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Please don't think I'm here to complain about rizz or skibidi toilet etc. Thats all fine by me.

The term I dislike strongly is 'eeeh' before you make a statement disagreeing with someone. (This is over text only). Now maybe I've been pavloved bc it's always used by someone disagreeing. But I'm happy with people disagreeing with me normally its just the 'eeeh' or 'erm' that annoys me.

So what's a random term that annoys you?

PS. Saying "eeeh actually 'eeh' is a perfectly fine term" would be a ridiculously easy joke and I will judge you for making it. And I know atleast one person will. Especially bow that I've said all this.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Enshitification

A meaningless buzzword made up by nostalgia blinded millennials.

Also Saint Patty's day. God dam plastic paddies.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Property, when referring to a house/home.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

β€œNot me” doing something.

Just say you’re doing something, and accept that it may be a bit hypocritical or shameful that you’re doing it.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (8 children)

So many things. In written form, I hate when someone writes "Period." after they make a point to mean "this can't be argued" or whatever. My good bitch, I don't think you understand how arguing works. πŸ˜†

"Full stop" is a close second.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a perfectly valid way to win an argument, end of sentence.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Folks" makes my skin crawl. I feel like it's used to make someone appear friendlier while saying "you people", in the context of being manipulated by someone with power.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Not a term, but a lack thereof:

People I have to regularly interact with for work have been excluding "to be", especially with "needs", and it's infuriating.

This issue needs escalated. That report needs fleshed out. Let me know if anything needs cleared up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Those sound so wrong

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

"Irregardless"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

"Solidarity" as it's too often used to make others do things you want.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

People using double negatives incorrectly. Like "I didn't do nothing!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I didn't do no nothing wrong now, didn't I?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You don't deserve your existence

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'm afraid to say I kind of like that, although don't particularly use it much.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Someone could take all the answers here and create a copypasta equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago (6 children)

"I could care less" to mean "I could NOT care less"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Thing is... this sort of makes sense if you say it with a hint of sarcasm. But curiously the only people that use this phrase are Americans. And we all know how much they understand sarcasm 🀣.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This exactly! I always get so confused when people say that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is it really confusing? You know what they mean

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"At the end of the day..."

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

you can't just say Perchance

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When people say 'like' constantly between sentences or sentence fragments or before every adjective.

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