[Closed] Why do some words/phrases irrationally annoy me? Age?

Answered your own question.

It’s because you’re, like, super irrational

Totally.

Yes there's nothing quite like an expertly curated box set.

Box Set (just say series!)

But a box-set often contains more than simply a series. It has additional stuff.

"Very unique" for me. WTF? Unique means one of a kind - it can't be very unique! Muppets.

“Very unique”

Trump says stuff like that all the time. Drives me batty!

For me it's 'going forward' instead of something like 'in future'. I have a theory that this phrase came to prominence in the Blair era when politicians constantly used it to give an impression of improvement and momentum when laying out their latest idea.
My wife believes my dislike is however based solely on me being a grumpy old got.

Level-up..... 🤢

Ok boomer

I absolutely understand where you're coming from

“Very unique"

see also, "Almost impossible"

Amazeballs can absolutely get in the sea!

You are literally so irrational.

Oh, forgot one! "holibobs" 😡

Ok boomer

10-4, dinosaur.

So, can I get a coffee to go?

see also, “Almost impossible”

Not to mention, approximate ETA...

Dont loose your shit.

“Granularity”

Also, people using “of” instead of “have”. As in “Shouldn’t of said that”

Ya know those boxes that slide out of furniture?

If you call them draws I could actual murder you

thanks for reaching out and touching base with ourselves over this

almost impossible

seems OK to me <shrug>

Starting every ****ing sentence with "So.... "

**** off, and when you get there **** off a bit further.

It's not about being a grumpy old get, it's about wishing the ****s would stop sounding like ****s

So,

The word "optics" seems to have started popping up lots since a few months ago, grrr.

The word "Yee-opp" in MTB videos is quite irritating.

🙂

Edit: and "Ye-ahh boi" in MTB vids too.

People who reply to comments with 'This'. Variations include 'Absolutely this' and 'totally this'. Get outta town!

10-4, dinosaur

I like that. My sides are literally splitting.

People who reply to comments with ‘This’. Variations include ‘Absolutely this’ and ‘totally this’. Get outta town!

And take the ones who reply “Wow. Just wow” with you.

I believe a "Box Set" harkens back to the olden times when media consumption was enabled by physical objects often supplied in a physical object known as a "box".
One can consult the Wikipedia if one does not believe one: "A box set or boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) traditionally packaged in a box and is offered for sale as a single unit. "

People who reply to comments with ‘This’. Variations include ‘Absolutely this’ and ‘totally this’. Get outta town!

It's better than +1, +1 is so noughty.

It’s better than +1,

This.

Similarly annoying is the trend for describing detailed events in history using the present tense. Does my head in!

“Granularity”

This gets used a lot at my workplace. It's what you get after you've done a deep-dive on a high-level item.

Levelling up seems to be the latest Government buzz-phrase and that now has the same effect on me as fingernails scraping down a blackboard.

seems OK to me <shrug>

something is either impossible or it's possible. same as unique, it is, or it isn't. Generally* the rule is: If you add "-er" at the end of a word and it makes sense, then you can use an intensifier, if you add the "-er"ending and it's not a word, then you can't.

* like most rules in English

This.

+1

+1

Wow. Just wow

“A box set or boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) traditionally packaged in a box and is offered for sale as a single unit. “

I thought that was the meaning of boxed set! Is there another?

"season" when referring to a TV series annoys me.

"in this space" when referring to carrying out an idea or activity that doesn't actually exist in 3 dimensions seems to be getting annoyingly common.

Ohhhh I’m with stick_man on long historical descriptions in the present tense.

Also:
Showcase
Skill set
Having an Epiphany

Chillax.

You take one word, concatenate it with another to form a third neologism which means the same thing as the first two.

Get farked.

+1 this my bad anyhoo.

So the birch isn't it, hanging wasn't it. What they need is some national service, burn the witches like.

I believe a “Box Set” harkens back to the olden times when media consumption was enabled by physical objects often supplied in a physical object known as a “box”.

Hold on there. If these things were made of real stuff and actually in a physical box - how would Netflix be able to get it into your TV through your phone socket?

People who say "I'm not gonna lie" before everything 😬

Vigorous Pigeon, that's a keeper from Bob Mortimer 😁

EVERY child* in the country in year 6 says ‘wait...what?’ when you say anything to them.
It boils my piss.

*I meet a lot of them at work.

Starting every ****ing sentence with ‘so...’ is also a modern scourge and you should all die if you do it.

looking in the rear view mirror

‘Jealous’ when they mean ‘envious’, and ‘less’ when it should be ‘fewer’.

Although I think I may have lost this battle, even BBC presenters do it now.

Boils my piss....boils my piss...

Shipping.

Another pointless ****ing term foisted upon us by ****s who wish they were clever enough to live in a country governed by Trump.

If you like America that much, **** off to Dogshit, Idaho and don't come back.

Take your 'swapout' 'colorways' and 'shipping' and **** right off, ****er.

Nothing to do with age, I've hated the spread of Americanisms for years.

Boils my piss….boils my piss…

Simmer down.

boxed set
skimmed milk
It is what it is

#kidstoday

#

🙂

Ooh I like this. Using myself or yourself instead of me or you seems to be getting more prevalent and it really annoys me. I know someone who keeps asking for an accurate forecast, this also annoys me. Any bodged together words like Brexit really piss me off too. Finally I could care less. It’s couldn’t you imbecile.

That felt nice. Thank you OP

I agree that many of these words and phrases are silly, but an advantage is that they quickly reveal the speaker as an idiot, something it might take a while to discover otherwise.

And I don’t mind it when young people use daft phrases or words, let them try these things out. I don’t even mind it much when they do that Californian/Aussie rising inflection thing at the end of a sentence, as if it were a question even when it’s a statement. Adults drive me mad when they do that, though. Why? Why are you speaking like that?

My kids don't play each other on the Nintendo switch, they "verse" each other… We've tried to get them to see sense, but it's a tough ask. 😤

Them things.

It’s ‘those’. Those things.

I can no longer be arsed to ‘reach out’ to people about this, instead I now shout correct grammar at them.

As for reaching out, **** me. In many ways I’m glad I’m past my halfway point in life.

Oh. My. Days.

'Me, personally', makes me want to get stabby

"Invest in..." instead of "Buy..." referring to some consumer thing that will in no way, ever, increase in value.

"Inbox me..." FFS! Can I punch you in the face and we'll still be friends? Or do you want me to ignore your existence from this point forth?

"I'm good" in response to "How are you?". The correct response is "I'm very well, thank you for asking" or under extreme duress: "I'm fine". Ageing relatives may get away with "Bearing up" or, if terminally ill: "Middling...".

Yes, probably age.

‘Up skill’ - anyone who uses this term should be waterboarded

People saying look when they mean listen

Anyone using framing in a sentence who isn't talking about hanging a picture or putting in windows.

Any newspaper or internet news headline that includes brackets.

“I’m good” in response to “How are you?”. The correct response is “I’m very well, thank you for asking” or under extreme duress: “I’m fine”. Ageing relatives may get away with “Bearing up” or, if terminally ill: “Middling…”.

Not bad and you? Is my stock response. I’m never going to answer that question truthfully to ninety percent of the people that ask it as they don’t actually care. It has taken the place of hello or nice to see you. Therefore I’d rather answer vaguely.

“How are you?”.

“Fabulous. Every day is an adventure.”

That usually shuts most folk up.

something is either impossible or it’s possible.

I'm afraid chemistry and thermodynamics will tell you it's dependent on conditions.

"Twice as few" what's does that mean?

Anyone using framing in a sentence who isn’t talking about hanging a picture or putting in windows.

Maybe you should use those little grey cells?

Broadcast journalists' failure to understand difference between under-estimate and over-estimate is one that really pisses me off.
As broadcast journalists they, presumably, should have.... good command and understanding of english, have arts degree, have attended broadcast college, have editor or sub to correct or tighten their slack use of language.

Twice as few means half as many

what really irritates me, along with most of what has been posted above, is people ending a sentence that has been formed as a statement with a question mark.

In typical STW response I posted without fully reading the thread; don't intend to change my post but posts by slackalice & tillydog up there ^^^ are beyond dispute.
Is this pedant's corner or do some of us believe that grammatical inexactitude is unforgivable?
Mean what you say, say what you mean.
I have an american daughter-in-law; expert in unclear communication - her, not me.

'Two times' instead of twice.

I think I am going to take a look at this thread through a different lens

Expect twice as few doesn't mean half. If I have 100 apples and give one away I have 99, if I gave away another apple I have 98.

98 is twice as few as 99 from my original 100.

I've read the phrase "totally decimated" on news sites several times recently - refering to storm damage in the UK for instance.

Decimated is decimated. That's it.

From another thread, but pertinent here I think:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RealBobMortimer/status/1229448660523638785?s=09

Language evolves, it always has done.

Chill.

Life's too short to get angry about nonsense.

All the old timers at work respond to "How are you?" with "Living the dream!".

It was nearly humourous the first time 10 years ago.

At our last conference at work, every speaker used the ‘deep dive’.
Never heard the dreadful phrase used before, and then all the corporate bobs are trotting it out.
I literally pissed myself.

One of my colleagues at work finishes almost all his phone calls with "Thanks a million!"

Really? You were ordering a box of A4 paper and they said it'll be delivered shortly, it's really not worth a million thank yous. And also, it's a horrible phrase anyway.

I literally pissed myself

Hope you had your lounge pants with you.

"Take care" is the current one that really gets me. Thanks I'm trying my hardest, what do you think I'm going to do run off and be neglegent.

It's intended as a term of endearment, ya miserable fud.

People who say “I’m not gonna lie” before everything

In all honesty, I don’t know whether to trust people who don’t start their discussion like that!

I think some of you may have a problem. You clearly aren’t actually struggling to understand the intended meaning, you clearly aren’t some sort of Rees-Mogg Dickensian throw back who would rather we wrote solely in the format of ye olde English. Some of these are “Americanisms”, some are just evolution, is old age making you a xenophobic, change resistant person who enjoys being annoyed at the world?

something is either impossible or it’s possible. same as unique, it is, or it isn’t. Generally* the rule is: If you add “-er” at the end of a word and it makes sense, then you can use an intensifier, if you add the “-er”ending and it’s not a word, then you can’t.

* like most rules in English

We get that, and clearly you understand the meaning of impossible. Is it the world “almost” you don’t understand then? Because it is not an intensifier - it’s whatever the opposite is - synonymous with nearly, not quite, very close to, etc.

The yout use of like..., like, all the ****ing time...