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

[TitaniasAss]

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

Weaponise
Twixmas
You do you

Feel free to add yours!

"Be kind"
"Do better"
"My/Her/His truth"

Do better is awful. Absolutely awful.

There are a lot of breastfeeding related words on MN that are disgusting (and presumably not used IRL)

Famalam...

Keep hearing/reading that (on SM) lately

Famabloodylam 😡
Just say family

Gah!

On here, when posters put DDog or DCat. Ffs.

When people end a sentence with no. E.g “but that’s an annoying way to speak no?”

Living my best life
hun
I’ve got your back/ they’ve got my back
date night

Making memories

I identify as

So you're not the thing you're identifying as then, as otherwise you'd just say I'm .....

What does identify as actually even mean...

Yes! Most of the time this seems to mean "taking photos of" rather than actually remembering something.

The unnecessary use of the word 'event'.

This year, for example, we have apparently had multiple extreme weather events. It's not an event. It's just weather.

@maryofthevirginkind You have my sympathies. I don't work in HR but there seem to be so many ridiculous phrases used in that context.

As well as onboarding and reaching out (mentioned upthread), there seems to be frequent need to connect people with others.

Have to work hard not to visibly twitch when they crop up in meetings.

Or indeed not to twitch visibly (with my apologies for the split infinitive given the thread....)

Super, hun or hunny, pop.

And to 'link in'.

Another recent one in my place is 'keep it warm'.

'Awesome' 🤢

The Masterchef phrase ‘plate of food’. Yes, I know said plate (OK, maybe it’s a chopping board or roof tile) looks more like a Jackson Pollock canvas than anything intended for salivary contact. But what else do you really expect it to be? Fairy breath?

"movie" - When there is no British English word for something it's fine to use an American one (or any other language) . But the word film been used in Britain for many years. Why have so many people started saying movie instead? It doesn't add anything.
Yes , I know "language evolves" but I can't see how this is an example of developing the English language

"hack" - most of these are actually just the way you normally do something. Using a tape measure, hammer and nail to hang a picture on the wall is not a "picture hanging hack".

"Grown assed" followed by woman/man etc gives me rage!

Also "sourced" meaning bought - just no!

Yes, yes, yes! I'm constantly pointing this out too.

Jambalaya. I think it's all the a's, or it could be the way my DMIL says it but I don't think so. The mb sound is a bit eurgh, can't explain properly but I'd like the word banned to Room 101.

Also, the word "dip" being used when referring to a sauce or other condiment. Stop it. Dip is the verb.

Oh yes. ‘I’ve got anxiety’ which demonstrates how far there is to go with talking about the general understanding of how the mind works. There’s some sloppy thinking in mainstream media about the difference between everyday unpleasant emotional responses to everyday unpleasant events, normal but intense emotions to devastating events, and the haywire, off-kilter stuff (which may also be a response to events but often aren’t as easily linked) which mental health professionals tend to deal with. ‘I’ve got anxiety’ is uneducated phraseology which shows how far the medical profession still has to go in communicating their understanding to lay people.