Asklemmy

People thinking their clever by making up words that already have a meaning.

"Lawfare" meaning chargingnrich white assholes for the crime they committed

"Disinformatsiya" or however libs spelled it to mean pointing out the hypocrisy of American nationalists.

"Sanewashing" to describe media putting their thumb on the scale for the fascist who wants to cut their taxes.

It implies it's a new phenomenon and not just the current version of whatever propoganda apparatus has been chugging along for decades.

Liberals complain about "sanewashsing" and then in the same breath talk about how cheyney and bush weren't exactly the fucking same as Trump.

"Would of" annoys me to no end. Which is silly because English isn't my first language and I know I make many mistakes, but would of is just... Ugh. Ick.

I unreasonably hate the word "moreover". I see no reason why you wouldn't use the words "also", "additionally", or even "furthermore" that sound way better when read.

Pah-sketti

You're 65 Brad, use big boy words.

When people refer to metal balls as ball bearings. A ball bearing is an assembly of outer ring, inner ring, balls, and a cage/retainer. I worked in bearing manufacture for years and they're just referred to as balls. To be more specific, it would be a bearing ball, not a ball bearing.

Influencer

"Completely different" when the two things are actually very similar

GINORMOUS

Bemused

It's used incorrectly so often that even when I suspect it's being used correctly I can't be sure. At this point its ambiguity makes it a bad word choice.

Cleanse. it's a less efficient way to spell clean.

Every stupid phrase that redditors compulsively say on every thread.

"Oftentimes"

Its always interchangeable with Often. Just use Often.

Property, when referring to a house/home.

Bofa

"For me"

I know it's your opinion because you're the one saying it. And the construction of it is just weird. "For" me. I dunno.

The exception that proves the rule.

People use it in a way where counterexample proofs that the rule exist when it's supposed to mean that the rule also handles exceptional cases.

Starting every sentence with "So". "So" being the way to indicate the beginning of a sentence.