Sayings or Slang that you love/ or cringe when heard
 

The recent things that bring you joy or annoy you inspired me to start this thread. Is there a saying or slang term that when you hear it cracks you up or worse makes you want to slap someone? I have a teenager so naturally I have both.

Love it: When people say OMG instead of actually saying Oh my God. I am very guilty of doing this.

Hate it: When people say, "That's retarded", or when I hear teen-agers say, "You feel me" instead of "Do you understand what I am saying"

When people add "at" at the end of a question. "Where you at?" "Where did you park your car at?"

Loathe "hella". "That's hella cool!"

Love the word "stacked"...when used to describe pancakes. As in "Those pancakes are stacked!"

I personally use "WTF Mate" in an Australian accent. Picked up from here long time ago.

I hate it when anyone says "ew" in any capacity. I also hate when people don't use real swear words, or over use swear words: "Frickin A!" or "I just fucking took my goddamn fucking book back to the shitty fucking poor ass library".

I love it when people but man in front of words. My girlfriend teases me about my "man-dates" or when I went on a weekend trip with my best friend and how it was a "man-cation". I read a great line in Spin Magazine where it said "We hate things like mantastic and man-date, they're driving us man-nannas!". Funny. Oh, and "word" but only used in a satirical, ironic, "I'm too nerdy to say this" kind of way.

"You feel me" is annoying. How about "You know what I'm sayin'".

Cringe: "Y'all", "Sup", "Nigger", "Shake the spot", "Dubs"
Enjoy: "Hateraid", "Shittles"

When someone says "LOL". I want to kill them the second it comes out of their mouths. Also, when someone calls me "dawg". It just annoys me.

And willravel, you would hate me and everyone I know. Down south, we say "y'all" constantly. We don't mean to, it just happens. I sometimes cringe when I hear myself say it.

Love it: Double positives applied in jest, such as "wicked awesome."

Hate it: Useless ambiguous terms applied seriously, such as "going forward."

Yes, completely agree with that and why do they say it after every sentence?

Hate: LOL, Hella, and that "You feel me?" that seems so overused

Love: craptacular, shittastic, etc.

It's nothing personal but the South and I don't get along. Cept Miami and New Orleans.

When people sound like a text message, murderous thoughts do cross my mind.

absolutely positively hate: Get r done and anyone that actually talks in text or net speak

I cant think of anything I just love to hear off the top of my head

Americans who say "I could care less" when what they really mean is the British phrase "I couldn't care less".

The US phrase makes no bloody sense: if you COULD care less, then you care above the minimum, therefore it matters.

I over-think these things, I suspect.

In Utah (which has a linguistic morphology all its own), that phrase has devolved to an expression that sounds like "Yohm-sayin?" Those of us who finished high school frequently use that phrase in jest, and I love it when used like that, and I cringe when I hear it said unironically.

24/7.....loathe...despise...shudder...

Love: "I can has ... ?" Lurkette talks like a lolcat and I love it. It helps that she's damn adorable.

Hate: Around here, people don't "get ready to" do something. They're "fixin' to", unless you're my coworker who says "Fi-in ah." Hate that.

Hate: "I feel you," OMG, LOL, dawg, any slang coined in malls or at rap parties.
Love: hella (picked it up in Northern California at the turn of the 90s), way, mondo, stoner slang, surfer slang, and anything coined by Joss Whedon.

You learn to love it ;)

Hate: Anything with an "izzle" stuck on....
Using "gay", "retarded", etc., in putdowns.

There's no phrases or slang I "love"...plenty I use out of habit that annoy myself.

Our new boss uses many variations of "....as we go down the path..." to discuss projects. I don't really mind the expression so much, but he uses it constantly. It's getting to the point where it's hard to keep a straight face when I hear it.

I hate that staple of reality show competitions: "You need to step up..."

I know what you mean. I'm always tempted to ask, ":confused: Do you mean gay good, or gay bad?"

Let's not leave out: "I'm going to take it to the next level!"

I strongly dislike "oh my god". To me it reeks of cheap US soaps/sitcoms - and teenage melodrama. So it's two things eh, xenophobia as well as a dislike of teens.

The other one that bugs me is overuse of "actually".

Actually is used as a filler in the same was as (teenage version of ) "like". However for some reason, it comes across as classier or as being meaningful. Yet if your write the speech down and remove all the actuallys, it has the same meaning. Usually.

I remember some classes with a British IT instructor who used it in almost every sentence. She'd stress it very carefully. It was more like "UC-tu-ally". As in, "you will UC-tu-ally find...".

Hmmm ... I always thought that you and I got along fairly well.

:)

Let's see ... I dislike most catch phrases from popular mainstream culture: "booyah" ... "bam" ... "take it up another notch" ... "hasta la vista, baby."

I dislike business speak: "paradigm shift" ... "think outside the box".

My favorite phrase: "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." I use it all the time.

Ooooh and giving 110%. That last 10% sets my teeth on edge.

Using "gay" is a bit unfair if you ask me.

When I hear that - I like the thought of the person using it one day in front of the wrong person, in the wrong place.

But that's just me being nasty. I'm not sure why this term is considered an acceptable put-down among kids (er, "younger people").

It's always the Brooklynites that add "no" to any regular sentence as if it were in proper question asking form. As if that stereotypical accent isn't bad enough.

"You said you wanted pizza, no?"
"You like my new fucking haircut, no?"

Ughh.

I HATE people who like, use like, in like every sentence they can do. I mean, it's like they can't, like, think of what they're saying in time. So like, they use like as a pause in the sentence so like, they can catch up with their like, words.

"Oh my god, I like, actually, really, think I just broke my nail"

Are there some fillers that I'm missing?

How about "on time and under budget".

Ok... this is not normal street talk (it's corporate speak).

But it seems to me that the phrase is most commonly used by young first time managers (or politicians) who have greatly simplified and maybe spun the story.

I hate hearing people say " huh ". Of course I say it all the time but I don't hear myself saying it until a Canuck points it out to me.

I love to hear them say " eh ".

As far as I'm concerned, Brooklyn accents, Jersey accents, and heavy Southern (redneck) accents have transcended accent territory and developed into full-blown speech impediments.

There aren't a whole lot of things that make me cringe, but most Internet catchphrases bother me, and I want to strangle most people who think it's hilarious to endlessly quote shows like Family Guy and South Park. Speaking of South Park, the first time I heard someone use "tits" as a synonym for "awesome" was Cartman on South Park, and it's the most irritating slang I can think of off the top of my head.
They could care less, but it's not even worth the effort to do that much.

Yes, you are over thinking that.

I couldn't care less is a fine phrase. "How could I care less?" Yours works just as well.

Now go smelt me some aluminium.

Only one that makes me cringe every time is "Can I ax you sumpin?"

I'm always calling my co-workers "dawg" just because it sound so silly.

I am attempting to re-introduce the word 'dig' into popular culture. I think it's a shame that it fell out of popular use.

So far it's not going well. I need to get someone famous using it.

Describing something as 'sick' or 'rude' when you mean to say that it's good always struck me as odd.

Don't worry, my super grammar ninjas and I are out to teach those bastards proper English.

Can you find all their u's while you're at it?

'Twill take my best man, but it shall be done.

While you're at it, keep an eye out for their L's, too.

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Just thought of one I hate: "[Blank] is the new [blank]." :mad: Enough, already!

I like tits. As in, this is totally fucking tits. I also like slang from ten or twenty years ago. Also, finna, as in I'm finna go take a shower. I like things that both sound dumb and annoy people who get annoyed by dumb slang. A lot of my choice words have made it onto shitlists in this thread.

Lik, totally, dude!

I actually like this one for it's fortune cookie perfection. You can fill in the blanks with whatever you want and say something that sounds meaningful, but is really just white noise. Consider:

Coke is the new Pepsi
Sex is the new television
Sony is the new harmonic
Soldering is the new leather
Contestants are the new cars

St:mad:p it, st:mad:p it, st:mad:p it!

Martian is the new Baraka_Guru!

:thumbsup:

You're right, that does sound cool!