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“It Hurts My Soul”: People Share 48 Slang Words They Just Can’t Stand
It is human to have pet peeves—things that make the vein on your forehead pop just from thinking about them. It is also pretty common for them to stem from language, especially considering the impact of internet slang and an absurd number of acronyms in social media or texting. Amirite? Lol.
The AskReddit community is once again brimming with answers, this time—to the question of what slang word or term can drive a person insane. The responses are some pretty cringe expressions, which prompt people to close their eyes and sigh in disappointment.
Browse the list to see if you feel the need to cover your eyes as well after seeing these slang terms. If you do, check out these British phrases that are absolutely loved by non-Brits to see if you can find any substitutes.
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#1
“I could care less” drives me absolutely bonkers! I **could** care less, implies you do care at least some. I **couldn’t** care less, means you literally don’t care at all.
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#2
"of" instead of "have": * must of * should of * could of * would of [don’t care] you're killing me.
#3
Any person who spells anything as "baby talk". Replace letters with a W to sound younger. It's weird, it's creepy, and I'm sick of seeing people saying things like "I'm sowey" or "hewwo" like either stop, or rip out my eyes Edit: [darn], not to be that person lol but thx for the upvotes
#5
I'll be honest, the "Karen" calling has gotten out of hand. Most of the time it doesn't even apply anymore. Anyone who ever speaks against anything you do is a Karen these days.
#6
Doggo, pupper, fur baby. I work in the veterinary field and I once turned down a job because we were required to refer to the pets as fur babies and the humans as pet parents. I have no problem calling someone "Mom" or "Dad" to their dog or cat, if that's what they prefer. It was the *required* cutesy language that irritated me.
#8
Woke. Every second moron who thinks they're cool is using it, and often in the wrong context.
#10
I personally can’t stand when people are voicing for animals and say “hooman.” Drives me f*****g insane, I hate that I even had to type it out for this.
#11
Cray cray. My 65 year old coworker says it all the time. Taking "crazy" 1 word 2 syllables and replacing it with "cray cray" 2 words 1 syllable each word is annoying in and of itself. But hearing it from a grown a*s man just adds to the cringe.
#13
When someone asks for advice or asks a question on social media and says "and GO!" "Restaurant recommendations in Brooklyn.. and GO"
#14
"Tell me you're this thing, without telling me you're thing this" Stop already. My wife overuses this and I cringe every time.
#16
I've noticed that people in the corporate environment are using "ask" as a noun in place of "request." I know language changes but it just seems unnecessary. "The ask from the customer is....." I'm not sure what it is about this usage that irritates me, but it makes me grind my teeth, I swear.
#17
Jelly for Jealous - what are we, 2 years old? Thunderboomers for thunderstorms - again, how old are we?
#22
When memes start with “No one: “ Adds nothing to the meme. I get that it means unprovoked but sometimes I feel like I’m having a stroke reading “no one: Me: eating ice cream alone at 3am”
#23
I don't know if this counts, but I can't stand people replying "this" to comments on here. Go ahead I know what you're about to do...
#24
I loathe most of the obnoxious words people will use to avoid saying [private part]. [private part]. Vajayjay. Girly bits/parts. The list could go on and on. I don't mind the cruder stuff, like [private part], c**t, etc. But the thirty year old women who use elementary school lingo to discuss their [private part] just make me insane.
#25
One of my coworkers uses “Gucci” as good. I must have missed when they became popular or it’s his own thing but it makes me cringe.
#27
None of them really drive me insane. I've always had an "amused old man" attitude towards it, even when I was a teenager. When I hear a new slang word I'll just chuckle and go, "kids say the darndest things."
#28
"drip" in reference to, apparently, being well dressed. I can't work out how that happened. it sounds like an STD.
#30
It's kinda falling off but "low key" became much to overused and people were just using it as filler. On reddit there are certain buzzwords that seem to catch fire and spread through the whole site that I despise. They get used to the point that most people using them have no idea what they actually mean. A current one is "gaslighting." Gaslighting isn't just when someone says something that is untrue or something you don't like. It's a specific thing.
#33
I hate quotes that say “read that again” at the end. It makes me very much against reading it again.
#34
Soz - you're apologising, without being bothered to say the whole word, seems somewhat ironic
#35
Any idiot who uses "Save this/protect this X at any/all cost" "You won the internet" "You broke the internet" "We dont deserve X" drives me crazy.
#37
since someone’s mentioned hooman, i’ll mention doggo and catto. i wish the trend of those cringey dubs over animals being silly would die. they make them far less funny, and animals don’t even need voices to be amusing in the first place.
#38
Bruh, some people just use that as complete statements or responses. I once saw a reaction video on YouTube, and the guy was literally just saying bruh after every few seconds.
That was the whole reaction, something happened, he'd tilt his head up or shake it and say "bruh". Nothing else.
That's overuse, but you also have a lot of variations. Bro, burv, brah, breh, bruh... like [why?] are we doing to this word?
One variation, "bro," should really have been enough; the rest just come across dumb and goofy.
#39
People still use "thank you for coming to my TED talk" on social media and it was f*****g stupid when it started and it's still stupid.
#40
Apparently I'm the least cool person on the planet. I've never heard of the majority of these words.
#41
“Living rent free in your head.” First of all, what does that even mean? Second of all, no.
#42
Cringe. I normally don’t care at all about slang and think people should be focused more on rhetoric than word usage…but cringe is so extremely overused and typically used to demean or basically abuse or even bully others. “That’s so cringe! Those things are cringe! He’s being cringe!” Seriously? All these things make you cringe? An actual physical response to discomfort? Doesn’t seem like it. Seems like you just want to call other people losers or “nerds” while claiming to hold some sort of moral majority on your side. Like you have the right opinion or view and other people don’t. Guess I cringe at “cringe”. It’s more the attitude behind it than the actual slang itself that irritates me.
#43
Started saying "yas" ironically. So it's a word I use now. But, boy did I use to give my little sister h**l for it. Still not quite sure how I got here.
#44
As a middle school teacher - “sus” and “cap/no cap” sus - suspect/suspicious cap - b******t/you’re lying no cap - telling the truth
#45
Stan/We Stan. It completely misses the point of the song, it makes people sound like they can’t think for themselves, and is overall stupid. It’s like a cult mantra. Guess I’m an old man now, and I’m completely f*****g fine with that.
#48
Oh and, "understood the assignment" don't even get me started on that one.
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