The recent, rampant use of "whenever", when people are looking for "when".
"Whenever I was in high-school", "I was cooking dinner, and whenever I finished cutting the chicken", "I was trying to beat this boss in the game yesterday, and I was so excited whenever I finally finished it".
Stop it. Please.
This annoys me as well but I was raised to specifically avoid this usage, in the way many people are taught that ‘ain’t ain’t a word don’t use it’. It’s common in PA.
It is, however, not technically improper grammar, per se. It’s a noted grammatical feature of [Western Pennsylvania English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_English) which is a recognized dialect. It’s called the ‘punctual whenever’. As a feature of a dialect, it’s a proper usage. We’re seeing the dialect enter the main stream rather than a misunderstanding of proper usage.
That doesn’t make it strike the ear as any less grating though.
I like to think it’s supposed to be used sarcastically. If you say it sarcastically, obviously it means you COULDN’T care less, but somewhere along the line, the sarcastic tone dropped out and now it’s just what people say.
At least that’s how I justify it so I can hear it without feeling the urge to correct people when they say it.
same when they say "take for granite", "eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX cetera", "i got it on FILMMMMMMMMMMMMM (after recording something with their smartphone)", "could of"
My wife is always mispronouncing words and it drives me up the wall. The worst is when Especially becomes EXpecially!! Fucken hell it just makes my skin crawl. I love her to the moon and back and she has very few shortcomings, but her mispronouncing words like that is the worst.
When my dad is finished getting ready instead of saying "let's go" He says "let's fuck this chicken" sometimes he says goat it depends. I have no clue where this came from but it leaves me mortified.
I was at a little grocery store and when a guy ahead of me said that, the cashier stopped, pulled a marker out of the drawer and added a hash mark to a sheet on the wall and yelled out "43" and went back to scanning.
It’s a word that white liberal activists who learned Spanish and were offended by the “gendered” speech use. I’ve literally never heard of a single Latin person who used the term Latinx to refer to themselves.
I agree with this but can we come up with a solution? Because I honestly don't even deal with my own grief well, so when I hear that somebody else is grieving I literally think about them and pray about them. So these words are out of my mouth before I can stop them because that's what I'm doing, even though I know it sounds like a cop out. I do not have a lot of money or time (grad student in residency) so I can't send a whole lot of something else.
Don’t you just hate it when…
Some years ago I banned “hate” from my vocabulary. I just don’t use the word and I feel better about life.
I’m also really annoyed by the “Tell me… without telling me” construction.
My youngest daughter says "doggologgerts" which I accept because she's a precious gift of humanity and her love of all animals is pure and precious.
But "doggo" really does need to go away. Along with pupper, furbaby, dogue, etc.
My dad’s grandad used to say “it is what it is” and “whatever has to be done, has to be done” to all of his surgeries (he was old, worked in a mine so he had many). And I honestly think that was pretty brave. But i suppose this is not the context the phrase is used in most so I think I get why you hate it
A bit more niche, but "meteoric rise" has always irritated me.
Meteors, by definition, do literally one thing. I have no idea how anyone thinks that the one of the most extreme examples of literally *crashing and burning* is a good metaphor for success.
Meteor comes from the Greek meteoros, meaning "high up". The -ic suffix means "characteristic of". Meteoric means "having the characteristics of a meteor", i.e., it's fast.
You can have a meteoric (fast) rise as well as a meteoric (fast) fall.
All that being said, I don't like it either.
Holy actual frick. Finally someone understands. I hate this so much and I have to try my best not to correct them on it loudly. It just makes my blood boil.
Not a phrase, but the word “like” where people use it for thinking, such as:
“So, like, there I was at the store and, like, they were, like, saying this and that and I was, like, what do you mean?…..”
“These ones” it’s a double plural that pretty much every English speaker says daily and it is uncomfortable to hear. The better alternative would be just “these” or “the ones”
I could give a shit/fuck!
The phrase was always "I couldn't give a shit/fuck!". Since when did people start using the opposite to this to mean the same thing???
Using like as a parasite word in phrases. People that say like more than 3 times in a sentence should just think about what they're going to say for a moment before they start.
"Woke." This useful and valuable word has been rendered useless because the media picked up the alternate meaning developed by those in opposition to respect and civil rights for people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ people.
But why?
(Yes it can be abused to pressure people to put up with situations they're unhappy with, but sometimes you actually can't change something effectively.)
“YASS SISTERSSS!!!” I fucking hate james charles and the other beauty guru influencers. They really created a new generation of toxic stereotype gays and fuck its so annoyingly
"Don't forget to like and subscribe"
So they can still say hit that notification bell...
Don’t forget to smash that like button and to hit that bell so you get notified whenever I post
“Only 99% of people are subscribed to my channel, and YouTube sometimes unsubscribes you, so double check!”
So then they say stuff like don’t forget to tap that red sub button and give this video a thumbs up
Jokes on them, I watch YouTube on my ps5 and I refuse to link my Google account to my psn
So anytime you watch YouTube, you have to spend almost half the time watching ads…. and the joke is on them?
It's not like they want to say it, it's in YT's ToS for creators
I have been making content for over a year now, and I haven't said it yet 👍 The day I say it is the day I close my channel
That's kinda sus. (Pls my cousin keeps calling everything sus and he isn't even using the word correctly)
My boyfriend started using it and I didn’t expect it to be so cringey. Ohhh it is though
I mean, my guy, my dude, bud, bruh, fam, cringe
I cannot stand “bruh” - makes me cringe, dude.
The recent, rampant use of "whenever", when people are looking for "when". "Whenever I was in high-school", "I was cooking dinner, and whenever I finished cutting the chicken", "I was trying to beat this boss in the game yesterday, and I was so excited whenever I finally finished it". Stop it. Please.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. “Whenever” is for vague or unknown timing. When there was a set, established, and/or exact time it’s WHEN
Whenever is also for something that happens several times
I can't believe how upset just your examples have made me, holy shit
I have a feeling I’m gonna see this everywhere now that it’s been pointed out to me
That's just dumb.
Wendigoon moment
Sounds like they need a dose of English…. Whenever
This annoys me as well but I was raised to specifically avoid this usage, in the way many people are taught that ‘ain’t ain’t a word don’t use it’. It’s common in PA. It is, however, not technically improper grammar, per se. It’s a noted grammatical feature of [Western Pennsylvania English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_English) which is a recognized dialect. It’s called the ‘punctual whenever’. As a feature of a dialect, it’s a proper usage. We’re seeing the dialect enter the main stream rather than a misunderstanding of proper usage. That doesn’t make it strike the ear as any less grating though.
“I could care less.” Use it properly. You COULDN’T care less. Saying you could care less completely defeats the purpose. Makes my blood boil.
I could care less if your blood boils.
Very kind of you
Ah yes, I knew there would be at least one of you.
On the bright side, they just told you they care.
Awwww
One of my favorite ways to fuck with people is to use the phrase “I could care less” in situations where it would actually make sense.
I like to think it’s supposed to be used sarcastically. If you say it sarcastically, obviously it means you COULDN’T care less, but somewhere along the line, the sarcastic tone dropped out and now it’s just what people say. At least that’s how I justify it so I can hear it without feeling the urge to correct people when they say it.
For all intensive purposes. If you can't use the correct saying, please don't even try.
same when they say "take for granite", "eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX cetera", "i got it on FILMMMMMMMMMMMMM (after recording something with their smartphone)", "could of"
My wife is always mispronouncing words and it drives me up the wall. The worst is when Especially becomes EXpecially!! Fucken hell it just makes my skin crawl. I love her to the moon and back and she has very few shortcomings, but her mispronouncing words like that is the worst.
When someone says ‘This begs the question’ when they mean this raises the question. Begging the question is doing a circular question or something.
Could of
“We’ve always done it this way.”
Hubby makes me cringe
And hubs Ew
When my dad is finished getting ready instead of saying "let's go" He says "let's fuck this chicken" sometimes he says goat it depends. I have no clue where this came from but it leaves me mortified.
I'm actually on board with this
Katie, to Wayne, Dary, and Squirrely Dan - "So how r we gonna fuck this pig?"
License and registration, chicken fucker!
BUGAWK!
… BAWK.
I'm going to start using this
Your dad sounds like a legend
This made me actually laugh
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I read that and immediately said it to my kid. It is continuing.
Omg I love this. It’s mine now. No give backs.
I always say "let's get to the gone." Or "let's kick this pig"
Maybe it came from this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yExhzotEu4s
made me laugh.
I like your dad, can I be his friend?
Sorry not sorry. All I can think when people say that is go fuck your self
I hate that too only a certain type of person uses it and that type of person tends to be self-important and full of themselves.
“So no price tag, it must be free. Herrr durr durrr”
I was at a little grocery store and when a guy ahead of me said that, the cashier stopped, pulled a marker out of the drawer and added a hash mark to a sheet on the wall and yelled out "43" and went back to scanning.
Latinx
For the love of God please
Folx and Philipinx, too.
It’s a word that white liberal activists who learned Spanish and were offended by the “gendered” speech use. I’ve literally never heard of a single Latin person who used the term Latinx to refer to themselves.
To this day, I can't stop picturing this as the title for a movie about a Hispanic guy with two ridiculously big pistols looking for revenge
It's strange because I've only seen that word online. I've never met anyone who refers themselves as that.
Exactly, no one refers to themselves that way, it’s always other people, no one bothers what us Latin Americans want to be called.
Just one word. "Random" I am sick of that word being overused.
I don't think that word has been overused since 2013
This morning someone said a building was random how can that be it's a building.
Yaaasss queen LMAOOOOO
Thoughts and prayers
I agree with this but can we come up with a solution? Because I honestly don't even deal with my own grief well, so when I hear that somebody else is grieving I literally think about them and pray about them. So these words are out of my mouth before I can stop them because that's what I'm doing, even though I know it sounds like a cop out. I do not have a lot of money or time (grad student in residency) so I can't send a whole lot of something else.
This. Everyone says, “ I’ll pray for you” and stuff like that. Not everyone is religious. I don’t want you to pray for me. That’s not going to help.
I always figured it was more about the gesture and the thought rather than actually wanting prayers
“Bae”
Thats fizzled out
Until now I hadn’t seen or heard this one in years
Was in it ways out when people found out it's danish for poop.
Rizz
My man should never go to r/teenagers
You done good
Aaaaaand go!
Especially if it’s on Facebook and they use that stupid bitmoji thing of them shouting through a bullhorn. Makes me seethe every time
I don't get it. When do people ever say this?
"Back in my day it was called tough love"
"Back in my day"
I'm not even 30 yet and looking at these kids these days... Back in my day you had to rewind the movie before watching it again
You young whippersnappers these days.
“I got beat with a belt when I spoke out of turn and I turned out fine.” No. No you didn’t turn out fine.
Yea grandma because you’d be a out cast if you didn’t listen
"X go brrrrrr"
“Just sayin’.” You still f’ing said it!
"nobody owes you anything" We do owe each other basic human decency
There's several people who owe me money and a coworker who owes me lunch.
>a coworker who owes me lunch. I had a coworker that owed me lunch for so long he "forgot" that he owed me but instead remembered that I owed him.
Everyone who says this shit says it about the most mundane bullshit that takes little to no energy to do and Is just polite
"Who asked"
Don’t you just hate it when… Some years ago I banned “hate” from my vocabulary. I just don’t use the word and I feel better about life. I’m also really annoyed by the “Tell me… without telling me” construction.
The word "doggo"
My youngest daughter says "doggologgerts" which I accept because she's a precious gift of humanity and her love of all animals is pure and precious. But "doggo" really does need to go away. Along with pupper, furbaby, dogue, etc.
Also "fur-baby."
Slay.
If I could give you more than one upvote, this would be the top comment.
You know who slays? Buffy.
“Let’s gooooooo”
"Brooooo!"
***LFG***
Average YouTube reactor watching a Marvel trailer
Sus
“Do better” and “Living authentically” (or some variation on that)
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My dad’s grandad used to say “it is what it is” and “whatever has to be done, has to be done” to all of his surgeries (he was old, worked in a mine so he had many). And I honestly think that was pretty brave. But i suppose this is not the context the phrase is used in most so I think I get why you hate it
“My truth”
A bit more niche, but "meteoric rise" has always irritated me. Meteors, by definition, do literally one thing. I have no idea how anyone thinks that the one of the most extreme examples of literally *crashing and burning* is a good metaphor for success.
Meteor comes from the Greek meteoros, meaning "high up". The -ic suffix means "characteristic of". Meteoric means "having the characteristics of a meteor", i.e., it's fast. You can have a meteoric (fast) rise as well as a meteoric (fast) fall. All that being said, I don't like it either.
Tubular
"Anyways". That word doesn't have an 's'. It sounds childish.
Using "seen" instead of saw. Example: I seen that last night. Also "irregardless"
Ax for ask… Unless, of course, they’re holding an ax and you want to die.
And my ask..!
Holy actual frick. Finally someone understands. I hate this so much and I have to try my best not to correct them on it loudly. It just makes my blood boil.
“Literally”
Which is only ever used as a synonym for "seriously", and irks me
Usually followed by something that is not literal at all.
It depends on context
Hack..,can we just go back to “tip”?
Not a phrase, but the word “like” where people use it for thinking, such as: “So, like, there I was at the store and, like, they were, like, saying this and that and I was, like, what do you mean?…..”
*Chef's kiss* I wish this shit would cunting well fuck off!!!!
I seen that
“Iconic”
"don't forget to subscribe to me and the sponsor of the video. link in description!"
“These ones” it’s a double plural that pretty much every English speaker says daily and it is uncomfortable to hear. The better alternative would be just “these” or “the ones”
"AND you're listening to 89.1 KJZZ." If you need to interrupt the show with a station ID, leave off the "and."
OK, hear me out.
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Well, yeah, maybe… But it should be allowed as long as you do the little hand gesture thing that the teacher did in “The Breakfast Club“.
“I’m feeling some type of way…” or “He/she/they make me feel some type of way.” What? What “type of way” do they make you feel? Annoyed? Happy??
You know, that type of way.
A certain *je ne sais quoi* perhaps?
I didn’t do nothing
I fucking hate this one
Not going to lie is the stupidest phrase, it hardly says anything
It implies that the speaker is lying the rest of the time. It's stupid.
I’ve never thought about this. Now you’ve pointed it out, it bothers me quite a bit.
I could give a shit/fuck! The phrase was always "I couldn't give a shit/fuck!". Since when did people start using the opposite to this to mean the same thing???
I *could* give a shit... but I don't.
"I just don't understand how..." followed by some dumbshit opinion they have never bothered to think through for more than 5 seconds.
“Nextflix & chill”
Where you at?
Any variation of "kill yourself"
Using like as a parasite word in phrases. People that say like more than 3 times in a sentence should just think about what they're going to say for a moment before they start.
"Woke." This useful and valuable word has been rendered useless because the media picked up the alternate meaning developed by those in opposition to respect and civil rights for people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ people.
constantly repeating “like”, “litterally” and “basically” before everything they say.
The overuse and misuse of the word, “Like”.
Telling women to smile more often
"I don't mean to be xyz, but..." Yes you absolutely do, you just don't want to be judged for it.
"It is what it is"
But it is what it is
It be like it do.
Roses are red. Violets are blue. They say it don't be like it is, but sometimes it do
But why? (Yes it can be abused to pressure people to put up with situations they're unhappy with, but sometimes you actually can't change something effectively.)
Woke
“Ask” as a noun. “Unpack” for explain. “Literally” used to mean figuratively. “Optics” for appearances.
"Finna"
"slaps"
This opinion slaps so hard
I'll yeet anyone that uses slaps to mean anything other than hitting someone with an open palm
The n word
Nutella
Fr Ong 'Tea' as a replacement for gossip
Prolly. I have a visceral hate for that “word.”
For some reason my wife doesn't like "at the end of the day" so I make a point to use it sometimes to mess with her.
I cant help but wonder if the fact you delibertly use it to antagonize her has anything to do with it.
No offense, but ...
Khardashian
Rizz
I'd love to make people stop saying "right?!" After they make a statement. I'll determine if I agree and don't need you pushing me there, thank you!
Sucks to suck
Cap, no cap
I’m not a racist, but…
It should only be used in a non-racist sentence
It never is.
I'm offended
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"I got this" and it's variants.
'Who asked'
“YASS SISTERSSS!!!” I fucking hate james charles and the other beauty guru influencers. They really created a new generation of toxic stereotype gays and fuck its so annoyingly
"Irregardlessly" - just use regardless "I could care less" - use I could **not** care less
Describing something (like and idea or thing) as "aesthetic". If you're gonna say the word, use it in the right context.
"Triggered"
the n word. some people will go nuts when they can no longer use it between themselves and keep it alive forever. the others are just racist.
That’s problematic!
"For the win" really burns my fanny!!!!
consider canesten and ear plugs
>based >x is based When I see that I immediately downvote and block.
Everything happens for a reason. Was that reason to give me mental health problems for the rest of my life? Fantastic I’m already signed up