Words pet-peeves

[Anonymous]

We seem to use these words to fill pauses in our conversations. My recommendation is to actually pause, instead of bombarding people with meaningless words that simply make it more difficult (and exhausting) to understand what someone is saying. Pauses are fine! Pauses are natural.

Just read this on an article and completely agree with the author. What are your other words/expressions pet-peeves?


Here are my top ten most irritating filler phrases:
1. “At the end of the day” – What does that even mean? Does it mean later? Just leave it out!
2. “To be honest” – Why, are you normally not honest with me? What a crazy thing to say!
3. “If you know what I mean” – If I don’t know what you mean I would probably tell you. I don’t need a prompt.
4. “You know” – Is this a question or a statement?
5. “Having said that” – Yes, you have just said that. I was here, you have been speaking to me and I don’t need you to tell me that you have just said something to me!
6. “Like” – This is especially annoying if it is inserted a number of times into every single sentence. Why, oh, why?
7. “Literally” – Should mean ‘figuratively’ or exactly as you say. It makes so sense to ‘literally explode’ or to ‘literally die’.
8. “I am just saying’” – Yes, I have heard it. Should this make me feel better about the fact that you have just offended me or said something that didn’t make sense?
9. “Seriously” – Are you saying that you are telling me the truth or are you using it as a replacement for ‘yeah’ – I am, like, seriously confused!
10. "I mean" – Some people litter this phrase into every single sentence they say. It must be one of the most meaningless phrases of all.

So, is it just me? Or do these words drive you nuts too?

[Anonymous]

These don't bother me at all. In fact, I use a lot of these myself. Chill out OP, no need to get worked up over this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These don't bother me at all. In fact, I use a lot of these myself. Chill out OP, no need to get worked up over this.

They don't bother you, because you use them a lot

[Anonymous]

Let's add basically to this list.

[Anonymous]

They don't bother me at all. But grammar errors really do. The number of times I've seen "could of" or "should of", etc. on here .... now THAT bugs me!!

I feel sorry for you, OP, that there are so many phrases bugging you! Really!

[Anonymous]

One that irritates me is saying "yeah" immediately followed by "no" as in "yeah, no, I totally (another irritant) get what you're saying" - well do you understand or not? Its an indecisive way of expressing yourself, but I must confess to occasionally catching myself doing the same thing in unguarded moments. Much to my chagrin.

[Anonymous]

Add this one; "Like I said,". I cringe, knowing I'm going to hear the same thing all over again.

[Anonymous]

Hate the way pet peeves sounds.

[Anonymous]

Nope, none of those bother me! But then, I'm a linguist and am always interested in how people speak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hate the way pet peeves sounds.

What pet first announced to the world what their peeves were? was it a cat? a dog? a monkey?

[Anonymous]

Yes, these don't bother me. They are just expressions.

I like people who speak naturally better anyway. People who pause too much or choose words so specifically bore me.

[Anonymous]

I have so many word-related pet peeves, but I notice more in print than I do in speech, such as:
Use to
Suppose to
Sneak peak
Peaked my interest
High heals
Weary of
"chocked" when they mean "choked"'
The usual your/you're/there/they're/their issues

And compound words seem to be disappearing in print. What gives? I see so much separation of words I thought were compound words, like:
bath tub
foot prints
fire flies
earth quake
book shelf

[Anonymous]

*Where are you at?

High school guidance counselor paging a co-worker.

*Your the best.

No, you're the best.

*He's a real trooper for enduring my lecture.

TROUPER, not trooper!

And, to my MIL;

He doesn't have prostrate cancer, it's prosTATE cancer.

Also, it isn't always correct/formal to say "and I," as in "can you give Dad and I an answer by tomorrow?".

[Anonymous]

It was a pet rock. His pet peeve was dumb fads.

[Anonymous]

If I hear "at the end of the day" on more time! haha