Phrases that get on your nerves.

[ChristineES]

What are some of the phrases that get on your nerves. I hate it when people start a sentence with "you know what your problem is..." I find that not only insulting but hypocritical as well. I have thrown people for a loop when I answer "YES":angel2:

 

[Buttercup]

I really dislike when someone uses the word "like" throughout a conversation...

"I was like, so shocked when she grabbed my lip gloss. Like, who does she think she is?"

Or, when someone says, "I don't mean to be rude" But they plunge full steam ahead with rudeness anyway.

 

[Hope]

I really dislike when someone uses the word "like" throughout a conversation...

I dislike "like" too.

It usually indicates to me one of two things: either immaturity (pre-teen and teen girls love this word), or simply a limited vocabulary---which in itself indicates to me one slept through English classes, and I find that inexcusable.

 

[The Great Architect]

I dislike "like" too.

It usually indicates to me one of two things: either immaturity (pre-teen and teen girls love this word), or simply a limited vocabulary---which in itself indicates to me one slept through English classes, and I find that inexcusable.

Much to my annoyance,I find myself using the word 'like' in sentences far too much at the moment. It is because of the short term memory problems I have due to my illness, though. My brain just 'stalls'.

Back to the topic, though. I find it very annoying when people say "it could be worse"; as if that is supposed to be some kind of consolation!

 

[Phil Lawton]

One used currently by British politicians; they'll be asked a question and then reply thusly:

"I do hold a position on that subject and it's this: blahhhhhh"

"It's this" - it's designed to (but fails to) make the listener wait agog for the main thrust of the statement. Of course, coming as it does from the mouth of a lying, double-dealing, back-stabbing, self-serving, toadying politician, no-one believes it anyway.

I do have a plan for politicians and it's this: flog them on the way to the guillotine.

 

[jacquie4000]

Well it is a very simple one, but I want to scream when I tell my son something and he says, Whatever. However I refrain from screaming.

 

[michel]

I really dislike when someone uses the word "like" throughout a conversation...

Ooh, as do I. Others ? "At the end of the day........." "If only I had.........." but the one that really gets to me is "I could of done it"............yes, some (having only heard the expression, write and pronounce it as and pronounce it as such).:foot:

 

[FatMan]

Being in the South I hate two phrases:

1) "Do What?" Which just sounds like the person is a blithering idiot

2) "Bless His Heart" Which is usually uttered two seconds before saying something completely derogatory.

 

[ladyhawke]

"Talk to the hand" is guaranteed to have me screaming
and if anyone on here is still watching BB..Tracy and her continually use of the word "phat" is really getting on my nerves

 

[Jaymes]

"I'm kind of pregnant". No you're not, you're either pregnant or you're not.

"I'm not racist/homophobic/transphobic, BUT..." If you have to say but, you need to just stop right there.

Not a phrase, but I also hate the word "preggers". Gah. PREGNANT. English, can you speak it?!

 

[Hema]

When someone says, "No offense but..." then proceeds to say something offensive.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

"I'm not racist/homophobic/transphobic, BUT..." If you have to say but, you need to just stop right there.

That phrase right there gets me, and it always seems to be coupled with "I have a lot of (insert word here) friends."

I'm sure people who have nagging and specific pet peeves about a certain demographic - such as GLBTQs and/or African-Americans - are seriously going to have a lot of friends in that demographic.




Peace,
Mystic

 

[FatMan]

That phrase right there gets me, and it always seems to be coupled with "I have a lot of (insert word here) friends."

The question I always want to ask is if those [insert word] friends consider themselves to have friends who are blatantly racist/homophobic, etc.

 

[Jaymes]

That phrase right there gets me, and it always seems to be coupled with "I have a lot of (insert word here) friends."

I'm sure people who have nagging and specific pet peeves about a certain demographic - such as GLBTQs and/or African-Americans - are seriously going to have a lot of friends in that demographic.

Oh man, that phrase gets me too. Unless they live under a rock, odds are that of course they're going to know someone that's gay or black or whatever demographic they happen to be going at at the moment. Of course whether or not the "we're friends!" feeling is mutual is debatable. I've put up with quite a few people who knew I was lesbian and are pretty homophobic just because I don't like telling people to shut the heck up IRL.

 

[Inky]

My pet peeve is when people use "literally" when whatever their saying is not literal at all. I see it in textbooks nowadays; it's awful.

Funny example:
"He literally chewed my head off!"
"Seriously? Shouldn't you, uh, be in the hospital?"
"No, not really, just literally!"

 

[Buttercup]

Not a phrase, but I also hate the word "preggers". Gah. PREGNANT. English, can you speak it?!

Haa! I thought I was the only one who hated that word.

 

[ChristineES]

I know what you mean about the "I have a lot of [insert word] friends" statement, too. It usually is used for a person to "prove" that they are not prejudice, but to me it is just proving the opposite.
Statements ending in but..., I usually start to tune said person out when they say it. The "I don't mean to be rude, offensive, etc" usually means that they still are being rude, offensive, etc and trying to justify it.

 

[Smoke]

"In a minute," meaning any indefinite period of time. I don't remember hearing this till the last couple years or so, but it really grates on my nerves. As in:

"Yeah, we went to school together, but I haven't seen her in a minute."

I hear it all the time, and I want to shake every person who says it. Stop it.

Also, "baby daddy." Even worse when compounded, as in "My baby daddy daddy a police," or "My baby daddy mama made this for me."

One of my students was talking about a girl she was planning to fight.

"Who are you talking about?" I asked.

She glared. "My baby daddy baby mama."

 

[Buttercup]

"In a minute," meaning any indefinite period of time. I don't remember hearing this till the last couple years or so, but it really grates on my nerves. As in:

"Yeah, we went to school together, but I haven't seen her in a minute."

I hear it all the time, and I want to shake every person who says it. Stop it.

Also, "baby daddy." Even worse when compounded, as in "My baby daddy daddy a police," or "My baby daddy mama made this for me."

One of my students was talking about a girl she was planning to fight.

"Who are you talking about?" I asked.

She glared. "My baby daddy baby mama."

I have not heard one of these used out here. You people from the south are weird.

 

[FatMan]

I have not heard one of these used out here. You people from the south are weird.

Heck. I'm in South Carolina and haven't heard them either!!