What overused word or phrase needs to be retired in 2026?

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Fittnz@reddit

As a teacher who hears this bollocks bleated at least 50 times a day, please let this one die out!

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I’ve always found the fastest way to kill such nonsense is to use the young uns lingo. Kids want to rebel when told no - so we flip or & embrace it until the fad passes. Was same a couple years ago with skibidy toilet crap… We’ve embraced it in our house, I got 6/7 teeshirts & Gen Alpha phrase Ts off Temu. No cap. Did the school pickup in it, pretty much killed it dead in the water 🤣🤣 The 5yo still finds the whole 6/7 thing amusing - but doesn’t say it a dozen times a day, while the 9&11yos think it’s cringe now 🤣🤣

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Demon_Relative_6114@reddit

My niece says this. A lot. I make sure to say “I don’t know what that means” every time. Because I genuinely have no idea. I’m in my late 40’s. I can’t spare the brain space.

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Fittnz@reddit

It doesn’t have a meaning. It’s just brainless copying they all do!

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NoMind5964@reddit

Oh come on, its so slay!

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Logicdon@reddit

Oh ye, it really slaps!

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Demon_Relative_6114@reddit

This is so cringe

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MissKoalaBag@reddit

Ye, tis a jolly jape indeed.

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VodkaMargarine@reddit

It's rad

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jackog420@reddit

Just make it cringe. Embrace it and put up a load of boomer facebook style 67 memes printed up around the classroom and act like it’s the funniest thing in the world

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Poison3k@reddit

Cringe is the way, my 10 year old hates it as I made it cringe and called him cringe when he used it.

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Bellatrixforqueen@reddit

Yep I keep saying it to my 11 year old and he now won’t say it as it’s not cool anymore

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RufusBowland@reddit

This works (speaking as a middle-aged woman). Telling a class of year 9s that “I’ve got bare rizz, fam!” (when they asked if I had rizz) was the surest way to stop them saying it.

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Neither_Process_7847@reddit

Fastest way to kill it.

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qpwoeiruty00@reddit

Include it in the homework and in slideshows in lessons too, such as the answer to all the questions being 67 and making someone answer out loud each time XD

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CaptMelonfish@reddit

It'll burn itself out and be replaced by something worse in good time. I remember when Ace Ventura came out whilst I was in high school. Our poor teachers.

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HibeesBounce@reddit

We had a special emergency assembly at school to deal with the "arse-talking" epidemic after Ace Ventura

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pajamakitten@reddit

Did the head deliver it by arse-talking to you?

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HibeesBounce@reddit

As an older woman who regularly wore a kilt, I'm very glad she didn't

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CaptMelonfish@reddit

Omg I just had a flashback to my classmate dissing a teacher that way and being sent to the deputy head.

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Kim_catiko@reddit

At least that made sense.

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-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit

My 12 year old who has spent months saying it cringed when I told him his cousin who turned 13 had had a 6 & 7 candle on her cake. And asked me “just why” so I’m hoping that means it’s coming to an end

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pajamakitten@reddit

Do it yourself in front of the kids every day for a week, fully embracing the cringiness of it. They will hate it by Friday.

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Vodkaboris@reddit

Just reply with 42. They'll have no idea what it means, and how important it is.

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Fizzywaterjones@reddit

It’s sigma

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KrakenMcSpoon@reddit

It’s a rizzable enigma

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Fandangojango@reddit

My 9 year old has bloody started saying sigma.

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nottodayffs@reddit

I work with children. Just make it cringe and they’ll stop. Start saying it too or say “8 9” in response and they’ll cringe and stop

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Kim_catiko@reddit

The actual audacity of these children to act like we are the cringe ones when that period of time in everyone's life is the most utterly cringe to look back on.

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RecentTwo544@reddit

I feel incredibly old because I keep seeing this mentioned but have never heard it "in the wild" or seen it on video even. Don't even get it. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably just as funny as the shit people my age found funny as kids in the 90s though. As in, zero fucking sense, but that's kind of the point. At one point in 1998/99 (can't remember exactly) me and a few mates drove teachers mental because we found mentioning cress hilarious for a good few months. Kudos to anyone who can work out why.

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Demon_Relative_6114@reddit

We went with “you would not let it lie!”

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poke_pants@reddit

Pretty sure 'wassup' was the equivalent of 6-7 when I was at school.

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MaskingForApproval@reddit

Richard not Judy reference?

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RecentTwo544@reddit

Wow, 1000 points to you! That's exactly it.

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Accomplished-Can-176@reddit

Ian Cress of the Cress Marketing Board would be delighted

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HibeesBounce@reddit

Genuinely think they solely caused the precipitous decline in the popularity of cress. It was ubiquitous in the 90s - salads, sandwiches, a random clump with any lunch until the absurdity of eating cress was cast into the light by Lee and Herring. The irony is, despite tasting of fuck all, it's actually really nutrient-dense

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Dead_Bones001@reddit

Cress Cress Lovely Lovely Cress!

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nanakapow@reddit

The taste of a new generation.

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geeered@reddit

It's mostly preteen kids I think, so shouldn't make you feel that old... well maybe unless your kid's kids are now too old for it!

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Ethelredthebold@reddit

I asked my 15 year old grandson what it meant, but he didn't have a clue, its just funny apparently.

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spicynoodles628@reddit

I still don’t even know what this means

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Collooo@reddit

It’s so dull.

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Stubbsy67@reddit

I hope so too. It's the number I happened to choose to put in my screen name when I first started signing up to forums at the turn of the millennium, and now all of a sudden I look like a braindead Gen alpha 😒

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shadowharv@reddit

I heard some kids singing "6-7 a merry rizzmas" a few weeks ago while I was on the bus home. It's a 30 minute journey. They sang it the entire journey. I got off a mile before my usual stop

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Hi-its-Mothy@reddit

My 4yr old grandson says 6 8 and smirks. Not entirely sure he’s just misunderstanding it.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

What even is it?

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The_Sideboob_Hour@reddit

It's nothing, it means nothing. I do find it funny when my kids (7 and 9) do the "other" fully number of "6 9" and tell me I wouldn't understand why its funny because its "only funny to kids". They have no idea.

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caniuserealname@reddit

It's a meme.

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K1mTy3@reddit

Yes! Even my kids can't tell me what it means!

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MillsOnWheels7@reddit

Was at a bingo in a care home today and all the old people started doing it when 67 come out. Bingo caller said: "6" "7". Stairway to heaven. They were making all the moves, only one person died out of the 10 that was in the room so on the balance of death rates, they done well. Fucking laughs all round. Mad times. They got a sweepstake on who's go it is next apparently, money goes towards beers behind the bar at the wake.

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DLNN_DanGamer@reddit

This 100% 🙏

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Mindless-Hornet5703@reddit

Slay queens

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CanWeNapPlease@reddit

I hate this timeline. This is the worst timeline. Fuck off you cringe dweeb.

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MyJokesRonReply24_7@reddit

"bro"

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nick-nic@reddit

Going forward

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L9GTX@reddit

"End of". It isn't a magic incantation that means no one can disagree any more, it's just annoying.

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pondribertion@reddit

Mind you, "end of" tends to be said by a person of authority/superiority to the person they're saying it to. If anyone else says it, good luck to them.

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G-A-E-@reddit

Yes it is. End of.

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boredsittingonthebus@reddit

This is typical in comment sections on politics. It's often used by people who don't understand that situations can be nuanced. See also "simples".

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MadWifeUK@reddit

To be fair they tend to use "End off."

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TheLoneEcho@reddit

I was hoping that if there was _one_ positive to come out of the war in Ukraine it would have been those bloody meerkat adverts being dropped. Alas.

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HibeesBounce@reddit

My boss talks almost entirely in thought-terminating cliches. Infuriating to say the least.

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Exciting_Agent4523@reddit

It is. End of.

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pondribertion@reddit

"Genuinely." It's nearly always used superfluously these days.

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Dyrenforth@reddit

The word 'iconic' is used for things I've never ever heard of. It's totally meaningless now.

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PeterG92@reddit

Unalived instead of killed/died

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_FreddieLovesDelilah@reddit

It’s so fucking disrespectful when I hear YouTubers censor the word suicide or rape. We’ve been through that shit, the least they could do is name it for what it is.

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Demon_Relative_6114@reddit

This is how I feel when newsreaders say “he/she was heard to use the N word.” Nope. Bollocks to you. Just say it. Don’t make me responsible for saying it in my mind. You’re quoting someone, not using it in a derogatory sense. Just own it. You’re supposed to be reporting what was said impartially.

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turtleship_2006@reddit

They (supposedly) do it to get passed filters and stuff. Even if it's officially allowed and the whole video doesn't get taken down, there are loads of examples of big platforms shadow banning creators for talking about certain topics, limiting reach etc.

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Demon_Relative_6114@reddit

My friend said this about their horse. I ventured that “unalived” is not a word. Got my head ripped off.

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JBobSpig@reddit

Blame YouTube and such for this stupid shit, they need to stop censoring things so much and coddling people.

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ColtAzayaka@reddit

He wad unalived with a pewpew after c*mmitting a moneysnatch from the bank!

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sarhu1@reddit

Yeah all of this censoring on platforms that allow you to say the word needs to stop. Don’t get me started on the word grape. I find it’s disrespectful to victims to censor words like that, they had to go through it, you can read the word. It isn’t supposed to be comfortable.

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Anklehateisin@reddit

2026 is the year of the big grape.

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WolfAvonian@reddit

The thing with this is that I can appreciate that people are using platforms that will potentially take down their videos for using the actual words, but there's still better ways to do it. You can describe or imply something without using the exact words and unalived and grape just sound spectacularly immature and insincere. Just spend 10 seconds to think of a way to adapt your writing instead of trivialising serious matters with these dumb childish solutions or find another platform instead. Even bleeping most of the word out doesn't make it sound goofy like these words Otherwise it's clearly just about the "content" and not about taking whatever you're discussing seriously.

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Remote_Test_30@reddit

People only say that so they don't get banned on social media though.

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portablekettle@reddit

They don't get banned on most socials though. It's just some tiktok bullshit that's leaking into other platforms

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AClockworkLaurenge@reddit

Not is anyone going to ban you in real life conversation for saying the actual words but people still self censor by using this Newspeak-ass language

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StrawberryF5@reddit

Picky bits.

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the-TARDIS-ran-away@reddit

What do you call picky bits then!?

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younevershouldnt@reddit

Picky tea

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the-TARDIS-ran-away@reddit

Oh the posh version

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younevershouldnt@reddit

Northern version?

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the-TARDIS-ran-away@reddit

Oh im southern and down here only poshos say tea

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

100% dog shit. And chippy tea.....ffs no!

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Ok-Decision403@reddit

Agreed- anything cutesy and infantilising makes my gorge rise. See also "girlies", "kiddos", "pupper", "wifey" etc etc

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Wifey....ewwww... Nearly as bad as "baby-momma" or baby daddy...just no

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Ok-Decision403@reddit

We're getting to the point where I may have to go and wash my own mouth out with soap and water!

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Before you do, have a look at the list I posted. It's a vile collection of another 20 words that need to be lined up and shot

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Ok-Decision403@reddit

You are such a wrong 'un! I assume you're on some kind of watch list...

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

I used to watch a watch list, if that helps?

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Meanwhile-in-Paris@reddit

I found it hard to upvote your comments with these words in it.

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Ok-Decision403@reddit

I'm glad I'm amongst fellow travellers. Please feel free to give these atrocities the downvotes they deserve, however!

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Meanwhile-in-Paris@reddit

What are they?

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Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit

Give this person an award NOW!

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whittingtonwarrior@reddit

God I hate “Picky Bits”.

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TheMagicTorch@reddit

And "veggies", makes my skin crawl!

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beernon@reddit

All MLE roadman slang. I grew up in a shitty inner city London school and was moulded by it. I had to train myself out of it. Genuinely embarrassing tragic way of speaking.

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

Hell yeah. Every time I hear one of these roadmen speak I just think they are an uneducated fool.

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younevershouldnt@reddit

Allow it cuz

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Less_Salamander4350@reddit

Language evolves. No need to cry about it. 10 years from now children will be speaking an entirely different form of colloquialism which will continue to evolve. But getting so angry at young people for expressing themselves in the way that feels most authentic to them seems strange.

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dlrowrevo@reddit

Can’t agree more with this. Quite surprised to see so many people shitting on MLE. It’s totally fair to dislike an accent but to describe those speaking MLE as uneducated and embarrassing is quite bizarre, especially as it is, literally, multi-cultural English. Like you say, language evolves. That’s the best thing about it. You can watch words take on completely new meanings and hear how words are used differently depending on where you are in the country. Language is really interesting and I’m surprised so many people are so… aggressive towards it……..

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jimmynorm1@reddit

You do realize the who post is asking for people's gripes on current language, right? OP is, *literally*, asking people to cry about it.

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Less_Salamander4350@reddit

I get it, but it’s also so typical of the typical Reddit “why doesn’t anyone speak cockney anymore” brigade. Idgaf

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jimmynorm1@reddit

>Idgaf Your participation in the discussion on this post would suggest otherwise.

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notouttolunch@reddit

Can we add *undefined acronyms and initialisations* to the list too. What the hell is an MLE? And what is a *roadman*? Someone who makes roads?

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Alarming_Doughnut365@reddit

Americans are the worst for this with the state acronyms. Why do they expect everyone to know what "Boulder CF" means? or whatever

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notouttolunch@reddit

Boulder Compact Flash?

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24DI@reddit

Multicultural London English. It's well defined, you know on the Internet, on the device you're holding/sitting at.

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0800happydude@reddit

You get me?

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jimmynorm1@reddit

The fact that you got out of it is a credit to you. I still hear grown men talking like that in the street and it makes my skin crawl.

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feralhog3050@reddit

Tim Westwood *shudders*

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Fluffy-Astronomer604@reddit

No 🧢

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Holiday_Management60@reddit

Aight say less.

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Janko_Saurus@reddit

2025

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Decent_Confidence_36@reddit

Sausage

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Neat-Relationship237@reddit

Woke, it doesn’t mean what the people who use it perjoratively think it means.

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PowPow-1@reddit

Woke up

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Such-Branch7145@reddit

It is what it is . Drives me nuts. Do outdated now

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KoorbB@reddit

Agentic AI.

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HollywoodBrownMusic@reddit

The whole "ick" / "gives me the ick" thing makes me wanna walk into the sea

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No-Explanation7952@reddit

Not gonna lie 100%

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RFRMT@reddit

_If you know, you know._ and also _Your mileage may vary._

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Educational_Try_6105@reddit

I have a list https://preview.redd.it/311t71u38uag1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb4ba7d0dde1ffab35232a413e753357d9f4dc4f (this is just a quarter of it)

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dlrowrevo@reddit

LOVE the mention of the twee ‘British’ insults. It’s like Will from the Inbetweeners

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DeifniteProfessional@reddit

You ever written a book?

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Educational_Try_6105@reddit

I’ve written a chapter in one!

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DryJackfruit6610@reddit

My friend says hubbylicious when referring to her husband and I fucking hate it

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-Not-Today-Satan@reddit

The Hubbatron 4000

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Moppo_@reddit

Sir Hubbington Spouse, even.

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elvpak@reddit

Oh god I hate hearing women referring to their “hubby/hubster/etc”. You’re a married adult ffs you’re not six years old.

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Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit

Hubby. God I hate that word

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infantile-eloquence@reddit

"The family" "the kids" from your list reminded me about how I hate "the boy" as in someone's boyfriend like "really like the boy", or son as in "me and the boy will be there". Stop it.

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notthrowaway9@reddit

Kony 2012 😂😂

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Jerkcaller69@reddit

You clearly aren’t Australian!

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168EC@reddit

Go on then.. Let us see the other three pages please!

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Anxious_Goat_496@reddit

don’t walk, run

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vientianna@reddit

I/we did a thing

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JK07@reddit

Excellent YouTube channel

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Craigos-Maximus@reddit

Spectacularly good YouTube channel!

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Novaportia@reddit

Or 'I adulted today!'

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CarefulConference302@reddit

Jeremy Clarkson would be fuming

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boringdystopianslave@reddit

He's huffed enough fumes now.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Y'all It is what it is Oftentimes On accident Prolly It's not that deep Legacy

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ParpinOver@reddit

I fucking hate y’all

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Ok

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

> Literally (used incorrectly) It has been used to add emphasis literally for donkey's years.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

"The band played a great set, and blew the roof off the place with their epic riffs" is vastly superior to "The band played a great set, and literally blew the roof off the place with their epic riffs"

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

Funny thing is you've done it yourself, how is the difference "vast"? How is literally different to actually, really, definitely, absolutely or many other terms used to add emphasis. Language would be incredibly (without credibility?) dry if every term had a set definition.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Because it's more accurate

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

No, it is just a pretend pet peeve that clever clogs people like to use to sound intelligent.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Honestly, you're tiring. I'm pretending. Yep, it's all an act.

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Big_Comfortable4256@reddit

"On accident" gets me every time. I had an American GF who said this. I think it's down to them thinking it's the opposite of "on purpose".

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Possibly. It's still slack as arseholes. I almost added my other irritation (though it was beyond the scope of the post): they spell mobile the sames as we do, yet still pronounce it "moble"

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cragglerock93@reddit

I hate 'it's not that deep' so much. It's 90% of the time just a way to dismiss something they don't want to hear.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Yep, awful

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Ok-Decision403@reddit

I work in a university. Responses to student feedback is often expressed as 'you asked, we listened ". Even to ridiculous shit.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Yeah, I've worked for various businesses over the years. The number of times there has been a "refresh" of company branding/values (usually because new owners or a few new staff come in) it gets used. I have visions of a load of consultants sitting in a room and it comes up on a PowerPoint presentation. It then gets added to everyone's "toolkit". It's like how "from the ground up", "esoteric", "hollistic", "reach out", "rollout", "challenges/challenging", "lean", "agile", "no need to reinvent the wheel"....all started getting added to corporate comms.

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Timcatgt@reddit

The first 3 words and the ebonics words should definitely be burnt at the stake. I'm white and I can't imagine saying those kinda words in public.

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Snarlvlad@reddit

Peppering sentences with ‘literally’.

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Alarming_Doughnut365@reddit

Literally!

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Chunk360x@reddit

Can I add "obviously" to the list as well? Drives me crackers

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Vladimir_Chrootin@reddit

I installed a profanity filter on my browser which removed "literally" and no other word, as an experiment to see if it affected readability at all. It does not, but I left it on as it improves Reddit's readability. I can still see the word as I type it in the box, then it's gone as soon as I hit save. All I see from your comment is ‘’. (I checked in a private browser window to make sure you didn't just write ‘’.)

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Moppo_@reddit

And starting sentences with "so".

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craigus17@reddit

“Life hack”

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Significant_Return_2@reddit

“Four more sleeps”. Shudder…

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cragglerock93@reddit

What did Leona Lewis ever do to you.

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Disgruntled__Goat@reddit

Somehow that bland piece of nothingness is the best selling Xmas song of the 21st century.

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cragglerock93@reddit

I must admit I'm not a fan of the song. She's a good singer though.

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Moppo_@reddit

Sang.

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notouttolunch@reddit

I especially hate this when it's only three more sleeps.

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21decibels@reddit

‘People of colour’

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AlderneyWomble@reddit

Triggering

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UpstairsUse3066@reddit

"legitimate concerns"

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PastaMapChair@reddit

Holibobs

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DoIKnowYouHuman@reddit

Is that really still used in any way that isn’t satirical?

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G-A-E-@reddit

My mum/nan

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oscarx-ray@reddit

This is the first time I've heard it in at least a year.

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teenytinytexas@reddit

u/pastamapchair is bringing it back

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PastaMapChair@reddit

I should have kept quiet

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Rootes_Radical@reddit

I only see it on Reddit in threads about what words need to be retired. Haven’t heard it in the wild for ages.

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No_Onion_8612@reddit

Me and my sister use it, only with eachother though. It started ironically, but it stops being ironic when you only use that word. But we can't stop.

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Willywonka5725@reddit

Not heard that in a decade.

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justawalkingtaco@reddit

I always use this but it started as a joke and now I can’t stop. Luckily for everyone I only go on holiday once every 3 years so people only get subjected to holibobs once in a while

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UnknownWriter18@reddit

Bro

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Splendid8@reddit

Cringe (as a noun) and ick.

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_Planemad_@reddit

I was today years old. Core memory unlocked.

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MagicCoat@reddit

X wasnt on my YEAR bingo card!

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Refrigernator@reddit

Today years old is so awful.

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MindlessMarsupial592@reddit

I've not heard that before lol. I quite like it!

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DeifniteProfessional@reddit

You got downvotes because everyone hates it, but I get it. The first time I saw it, it was kinda funny. It was a low tier meme where someone goes "how old were you when you found out (something or other)" and the reply was "I was today years old". And once that'd circulated, people started using it constantly and it became overused and extremely cringeworthy and tiring

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MindlessMarsupial592@reddit

Is it a Tik Tok thing? I've never heard it lol but appreciate things can be overused

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DeifniteProfessional@reddit

Generally a "perpetually online" thing rather than specifically tiktok, but probably a lot of tiktokers have it as part of their vocab

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Ok-Decision403@reddit

Thank you for saying "cringeworthy" rather than "cringe"!

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Atari18@reddit

"Mind you, ____" It's recent, but I'm over it

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BeatificBanana@reddit

"Mind you" isn't recent, and it's not a slang phrase or anything. It's a normal form of speech that my parents and grandparents have been saying all their lives?!

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Atari18@reddit

Yes I'm well aware of that, but it has become a widely used phrase as a kind of meme in the last few months Basically the phrase has been "rediscovered" and is already very tired

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BeatificBanana@reddit

I have not noticed this at all

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DeifniteProfessional@reddit

I haven't either. Mind you, I use it all the time

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CraigFairlie67@reddit

I use both.

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CarefulConference302@reddit

POV: You were today years old

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No_Atmosphere8146@reddit

Nobody: Me: If nobody is saying nothing, everybody is saying everything,

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hardware26@reddit

*Everybody is saying something

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Popular-History1015@reddit

POV: You were, like today years old when you literally unlocked this core memory. D’ya know what I mean?

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

Mansplain. Nope, it's telling you how to do something correctly because you are a fucking idiot

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

VAR

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NovaCorpse@reddit

"Finna". Like it's the exact same amount of letters and syllables as "Gonna" so what's the point?

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

100% agree. Thankfully I have only heard it on American TV shows so far and not actually from someone's mouth in my vicinity.

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Gregkot@reddit

"Give your head a wobble"

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

Sorry, can't agree. You need to give your head a wobble if you think that 😂

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

"that's the wrong hole" No it's not, there's no such thing 😂

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

"cat mum or dog mum" It's a pet. You are not a parent. Half the world eats them. Get a grip.

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

"on the spectrum" No they're not, they are just a little arsehole and you are a shit parent.

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Captain_Chappie@reddit

Not gonna lie. I've even heard people who AREN'T idiots saying this recently.

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kvf726@reddit

“Perfect” .. when ‘good’ or ‘great’ or ‘ok’ will do…

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HenryKjnr@reddit

I love that for you.

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

Influencer It's not a job and it's pathetic.

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Whole_Foundation_364@reddit

"Situationship" can fuck off. It's always absolute idiots that use it as well. It makes me want to smack them in the face with an ironship

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ImposterThelemite@reddit

Vibe coding. There's nothing vibe about it's more like negotiating with something brilliant but utterly stubborn, where logic alone doesn’t guarantee compliance. “Vibe” is nowhere in sight - just persistence, frustration, and slow incremental progress.

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apfm141@reddit

I could care less

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apfm141@reddit

Unserious

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PastLanguage4066@reddit

‘Had to scroll too far to see this’. ‘This’.

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bambaveli@reddit

A lot of influencers have started using the word addicting for some reason, as in “This game is addicting”. No it isn’t, it’s addictive.

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cwtches10@reddit

Gaslighting. Nobody seems to actually understand what it means.

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Dragon_M4st3r@reddit

Same with ‘toxic’ and ‘narcissist’. They’ve all come to mean ‘a thing I don’t like’

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ReplicantHuman2077@reddit

You don’t understand what gaslighting is.

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RFRMT@reddit

I think if we’re being honest, it’s just you who doesn’t know what it means. In fact, we’ve all been talking and everyone agrees; it’s only you who doesn’t know. Really sorry.

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Ok-Decision403@reddit

I think they're referring to that fact that it doesn't mean lying/contradicting, but doing those things with the specific intention to make the other person wonder if they're going mad. People often don't use it this way, but this is where the term originated, since it came from the eponymous film.

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Puzzleheaded_Drink76@reddit

Yes, it's a useful word for a specific type of crappy behaviour. Not because you and your partner disagree about something.

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notouttolunch@reddit

I understand it but dislike its use so treat it literally. It becomes a conversation about historical lighting which I love and have a lot to discuss with anyone interested.

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LadyInAllPower@reddit

"Woke"

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Noon_Specialist@reddit

What do you propose to replace it with?

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Kelsiersdaggers@reddit

It’s a meaningless word that immediately outs the person using it as a fuckwit, so replace it with “I’m incapable of forming an original thought”.

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Noon_Specialist@reddit

If it's a meaningless word, why are you offended by it? Wherever you are on the political spectrum, it's used to identify political correctness. What connotations come with that is where people's views diverge. The left sees it as progressive, inclusive, and generating awareness, whereas the centre and the right see it as oversensitivity and pushing agendas/beliefs. It's responses like yours that make me think it's a very effective word as it clearly holds enough weight to start conversation. Isn't conversation something we need more of now that politics are becoming evermore extreme?

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pajamakitten@reddit

It does not start a conversation, it ends it. It is used to dismiss real issues by people who do not want a discussion about the issue at hand, they just want people to agree with them and for it to be acceptable to be discriminatory again.

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Dragon_M4st3r@reddit

‘[Thought terminating cliche](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9)’ is the actual term for it

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redunculuspanda@reddit

“Not racists”

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MeltingChocolateAhh@reddit

Asleep

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LadyInAllPower@reddit

Nothing! It's a very lazy term that doesn't allow for any subtlety in debate

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DoIKnowYouHuman@reddit

Same with the word ‘snowflake’, people who use it as an insult in any genuinely debatable ‘argument’ are generally setting themselves apart as easy to antagonise

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wybird@reddit

Aroused

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LadyInAllPower@reddit

😂

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BloodyCuts@reddit

People needlessly adding POV to videos. Anyone who starts off a post with ‘Unpopular opinion.’

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HibeesBounce@reddit

I hate "unpopular opinion" - 90% of the time it is used to describe some fairly basic, uncontroversial belief. It reeks of "my opinion is *more important* than yours"

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BloodyCuts@reddit

Yes 100% so. It screams ‘look at me I’m special and unique!’

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Holiday_Somewhere820@reddit

No worries...I can't take it anymore lol

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wotapalava@reddit

Woteva

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BeanOnAJourney@reddit

"Adultung" "Gives me the ick" "Wait, what?"

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GunstarGreen@reddit

"Its giving..."

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spinzzi@reddit

Hate it!!

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ImNotHereForFunNoWay@reddit

Came here to say this (that's kind of an annoying phrase too lol). 'It's giving' really pisses me off.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Not heard that one.

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Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit

Oh yes. One of my least favourites

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call092@reddit

This one might be the worst, so cringe

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ladyofbuffdom@reddit

Scrolled too far to see this. HATE it.

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obiwanmoloney@reddit

Had to scroll way too far for this abomination. I’m gonna through “…and I’m here for it” on to the back of it.

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eventsus@reddit

Peak (X)

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JohnCasey3306@reddit

"not gonna lie" (or any variation thereof)

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Samuraisheep@reddit

Not a word/phrase but the tippy taps on the side of anything in an influencer video!

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Big_Comfortable4256@reddit

subtitles in every video! grrrr and argh!!

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Samuraisheep@reddit

Ah see I actually find that handy as I'm often watching on silent or very quiet when up with my toddler through the night (they're asleep on me to be clear, I'm not watching videos whilst they're awake!)

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TomatoLess229@reddit

Bro

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PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit

Staycation, because people get strangely anal about forcing their interpretation onto others, when they knew exactly what was meant given the context.

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

There's only one interpretation, the other one is patently wrong.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

I get it as like it or not, the meaning has drifted. I don't think I have ever been confused over people using the term. Who actually even does spend a day in their own town as a tourist, or whatever it technically even originally meant. It is a casual, British holiday.

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

Staycations aren't about being a tourist in your own town, they're more take time off work and chill at home. Then some rich idiot decided to make up a new meaning to dunk on people who maybe didn't have the money to take lots of holidays abroad, and for some reason others went along with it. They are wrong and I will not acknowledge this new definition.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

You can't even leave the house? That is even stricter than I thought.

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HealthyWhereas3982@reddit

Spill the tea.

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Sendhimoffdiabolical@reddit

It used to be spill the beans didn't it? Whatever happened there?

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IansGotNothingLeft@reddit

It's a 1980s term which was used predominantly in the LGBTQ community. RuPaul's Drag Race happened in stone 2010, which exposed everybody else to these phrases (there's a few more, including "It's giving....", which is also in these comments).

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Saw that "its giving" earlier in the thread. What does it mean?

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IansGotNothingLeft@reddit

It's often used to describe something that is like something but it also describes a feeling or mood. It's difficult to describe, but an example would be "It's giving desperate" would obviously mean that you're acting desperately, "It's giving Beyonce" would mean that you've got a Beyonce vibe or attitude.

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5im0n5ay5@reddit

The Americans happened

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HomesickPigeon19@reddit

Not necessarily, used to be spill the beans in America as well. Tea is just more modern

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Holiday_Management60@reddit

Tea used to be gay speak fot beans. Now its become mainsteam.

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5im0n5ay5@reddit

I think I first heard spill the tea via the certain members of the women's USA football team... Can't remember the context but it must have been within the last five years. I'd never heard it before that (regardless of whether they also use or used beans in the US too). Apparently its origins are from the black drag scene and T = truth.

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HealthyWhereas3982@reddit

Ooh interesting, thanks! So it's actually 'spill the t' not tea?

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cmrndzpm@reddit

Correct, a lot of modern slang comes from the New York ball scene of the 80s and 90s. Paris Is Burning is a really great documentary, where you realise most of the ‘new’ slang isn’t new at all!

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SelectTrash@reddit

You're right, same with slay and a few others I can't remember

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boringdystopianslave@reddit

I HATE THIS

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Not heard that one

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blackcurrantcat@reddit

Literally

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beernon@reddit

Controversial but I find it funny when people get upset at ‘literally’, personally I think it marks the evolution of English. It’s an intensifier/hyperbole/filler term. It’s a new use of language, although I do find some types overuse it.

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First_Report6445@reddit

So what word is used for "literally"? Language is for communication.

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pajamakitten@reddit

And if you cannot tell if it is being used to mean literally or figuratively then that might say something about you.

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First_Report6445@reddit

If that were the case, then it would be meaningless, and thus add nothing to the sentence. Language is about communication, not just simplistic noises.

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geejaytee@reddit

I agree with most of that except the new use of language - it's beginning to predominate, but the figurative sense originally arose in the 18th century.

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pajamakitten@reddit

16th. Shakespeare used it that way.

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squigs@reddit

It has become a contronym though. I'm sure there are contexts where it can be unclear if it's meant as literally literally, or as an intensifier.

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blackcurrantcat@reddit

I agree, and they’re not always wrong when they use it and it can be funny but not everything that is what they imagined it would be is “literally” literal. It doesn’t mean a lot or exactly what someone thought. Like “that necklace is really wintery” “that is literally so true”.

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Meanwhile-in-Paris@reddit

My 6 years boy told me I needed to include *literally* more often in my speech…

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

I included this in my list. Also the other favourite.. "insane"... Hah, fuck off

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BromleyReject@reddit

I literally had a heart attack reading this

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MadCatterJayne@reddit

Literally us

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notouttolunch@reddit

Get well soon.

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NotHavingMyID@reddit

This should be the top answer. Most people who use it, almost always should be using its antonym, i.e. 'Figuratively'.

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squigs@reddit

That's not the meaning people want to get across though. If someone says "I literally exploded with joy" they're saying how joyful they are, not clarifying it's a figure of speech. "Totally" or "completely" would be a belter alternative.

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minn3haha@reddit

I also like metaphorically as an alternative.

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notouttolunch@reddit

A lot of people claim this, but as a person who is sick of teenage school child language and bad (usually American) spelling and will call it out if it's misused. I've literally never needed to do it and when someone tried to correct me, I explained that I did indeed mean *literally* and nothing else. I'm not sure this is as big a problem as people not knowing the difference between license and licence or practice and practise.

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SelectTrash@reddit

My brother does it all the time, and he's older than me

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mrhippoj@reddit

It's hyperbolic though. Saying figuratively loses all the impact. People saying it don't literally mean literally

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blackcurrantcat@reddit

I listened to a phone conversation between two of my team the other day and in 3 minutes they said it 9 times.

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ghotiboy77@reddit

it seems to be replaced by "objectively" at the moment. which is objectively worse

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Holiday_Management60@reddit

Oh my god LITERALLY this.

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ItsShaneMcE@reddit

Unfortunately it’s been added to the definition of the word and an informal use so it’s here to stay. I always respond “as oppose to figuratively or metaphorically” Once you notice it, you notice almost everyone uses it as a filler word and you want to die inside if you catch yourself doing it The other one that needs to be retired is ‘More better’.

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atom_stacker@reddit

"Gaslighting" Unless it is genuine gaslighting, STFU.

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Lettuce1939@reddit

Gaslit ! gaslight !

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charlytune@reddit

Elevate. Every eBay listing, every shitty ChatGPT generated marketing blurb uses this. And every time I see it I seethe

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IndigoJoker22@reddit

“I’m going out out” As opposed to what? “I’m staying in in?

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how_to_shot_AR@reddit

"Absolutely" It's used fucking EVERYWHERE on reddit and it triggers the shit out of me. A week or two ago I saw someone use "absolutely" three times in one sentence. It absolutely drives me up the fucking wall.

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IndigoJoker22@reddit

Agree abolutingtootly!

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WebFickle2360@reddit

I can't stand "Back to winning ways" in football reports.

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infantile-eloquence@reddit

Hubby, wifey and kiddo. Speak like a grown up.

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Big_Comfortable4256@reddit

Also "doggo". Urgh...

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Moppo_@reddit

I hate it when people refer to children as "little ones". It sounds insulting.

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MissKoalaBag@reddit

6 7. I am begging everyone, please. I went to my families for Xmas, and the kids just kept saying 6 7. And it wasn't like...engaging, they weren't saying it in a clever way or anything. They were just randomly like 'Six Seveeeen!', 'Is that 6 7?', 'That's 6 7.' I wanted to jump into a different universe.

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earlgreytoday@reddit

Adding -coded at the end of everything.

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Big_Comfortable4256@reddit

\- The use of "super" instead of "very" etc ... \- "Lit" \- "Lowkey.." .. and any other silly Americanisms that British kids can't seem to avoid importing into our vernacular.

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abfgern_@reddit

AI, it's an LLM at best or if not, just the plain old algorithms we already had. It's decidedly not 'Intelligence'.

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Maleficent-Drive4056@reddit

>**Artificial intelligence** (**AI**) is the capability of [computational systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer) to perform tasks typically associated with [human intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_intelligence) If you accept the wikipedia definition of AI then LLMs definitely fit it.

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turtleship_2006@reddit

Definitions of AI, machine learning, etc are heavily debated by experts/scholars/people with much better understanding than us. For example is machine learning a subclass of AI or the other way?

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TwoPlyDreams@reddit

Think of AI being to intelligence, what a plastic plant is to biology. Both are “artificial”, neither are the subject.

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MeltingChocolateAhh@reddit

I think this might be the first time I am seeing anyone on Reddit bring this up and I cannot agree any more. I have thought this all through 2024 and 2025. It hasn't suddenly become over-developed or massively improved in the last few years. Someone has just hopped on the bandwagon, and now all of the big tech firms are using it as a buzzword to add 10% more value to their product. For people using AI to write emails out has not been impossible. There were chat bots that were exactly the same as ChatGPT before, but then it was rebranded and had lots of money pumped into it for it to just be seen. People claiming that AI can be used to alter video footage and falsify events or what people are saying... This is not new tech. This has been around for a while, but people have only just hopped on the bandwagon. And, if you can't tell AI apart from true media, that's a you problem. There are distinct, telltale signs and I think when people start to cotton onto what they are, AI being used to alter media will lose traction. Sorry, I couldn't agree with you more. And, people talking about AI as if it's revolutionised the world in the last two years drives me crazy.

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Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit

Yeah but AI will just get better and better at replacing human media to the point where the differences become unrecognisable. AI replacing human media isn’t going anywhere

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MeltingChocolateAhh@reddit

Maybe it will get better and better, but it hasn't gotten any better recently. It's just been used and abused like a fad.

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Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit

it will take time and remember the best forms of AI are not available to the public yet let alone the slightly upgraded versions of AI that are locked behind a paywall.

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edfosho1@reddit

I agree with most of this, but: >people talking about AI as if it's revolutionised the world in the last two years Well, the application of AI to business processes and people's workflows has changed things lots - and the ease of accessing it is only going to keep changing things (for the moment anyway).

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MeltingChocolateAhh@reddit

People's workflows? Ok, for example, using ChatGPT to write out my email. That's been around for many, many years and I don't know how people have only just caught on to it. This isn't new technology. Yorue right that in the last couple of years, it has made life easier but like I say, this is nothing new

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edfosho1@reddit

So what if it isn't new technology? It's got to the point that tons more people are using it - that's the drastic change. I know the tech has been around for ages, but it's now that it's put in our faces and people are discovering how useful it can be.

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tetlee@reddit

> And, if you can't tell AI apart from true media, that's a you problem. If a larger portion of the population can't tell fiction from reality that'll become even more of an "us problem".

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MeltingChocolateAhh@reddit

True. I think people will learn eventually though. Like identifying a scam email. If I sent you an email claiming to be a Nigerian prince, you will quickly realise

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tetlee@reddit

Nigerian prince if obviously an easy example. Have a look at r/IsThisAI - some are though if you don't look hard. I like that sub, it's like a where's Wally of sorts

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Gary_BBGames@reddit

You give far too much credit to "people"

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minn3haha@reddit

Reminds me when Microsoft rebranded multiprocess as multithread and upper management went ohh ahh we got to have that. We already had it on Unix. In fairness Unix workstations were pricey and didn't run MSOffice.

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_gtat@reddit

This sounds like an AI generated response

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-TheHumorousOne-@reddit

For AI vids I struggled initially but you're about the distinct telltale signs. I saw one recently where Tupac was stood beside an old BMW 7 series, and was impressed it's still in great condition even after 28 years. Obviously that vid can't be real as Tupac died at the age of 25.

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WanderWithMe@reddit

Add "vibe coding" to the list. Yuck.

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boringdystopianslave@reddit

Or its straight up procedural tech that has been around for decades.

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ItsSuperDefective@reddit

I find it fascinating how quickly people have managed to conflate the general concept of "machine that thinks" with these current days language models and image generators.

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bubsy200@reddit

Agreed, it's simulated intelligence, not artificial intelligence.

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SeasonEquivalent3615@reddit

my favourites are when some new automated AI tech turns out to be data sent to a call centre in India for the humans there to analyse and send back

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SleipnirSolid@reddit

But it knows how smart and inciteful I am!

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Exciting_Agent4523@reddit

Completely agree. People seem to think we have created AI already. We haven’t… but everyone still calls it AI.

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AcceptableCustomer89@reddit

I 100% agree with you, and I hate calling it AI. But I've decided to just accept it as this bell now can't be unrung

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SnowMeltTiger@reddit

PRAR Pattern Recognition and Relocation Replication

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Big-Option3118@reddit

Speedrun

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TumbleweedMaterial53@reddit

The Americanism ‘picky eater’ - I just want to ram some veg, sauce/ gravy, fish ( whatever!) onto their plate and make them eat it!

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Itchy_Hunter_4388@reddit

Vibe and everything iteration of its use!

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SpecialDrama6865@reddit

crazy and insane.

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Chidoribraindev@reddit

"one of my top/favourites," especially when it's something with only a handful of options Anything after that is meaningless. People talk like they are scared of saying they really like something and it ruins their own point

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octopus_dance_party@reddit

When people say "Tell me (something) without telling me (something)"

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CaterpillarGrand642@reddit

based

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duke_of_germany_5@reddit

Holy cornball holy airball

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BuriedInRust@reddit

"Neurospicy"

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NoMind5964@reddit

Curated...we have curated the ultimate coffee blend for .... fuck right off! If it's to do with a museum or gallery...fair enough....everything else...get your pretentious head right out of your arse!

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Pembers84@reddit

Low block

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jaysilker7@reddit

‘It’s been a minute’

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Audiclint@reddit

“Back in the day” from people 20 years younger than me 😤

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Bellatrixforqueen@reddit

Ending a sentence with ‘right’ when you’re in the uk

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Aghhhdvark@reddit

One of my pet hates is “welp”

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Ok_Leadership_2967@reddit

Lives rent-free in my head

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miked999b@reddit

Cooked/slop.

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

Slop can stay, it's a good word for what it's describing.

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Ok-Decision403@reddit

I don't know. "Slop" to me is quite an onomatopoeic word, so I associate it with some kind of sloshy food/sewage. AI drivel isn't sloshy, so I find it jarring. Although I guess "AI slop" has a better ring to it than "AI sewage" ...

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VinegaryMildew@reddit

Bruh

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madcapsule010@reddit

Cooked

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catboodle@reddit

Lowkey

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infcookie@reddit

Not fit for purpose

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patrickb1920@reddit

Loaded

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After_Ice2003@reddit

Literally Literal 6-7 (I only heard that one for the first time three weeks ago and within days it was making me feel like I wanted to go live off grid). Cringe Like- as in, saying 'like' every few words in a sentence.

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jacspe@reddit

“Literally” when its not literal.

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yearsofpractice@reddit

49 year old father of two. What needs to stop is my kids (and every kid) using an incredulous ***”Wait…! What?!”*** at the start of every sentence: - Me: “Would you like a sandwich?” -Kids: “Wait…! What?! A sandwich?!” - Me: (Sighs) “Yes, a sandwich. Would you like a sandwich?” - Kids: “Yes please. Cheese please” - Me: “Sorry - only have ham” - Kids: “Wait…! What?!” Etc etc ET-FUCKING-CETERA

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Prestigious-Candy166@reddit

"Awesome." It overused to the point where it has become utterly meaningless... used for anything and everything between a reasonable beefburger, to galaxies colliding.

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ExtremeAnywhere8342@reddit

“Chefs kiss”

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Disgruntled__Goat@reddit

Written down, fine. Overused but it makes sense. People saying the words out loud instead of, y’know, doing the chefs kiss, is insane.

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Mundo7@reddit

fucking this 1000%

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notouttolunch@reddit

You could just have started a new thread for this irritating phrase instead of posting it under here.

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TheMagicTorch@reddit

What you said is also annoying 😂

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Aggressive_Poet_7059@reddit

"Crash out" and for the tik tik brain rot crowd "6 ,7"

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WujekZenek@reddit

oftentimes

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Plastic_Package5296@reddit

My daughter has started saying ‘oh my days’ quite a lot recently and it just makes me shudder inside 🤦‍♂️

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Kitimatgirl@reddit

To be honest

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the-TARDIS-ran-away@reddit

People weaponising therapy speak and using the word boundary to control what others do.

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BigGreenMeeples@reddit

Cooked

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_ShredBundy@reddit

Reading anything on social media that’s been posted by the younger generation, hurts my brain. They just talk in buzzwords now.

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beernon@reddit

Younger generations are developing a sort of ADHD-adjacent disorder from their addiction to short form video platforms, as well as a general lack of exposure to the world in the traditional sense. I’m watching it in my little brother and it’s depressing, it’s a slow crisis brewing in the background. We’ve created and really finessed the “junk food” model of media and it’s rotting us from the inside.

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Kelsiersdaggers@reddit

Yeah. Yeah it’s just the younger generation. Spoke to your parents recently?

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Norfhynorfh@reddit

You dont think theres a difference between every other generation and this one that has grown up with tiktok?

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Kelsiersdaggers@reddit

I think it’s damaging for everyone tbh, but the most damage seems to be done to the over 50s in my experience.

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Norfhynorfh@reddit

What makes you say that? The kids are growing up with it warping their minds. People in their 50s have already lived without it. Sounds like just old people bashing to me

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Kelsiersdaggers@reddit

Call it whatever you like, I can only judge on the impact apps lol Facebook reels and YouTube shorts have had on older people I know. They lack the critical thinking skills to question what’s real and not, get whipped up into a frenzy over clearly fake social media posts about immigrants or trans people, can’t discern what is AI and what isn’t. The teenagers say silly things they heard online. News flash, we all did that. I’m not arguing this short form video content isn’t damaging I’m arguing the older people who taught us not to believe everything we seen on tv didn’t apply that lesson to their social media feed. But sure, old people bashing.

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KetracelYellow@reddit

Darmok and Jalad… at Tanagra

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Kelsiersdaggers@reddit

Calm down Jean-luc

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beernon@reddit

Agree with you, older generations have fallen prey to this nonsense just as hard as younger ones have however I guess the key difference is their brains have already developed without this sickness, as long as we ignore the generations of lead poisoning. Kids are actively rotting during key developmental stages.

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Ok_Net4562@reddit

Yeah whats worse: kids saying "6-7" all day or boomers being manipulated into a civil race war whilst handing all our generational wealth over to billionaires.

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Ambitious-Win-9408@reddit

Can I be sad about both things?

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Ok_Net4562@reddit

Sure buddy, its your special day.

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Ambitious-Win-9408@reddit

Thanks man.

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Kelsiersdaggers@reddit

I’m going to be honest, the teenagers I know seem fairly level headed, people over 57 seem to have had personality transplants. They told us not to believe everything we seen on tv, they believe everything their algorithm feeds them. This is, of course, anecdotal, but it’s just been my observation.

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SaltyName8341@reddit

Luckily my late 70s parents understand what is going on and my dad has a personal score of 2 hours and 13 minutes on holding a scammer on a call.(Not getting scammed)

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Ok_Net4562@reddit

My 65yo dad called me a woke lefty on christmas day coz i told him to stop saying "p*k*" in front of my kids. Hes never been like this until becoming obsessed with facebook

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shredditorburnit@reddit

Can we just agree that being an idiot has no age limit?

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Captain_Stable@reddit

Shaka, when the walls fell.

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Jeggasyn@reddit

Hot take

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-TheHumorousOne-@reddit

I have absolutely no idea what the difference between a hot take and a cold take. What's a normal take, lukewarm?

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funfun151@reddit

Dear _ShredBundy, I write today in hope I find you well. Things back at home are normal and mundane. I was browsing the social periodicals and noticed your plea to the young to become more loquacious and nuanced in their speech–peppering it with enriching adjectives and seeding it with unspoken nuance. I wanted to share that I, too, long for the communique standards of yesteryear, in which one was freer to express oneself with the fullest regard and respect for that our mother tongue, the King’s English. Festooned as they are with nonsequitors and base cant the likes of which one might hear in a den of iniquity, it is a wonder indeed they manage to navigate polite society. Warmest Regards, Funfun151

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TheLoneEcho@reddit

Be still my beating heart. Phwoar.

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notouttolunch@reddit

A couple of spelling mistakes in here. Especially the last line which should have said "Sir Humphrey Appleby"

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TheYorkshireGripper@reddit

Makes sense considering content online now is all just short form, back in our day you had a 2 and a half minute viral video of a woman talking about having bronchitis, now you have a 4 second video of someone shouting 6 7 and then it's viral. Makes sense that slang and vocabulary would also shorter as people sit back and realise, what's the point in saying so much when you can say so little.

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Three_Steaks_Pam@reddit

Yea fr

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poshbakerloo@reddit

I was just about to mention "Cooked"

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TRFKTA@reddit

Reading questions on Reddit like ‘Am I cooked?’ my response is usually are you particularly sunburnt? If not, then no, you are not ‘cooked’.

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SeasonEquivalent3615@reddit

bruh 💀

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Express_Possibility5@reddit

Hot take

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the-TARDIS-ran-away@reddit

Then giving the least hot take ever.

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Motor_Possibility_22@reddit

I manifested it….

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Plastic_Package5296@reddit

My sister just said what is your new years manifestations instead of resolutions and I wanted to drop kick her 🤣

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AmethystCaverns@reddit

"banger" or "lowkey"

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Mondaycomestoosoon@reddit

Bet

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Gratuitous_sax_@reddit

There’s two for me, they’re usually used in the same context though. Some faux deep and meaningful phrase or story that has been repeatedly copied, occasionally attributed to an anonymous friend/child, and it ends with either “_and I felt that_” or “_read that again_”.

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TickTackTonia@reddit

"WE WAS". When did it happen then?

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RufusBowland@reddit

I went to secondary school in the SE and a lot of people said this. I assumed it was dialect.

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MiskyWisky2791@reddit

The only acceptable version of this is “I were…” when said in the Yorkshire accent

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TickTackTonia@reddit

Okay. But in a Southern accent, will send ye off. Cornish might forgive

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EveMonsoon@reddit

Spicy, unless it’s being used in the context of actual spice.

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MiskyWisky2791@reddit

“Neurospicy” actually annoys me so much as someone who is neurodivergent

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RufusBowland@reddit

Same here. And it’s always the types who’ve seen something on TikTok and have decided to make it their entire personality. Why do you want a condition (or five) which makes life bloody hard work far too often?

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boringdystopianslave@reddit

It is what it is. Stop saying thought terminating cliches in a time when change is sorely needed.

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hoody13@reddit

6-7. Has to be that

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LCFCJIM@reddit

Coloured flags for everything. The phrase "ick" being used by people over the age of 3.

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Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit

‘Oh sweet summer child’. Most annoying thing Redditors say by far

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Moppo_@reddit

That phrase always makes the person saying it sound like a condescending twat, instead of expressing whatever it is they thought it would.

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RufusBowland@reddit

Whatever gets retired needs to be replaced with chinny reckON.

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Scarboroughwarning@reddit

Lol! So good to to hear that again Chinny chinny used to frustrate even the most placid. It was brutal

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thefreeDaves@reddit

Here’s a few: Holibobs Starting sentences with ‘ so ‘, ‘ I mean ‘, ‘ like ‘ Reaching out David Walliams

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Adam-West@reddit

Unalive, unserious, anything along those lines.

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Moppo_@reddit

In context those censor-avoiding phrases were funny, but used everywhere they do get annoying.

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AvailableYam2484@reddit

Ugh, please be "This is the way"

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Moppo_@reddit

Mandalorians used to be cool.

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Objective_Mousse7216@reddit

AI slpp

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myloxyloto1987@reddit

I used to work with a lad who instead of saying "specific" he'd say "pacific"

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Whulad@reddit

Oh my god

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myloxyloto1987@reddit

Legit.

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Individual-Gur-7292@reddit

I hate ‘did not pass the vibe check’

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Embarrassed_Ad1722@reddit

The 6 7 bullshit. I swear every time I hear it I despair how brain dead kids are becoming.

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Rootes_Radical@reddit

When I was a kid, everyone I knew including me pretty much talked absolute shit 24/7. They’re just winding you up and it’s working.

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Embarrassed_Ad1722@reddit

There's a difference. We used to repeat stuff ad nauseam as well but at least it had sense. All the catch phrases and words had some logical meaning. This is the opposite.

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HibeesBounce@reddit

yeah, we would repeat whatever we saw on the tv the night before - particularly catchphrase-based sketch shows.

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Rootes_Radical@reddit

Which was nice

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Delicious-Cause-5596@reddit

"I'll die on this hill" Hurry up,then we don't have to listen to it anymore

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Moppo_@reddit

My favourite use of that was "Weird hill to die on, but at least you're dead"

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Comfortable_Task5533@reddit

"bro"

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aChocolateFireGuard@reddit

‘This is the way’ ‘Simples’

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RecentTwo544@reddit

Has anyone used "simples" since about 2010?

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Moppo_@reddit

I don't even think I've heard the meerkat say it in years.

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aChocolateFireGuard@reddit

I see it on facebook a fair bit still tbh, drives me mad

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MiskyWisky2791@reddit

Honestly the only time I’ve ever heard it used is on the Compare The Market tv advert

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YarnPenguin@reddit

It's usually used at the end of a racist rant when the poster thinks they have been particularly convincing and/ or that they have demonstrated "common sense"

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GeggingIn@reddit

Shame. I like The Mandalorian. Luckily, never seen it used outside of Reddit.

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SunAndStratocasters@reddit

How on earth has nobody mentioned Lives rent free

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jambounchained1882@reddit

Mid

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rollo-treadway@reddit

super instead of very

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MostTattyBojangles@reddit

To be fair you have it hammered into you in secondary school English to avoid using words like very, and nice, in favour of more exciting superlatives.

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Magical_Mariposa@reddit

“It’s giving…..” Or when someone stays “STOP ITTTTT” when you’re just telling them a normal story.

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poshbakerloo@reddit

"The UK is finished"

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BoxWonderful5393@reddit

People who laugh at something and say "I can't (literally) can't breathe"

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HibeesBounce@reddit

I actually see "I can't breath" about 50% of time

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notouttolunch@reddit

This does actually happen...

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pacondition@reddit

"One of the best to ever do it.."

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gijoe438@reddit

Unprecedented. Politicians and journalists seem to love squeezing this in. It seems like pretty much everything that's happened in the last 5 years has been without precedent

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HibeesBounce@reddit

Politicians' favourite. It's their way of saying "don't blame us"

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IcySoil7719@reddit

I'm so tired of hearing "I was today years old" for every mildly interesting fact. Let's also add "core memory unlocked" to the list while we're at it.

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Firebrand777@reddit

I told the new cleaner at work on Wednesday I’d be leaving at 4:30. Her response? “You do you” Wtf.

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TankFoster@reddit

>Her response? 😄 I'm not having a go at you, but **that** is the thing I desperately want to die out. The fake question thing that people use in posts.

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gregofdeath@reddit

People can't even write simple comments without running it through ChatGPT first. The fake questions are as big a tell as its overuse of em dashes.

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thecrowsarehere@reddit

I don't think op used chat gpt but rather chat gpt generated text is becoming so common that people are starting to write like chat gpt

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MostTattyBojangles@reddit

How do you reckon these LLMs adopted this style of writing in the first place? It’s been tainted because it’s become the voice of AI but it came from us first.

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ForwardImagination71@reddit

The phrase "100%".

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ceehred@reddit

"that London"

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mrs_shrew@reddit

That always reminds me of the three scousers from Harry Enfield sketches, so I have a little giggle

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BungadinRidesAgain@reddit

Ah the monthly AskUK 'I don't like changes in language' thread has returned. The words 'pissing' and 'wind' come to mind!

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HibeesBounce@reddit

Oh - "the words X and Y come to mind" is one of mine. Just say the idiom. How much time did that save you?

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notouttolunch@reddit

I don't hear people say this very often.

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Braylien@reddit

We got x before GTA6, please god let that game come out so I can stop seeing people think that is a funny comment.

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Thoughtful_Tortoise@reddit

Mother or mommy.

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reflect-on-this@reddit

This. This is the way.

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Lazy_Composer6990@reddit

Slop. I get the impetus behind its use, particularly against AI, but it's just becoming lazy now.

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Thoughtful_Tortoise@reddit

Ironic

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ForwardImagination71@reddit

"Gorgeous" to describe anything that isn't a person.

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West-Marionberry-249@reddit

The unprecedented use of unprecedented.

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Rig-check@reddit

Y'all

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qooplmao@reddit

"Tell me xxx without telling me xxx'

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Ashamed_Caregiver_22@reddit

Fr fr bro, he's deadass high key / low key killing it

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Mantis_Tobaggon_MD2@reddit

Glazed

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Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit

One of the worst language trends ever

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SnooBunnies1070@reddit

gatekeep

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HibeesBounce@reddit

I mean, it's overused but like gaslighting - it's a real thing and we don't really have a better word for it

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Choice_Associate7948@reddit

“Like” But like, I’m the worst offender but it like really annoys me.

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rammedearth@reddit

People using the word ‘actively’ in a redundant way

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sarhu1@reddit

Based

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Ben750@reddit

I'm still not even sure what that means.

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Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit

A really good take

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sarhu1@reddit

Me neither, my friend who is nearing 40 used it the other day really loudly in public to describe a man she liked 😳 She did something similar last year with another word she’d recently discovered and I made her explain what it meant. I had too much second hand embarrassment to get into it this time. Wish I could remember what she said now.

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teenytinytexas@reddit

Topped

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notouttolunch@reddit

I think topped doesn't count as slang. It's been around for decades.

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craigr07572@reddit

Woke

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hydrocotyle99@reddit

"So much this" on reddit. Will never happen though. "So much this"me :)

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HibeesBounce@reddit

"You have articulated my point better than I ever could but I still crave upvotes for a dopamine hit"

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D0wnb0at@reddit

So much this

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Rexel450@reddit

Solution and going forward..

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Buck_Slamchest@reddit

"Leftists"

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rainbowyOctopus@reddit

1. For real. “Fr” 2. Low-key 3. Skills issue

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PureDeidBrilliant@reddit

"Lessons will be learned". Fuck off with that nonsense.

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DeltaPapaWhisky@reddit

“…gives me the ick”. Fuck off. You’re not 6. Speak properly.

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Glittering_Cat3639@reddit

I had to scroll too far down to find this. It makes my skin crawl!

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E3JEN6@reddit

Overstimulated

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tinkerballer@reddit

Also “hyperfixation” when they actually mean “thing I’m currently interested in”.

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Vivid-Berry-559@reddit

“My [granny/auntie/butcher/chef/gardener] taught me this” No, they didn’t.

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chickencake88@reddit

Saying 100% in reply to fucking ANYTHING.

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Twiddly-Thumbs@reddit

Strategy… people use it to claim they are doing something when they are actually doing fuck all!

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Rastadan1@reddit

Crisis- particularly in the UK media.

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GainsAndPastries@reddit (OP)

Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday…

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datscrivs@reddit

My 12 year old autistic step-daughter sings this on repeat on a daily basis. Let's just say the hatred for that ad is real!

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grunt56@reddit

DARLING HOLD MY HaAND!

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josoap99@reddit

My kids love singing it. DOLLY ON MY HEAD

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SleipnirSolid@reddit

Aaw bum! I only heard that meme during 2025 Pride and barely got to understand the meme. Now it's already outdated! 😔

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Educational_Bowl_447@reddit

What made it worse was when Donald Dump’s ICE used it to promote deportation. Sickening.

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ukpunjabivixen@reddit

“….and right now you can….”

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TickTackTonia@reddit

Jet 2 crashes = entire airline gone.

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_ShredBundy@reddit

That trend was actually quite funny until people started using it on videos that had nothing to do holidays or travel.

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DoctorOctagonapus@reddit

The compilation they showed on Big Fat Quiz was good.

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oscarx-ray@reddit

"cringe" as an adjective. "Cringeworthy" already exists for a reason

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novazemblan@reddit

I guess by jettison all these excess syllables the language is streamlining itself. Or decaying, either one.

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oscarx-ray@reddit

I am a snob when it comes to language, but I try to let things slide. Literally and cringe have done my nut in though.

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smelliepoo@reddit

6 flipping 7

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fantasticdave74@reddit

“Oh my days”

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Eastern-Leopard-2866@reddit

It’s a You thing

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Individual-Newt6478@reddit

Literally....

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TheTinman369@reddit

"Unc"

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Neither_March4000@reddit

Trauma

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wintsykia@reddit

I want to never hear ‘lives in my head rent free’ ever again please!

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Farsydi@reddit

Unserious. Everyone you say that about is very serious about what they are doing. You mean ridiculous.

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BuffsBrowns@reddit

6 fucking 7

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Midnightraven3@reddit

I was today years old Protect this man/woman at all costs This video gets blurry after a few seconds Not to be dramatic but I would die for dog/old man

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SelectTrash@reddit

Not retired, but when people say they're antisocial when they actually mean asocial, as that means they like spending their time in solitude. In contrast, antisocial means they tend to have a blatant disregard for rules and people.

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notouttolunch@reddit

I've read this several times and can't work out why you put "not retired" at the start of this...

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Figure8712@reddit

They mean it in response to the original question "what phrase do you want retired in 2026?" They are answering "I do not want this retired, because it's a valid word, but it needs to stop being used incorrectly."

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notouttolunch@reddit

So it belongs on a different thread then. I see. Maybe they should construct entire sentences to help them be understood. Perhaps their grammar is cooked.

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browsingredditsubs@reddit

No it doesn't. Antisocial means avoiding social contact with people. [Literal dictionary definition here](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/antisocial).

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96JY@reddit

Aura

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Proud_Durian6956@reddit

67

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RevolutionaryDebt200@reddit

"........ sleeps until....." - You're not 5 "You smashed/killed/nailed it" - just, no! The pause to try and create tension where none exists (usually on talent shows) "This means everything/the world to me" - no, it's a talent show and you are 1 of 20000. Your life will not end if you don't win

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Puzzleheaded_Drink76@reddit

I didn't have xxx on my bingo card for this year

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notouttolunch@reddit

Who puts adult material on their bingo cards?

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Gnomio1@reddit

“It’s giving…”

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TimetravellingElf@reddit

'we was' instead of 'we were'

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notouttolunch@reddit

Is this an overused phrase? This is just someone who doesn't know how to construct a sentence properly. I will always correct it.

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Happiest_Mango24@reddit

introvert/extrovert At least until people start using them correctly. They are not the same as social anxiety

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elvpak@reddit

On here especially. Introversion and shyness/anxiety are totally separate things. The sad part is people who have the latter then end up thinking they are an introvert so think there is nothing they can do, when anxiety often is actually treatable.

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notouttolunch@reddit

*So* as a means to start a sentence. Implies that something is missing from the start.

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Apprehensive_Court_9@reddit

"am I cooked"

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CraigTheBrewer12@reddit

This guy is definitely cooked, amirite chat?

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CheeseGhosty@reddit

ChatGPT is this guy cooked?

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rufio259@reddit

Starting a sentence with 'obviously' when what you're saying isn't remotely obvious.

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boredsittingonthebus@reddit

I used to work on a helpline where people called in for information on employment rights. They'd tell you their story, often full of this word. There was a short spell when my colleague and I kept a tally for a laugh. In one call I heard it 20+ times - I forget the exact number. The funny thing is, what they're explaining isn't obvious at all. In one call, a guy said he'd received an accidental bonus of £10,000 when he knew he was supposed to get £1,000. Payroll brought it up with him a week later, saying he needs to pay £9K back. "They said they wanted it back, but obviously I'd already spent most of it". How is that obvious? It's the opposite of what any sensible person would choose to do!

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lamaldo78@reddit

God thank you. I feel like I'm going crazy with this as I hear it ALL THE TIME. If it's so obvious it's not worth mentioning then is it?

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Alibaba-1989@reddit

Thank you, massive peeve of mine. Like what am I dumb if I don’t find it obvious?

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rufio259@reddit

And also, no one is assuming the person saying something is obvious has low intelligence to warrant that being masked with some outside knowledge being passed off as obvious. I'm sure someone hurt them.

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Recent_Can_2185@reddit

Bro.

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Suspicious_Field_429@reddit

Especially when used by middle aged men who hang about with twenty year olds whilst having a midlife crisis (Nothing to see here officer)

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ceehred@reddit

"bruh" also

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Jeggasyn@reddit

Bro, wtf? Bruh and bro been going multiple decades and is enshrined in language. Us bros gotta stick together.

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ceehred@reddit

Hah! Now you've upset me, I'm going to add "blud" to the list... However, "fam"... I'm kinda warming to. Yeah, I'm fickle!

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Lunchy_Bunsworth@reddit

Can we add "bruv" to the list. Along with "geez" (short for geezer) and possibly unique to parts of London.

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sakmentoloki@reddit

How everything is a fucking hack... No it's just how to the whatever item you are talking about. You aren't special for peeling a banana in a slightly different way

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-Not-Today-Satan@reddit

“Is it?”

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bqw74@reddit

Lowkey

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Unique-Seesaw-1415@reddit

Can’t park there mate, only wankers say it.

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LunnyBear@reddit

' my guy '

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Fluffy-Astronomer604@reddit

My G?

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williamshatnersbeast@reddit

‘My brother in Christ’

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lamaldo78@reddit

Bro!

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CraigTheBrewer12@reddit

Literally. I very rarely see literally used in the correct context now. “It’s literally -50 degrees outside”. No it’s not Steve, it’s a bit cold but that’s because it’s fucking winter.

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math577@reddit

Unalived

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arjay555@reddit

Core memory. Please let this cringe phrase die off already. *Generic video of a kid scoring a goal in his back garden*. Comments: “core memory for that little guy ❤️”. Oh fuck off!

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9thfloorprod@reddit

Everything being described as "wild"

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squidgytree@reddit

Adding the word _vibes_ to anything and everything needs to end

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gander8622@reddit

I've seen a couple of post titles that end with "What do?" It makes me think that dog from the clear score ads is posting

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Owseefather@reddit

Does that make sense?

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MonrealEstate@reddit

Also ‘make it make sense’

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lamaldo78@reddit

Can't stand that one.

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justbiteme2k@reddit

"as a 30 year old American in London..." No one gives a shit mate, we get it, each country is different, move on with your life.

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Alarming_Oil5419@reddit

Nigel

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OffGridToTheMoon@reddit

100% (or even worse, anything over 100%) To be 100% certain of something means you probably haven't thought about it enough. I don't actually think it's possible to be more than 100% certain of something.

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Slow-Bodybuilder-972@reddit

Wild

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edgeofsanity76@reddit

'actually insane', 'imagine', ,'bro', 'cooked', 'based af' They can all fuck off

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real_light_sleeper@reddit

“FTFY blah blah. “ How about I fix your face for you?

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No_Inspector2925@reddit

I would like it very much if people stopped beginning written sentences with, “So,…” It doesn’t bother me in spoken English, it’s a sort of hesitation indicator; however, it annoys me whenever I see it written and brings about antagonistic feelings, even if the overall sentiment of the post is perfectly reasonable. For example, a post stating, “So, this year I really hope we do more to protect our oceans” would for the briefest moment have me thinking about buying more single use plastics. For the record I don’t act on those impulses, I just suppress and hope someone creates a post like this where I can let it out.

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Superb-Act-3201@reddit

Bro and low key.

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ForsakenRoom@reddit

"Not me..." before a statement of something the person might or might not be doing in reaction to some media

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dcute69@reddit

The overuse of bro in every sentence

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ForsakenRoom@reddit

POV as the caption on videos. Especially ones that aren't actually a POV video.

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Popular-History1015@reddit

“Like”, “Literally”, “I Mean…”, “So…”, “D’ya Know What I Mean?”, “POV”, “I/We were like” For our TransAtlantic English speakers, please learn the difference between the words “Bring” and “Take”…. I will jump off my soapbox and learn the proper use of speech marks, in the meantime as I am sure I have used them incorrectly here….

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thiswayup82@reddit

" Unprecedented " However this has gladly reduced in comparison to the amount it was banded around in the Covid era

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Nathan_DUB_LON@reddit

He was like...and I was like...

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theonetruethingfish@reddit

This didn’t happen so much it unhappened things…

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Kelsiersdaggers@reddit

Who the fuck has ever said this? Other than you.

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theonetruethingfish@reddit

The same people as those who say “of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the most”.

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Hi-its-Mothy@reddit

“Obsessed”. It annoys me so much when people claim they are obsessed with some trivial new purchase.

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JinxThePetRock@reddit

'Touch grass.'

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Tall-Paul-UK@reddit

Vibes It's giving xx vibes.

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Ok_Net4562@reddit

"Its giving"

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5c0ttgreen@reddit

This.

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Ok-Flight-7156@reddit

This!

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TSC-99@reddit

I don’t think people got it

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5c0ttgreen@reddit

Yeah that doesn’t deserve the downvotes, it made me chuckle.

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Barnolds_Den@reddit

“Generational”

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bonjajr@reddit

Fam

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autofill-name@reddit

Gifted

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blac4bird1@reddit

Influencer

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Comfortable_Sir_9672@reddit

"I'm bawling" at anything remotely emotional, apparently people are crying their eyes out while double screening and posting on Reddit

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Inattentive_Suspect@reddit

Usual suspects

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Automatic-Scale-7572@reddit

There are so many excellent suggestions, but my current bugbear went unmentioned: YMMV. This is the one that makes me want to do a Basil Fawlty impression on a passing car.

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MindlessMarsupial592@reddit

'not gonna lie'

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Jungletron@reddit

Not gonna lie. I should fucking hope not. Always hated it. So you sometimes lie?

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8bitPete@reddit

Cooked

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siybon@reddit

Elite Aura Don't sleep on Headcanon

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ab00@reddit

enshittification

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Crafty-Sprinkles3470@reddit

Lush! Really don’t like it

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cdh79@reddit

Like.

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mrafinch@reddit

“AI slop” We get it, you’re cool. It sounds stupid and so do you

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ASY_Freddy@reddit

If you know you know

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TSC-99@reddit

Mindful

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Sad-Benefit-2732@reddit

Literally

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Guiseppe_Martini@reddit

Stenhousery

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mackle01@reddit

"Ahh" instead of ass.

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Majestic-Case-316@reddit

“Have a good rest of the day.” Please stop this!

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StormofSteelWargames@reddit

Off of

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StormofSteelWargames@reddit

My [X] taught me this

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Boris-the-liar@reddit

Dry January

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imstuman@reddit

"This is so me"

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MahatmaAndhi@reddit

Don't sleep on Hits different Unironically

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Firebrand777@reddit

Omg I can’t stand “hits different”

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Meat2480@reddit

Offense,defense, gotten, cheater, airplane, racecar etc etc

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notthrowaway9@reddit

Not being funny but… It’s giving… Starting sentences with ‘no but actually though’ or ‘wait…’ 🎶 AND PROBABLY WILL BE FOR LIFE… time casts a spell on you 🎶

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GreenWoodDragon@reddit

"You're welcome", when used sarcastically. Seems to be a particular favourite of lycia clad cyclists when forced to stop at a zebra crossing, or when they deign to not run you over on a junction.

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tradingsincesilkroad@reddit

Unprecedented

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GlassCrepe@reddit

"could care less" instead of "couldn't care less"

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Ochib@reddit

Idiot sandwich

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gpowerf@reddit

"To be honest"... so are you usually dishonest?

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Round_Hospital_654@reddit

Checks notes

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Various-Baker7047@reddit

Super. Why is everything super all of a sudden?

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FustyFossil@reddit

People saying generally instead of genuinely

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EUskeptik@reddit

“It is what it is.” 🤮

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Tanto207064@reddit

Bro

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PsychologicalRip7169@reddit

'Wildly'

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Away-Activity-469@reddit

Hits different

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cragglerock93@reddit

'Crisis'. I'm so tired of every single problem being labelled as a crisis. No there is not a pothole crisis, there's just too many potholes. And there isn't a gambling crisis or an inflation crisis.

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SirTimmons@reddit

“Someone’s getting fired for this….” Doled out by losers selling tat on TikTok. No-one’s getting fired are they mate? You’re selling it at the price dictated by TikTok / China.

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Accomplished-Salt797@reddit

I Can't.

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CuredMeatAndCheese@reddit

"Aura" and "Era".

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gibgod@reddit

“Give them their flowers”

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SM_83@reddit

Aura

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PaleImagination7348@reddit

"Game changer"

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McCretin@reddit

“I didn’t have [x] on my 2026 bingo card”

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rohepey@reddit

*Right to self-defence*.

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Available_Bowl_6299@reddit

Way to out yourself as mossad hahaha

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rohepey@reddit

Do you even know what Mossad is? No, it's not a chatbot.

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Available_Bowl_6299@reddit

*takes a bow* You're welcome everyone

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LavishnessTiny3621@reddit

Goat(ed).

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IsyABM@reddit

Everything being 'diabolical'

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MGBoulton@reddit

“I love that for you”

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slonkycat@reddit

‘This’

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Aggressive-Salt-1667@reddit

POV

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EmergencyFig1146@reddit

‘ts’

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EmergencyFig1146@reddit

Honorable mention: « you’re so funny please don’t go bald »

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Large-Lettuce-7940@reddit

its giving

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mcneill12@reddit

Crash out (unless it’s a race and they literally crash). We’re not American.

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Feintasy@reddit

"Like"

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Not-a-Cranky-Panda@reddit

Yesterday I was watching a true life crime TV show and had to turn it off as the brother of a missing man was talking the most. He just keep doping the word Like into every line, multiply times. Sometimes more than once n one go. It was "Like like" or "Like like like" or even Like and like" when the word "and" also had nothing to do with what he was saying. I just could not make out what he was trying to say.

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ItsShaneMcE@reddit

Filler words as a general are annoying. Erm, like, literally, ah & and when a pause would work. I find a lot of people use filler words when they don’t want people to interrupt their train of thought. Usually a learned behaviour so I don’t begrudge them

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MelodicAd2213@reddit

Feels instead of feelings. I’d maybe forgive a four year old for saying that but not a 24 year old

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Oh-okthen@reddit

Iconic

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MelodicAd2213@reddit

Yes nothing can be iconic surely if every bloody thing is.

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bobbijix@reddit

“Cockwomble” and similar.

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ItsShaneMcE@reddit

‘More better’. It’s a double comparative and not correct use of the language.

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squirrrrrm@reddit

Lowkey

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PsychologicalTowel79@reddit

Journey.

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PsychologicalTowel79@reddit

[r/CantParkThereMate](https://www.reddit.com/r/CantParkThereMate/)

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ClaryClarysage@reddit

'It's giving \_\_\_\_'

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Not-a-Cranky-Panda@reddit

"Like" every other word sometimes. Yesterday I was watching a true life crime TV show and had to turn it off as the brother of a missing man was talking the most. He just keep doping the word Like into every line, multiply times. Sometimes more than once n one go. It was "Like like" or "Like like like" or even Like and like" when the word "and" also had nothing to do with what he was saying. I just could not make out what he was trying to say.

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Fun-Talk-1540@reddit

NGL, Cant lie, arkanlay

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spatz_uk@reddit

Tell me you know nothing about xxx without telling me…

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GeggingIn@reddit

Ick.

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GeggingIn@reddit

My truth.

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BromleyReject@reddit

I'm leaning into this

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Mr_Bobby_D_@reddit

6,7 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Dissidant@reddit

I'm torn between feeling out of touch for not actually know what it is all about and being grateful because of the fuss other people have made about it

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nonotthereta@reddit

I spend 0% of my time with kids, so 100% of my encounters with 6-7 have been older people saying how annoying it is. Ergo, all of the annoyance I feel towards 6-7 is actually created by people saying it's annoying.

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AdministrativeTea500@reddit

It is what it is

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BBCTerry@reddit

Fam, Bruh, Slay, Woke and that 6 a 7 nonsense.

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TalynRahl@reddit

Xslop. Getting bored of the word slop being tagged onto the end of anything to signify it being bad. CapeSlop (superhero movies) ShonenSlop (manga/anime) HetSlop (NGL, no idea what this one means, and the poster was hyper aggressive so I was too scared to ask). But yeah. Already sick of it.

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Red_Galaxy746@reddit

"Literally" when it's overused or misused

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Leader_Bee@reddit

Hard agree/disagree

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ajtyler776@reddit

“Stop staring at my tits”. Gets old

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Round_Hospital_654@reddit

Wild

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Silver_Assignment673@reddit

Ate and left no crumbs

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geekroick@reddit

'Iconic'

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ClimbsNFlysThings@reddit

Level 10 rage bait

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St0rmStrider@reddit

Literally

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escuchameray@reddit

Where’s your head at?

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Cranberry64@reddit

Bless him/her

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