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Irritating words or phrases

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  • #352
    kweeveen86
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭kweeveen86


    Courtesy of my Mum:

    Calling travellers 'itinerants'


  • #353
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭trashcan


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    "Trousering" sums of cash.

    Yes, yes, yes, amen to that. Since when did trouser become a) a verb, and b) singular.

    Most business/corporate speak gets my goat ( has anyone mentioned "gets my goat" by the way ?:P). "Heads up" and "stakeholders" are just two fairly horrific examples that spring to mind.


  • #354
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    xxxxgoals, usually seen on twitter or articles riddles with tweets like #lifegoals, #relationshipgoals


  • #355
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Calling every new development a 'hub' or a 'quarter'.


  • #356
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Ipso wrote: »
    xxxxgoals, usually seen on twitter or articles riddles with tweets like #lifegoals, #relationshipgoals

    #Squadgoals

    I've seen that as a tattoo.

    No, me neither!


  • #357
    lardzeppelin
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭lardzeppelin


    kweeveen86 wrote:
    Calling travellers 'itinerants'


    In my youth, they were also referred to as 'diddycoys', 'gypos' and 'carnies'...we haven't come a long way since, have we!....


  • #358
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    lardzeppelin wrote: »
    In my youth, they were also referred to as 'diddycoys', 'gypos' and 'carnies'...we haven't come a long way since, have we!....

    Carny/Carnies is very American and only really refers to those who went from town to town setting up and running carnivals and funfairs.


  • #359
    Turnipman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Turnipman


    Morning Ireland today. Cian McCormack on his trusty penny farthing interviewing an articulate young radiology student from Offaly called Chloe M***** who - for a reason that I simply cannot understand - ended a perfectly delivered sentence with "...and stuff like that!"

    It was meaningless, inane, infuriating and just made her sound like an inarticulate air head, which she clearly isn't.


  • #360
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Turnipman wrote: »
    Morning Ireland today. Cian McCormack on his trusty penny farthing interviewing an articulate young radiology student from Offaly called Chloe M***** who - for a reason that I simply cannot understand - ended a perfectly delivered sentence with "...and stuff like that!"

    It was meaningless, inane, infuriating and just made her sound like an inarticulate air head, which she clearly isn't.

    I don't think it was meaningless. It has a meaning which is defined in dictionaries and stuff.


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  • #361
    Turnipman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Turnipman


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    I don't think it was meaningless. It has a meaning which is defined in dictionaries and stuff.

    Its meaning (if any) had absolutely nothing to do with the information that the interviewee was trying to communicate to her listeners!

    In that context it was completely redundant so, I would contend, had no meaning! (When one is being pedantic, context is all!) :D

    Anyway, my point was that it is an irritating phrase, which is what this thread is all about!


  • #362
    Scythica
    Registered Users Posts: 966 ✭✭✭Scythica


    "Do the housework"


  • #363
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭valoren


    You start a gripping opening paragraph and then.....

    "Want to read more?"


  • #364
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Homemaker.

    This dreadful Americanism is creeping in here.


  • #365
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Homemaker.

    This dreadful Americanism is creeping in here.
    A builder in other words :pac:


  • #366
    mistersifter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,185 ✭✭✭mistersifter


    Another example of unnecessary corporate speak is the term "results-driven".

    You're motivated by the prospect of getting a good result? WOW, what a unique characteristic to have! Why didnt I think of that? You're hired!


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  • #367
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Heard someone say "differently abled" in front of a disabled person today. One of the stupidest things I've ever seen in my life.

    I'm sure they thought they were being nice but in reality, they were saying "I want to be nice and avoid your accepted term because I don't think your accepted term is a nice thing."

    Good luck calling a black person differently coloured because you're "being nice".


  • #368
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    Discourse.
    Seems to be a word used now largely by those in the media in an effort to try give an air of gravitas to whatever they are talking/debating/waffling about.
    Completely pretentious.


  • #369
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,615 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    virtue signaling, it's irritating because its often a last refuge when talking rubbish.


  • #370
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    terrydel wrote: »
    Discourse.
    ...

    Usually the same ones who go on about
    • the story we tell ourselves about...
    • weaving narratives
    • we need to have that conversation


  • #371
    Sadb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,235 ✭✭✭✭Sadb


    The use of “yes ma’am” by Americans or just ma’am in general if you’re not french. I’m on some Facebook groups for my job and when I see this it irrationally annoys me and makes me hate the poster.


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  • #372
    Tammy!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Tammy!


    Whenever anyone uses snog for kiss. I always hated it or shag, I just think Austin Powers.


  • #373
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    terrydel wrote: »
    Discourse.
    Seems to be a word used now largely by those in the media in an effort to try give an air of gravitas to whatever they are talking/debating/waffling about.
    Completely pretentious.

    Not in talking of things linguistic and it is a word that accurately describes what you are doing!:D


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