Expressions or words that you find annoying

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“based off” (I chose that restaurant based off reviews)

“ordered off” (my shirt was ordered off Amazon)

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't quite the same, but it's one of my major pet peeves: when a parent insists on calling their child by both first and middle names in public. It's so obvious they just want everyone to hear the kid's name and think how wonderful it is.

"Mackenna Brianne! Come back right now!"
"Tanner Ewan! Please put that back."

Haha I didn't realize until I read this that this also annoys me, and had never thought about why parents do this but this is totally why.

There's a seemingly new kind of parent who is overly obsessed with naming and really into the names they picked and critiquing or admiring other people's kids names. I have encountered it online and occasionally in person. These are 100% the people yelling "Roxanna Marie!" at the playground.

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breaks her silence

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Calling kids Bud (sometimes Bug for a girl) - you named the kid. Thought about the name.me a lot while pregnant. Use it!

Align.

Do you only refer to your kid by their first name?

Yes, generally. Or if it’s just me and kid and I say something while looking at her, she understands I am talking to her. I cringe so much at the hey bud over and over (while the kid ignores the parent most times). When my kid gets hurt or sick I may also say honey or sweetie.

That’s…interesting.

NP. What’s the problem here? I call my kids honey, sweetie, darlin’, etc. all the time.

Those words are for your AP
Do not give your kids Oedipal complexes.

These words are infantilizing, so they are fine for kids but not okay for adults. If I heard someone referring to their spouse or GF/BF (or AP, lol) as sweetie or darlin', unless they were Southern with a heavy accent, I'd be weirded out.

"Babe" is okay.

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girlies

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t read the whole thread.

Calling kids Bud (sometimes Bug for a girl) - you named the kid. Thought about the name.me a lot while pregnant. Use it!

Align.

Do you only refer to your kid by their first name?

Yes, generally. Or if it’s just me and kid and I say something while looking at her, she understands I am talking to her. I cringe so much at the hey bud over and over (while the kid ignores the parent most times). When my kid gets hurt or sick I may also say honey or sweetie.

That’s…interesting.

NP. What’s the problem here? I call my kids honey, sweetie, darlin’, etc. all the time.

That’s what’s weird…that PP will only call her kids by a term of endearment if they’re injured or sick. So rigid and bizarre.

That doesn't seem that weird to me. I have noticed that I am way more likely to call my kid "sweetie" if something is wrong (they are sick or come home upset from school, etc.) because it's a way of conveying that I'm concerned about them. I think this is really common for parents.

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thee-ter (instead of the-a-ter)

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Anonymous wrote:I had told you..
Type of sentence constructions.

Adding “had” when it’s not the right tense.

My ILs are from a rural part of "Pennsyltucky" and they speak this way. I don't hold it against them personally because I know it's just how they were raised and they don't really know another way to speak. But I will admit when we are visiting them, it starts to really wear on my nerves after a day or two and I'm so relieved when we go back home and people speak properly.

The experience has made me aware of how fortunate it is to grow up in a more cosmopolitan place, and has also made me really admire the degree to which my spouse had to learn an entirely new culture and language in order to go to succeed in college and his career.

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It is what it is.

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thee-ter (instead of the-a-ter)

Do you mean THEE-uh-ter, the way Brits pronounce it, or thee-ATE-er, the way some southerners pronounce it (like vee-HICK-el, same cadence)?

I find pronouncing it the British way if you aren't British to be pretentious, and the southern way sounds just plain wrong unless that's your natural accent.

But the real question is whether you spell it theater or theatre. My high school theatre teacher used the -re spelling, so I do it now instinctively, and sometimes people yell at me for it.

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thee-ter (instead of the-a-ter)

Do you mean THEE-uh-ter, the way Brits pronounce it, or thee-ATE-er, the way some southerners pronounce it (like vee-HICK-el, same cadence)?

I find pronouncing it the British way if you aren't British to be pretentious, and the southern way sounds just plain wrong unless that's your natural accent.

But the real question is whether you spell it theater or theatre. My high school theatre teacher used the -re spelling, so I do it now instinctively, and sometimes people yell at me for it.

Wait, how do you pronounce it if not THEE-uh-ter? I'm 100% American and I think I pronounce it this way.

[Anonymous]

"Speaking out" in any context other than a whistleblower complaint. So overused.

"Go in with" in cooking or makeup tutorials. As in "now we go in with the garlic powder" or "now you can go in with the liner."

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Anonymous wrote:Ok ok I am the hey bud hater. I do use terms of endearment to my kid but it’s not every other sentence. I was at the playground and I have seen these dads that every utterance towards the child involves bud. Hey bud. Good job bud. Bud it’s time to leave. On no bud don’t put that in your mouth. Bud bud bud!

I'm a horse girl and I thought this was an equestrian thing. I call every horse, dog, cat, and child I encounter "bud." It is unconscious. I don't have the mental energy it would take to break this habit.

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Anonymous wrote:Bone on bone. Mostly how people say it.

I don’t understand anything about this post.

Talk to someone over 60 about their knees. It will come up.

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thee-ter (instead of the-a-ter)

Do you mean THEE-uh-ter, the way Brits pronounce it, or thee-ATE-er, the way some southerners pronounce it (like vee-HICK-el, same cadence)?

I find pronouncing it the British way if you aren't British to be pretentious, and the southern way sounds just plain wrong unless that's your natural accent.

But the real question is whether you spell it theater or theatre. My high school theatre teacher used the -re spelling, so I do it now instinctively, and sometimes people yell at me for it.

Wait, how do you pronounce it if not THEE-uh-ter? I'm 100% American and I think I pronounce it this way.

Many Americans just say THEE-ter. THEE-uh-ter is more correct but the other pronunciation is so common that it's no longer wrong.