What do You find to be Some of The Most Annoying Words or Phrases

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I’ll start with a few that come to mind:

I was like…
You know
Baby Bump
I, personally…
With all due respect…
My Truth…
Same difference
Sorry, not sorry
I can’t even
Just sayin’…
Fam
Like
Woke

I’m sure there are a lot more, but, with all due respect, I’m personally like, too woke to be just sayin…!

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It is what it is…

You know what I’m saying…(my H says this ALL the time!)

My “littles”… (in reference to small children)
Kiddos…(also in reference to small children)

I don’t mean to pick on you but…

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I don’t like it when nouns are suddenly turned into verbs. A recent one that I find particularly annoying is “onboarding,” as in: We are onboarding a new hire at work tomorrow.

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“Let THAT sink in.”

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Littles- 100% annoying!

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Below are the words I think are too overused in recent times:
Adulting
Feels
Basic
Ghosting
Bougie
Canceled
FOMO
GOAT
Hangry
Low key
Salty
Slay

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Overuse of the word privilege
Karen
Fur baby
Salty

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That being said

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At the end of the day

Let me be clear

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Fur baby
Preggo/er
The reality is

And “yes” to all of the lists above.

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Does anybody else dislike “gifted” as in someone gave me a gift?

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“It’s on you. “ As in criticizing how someone feels when they have been insulted or treated poorly by someone else

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“literally”, literally!

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  • “ask” (as in “my ask here is …”)
  • “learnings” instead of “lessons” or “things we learned”
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Gen Xer here, but this one really annoys me:

“Ok, Boomer.”

So rude and dismissive of mature perspectives.

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You do you

FOMO

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Sorry, that one is in the common business lexicon now. I use it all the time and hear it all the time at work - it describes a specific (and common) business process.

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“they” as a pronoun for a single person.

I’m perfectly happy to use any chosen pronoun, even newly invented ones - but please not the one that (genuinely) has often left me confused who ELSE was involved in whatever story about “them”.

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Adding to the above (hopefully no duplicates… hehe):

Irregardless
– This is a double-negative literally meaning the opposite of what its users intend: regardless.

Where are you at?
– “At” is redundant. To inquire about someone’s location, all that’s necessary is “Where are you?”

I want to grow a business.
– A business is not a shrub. Businesses grow; one does not grow them.

I want to lay down.
– What do you want to lay down? “To lay” requires an object. What you mean is, “I want to lie down.”

Barbeque
– There is no logical historic or phonetic basis for spelling this word with a Q. It is properly spelled “barbecue”.

Why?

If you are going with the “French origin” argument for the Q, well – then it would be pronounced “barBAKE”. If you think that “que” sounds like “cue”, well, it doesn’t. If you were going to spell it with a Q, the only way to do it would be “barbequeue”. hehe

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I can agree with so many of these.

I am not usually bothered by words being used incorrectly grammatically… after all, it is what it is (just kidding!!) I just get annoyed by certain phrases!