"Current year" terms that piss you off

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You mean like in pairings? SephirothxColonel Sanders (yes I've seen it and cannot unsee it).
yeah, I first saw it on billboards for fashion websites, but it's spread elsewhere (e.g. a music retailer I get newsletters from), and even in a professional setting - a supplier made a meeting request phrased as "[supplier's company] x [my company]"
 
yeah, I first saw it on billboards for fashion websites, but it's spread elsewhere (e.g. a music retailer I get newsletters from), and even in a professional setting - a supplier made a meeting request phrased as "[supplier's company] x [my company]"
I think it comes from botany, and was originally used to indicate a hybrid or "cross", so the orange is Citrus × sinensis. So this is metaphorical extension of scientific terminology, used in ignorance. (Also, if you wanna be autistic about it, the symbol is a multiplication sign, not an x).
 
"Stochastic Terrorism"

"Sneed"

I've commented here before but i'm back to say that tone indicators still piss me off. They're purely a result of cringe twitter/tiktok culture , and i hate how mentally ill 15yo's demand everyone use them (just like their neopronouns)

I avoid Twitter/TikTok, my exposure is limited to whatever is posted here on KF. So, this sounded annoying and I looked it up.

Jesus H. Christ, fuck you people!
 
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"Alt-right adjacent"

Whenever they (journoslime) can't outright lie and label someone who clearly has nothing to do with the alt-right, they'll cop out and say that individual is "alt-right adjacent". They'll do this with liberals they don't like, such as Jordan Peterson. Since they can't label him as such, they'll claim he's popular in circles that are.

It's a dishonest and slimy move.

Back in the day, especially during the President George W. Bush years, the media would constantly be going on about the all-powerful "religious right".

Sure, you might not be part of the religious right. You might not know anybody who's part of the religious right. In fact, you probably haven't even heard of the religious right until journalists started repeating those words 9000× every time they spoke. Nevertheless, it's a real thing and it's all-powerful and it controls everything in this country and nothing you can do will change that.

You'll still hear journalists bring that up sometimes but they were obsessed with that phrase during the second Bush Presidency.

"White Supremacy". Lots of White journalists say this one a lot. I think they must be closeted White Supremacists, trying to normalize the title so everyone can get used to the Supremacy of all things White.

Someone else, probably more than one person brought this one up already: "equity".

Whenever you hear someone use this word, it'll inevitably be some obese black woman telling one or two enthusiastically nodding White women about how we definitely need more of it.

Typing "of" instead of "have"
Like "would of" in place of "would've", etc
I want to commit genocide against those people
I can somewhat understand people saying "could of" when they speak, just because it's so ingrained into them due to everyone around them speaking the same way.

Typing it out or writing it down is just ridiculous, however. You can clearly see it's wrong since you're actively spelling it out right in front of your face.
 
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I want to pass a law that people will be required to have been born in the South or identify as black to use this word. On the other hand, it's really fun to accuse this kind of person of verbal blackface.

God I fucking hate people who type out "y'all" and its variations. I won't talk about people who say it out loud, but people who type it deserve to be fucking shot. No Southerner types like because those hicks are practically illiterate, and can't type a contraction without having a brain aneurysm, which leaves niggers and nigger-wannabes, both of which are absolutely insufferable in their own ways. No, Dayquan, just because you type things like "y'all" doesn't mean you're special, you're just being a fucking attention-seeking nigger with your ebonics, and nobody in their right mind cares about how "you wuz kangz an sheeeeit". And as for you fucking soyboy faggot fucks typing "y'all" everywhere trying to larp as fucking niggers so you can show Tyrone because you want him to let you prep him for your wife, you're not a nigger, you will never be a nigger, and you should just kill yourself, and spare the rest of us your cucked opinons because nobody cares what you think whether or not you use fake ebonics for your nigger cred.

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Recently I heard an AIDS-riddled buffoon say that "y'all" will enter standard English as the second person plural pronoun. His argument was that Black English is the new "prestige variety" of English and that since standard English currently doesn't have an equivalent, "yall" will fill the niche.

Sure, that's possible. That would be an improvement of the grammar and not just another word for "cool", many new linguistic features start as cringy slang. But language is hard to predict - it's just as likely that "y'all" outside of black and Southern English will go the way of "groovy" and "bodacious" especially with how fast the culture moves today. In as little as five years people could be mocking the Memeing '10s by saying "y'all folks be bein' totes problematic" in a valley girl accent.
 
I was thinking of more words;

This has probably been mentioned here before but I cringe at "hecking". It's always some LGBTIDGAF they/them, BLM feminazi retard starting whatever bullshit with "hecking wholesome" or "hecking queer" or whatever.

"Pupper" is baby speech from autistic morons who are too hip to just say dog.

"Neurotypical" sounds like a thinly veiled insult from autists trying to feel superior because of their autism.

"Ally" is a word that used to have a neutral meaning but now it's been used and abused by dumbfucks giving participation medals to their sweet little ignoramus parrots.

"Goals" is one that I see a lot, in particularly "relationship goals". Honestly, the people who take this shit seriously are probably the same people whose relationships last for a month and then they need to live through randos on the internet to soothe their bruised egos.
 
Someone else, probably more than one person brought this one up already: "equity".

Whenever you hear someone use this word, it'll inevitably be some obese black woman telling one or two enthusiastically nodding White women about how we definitely need more of it.
unless they're talking about mortgages
Recently I heard an AIDS-riddled buffoon say that "y'all" will enter standard English as the second person plural pronoun. His argument was that Black English is the new "prestige variety" of English and that since standard English currently doesn't have an equivalent, "yall" will fill the niche.
try telling that to the Irish, and speakers of Irish-derived English dialects, e.g. scouse; "youse/yez" already fills that niche
 
which leaves niggers and nigger-wannabes, both of which are absolutely insufferable in their own ways.
Niggers shouldn't even say "yall". They sound retarded the way they say it. Only Southern people: White or black, know how to say it properly. Everyone else just sounds like a fag or like they're trying too hard.

It comes out awkward when they say it, whereas with a Southern person it just rolls off the tongue naturally.
 
Speaking of gaming terminology, “exclusive”, because it’s almost never used right anymore. No, a “console exclusive” is not an exclusive if I can also get it on PC. A “Playstation exclusive” is not an exclusive if it’s on multiple Playstation systems. And “timed exclusive”? Fuck you.

I blame Microsoft for opening nearly every game reveal at E3 2016 with “Xbox One and Windows 10 Exclusive”. Exclusive should mean “was made for exactly one system”, nothing more. Arcade is an exception since few people will be able to even play the arcade version, let alone own an actual cabinet.
More game terminology:

I hate when people call the N.E.S. the ness. It's annoys me for some reason. Another one that I don't really hate, plus I acknowledge that it's an accepted name for these type of games, I just personally don't like using the term "shoot em ups". I'd much rather just call them shooters.

This one is annoying to hear though, the term "cute em up". Mostly old guys play shooters or "shoot em ups" if you prefer, so it's always some old fat man on YouTube talking about a "cute em up", Yuck. It almost makes you cringe hearing some old, fat fuck using terminology like that.
 
More game terminology:

I hate when people call the N.E.S. the ness. It's annoys me for some reason.
I used to hate that one, but I’ve gotten used to it, and even caught myself saying sness since it’s so much easier than “ess en ee ess” and “Super Nintendo”.
Another one that I don't really hate, plus I acknowledge that it's an accepted name for these type of games, I just personally don't like using the term "shoot em ups". I'd much rather just call them shooters.
I’m gonna have to disagree on that one. I think of a “shooter” as a 1st/3rd person shooter, while a “shoot em up” is an autoscroller like Gradius or R-Type. It’s like the distinction between fighting games and beat em ups.
This one is annoying to hear though, the term "cute em up". Mostly old guys play shooters or "shoot em ups" if you prefer, so it's always some old fat man on YouTube talking about a "cute em up", Yuck. It almost makes you cringe hearing some old, fat fuck using terminology like that.
They’re already playing Cotton and Parodius, might as well go all in I guess.
 
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"Neurodiversity"
I just hate whenever people use this word to describe autistic people.
It's another term in the euphemism treadmill. 60 years ago, it was perfectly normal to call a retard a retard. Then society changed their minds and decided identifying them by their disabilities was more proper. Then society changed their minds again and thought identifying people based on their disabilities cast them into a negative light and made "neurodivergent" a thing. It's the same thing as the term "differently abled", which is used when referring to disabled people, or making the term "cisgender" a thing.

I also hate "people-first" terms such as "people of color". Just call them "colored people". It's what people really mean to say, anyway.
 
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