Same here. DD had a friend from school who taught this to her, and why it’s said. She was, unfortunately, “at that age,” so there wasn’t much we could do. Suspending phone privileges did help! On the occasions where I did so, she asked me if really did suspend her cell phone connection. My response was “That’s what I said.”
Thankfully, she (and hopefully many others) have grown out of it or will do so soon.
my bad --really annoys me from teens (especially my own). I don’t think that I’ve heard adults use it except on TV or in the movies.
impactful --while I know it is a real world, it just always sounds wrong to me perhaps because it is not a word that I heard that often until recently. Now, it just seems like I hear it all the time.
For some reason, I don’t particularly mind any of the annoying words and expressions that other posters mentioned, but I also don’t hear them used very often.
What I hate is someone stating or providing information on their pronounS. I am happy to use any pronoun you would like. And please tell me that ONE. But once you tell me it’s “ she” why do you need to tell me “her” or if “ he” then why also say “him”. I can figure that out for myself. I understand how that works. Of course if you actually use two …meaning “I use both female and gender neutral pronouns” feel free to say “she/they”(I can deal with it being a singular pronoun). But if you stick to one gender or only gender neutral what are you telling me the grammar rules for?
I like to use British idioms that Americans don’t understand, so I’m sorry to hear that people over here are finally catching on to that phrase. But do Americans really take it the same way as Brits do?
To me it’s essentially the same as “With the greatest respect…” which means “I think you are an idiot”
I’ve used most of the phrases in the table linked above at one time or another, but I was more pleased with myself for using “You might very well think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment” in a client meeting in NY 20 years ago, before any Americans had heard of House of Cards. It went down very well too…
I had a pit in my stomach. No, you felt something in the pit of your stomach.
Something played a factor. No, something was a factor or it played a part.
Another one for me is “Gotcha”. Especially when the person says it in a series of 2 or 3, as in “Gotcha, Gotcha” in response to you telling them something. Nails on a chalkboard for me!
Usually it’s words that are overused in the media/social media.
Woke - seems to be used (at least around me) as a substitute for libtard. Oh add that to the list.
Disrespected
Those probably lead the list at the moment. I used to hate “app” when they first came out. Now it seems normal and fine. And same with hoodie. Just call it a sweatshirt or a hooded sweatshirt. But it doesn’t drive me crazy anymore.
