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I had a lady in my vanpool who held a fairly high level job at our company and I realized after awhile that I couldn't stand how she kept ending sentences with "and stuff". She would say something like "So we went to Aruba on vacation and sunbathed and stuff. It was really hot, so we went into the pool and stuff, and we got some tropical drinks and stuff." Drove me nuts. I wanted to scream "what stuff?"
That one drives me nuts and has been around for long time. I remember years ago, at work saying how I hate hearing people saying "and stuff".
One co-worker said she'd never heard that. She said it all the time! Totally oblivious.
Another one, used all the time but makes me cringe is "she passed". No, she didn't "pass", she died.
I think my aversion to this term comes from working as a caseworker in an inner city slum area. This was ghetto talk. New caseworkers didn't know what it meant when one of our clients would say that someone had passed. This was back in the late 60's.
Also hate the term "baby daddy" which comes from those days. I can remember a young client, mother of a young infant, saying---he's not my boy friend, he's the baby daddy.
Having scanned the thread, all of the examples seem appropriate to conversational speech. Can't work up any pique over them.
Some words irritate the crap out of me, though. Right now I can't even hear or read portmanteau, or think about its meaning. I mean WTF? It sounds like some kind of a sea creature, or is that a seature? Oh God, look away, I'm hideous.
No worries is kind of old at this point but I still hate it. Annoys me to no end.
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