Common phrases you find annoying, humorous or ironic (person, compulsive, girls)
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My Dh and I were talking the other day about things people say, and how some people have real peeves about common catch-phrases.
For instance, his former manager hated when people start a sentence with, "To be honest..." His explanation is that makes it sound as if you're always lying and now, suddenly, you're deciding to be honest.
I sometimes bristle when a person starts a sentence with, "You should..." or "You need to..." I don't especially like being told what to do, and when the suggestion is something I'd never do in a million years, I'm usually stuck just awkwardly nodding and muttering some sort of noncommittal response.
I have coworker who hates "How are ya?" when said as a greeting (i.e. not expecting a real answer). She screws with people by responding, "Horrible!" just to see what they do.
I had another friend who hated misuse of the word "like". "I'm, like, so broke!" (Are you similar to broke or are you actually broke?)
My nephew hates "Hella". I said it once on Facebook and he replied, "Oh no, you didn't just say that." LOL
Oh, and Louis CK did a comedy routine on the over-use of the word "Hilarious!" People saying, "That's hilarious!" when really, it was only marginally funny. As someone who used to always say, "That's hilarious!" I'm now completely self-conscious about it, haha.
In a lot of business conversations, I hear people say "circle back" as in "I'll go get that info and circle back with you next week." I first heard it about a year ago from the people who work at one of our insurance carriers (everyone in their office seemed to use the term). Then I heard another vendor use it. Then a different insurance carrier. Now people in my own company are saying it all the time. It drives me nuts!
I mentioned this one in another thread: when people say "I'm really OCD" or "She's so OCD." OCD is a noun, not an adjective. You can say "I'm so obsessive-compulsive" or maybe even "She's so O-C" but saying "she's really OCD about that" is like saying "he's so diabetes" or "I'm cancer."
I hate, hate, hate, when people say "ekspecially." They put that "k" sound in there for no reason. They might be the same people who drink "expresso" instead of espresso.
Speaking of "ironic," I hate when people use the word "ironic" incorrectly, thinking that it means "coincidental." "Hey isn't that ironic? He and I are wearing the exact same shirt?" No, no, idiot, it's not ironic at all. Though, when a huge obese co-worker said that it was so "ironic" that she ran into another co-worker at the gym, I accepted it, seeing the obvious irony.
"Hate on." Where the heck did that come from? "Don't hate on me." "They're hating on her because she's so pretty." No, it's "don't hate me," and if you say "hate on" then I probably will hate you.
"Literally" when it's used in a way that means the opposite of what it really means. "I was literally peeing myself laughing." Really? You literally peed yourself, right there in the office? There's actual urine on the chair? I say "I almost peed myself" all the time, and it's almost never literally true.
"She's 9 months pregnant, and she is literally as big as a house." No, she's figuratively as big as a house. People seem to think that they can just insert "literally" to emphasize any descriptor.
Is it too obvious to complain about "I could care less"?
That makes me crazy and when I correct people on it and explain, they look at me like .
Another one that makes me crazy is "a whole nother". "Nother" is not a word
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