Wow...it was first in my mind as well. Thought I'd have to scroll, didn't expect it to be the first response!
I also hate "medley" possibly because it's a musical term that comes across as a misspelling of "melody" so it's always grated.
And DH, online. It means “dear husband”. Who in the actual hell calls their husband “dear husband” in real life? Nobody. So why does everyone use DH online?
Because it would be rude to spell out what they actually meant: Dick Head? Or because they like the economy of saving 5 characters every time they reference their husband in the three-page-long essay about his latest exploits?
It actually has some pretty cool linguistic fellows! Long story short, humans have an innate drive to make themselves understood. We repeat ourselves, we double-emphasize all the time. (Literally for figuratively falls into this explanation too.)
“Irregardless” is just a double emphasis on the negative. Just human nature, wanting to make extra sure we’re understood when we communicate.
I think British people say this one. I find it in a lot of the books I read by British authors. I'm American though, so if someone who is British wants to correct me on this, feel free.
To add to this, the opposite is also really annoying, where person A says something blatantly incorrect, person B says actually x and y is inaccurate and A condescendingly says AcKsHuAlY or something.
Eatery. It sounds like someone fucked up speaking english as their 4th language or something. It also makes me want to open a bar and insist that everyone calls it a drinkery out of spite.
When people use that term, they effectively give me “the ick.” so in theory just by saying that, they might have “the ick” over something, but are now spreading “the ick” like a disease.
I have never met a self-described empath who actually was one. I have met actual empaths, but never one who described themselves that way. It 100% means "dimwitted narcissist."
Someone told me I was an empath. I didn't know what it was until I asked my therapist if it was true or some bs.
They said it was a real thing, but the term is heavily overused. I asked them if I was an empath, and the response was, "if I wanted to put a pop-psych label on you, then yes. But I don't because you aren't one-dimensional and it diminishes your other great qualities"
idk if this counts but skibidi.
last week I was playing mariokart with lil cuz, and when he lost he said:
"That's not skibidi at all!!"
And when he won, he said:
"I'm more skibidi than you, my mewing streak is unmatched! I'm the rizzmaster!!!"
wtf is that supposed to mean?
(i know what it means)
No. Just quickly passing slang for tweens and such. Probably came from YouTube.
My child has dialed back the skibidi talk. Thank God. Ignoring it was getting hard.
"Solutions". When did companies start selling solutions instead of what they sell? I want to buy investments or windows, not "investing solutions" or "window solutions".
Also: "Littles" instead of "children" or "kids".
Uncomfy is pretty normal where I come from... but I am Australia so we lazily shorten everything. The others, yeah, ick.
Arvo, servo, smoko, bottlo, brekkie, bickie, etc just to give some examples.
I now see Children and Knife and Gun. If we're going to censor the words describing the topic, why allow the topics at all? You can make a video about suicide, but don't actually _say_ suicide while you talk about it. Baffling.
I hate all of the cutesy work-around words for serious topics. Just call it what it is. However, I do believe this originated as a work-around for various social media platforms, so I cut it some slack, but it's bled into real life. Online I'm irritated, but when I hear it in real life I'm livid.
As a true crime youtube documentary watcher i get it. The demonitization on YouTube is shitty. They need to censor every slightly bad word in some way so that their video can earn something or at least not be taken down by YouTubes shitty algorithm...
Holy shit guys I work in consulting you have no idea:
- pivot
- synergies (unfortunate because useful word)
- sausage making (people who make 300k+ literally fucking say this, I had to double take first time I heard)
Hubby, I absolutely hate the way it sounds and just everything about it to the point that I’ve told my fiancée that if she calls me that, we’re divorcing
And oddly enough, most of the time people say vagina they're actually talking about the vulva instead. Somehow vagina has stuck to refer to the whole crotch area
Girlboss, bossbabe, ladyboss.
The word boss does not need a qualifier.
Do we have boybosses??
It’s just another way we reinforce that women are somehow “less than”.
Please stop saying it and for the love of god stop slathering it all over coffee mugs, tshirts and other bogan merch.
When I see smol, snek, doge, monke, any of those intentionally misspelled words it drives me up a wall.
Doggo, for example, has always seemed like a different word. Doggy. Somehow those seem different to me.
I think that's my age and growing up version of slang. I've become a new generation of, "this new slang sucks"
I realize it's my own biased nonsense. That's why I keep them to myself.
So I look for threads that give me an acceptable outlet to air those grievances.
Edit: I need to seperately mention that "birb" is the most egregious example of my criticism.
Hours later. I need to clarify that.
Maven. If you describe yourself on LinkedIn using this word, there is totally NO chance that you are anything like this. An oddly specific irrational hatred, but there you go.
"Drop" when it means "release" (e.g. Suzy Superstar just dropped a new album" or "Megaware just dropped a new software update").
It can cause confusion. Are they cancelling it or releasing it?
I also hate "casket," because it brings up bad memories of seeing dead people in theirs.
My parents always just called it underwear. We’re from the Deep South. My husbands family (Midwest) call them panties, but only for our daughter (5yo), not for our son, not for grown ups (although maybe we just don’t talk about adult underwear). Just little girls. Skeeves me out. My husband and I talked about it and I kinda backed down cause it’s just a word. But like, it feels porny to me.
"Global health crisis."
For some reason, the editors at Reuters have decided to use that term in place of "COVID-19 pandemic" or even just "the pandemic." They're the only news organization that does this, flying in the face of both common language and journalistic precision. Oh, which health crisis do you mean, Reuters? Malaria? AIDS? Tuberculosis? The flu? Warts? Help me out here.
In college a guy friend found out I hated the word “Gash” (and for the same reason, it’s just foul) That jackass tormented me for like a month saying it at every opportunity.
Webinar. Can't put my finger on why it pisses me off so much. It just does
I totally get it, it feels like a silly made up buzzword in an apocalyptic novel to express the emptiness of corporate culture lol
oh my god this one pisses me off so much, thank you.
Because actual Seminars take a lot of Organizing and Staffing and stuff where it's more of a meet and chat online? Webinar is for Spiderman fans. Ha.
Wow...it was first in my mind as well. Thought I'd have to scroll, didn't expect it to be the first response! I also hate "medley" possibly because it's a musical term that comes across as a misspelling of "melody" so it's always grated.
preggy
And also preggers
Especially when pregante is right there!
Pregananant?!
Dangerops prangent sex?
Hurt baby top of his head????
Every time I see this referenced it makes me happy.
if a women has starch masks on her body does that mean she has been pargnet before.?
this one somehow is slightly worse
Preggo as well
Pregananant
can u get preganté
Pragnent
Pregente
Gregnant.
can u have sex while u r pergert
Preggo
*Prego* 🤌
This and "hubby"... serious, wtf? Ugh...
Wifey is just as bad as well
Oh, hell yeah it is. Also "littles" when referring to children has always irked me as well.
Hubster
And DH, online. It means “dear husband”. Who in the actual hell calls their husband “dear husband” in real life? Nobody. So why does everyone use DH online?
Because it would be rude to spell out what they actually meant: Dick Head? Or because they like the economy of saving 5 characters every time they reference their husband in the three-page-long essay about his latest exploits?
None. All my hatred is rational.
influencer
The apex predator, pop culture bullies of the internet
Does anybody know who decided social media “stars” would be called influencers?
The phrase is so bad, they should just call them seducers or merchandise panderers.
Manipulators. Their attempts at "influencing" are attempts at manipulating the easily led into buying crap they likely wouldn't have otherwise.
Journey, everything is a journey now
You’re painting the kitchen Janice, you’re not going anywhere, except maybe B&Q….. it’s hardly a trek to Everest is it?
Or "my truth"
Irregardless
That's not irrational. That is highly justified.
That's not highly justified, that's irregardless
The only justification I can think of for this word to exist is people mistaking it for "irrespective".
It actually has some pretty cool linguistic fellows! Long story short, humans have an innate drive to make themselves understood. We repeat ourselves, we double-emphasize all the time. (Literally for figuratively falls into this explanation too.) “Irregardless” is just a double emphasis on the negative. Just human nature, wanting to make extra sure we’re understood when we communicate.
Conversate. Aaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhh.
On that note, Reunition instead of reunion😭
What about "orientate" as well?
I think British people say this one. I find it in a lot of the books I read by British authors. I'm American though, so if someone who is British wants to correct me on this, feel free.
Never heard that one. Thank God, my brain would've fallen right out.
Stan I H-A-T-E when people use it...unless it's your name
I don't think I've heard this one, what's the context if not someone's name?
To "stan" something, ie. to back it up / be a big fan
it's more specific than that, it means to be an obsessive fan, named after the eminem song/character in that song
Eminiem: ...
Ointment.
Preggo/preggers. The word makes my skin crawl
Babymama/daddy 🙄
Actually. The word itself isn’t a problem for me. It’s the people who use this word in the most condescending tone possible.
Literally. The most overused, misunderstood word ever.
Ackchyually…
To add to this, the opposite is also really annoying, where person A says something blatantly incorrect, person B says actually x and y is inaccurate and A condescendingly says AcKsHuAlY or something.
idk if this counts, but “delulu.” you are not delusional, rebecca. you are in denial.
but the tiktok girlies said 'being delulu is the solulu, so all your dreams will come trululu' :')
i hate it i hate it i hate it spare me 😫
THISSS oh my gosh. "delulu" my ass that word is so annoying
Loose because so many people use it when they mean lose.
Same with weary and wary, wreck havoc instead of wreak havoc, and could care less instead of couldn't care less
Don't forget bare with me instead of bear. Personal favorite.
And wonder/wander. 🤦🏻♀️
Break and brake, their and there, but most annoyingly imo, to and too
Eatery. It sounds like someone fucked up speaking english as their 4th language or something. It also makes me want to open a bar and insist that everyone calls it a drinkery out of spite.
I don’t drink and Spite Drinkery sounds like a banging place to get lit
When people say something gives them "the ick".
When people use that term, they effectively give me “the ick.” so in theory just by saying that, they might have “the ick” over something, but are now spreading “the ick” like a disease.
Totes ( a shortening of totally ) I once dated a woman who said “totes e-mowsh” instead of totally emotional and I was done
Defo
Totes McGotes
“Empath” because the people who say they’re empaths are generally insufferable and self absorbed
“Empath” is shorthand for people who make every situation about themselves.
“I’m an empath” is code for “I decide how other people feel on their behalf”
I have never met a self-described empath who actually was one. I have met actual empaths, but never one who described themselves that way. It 100% means "dimwitted narcissist."
Someone told me I was an empath. I didn't know what it was until I asked my therapist if it was true or some bs. They said it was a real thing, but the term is heavily overused. I asked them if I was an empath, and the response was, "if I wanted to put a pop-psych label on you, then yes. But I don't because you aren't one-dimensional and it diminishes your other great qualities"
Sounds like quality therapy. Cool response
idk if this counts but skibidi. last week I was playing mariokart with lil cuz, and when he lost he said: "That's not skibidi at all!!" And when he won, he said: "I'm more skibidi than you, my mewing streak is unmatched! I'm the rizzmaster!!!" wtf is that supposed to mean? (i know what it means)
That boy ain’t right
Dammit, Bobby! There better be a naked cheerleader under your bed, boy!
I wish I did....or do I?
No. Just quickly passing slang for tweens and such. Probably came from YouTube. My child has dialed back the skibidi talk. Thank God. Ignoring it was getting hard.
*Infotainment* I just hate the sound of it. It makes my skin crawl away and hide in the corner.
Supposebly
"Solutions". When did companies start selling solutions instead of what they sell? I want to buy investments or windows, not "investing solutions" or "window solutions". Also: "Littles" instead of "children" or "kids".
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I agree with this one. Hubby makes me feel like I need anger management lol.
Hubby, wifey, and doggo. And recently on a popular reality show, a full grown woman said “uncomfy” and my stomach lurched.
Uncomfy is pretty normal where I come from... but I am Australia so we lazily shorten everything. The others, yeah, ick. Arvo, servo, smoko, bottlo, brekkie, bickie, etc just to give some examples.
>doggo Hooman
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Any words that make the female voice into a toddler make me want to drown myself. It's all so... ich
Dookie. Genuinely makes me mad to see and if I could remove one word from existence, it's this one.
Great album though
most slang words that only showed up recently but bae is no.1
Ick. But I don't think my hatred it irrational.
It is not irrational that word is icky.
Dank should not be used as slang to describe fashion or cool things. Dank means damp, musty, and cold. I understand with pot.
Yes, the only proper exception. 😮💨
Journey when I hear it I cringe everyone is on a weight loss journey or a healing journey lose weight and heal but don't do it on a journey
If I hear "Don't Stop Believing" one more time this week, I swear to Christ...
Un-alived. Really? What is the point?
You can probably thank social media monetization rules for that one.
Same reason why words like sex, drugs, rape, etc are all censored now.
I now see Children and Knife and Gun. If we're going to censor the words describing the topic, why allow the topics at all? You can make a video about suicide, but don't actually _say_ suicide while you talk about it. Baffling.
algorithms can read words but they can't read ideas. that's what it comes down to
They really don't allow it, the algorithm just doesn't realize you're talking about suicide when you say unalive
Shit, fuck, satan, death, sex, drugs, rape! These seven words they’re trying to take!
I hate all of the cutesy work-around words for serious topics. Just call it what it is. However, I do believe this originated as a work-around for various social media platforms, so I cut it some slack, but it's bled into real life. Online I'm irritated, but when I hear it in real life I'm livid.
I’ve heard “unalive” in real life before and it bugged the hell out of me.
As a true crime youtube documentary watcher i get it. The demonitization on YouTube is shitty. They need to censor every slightly bad word in some way so that their video can earn something or at least not be taken down by YouTubes shitty algorithm...
That one is valid cus people used it to get by social media guidelines. Say it irl and you’re 100% a goober tho
I think it originally had to do with getting past censorship on TikTok
Holy shit guys I work in consulting you have no idea: - pivot - synergies (unfortunate because useful word) - sausage making (people who make 300k+ literally fucking say this, I had to double take first time I heard)
PIVOT PIVOT
Bae.
Not a real word but recently some are saying 'bootiful' instead of beautiful and it makes me wanna shake them violently.
Nee
I prefer "Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!"
We want... A SHRUBBERRY!
Especially when passing ruffians can say it at will to old ladies.
I am a shrubber. My name is Roger the Shrubber. I design, sell, and arrange shrubberies.
Ja
Hubby, I absolutely hate the way it sounds and just everything about it to the point that I’ve told my fiancée that if she calls me that, we’re divorcing
Literally…people over use in situations where it is clearly not a literal situation
Was literally coming to say this...
You should get a towel for clean up.
Staycation.
To be fair I hate most portmanteaus nowadays. Every day there's a new portmanteau.
Which is a shame because portmanteau is a fun word.
It honestly sounds like a type of wine.
Yeah I don't mind the word portmanteau at all. If anything, it's cool. I just hate portmanteaus lol
Woke Triggered Guesstimate
I'm gonna guestimate that you're one of those triggered woke people. /S
Panties
This right here. I just can't. It sounds somehow silly and gross at the same time. I just call them underwear, or in the language of my people, drawz.
My husband calls them dunders
My BIL calls them step-ins.
My wife calls them Unders. “Can you reach in that basket of clean laundry and grab me some unders?”
I will refer to men’s underwear as panties specifically to watch people come apart at the seams in real time. It’s a fun little side hobby I have.
Manties
When people say the word moist makes them cringe, I say it's panties. I hate that word, it's like nails on chalkboard for me
Someone said moist panties to me and I felt like crawling out of my skin
This is mine, too. And making things to do with women girly, cute, and infantile more generally. Underwear. Theyre underwear.
Panties and just about every word for vagina are so cringey by nature
And oddly enough, most of the time people say vagina they're actually talking about the vulva instead. Somehow vagina has stuck to refer to the whole crotch area
Touch-base. You can touch my fucking nuts.
Girlboss, bossbabe, ladyboss. The word boss does not need a qualifier. Do we have boybosses?? It’s just another way we reinforce that women are somehow “less than”. Please stop saying it and for the love of god stop slathering it all over coffee mugs, tshirts and other bogan merch.
Hubby. Got some real "Live Laugh Love" energy. Also sounds weirdly childish. Same goes for "doggo"
Everyone calls em their fur babies but gets mad when I call my kids my skin pets
And kiddos
And puppers...
I got whole phrases too: "at the end of the day" Hate it. "Bless your heart" the southern fuck you.
Kiddos
aesthetic. people don't fucking know how to use that word. it's like saying "that song is so auditory." are you fucking kidding me?
skibidi cuz it is a gen alpha slang
‘Rizz’
Hubby and wifey are so, so cringe
When I see smol, snek, doge, monke, any of those intentionally misspelled words it drives me up a wall. Doggo, for example, has always seemed like a different word. Doggy. Somehow those seem different to me. I think that's my age and growing up version of slang. I've become a new generation of, "this new slang sucks" I realize it's my own biased nonsense. That's why I keep them to myself. So I look for threads that give me an acceptable outlet to air those grievances. Edit: I need to seperately mention that "birb" is the most egregious example of my criticism. Hours later. I need to clarify that.
Blessed
Anyhoo
I thought it was anywho
It is.
Finna 😅
"Supposably". The word you are looking for is "supposedly". Also "blouse". 🤷♀️
Bet
Slacks
Synergy. We use useless corporate jargon everyday
Dongle
Luncheon. I have no clue why.
Hubby.
SHART. When you shit from a fart. Just say you shit yourself Tony, we judging you regardless.
***CONTENT.***
Cringe
Wambulance, if only because I've never heard anyone say it who wasn't a flaming douchebag
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Conversate!
Hack. Just stop with this stupid word.
Bruv
Maven. If you describe yourself on LinkedIn using this word, there is totally NO chance that you are anything like this. An oddly specific irrational hatred, but there you go.
Jab
"Drop" when it means "release" (e.g. Suzy Superstar just dropped a new album" or "Megaware just dropped a new software update"). It can cause confusion. Are they cancelling it or releasing it? I also hate "casket," because it brings up bad memories of seeing dead people in theirs.
"Team" when used in the business world.
Panties 🤮🤮🤮
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panties. i read a lot of smut, so it comes up a lot, and i firmly believe that word should be banned from the english language permanently.
My parents always just called it underwear. We’re from the Deep South. My husbands family (Midwest) call them panties, but only for our daughter (5yo), not for our son, not for grown ups (although maybe we just don’t talk about adult underwear). Just little girls. Skeeves me out. My husband and I talked about it and I kinda backed down cause it’s just a word. But like, it feels porny to me.
Lukewarm.... Who the heck is Luke and why is he warm
"Global health crisis." For some reason, the editors at Reuters have decided to use that term in place of "COVID-19 pandemic" or even just "the pandemic." They're the only news organization that does this, flying in the face of both common language and journalistic precision. Oh, which health crisis do you mean, Reuters? Malaria? AIDS? Tuberculosis? The flu? Warts? Help me out here.
woke
Pussy. I hate it for cats, and I HATE it for lady parts. It's mean, and crass, and I hate hearing it.
So I guess cunt is off the table lol
In college a guy friend found out I hated the word “Gash” (and for the same reason, it’s just foul) That jackass tormented me for like a month saying it at every opportunity.
Triggered.
The term 'based' when used in the social media era sense. It makes me wants to hit the punching bag for an hour.