Every time I hear someone say ‘eh’ in a questioning tone or to mean ‘um actually’ I lose my shit. Or even just to play something down.
Like I literally come to hate the person instantly. Its a very strong feeling on a very small sound.
Instant downvotes if I see it on Lemmy too. HATE IT.
How about all y’all?
“Common sense” when it actually means “something you would know if you’d lived my exact life”. There are very few things in this world that are actually “common sense”, and to be honest the whole concept should just be removed from cultures in which it is present.
‘could care less’ instead of “couldn’t”. I know it’s just a regional / generational difference, I don’t really care about being a prescriptivist or that my way is more “logical”. Phrases and idioms can be stupid and counterintuitive. But that
'ssaid, it bugs the living hell out of me, and I instantly think anyone using it is an ignorant dumbass.Quite so. Isn’t there an Internet law that you can never post something pedantic about language without making a typo or other error?
The phrase was used decades ago to be somewhat of a dismissal or threat.
As in I care so little already, do you want me to care even less which will be not at all?
“Dad! You don’t care about my hamster!”
“I could care less…” (bitch again and the next stop for hammy is the freezer)
“Turn of phrase.”
I much prefer the phrase “parlence of our day.”
So it bothers you when people vocalize their question marks, eh?
Its much worse at the start of a sentence.
Eh, to each their own.
I literally dislike it whenever anyone uses the word literally when they clearly mean figuratively.
Its just extra syllables to lie to me.
There’s this process in language where intensifiers — words that amplify the strength of the meaning of the rest of the phrase — tend to become used in areas that they aren’t really truly appropriate in and thus “weaken” in meaning.
So, for example, “awesome” once truly meant “awe-inspiring”, but it’s been used enough in weaker senses the past several decades here in California that it doesn’t really mean that any more. It just means “very good” now.
I don’t think that the Brits do that with “awesome” — or at least not as much — but they like to use “colossally” in a similar way.
The above Wikipedia link has a list of intensifiers, including “literally”, and you can probably recognize a bunch of them that have “weakened”.
Epic
Really blows my mind that so much ink is spilled over “literally” while “really” gets a pass for doing the same thing really.
Today I learned of the legal term “act of god”. (English speaking countries.)
I find it absurd to attribute god and do so in legalese.
/edit: well, maybe not hate, but irritated and dislike
It’s not a religious thing. Legally it’s a disaster that could not be avoided, no human is liable, hence act of “god”.
I thought angry dumb atheism was a thing of the past. Guess it’s still going strong.
I’m not angry. It just doesn’t make logical sense to me. I expected law to use precise, correct wording.
I guess I shouldn’t have posted it here under hate. It’s just something that came to mind that very recently irritated and surprised me. I find it very inappropriate for law, even if there’s historical social reasons for it.
The hence in that sentence make no sense to me. I don’t see god doing this time. Often they’re even explainable.
If something can legally be an act of God, God should be held accountable
“Give something 110%”
Fuck no! 100% is the max. Even that is often too much to ask. Also, what’s in it for me? Your appreciation huh? Well fuck you.
“I have a challenge for you”.
No you don’t. You have a problem and want to make it mine. Piss off.
I get unreasonably enraged at “am I the only one who”. It’s so arrogant and dismisses all the people who have been expressing the same opinion. Yes, you’re so special and unique, you must be the first person to bring it up.
I’ve also had it with “literally”. There is no need to use that word unless you are saying something that might be interpreted as figurative and you are clarifying that you mean it literally. “We literally live on the same street”. Is there a figurative meaning to that? Why do you need to specify you mean it literally?
I’ve also had it with “literally”. There is no need to use that word unless you are saying something that might be interpreted as figurative and you are clarifying that you mean it literally. “We literally live on the same street”. Is there a figurative meaning to that? Why do you need to specify you mean it literally?
I came here only to search for this one. And to add some, but that’s later.
Translates to “I just noticed something and I’m broadcasting that I’m generally inconsiderate without any self awareness” far too often, I agree.
Am I the only person that finds this comment too sensitive? Anyone? Y’all?
No I felt that to.
“It’s just common sense.” No, it’s usually either an inference you made based on incorrect information, or it’s information you gleaned from your particular environment that not everyone has experienced.
Terry Pratchett used to describe that as the school of “what my mate down the pub said” thinking.
I catch that shit in political debate all the time.
“We need some common sense gun laws!”
The speaker is saying, “Whatever I deem to be common sense is the right way of thinking and anyone disagreeing is an asshole.”
Think I’ve eliminated that phrase from my comments and speech. I’ve sure tried.
“Let that sink in…”
All I think about is what does the sink want, and why is it outside? Any point they were trying to make is now a joke to me. Better to say “think about that for a minute.”
Often used after saying something that they think is some big profound revelation. No, I was able to understand it all just fine in real time.
People who talk in buzz words as if this makes them insightful and intelligent and think others who don’t are ignorant and stupid.
I think ‘emotional intelligence’ is the one that has really bothered me the most really. It also can’t even be quantified but everyone goes around talking about how ‘high’ theirs is and how they only want to be with other people who are ‘emotionally intelligent’ as they are. It’s just another way of saying you don’t like someone because they don’t feel the way you do about whatever thing.
“Bro” or any variation thereof that assumes familiarity where none exists.
The artifice offends.
Started getting offended by “bro” sometime in my early 40s. “Dude” is much the same. If we’re friends? I won’t even notice. But if the speaker is older, I feel talked down to. If they’re younger, it feels disrespectful.
Most of my friends are half my age, I’m fine with that address from them. Other people? “You don’t know me like that.”
Y’all does it for me
I use often that IRL and commenting. Made myself a deal around 2000 or so that I would only say things online that I would say to a person’s face, and that I would use my own voice online, comment as I really talk.
The Internet would be so much better if everyone were like that. People are so much nicer in person
Every time I hear someone say ‘eh’ in a questioning tone or to mean ‘um actually’ I lose my shit. Or even just to play something down.
Like I literally come to hate the person instantly. Its a very strong feeling on a very small sound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eh
Eh (/ˈeɪ/ or /ˈɛ/)[1] is a spoken interjection used in many varieties of English. The oldest Oxford English Dictionary defines eh as an “interjectional interrogative particle often inviting assent to the sentiment expressed.”[2] Today, while eh has many different uses, it is most popularly used in a manner similar in meaning to “Excuse me?”, “Please repeat that”, “Huh?”, or to otherwise mark a question. It is also commonly used as an alternative to the question tag “right?”, as a method for inciting a reply, as in “Don’t you think?”, “You agree with me, right?”, as in, “It’s nice here, eh?” (instead of “It’s nice here, right?”). In the Americas, it is most commonly associated with Canada and Canadian English, though it is also common in England, Scotland, and New Zealand.
“We don’t take kindly to British English around these parts.”
Sorry, eh
I tend not to boil people down to their habits. They likely don’t know it bothers you and don’t know why they’ve made an enemy of you. Their reaction to me bringing it up will absolutely determine how I feel about them, though. I can teach myself to get past almost anything if I can justify their action in good faith.
I often find my strong reactions tells me more about something within myself I need to find and address more than it says anything about the annoyance.
