AIBU to be annoyed when people use supposed adjectives such as "naff" and "blah" to describe their opinion on something

[TiredOfIlliteracy]

...instead of giving a well thought-out, carefully crafted, meaningful response, which makes use of more of the many thousands of words in the English language? Surely there's no point in posting if you cannot be constructive? Or is at all a bit "meh"?

reality, how very naff of you...

However, I would agree that blah is a tad overused and not very helpful in the baby names topic. Not seen very much meh over there though. Perhaps has taken over?

But naff and blah are very descriptive.

YABU.

and a perfectly timed 'meh' speaks volumes

I used to get annoyed by people saying 'Like, hello?' instead of actually explaining what was wrong with the statement they were like hello about.

Yeah, like whatever.

I use naff and faff quite a lot

I will try to use more intellectual words in future although its a bit of a faff tbh and some of them will probably sound naff.

Have just spent an entire week trying to persuade my undergraduates to cut out the florid language and stick to clear, simple language.

Am not going to give any examples, as I don't want to get sued/sacked/found dead in my office, but I can assure you Literacy Hour has a lot to answer for.

According to dd, her class are no longer allowed to use ordinary words like "said" and "asked" in their essays: "We have to say "demanded" even if someone is just asking the time."

Dd can see that this is funny. I have 21 undergraduates who cannot.

Never mind about Ockham's razor: get me his bloody chainsaw!

Fair point about plain English cory. I spend most of my working life translating jargon and agree that it's a nightmare.

But would you let your students answer an exam question with "it's a bit blah" with no supporting evidence?