Faddish phrases that annoy you.

[springrite]

"I heard that!"

[Ken B]

It is particularly annoying when used thusly:

"Mozart's use of descending thirds in the opening movement development of the F Major sonata effectively adumbrates Brahms' later use in the Rhapsody Op 79 #1... yada yada". No kidding, mate. That's a revelation!     

"You say adumbrated? Sounds kinda sketchy to me."

[kishnevi]

News organizations who "reach out" to people.  Apparently "tried to contact" is not touchy feely enough.

Especially annoying because it reminds me of the old AT&T commercials which promoted long distance calls with the phrase "reach out and touch someone".  That was in the days when cell phones were merely a figment of Steve Jobs's imagination.

[Monsieur Croche]

As a food writer, here are some industry-specific phrases or terms I hate:

- "concept" instead of "restaurant"
- "artisanal"
- "bespoke"

How vewy, vewy pwecious...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

The whole thing with the single "right!?" exhortation. As in, person one: "That's hot", person two: "Right!?"

[amw]

"political correctness"
The use of "folks" instead of "people"
The use of "queer" instead of "LGBT"
"uncompromising"
"iconic"
"visionary", when used to describe a person who does not in fact experience supernatural visions
"TERF" or its variants
recording projects, residencies, concert series, etc, being described as "journeys"
"wunderkind"
"Ironically, the people most affected by this new policy will be Trump's own supporters..."
...

ok, evidently I get very easily annoyed >_>

[SurprisedByBeauty]

"political correctness"
The use of "folks" instead of "people"
The use of "queer" instead of "LGBT"
"uncompromising"
"iconic"
"visionary", when used to describe a person who does not in fact experience supernatural visions
"TERF" or its variants
recording projects, residencies, concert series, etc, being described as "journeys"
"wunderkind"
"Ironically, the people most affected by this new policy will be Trump's own supporters..."
...

ok, evidently I get very easily annoyed >_>

Yes, not a great friend of "folks", either, although I can't say it outright annoys me. My political co-author always liked to squeeze that in there and I usually tried to sneakily edit it back out.

Now that you mention "iconic", there's some other word that's been frightfully overused over the last years... along the same lines. What was it... oh, "epic". Everything epic, all of the sudden. And most loathed subvariant: "Epic failure".

[Parsifal]

Now that you mention "iconic", there's some other word that's been frightfully overused over the last years... along the same lines. What was it... oh, "epic". Everything epic, all of the sudden. And most loathed subvariant: "Epic failure".

One thing I find annoying is the substitution of "fail" for failure, in which "epic failure" becomes "epic fail." This usage seems to be particularly common in YouTube video titles.

[Jo498]

It is particularly annoying when used thusly:

"Mozart's use of descending thirds in the opening movement development of the F Major sonata effectively adumbrates Brahms' later use in the Rhapsody Op 79 #1... yada yada". No kidding, mate. That's a revelation!     

so it means roughly something like "prefigure"?

[amw]

Yes, not a great friend of "folks", either, although I can't say it outright annoys me. My political co-author always liked to squeeze that in there and I usually tried to sneakily edit it back out.

I think I've just read way too many liberal thinkpieces lately and literally all of them say things like "The new law could have disastrous consequences for queer folks" or "Over 70% of queer folks have faced discrimination" or something else that just grates massively on me due I guess to the inconsistent registers of language. (Also variants such as "black folks" or whatever, but I think I dislike "queer" more because where I was born that's still a slur.)

Now that you mention "iconic", there's some other word that's been frightfully overused over the last years... along the same lines. What was it... oh, "epic". Everything epic, all of the sudden. And most loathed subvariant: "Epic failure".

Oh god I forgot that one. That's dreadful.

[Jo498]

My two first associations with "folks" is the text of Ol man river (or some similar song: "black folks toil along the Mississippi...") and that final jingle of old cartoons that goes roughly "dubba-dee-dubba-dee-dubba-dee - that's all, folks" in a cartoon voice.
Therefore the word does not really seem fit for serious discourse anymore.

[david johnson]

early on -  I recall when this seemed to really take off
impact - x has an impact rather than impacts
came on board - I first began hearing this one during Watergate shenanigans.  Please reserve it for ship boarding.
lgbt, lgbtq, and any variant - I've seen this with enough letters that it loses any sensible reference

[Karl Henning]

As a food writer, here are some industry-specific phrases or terms I hate:

- "concept" instead of "restaurant"
- "artisanal"
- "bespoke"
- menus that simply list ingredients instead of telling you what the dish is. Tonight I'm going to a place with items like "spiced winter fruit agua fresca, blue corn meal cookie, Duxbury oyster." That's one dish, not three. Ugh, you guys.

Your quarrel with "artisanal" is professional, and you have more occasion for annoyance thereby. But even a plain joe like me despises it. 

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[Karl Henning]

American Maverick

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[Gurn Blanston]

so it means roughly something like "prefigure"?

Literally from Latin it is "foreshadow"  ad - before  umbra - shadow. (-ate because I did? )

[NikF]

Analogue Photographer. In my day I started as a film photographer. Then I shot film and digital. Then I was almost exclusively digital. I don't feel I've ever been an analogue photographer, even retrospectively. I think it's another type of self-labelling special snowflake BS.

Having said that, I would be more likely to refer to myself as an analogue photographer if I shot tintype or ambrotype. Or maybe if I were a daguerreotypist who also shot film.

Then again, I don't suppose it's that big a deal. And there are already enough dicks out there who are quick to tell people what they should and shouldn't photograph and in which medium they should go about it. 



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[Karl Henning]

Literally from Latin it is "foreshadow"  ad - before  umbra - shadow. (-ate because I did? )

I can be lazy and say that it is because I did not seriously turn my thought to it;  but really, I should chide myself for not perceiving umbra in there.

[André]

"Poor little snowflake".  The defining insult of 2016 according to the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/28/snowflake-insult-disdain-young-people

[Gurn Blanston]

Analogue Photographer. In my day I started as a film photographer. Then I shot film and digital. Then I was almost exclusively digital. I don't feel I've ever been an analogue photographer, even retrospectively. I think it's another type of self-labelling special snowflake BS.

Having said that, I would be more likely to refer to myself as an analogue photographer if I shot tintype or ambrotype. Or maybe if I were a daguerreotypist who also shot film.

Then again, I don't suppose it's that big a deal. And there are already enough dicks out there who are quick to tell people what they should and shouldn't photograph and in which medium they should go about it. 

At least you can justify that one by saying that analog is whatever isn't digital, so if it wasn't digital, it had to be analog. It may well be irritating, but the options are limited for the speaker/writer.

In photography, it is the art that matters, not the medium unless it is a distinctive part of the art, of course. That said, I still prefer film.

[NikF]

At least you can justify that one by saying that analog is whatever isn't digital, so if it wasn't digital, it had to be analog. It may well be irritating, but the options are limited for the speaker/writer.

In photography, it is the art that matters, not the medium unless it is a distinctive part of the art, of course. That said, I still prefer film.

Yeah, I can see those limits. However I don't know what's wrong with simply saying "I shoot film" or "This is a film camera".

And I agree, yes, it's the art that matters.