To be annoyed when people say ....

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low key ? For example someone says " does this top not low key go with these jeans" it seems to be used all the time now. Maybe annoyed is not the right word but it's irritating 🤣 . Light-hearted post really. Are there any sayings that seem to be "trending" that annoys you ?

I was a lot* older than I should have been when I discovered the difference between less and fewer. And that Pilates wasn't pronounced Py-Lates!

*see what I did there

No, my 16 year old daughter says it all the time. And that means that at least she's speaking to me which I'm low key grateful for.

Surely nothing is as bad as "Geoff and myself have been working on Project X. Thank you to yourself for giving us that opportunity."

Argh, you sound THICK, not clever!

This Reminds me of Russell Kane explaining Essex phrases!

Oh and another one that's been getting on my tits today. Fecking "disrupt". "Let's disrupt the narrative around XYZ" Why? What do you even mean? Disrupting things isn't somehow automatically positive and cool - if you mean have a new idea or do things differently, fine but just arse off with your "disrupting" it makes you sound like a pretentious wanker.

It's figurative speech 😃 . It's not meant literally but is a turn of phrase meaning someone says something in a very direct way without worrying about people's reactions or saying something unexpected or cutting!

I have two. Firstly, a colleague has started slipping the word ‘hella’ into conversations, as in ‘we’re having a hella healthy meal tonight’ or ‘it’s going to be hella hot in Greece’. Absolutely grates. We live in East Anglia, not the Midwest, why say that?

Also, when did everything become ‘wholesome’? Wholesome videos, such a wholesome vibe, this is the most wholesome story etc. Are we all in Little House on The Prairie now or does it just mean something that isn’t wildly offensive?

I get the rage when people refer to "renting out" a house. There is a perfect and precise word for it: LETTING. That is why they are called LETTING agents, not "renting-out" agents.

It's even more annoying then they don't say "renting out" but just "renting", which means the opposite of what they think it means.

Example:

"I am renting a house."

Using English correctly, that means she is paying money to live in a house. But no, people will say "I am renting a house" and then go on to say the person they are renting it to hasn't paid their rent. Grrr.

A related annoying phrase is "doing up" and, worst of all, "doer-upper". The correct word is RENOVATE and the house is one in need of renovation. This is a perfect good and precise word, so why bring in words like "doing" and "up" into it? Grrr.

Eh? What does 'low key' mean???

I've worked all my life. No you haven't you didn't crawl out the womb and start working at Asda.🤣🤣🤣

I don’t have a problem with the expression “turned around and said”. It’s not literal, just expressing that you replied assertively.

(There’s probably a fancy grammatical term for phrases like that)

"We are pregnant".

My husband and I are pregnant."

Just be glad they're not 'queering the discourse'.

Yeah that can fuck off as well

Never heard it in S Yorkshire.

I also hate when people on MN refer to a husband as "they".

"Sourcing" when they really mean buying.

Oh dear...

1. "Less" is not a singular word, nor is "fewer" a plural version. The distinction is between countable and non-countable nouns.
2. This is an entirely arbitrary "rule" used largely to sneer at people who fail to follow it; there are very few occasions when using the "wrong" one makes a difference to the meaning of the phrase in which either is used.
3. If it is so important, what is the equivalent partner to "more"?

Oh Christ I say that when I introduce speakers.

I know people called Wheelhouse!

He/she/they, "done amazing." I just want to say, "LY!"

Fry bloody vocal fry saying anyting.

I hate it when people complain about technical words that they, in fact, just don't know the meaning of.

'synergies' is a classic one. It is a perfectly fine technical word with a useful meaning, but people love to hate it because they don't know what it means and assume it doesn't mean anything

Tbh I have lots but I think I may be channelling my inner Victor these days. One that I really loathe though is ‘feel some kind of way’. It’s so typically American to not be able to think of a single appropriate word to sum up an emotion!

Yes! I am constantly going berserk with my daughter over this one!