What word or phrase sets you off like nails on a chalk board?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

For me it's "my bad". This just sounds so uneducated and ignorant. Just say I'm sorry, it was my fault or something. This started at the detention center I used to work at. Those kids said that all the time, and it just went all through me.
What about you?
Duckie

[jakefrep]

1. Git R Done

The height of glorification of illiteracy

and

"Choke" - the most overused verb in the sporting lexicon, mostly because it's disrespectful to the winner.

[AlCzervik]

2. Blogosphere.

[lightningandsnow]

3. "Not that there's anything wrong with that"

Almost always implies that the person thinks there IS something wrong with it.

[mark414]

6. or is just a big Seinfeld fan

[Archae]

4. George W. Bush.

:grr:

[Haole Girl]

5. Ain't

:puke:

[tigereye]

7. "impacted" used as a verb

[ashling]

30. That makes my tooth hurt

need a root canal

[BlueJazz]

8. What word or phrase sets you off like nails on a chalk board

:)

[Skittles]

9. "I just threw up in my mouth a little"

f***ing nasty

[ashling]

10. The indiscriminate use verbs as nouns

particularly, a book described as a "read"

[piesRsquare]

11. "Bingo!"

ARRGGHHHH!

[UncleSepp]

12. I'm sorry you feel that way

:-) I mean, that's the apology that sets me off!

I'd rather hear a "my bad" - at least it still roughly translates to "mea culpa" - instead of one of those evasive bs statements that puts the blame off on the person who was hurt.

[JohnnyLib2]

13. "gone missing"

:shrug:

[MorningGlow]

14. Even worse, "turned up missing"

Oxymoronic--you can't turn up and be missing at the same time.

[mainegreen]

33. 'meeting'

:scared:

[MorningGlow]

15. Any office jargon

Including, but not limited to, "Let's interface on this", "We should talk offline about it", and the granddaddies of 'em all, "Think outside the box", "paradigm shift", and "be proactive".

:puke:

[KitchenWitch]

16. "Meantime"

as used by news anchors to segue into something else. Makes me scream, "It's 'In the meantime' morans!"

[stuntcat]

46. awful. and "oft-times" too

'oft-times' in the place of 'often times', which I also hate hearing.

[caty]

17. It bothers me when someone

says, "it was so fun". It just does not sound right. To me, it should be said, "it was so much fun" or "it was a lot of fun".:shrug:

[quip]

18. That's awesome

The grand canyon is awesome. That you left work an hour early isn't.

[quip]

19. Dupe

[Danger Mouse]

20. "Speak truth to power" or "hold their feet to the fire"

Which is all some Du'ers know how to say. I fucking swear. :banghead:

[philosophie_en_rose]

24. I agree.

I was going to say "sammich" and "supposably," but yours are more apt to annoy me.

[Danger Mouse]

26. If I had a nickel for each time either phrase was used on DU, I'd get rich QUICK.

:D
I'm also starting to hate 'keeping the powder dry'

[Richardo]

25. I hate 'truth to power'

x(

[Whisp]

27. holding the nose thing too.

[RebelSansCause]

31. can i get a translation for the

people who respect the english language please? :P

[raccoon]

36. Noam Chomsky said power already knows the truth. nt

[LostInAnomie]

21. "I was never one to color inside the lines"

It's the dumbest form of self aggrandizement. It doesn't make you sound smart. It doesn't mean you are creative. It doesn't mean you are some kind of maverick. It makes you sound like some kind of fucking idiot that doesn't have the basic hand/eye coordination to color a decent picture. It also means you aren't creative enough to come up with your own phrase to declare yourself a "cut from a different cloth" maverick.

[Monk06]

22. Ending a sentence with .... 'and such' or 'some such'

[quip]

47. or, "in accordance with prophecy"

:hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. "I'm a shoe."

I don't know why, but it makes me want to smash my monitor. ;)

[ashling]

28. At this point in time

Watergateism

[ashling]

29. back in the day

oh, you mean this morning?

[Orsino]

32. "Family values"

Code for anti-gay hate.

[LanternWaste]

34. Alright! That was some cathartic stuff...

Usually it's whatever new, trendy bit of over-generalized, language-abuse is being used the most often at any given point in time. I hear them first from my friends who listen to talk radio.



But on DU, there's a few...

Nanny State: The ever-undefined appellate given to a law you don't like.

Woo-woo Thinking: Intolerance; a passive-aggressive venue for minimizing the beliefs and faiths of others.

Authoritarian: Used mainly by college-aged kids who get busted for speeding or misdemeanor possession and haven't learned how to "man-up to it" yet.




But my biggest antithesis of the English language is currently... "It's like..."

I can't seem to go more than an hour without some one using "it's like" as something other than its intended purpose-- the qualifier for a simile.

These days, it seems almost to be used in place of "uh".

"It's like... I hate this" WRONG! "It's like... so cool!" WRONG! "It's like a pear in shape..." Correct.


Alright! That was some cathartic stuff...

[av8rdave]

35. "At the end of the day..." That and

"metrics" used like a noun ("The metrics of that scenario just didn't work out.")

If you want to be a senior executive, those are about the only words you need to know.

[raccoon]

37. "The exception that proves the rule. " Doesn't make sense and

it's a misquote.

stepbrother/stepsister used instead of half-brother/half-sister.

"sweet spot" Sounds pornographic. :evilgrin:

[azmouse]

38. The overuse of the word 'basically'

and listening to so many young people say 'like' in between every word.
Do they realize how uneducated they sound?

[EstimatedProphet]

39. Basically, it's like, hard to, like, listen to, basically

[fudge stripe cookays]

43. .

:thumbsup:

I had an engineer at one of my old jobs who used "basically" every other word. He used it like other people use "like."

Both are equally irritating.

[mikeytherat]

40. "Trickeration"

The next sports-bot analyst who uses this "word" gets 40 lashes.

mikey_the_rat

[DS1]

41. Any version of "It's your ball, run with it"

including, but not limited to

They dropped the ball, you run with it
Pick up the ball and run with it

[New Earth]

42. "debunk"

ugh :puke:

[sazemisery]

44. (fill in the blank) is to die for. UGH! n/t

[flvegan]

45. "Yes they're real, and no you can't see them."

:hide: