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Anyone want to add to my ever increasing list of words/terms that are just really bloody annoying?

396 replies

TitaniasAss · 30/12/2022 20:41

There are many but this year I've been able to add even more:

Weaponise
Twixmas
You do you

Feel free to add yours!

OP posts:
downnew · 07/01/2023 02:33

My 10yo's latest one is 'I'll search it up', as in 'search for it', referring to an internet search. Sometimes he corrects himself when he sees the look on my face. Other times he just likes to wind me up!!

My DC's say this as it's what their teachers say at school. Really irritates me!

Mumtobabyhavoc · 07/01/2023 05:56

Incentivize
lean into
curate when not referring to art collections
generally any industry jargon outside of work
texting shorthand in spoken conversation (ie lol)
my bad
Myself instead of me used to sound formal when it's just incorrect use
journey
you do you
crunchy/scrunchy/silky to describe parenting philosophies
I know, right

if I've offended anyone, my bad, you do you.

Mellymoon · 07/01/2023 06:40

Overuse of “narcissist”.. funny how everyone seems to know one and they are always an ex 🙄

Tessisme · 07/01/2023 09:24

Mellymoon · 07/01/2023 06:40

Overuse of “narcissist”.. funny how everyone seems to know one and they are always an ex 🙄

Agree with this! Everyone's a blinking armchair psychologist these days, diagnosing personality disorders left, right and centre. I cringe when someone calls anyone a narcissist. Fair enough to use it in the casual sense of someone being vain, but people using it in the medical/therapeutic sense is a bit embarrassing.

Katypp · 07/01/2023 09:45

'And just like that' as in 'And just like that, she' s 16!' on SM

WandaWonder · 07/01/2023 09:47

Boundaries

Unless we are speaking sport or fences type thing

Motnight · 07/01/2023 09:47

Cis

SinnerBoy · 07/01/2023 10:28

Somewhat off topic - is there a new Word Association thread? The old one's full and I can't find another.

Thanks in advance!

Tessisme · 07/01/2023 10:48

Motnight · 07/01/2023 09:47

Cis

Grrr. Yes. Keeping my mouth zipped on this or I'll start banging on too much.

Saltywalruss · 07/01/2023 13:38

"mad" when you mean angry

bathbombaholic · 07/01/2023 14:32

"Making memories"

🤢🤢🤢

excelledyourself · 07/01/2023 19:41

'Cold snap'

DatasCat · 08/01/2023 19:17

To carry on the weather theme: ‘temmretures’ for temperatures, always spoken by the women weather presenters, never the men. Also a weather phrase used equally by both: ‘showers feeding in’.

excelledyourself · 08/01/2023 21:50

When people talk about 'flexing'.

'You need to learn to flex a little on the arrangement'

Or

'Weird flex, but okay'

Totally different, but equally shite.

Also, 'convo'.

midsomermurderess · 08/01/2023 21:56

‘Call out’. And the sodding ubiquitous misuse of ‘myself’. Do speakers of eg German, French, Spanish so routinely get their own language wrong in such a basic way?

Timeforachangeisitnot · 08/01/2023 22:04

@Sunnytwobridges what is wrong with maths? Just curious, as I have used it forever and I am 60.
Hate ‘math’ btw .

Cath667 · 09/01/2023 10:02

Unconscious bias. It's everywhere in corporate speak and now bloody Harry's waffling on about it too. Latest buzz word.

excelledyourself · 09/01/2023 19:11

People being, or even worse, telling others to be, 'mindful'.

DerekFaker · 11/01/2023 12:27

'Wellness'.

Katypp · 15/01/2023 15:28

Following on from my post about psueudo medicalising feeling a bit off/worried, I read on a declutter page that someone seemed to diagnosed herself with 'overwhelm anxiety' presumably meaning she had let everything get on top of her and she didn't know where to start.
Does overwhelm anxiety even exist?

larchforest · 15/01/2023 16:41

PAFMO · 02/01/2023 19:46

British English also used "math" until fairly recently, linguistically speaking. Then, for some unknown reason, the S was added while in America, the original form was maintained.

I've always assumed that 'maths' is short for 'mathematics'. Hence the 's' at the end.

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