“Perfect!” When used by customer service workers after you have simply given them the information they asked for.
There is nothing particularly perfect about my address, my account number, etc.
In this day in age…
I agree with so many, but especially hate impactful, and also impact as a verb. Remember when something or someone could have an impact? But…to be impacted, just, no.
In my house, we used disirregardless, until we realized our daughter thought it was a real word.
On accident.
Tippy top. It’s so pretentious.
I hate it when people say they “could care less” when they mean they couldn’t.
pivot
From the time I first heard “I could care less” it seemed obviously ironic/sarcastic. And I think it was heard that way until someone said, “Hey, that’s wrong” and now for several decades it’s been the knee-jerk first example everyone uses for language they don’t like. But, in its defense, it just scans better.
On HGTV: space instead of room.
“That being said…” usually in the middle of a long pretentious dissertation about something or other. I know a guy who uses that at least 3 times before he gets to the point.
I used to freak out about everyone saying Feb-yew-ary instead of Feb-brew-ary. I gave up.
“On HGTV: space instead of room.”
I hate the constant use of “space” in business jargon - as in referring to the hardware business as the “hardware space.”
“At the end of the day”.
It’s just overused.
oh dear lord, ran with a good friend this morning. she’s a lawyer.
telling me a story she said, “well supposively…”
it took everything in me not to say, “you mean supposedly?”
i mean, SHE’S A LAWYER.
Ack!
Duh!
Could care less
Feb-You-Ary
Whatever!
Entrepren-You-Er
Liittle Girls’ / Little Boys’ Room
Baby Daddy / Momma
and I’m sure a lot more!
That said
Informed by…
“Intersection” is getting overused, as in “Joe’s work involves the intersection between education and commerce”
I’m always taken aback when I hear women referred to as babes, chicks, bit***s or now dudes. It’s just odd to me and I don’t like it.
Valentime’s Day. No, it’s Valentine’s Day.
Interesting in reading this thread I’ve found very little bothers me. (I think I agreed with 3 posts.)
What does bother me are folks who use swear words in ordinary conversation. They aren’t mad. They didn’t just hit their thumb with a hammer. It’s just how they speak. I try to avoid those folks (and those movies, comedians, etc).
Epic!