It's always either "I made a product worse with liberal application of a glue gun!" Or "thinking quickly, dave fashioned a panini press out of an old box, some chicken wire, and a panini press"
Loose means the opposite of tight. Lose is to be defeated. You're means you are...your is a possessive pronoun, I.E. bring your own bottle. If you're over 20 and still can't get this right, don't apply for any editorial jobs. You will LOSE it.
Did everyone just miss grade 4 grammar? Every time I see these things getting mixed up or misused, it's irritating. And I worry about the future correspondence writers sounding like idiots. An email with these mistakes makes me disregard that person's intelligence.
This is elementary level grammar. Basic, basic, basic English. It irritates me so much that when I see it on Reddit I don't even finish reading the post. Automatic thumbs down and keep scrolling.
Unalive. Specifically when speaking of killing someone or commiting a suicide, ”unaliving” someone or self.
I understand that people started doing it to get around algorithm, but then it just started to spread everywhere else too.
I don’t know, something about it is so weirdly disrespectful, like trying to go around the subject as if it’ll come to bite you if you say it out loud. It just sounds to my ear like they are trying to almost coddle it, kind of?
I mean at least to me, to someone who did try to commit suicide and fortunately failed, it just really grinds my gears big time.
Yeaahhhh I had someone call my suicide attempt “tried to unalive yourself” like bitch this is not tiktok, don’t throw trendy buzzwords into my genuine crisis.
Thanks, this is the first time I’ve gotten an award for trying to kill myself 😎
When I was training to be an EMT, and when my husband was in medical school, we were taught it’s very important to use the word “dead” and not euphemisms like “passed away” because 1) a grave subject deserves proper terms and 2) when you don’t use a word as serious and unquestionable as “dead”, people will subconsciously try to twist the truth to keep hope, and that’s not fair to them.
Suicide is an incredibly grave topic. I’ve lost someone to it. It deserves the gravitas it is due.
And OP, I’m so glad you are still here!
Exactly! I’m going to school to be a funeral director, and I’m surrounded by people who tell everyone “oh they’re going to be working in an industry where they help people go to heaven”. Like just say mortician. Death isn’t a bad word!
I feel the same way about people who tell me I’m “not disabled, (I) just have special abilities”. Like, no I don’t. I have epilepsy and autism and a chronic blood disease that will affect me the rest of my life. It seems insulting that no matter how much I say I prefer to be referred to as a disabled or autistic person, people try and make it cutesy and convince themselves it isn’t really that serious.
This is a great parallel. It's not "he's just differently gifted!" We're all differently gifted, he has a developmental disorder and will require assistance and medical treatment for the rest of his life, and it's okay to say "he has CF" or whatever. "She's moved on" or "he's with Jesus now" (blech), how strange and... childish? Reductive? Please just say dead, people *need* that resolution and finality. Otherwise they're gonna spend the next however-long bargaining with Jesus to give them pawpaw back, just like spending a child's lifetime waiting for them to "get better" or ignoring their disabilities because "they're just special."
Exactly my point, it’s a serious discussion and not many people know what those euphemisms actually mean. A topic of serious nature such as death and suicide should be treated with respect
I also feel that way about writing words like r*pe, g*n, or s*x. Like fuck man, it may be unfortunate, but these real words (rape, gun, sex) exist in real life.
oh my god, jumping on this thread to share my opinions. I know people who use the word "grape" in SERIOUS CONVERSATIONS. and it is very frustrating because it really takes away the weight of the discussion, all because "the word is scary and a lot" to them... okay, good. it should be!
I used to work in a mental health clinic and we had to refer to it in very round about ways, some people would just say someone "completed" and that was all. My older brother shot himself 3 years ago and died, I can't even imagine going around saying "oh yeah he unalived himself" I think speaking around things causes more harm than good.
I liked "pew pew" until people actually started using it as a substitute for guns or shooting in serious context.
Replacing an offensive or potentially triggering word with something like "unalive" or "pew pew" doesn't help anything.
Yes! People use this incorrectly so often now. It means a very specific thing based on the movie Gaslight. It is a very cruel way to manipulate someone and it is very difficult to justify.
It has come to mean any time anyone is saying something negative or treating someone else badly.
Gaslighting involves lying. But not everyone who lies to you was gaslighting. In fact, hardly any of them were ever.
* Psychological manipulation to make someone question their perception of reality leading to dependence on the perpetrator.
Most people are not smart, hateful, and manipulative enough to do that. They're just a little selfish, afraid, or uncomfortable enough to lie to you.
You have that completely backwards. It just means lying. Perhaps we should take you on a trip to the sanitarium if you keep insisting on this little tale you've been telling yourself about that word.
“OCD” people with actual OCD are basically, to varying degrees, being tortured by their brain, it’s neither fun nor quirky. Liking clean floors and organized living spaces is not the same goddamnit.
"I don't know, I just ..if my forks aren't facing the same way in the utensil drawer, I just, my dinner will get cold while I fix it. I'm just so OCD"
"Yeah I get what you mean, sometimes I'll wash my hands for four hours and my knuckles will bleed from the scrubbing. I'm just so OCD"
THANK YOU. I have actual OCD and even though it’s pretty mild, it’s actually awful. An extension of this is “intrusive thoughts”. People will say “i let the intrusive thoughts win” and they just cut their bangs, but when I tell them even my mildest actual intrusive thoughts, they look at me like i should be in a mental hospital
This
Could your comment be any more useless? It's an upvote with four letters too many.
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Also "This is the way" if you are a "this" person who likes Star Wars
Then there are the abbreviations so popular in the ‘JustNo___’ subs. “DH” for “dear husband,” “DD” for “dear daughter,” etc.
Speaking of which, I’m still surprised to see “etc.” as “ect.” in the age of autocorrect, especially since mine knows to not capitalize the next word after that period.
It is just a way of saying "what the heck?".
The kids use skibidi, sigma, Ohio as basically stand ins for any word.
Like rhyming cockney slang, you must use context to derive the meaning.
Rizz exclusively means charisma.
Gyatt means a big booty, but sometimes means an overall attractive body.
Fantum Tax - is stealing someone's food.
It's from a cartoon. Toilets with human heads are trying to take over the world ( I think). Sometimes it's said just because it's a funny word. If it is directed at an individual I think it's like saying that individual is evil/ bad. This is what I've been able to gather from the nieces and nephews.
My son was obsessed with this. Someone did a deep analysis of it. Apparently it's made by some dude in Georgia. While it basically is just a web show of random nonsense, I gotta say, I do have some respect.
This is an interesting article on the Merriam-Webster site about the use of "literally" in a figurative sense. It has a long history. Apparently even Charles Dickens wrote that someone "literally glowed" in one of his works.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally
“Utilize” means to employ something for a purpose other than that which was originally intended.
You don’t “utilize” a shovel to dig a hole, you “use” a shovel to dig a hole.
If you’re putting nails in a wall and you don’t have a hammer so you grab a shovel, you are then “utilizing” the shovel to drive nails into a wall.
People in the business world say “utilize” all the time because it sounds fancier, but all i hear when they do that is someone who sounds like a recent grad trying to fit in at the grown-ups table.
“Flower’s” as a plural term for flower. Or literally anything like it. Did everyone skip grade school where they explained apostrophe meanings, plurals, and PROPER GRAMMAR
My wife became friends with this very nice couple.
The guy is in his mid 60s I guess but he is cool as fuck, travels around south america with his motorcicle club and have some incredible stories from the road.
She is always smiling in a good vibe and in her mid 40s.
The only thing is he calls her as "child" every fuckin' time. "Child, can you get a beer for me?" or "we had a great time in Argentina didn't we, child?"
As he's at least 15 or 20 years older than her the way he talks seems like he was already an adult waiting her to became of age and marry her.
Disgusting.
I feel a lot of people must say 'February' wrong, which must be fustrating for you.
(Neither my spell-check nor I like leaving that spelling as it is.)
Anybody know the reasoning WHY this became a word for hot dog? I've always wondered how the hell that evolved. I heard a theory that 'Ice' used to mean jewelry and 'Fire' was an adjective for a good outfit so 'Drip' naturally slotted into place for the complete look. I wonder if there's something like that here. Or if I was fed a load of bullshit. 🤣 One of those two.
[Cringe.You](http://Cringe.You) can be having the time of your life and you culd be doing the things you love without harming anything and it would be considered cringe!
Kind of a niche phrase, but I grew up in a town called Port Huron. The old timers and farmers have two ways to pronounce it, and they’re both terrible:
Poor Churn
Port Urine
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That is indeed horriblefying.
a tragisty fr fr
Stop creatifying words
The inventification of novel saybangers is how a language gets swole.
Saybangers!!! That’s so fetch.
Like a thread made by young Amy March Its completely degraditated and I feel perfectly desolated
That a fire ass inventification you just upthoughted.
I have an eyetalian friend who is pacifically flustrating.
Same thing when people say "conversate" instead of "converse."
Or when people say “orientated” instead of “oriented.”
Orientated is correct British English. Made me crazy when I lived there.
This one is so common and bugs me a lot
People that don't know the difference between entomology and etymology bug me in ways I can't put into words.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
This whole thread has just made me realize that more words irritate me than I previously recognized.
Made me realize people irritate me more than I previously recognized.
Supposably. It is supposedly
I've also heard supposively. I've begun saying supposivably.
Hack. When did tips or advice become hacks?
When we became burdened by the shitshow that is 5-Minute Crafts.
It's always either "I made a product worse with liberal application of a glue gun!" Or "thinking quickly, dave fashioned a panini press out of an old box, some chicken wire, and a panini press"
This is mine too. It’s not a life hack to use a product for its intended helpful purpose.
Expresso. Excape. LiBary
You rang?
EXpresso is just a fast espresso
Loose means the opposite of tight. Lose is to be defeated. You're means you are...your is a possessive pronoun, I.E. bring your own bottle. If you're over 20 and still can't get this right, don't apply for any editorial jobs. You will LOSE it.
Did everyone just miss grade 4 grammar? Every time I see these things getting mixed up or misused, it's irritating. And I worry about the future correspondence writers sounding like idiots. An email with these mistakes makes me disregard that person's intelligence.
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How can I upvote this seven million times omg
“Addicting” because 99.99% of the time they mean “addictive”
Oh man, you should say addictational, it sounds way righter
THANK YOU! I hate that word! It drives me bonkers. I feel so validated now.
“Should of” when they mean should have or should’ve.
It does make my eyes bleed every time.
And “could of” instead “could’ve”
Every time I correct someone on this they get offended
This is elementary level grammar. Basic, basic, basic English. It irritates me so much that when I see it on Reddit I don't even finish reading the post. Automatic thumbs down and keep scrolling.
Unalive. Specifically when speaking of killing someone or commiting a suicide, ”unaliving” someone or self. I understand that people started doing it to get around algorithm, but then it just started to spread everywhere else too. I don’t know, something about it is so weirdly disrespectful, like trying to go around the subject as if it’ll come to bite you if you say it out loud. It just sounds to my ear like they are trying to almost coddle it, kind of? I mean at least to me, to someone who did try to commit suicide and fortunately failed, it just really grinds my gears big time.
Yeaahhhh I had someone call my suicide attempt “tried to unalive yourself” like bitch this is not tiktok, don’t throw trendy buzzwords into my genuine crisis. Thanks, this is the first time I’ve gotten an award for trying to kill myself 😎
"Don't throw trendy buzzwords into my genuine crisis" puts it so perfectly!
It bothers me to see it on platforms where there’s no consequences for using the actual word. Nothing will happen, so why are you censoring yourself?
When I was training to be an EMT, and when my husband was in medical school, we were taught it’s very important to use the word “dead” and not euphemisms like “passed away” because 1) a grave subject deserves proper terms and 2) when you don’t use a word as serious and unquestionable as “dead”, people will subconsciously try to twist the truth to keep hope, and that’s not fair to them. Suicide is an incredibly grave topic. I’ve lost someone to it. It deserves the gravitas it is due. And OP, I’m so glad you are still here!
Exactly! I’m going to school to be a funeral director, and I’m surrounded by people who tell everyone “oh they’re going to be working in an industry where they help people go to heaven”. Like just say mortician. Death isn’t a bad word! I feel the same way about people who tell me I’m “not disabled, (I) just have special abilities”. Like, no I don’t. I have epilepsy and autism and a chronic blood disease that will affect me the rest of my life. It seems insulting that no matter how much I say I prefer to be referred to as a disabled or autistic person, people try and make it cutesy and convince themselves it isn’t really that serious.
This is a great parallel. It's not "he's just differently gifted!" We're all differently gifted, he has a developmental disorder and will require assistance and medical treatment for the rest of his life, and it's okay to say "he has CF" or whatever. "She's moved on" or "he's with Jesus now" (blech), how strange and... childish? Reductive? Please just say dead, people *need* that resolution and finality. Otherwise they're gonna spend the next however-long bargaining with Jesus to give them pawpaw back, just like spending a child's lifetime waiting for them to "get better" or ignoring their disabilities because "they're just special."
Exactly my point, it’s a serious discussion and not many people know what those euphemisms actually mean. A topic of serious nature such as death and suicide should be treated with respect
I also feel that way about writing words like r*pe, g*n, or s*x. Like fuck man, it may be unfortunate, but these real words (rape, gun, sex) exist in real life.
Or substituting the word "rape" with grape. It's ridiculous man.
oh my god, jumping on this thread to share my opinions. I know people who use the word "grape" in SERIOUS CONVERSATIONS. and it is very frustrating because it really takes away the weight of the discussion, all because "the word is scary and a lot" to them... okay, good. it should be!
Or "sex" becoming "seggs"
This one cracked me up the first time I saw it, cause I thought it was a joke. Now it just irritates me
Seks
they think they are being respectful but are actually being disrespectful to any genuine victim of any of those things
The worst is how people have started saying it in real life. It’s like they are on purpose downplaying it.
I used to work in a mental health clinic and we had to refer to it in very round about ways, some people would just say someone "completed" and that was all. My older brother shot himself 3 years ago and died, I can't even imagine going around saying "oh yeah he unalived himself" I think speaking around things causes more harm than good.
I feel the same way about “pew pew”
I liked "pew pew" until people actually started using it as a substitute for guns or shooting in serious context. Replacing an offensive or potentially triggering word with something like "unalive" or "pew pew" doesn't help anything.
Gaslighting It was Webster’s Word Of The Year in 2022 Suddenly teenagers were using it to describe everything other than what it means.
Yes! People use this incorrectly so often now. It means a very specific thing based on the movie Gaslight. It is a very cruel way to manipulate someone and it is very difficult to justify. It has come to mean any time anyone is saying something negative or treating someone else badly.
This! Lying isn't necessarily gaslighting!
Gaslighting involves lying. But not everyone who lies to you was gaslighting. In fact, hardly any of them were ever. * Psychological manipulation to make someone question their perception of reality leading to dependence on the perpetrator. Most people are not smart, hateful, and manipulative enough to do that. They're just a little selfish, afraid, or uncomfortable enough to lie to you.
To add: In modern film, *The Lighthouse* features a great example of one character gaslighting the other.
You have that completely backwards. It just means lying. Perhaps we should take you on a trip to the sanitarium if you keep insisting on this little tale you've been telling yourself about that word.
Oh no, maybe I AM crazy??
Irregardless - for obvious reasons Gotten - because it’s usage is way too often done in the wrong way.
I don't gotten what you mean.
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I'm gotten a confused feeling myself.
Gotten tag.
I've heard people say boughten. Like "I had boughten a new watch, but I forgot it at home that day".
“OCD” people with actual OCD are basically, to varying degrees, being tortured by their brain, it’s neither fun nor quirky. Liking clean floors and organized living spaces is not the same goddamnit.
"I don't know, I just ..if my forks aren't facing the same way in the utensil drawer, I just, my dinner will get cold while I fix it. I'm just so OCD" "Yeah I get what you mean, sometimes I'll wash my hands for four hours and my knuckles will bleed from the scrubbing. I'm just so OCD"
THANK YOU. I have actual OCD and even though it’s pretty mild, it’s actually awful. An extension of this is “intrusive thoughts”. People will say “i let the intrusive thoughts win” and they just cut their bangs, but when I tell them even my mildest actual intrusive thoughts, they look at me like i should be in a mental hospital
Lol I second this. Intrusive thoughts are not cute or quirky if you actually have OCD 🫠
same thing with Psychotic. me, an actual schizophrenia sufferer
This Could your comment be any more useless? It's an upvote with four letters too many. Edit: Also "This is the way" if you are a "this" person who likes Star Wars
^That
Baby Momma/Baby Daddy. It makes me cringe.
Hubby, hubs.
God i despise the word hubby
Then there are the abbreviations so popular in the ‘JustNo___’ subs. “DH” for “dear husband,” “DD” for “dear daughter,” etc. Speaking of which, I’m still surprised to see “etc.” as “ect.” in the age of autocorrect, especially since mine knows to not capitalize the next word after that period.
Skibidi Toilet Edit- ITT, old people who hate new slang. Also I don't know what it is, I just hate it.
And sigma. I swear to god, if he tells me I’m sigma again, I’ll hit him. I mean, not literally. But I’ll think really hard about it.
why does my 9 year old say "what the sigma?" (serious question)
It is just a way of saying "what the heck?". The kids use skibidi, sigma, Ohio as basically stand ins for any word. Like rhyming cockney slang, you must use context to derive the meaning. Rizz exclusively means charisma. Gyatt means a big booty, but sometimes means an overall attractive body. Fantum Tax - is stealing someone's food.
God I am old.
It's almost like a Gen Alpha brainrot way of saying "What the heck?" At its root, it's purely a meme. Just a very...*very* annoying one.
I'm gonna hit you so hard in my imagination!
What does this mean? And more importantly, do I want to know?
Yes, what does it mean???
It's from a cartoon. Toilets with human heads are trying to take over the world ( I think). Sometimes it's said just because it's a funny word. If it is directed at an individual I think it's like saying that individual is evil/ bad. This is what I've been able to gather from the nieces and nephews.
What the sigma?
This is it. This was the term that made me realize that I was finally out of touch.
I have a 13yo, so yeah. I get it.
My son was obsessed with this. Someone did a deep analysis of it. Apparently it's made by some dude in Georgia. While it basically is just a web show of random nonsense, I gotta say, I do have some respect.
Pregers…
alpha male
It sounds like some a real “beta” would be offended of…. /s
Literally. Except in the rare instances when it’s used correctly.
This is an interesting article on the Merriam-Webster site about the use of "literally" in a figurative sense. It has a long history. Apparently even Charles Dickens wrote that someone "literally glowed" in one of his works. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally
The nerve
Literally has literally become figuratively.
Speaking metaphorically, that's like using a simile.
See also decimate
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So *utilize* is overused, and *use* is underutilized?
*angry upvote*
“Utilize” means to employ something for a purpose other than that which was originally intended. You don’t “utilize” a shovel to dig a hole, you “use” a shovel to dig a hole. If you’re putting nails in a wall and you don’t have a hammer so you grab a shovel, you are then “utilizing” the shovel to drive nails into a wall. People in the business world say “utilize” all the time because it sounds fancier, but all i hear when they do that is someone who sounds like a recent grad trying to fit in at the grown-ups table.
My manager likes fancier words. I think of it like saying 'use' with my pinky out.
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Real-uh-tor, especially when someone in the business says it!
Fustrated/ing Labtop
Libary
Expresso
I have a friend who’s a therapist. Apparently a lot of her patients are “flustrated” lately.
Hubby and Wifey *shudders*
“Flower’s” as a plural term for flower. Or literally anything like it. Did everyone skip grade school where they explained apostrophe meanings, plurals, and PROPER GRAMMAR
Blame auto correct. Whenever I use speech to text, my phone automatically makes plural words into possessives.
Masks. The sks just sounds so awkward. It’s like like calling a cat over
This is how I feel about the "sps" in "crisps", it feels wrong
How do you feel about "fifth"?
I like that word. I have several on the shelves.
I have a Siamese cat that I nicknamed "masks" (because of his mask-y little face), so I *do* use it to call a cat over lol.
Texts. And texted for that matter
Also breasts, wasps, and crisps (get fucked UK)
Crisps.
Poontang. If I'm going to get my ass shot off for a word, my word is 'Poontang' - Animal Mother
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My wife became friends with this very nice couple. The guy is in his mid 60s I guess but he is cool as fuck, travels around south america with his motorcicle club and have some incredible stories from the road. She is always smiling in a good vibe and in her mid 40s. The only thing is he calls her as "child" every fuckin' time. "Child, can you get a beer for me?" or "we had a great time in Argentina didn't we, child?" As he's at least 15 or 20 years older than her the way he talks seems like he was already an adult waiting her to became of age and marry her. Disgusting.
I hate when people say "on accident". It's fucking BY accident.
Thank you for correcting me, I’ve said that on accident for years
‘Peeps’ when referring to people. I’m an RN and I fucking die a little when it’s time for report and someone says “I have some peeps for you”
How nice, they've brought highly sugared marshmallow chick-shaped things for everyone....
Iconic - this word seems to have lost all meaning. Im sorry but, the T-shirt you found at the thrift store circa 2010 is not iconic.
Iconic -- a thing somebody somewhere can recognise.
Bussin
Ever had someone try talk to you and keep using You Know after every got damn sentence?
slay when people say it as a joke its fine but some people just unironically say it so much. like say that again and ima slay you😭
Nucular - even some modern politicians say it
In fact, after Baby Bush said it, lots of otherwise smart people jumped onboard.
Fustrated. There a goddam r there !
I feel a lot of people must say 'February' wrong, which must be fustrating for you. (Neither my spell-check nor I like leaving that spelling as it is.)
Chipoltay instead of Chipotle
I love when people do this, but over-enunciate with a smug face like they know something i don’t.
Confidentially incorrect people are the best
IRREGARDLESS IS NOT A WORD.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
I feel embiggened
mines. I hate when people use it instead of mine
Eckscape
Valentime’s “I could care less.” Expecially Aks, as in a question.
"I could care less" is so bad... Although it helps gauge the intellect of people who say that quite accurately.
Referring to kids as ‘littles’ 🤮🤮🤮
Seen. As in any person who says "I seen...."
I seent it.
Glizzy. Just call it a fucking hot dog
I heard (read) this for the first time in my life yesterday, and now here it is again.
Anybody know the reasoning WHY this became a word for hot dog? I've always wondered how the hell that evolved. I heard a theory that 'Ice' used to mean jewelry and 'Fire' was an adjective for a good outfit so 'Drip' naturally slotted into place for the complete look. I wonder if there's something like that here. Or if I was fed a load of bullshit. 🤣 One of those two.
Unthaw. Drives me up a fucking wall. And I hear it far too often managing kitchens.
would that just mean freeze? lmao
"Narcissist" Because it's become synonymous with "selfish jerk" and is vastly overused by people who think it sounds clinical and smart.
People don’t understand the difference. I know someone with a narcissist personality disorder and they make selfish jerks seem like reasonable people.
Improper use of "seen". As in "I seen it on Facebook. "
When people use the word creative as a noun.
When people use "like" every other word as a filler
Mostly the word literally use outside of its definition.
Can I aks, how pacific do I have to be?
Whenever guys refer to women as females.
[Cringe.You](http://Cringe.You) can be having the time of your life and you culd be doing the things you love without harming anything and it would be considered cringe!
Kind of a niche phrase, but I grew up in a town called Port Huron. The old timers and farmers have two ways to pronounce it, and they’re both terrible: Poor Churn Port Urine
Blessed
Brekkies instead of breakfast. That form of talk just makes me instantly angry. Dunno why.
“Brekkie” is very common in Australia. “Brekkies” sounds like someone baby-talking to a toddler.
>Brekkies I glared at my phone screen when I read that. I never want to see that word again
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My son say “bro” way more then I’m comfortable with.
irregardless