Words that disengage the brain:

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  • KimmyEB
    KimmyEB Posts: 1,208 Member
    Haha ohhh goodness, I've never heard anyone use jelly in place of jealous, but now that I'm aware people do, I'm sure I'll hear it all over the place! That's horrible.

    It seems to have popped up out of nowhere!! I hate it.

    I also hate it when people start every single sentence with "So..." As in "So...I have to go to work today," or "So...my day sucked," "So...I clearly do not know how to start a sentence properly."

    I absolutely cannot stand it when people add "just sayin'" to the end of whatever they're saying. It seems to have replaced "no offense." "No offense" irritates me enough as it is, but I prefer it about 3495734545389745 times over "just sayin'."

    Oohhh, and Facebook inspired this one, since I just witnessed it in 2 different status updates: "This girl." As in "Guess who just got off work? This girl!" and "Guess who just had coffee? This girl!" Guess who doesn't give a ****? That's right, this girl.
  • OkieinMinny
    OkieinMinny Posts: 834 Member
    Im a transplant to Minnesota and everyone here says "will you borrow me a ____"
    NO I will Loan it to you!
  • frosty73
    frosty73 Posts: 424 Member
    My spouse was offended when I said, "FYI..."

    Personally, I like the phrase "It is what it is"--- it seems apropos, at times to me.

    My son has started saying "FAIL!" to any number of things, and that makes me crazy!

    An older woman I knew couldn't stand when people would say they were nauseous, she always said they should say "nauseated."
  • Angelhurt
    Angelhurt Posts: 24
    "totes" is the latest thing
    "whatever"
  • ludogx87
    ludogx87 Posts: 286 Member
    "REEM" (from "the only way is essex" UK tv show)

    or people who actually say "LOL"
  • WingMan380
    WingMan380 Posts: 2,139 Member


    Really/Seriously? - said in the b*tchy, snarky, snotty tone most commonly used by middle and high-school "mean girls".

    I 100% agree with you on this one. My biggest pet peeve!
  • cockneypaul
    cockneypaul Posts: 52 Member
    "Arks" as in Arks me a question - The word is ASK

    makes me think humanity is doomed
  • WingMan380
    WingMan380 Posts: 2,139 Member
    ASAP

    no faster way to get me to put off the request...

    Same here, I had a boss that would email me and put ASAP at the end of it.
    I emailed her back one time and said, "It is on the 'to do' list". She didn't like that for some reason.
  • WingMan380
    WingMan380 Posts: 2,139 Member
    "OMG"
    "True That"
    "It has been a minute" - meaning it has been a long time
    "I heard that" - I always want to say "Yeah me too, because I'm the one that said it"
    Anything anti-second amendment
    The gross misuse of the first amendment
    Anything used in the relm of "Political Correctness" - I am NOT politically correct

    I am sure there are more, i just cannot think of them at this point
  • cms6300
    cms6300 Posts: 163
    Paradigm. Whenever someone uses it I immediately ask them to define it (as long as they're not higher up on the food chain then i am.) have yet to get a coherent definition - always more of a "well, I know it when I see it,"
  • zeeeb
    zeeeb Posts: 805 Member
    thinking outside the square
    moving forward

    seriously, it doesn't make you sound businessy, smart, manager material, it just makes you sound dull and unimaginative for copying the "business" phrase...
  • missdaisy79
    missdaisy79 Posts: 566 Member
    "Arks" as in Arks me a question - The word is ASK

    makes me think humanity is doomed

    My boss says this ALL the time. I'm sure she's not referring to a wooden boat full of animals. She also says "pacific" instead of "specific".
  • cockneypaul
    cockneypaul Posts: 52 Member
    My boss says this ALL the time. I'm sure she's not referring to a wooden boat full of animals. She also says "pacific" instead of "specific".

    Funny that we are both from the UK, perhaps its just this side of the pond that the fools say it. haha
  • charlie18091980
    charlie18091980 Posts: 23
    Not so much had it since my move to England but, at a certain international investment bank in Glasgow, my boss would always say "Charlie, can you talk to that please?" Usually said during a meeting where what he meant was "Charlie, can you please talk us through that, give an update, etc" Oh my god, it used to really boil my p*ss!!!:explode:
  • leynak
    leynak Posts: 963 Member
    My fiance says suspicioned all the time. I just want to scream "It's suspected!!" I've corrected him before but it didn't help.

    I also can't stand just sayin' & right-as in I know, right?
  • wannagofast27
    wannagofast27 Posts: 21
    WTG
  • L00py_T0ucan
    L00py_T0ucan Posts: 1,378 Member
    WHEN SOMEONE SAYS:
    -expresso
    -skill set
    -incentivize

    I HEAR:
    -mmm fast coffee!
    -mad skillz
    -baconize
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,716 Member
    -Journey
  • Sh1tsRainbows
    Sh1tsRainbows Posts: 1,227 Member
    initiative

    potential

    when i was your age

    "YOU's"

    Seriously?? like my daughter would say.

    Right?
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Saying the letter "H" as "hay-tch." IE, the NHL would be "En hay-tch el."

    When I worked at an animal hospital and people spelled their name with a letter "hay-tch" in it, my brain totally shut down. I had to ask them to spell it at least three times.
  • elenathegreat
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member

    "Jelly" in place of "Jealous"
    "Prego" or "preggers" in place of "Pregnant."

    Hadn't heard Jelly, but every time somebody says any of the pregnant variations, it makes me want to strangle some spaghetti.
  • elenathegreat
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member

    "Jelly" in place of "Jealous"
    "Prego" or "preggers" in place of "Pregnant."

    Hadn't heard Jelly, but every time somebody says any of the pregnant variations, it makes me want to strangle some spaghetti.
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    Leverage.

    Purposely.
  • galegetsthin
    galegetsthin Posts: 1,340 Member
    The "jelly" one drives me batty!!!!! I HATE it!! I would love nothing more that to turn the silly little Kardashian Valley girl wanna be's INTO jelly when I hear one say it.

    "axe" instead of "ask"
    "Libary" instead of "Library"
    "compruter" for "computer"
    "pacific" for "specific"


    These are a few of my (least) favorite things..........
  • MrsSWW
    MrsSWW Posts: 1,585 Member
    Like

    As in, like, when people can't complete a sentence without, like, inserting 'like' every few words. It gets to be, like, a real pain in the, like, butt....
  • chameleon73
    chameleon73 Posts: 119 Member
    'Boss' /'Like a Boss'

    What the heck does it mean, anyway? And who's boss are we talking about?
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
    My fiance says suspicioned all the time. I just want to scream "It's suspected!!" I've corrected him before but it didn't help.
    I too hate when people suspicion stuff.

    Governance
    Buy-in
  • KCalmeyn
    KCalmeyn Posts: 36 Member
    When people add an "S on the end of a word that shouldn't be there. FordS, K-MartS, Wal-MartS, TargetS,

    So and so works at Fords.... When I was at Targets....K-Marts has.....
  • sinistertitan
    sinistertitan Posts: 603 Member
    World Class.

    I'm checked out as soon as it comes out of the boss's mouth.
  • albali
    albali Posts: 225 Member
    unputdownable
    target setting
    paperless
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