Kiddos
Meh
No worries
In the social service world, the term “unhoused” is preferred for several reasons. “Homeless” to most people implies someone sleeping on a park bench and carrying their belongings in a shopping bag. Most unhoused people are couch surfing, staying in shelters periodically, living with friends.
Almost every public school district has unhoused students. Using the term “unhoused” puts the focus on the lack of affordable housing, rather than what may appear to be someone preferring to live on the streets, most likely due to mental illness, PTSD etc.
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Most things my teenager says.
Thank you for this explanation - I just never thought of it this way.
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“Supposably” for “supposedly”. Had a boss who used that one frequently; it always irked me.
I won’t list all the grammatical errors and mix-ups that drive me crazy because complaining about them makes me feel like a cranky old fussbudget. Some are so ubiquitous they will probably soon be considered the correct version.
Okay, I’ll list one. “Apostrophe s” for plurals.
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I am aware of of how people who want to use “unhoused” rather than “homeless” try to rationalize it, but I don’t believe people really have a different impression in their minds when they hear one word over the other. Same idea with LatinX rather than “Latino” or “Latina”. Trying to force people to change what words they use are purely symbolic fixes which ultimately detract from efforts to truly fix problems.
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exspecially
By an adult
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…and its close relative “expresso”.
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Exactly. And I don’t use many of the expressions because they are a young person’s game like FOMO or Ghosting. But I admire the use of succinct word or acronym to convey a more complicated concept.
The only ones that annoy me are the weird words when there is a perfectly good one. Kiddos or “pups” (for human children!) or anything like that is a big no for me.
Also, the one thing that really bugs me is when people other than my sibling or my children refers to their parent to me as “Mom” or “Dad”. Not “my mom” or “my dad” which I find of course perfectly acceptable. But saying “We are going to visit Mom” annoys the heck out of me. It suggest her name is “Mom” that “mom” is what I would call her. I told my own children they are never ever to refer to me that way to anyone other than our immediate family (even their spouses). I worked long and hard to break my husband of the habit. I was helped out by my kids when they would say to him when they got old ennough “Do you mean YOUR mom?” Lol! That would make my day!
In our family “ghosted” has evolved into he/she “Caspered” 
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My H worked with a guy who referred to his wife as Mom. At the time he was on his mid 40’s. Just so strange.
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Ha! Years ago at work a group of us had a long drawn out debate over the correct pronunciation. I won when I pointed out the Italian origin of the word, and that the Italian alphabet does not contain the letter “x”. What’s more, Italian, being the lovely musical language that it is, avoids the dreaded glottal stop 
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My current Italian-pronunciation battleground is “bruschetta”.
It irritates me when I pronounce it correctly in a restaurant (brusketta) and the waitperson responds, “Oh, you mean the brushetta?” I correct them as nicely as I can.
Ch is always, always, always pronounced as a K in Italian. So we also commonly mispronounce “maraschino”.
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Huh, I say that all the time. I call my dad “Dad” and that’s how I refer to him to others. It’s not a pejorative term.
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Neither is “Gyro” a “djiro”.
And a “Cordon Bleu” is not blue.
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It’s not pejorative. It’s that it for me is very weird to refer to your parent to others by the name that you call them. My kids know that I never want then to do that. It is, for me…a very self centered way of speaking ….and it implies to others that this is my name rather than a relationship.
We’re guilty of this and I don’t know how it happened other than just constantly referring to each other to the kids as Mom and Dad when they were young. And it stuck.
A few months ago, I was complaining to my husband that he hadn’t referred to me by my name for years, and so he would say “goodnight Least Complicated” and our girls would burst out laughing because it sounded so absurd to them. Being called by my actual name lasted about two days because they just couldn’t handle it. BTW, they’re adults.
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I don’t mind referring to my husband as “Dad” to my kids. THAT’s what they call him. But I wouldn’t refer to him as that to anyone else. That is just bizare to me.
Interestingly my brother is just like me. He refers to our mom to anyone other than me as “My mom” including to his wife. She refers to her mom as “Mom” and it sets his teeth on edge also.
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Saying “Mom” instead of “my Mom” implies there is only one Mom, so yours doesn’t count. Maybe that’s why it bothers people.
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If we are talking about pronounciation, everyone in my office pronounces the L in salmon. That one drives me nuts.
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