Every time I hear someone say ‘eh’ in a questioning tone or to mean ‘um actually’ I lose my shit. Or even just to play something down.
Like I literally come to hate the person instantly. Its a very strong feeling on a very small sound.
Instant downvotes if I see it on Lemmy too. HATE IT.
How about all y’all?
‘could care less’ instead of “couldn’t”. I know it’s just a regional / generational difference, I don’t really care about being a prescriptivist or that my way is more “logical”. Phrases and idioms can be stupid and counterintuitive. But that’s said, it bugs the living hell out of me, and I instantly think anyone using it is an ignorant dumbass.
Absolutely.
Apart from the exact cases the lovely krudler just mentioned I agree with this. The misuse is very annoying.
The phrase was used decades ago to be somewhat of a dismissal or threat.
As in I care so little already, do you want me to care even less which will be not at all?
“Dad! You don’t care about my hamster!”
“I could care less…” (bitch again and the next stop for hammy is the freezer)
I literally dislike it whenever anyone uses the word literally when they clearly mean figuratively.
Its just extra syllables to lie to me.
There’s this process in language where intensifiers — words that amplify the strength of the meaning of the rest of the phrase — tend to become used in areas that they aren’t really truly appropriate in and thus “weaken” in meaning.
So, for example, “awesome” once truly meant “awe-inspiring”, but it’s been used enough in weaker senses the past several decades here in California that it doesn’t really mean that any more. It just means “very good” now.
I don’t think that the Brits do that with “awesome” — or at least not as much — but they like to use “colossally” in a similar way.
The above Wikipedia link has a list of intensifiers, including “literally”, and you can probably recognize a bunch of them that have “weakened”.
Epic
As I said in another comment, it isn’t just using it incorrectly that’s annoying, it’s also using it unnecessarily. People use “literally” for emphasis in sentences where no adverb is needed. It should only be used if you are clarifying that you mean literally when the sentence could otherwise be interpreted as figurative
“It is what it is”. This cliche is symptomatic of learned helplessness and only serves to protect the status quo against any sort critical analysis and reform.
It’s sad you feel that way. We can’t magically change the weather today, it is what it is. But if we keep pressuring businesses and politicians, we may be able to mitigate it for future generations.
pressuring businesses and politicians doesn’t matter much if the people themselves are living their lives in a hypocritical way.
Any turn of phrase which is stated incorrectly. Eg.
- case and point
- doggie dog world
- at your beckon call
- they’re on tender hooks
- should tie you over
- it’s a mute point
“They didn’t do their diligence on that one”
“The gig is up”
Both from a podcast I listened to. I’m still not sure if they ever learned.
I could care less.
You put the nail on the head
Ah the classics of !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz
“It’s just common sense.” No, it’s usually either an inference you made based on incorrect information, or it’s information you gleaned from your particular environment that not everyone has experienced.
Terry Pratchett used to describe that as the school of “what my mate down the pub said” thinking.
I catch that shit in political debate all the time.
“We need some common sense gun laws!”
The speaker is saying, “Whatever I deem to be common sense is the right way of thinking and anyone disagreeing is an asshole.”
Think I’ve eliminated that phrase from my comments and speech. I’ve sure tried.
“Turn of phrase.”
I much prefer the phrase “parlence of our day.”
“Let’s agree to disagree”
This solves nothing, it just equates to a polite way of saying I’m done talking to you.
What do you do if you realise you’re just arguing in circles and nothing will be solved by continuing discussing that topic?
Mine is finding a natural pause and kindly “Ah, darn, I have a (thing to do) but it’s been lovely chatting!”
But there are some of us who don’t even care if Star Trek is better than Star Wars.
Careful now, you’re on Lemmy
Farscape 4 lyfe, bro.
what is the solution? them conceding that you are correct?
Sometimes you have to back the fuck up on an unproductive argument. I don’t like it either, but it’s often an honorable way out for both parties.
Very close friend and neighbor was arguing with me about 01/06, an event that gave me PTSD-lite. It came to the point that we either dropped it or threw hands. Still, I refused to shake his hand on “agree to disagree”.
I get unreasonably enraged at “am I the only one who”. It’s so arrogant and dismisses all the people who have been expressing the same opinion. Yes, you’re so special and unique, you must be the first person to bring it up.
I’ve also had it with “literally”. There is no need to use that word unless you are saying something that might be interpreted as figurative and you are clarifying that you mean it literally. “We literally live on the same street”. Is there a figurative meaning to that? Why do you need to specify you mean it literally?
Translates to “I just noticed something and I’m broadcasting that I’m generally inconsiderate without any self awareness” far too often, I agree.
Am I the only person that finds this comment too sensitive? Anyone? Y’all?
So it bothers you when people vocalize their question marks, eh?
Its much worse at the start of a sentence.
Eh, to each their own.
“Bro” or any variation thereof that assumes familiarity where none exists.
The artifice offends.
Started getting offended by “bro” sometime in my early 40s. “Dude” is much the same. If we’re friends? I won’t even notice. But if the speaker is older, I feel talked down to. If they’re younger, it feels disrespectful.
Most of my friends are half my age, I’m fine with that address from them. Other people? “You don’t know me like that.”
“Common sense” when it actually means “something you would know if you’d lived my exact life”. There are very few things in this world that are actually “common sense”, and to be honest the whole concept should just be removed from cultures in which it is present.
“Let that sink in…”
All I think about is what does the sink want, and why is it outside? Any point they were trying to make is now a joke to me. Better to say “think about that for a minute.”
Often used after saying something that they think is some big profound revelation. No, I was able to understand it all just fine in real time.
“Have your cake and eat it too”
Motherfucker, you have it backwards because you’re too smoothbrained to understand what a fucking paradox is.
The original, correct version is “to eat your cake and have too”.
The idea is that you want to eat a cake, but still have the cake afterwards. This is a paradox because you can’t be in posession of a particular cake after you already ate the damn thing.
Booleans work in any order.
A and Bis the same value asB and AUnless you’re interpreting the phrase as “have your cake and then eat it too”? Which I never did before, but that would make your objections make more sense to me.
I had always wondered what the point was. Now that actually makes sense.
I learned this from the Unabomber
I tend not to boil people down to their habits. They likely don’t know it bothers you and don’t know why they’ve made an enemy of you. Their reaction to me bringing it up will absolutely determine how I feel about them, though. I can teach myself to get past almost anything if I can justify their action in good faith.
I often find my strong reactions tells me more about something within myself I need to find and address more than it says anything about the annoyance.
Every time I hear someone say ‘eh’ in a questioning tone or to mean ‘um actually’ I lose my shit. Or even just to play something down.
Like I literally come to hate the person instantly. Its a very strong feeling on a very small sound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eh
Eh (/ˈeɪ/ or /ˈɛ/)[1] is a spoken interjection used in many varieties of English. The oldest Oxford English Dictionary defines eh as an “interjectional interrogative particle often inviting assent to the sentiment expressed.”[2] Today, while eh has many different uses, it is most popularly used in a manner similar in meaning to “Excuse me?”, “Please repeat that”, “Huh?”, or to otherwise mark a question. It is also commonly used as an alternative to the question tag “right?”, as a method for inciting a reply, as in “Don’t you think?”, “You agree with me, right?”, as in, “It’s nice here, eh?” (instead of “It’s nice here, right?”). In the Americas, it is most commonly associated with Canada and Canadian English, though it is also common in England, Scotland, and New Zealand.
“We don’t take kindly to British English around these parts.”
Sorry, eh
