Words/Phrases you hate

I can agree with that 'k'. O.K. ?!!

The Dark Elf wrote: With all due respect - generally meaning, I have no respect for your opinion and you are utterly wrong.   Run it up the flagpole - and straight up your ass.   K - I am too f*cking lazy to even spit out one more letter and say OK.

ture

Do you have a spare cigarette at all? Yes, fortunately for you I buy them in packs of 21 just for that contingency
Do you have the time? I know the time but yes I have the time to listen to your inarticulate drivel
he/she/they/it have 'attitude' - is this a good one or one that sucks hugely and makes them detestable to all reasonable people?
I'm sorry but....(is always a complete retraction of any apology for what follows)
that's so gay - somehow never gets thrown into the rampant homophobia dumpster?
hit the ground running - when used in peacetime by admin assistants, is plain vanilla offensive
think outside the box - is really only applicable to a coffin, grow up
I think you'll find... - possibly the most patronising preface to any sentence since the dawn of narcissism
I was just passing - but you stopped alas
you have issues - yes, i find you to be an invariably irritating and dumb c.u.n.t. and that's clearly my inference which requires counseling
the children are our future - cancer ridden septuagenarian industrialists in smoke filled rooms are always our future

I hate the word "Clone" when applied to music. When someone says "Starcastle is a clone of Yes", or "Triumvirat is a clone of ELP", all that tells me, is that the person A) Doesn't really know much at all about either group in question, and B) is just being lazy and generalising

Sacre Bleu

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.