Words and Phrases That Are Like Fingernails on a Chalkboard to You

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When did primary become a verb? primaried
There aren't a lot of things people say that annoy me, but using a noun as a verb is among the most stupid trends in 'being cool' I've ever encountered. When I hear someone say "I'm too tired to adult today" I wanna slap the stupid out of them, but suspect they'd die before all the stupid left them.
 

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There aren't a lot of things people say that annoy me, but using a noun as a verb is among the most stupid trends in 'being cool' I've ever encountered. When I hear someone say "I'm too tired to adult today" I wanna slap the stupid out of them, but suspect they'd die before all the stupid left them.
i think you are fighting an uphill battle

 

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There aren't a lot of things people say that annoy me, but using a noun as a verb is among the most stupid trends in 'being cool' I've ever encountered. When I hear someone say "I'm too tired to adult today" I wanna slap the stupid out of them, but suspect they'd die before all the stupid left them.
10 years ago I had never heard this term, now it is suddenly a thing a ton of people say.
 

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10 years ago I had never heard this term, now it is suddenly a thing a ton of people say.
I'm slightly annoyed when otherwise intelligent people improperly use 'less' rather than 'fewer' (there are less people here today - *sigh*), but this is an abomination.

That said, while otherwise intelligent people have long allowed their desire to 'fit in' to impact their life, this 'noun as a verb' is particularly annoying. We regularly correct toddlers for simple grammatical errors, these adults should be slapped.
 

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Administer > Administration > Administrate. What's next? "Distributate?" Why do we continually stick "a"s in where they never were before?
 

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When people mis-use myself and me. Can people not hear that it just doesn't sound right?

My wife and myself want to thank everyone.
Me and my wife went to the store.
Myself and my wife went to the game yesterday.
 

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When people mis-use myself and me. Can people not hear that it just doesn't sound right?

My wife and myself want to thank everyone.
Me and my wife went to the store.
Myself and my wife went to the game yesterday.
How about "It happened to I and and a friend," and thinking you sound high falootin'?
 

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My seventh grade teacher instructed us to “kill the other guy” if you are using a subject pronoun. He and I ate dinner. Kill one or the other becomes I ate dinner or he ate dinner.

In Tennessee people misuse tenses of the verb do. We done it. I done it. That makes my skin crawl.

Some people here pronounce Hawaii ... Hawahya. Jeepers.
 

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MO-bill for the city of Mobile
or
Mobul for the city of Mobile

"structural equation modeling"

Anything on a corporate buzzword bingo :D (like the following):

"Not in my bandwidth"

"Game changer"

"paradigm shift"

"social justice (warrior)"
 

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There aren't a lot of things people say that annoy me, but using a noun as a verb is among the most stupid trends in 'being cool' I've ever encountered. When I hear someone say "I'm too tired to adult today" I wanna slap the stupid out of them, but suspect they'd die before all the stupid left them.
when they're 90 these dummies still will not be able "to adult"
 

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I'm slightly annoyed when otherwise intelligent people improperly use 'less' rather than 'fewer' (there are less people here today - *sigh*), but this is an abomination.

That said, while otherwise intelligent people have long allowed their desire to 'fit in' to impact their life, this 'noun as a verb' is particularly annoying. We regularly correct toddlers for simple grammatical errors, these adults should be slapped.
I MIGHT occasionally say something like "less" meaning "fewer" (and vice-versa) and I also might say "well" when I mean "good" (and vice-versa). ... But, I would NEVER write it out wrong. ;)

Does that make me fewer less intelligent? :D
 

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