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.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    4 hours ago

    I cringe so hard at the twitterist carebear-hugbox way of smugly claiming the intellectual high ground and shaming somebody:

    "Be better." or "Do better."

    The sentiment isn't terrible, but it's prevalent use is obviously just dripping with arrogance and thrown out in the most petty ways. Ugh!

    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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      7 hours 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 🤣.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

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

  • Christian@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Using the phrase "serious question" or "honest question" will make me immediately assume your question is the exact opposite of that. Probably I'm overreacting, but expecting that anyone might respect that declaration you've made about your own question, that gives me narcissist vibes.

  • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    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.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    11 hours ago

    i know i'm being a nerd but i despise the term 'taxpayer funds'/'taxpayer money'. besides being completely wrong in nearly all cases, it places taxes above the people, above labor.

    'American taxpayer is paying for the genocide in Gaza'. No, every person/entity using U.S. Dollars is paying for it. Even foreign countries are indirectly paying for it.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    7 hours 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.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    9 hours ago

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

  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    "cis" I feel like it's an extra term for "straight". The "default" for lack of a better term (and one that isn't othering) is near the not trans & not gay part of the gender / sexuality spectra. To me everyone in that zone is "straight" (boring/default/whatever).

    "begs the question" because people exclusively use it wrong. Just say "leads to the question" or "poses the question."

    And I'm still really salty about everyone giving up on the term "literally" to allow it to mean its exact opposite.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      9 hours ago

      "cis"

      When the richest manchild in the world billionaire-tears outright bans people from his "radical free speech" cryptofascist safe space for saying "cis," maybe it's not a good look to be that worked up about that particular prefix. cissues

  • bstix@feddit.dk
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    11 hours ago

    "Ding ding ding!" When someone agrees with something you wrote, but wants to make sure that you know that they already knew and claim ownership of the statement that you wrote. Condesending asshole. I did not arrive at your opinion late.

    "Meanwhile" in cooking recipes. Just no. I am following a recipe in stepwise order. You do not get to tell me what I should have already done in the previous step.