Words or Phrases that Annoy

I so love being a nice boy.

People who say 'etcetera' at the end of a sentence, usually to imply there are more reasons than the one they have given to back up their argument/statement when there are none, etc.

It pisses me off that 'gay' has been usurped by the homosexual community to describe themselves. They are NOT gay, (well some of them might be), they are homosexual. If they are so proud of their sexuality, as they never tire of telling us, why is 'homosexual' such an unacceptable term? No Ralph I'm not a homophobe, I'm not even a gayphobe.

(http://www.abctales.com/abcplex/viewStory.cgi?s=14112) "Words I hate no 76: Quite" Some words defy logic. As for phrases, people who say things like "What do you mean, 'no'? Also myself and Sarah have developed a little game whereby if someone says "d'you know what I mean?" too often we respond with things like "Well, if you mean what you say then, yes. If you mean "let's walk south till the sun sets" then you've lost me"

'Gotten' What is that? Strikes me it's the same as 'got'. Why lengthen it?

Because it comes from the original English, begotten. Thanks to Stormy & Bill Bryson, this now occupies a space in my brain with oodles of other utterly useless info.

When somebody is walking along the street on crutches and somebody with a fag in their hand comes up and says "Got a light mate" Imagine that could be very annoying especially when the person while searching for a light falls over and the one who wanted the light in the first place just walks away and leaves them there... PS "Picture the scene" (ok I'm in that sort of mood today.)

aye mississippi, but words have no fixed values, the meaning of a word never stops changing from age to age, from country to country, town to town and from one person to another. the word mississippi used to mean for me some squiggly line on a map that was supposed to mean some other squiggly line in a far off land, but now it also means you, you deep and thoughtful and inspiring and wonderful squiggly line in a far far southern town. no really it does, you do. smooch. what do you really mean when you say it 'pisses [you] off' - that you are truly awash in an onslaught of urine? and when you talk of 'proud' homosexuals...

Jay - I'll have a large one of whatever you're on! I love the mental picture!

Using "so" indiscriminately, esp. before a noun. "That is so the right haircut for you." American and horrible. Used in spades by certain characters, like lesbian guitar-playing nun Anna in the 1st Big Brother (not a very up-to-date example, but there you go.) "proverbial" when there is clearly no proverb involved: "I'm just off to get the proverbial cup of tea." (Actual quote from office dibbock.) Also, hilarious, is real life Ali-G-esque use of American dialect, a case in point being Radio Ones ludicrous Tim Westwood - despite being a vicar's son from the home counties, he uses "be" + present participle to hilarity-inducing affect. "All ma homies be chillin' in da area; I be hangin' out of with dem, word, etc etc." Jay, that was a very funny post! Ely - taking the piss out of people's verbal ticks is not nice...you wouldn't take the piss out of someone's facial ticks, would you??!! ;-)

Talking of verbal ticks, I think everyone knows someone who throws in "like" far too many times. I've got a mate who does about three per sentence.

And I wish people would stop using the present participle to express love: "I'm loving your work." "We're loving that song." See Dermot O Leary and June Sarpong(?) ... Got this has got me going now - I'll leave it there.

Tony your more than welcome to join me anytime!!! in a large glass of filtered ice water, straight from the fridge. How does that grab you, not a lot I suspect...

Jay, perhaps that would depend upon how big the glass is and what you were both wearing when you climbed into it... "Care to join me in a glass of ice water?" "Erm...maybe...." :))

Justyn my favourite past time, just say where and when...

Paul, I would never belittle someone in public if they were innocently lacking a decent vocabulary or the ability to express themselves concisely. It's just when people do this as a means of assertion or dramatic effect. "He was , like, making a cup of tea, d'you know what I mean?" We/I used to just pause and pretend to think for a mo and then say, "No, what DO you mean?" but it ended up with people just thinking I was the stupid one "You don't know what making a cup of tea means?" At which point I'd either respond with: "Of course I do you friggin moron, who doesn't? I was being sarcastic" Or, more politely (and more often) "Yes, I was just making a joke about how people use that expression too often " But either way it would show me to be the pompous a***hole I was actually being, d'you know what I mean?

Paul we always aim to please...

homosexuals have been persecuted for centuries. you can't blame them for adopting a positive name. i never used the word anyway so do not miss it. without wishing to be sexist it was always a woman's word (along with 'sweet', 'lovely' and 'gorgeous'). in my lifetime the only guys who used the word gay - before its meaning changed - were homosexual. so I guess they are allowed to change it.

"in my lifetime the only guys who used the word gay - before its meaning changed - were homosexual"... A reply, Missi?

aye right so, like, what some of you are saying, quite literally or whatever, like, know what i mean, is, so to speak, that it gives you all the dry boke, kind of, like, when folk just say things, and that, even, like, when all some poor sod has gone and done, like, is put the phatic, to coin or interrupt a phrase, into action, and say something for the sake of saying something, you know, and be sociable with the saying and not really needing any meaning to be gotten out of it, like, i mean to say, what's the probs, like, no seriously, know what i mean by the way? puhlleease...

Identify yourself and I may honour you with a reply. I can only reply to a troll in kind.

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I ain't keen on 'fasting' either as it happens.

The word so before the statement - it is so American trying to take over English

someone so already said that, so to speak! I guess that means it's a no no.

Oh babe, are you okay? Personally I hate "Cheer up it might never happen" Particularly if accompanied with a 'love' or a wink I JUST HAVE A MISERABLE FACE DAMNIT!!! IM SMILING INSIDE!!!

<> Murder could take place when that is said to me. Some of the above are irritating, but some will find their way in and stay there, perhaps unfortunately. Personally, I like the use of "so" to produce effect. It's usually used by women in a sarcastic way and can make me chuckle when executed correctly. Wouldn't use it meself though. My real pet hates are the business speak ones. If anyone says that they want to "touch base" with me, I feel like throwing them out the nearest window, along with their colleague who wants a "level playing field" or a "ball-park figure." Strangely enough though, I think I may have been using the term "scored an own goal" (for when someone makes a mistake), for years without realising it belongs in the same stream of sporting terms. You can get sucked in without realising it.

fnar fnar as you do ooh er matron said the actress to the bishop

see my derby post, the substitution of the word died or a connected word being replaced with sleep. as in (from many a gravestone) "fell asleep on may 3rd bla bla bla" or on euthanasia of animals, quote Rolf Harris "and sadly, the injured dog had to be 'put to sleep'" Death is death. Sleep is sleep. We don't swap the words round the other way do we? As in "F*****g I'm kn@ckerd. Off to bed to get some much needed death" or "I died for a whole 12 hours last night" or "She died peacefully in her death" or swap both round in that and say "She slept peacefully in her death" okay - getting carried away. I can just about handle the softening of death when refered to as "passing away" or jokingly as "popping your clogs" or "kicking the bucket". But I like to be simple. My mate Christian died in 1999. My Mate Duncan died in 1996. Three of my grandparents are dead. They are not asleeep. They are DEAD okay. jude

A spelling error (that by the honour code I am forced to live by) I must reveal. My Friend who died in 1999 was called Christiaan not Christian (continental spelling). The omission of the second "A" was a common mistake he loathed but learned to live with. (I still love him but he is dead not sleeping) Amen

Oh for god's sake Missi it was me, wasn't it eye-pokingly obvious!? Now tell it to Uncle Paul...

Trouble fasting? You need hypnotismmississippi. Gays into my eyes....

I hate people who keep starting sentences with apparently , as if it makes them sound well-informed............ apparently it's going to rain. or disguising a complaint as a news report .......... apparently you were playing music till 4 am But I shamelessly use many of the words and phrases quoted in this thread, like 'whatever', or 'I'm like getting a bit bored with this film' Because I don't want to have to be thinking about how I speak that's all!

"Work colleague" really p___s me off! What other sort of colleague is there, chrissakes? I have heard this on Radio 4 too. What hope is there? "Over-exaggerate" - equally tautologous in the way it is normally used. "Your" for "You're" and vice versa - see Jay's posting above: "Tony your more than welcome to join me anytime!!!" "Stationery" for "Stationary" and vice versa. The confusion of "there","their" and "they're"... "Who's" for "Whose" and vice versa. Most of all, the confusion of "it's" and its"! () OK, you get the idea!

I like "Gays into my eyes", but "hypnotismmississippi" needs a bit of work.

What is the difference betweet its and it's? I wish to learn. thanks in advance for your anticipated illumination jude

What is the difference betweet its and it's? I wish to learn. thanks in advance for your anticipated illumination jude

its' grate to have you back erik!

Jay - iced water is all I am on as the diet kicks in once more! Just remembered another REALLY annoying phrase. On a skiing holiday some time ago the person with the tickets for all thirty six of us was very very late at the airport. She'd overslept and we'd been there for hours. Mass panic going on all round. She turned up. I was apopleptic as I'm no the world's best flier. She said: "Hey, take a chill pill!" I'd never met the vile woman before in my life. I spoke not a word to her all week and have never seen her again. I hope I never do.

I dislike the cliché "set their stall out" to describe the opening stages of football matches. The metaphor doesn't work, whichever way you look at it, and I'm sorry it's caught on. d.beswetherick.

all living language is sacred @!#$ the lot of yis smiley here.

Though I gave in to it, I don't really like use of the word 'partner', instead of lover, bloke, boyfriend. Too grey.

agreed, freda. sounds like a business. which may have a ring of truth for some...

Eric don't quite know how old you are as I'v never seen your name up on here before unless you are one of those trolls but at 77yrs next month I can imagine you had a much better education as I didn't have any at all until I took myself to night education classes at the age of 60 as I was working in the day. Now I have a cv as long as my arm of all the jobs which I have done in my life none of them that needed a brain just very hard graft as well as bringing up a family all this from the age of 15 till 70yrs retired and went to computer classes at 72ys so you will excuse me when I say I won't get out of my pram like you have just done in your thread and join you as I'm never adversed to being told in the right way. But pompous people like you now they and using your words, REALLY P__S me off but thanks for the education in bad language and all other aspects...

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The word that REALLY gets to me is BASICALLY hope I have spelt it right as if not I could be in for another hounding...

I hate all permutations of the "red is the new black" routine, which was funny the first time someone said it but sounds really tired now. I am not keen on the trendy use of adjectives as nouns as in "I don't do friendly" I could live without "like" or "goes" used instead of "says" or "said". An example would be: He goes, "What's the time?" and I'm like, "it's two thirty." There is also a whole series of unnecessary nouns that people add to their speech under the mistaken idea that it gives what they are saying added gravitas. Examples of unnecessary nouns include: option, platform, agenda, situation, experience, proposition, process, strategy, solution . . . Properly employed these words are fine. What I object to is when they are used to form phrases of the type "a great meal experience", "part of the learning process", "I'm seeking alternative employment solutions." My objection to this usage is that it is unnecessary and pretentious. You can remove the added noun and the phrase still makes perfect sense . . . indeed better sense.

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I too don't like the use of "partner" to describe a boy/girlfriend or wife/husband. I think it got started as a way for gays to describe their "significant other." (warning warning...Seventies Alert). At least that is the first context in which I heard it, other than the proper meaning of a business partner. Now it has gotten to the point that heterosexual couples who are legally married and living together describe their spouse as their "partner." What is that all about? Are they trying to obscure the fact that they are married? Are they ashamed of being viewed as "square" for actually having married instead of going into some less permanent relationship?

Karl, These things annoy me also, but I have to take a step back and wonder if I use phrases that have appeared over the last twenty years or so. Some catch on and get into common language, some don't. You might be surprised at how many you use now that you would have moaned about years ago (me also I hasten to add).