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Please don't think I'm here to complain about rizz or skibidi toilet etc. Thats all fine by me.

The term I dislike strongly is 'eeeh' before you make a statement disagreeing with someone. (This is over text only). Now maybe I've been pavloved bc it's always used by someone disagreeing. But I'm happy with people disagreeing with me normally its just the 'eeeh' or 'erm' that annoys me.

So what's a random term that annoys you?

PS. Saying "eeeh actually 'eeh' is a perfectly fine term" would be a ridiculously easy joke and I will judge you for making it. And I know atleast one person will. Especially bow that I've said all this.

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Enshittification. Everyone just learned a new word and has to use it at least once in every comment section to feel smart.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 days ago

Marxists have a hundred years of text dedicated to alienation from labor, the falling rate of profit, degeneration of art and creative disciplines under later capitalism due to the profit motive, cycles of class struggle, all based on a materialist analysis of changing production and class relationsi

But for some reason a trendy term like enshittification that vaguely means things are getting worse, without going into the basis about why they're currently getting worse, has caught on.

I'm convinced it's part of the tech grifter trend to take things that were already invented, slap a new name on it, repackage it, and sell it.

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[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 15 points 6 days ago

I'm also sick of it, but I also sort of like how it's gone viral. I had a very non-techy friend mention it to me the other day. I feel like most of the people who I see talking about it are jazzed because it makes them feel seen. My friend, for example, said to me that before she learned of "enshittification", she felt like she was going mad because of how things don't seem to work like they used to, especially in tech; she said that for the longest time, she had assumed it must be something that she was doing wrong.

[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

It's the enshittification of internet discussion

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[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

Okay but if we use "Late stage capitalism and the quest for profit above all else is causing the quality of goods and commodities to drop while their value stays the same or goes up," it's going to result in 20 minutes trying to explain things correctly followed by 20 hours of anti-communist arguments.

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[-] TotalFat@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

'Should of" instead of "should've"

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[-] REgon@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

"bend the knee"
"Sweet summer child"
And other phrases from GoT that people now pretend they've been saying their whole lives

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[-] frauddogg@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"Who hurt you?"

These days, that's shorthand for "I'm an emotionally stunted liberal who is so incapable of self-reflection that anyone who disagrees with a point I have must be acting from a place of unresolved trauma". It's always felt like people-who-definitely-used-to-post-to-4chan burning extra words to get to the r-slur they so desperately want to use; but with the exact kind of plausible deniability that gets their squishy bits either hard or wet.

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[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

More of a grammatical mistake, but "should of" instead of "should've" or "should have" annoys the hell out of me for some reason. I completely get how people make the mistake, but it's as much effort as just typing it correctly.

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[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

"The proof is in the pudding." It makes zero sense! The actual adage is, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." It means that a dessert can look perfect and enticing, but if the cook used salt instead of sugar it will taste disgusting.

I don't know what people even think they're saying with "the proof is in the pudding".

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[-] REgon@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

"Would of" annoys me to no end. Which is silly because English isn't my first language and I know I make many mistakes, but would of is just... Ugh. Ick.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

I do the "eh" thing sometimes without thinking about it but I agree with you, I don't like being on the other end of it either. I'm trying to work on that

[-] grid11@lemy.nl 6 points 5 days ago

Never mind I found it

...took the effort to nvm-d the post, but did not share how, where, or what etc

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

I recently heard someone say after they almost accidentally went in a wrong building entrance, "Good thing I didn't do that or I would regret my life choices."

A bit much for something minor that created no more than two seconds of awkwardness.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Calling someone a bot or a shill because they post something you disagree with. It's so stupid. Like even if the person is a bot, would that matter if the point they're making is salient and sourced?

"I don't need to engage with the fact Biden has deported more people than Trump, because you are actually russian. Thus I have no reason to investigate my worldview."????

It's also such a tell. Like the person can't imagine anyone thinking anything other than what they think, so they must not be real people with internal lives. Can't imagine independent thought, literal NPC behaviour.
Especially because it's always the most average of redditor-take-havers that say it.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 5 points 5 days ago

"Hence why"

Syntactically makes no sense. Just say "that's why," that's what you are trying to say.

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