Words/phrases you dislike?

[Anonymous]

13:34 Price point does NOT mean the same thing as price!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_point

Well, I suspect the people who are annoyed by it are annoyed because people who use it are using it as a synonym for "price."

Similarly, people who say "utilize" are using it as a synonym for "use," which it isn't.

You probably don't want to hear how irritated I am by "is comprised of," huh?

[Anonymous]

Put on your big girl panties.

Man up.

Both of those phrases, but especially the first, make me want to punch the person who utters them in my presence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:past history (redundant)

irregardless (actually had a client use this on the phone frequently with me)

nauseous used to mean nauseated

front manage (I have a coworker who says this all the time, as in, "we need to front manage Susie so she knows how to handle that situation."

I always thought it was "passed history" like we had a substantial history and now time has elapsed but it's still there. I'm an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
As for "aks" that is an ethnic pronunciaton, like "th" pronounced as "f," I would hope folks would be more sensitive to that.

Ooohhh, I like this. I will have to try to remember that the next time I hear it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Cool beans". Hearing this one actually gets me a little angry. Can't explain it.

Hahhaha--my 2 year old asked me today what cool beans means. Apparently his (24 year old) daycare teacher says it. I was actually surprised that it was still in use, thought that died circa 1986.

[Anonymous]

When people say "service," when what they really mean is "serve."

As in, how can we better service our clients? That always makes the teenage boy in me snicker (and I am a 38 year old woman). The chief of staff at my office is always saying this.

[Anonymous]

Have a good one.
Purchase

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When people say "service," when what they really mean is "serve."

As in, how can we better service our clients? That always makes the teenage boy in me snicker (and I am a 38 year old woman). The chief of staff at my office is always saying this.

Yes, thank you. "A train will service your platform shortly." And I think "metro porn? yeah, I'll watch that."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any word ending in "ing" where people drop the "g"

So awful. So hick.

Really, miss goody judgy perfect no slang?

Hick Hick Hick

[Anonymous]

Whenever I see the word "DCUMMIE" in a post, I assume the rest of the post is utter garbage and just skip it. It's actually a pretty useful flag in some ways, warning me against worthless crap.

[Anonymous]

Don't have time to read all of these, but got a kick out of a few, I'm not so sensitive as many pps, but I refuse to use the word slut, and can't stand hearing it (even when "reclaimed").

On another note, dh was raised by immigrants and constantly gets phrases and sayings wrong, i.e. he thought "ends meat" was a dish poor people struggled to make (get it?).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a word or a phrase but excessive punctuation, particularly in the work context, annoys me.

Do you know what I mean???

I do know what you mean!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the familial abbreviations commonly used on this site. Are you so criminally lazy that you can't type out husband, wife, son, and daughter? You have to use DH, DW, DS, and DD? Don't you know that the leading D stands for "dear," and you are actually typing "dear husband" every time? Do you want to sound like a pompous douchebag?

Couldn't agree more! SO cheezy!

[Anonymous]

"I'm good" "We're good." "It's all good."

I loathe these expressions.

[Anonymous]

proactive

As in "we need to be proactive."

Oh, God. Isn't there a skin care line called "proactive"?