"Current year" terms that piss you off

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UERISIMILITUDO said:
It's not quite current year, but I'm genuinely disgusted with the lack of English literacy I see in the world around me.


It's whose, not who's meaning who is. It's whose, damnit. Learn the English language properly before bemoaning idiots. I see this and so many similar mistakes here, and it's silly, as a nice way of putting it. As it stands, someone who knows not a basic homophone criticizing slang is just pathetic. It speaks not from authority or knowledge, but mere age. I long ago took most of what little slang was in my vocabulary and removed it. I realized that if I merely complained about the newer linguistic atrocities, then I would be no better, so I worked to move in the opposite direction, against this degeneration.

Now, I also dislike this stupid ebonics proliferating as the result of people living around niggers, but what distinguishes us is that I can speak and write properly. I'd like to strike some of you on the head with a walking cane. Buy an Oxford dictionary and use it.
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Nigger...I apologize for my horrible grammar and apologize for complaining about the use of 'cap' since apparently you are quite fond of it and it angered you greatly that I am not. I hope you enjoyed that last sentence.
 
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UERISIMILITUDO said:
I realized that if I merely complained about the newer linguistic atrocities, then I would be no better, so I worked to move in the opposite direction, against this degeneration.
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Grammar Nazi Rule #1: If you post a criticism of someone else's grammar, orthography, or punctuation, you will probably commit such a solecism yourself in the very post where you're doing that.

I sometimes can't resist doing this, but I routinely look at old posts and realize I've done something on the same level myself. My worst shame is when I commit the atrocious its/it's crime. Apostrophes are tricky creatures and they sometimes get the best of us all.
 
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Ludicrous said:
Prescriptivism is gay.

I agree with your point on Ebonics (African American Vernacular English if you're a snob) though, it's the second ugliest dialect of English besides the Cajun dialect. Ebonics' only good qualities are the habitual tense and that it isn't Cajun english.
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Unpopular opinion. There is literally nothing wrong with AAEV (African-American English Vernacular as Labov entitled it) other than the disastrous decision to try to rename it "Ebonics" for reasons that never made any sense.

It has been a highly productive and generative dialect of English to the point that nearly every other ethnic group speaking English has continually ripped it off for the cool new words and turns of phrase it incessantly produces. And that includes open racists who say nigger all the time.
 
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AnOminous said:
Grammar Nazi Rule #1: If you post a criticism of someone else's grammar, orthography, or punctuation, you will probably commit such a solecism yourself in the very post where you're doing that.
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What mistake did I make?

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I sometimes can't resist doing this, but I routinely look at old posts and realize I've done something on the same level myself.
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Of course, but I'll complain in the designated complaining thread when the opportunity arises.
 
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Meat Target said:
"Violent" or "violently", when describing an inherently violent event. It's unnecessary, redundant, and only serves to sensationalize the incident.

For example: "he violently punched someone in the face". Or this:

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No shit it was violent, Sherlock. I wasn't aware that there was a peaceful way to sock someone, or peacefully turn them into chili.

Yellow journalism's coy little habits are infuriating. It's insulting how much of a dumbfuck they think the average person is.
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Bizarrely in this case, they put quotes around "violently," implying some expert source described her death that way. But the only relevant quote in the article is from the co-pilot saying that the “airplane shook violently followed by the immediate automatic shutdown" after it happened. A pretty reasonable assessment of the situation if you're sitting in the cockpit just describing what's happening inside the plane. So they're even morphing the context of the quote just to be able to squeeze "violently" into the headline.
 
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"This slaps" which I'm not sure is really new. There's something familiar about it. Is it old slang made new again? Waiting for the kids to start saying groovy.
 
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R.I.P.

I’ve gotten so used to saying it as “rip” (a single word) that I automatically filter out “arr eye pee” as zoomer speak. Even Homestar Runner said it this way in a recent video :(
 
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The Legend 27 said:
What the fuck does this even mean and who says it?
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A stakeholder is any person/entity that holds share or interest (as a shareholder, employee, customer, executive, contractor, etc..) in any given company, I would not particularly consider it a "current year" term in the context of this thread and it is genuienly used in the corporate world. If you owned Apple shares for example, you would be considered by Apple to be a stakeholder in their company, or someone like Null, who is a customer of Terrahost/Epik and has interest in that company.
 
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lurkfagmcgee said:
Zoomers appending the skull emoji 💀 at the end of sentences. Bonus points if it's hoodrat speak like "BRO THINK HE ___ 💀💀💀💀".
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This pisses me the hell off because 90% of the time it's a normal thing and they're trying to make a shitty joke. There's this dude on youtube that works at mcdonalds and makes shorts and there's always someone trying to make him sound like a loser when the dude owns like 2 locations.
 
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