Phrases that get on your nerves.

[FyreBrigidIce]

"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?!

I have said worse than "preggers". I sometimes still use the term "Prego", my only defense is that "It's in there"

I have figured out that some of the things that I say can be added as annoying phrases. Well, at least I am contributing.

Brandy

 

[Smoke]

I don't remember whether anybody's mentioned "very kind of." Likes nails on a blackboard.

"It's very kind of Mid-century Modern."

"I'm feeling very kind of disoriented."

"She's very kind of playful."

It's "very" or "kind of." Never both.

 

[Smoke]

I'm so sorry that you actually knew what all of that means. Do these people just have something against apostrophes?

Yes.

"Who book that is?"

"That my book."

"I thought it was Margaret book."

"No, Margaret book over there."

 

[Smoke]

Like "have a nice day"
I usually respond with something like "thanks, but I have other plans"

People are always asking me, "What are you so happy about?" As if being happy is suspicious or something.

 

[ayani]

"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."

*snort*

i'm from Indiana, you hear that a lot here. often in relation to horrifically complicated, nasty-sounding relationships.

i have this literature / history professor who uses the phrases "...right?" and "good times" way too often.

"so this guy was pretty much a failure at public policy....right? so after his affair with the queen's head counselor he was thrown into tower of london and was eventually sawed limb from limb......right? good times."

i am not exaggerating.

 

[ayani]

I absolutely hate it when people use actions in their posts.

Oh boy! *groans*

Or worse, create onomatopoeias for onomatopoeias or use onomatopoeias at all.

Grrrr...?

mrrrrr. **smiles**