language complaints
i refuse to justify these
i will not be expanding on these.
- “doing the work.”
- the em-dash apology meme. let me have one tool.
- “in conversation with.”
- “lowkey.” (it is not.)
- “unhinged” used about anything actually quite hinged.
- when an essay's title is a sentence with a colon and the part after the colon explains the part before. pick one.
- “i'm not gonna lie.” okay but were you going to.
- “this slaps.”
- the word “vibe” doing forty hours a week.
- “what if [extremely normal thing]?” as a thesis.
- “this is everything.” yeah. that's the problem.
- people who say “ontology” and mean “list.”
- “the discourse.”
- “literally” used to mean “extremely figuratively.”
fine. fine. this one is lost. i concede this one.
- “perhaps the real X was Y all along.”
- “we need to talk about X.” we do not. you do.
- “small but mighty.”
- “obsessed.”
- starting a sentence with “look,”
- starting a sentence with “so,”
- starting a sentence at all, honestly. shut up.