[ SECRET POST #3491 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3491 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02. [repeat]


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[A Game of Thrones, Lyanna Mormont]


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04.
[Taylor Swift]


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[Spongebob Squarepants]


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[old French politics, RPS]


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[Sherlock Holmes, "The Final Problem”]


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(Camille Bordey and Richard Poole, Death in Paradise)


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[Futurama]


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[Bill Skarsgård at Pennywise in the new remake of It]










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Comments

Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

Have any?

For me it's:

"Adult" as a verb, especially when turned into "adulting." Also when I see adults who have children wearing shirts that say "I can't adult today."

"Muh" anything.

When people write a little stutter at the beginning of their sentence. Like starting with "B-but" instead of just "But." This just looks stupid.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[mrs_don_draper]

How else would you show where the stutter is in the word/sentence?

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it really needs to be there at all.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

I had a Creative Writing professor who hated stuttering written out. Of course, he also hated any word used besides "said" and also hated any kind of adverb. I reckon that's the more snooty unofficial rules of writing.

I think it's fine, but it definitely can go overboard. (for example, "B-but I don't want to!" vs "B-but I d-don't w-want t-to!") And writing out things like stuttering or accents is probably best left to more "fun" writing, like in kids' fiction or silly creative pieces. I can understand how it can easily be distracting.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[mrs_don_draper]

Annoying slang: trash, dab, saying stay "woke" instead of "awake" or "aware," making up slang or misusing words to express something for which a word already exists to express it

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yeah, I'm getting tired of hearing about trash, and hearing people called trash, or calling themselves trash too.

In general, I find it annoying when people keep putting themselves down, so that adds to it.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[sparrow_lately]

Woke doesn't quite mean the same thing as awake and aware, tho.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[kaijinscendre]

To be fair, the stutter thing is what a stutters would look like written. So I don't see how else a writer would portray that.

I hate when people call everything trash. Bad things are trash, good things are trash. Stop.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[mrs_don_draper]

"Bad things are trash, good things are trash. Stop."

Thank you! Exactly!

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[comma_chameleon]

Is 'trash' like the new 'ill'/'sick'/'bad' where you just confuse bystanders because they're comparing something good to something bad?

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[sarillia]

I'm pretty sure they're talking about people affecting a stutter in casual internet conversation to show off how unbalanced they are by the topic or whatever.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[diet_poison]

Bad things are trash, good things are trash.

This was like when the term "wet" gained popularity briefly when I was in high school among the preppy crowd (i.e. "that's so wet!!"). It was used as a negative or positive qualifier. I thought it was dumb.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[tabaqui]

I'm still not 100 percent sure what all the 'trash' means, but i know i'm a bit grossed out by the 'trash party' fic where a character is sexually tortured and abused way past what would be possible or feasible. YKMV, but...no, thank you.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[dancing_clown]

I hate B-but in writing. HATE. IT.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly slang has never bothered me. And I think people who are bothered by it are uptight.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[sparrow_lately]

I hate "I can't adult today." I saw a t-shirt at Target that said that weeks ago and I periodically remember it and get annoyed.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[diet_poison]

Interestingly, none of the ones you listed bother me (though if I saw an "I can't adult today" shirt on someone who is a parent and currently with kids I admit that would weird me out, but much more for the sentiment than the phrasing).

I don't like:

AF for "as fuck" (it's seven keystrokes come on) - I even find myself tempted to use it sometimes, but I still don't like it
"touche" - not as common now as it used to be but it always kind of annoyed me idk why
"on fleek" - never heard anybody use it unironically and I have to wonder if people actually do, it sounds so dumb

I'm sure I'll see some more going through the other replies. Most internet-slang at least doesn't bug me though.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[sarillia]

I actually really like "adult" as a verb because it sounds just as awkward as I feel when I'm trying to act like an adult. But if it ever becomes too accepted then that won't be true anymore...

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

"All the things!" and any variation thereof. It was cute in the original Hyperbole and a Half comic, but it is now tired and lame and makes you sound like a Cool Mom who's 10 years behind the times.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[case]

Slightly off topic but this thread is making me realize I don't remember the last time I've seen anybody write a different type of stutter other than repetition (b-b-but).

Prolongations (maybe. mmmmmaybe not.) and blocks (k -- th -- k -- hk -- fuck it let me find a synonym that starts with a different sound) exist too!

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a cranky old internet lady today, so let's go.

Smol and tol, especially when applied to your OTP. It either makes me think of baby-talking couples who call each other "peshus" all the time or a couple of Rabbit's friends-and-relations.

Birb -- I'm not sure what the intent was here, but you're drunk, internet. Go home.

Calling cat toes beans. Ew.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

"Succ." Someone I follow on Twitter uses it constantly in reference to their favorite characters/pairings and it makes me cringe every time I see it.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

+1 to the goddamn stutter-typing.

I do not care if you use it in dialog in fiction, as long as it's used sparingly.

If you text/tweet/whatever with loads of stutter-typing to show how adorable and unsure you are, though, I want to revoke your mobile and internet access until you learn how to be less obnoxious.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

Bae, muh, on fleek. My top 3 annoyances.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[dethtoll]

Don't care about the rest but I do dislike "muh" -- it just seems so sneering when it's used.