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Irritating words or phrases

  • 17-07-2018 6:30pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭


    Here's a thread that hasn't been done in a while...

    Are there any turns of phrase people use that really irritate you for whatever reason?

    For me, referring to anything as "so-called" usually makes me stop reading or listening to an argument, because 99% of the time what they're referring to is actually the thing they're claiming to be so-called. Around these parts and in internet comment sections it's usually something like "so-called politicians" or "so-called Irish Water" - they ARE politicians and it IS Irish Water, why put the so-called in there? I automatically assume anyone doing this is an idiot.

    Another one is "X at its finest", which is so overused these days and almost always wrongly written as "at it's finest". Pedantic I know, but it's annoying.

    Also any corporate speak obviously, flying kites and running things up flagpoles and all that ****e.


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Stanford


    Going forward


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Stanford


    Lets clear the decks first


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Stanford


    Trending positively


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭I says


    Blue sky thinking


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭charman


    Like


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Stanford


    I mean like


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Stanford


    Hand on heart


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭pimpmyhat


    An individual or a team gave 110%


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,205 ✭✭✭Lucas Hood


    In terms of


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Stanford


    Realistically


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Stanford


    Outside the box


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Stanford


    Lucas Hood wrote: »
    In terms of

    Nothwithstanding that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Stanford


    Stanford wrote: »
    Nothwithstanding that

    That having been said


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Well jel
    Jesus wept
    Just sayin'


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭Jennehy


    Moist mucus


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Los Lobos


    I've answered this one before but I'll say it again so hopefully one more person stops using it

    Much of a muchness


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭Creative83


    Let's touch base with *insert anything* :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭pimpmyhat


    The building blocks are in place


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,676 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Toxic Masculinity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭JimmyAlfonso


    Personally


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    "In line with the business needs"

    **** off you jumped up twat, you wouldn't understand the business if it was a 4 hour movie directed by Spielberg. Just do your ****ing job and stop sticking your dick in everyone else's!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭julyjane


    there's nothing worse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,714 ✭✭✭corks finest


    In Cork like,know what I mean like?u do like?LIKE, every second word out if a lot of my fellow corkonians like.


  • Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭pawdee


    Thoughts?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    Here's a thread that hasn't been done in a while...


  • Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    Cis-


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Creative83 wrote: »
    Let's touch base with *insert anything* :mad:

    Yes definitely this


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Impact when effect is what the speaker really means and of course it's bastard past tense version impacted esp when used in the future tense context.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    n number of times


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,846 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I hate when people say of if only 'You walked in my shoes'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    gender fluid

    safe space

    generally any bull**** feminist American liberal terminology


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,238 ✭✭✭jellybear


    Spag bol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,846 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Corrie.
    Sambo.
    Chrimbo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Piers Morgan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    Decimate

    Used to mean one in ten, ie a Roman punishment by killing one in ten of a Roman legion.

    The clue is in the name


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭indioblack


    gender fluid

    Sounds a bit disgusting.
    What about the old standby, "At the end of the day"?


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Epic is a word that has been ruined by the internet, in the last 10 years every mildly impressive thing has been described as epic, the word has lost all meaning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭lc180


    Innovation, Automation and don't get me started on Synergy!


  • Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    Double down


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Isn't it well for ye
    Says you
    Touch wood


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller Returns


    When politicians say "let me be clear" and predictably begin to waffle

    When football pundits say "your Gerrards, your Lampards, your Keanes"

    When someone says an opinion is "problematic"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    Stanford wrote: »
    Going forward

    That's one of those ridiculous phrases that's been partly redeemed in my eyes by satire. "Thank you kindly for becoming an Oliver Callan sketch of yourself. Moving along..."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    nuac wrote: »
    Decimate

    Used to mean one in ten, ie a Roman punishment by killing one in ten of a Roman legion.

    The clue is in the name

    So, metaphors in general, then? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    When someone posts on social media and says "sure what else would ya be doing?"

    And chillaxing!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,354 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    'Litchrally'

    Fuck off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭Thephantomsmask


    The use of "reach out" to mean make contact with someone, usually said by businesses on social media.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    When politicians say "let me be clear" and predictably begin to waffle
    Or on occasion, to indeed be clear, but on a wildly different point than the one they were actually asked about. (Then again, most of the dictionary can serve that purpose...)
    When someone says an opinion is "problematic"
    Are you one of those arch-linguistic-conservatives that yearns for the days it could only mean "uncertain"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I correspond with a colleague in another office by email on a regular basis. He absolutely positively has to use the word ‘heretoforewith’ in every single email he sends regardless of how short or long the email is and will refer back to previous emails in order to be able to use it even when the previous email is embodied in the ones he’s sending.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    I correspond with a colleague by email in another office on a regular basis. He absolutely positively has to use the word ‘heretoforewith’ in every single email he sends.

    I'm using my Scrabble challenge on that "word"!

    Is this a joke that's outstayed its welcome? Or is he serious?

    And a more pressing question is, is be on boards, and going to splutter into his coffee when he sees this?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Don't mind when it's written but it use to annoy me when a fella I use to work with would always say "thanking you." Just say thanks!


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