Words/Phrases you hate

Dayvenkirq wrote: Kati wrote: Dayvenkirq, being bored is ones own fault and why should this not matter to others, I do not get why people say this, if one is bored it's their own fault, I can think of so many things to do and it does not include spending money.  True. I wasn't arguing against that. I was just making a different point that is also off-topic here.

Tom Ozric wrote: The word 'nice' - yes, I've used it a few times, but it states next to nothing. Horrible word.

Polymorphia wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: ture haters gonna hate

eys k

Just been reminded of some more verbal teat chafers....

Just sayin' (as if you were just the messenger of your own thoughts)
Meh (although I have used this myself)
talk to the hand
awesome
to be honest (like you were lying up till now?)
IMO (to prove you are not communicating while being held at gunpoint?)
simples
you need to move on ( i.e. I deny your reality and substitute my own)
it's a big ask (have you considered exercise and dieting?)
intrinsically (always used as a posh version of 'basically' by tertiary educated pondlife- it really means inseparable from the whole)
ciao



Edited by ExittheLemming - March 26 2015 at 08:06

"let's agree to disagree"

I'm actually very surprised so few other than me mentioned any examples from political discourse, you'd think that'd be a major source of hated neologisms.

I do find a lot of political terminology that has a concrete well-defined and useful meaning is often abused as thought-terminating clichés to either get people to shut up, or basically dismiss an argument as wrong without explaining why, which ends up making them radioactive. It's the kind of thing certain bloggers call "ideological applause lights". One reason I don't debate politics as often as I used to is that I end up asking people to clarify their terminology or pick apart their logical argumentation without ever getting around to discussing the specific policy proposals and socio-economic issues at hand, which I get the impression comes across as annoying to a lot of people.

ExittheLemming wrote: ^^ words do of course change meanings and nuances over time. 'Nice' was historically indicative of something that was deemed exact, accurate and precise etc.

I learned this when I read "Good Omens" for the first time.

All my life I've heard and said all of a sudden, but the language is mutating for whatever sad reasons, and I hear more and more people say "all the sudden". Makes me cringe every time.


Edited by *frinspar* - March 26 2015 at 18:13

The Dark Elf wrote: "My bad" is imbecilic.

Then I suppose we have a truly hateful community that detests people recognizing their own faults.

There are some phrases in French (or should I say 'pseudo-French', 'half-French'?) which make me angry when I hear them... But I'm not sure how to translate them in English.