Words or phrases that annoy you
 

What words, phrases or cliches do people use that bug the heck out of you? Here are a few that make me cringe:

"I gave 110/150/200 (insert any number over 100) percent!"

"He did a total 360." - when referring to a change.

"Aight."

"Whatever." It's just so dismissive and rude.

"Same difference."

"I saw on the Today Show..." My mom is guilty of this. She gets all of her news from the Today show. Often she'll talk about some viral video or news story that had come out a month earlier and it's just making it into the mainstream.

Anything that people will repeat because they "heard it somewhere", without researching it themselves to find out if it's true. I reference Snopes to people who send me those stories via email. I'm certainly not perfect, but some people will believe and repeat anything they hear.

The 360 one doesn't even make sense.

I absolutely HATE this! Ugh, makes me annoyed just reading it.

"So to speak." Drives me crazy. My husband says it all the time.

"Society....blah blah blah" It's just such a cliche'.

Forgot to add "Can I ask you a question...?"

Please, for goodness sake just ask me.

Ya know.
Doncha know.
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"I hate to tell you..."
Then DON'T!!
Translated: "I just can't WAIT to tell you...":mad:

Some people require a complete circle to change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4PQMl5hmZY

:rolleyes: lol

I hate when people (actually usually just teens) refer to parents as "'rents".

"A whole nother"
...Um, that's not a word!

This one bugs the hell out of me. My hubby does websites on the side and does several restaurants' sites. One woman in particular keeps asking for the font to be more "classy" and "fancy". Argh!!

Similar to classy - "trashy" bothers me.

I never see it used as anything but someone trying to look down on someone else but trying to sound like they're inherently above such things.

"don't you think..." followed by an opinion that I do NOT agree with.

"irregardless" (just because you can find it in a dictionary does NOT make it correct; we've already gone there, so don't start).

I knew I wasn't crazy. ree-Xi, you started this same thread last year. You even used the same example of the lady who says "classy" and "fancy." ;)

LOL

"On the real..." heheheh

Awesome

Rad

Bling.

"Where do you stay?" I LIVE in North Carolina.

Mines. - I have two children that are guilty of this, but they're not the only ones.

"Grown and Sexy"...just say you have an age minimum and a dress code.

"Swag"...you are not a unique snowflake.

"Conversate"...its not even a farkin word!

"It is what it is"...what else would it be?

"Mines is not too bad when you have little kids saying this...it's when you have GROWN ADULTS that say it, is when it becomes a problem.

How about...

"it is what it is"

and

"You do you"

or

"Are you for real?"

My youngest step son says:

"That's tight."

instead of saying,

"that's cool"

I dont like the "tight" thing.

That reminds me, there was a skit on MadTV where they showed how so many words evolved from "cool" and eventually came back to "cool" being the acceptable word to describe something as..."cool"


I could never find this skit.

I think I posted this in the thread from last year, but:

"Literally" when used to refer to something that did not literally happen just to add emphasis.

I'm guilty of this on occasion...:o

I really hate when a sentence starts with "No offense but..." because something offensive inevitably follows.

My mom just told me last night how much she hates the phrase "I'm just sayin'..." which is a favorite of myself and my siblings. I thought I'd add it since she isn't here.

Oh another one..my brother in law has been sarcastically saying this for ten years but suddenly it's everywhere, coming out of people's mouths and all over Facebook:

"Livin' the dream!"

I took a dialect class in college -- one of the most interesting classes I took -- and we talked about the "stay-live" difference. "Stay" is a dialectical usage, and occurs in a number of dialects (including Scots English ;)). I remember our professor saying that, at least as used by some Southern speakers, the usage has African roots and means something slightly different -- I believe it's that "stay" indicates a degree of permanence that "live" does not.

FWIW.

Meanwhile, I can't stand "very unique."

That's very interesting. I grew up on stay, but it didn't mean what you're describing. It was more like "where do you call home" which may or not be your actual place of residence/where you get your mail. For instance, my boyfriend had a room at his parents house but he "lived" with me. He would say "I stay in Athens with my girl" but he didn't mean he was staying there like it was a hotel. He meant he lived there at that time in his life. "Where do you live?" wasn't at all common anywhere.

Now that I've written it down, I realize that a lot of us had roots in several locations. My belongings were scattered among the homes of various family members, but I always had a distinct place in my mind of where I was living at a given time. That's where I "stayed."

That's exactly how I've always used it, too.

Many people don't know this. Thanks for sharing.

Maybe I was remembering it a little backwards or incorrectly. It has been a while.

"I liked-ed it". or however it's spelled ugh

my barber says this a LOT: "for the simple fact..."

Someone said that to me once. When I asked them "what dream?" they looked at me like I was an idiot and they walked away.

"everything happens for a reason"

Oh really does it now? Tell that to all the kids at St. Jude, holocaust survivors, children without any parents.....

I haven't read through this entire thread yet, so it might have been mentioned, but 'irregardless' drives me CRAZY.

"My bad". No it's not a "bad". It's a mistake.
"Same difference". Think about that statement.
And "make" as in the "Dog needs to go outside and make." No it doesn't need to "make"! It made urine already, it needs to release it!!!!

The first 2 don't bother me, but the last one got on my nerves when I used to hear it. No matter how many times I heard it, I'd always looked puzzled. "Go make what? A birdhouse? Some new canine friends? What is it making??"

I've got more....

"Exes are exes for a reason"...really? Brilliant deductive reasoning.

"Exes should be left in the past"...really? Tell that to the tones of people that get back together after a breakup with no problems. Leave the relationship in the past. You can be the same idiot you were in that relationship presently.

"It's his/her loss" Actually, there is a good chance its your loss as well.

"I don't get why he/she is with her/him. They aren't cute at all." Well clearly they aren't as shallow as you are and look beyond physical appearance. Jealous much?

"He couldn't handle my personality" I bet he didn't want to deal with your inner outer bi+ch.

"Letting go and letting God" This irks me to no end!

LOL I feel you on this one. I also remember the "remix" from the movie Something New: Let go and let flow :rolleyes:

Are they still looking for that if they are stoned and look like they havent bathed in a while? :)

Hey, I'm friends with a couple of my exes. I HATE that phrase.

And I hate "it's his loss", but mostly because it's what people say when they think the guy dumped you for good reason but they know they can't say that. It also seems to go hand in hand with the "I am a princess and should be treated like royalty" attitude, which irks me to no end.

"They aren't cute at all" does seem to be the result of jealousy. Because whether we want to admit it or not we all know "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" (in other words, everyone has different tastes and different types).

And you really hit the nail on the head with "he couldn't handle my personality". Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Really? Well then tone it down. It's absolutely a euphemism for "I'm controlling, rude, and overbearing and I have no intention of changing my ways for anyone, ever".

And along with that, "God bless," as in "Thank you, and God bless." Can that transitive verb get an object please?