Just for Fun: Words that drive you crazy!

Wikipedia says,

"Sautéing (from the French sauté, lit. "jumped, bounced" in reference to tossing while cooking) is a method of cooking food, that uses a small amount of oil or fat in a shallow pan over relatively high heat.

So, this chef's toe nails curl at the frequent use---even by super star chefs and TV personalities---of the term pan-sautéing. Why add "pan"? What else could you use - your shoe?

Same with pan-roasting. Utter nonsense. Roasting is always done in a pan in the oven.

This funky trend started some 10-15 years ago, and now you can read or hear it all the time. I guess, it makes you sound like an expert. 

I just perform surgery on my last article. That was a lot of work.

We're on a roll.

Phrase I'm sick of:  "If you want to take it to the next level..."  What next level, pray?  It's up there with "you will be guaranteed results!"  Well, yeah, you could be guaranteed some sort of results just breathing while you sleep, no?

My favorite current pet peeves are "If you loose it you'll be sorry, so don't be such a looser!" and, "For all intensive purposes."

But my new favorite I keep seeing:  "Wala!" as in, "Push the button and 'wala!' the rest is done!"  (and another French person is scowling in disgust, hee hee).  

I get irritated at "relook."

Is that even a word? Can't they just use "review"?

Then there are the ones that take perfectly good verbs like taste, stir and smell, and twist them into nouns, as in "give it a taste" or "give it a stir."

I hear fingernails on a chalk board.

And the one I heard this evening... they brought in a "canine dog" to look for bedbugs.

I wonder what a "feline dog" looks like.

My former boss used to say "there's no right or wrong" to every idea we had. It drove me nuts!

It appears we're all having fun with this, but now I'm getting paranoid. Do I use any of these words and phrases when writing? Yes.

Artist, for all intensive purposes is my ex-husbands favorite expression.  What the heck does it mean?

Probably "for all intents and purposes" -- not that it is any less irritating.

Reminds me of when people use "mute" when they mean "moot."

I wish there was a like button her, Kim.

My SIL says, I beg to differ, at least five times a day.

If you have come here looking for words that I hate then you have come to completely the wrong place.

I am quite an old fashioned chap so many of the management speak phrases we hear today put my teeth on edge.  But I am equally sure that what I think of as quaint words I use such as "Golly!" "Gosh" and "Oh I say" are equally irritating to others

Pkmcr, I rarely hear those words anymore.

I also hate cool and awesome. They've been around for several years now, and I haven't used them even once.

"Awesome" is the one I have to get OUT of my vocabulary.

My printed thesaurus is in storage, but fortunately there's one online.

Argh...

Verbing nouns: to medal.

Stop this torture now! Please!

Rupert, you're the one who mentioned a gun, aren't you? Pass it over here now, there's a good chap. I need to find a way out of this mire.

Paula the gun was a metaphorical thingy. I don't have one and if I did it would probably discharge itself in the middle of the night and kill Cleo, the world's most adorable kitty.

Anyway, I think the authorities frown upon the use of firearms to correct grammatical errors and word atrocities. You'll have to find another escape hatch.

RupertTaylor: 06/20/2013 - 07:28 PM

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Paula the gun was a metaphorical thingy. I don't have one and if I did it would probably discharge itself in the middle of the night and kill Cleo, the world's most adorable kitty.

Anyway, I think the authorities frown upon the use of firearms to correct grammatical errors and word atrocities. You'll have to find another escape hatch.

Oh! Shame! Can't be killing innocent kitties, I'll agree with that. But I'd love to kill off some of the grammatical howlers (and their perpetrators) once and for all.

My canine dog is complaining because I'm laughing too much.

I'd like to borrow the gun for video tutorials where the person uses "go ahead and...." every other sentence!!!

I once heard a Buffalo, NY announcer advise that the thespian actor Bill Shatner was coming to town. Wrong on two counts for those of us who have seen Shatner "act."

And who doesn't want to call the folks in local newspapers who advertise dog puppies for sale?

I see we aren't tired of this yet, so I have two more to add.

foodie and baby bump

What idiot came up with baby bump?

Mompreneur.

Please.

Pass me the communal Wizzley gun, willya? I'll shoot myself already...

BrendaReeves: 06/22/2013 - 03:40 PM

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I see we aren't tired of this yet, so I have two more to add.

foodie and baby bump

What idiot came up with baby bump?

 

Foodie I'll own. I use it, live it and need to lose the resulting spare tire.

Baby bump is not one of mine, nor will it ever be.