More 'sayings' that drive me crazy

[Mysteria]

My baby daddy or momma. Like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

Myst

 

[KristaTX]

Another one that bugs me, and I catch myself saying it sometimes, is when someone uses just the word "exactly" when agreeing with someone else or saying that they are correct in their interpretation of what was just said. There's not anything wrong with "exactly", but it's all I ever hear anymore when someone means "I agree", "That's right", "Yep", "That's so true", "You got it", etc. Everytime I hear it, I think "There's that word again ".

 

[dis ms.]

The thing that puts me completely over the edge is when people use the word "ghetto" as if it were synonymous with "non-white". FYI, I'm pretty sure that white people live in ghettos, too.
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Sorry, Ms. Dis - that did sound bad and I apologize. Actually I don't like it when anyone says da bomb.

Thank you, Rex. Apology accepted. I must say that you are da bomb for correcting your previous statement.

ETA: I forgot another phrase that drives me nuts: "We was".

 

[ACvmk]

My bad, and some of the others don't bother me as much. What drives ME nuts is all the corporate-speak catch phrases that have caught on. Some are old, some are newer, but many of them drive me crazy:

The bottom line is...
At the end of the day...
Do you have the bandwidth to do this today...
Let's talk off-line... (You can't say "after the meeting" anymore...now it's Off-line)

There are many others I'm sure.

Or anything that has to do with the "process".

We have a process....
The process is....
We'll follow the current process...

Drives me nuts to hear that word. Its way overused.

 

[mickeysgal]

Did anyone ever hear the phrase "break suction"? Its meant to say get up off the chair, stand up, etc. I absolutely can't stand that phrase.

 

[WIcruizer]

Or anything that has to do with the "process".

So true. And now it's "processes." "We have the processes in place to........."

 

[ChrisnSteph]

I think most of us are in agreement that we don't like ebonics. However I would refer to that as more of a dialect than "sayings".

 

[TIGGER'SFRIEND]

If it was a dog it would have bit you!!!!! My Mom said that all the time.

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

I hate it when people say, "I have a whole litany of things." Litany is a prayer, it's not a list. And I hear more and more people using it like it means a list.

"Believe you me" DH hates that one!

What is "my bad?" How is it used?

 

[minkydog]

"She be crunk" apparently means "She is doing very well now". I had to ask my 19yo DS for translation and confirm it with the mom. Yep, she be crunk, all right.

 

[Mariposa]

I can't stand "chillin' like a villain" or my younger DSis's new favorite, "chillaxin' "...

For some reason anyone commenting on something that was lost being found "in the last place (I, he, she, etc.) looked" makes me crazy, too.. Well, yes, of course it was in the last place the person looked, because you STOP LOOKING once you've found the misplaced object.

The "I could care less" thing bothers me, too.. unless it's said with the appropriate deadpan sarcasm, as if to say that you could, indeed, care less.. but not much less.

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

"flustrated" No, no, no, you are either flustered or frustrated, but you can't be flustrated

If it was a dog it would have bit you!!!!! My Mom said that all the time.

My mom always sait "If it was a snake, it would have bit you!

 

[Sparx]

I hate it when people say, "I have a whole litany of things." Litany is a prayer, it's not a list. And I hear more and more people using it like it means a list.

"Believe you me" DH hates that one!

What is "my bad?" How is it used?

ok. you hear a loud shatter in the next room. You walk in and see your child (Boy, girl, whichever) standing infront of what was prevously a glass coffee cup. he/she reaches for a broom and looks up and sees you. in appology they say, "my bad, i'll clean it up"

 

[Pollito916]

My boss always says, "What's the good word?"

What's that supposed to mean? What kind of an answer am I supposed to give? And he says it all the time. It really drives me nuts.

 

[disneymom3]

It's oriented. I hate it when people say orientated. Quit making up words.

Yep! This is my big one. I HATE orientate. Hello???? We already had a perfectly good word for that and it is oriented. I think it came from people who were too stupid to figure out that the root word of orientation is orient NOT orientate. Grrr.

 

[disneymom3]

"She be crunk" apparently means "She is doing very well now". I had to ask my 19yo DS for translation and confirm it with the mom. Yep, she be crunk, all right.

Ohhhh, this one has me speechless with laughter. I am telling you, I needed that after the day I have had. Who would ever think that crunk meant the baby was fine?? I had all kinds of possibilities running through my head, drunk, cranky, groggy were all on the top of the list.

I may need to just start using that phrase no matter how annoying people may find it.

 

[LoraJ]

The only saying that drives me nuts is "Yuse guys" Bleh.

"My bad" doesn't bother me at all. We said it all the time 20 years ago when I was a teen.

 

[goofygirl]

I hate it when people say, "I have a whole litany of things." Litany is a prayer, it's not a list. And I hear more and more people using it like it means a list.

"Believe you me" DH hates that one!

What is "my bad?" How is it used?

Funny you mention litany, I'm listening to a Gregorian chant of "Litany of the Saints" as I post this.

I THINK "my bad" is used when you are wrong, or did something wrong.

"I didn't check my spelling before I posted. My bad."

 

[GEM]

I hate it when people say, "I have a whole litany of things." Litany is a prayer, it's not a list. And I hear more and more people using it like it means a list.

Well, that's because it can mean a list.


Dictionary.Com gives this definition for "litany" -

litany

n 1: any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures" 2: a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation

Pretty much everything else I've looked at on and off line (yes, I am bored tonight) lists both uses for the word - a long list or a type of prayer.

I don't really care or anything. I mean, it's not my favorite word. I don't think I've ever used it - either meaning. But it doesn't seem like using it to mean a long list is in any way incorrect, as your post indicates.

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

Dictionary.Com gives this definition for "litany" -

litany

n 1: any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures" 2: a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation

Pretty much everything else I've looked at on and off line (yes, I am bored tonight) lists both uses for the word - a long list or a type of prayer.

I have a dictionary that is 13 years old and the def. for litany is: the public rites and services of the Christian Church. It says nothing about a list.

I have another dictionary from 1978 and the def for liturgy is: the established ritual for public worship in a church esp. the Mass. Again, nothing about a list. I think you see where I'm going with this-people have changed the meaning in the recent past to include list, but earlier, it didn't mean that. As I stated in my earlier post, I hear more and more people using it to mean a list and it really doesn't-at least not years ago. People attached that definition to the word just recently. Maybe because of the way certain churches worship.

I'm Missouri Synod Lutheran and our worship service is very liturgical. That doesn't mean we have a long list of stuff to do. It means we have an order to our worship and it all has meaning deeply rooted in the bible. I could go into this further, but I won't. However, it may seem to others that our worship seems like we have a (long) list of things to do to get through the service. I'm just guessing here, as to how the meaning of that word changed the way it did. Years ago, it didn't mean a list, but words evolve and change and litany is one that has changed meanings. My FIL who is very religious uses "litany" to describe a list. Btw, I'm bored here too!!

And off my soap box now.

Flustrated is one I can't stand!!!! I have a friend who says this and it drives me bonkers!!

I get My Bad now. I never heard that before. I feel old now......