To get irritated by these words / phrases

[Bouliegirl]

there are a few words/phrasesthat irritate the life out of me that I keep seeing online. “Elevated”. “Intentional” “old money aesthetic”. Either in a magazine or on social media.

anyone else?

Sorry, was trying to scroll up and clicked it. I don’t know about these in particular, but yes some ‘trendy’ phrases annoy me too.

hun and hunni.

I'm in my late forties, a professional woman with a degree and a career and two children,

I am no one’s hun, hunni or “a girl”

It really bugs me when people say 'two times' instead of twice. I've noticed it on adverts on the tv as well. How hard is it to say twice?!?

I think they’re fine but I am a person with an intentional elevated old money aesthetic.

😂

One that has really been chafing my crack recently is when people refer to sex as ‘intimacy’ as though they have the same meaning. The reason it bugs me is that it’s often in situations where men are trying to present their (often post-partum) partners’ reluctance to have sex as a deliberate emotional neglect. Because that has nothing to do with ‘intimacy’ (which can look like anything from laughing together right up to sex, but try convincing these men to settle for anything less than penetrative sex in these situations and you’ll get short shrift). It’s disingenuous use of language deployed to make their selfishness seem more benign.

That and calling it ‘seggs’. For God’s sake grow up.

Annoys me when people say anyways instead of anyway and myself, yourself. It’s me and you!

😄

Using ‘myself’ when it should be ‘me’.

I get annoyed when interiors magazines say 'she sourced it from' and then say an antiques market or a shop. No she didn't. She bought it, just like everyone who buys their stuff at IKEA.

At the moment, ‘milk and cookies’ for Santa/FC.

Where did this come from? - as if I didn’t know!

in the U.K. he expects a tot of something warming, and a mince pie or two. Who on earth wants cold milk on a midwinter night anyway?

There are posters on MN who will say stuff like,

"My husband enjoys cooking. He went out to the supermarket and sourced the ingredients."

"I am hosting my some friends at the weekend. I'll be cooking from scratch and sourcing my meat from the local butchers."

🤣🤣🤣

Language is always evolving - words like "sick", "bad" and "wicked" used to have negative meanings. Amongst the "yoof" of today, and probably a couple of decades ago, they're used in the positive. I'm fine as long as I can generally understand what's being said - if I don't, I probably don't care what they're saying anyway. My main bugbear at the moment is the pronunciation of the word biopic. It's not biopic pronounced as in anti-biotic, it's buy-oh-pick.

Or even worse…

‘I, myself, wanted to order the fruit scone’.

Just say ‘I wanted to order the fruit scone’ - it doesn’t make you sound any more intelligent.

‘Myself and DH are going to go and visit blah blah blah…’ gaaaaaah

I hate it when someone says 'you have agency...' meaning you can do your own thing/you're an individual person. I know it's grammatically correct, I just HATE it. 😆

'Use your words.'

'Reader, I left him....' Duck off you're not a mid 19th century author!

Cute / sweet used as positive terms, for instance in the contexts of baby names or kids’ clothes.

AFAIC being cute or sweet is only a good thing for under-fives & baby animals, & after that it rapidly changes to twee.

The reason people say “Seggs” & “unalive” etc is because on Facebook, Instagram and especially TikTok, if they say words like sex or dead or suicide etc then their video gets demonetised and/or taken down. It’s not slang it’s literally just to avoid the censorship

I hate "cozzy livs".

“Curated” for me.

I was recently asked to “curate a gift bag”. Seriously, what? Do you mean put some stuff in a gift bag?

It’s not a museum.

I can’t bear it when people use the phrase “my little family” on here. As in “I’m happy at home with my little family.”

So twee it makes me itch and also its invariably followed by a long rant about how awful it is to have to spend time with anyone outside your nuclear family and how you just want to stay at home 24/7. It depresses me to hear people talk like this.

Hubby and hubster make me retch.

Alot, abit, aswell, infront. Could go on.

Afew (just saw this on a thread)

My boss calls me hun. I’m just baffled as she doesn’t seem to be the “hun” type