Euphemisms
When every or almost every sentence has the f word adjective in it. It’s amazing how many nouns some folks feel go with that word. Anything from rock to dream and more.
Imagine if we used “green” for an adjective in every sentence (or insert any other word of choice to replace them all with). It’s just as annoying when it’s the f word.
“Melty Cheese” Is that some sort of synthetic substance that doesn’t qualify as actual cheese?
“Amazing” everything. A COVID-19 vaccine will be amazing. A sandwich at Panera is not and never will be amazing.
Using ‘less’ when the proper word is ‘fewer’
‘Modalities’
The greeter at Walmart is an employee not an ‘associate’.
I have to disagree with the comment about the “f word”. I live in Boston. We consider it snobby to use that word less than four times in a spoken sentence.
The following are profoundly overused on this website:
“My DD”
“My DS”
Great, you love your kid, how impressive.
Also, cute little nicknames in an attempt to convey “insider” status:
Dart = Dartmouth
Mudder = Harvey Mudd
Swat = Swarthmore
Rizdee = Rhode Island School of Design
fewer
Only word or phrase that routinely bothers me is “baby mama” or “baby daddy”.
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Again, I’m from Boston. The f-word is THE F-Word. “Fewer” is not the proverbial f-word.
Other business lingo I can’t stand:
“What is your pain point?”
@MomofJandL Good one.
I agree with the DD, DH, DS, etc. The (first) D is completely unnecessary. Stick to D, H, S, etc. If there’s any possible confusion, write it out the first time. Does your SIL mean Son In Law or Sister In Law?
It is a “mute” point.
There’s nothing silent about what you’re saying. The word is “moot”
Note to self:
Stay away from Boston - and be glad it wasn’t that way back when we lived in Newport, RI eons ago.
Especially when people say “mute” point when it should be “moot” point.
Incorrect use of the possessive form, for example “I love Friday’s” and “Happy Holidays from the Wong’s”?? Is grammar even taught any more?
Laughing about “my girls” I knew a woman who had so many nicknames for breasts words like “bazooms” seemed to be part of her regular vocabulary.
The incorrect use of “I” and “me” in sentences.
Most incorrect grammar, but “irregardless”, “I could care less”, “less” instead of “fewer”, and the extraneous, maybe Pittsburgh-specific “at”, as in “where are you at?”, are particularly grating.
And “literally” used incorrectly. No, you didn’t literally die.
In the vein of “moist”, I can”t think of specific words, used correctly, that annoy me.
I think the aversion to this word, for me anyway, is its use as an unsavory description. You either know what I mean or you don’t. That’s all I’ll say.