# Phrases/terms that aggravate the hell out of you **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894 "2020-10-26T02:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/221 "2020-11-07T16:53:34Z")
(oops - I should’ve eliminated “bonk” from that. Damned verb.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/222 "2020-11-07T17:06:02Z")
Just malletize 'em all. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/223 "2020-11-07T17:07:27Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Nah, no problem at all with that one. Comes in handy, more often than one would expect. I guess,…if you’re a fifth grader. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/224 "2020-11-07T17:13:37Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > I guess,…if you’re a fifth grader. Um, no, not a fifth grader, (hey but thanks for sharing) - just calliing shit like it is, sometimes, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/225 "2020-11-07T17:23:26Z")
Same here, just calling shit like it is (or how I see it),…don’t get butthurt. Not far removed from calling someone a butthead, or a booger. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/226 "2020-11-07T17:25:19Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > don’t get butthurt. Yeah, was waiting, back in the stone ages, for that goofy attempt. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/227 "2020-11-07T17:26:04Z")
Okay Todd! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/228 "2020-11-07T17:26:23Z")
Any time, Rudy. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/229 "2020-11-07T18:00:52Z")
Rudy? I was expecting Lisa. I don’t get it. Is Rudy a member of “the nerds?” Is it Jamaican slang? The kid from the football movie? Seriously, thanks for the laughs! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/230 "2020-11-07T18:21:52Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > Not quite following you here. If “your time is booked for other things” then you don’t have the _time_ . > > > > I guess you’re making a distinction between workload availability (bandwidth) vs. physically being able to complete a task in an allotted time period (time). But whether my manager asks me if I have “time” or “bandwidth” to take on a project, I’m able to understand that I’m being asked “do you have availability given your current workload to finish this project by the deadline?”. > > I make the distinction frequently. Sometimes the two are indeed interchangeable, but it’s useful to distinguish between not being able to complete something no matter how much you work on it versus something that would be simple to complete if you didn’t have competing items to deal with. This distinction makes no sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/231 "2020-11-07T18:30:20Z")
So you’d like to _weed_ out these obnoxious denominal verbs that have _elbowed_ their way into our pure English language, _watered_ by the ignorance of the advertising industry? So much so that you _saddle_ up your high horse, _pen_ a letter to the newspaper, or _post_ to a message board, demanding that we _shelve_ these excrescences? I get your frustration, but this isn’t just an annoying thing brainless ad execs and millennials do. This is a standard way for English to create new verbs. Even your example is older than Madison Avenue; in 1925, R.D. Hicks translated a quote from Diogenes into English: "He was _breakfasting_ in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of ‘dog.’ ‘It is you who are dogs,’ cried he,’"when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.’ " Sorry, homie, that’s just how English verbs. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/232 "2020-11-07T19:30:29Z")
> [@deltogre](#): > > How about nouns turned into verbs? “This is how you breakfast.” Look to Madison Avenue for all the annoying shit. In that specific case, “breakfast” has been used as a verb further back than I can remember, though it has almost always been used in the past tense, as in “They breakfasted on lambs and sloths and fruit bats …” The usage was fairly uncommon, but it did turn up here and there, almost always in written form. Now, if I ever see the verbing of “brunch”, someone’s life will be in peril. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/233 "2020-11-07T19:36:11Z")
Wasn’t “breakfast” a verb (or something akin to one) first anyway? I mean it’s literally “break fast”, meaning to break one’s fast in the morning. So saying “I breakfasted” is kind of coming around full circle in a way- it’s just a different way of saying “I broke my fast”. Or in @deltogre’s case, maybe “This is how you break your fast”. I think for the most part, it’s not the noun into verb transition that bothers me, but rather specific ones - like I said, “adulting” annoys me because it’s just so… immature and entitled. I remember being excited to actually be an adult and not have to deal with my parents or any of that, and all the stuff like paying bills, cleaning my apartment, etc… were just sort of the tax for all the other good aspects of being an adult. Now we get 20-30 somethings bitching about it like it’s actually difficult or something. It’s not, unless you’re an entitled lazy child. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/234 "2020-11-07T19:53:23Z")
> [@bump](#): > > “adulting” annoys me because it’s just so… immature and entitled. So if they really _were_ adulting, they wouldn’t _say_ they were adulting… … (I agree.) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/235 "2020-11-07T20:11:35Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Butthurt > > It sounds like something a 5th or 6th grade boy would say, not an adult. I use “red-assed”. mmm ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/236 "2020-11-07T20:13:45Z")
Fur babies and kiddos, I hear these way too often. Lame I know but it irks me to hear it. Carry on ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/237 "2020-11-07T20:19:30Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > … > Now, if I ever see the verbing of “brunch”, someone’s life will be in peril. When, not if, that happens be sure to brunch them right in the nose! 😉 I picture two private school soccer moms / doctor’s wife types: “Quick Muffy; to the H2! Let’s brunch!” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/238 "2020-11-07T20:26:40Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Fur babies and kiddos, I hear these way too often. Lame I know but it irks me to hear it. I hate these, too. Don’t forget “doggos”. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/239 "2020-11-07T21:10:10Z")
I basically hate any word or turn of phrase that becomes suddenly popular and every damn person has to start using it. Anything. It doesn’t matter if it’s actually new or not. - “awareness” - all of a sudden, I’m getting e-mails from everyone with links for “awareness” - also “situational awareness” - “analytics” - “-driven,” as in “data-driven” or “policy-driven” - “orthogonal” used metaphorically—if you’re going to use a metaphor, please don’t use one that suddenly everyone is using - “processEEEEEEEZZZZ” - just go back to pronouncing it how you used to, please - “lit” - “bae” - “cray” - “in the day” - “A.F.” - “\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ goals” - “feels” - “because (noun)” - “messy” (metaphorically) - “narrative” - “shipping” as in “relationshipping” - “low key” as an adverb - “stan” meaning “fanatic” - “extra” - “V” for “very” - “at the end of the day” - “take the lead” - “disrupt” - “360” - “best practices” - “ecosystem” - “siloed” - “ping” - “bandwidth” - “D.H.” for “dear husband” – so, so condescending. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/240 "2020-11-07T21:22:59Z")
Wow, wasn’t familiar with some of those… Very cringe-worthy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894.md?page=13)