what phrase do your kuds use that you find irritating?

[Anonymous]

I can not stand hearing them say "what the?"
It sets my teeth on edge!
Am I alone (i suspect not )?
What phrase bothers you?

[Anonymous]

Kuds.

[Anonymous]

My 8 year old is very into saying, "technically." About everything.

Well, technically not everything. But you get it.

[Anonymous]

We just moved from DC to Chicago. Both kids have picked up "irregardless" which means the same as "regardless". Drive me up a wall.

[Anonymous]

"Nauseous" instead of "nauseated".

[Anonymous]

Literally

[Anonymous]

I'm old now (and a grandmother of toddlers) but it used to drive my batty when my girls would tell me a story and say "...and I was like all mad and she was like all defensive..."

Do kids still do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm old now (and a grandmother of toddlers) but it used to drive my batty when my girls would tell me a story and say "...and I was like all mad and she was like all defensive..."

Do kids still do that?

Oh God---it's not just kids!! I work with several adults (OK, young adults, but still) who can't utter a sentence without the word "like" in it!!!

[Anonymous]

I hate when my son says "I know" because typically, he does NOT know.

[Anonymous]

"Basically"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm old now (and a grandmother of toddlers) but it used to drive my batty when my girls would tell me a story and say "...and I was like all mad and she was like all defensive..."

Do kids still do that?

Oh God---it's not just kids!! I work with several adults (OK, young adults, but still) who can't utter a sentence without the word "like" in it!!!

People in their 30s, too. I hate it. And I know I do it, too.

[Anonymous]

brain fart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm old now (and a grandmother of toddlers) but it used to drive my batty when my girls would tell me a story and say "...and I was like all mad and she was like all defensive..."

Do kids still do that?

Oh God---it's not just kids!! I work with several adults (OK, young adults, but still) who can't utter a sentence without the word "like" in it!!!

People in their 30s, too. I hate it. And I know I do it, too.

And its close cousin: "And then I go XXXX, and then she goes XXXXX, and I'm like WTF, and so I go yadda yadda, but then she goes. . ."

I have sort of assimilated all this into background noise. The two I have heard most recently that have jarred me are "hashtag" and spelling out what back in the day were AIM abbreviations. "Oh, hashtag lame!" "Oh em gee!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm old now (and a grandmother of toddlers) but it used to drive my batty when my girls would tell me a story and say "...and I was like all mad and she was like all defensive..."

Do kids still do that?

Oh God---it's not just kids!! I work with several adults (OK, young adults, but still) who can't utter a sentence without the word "like" in it!!!

People in their 30s, too. I hate it. And I know I do it, too.

And its close cousin: "And then I go XXXX, and then she goes XXXXX, and I'm like WTF, and so I go yadda yadda, but then she goes. . ."

I have sort of assimilated all this into background noise. The two I have heard most recently that have jarred me are "hashtag" and spelling out what back in the day were AIM abbreviations. "Oh, hashtag lame!" "Oh em gee!"

I had to laugh. I don't let my kids say "oh my God" so my 9 yo will say "oh em gee" and tell me the "G" stands for gosh!

[Anonymous]

My daughter picked up from a schoolmate that "gnarly" means cool. She's four and calls everything gnarly.