Asklemmy

"I could care less" to mean "I could NOT care less"

"Ding ding ding!" When someone agrees with something you wrote, but wants to make sure that you know that they already knew and claim ownership of the statement that you wrote. Condesending asshole. I did not arrive at your opinion late.

"Meanwhile" in cooking recipes. Just no. I am following a recipe in stepwise order. You do not get to tell me what I should have already done in the previous step.

Enshittification. Everyone just learned a new word and has to use it at least once in every comment section to feel smart.

Upskill. I'm not 'upskilling' someone, I'm training them.

Someone could take all the answers here and create a copypasta equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.

I cringe so hard at the twitterist carebear-hugbox way of smugly claiming the intellectual high ground and shaming somebody:

"Be better." or "Do better."

The sentiment isn't terrible, but it's prevalent use is obviously just dripping with arrogance and thrown out in the most petty ways. Ugh!

No, you don't have a "challenge" for me. You have a problem and are trying to make it mine.

"living my/your/their best life"

Please gtfo

im still a bit salty about 'literally'

also the constant failure to say 'i could not care less' correctly

Places using "gluten-friendly" to mean "gluten-free". I am gluten-UNfriendly. I do not want gluten. They've tried to be cute and actually managed to make the term mean the opposite of what it's supposed to.

"It is what it is"

I get the sentiment behind it, it's just usually so defeatist/dismissive of a situation to me.

Pah-sketti

You're 65 Brad, use big boy words.

I work as a barista and get much too annoyed by people ordering a "regular coffee".

Like I know that 99.999% of the time they mean a drip/filter coffee (excluding that one lady that one time who was surprised I didn't parse "regular coffee" as a latte), but like can you just say drip coffee? Or even simply "coffee"!

I honestly don't even know why it annoys me this much.

Not a term, but a lack thereof:

People I have to regularly interact with for work have been excluding "to be", especially with "needs", and it's infuriating.

This issue needs escalated. That report needs fleshed out. Let me know if anything needs cleared up.

So many things. In written form, I hate when someone writes "Period." after they make a point to mean "this can't be argued" or whatever. My good bitch, I don't think you understand how arguing works. 😆

"Full stop" is a close second.

you can't just say Perchance

When people refer to metal balls as ball bearings. A ball bearing is an assembly of outer ring, inner ring, balls, and a cage/retainer. I worked in bearing manufacture for years and they're just referred to as balls. To be more specific, it would be a bearing ball, not a ball bearing.

When people say 'like' constantly between sentences or sentence fragments or before every adjective.

Never mind I found it

...took the effort to nvm-d the post, but did not share how, where, or what etc

Ironically, the phrase "rustles my jimmies" really burns my biscuits.

Trump, Zuckerberg, Musk, Gates....

Every stupid phrase that redditors compulsively say on every thread.

"cis" I feel like it's an extra term for "straight". The "default" for lack of a better term (and one that isn't othering) is near the not trans & not gay part of the gender / sexuality spectra. To me everyone in that zone is "straight" (boring/default/whatever).

"begs the question" because people exclusively use it wrong. Just say "leads to the question" or "poses the question."

And I'm still really salty about everyone giving up on the term "literally" to allow it to mean its exact opposite.

"Live. Laugh. Love." or similar.

Bemused

It's used incorrectly so often that even when I suspect it's being used correctly I can't be sure. At this point its ambiguity makes it a bad word choice.

Kiddos, especially when used by people in professions that work with kids. Right up there with people who unironically say pupper or doggo. Just say kids.

People ending sentences with “rn”.

• paradigm shift
• military grade encryption
• cyber kill chain

Please do the needful.

This one really grinds my gears! I think it's because the person can't even be bothered to describe what they want you to do, just go fix it and don't bother me with any details.

"It is what it is."

It is lazy, circular, a cop out and means next to nothing. Vague enough to pass as a wise quip, to some. It is not.

Also not so much a saying per sé, but people who use quotes of famous people at the bottom or ends of emails. As if that implies a personality. If you are going to use something you think sounds smart, at least try to come up with that something yourself.

I recently heard someone say after they almost accidentally went in a wrong building entrance, "Good thing I didn't do that or I would regret my life choices."

A bit much for something minor that created no more than two seconds of awkwardness.