most annoying words and phrases

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another phrase I find annoying is "first world problems"
I feel like the primary intention of this phrase is to add a pile of guilt onto life's little annoyances.

"my bad"

I have to think back to anger management classes when ever it comes up.

"My bad" is extremely annoying and makes the user sound like they just crawled out from under a rock. What they really mean is Oops, I did something wrong. So why can't they just say that? They sound like idiot's.

"Epic". My niece uses this a lot. It is so over used and misused that I don't even remember the real meaning anymore.

I assume that a majority of people go to public school's between kindergarten and high school. In that assumption I believe we are all taught how to speak the same version of English (depending on what country you are in). I don't consider myself well educated but a friend of mine has a masters degree. I would assume that in order to get the Master's degree she can speak English better than I do, but she doesn't. She is proud of her education but speak's as if she never made it past third grade and then wonders why she can't get a job. To make matter's worse she teach's her young son this gibberish and wonder's why he isn't up to his age potential.

Sorry to rant but I guess what I'm trying to say is that the "cute" and popular slang, etc. really only make's money for rapper's who are in trouble with the law.

Now that I've said that I must also say I am addicted to "like" because I am a former California valley girl. I also use "really?' a lot.
But those are the only two.

"My bad" is extremely annoying and makes the user sound like they just crawled out from under a rock. What they really mean is Oops, I did something wrong. So why can't they just say that? They sound like idiot's.

"Epic". My niece uses this a lot. It is so over used and misused that I don't even remember the real meaning anymore.

I assume that a majority of people go to public school's between kindergarten and high school. In that assumption I believe we are all taught how to speak the same version of English (depending on what country you are in). I don't consider myself well educated but a friend of mine has a masters degree. I would assume that in order to get the Master's degree she can speak English better than I do, but she doesn't. She is proud of her education but speak's as if she never made it past third grade and then wonders why she can't get a job. To make matter's worse she teach's her young son this gibberish and wonder's why he isn't up to his age potential.

Sorry to rant but I guess what I'm trying to say is that the "cute" and popular slang, etc. really only make's money for rapper's who are in trouble with the law.

Now that I've said that I must also say I am addicted to "like" because I am a former California valley girl. I also use "really?' a lot.
But those are the only two.

anything with the word "always" or "never"

People saying "I seen, I gots, I don't got, I done did it," and the list goes on.

"walk a mile in my shoes"

anything said in baby-talk (by an adult)

"lets agree to disagree"

"grave" (as in 'grave concerns')

Literally when used incorrectly.
No, you did not literally jump out of your skin.

"me, mine, I"

Any abbreviation of a compound word that does not contain at least one letter from each part. E. g. selfie for self-shot, homophobic for "homosexual-phobic". It could be the abbreviation of many other compound words.

Any euphemism.

"moist"

My ex had a habit of ending many of her sentences with "...if that makes sense."

While it wasn't just me who was subjected to this, I suspect I gave the most creative responses.

"I/We appreciate your concern."

Here's more:

'Back in the day" -It sounds much more intelligent when they use, "when I was little' 'during the time I was growing up' 'When X was coming out." 'Back in the day' makes me think of the nonsensical phrase 'Back and the forth.'

"Right in the feels' - I hate this one so much. I'm betting this 'cutesy' phrase is from 4chan, hmmm?

"Don't worry, I'm watching him/her."- Often said by a customer at work, when I mention that allowing their child to dance, stand or jump around in the shopping cart puts the child at risk of serious injury or death (should they happen to fall out.) Given how many children still fall out of carts and die, I doubt 'I'm watching him' is enough.

The noun "autist" meaning "an autistic person" instead of calling them an "autistic".

An autist would be the equivalent of an "artist", or "scientist", or an "illusionist". Someone who is autistic on purpose, and even devotes and dedicates their life to doing autism as a craft!- which no one does!

You have autism whether you want it or not, you dont practice it as a profession. So if you have autism you're "an autistic". Not an "autist".