Please do the needful.
This one really grinds my gears! I think it's because the person can't even be bothered to describe what they want you to do, just go fix it and don't bother me with any details.
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"Completely different" when the two things are actually very similar
I cringe so hard at the twitterist carebear-hugbox way of smugly claiming the intellectual high ground and shaming somebody:
"Be better." or "Do better."
The sentiment isn't terrible, but it's prevalent use is obviously just dripping with arrogance and thrown out in the most petty ways. Ugh!
- paradigm shift
- military grade encryption
- cyber kill chain
"It is what it is"
I get the sentiment behind it, it's just usually so defeatist/dismissive of a situation to me.
Queer. Not all gay men (the one group I can safely speak about) like to be associated with an ex-slur and its connotations.
"I could care less" to mean "I could NOT care less"
I sometimes say "I could care less, but not by much"
Thing is... this sort of makes sense if you say it with a hint of sarcasm. But curiously the only people that use this phrase are Americans. And we all know how much they understand sarcasm π€£.
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Starting every sentence with "So". "So" being the way to indicate the beginning of a sentence.
"Live. Laugh. Love." or similar.
Someone could take all the answers here and create a copypasta equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.
Using the phrase "serious question" or "honest question" will make me immediately assume your question is the exact opposite of that. Probably I'm overreacting, but expecting that anyone might respect that declaration you've made about your own question, that gives me narcissist vibes.
Not a term, but a lack thereof:
People I have to regularly interact with for work have been excluding "to be", especially with "needs", and it's infuriating.
This issue needs escalated. That report needs fleshed out. Let me know if anything needs cleared up.
To quote Shakespeare, "Or not?"
Those sound so wrong
So many things. In written form, I hate when someone writes "Period." after they make a point to mean "this can't be argued" or whatever. My good bitch, I don't think you understand how arguing works. π
"Full stop" is a close second.
Q.E.D.
That's fine as long as you don't spell out the periods. π
By the by, I'd love to be the guy with the confidence to end an argument with "thus it is proven". That'd be epic. I think I've only ever used QED humorously or ironically.
It's a perfectly valid way to win an argument, end of sentence.
Ha serves me right βπ»
Especially in news headlines: slams, blasts, mind-blowing, hack (or lifehack)
I'm sure there are others, but that's all my brain can handle at the moment.
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Mama, momma, mommasβ¦
βHey Facebook mommas, Iβve got a question aboutβ¦β
I donβt know why, but it annoys the shit out of me.
Similarly, not a fan of when teachers and parents talk about their "kiddos."
Feels like they're needlessly using a more playful childish term to make themselves part of a separate "in group" who "gets it."
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"Irregardless"
People using double negatives incorrectly. Like "I didn't do nothing!"
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No, you don't have a "challenge" for me. You have a problem and are trying to make it mine.
Man if that isn't just empty manager-speak, rephrasing things to BS you and be manipulative. Lol
"Ding ding ding!" When someone agrees with something you wrote, but wants to make sure that you know that they already knew and claim ownership of the statement that you wrote. Condesending asshole. I did not arrive at your opinion late.
"Meanwhile" in cooking recipes. Just no. I am following a recipe in stepwise order. You do not get to tell me what I should have already done in the previous step.
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