words that make you grit your teeth

[milkbone]

Whatever.

Drives me nuts when it is used during a conversation, or disagreement, especially during a "heated conversation". It conveys such a lack of concern or caring.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Whatever.

Drives me nuts when it is used during a conversation, or disagreement, especially during a "heated conversation". It conveys such a lack of concern or caring.

I remember when my younger daughter (now 27) went through her teenage "whatEVER" stage for a about a year or so. Used to drive me insane but I figured she could be saying worse. She eventually grew out of it and is now a delightful young woman.

[Kimmyt]

Oooh, the last name thing got me.

I hate, absolutely HATE when someone addresses a woman as Mrs. John Hislastname.

Hate it to the point where I will ask the woman in question when she changed her name to John.

I do not understand why, if a woman so chooses to take her husband's name, she then is referred to by his first name. Isn't his last name enough? She can't even keep that bit of her own identity??

[TsPoet]

Oooh, the last name thing got me.

I hate, absolutely HATE when someone addresses a woman as Mrs. John Hislastname.

Hate it to the point where I will ask the woman in question when she changed

The floor I work on has two groups and managers of those groups are on either end, they are also married, I'll call them Brian and Karla Smith. I once heard a high level person in the company introduce a group of people to several of my coworkers, as "This is Dr Jones, and this is Dr Smith, and this is Mrs Smith". Karla is also a PhD.
I was furious. Karla did nothing, but I don't know what she could have done.
I was standing there, and I wasn't introduced at all, but that didn't make me nearly as angry as Karla not getting the same respect as the two guys there at the time.

[ilima]

The floor I work on has two groups and managers of those groups are on either end, they are also married, I'll call them Brian and Karla Smith. I once heard a high level person in the company introduce a group of people to several of my coworkers, as "This is Dr Jones, and this is Dr Smith, and this is Mrs Smith". Karla is also a PhD.
I was furious. Karla did nothing, but I don't know what she could have done.
I was standing there, and I wasn't introduced at all, but that didn't make me nearly as angry as Karla not getting the same respect as the two guys there at the time.

My dissertation advisor & her husband both graduated from Wisconsin. She said the alumni mail sent to her husband is addressed as Dr. while hers is Mrs. She laughed about it, but she was a bit chuffed about it, too.

Karla's hubby or the other person should have taken the opportunity to refer to her as Dr. So-and-so.

[Aggie_Ama]

I hate, absolutely HATE when someone addresses a woman as Mrs. John Hislastname.

I don't mind getting mail addressed to Mrs. C. XXXX but if you called me it I would reply, "My first name is Amanda".

[kelownagirl]

Whatever.

Drives me nuts when it is used during a conversation, or disagreement, especially during a "heated conversation". It conveys such a lack of concern or caring.

That's exactly what it's supposed to convey.

I remember bugging my teenaged daughters a few years back that I was going to shorten whatever to 'tev and start a new thing. I kept using it and trying to get them to pick it up. They still laugh about it today and we still say 'tev as a joke.

[Pax]

Whatever.

Drives me nuts when it is used during a conversation, or disagreement, especially during a "heated conversation". It conveys such a lack of concern or caring.

Along that same line, I grit my teeth whenever someone uses "anyway" to resume speaking in conversation. It's dismissing whatever the previous speaker said so you can get on with what you want to say. Very rude.

[lph]

Along that same line, I grit my teeth whenever someone uses "anyway" to resume speaking in conversation. It's dismissing whatever the previous speaker said so you can get on with what you want to say. Very rude.

That is appallingly rude! I only use it when I myself have been rambling or gone off on a tangent, and am getting back on topic.