Words and Phrases I Detest: rant thread.

[ad_orientem]

People seem to use "super" a lot nowadays. I find it a bit annoying.

[SteveH]

"Amoral", when used of people. People can be moral (albeit not perfectly, according to the monotheisms, because we're all sinners) if they have a decent moral code that they try to live up to, or they can be immoral, if they ignore morality and act selfishly. Only inanimate objects, such as the chair I'm sitting on, can be amoral.

[SqueakyVoice]

"I cannot  wait..."
Yes you can, wait until it will occurs.
Are you Dr Who?
Have you got a TARDIS?
No.
So you wait.

[jeremyp]

Pronouncing the letter H as Haitch instead of Aitch, irritates me.

Yes. Conversely, the way Americans fail to pronounce the "h" in "herbs" is like fingernails down the blackboard

[jeremyp]

Are you sure? Actually, I'm half convinced that all the items in this thread are made up!

I can't remember ever being irritated by the wording, pronunciation or grammar someone has used unless they clearly meant it to be insulting or offensive.
If something is just incomprehensible I tend to ignore it.

Good for you. It's not compulsory to contribute to this thread.

[SteveH]

"...From the get-go". Quite apart from the fact that it's an Americanism, "why "get-go", ffs? Really gets my goat.

[Gordon]

I get mildly annoyed when people used the term 'closure', often to indicate the conclusion of traumatic events such as a court case following a death.

I understand that the mechanics or processes surrounding the conclusion of notable personal events like this can be a turning point but, and speaking from personal experience of that particular scenario, I never felt 'closure' - and it's now 30 years on from the event in question.

[SteveH]

I get mildly annoyed when people used the term 'closure', often to indicate the conclusion of traumatic events such as a court case following a death.

I understand that the mechanics or processes surrounding the conclusion of notable personal events like this can be a turning point but, and speaking from personal experience of that particular scenario, I never felt 'closure' - and it's now 30 years on from the event in question.

I dislike psychobabble in general, of which "closure" is an example.

[SqueakyVoice]

I've been changing my first name for click and collect shops (/ items). It used to be 'Squeaky' now I'm  using Mr S.
I went to pick up an item with this name and the staff ended up asking me if I was M.R.S.* No I am Mister S, I thought I was using that so it was a bit more formal, I didn't  expect them to ask if it was M.R.S. (not Mrs, hopefully obviously 🙄).

* -pronoounced as 'emm' 'are', 'ess'.
(Editted late)

[Nearly Sane]

I've been changing my first name for click and collect shops (/ items). It used to be 'Squeaky' now I'm  using Mr S.
I went to pick up an item with this name and the staff ended up asking me if I was M.R.S.* No I am Mister S, I thought I was using that so it was a bit more formal, I didn't  expect them to ask if it was M.R.S. (not Mrs, hopefully obviously 🙄).

* -pronoonced as 'emm' 'are', 'ess'.

Maybe they thought you are the Market Research Society?

[bluehillside Retd.]

“Closed” as in “This win means Manchester City have closed the gap on Arsenal” when Man City have only risen from, say, six points to three points behind Arsenal. What they’ve actually done is narrowed the gap, not closed it.   

[SqueakyVoice]

'So,' every so-dding time they answer a question they say 'So,.  ' and then answer the question.

There's no point. Don't say it. Answer the question.

If not you can So right off.

Must be all those pinko snowflake elitists.

[Dicky Underpants]

'So,' every so-dding time they answer a question they say 'So,.  ' and then answer the question.

There's no point. Don't say it. Answer the question.

If not you can So right off.

Must be all those pinko snowflake elitists.

May have said this before. "Yeah, no..."
Heard it again this morning on the radio. The interviewee was answering a question to which her intended reply was clearly "Yes" from what she went on to say, but sure enough, out it came: "Yeah, no.."

[SqueakyVoice]

If  anyone has ever watch Richard Osman's House of Games, he keeps asking the contestants "...Shall we?...",
'Shall we start the first round?
'We'll look at the scoreboard, shall we?'
'Shall we meet up tomorrow?'
Just imagine anyone saying 'no, let's  not.'
and it's obvious this verbal tick is superfluous.
He is supposed to an author, whose written  three (best selling?) books, but his use of language like that annoys the @#$% out of me.

[SteveH]

"Reverend Smith", or whatever their surname may be. I don't care how common it's become in the last few decades, it s as wrong as "Sir Smith". Both Rev. and Sir have to be followed by a first name, or at least an initial, and Rev. can be followed by Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms, if you want to be formal (eg the Reverend Mr Smith). Furthermore, "Rev." isn't even necessary: "Mr (or Mrs etc.) Smith" is perfectly correct. The Methodist ministers in the church I grew up in were usually referred to as Mr Hoyles, Mr Bellwood, etc. (In our less formal age, they'd probably be Arthur and Arnold.)