As an Official Old Fart myself (new acronym: OOF!), I have complete sympathy for the OP’s negative emotional reaction to many modern “words.”
However, I also know that most of the words we use today were at one time brand new words that irritated the shazbat out of one of our great great great etc whatevers, just as “refi” is annoying some of us.
Bottom line, there’s nothing to be done, but to hope that at least SOME “modern hip words” will eventually drop back out of usage again.
I must say, this is the most believable thing I ever believed and never called bullshit on. It is so plausible it may well set new standards for plausibility. It is so utterly factual-sounding, so perfectly credible, that it is the ultimate in something which would never ping anyone’s bullshit meter. In short, I believe that just as much as I believe you have never watched TV.
I pit people who write and say ‘sando’ instead of sandwich. Especially delis who advertise sando’s.
The reality is that I’ve dealt with major culinary institutions all my life and I have never once heard a cutesy term like “sandwich”.
I’ve never been around anyone who pronounces it sangridge, but damned if I didn’t see it in some obscure comix years ago.
You know what else is annoying? Using eye dialect to represent the mainstream pronunciation. Eye dialect is meant to be marked, so if it’s being used like “Feb-you-airy” or similar, it rather raises the question of how the author thinks people pronounce that word, does it not? Especially since eye dialects are used as a method of shaming, to call people out for pronunciations the author considers substandard and to mark the speaker as being ignorant, if not stupid.
Sando? That’s a new one on me. What dialect is this?
Have any of you heard “f’nance” as a noun or adjective? I’ve only heard it as a verb. I would thus assume that “ref’nance” was also only for the verb.
I personally think that “fi” is “fye.” I also think that the two Ys in Syfy make it look like “eye” as well. The first Y is long because it’s in the middle of a word and only followed by a single consonant, and the second is long because the first set the idea of what it sounds like.
I do remember encountering some abbreviations that I thought were pronounced weird, but the specifics aren’t coming to me. These two are fine, though.
Now, resi should be “rezzy” or something. Or at least Resifi.
I pray for the day when every new mother will be handed a Book of Names, with a nurse to guide her in its use and to swat her hand every time she gets cute, original, or illiterate. “Ma’am, naming your sweet, little baby should not be an exercise in frustration for every future teacher or employer, nor an eternal source of frustration for her. THIS is how you spell Cynthia. NOT Sinceeuh.”