Words and phrases I hate

[Zuljin]

Grats, creamy. Didn't even know you were preggers.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Is it true creamy? your wife had a child?

 

[Goofynewfie]

I think Creamy should start a poll thread and let the good members of HBT help decide what his twins are to be named.

One has to be named okra

 

[WesleyBrewViking]

Legitimate is a stretch. It never has been and still isn't accepted standard English.

I agree. The Mirriam-Webster citation even said to use regardless instead. My problem with it is that it's a double negative, so in my mind its meaning should be the opposite of how it's intended.

 

[WesleyS]

One has to be named okra

The other one should be named boot.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Im cracking up here. See what you started bomber!? Im not a dad yet all! Im not even expecting.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Im cracking up here. See what you started bomber!? Im not a dad yet all! Im not even expecting.

Milkman eh? Happens to the best of them...

 

[KeystoneHomebrew]

Working in a homebrew store exposes you to many phrases you would prefer not to here. My favorite is from wives AND husbands of brewers who go "Why don't you just buy it and save the effort?" Ha!

 

[bottlebomber]

Im cracking up here. See what you started bomber!? Im not a dad yet all! Im not even expecting.

I know it's a little overwhelming at first. It doesn't really sink in until you're holding the child. I suggest that you maybe look at some bassinets. It really helps.

 

[craigger64]

I'm a baseball fan, and it drives me nuts when people say "RBI's". More than one run batted in would be runs batted in, not run batted ins. The plural of RBI is still just RBI NOT RBI's.

I also cringe when I hear people pluralize sister or brother-in-law by adding an 's' on the end of the word law. Your wife's sisters are your sisters-in-law, NOT your sister-in-laws!!!

 

[HoppyDaze]

RBI's is actually the correct way to pluralize the abbreviation....

 

[Epimetheus]

n: impact
v: impacting
adj: impacted
adv: impactive (*pukes*)

WTH happened to "affect" and "effect"? Teeth get impacted.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I'm unsure why this gets under my skin but when people say, "I need to go to the ATM machine." It is an Automatic Teller Machine. A.T.M. The M means machine already. Bothers me for no good reason to no end.

redundancies bother me as well.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I know it's a little overwhelming at first. It doesn't really sink in until you're holding the child. I suggest that you maybe look at some bassinets. It really helps.

you need a new stick. the hornets have worn yours down.

 

[dkwolf]

redundancies bother me as well.

The redundancy of 'juice' is what bothers you most in that photo?!?!

This post brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Prevention Department.

 

[user 19629]

Saw a sign recently for a "Regrand Opening"

 

[Marauder]

The redundancy of 'juice' is what bothers you most in that photo?!?!

This post brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Prevention Department.

Ah yes the Dept. of Redundancy Prevention Department.

Our motto:

"Preventing redundancy before it can occur,
Mitigating repetition,
And intervening before and prior to redundancy happening!"

 

[craigger64]

RBI's is actually the correct way to pluralize the abbreviation....

I know but it makes no sense.

 

[zeg]

From Merriam-Webster [...]

It fell out of use and just recently reappeared usually used by the same people that that say aggreeance

I don't see anything in there suggesting that it fell out of common use, just that it originated in 1927. Archaic would imply that it was common use at some point, and is no longer so. It sounds to me like irregardless has been in continuous, unfortunate use since the early 1900s.

Certainly it's never been "legitimate" in the sense that the powers that be recognize it as correct. Of course, the meaning of legitimacy is not widely agreed upon.... Still, I don't think this is a case of a once perfectly cromulent word that has been abandoned---it's been dialectical (i.e., "low-brow") since its introduction.

RBI's is actually the correct way to pluralize the abbreviation....

No apostrophe is generally needed there. "RBIs" would be the plural, "RBI's" would be possessive ("the RBI's value in statistical analysis is debated..."). This depends a bit on the style guide, but most agree on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation#Plural_forms

Apostrophes are normally only used when there'd be confusion, such as with a single letter ("how many a's are there in the word?" vs "how many as are there in the word.")

 

[CGVT]

I don't see anything in there suggesting that it fell out of common use, just that it originated in 1927. Archaic would imply that it was common use at some point, and is no longer so. It sounds to me like irregardless has been in continuous, unfortunate use since the early 1900s.

Certainly it's never been "legitimate" in the sense that the powers that be recognize it as correct. Of course, the meaning of legitimacy is not widely agreed upon.... Still, I don't think this is a case of a once perfectly cromulent word that has been abandoned---it's been dialectical (i.e., "low-brow") since its introduction.

I wasn't disagreeing with you. I read somewhere that it was an early twentieth century "word" that fell out of use and has made a comeback and has always been "low-brow". I'm too lazy to look it up.

BTW, you can add cromulent to the list...

 

[Qhrumphf]

I read somewhere that it was an early twentieth century "word" that fell out of use and has made a comeback and has always been "low-brow". I'm too lazy to look it up.

BTW, you can add cromulent to the list...

I'd understood the same, again no sources to back it up. I specifically recall in high school someone said it, and the whole class, teacher included, ripped into him saying "that's not a real word". Came back with pages upon pages of proof that yeah, it's a word.

And I like cromulent. Can't go wrong with a Simpsons reference. But I don't hear it used to often so that might be part of it.

 

[Lushife]

One I thought of the other day that annoys me is "handicapable"

 

[zeg]

I wasn't disagreeing with you. I read somewhere that it was an early twentieth century "word" that fell out of use and has made a comeback and has always been "low-brow". I'm too lazy to look it up.

BTW, you can add cromulent to the list...

Ok, sorry for misunderstanding. In any case, I think we'd all be better off if the word dropped out entirely.

But, let's not be rash and say things about "cromulent" that we might regret later...

 

[biohaz7331]

Um. All I can ever think about when someone is talking, is their repeated usage of the "word" um.

 

[dkwolf]

Um. All I can ever think about when someone is talking, is their repeated usage of the "word" um.

Normally I pick up on the 'um' abusers as well.

But my boss is a different story. His "wait for my brain to catch up" word is 'basically'. There's three or four of us in the office that have picked up on it, and in meetings we'll flash finger counts at each other to see if we've all caught the same number.

 

[dkwolf]

One that I was just reminded of. Not a word or phrase so much as an expression:

When any sports fan (ESPECIALLY one that didn't actually play sports in high school, let alone the collegiate level) refers to the success, failures, or upcoming games of their favorite team by saying "we". Last time I checked, your name wasn't on the roster, pal. I believe the word you're looking for is "they".

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Um. All I can ever think about when someone is talking, is their repeated usage of the "word" um.

Normally I pick up on the 'um' abusers as well.

But my boss is a different story. His "wait for my brain to catch up" word is 'basically'. There's three or four of us in the office that have picked up on it, and in meetings we'll flash finger counts at each other to see if we've all caught the same number.

company I worked at got bought out by a group. one of these guys abused "um" and "uuuhhhh" when he talked. some of us were joking about that on break when my boss got real defensive about it.
my boss: "You know why he does that? He's an MIT graduate genius. When he does that he trying to find a way to say something so we can understand!"
me:"BS! He just has a hard time talking to groups."

but my boss thought that if you weren't a college graduate, then you were just dumb and couldn't comprehend simple concepts.

 

[WesleyS]

Um. All I can ever think about when someone is talking, is their repeated usage of the "word" um.

Yeah that bothers me to. All the variations as well: "but um", "and um", "um uh"

 

[Kahler]

One that I was just reminded of. Not a word or phrase so much as an expression:

When any sports fan (ESPECIALLY one that didn't actually play sports in high school, let alone the collegiate level) refers to the success, failures, or upcoming games of their favorite team by saying "we". Last time I checked, your name wasn't on the roster, pal. I believe the word you're looking for is "they".

Amen.

 

[Glynn]

the term "going forward" as a replacement for from now on