Does a word ever get on your nerves ?..

[squatting dog]

Dear valued customer. Sure..... I'm valued ok.

 

[Old Salt]

Awesome. Drives me nuts.

Yeah, totally!

 

[Remy]

"Inclusion" and "Inclusivity" I got news for those people patting themselves for saying it: It's never going to happen. Not everyone can ever feel included. Take it from someone who knows.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

NOTHINGBURGER. An overinflated story; that's the word I couldn't remember & can't stand.

I’ve never heard of the word before

 

[Judycat]

There's some dismissive term having to do with hamburger, I think, & it's driving me nuts trying to remember it

Nothingburger?

 

[Judycat]

If you watch opinion oriented news you get the latest trend in stupid buzzwords as they try to make knowledge idiotically exclusive. The Church does this as well.

 

[JustDave]

I've been in this thread without being able to think of any word or phrase that is anything other than just mildly annoying and not worth bringing up, but I just thought of one that goes beyond that for me. I don't know why it bothers me, but,

"That's what I'm talkin' about,"

really does get under my skin. It's always said in a situation where the speaker has never talked about it before and then wants to sound like he's been the foremost advocate of whatever he's never advocated for in his life.

OK, it's silly to be bothered by something that is intentionally meant to be silly (although I don't know if that's how it's intended or not), but I'll do my own introspection to understand why this one is especially annoying, and hopefully leave it behind and then get on with my life.

 

[Pepper]

Nothingburger?

See #44--I finally remembered!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Balzac]

Never cared for copacetic...

Nho that. Thanks for the education

 

[Aunt Mavis]

Ginormous. Stupid as it gets.

 

[Balzac]

Not a specific word, but it does annoy me when people wrongly use overestimate and underestimate.

Oh, and also folks who say 'I could care less ' when they mean 'I couldn't care less'.

 

[Della]

I didn't think anyone but my dad ever said copacetic. I thought he made that up along with khaki-whompus.

 

[Dr. Jekyll]

The overuse of "utilize" - just say "use".

And, of course, hearkening back to the office days - the plethora of hated business buzzwords; take it offline, synergy, best practice, pivot, etc..

 

[DebraMae]

Think outside the box is an office phrase that comes to mind.

The word "now" when used at the beginning of a sentence for no reason. (Usually used in a teaching or reporting mode)

 

[JustDave]

Think outside the box is an office phrase that comes to mind.

It's something we all do anyway when we don't think rationally. It's not like people have to be told.

 

[Jeni]

It may not be an exact word but the use outside of it's definition
I keep seeing these commercials that say "EARN " cash back on purchases ....... you are not earning ........ you are simply getting a 1% discount on amount you have spent from a app or credit card that then tuns around and sells your data to a marketing group for a heck of a lot more.....
or reselling used items... the only way you are EARNING is if you sell for more then you originally paid for it

 

[Packerjohn]

"MOVING FORWARD" Yup! Everyone here in Canada is moving forward. They all are saying that we have to move this thing forward. All the politicians are "moving forward. The whole country sounds like a jungle of parrots all mouthing about "moving forward." I find it sooooooooooooooo boring! What happened to education? What happened to learning new words and phrases?

We are "moving forward" on climate change. We are "moving forward" on sex abuse. We are "moving forward" on taxation. We are "moving forward" on education reform.

Yet with all this "moving forward" you think there are huge changes coming around. Ha, ha! It's all a bunch of hot air. Lots of bull but very little, if any, meaningful progress. As always, talk is cheap. Real progress very difficult to come by.

 

[bingo]

Cool

 

[Pinky]

My ex constantly used the words "Oriented" and "Orientated" out of context.

 

[caroln]

Circle back. We'll circle back to that later. They can't say we'll talk about that later?

 

[Been There]

flammable, inflammable and non-flammable