Annoying Phrases or Word Trends

[Mirah]

Elevate

Don't tell me I am going to elevate my wardrobe or outfit with another piece of clothing or jewelry. Just don't.


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Annoying Phrases

How about micro-agression?

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[jack]

Yeah wth happened with The Tea Room?

 

[Mirah]

 

[jack]

"Sorry, not sorry."

 

[Mirah]

 

[Mirah]

Some tea sounds soo good right now

I have been out of my chamomile lavender and all I have left is ginger or turmeric

I might have some peach

I just want a bitter berry flowery something something to sip on

 

[Mirah]

I remembered that I had huckleberry tea!

 

[MODMAN]

Diverse / diversity,

 

[Mirah]

And diversify!

 

[jack]

Keep me in the loop

 

[The Question]

Verbs as nouns, or vice versa.

"I'm adulting!"

Yeah, pretty sure you're not, when you use the English language the way a five year old does.

 

[Mirah]

Trauma!

 

[Mirah]

Lets just lust everything the current generation says.
One word responses, such as, "relatable"

 

[The Question]

The misuse of 'toxic' to describe something or someone that's unpleasant, rather than something which contains chemical compounds classified as toxins.

 

[jack]

What are your druthers?

 

[The Question]

Well, I ain't jes' rightly shore! But Ah teyll yew hwut! If'n I had my druthers, I wouldn't hafta do no more gazintas!

 

[Loktar]

Verbs as nouns, or vice versa.

"I'm adulting!"

Yeah, pretty sure you're not, when you use the English language the way a five year old does.

I use that word all the time when I got to do laundry, pay bills, clean my apartment or some other unpleasant task.

 

[The Question]

I use that word all the time when I got to do laundry, pay bills, clean my apartment or some other unpleasant task.

Well, that misuse of the word is -- ironically -- infantile.

Here's a couple more along that same infantile theme:

"Tiddies" instead of titties (because children under five years old tend not to have developed the pronunciation skills to tackle hard consonants yet).

Worse still: "Mommy milkers."

It's as if popular culture is driving adults back to toddlerhood. And I'm not really going for an Alex Jones hat, here, but I don't see turning out generations of adults who actually crave dependence and to be dictated to by "authority figures" as being a good thing.

 

[Mirah]

I haven't heard those phrases. But I do get annoyed when I hear tig ol bitties.

 

[Mirah]

Aesthetic

Vibe