Words and phrases that drive you insane...

[Ducksbehindthesofa]

Certain words (usually nonsense or pseudowords) and phrases really grate on me, sometimes to the extent I don't bother reading the rest of a narrative if I stumble across a word or phrase on my hit list, halfway through something.

There are plenty, but a few to kick off:

Holibobs. It's not even an abbreviation for goodness sake.

Chillax. Just why?

"You do you" - this seems to be the in phrase at the moment, especially with the younger generation. It always sounds vaguely condescending to me

Chrimbo. Please, no

Nom nom nom. This one is right up there with holibobs!

Your turn......

Drip feed in itself makes me feel sick to see.

Posting pictures of your kids on their birthday with "four years of you" - yuck!

I hate the phrase I have more life experience than you as it gets used by my mum when she wants me to handle something her way.

Reading the explanation of Love Language has reinforced my notion that I'm out of touch with modern stuff.

Everything seems to need a title these days when people have being doing it for years.

I can’t stand any stupid ‘words’ or noises related to eating. Nom nom is worst! Probably related to my misophonia.

When people say ‘textses’ to mean text messages.

Not exactly what you are meaning, but when people refer to OCD as a way of explaining being overly tidy or similar. ‘oh that’s just my OCD’ or ‘I’m a bit OCD’ about tidying’ when they don’t have a diagnosis. It’s childish and insensitive to mis- appropriate a term that refers to a serious condition.

Also what’s with all the recent references to people from ‘the boats’? It’s fucking racist and disgusting and seems to be becoming part of normal, accepted discourse these days. Yuk.

HRTFT (on the bus).

when people post a picture on SM and accompany it with “I just can’t” or “I just cant with” usually followed by 😂😂😂😂 or other emojis.

I just can’t what??? It really rips my knitting!

Making memories.
Hun.
I agree with holibobs, it's vile.

There was a fairly recent thread where the OP constantly typed 1th

It hurt my brain.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius there are 2 current threads which mention "pench". One of them has it in the thread title. No idea if it is the same poster on both threads - and I CBA to check. Could there really be two of them? Please no. might be inspiration for a name change though

Be kind.

So sick of reading this in every other OP in AIBU.

I was only talking about the traditional Irish example (and not the more recent Irish example described by sammylady).

My own English is very much "correct" as determined by the conservative grammarians, but I'm willing to acknowledge that culturally, usage is what really matters (and often, ultimately determines what is and isn't regarded as "correct", regardless of ostensible rules).

The increasing use of ‘wild’ to describe anything unusual or interesting or just mildly of note. Soooo irritating!

All of these and “my world” 🤢

I find this quite difficult as I want to be able to use words to mean what they actually mean, not what people think they mean, and have them understood as such. So if I say "disinterested", I mean impartial, not uninterested; if I say "literally" I mean literally, not figuratively, etc. Otherwise we may as well just grunt.

Once it gets to the point that the definition (or at least one of the definitions) of "woman" is "anyone who feels like a woman", I wonder whether dictionaries need to start explicitly splitting definitions into separate categories of prescriptivism and descriptivism.

Plus "our little family" and "everything happens for a reason".

That's enough for me to infer that you are completely vacuous and best avoided.

Guilty secret: I actually like "holibobs", it makes me smile. 😄

If I say "Can't hang about, I'm on me holibobs!" in a silly squeaky voice, I can't help but chuckle.*

*I also like "chuckle". 😂

Yes, I too am defensive of the language used precisely and with the full resources of a large vocabulary, as this does the most justice to our most detailed and accurate perspectives of the world.

But there are many people who are never going to use language in such a way (and in many cases, can't reasonably be expected to).

"I seen" instead of "I saw".

Fizz, bubbly or bubbles instead of champagne/prosecco etc.

Yourself and myself incorrectly used. I'm looking at you, Traitors. "I'm voting for yourself." Makes me so annoyed!

Oh, YES !

and add very unique. It's either unique or it isn't.

Can you give some examples of what you mean by the traditional Irish example? I’m not trying to be nit- picky, I’m just genuinely curious by what you mean.

I can only recall simple examples like "Is it yourself?" (greeting) or "And yourself?" (an inquiry about health or what'll you have etc.)

"Myself and the brother", "The husband and myself" etc, simple examples where the speaker casts the self as the subject.

Spouses would often refer to each other as "himself" and "herself".

"Lived experience" (as opposed to dead experience presumably).

Using the word he’s Instead of his
no idea why it bugs me so much

People that say something is giving them life or they're already obsessed with something.
Also, big one, the pronunciation of ask.. aks or axe... just.

Oh yes wild.

Most of the time used to mean "not exactly what I think/would do."

Customers in restaurants who say to the waiter "Can I get a Waldorf salad, please?"

"No ... you can have a Waldorf salad but I am the waiter so I will get it for you."