack thereof:
People I have to regularly interact with for work have been excluding "to be", especially with "needs", and it's infuriating.
This issue needs escalated. That report needs fleshed out. Let me know if anything needs cleared up.
So many things. In written form, I hate when someone writes "Period." after they make a point to mean "this can't be argued" or whatever. My good bitch, I don't think you understand how arguing works. π
"Full stop" is a close second.
It's a perfectly valid way to win an argument, end of sentence.
Ha serves me right βπ»
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I donβt know why, but it annoys the shit out of me.
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."
"Ding ding ding!" When someone agrees with something you wrote, but wants to make sure that you know that they already knew and claim ownership of the statement that you wrote. Condesending asshole. I did not arrive at your opinion late.
"Meanwhile" in cooking recipes. Just no. I am following a recipe in stepwise order. You do not get to tell me what I should have already done in the previous step.
No, you don't have a "challenge" for me. You have a problem and are trying to make it mine.
Man if that isn't just empty manager-speak, rephrasing things to BS you and be manipulative. Lol
Using the phrase "serious question" or "honest question" will make me immediately assume your question is the exact opposite of that. Probably I'm overreacting, but expecting that anyone might respect that declaration you've made about your own question, that gives me narcissist vibes.
People using double negatives incorrectly. Like "I didn't do nothing!"
Starting every sentence with "So". "So" being the way to indicate the beginning of a sentence.
I unreasonably hate the word "moreover". I see no reason why you wouldn't use the words "also", "additionally", or even "furthermore" that sound way better when read.
You would have hated my highschool essays
im still a bit salty about 'literally'
also the constant failure to say 'i could not care less' correctly
Queer. Not all gay men (the one group I can safely speak about) like to be associated with an ex-slur and its connotations.