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Ain't got no business telling people how to talk. Some slang is deeply ingrained. Ain't is one word that is. Swell was in the 1920's. Groovy in the 1960's. Etc. However when you can't understand what they are saying like Ebonics or Cajun, different story.
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One that makes me laugh is someone tells me they're going to pull burger or a steak out of the freezer to "de-thaw" said item. I say "so you're going to freeze it then?", and you get that look like you're from Mars, literally. Not really slang, but local terminology that just ain't got no place in decent society. 
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Most of OP’s terms don’t bother me but “the jab” is slightly annoying. Mostly because I assume that it’s left leaning marketing of the vaccine but I really don’t know if it is or isn’t. Speed goat and song dog doesn’t bother me, ditch donkey, must be a deer? I’ve heard them called swamp donkeys. I call pheasants ditch parrots but I’ve never heard ditch donkey before.
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Oh, and buttons. I hate buttons. Buttons are gross looking, stupid shiny little plastic or metal discs. Alot of the time they aren't even necessary or functional but added for some sort of decoration! Makes my skin crawl just thinking about them. I'm not weird, your weird! That is all. So you would prefer laces - so you can snug up your shirt like a reverse corset. 
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You must hate sports then.
I think it's driven by sportscasters trying to be cutting edge.
As an anti sports person, I laugh.
Everything's an everevolving code. Often harder to say, or more complex than
a simple explanation.
Just like hunting/shooting. Guys use stupid slang to try and appear
super cool. The opposite is true.
They sound more like ghetto idiots trying to be cool,
than professionals using jargon.
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Can't stand POTUS and SCOTUS.
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Whuzt ah ditch donkey ?
heard of ditch tiger = outside house cat but not a ditch donkey
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Don’t understand the slang and street speak blacks use. It seems to evolve every month with another word being added and used incorrectly to describe something that has had an English name for 800 years.
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I don't even know what "song dog", "speed goat", or "ditch donkey" are.
"The jab" originated as a term to use to use in lieu of "the shot", or "vaccine", etc. in order to try to get around the censor programming on facebook and other websites.
I will say that in general, modern slang and cutesy phrases irritate the living hell out of me. A song dog is a coyote, a speed goat is a pronghorn. I've never heard of a ditch donkey.
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I don't mind the slang but I hate the alphabets, especially when it refers to technology. Most of the time when I look up something technical online, I have spend much more time trying to figure out what the alphabetic terms are referring to. You mean acronyms?
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A ton of people, especially women, under the age of 40 uses the word "perfect" as a catch all universal reply to just about anything. Are you going to pay cash or charge for that? Cash. "Perfect". Are you coming in to work tomorrow? Yes. "Perfect". Do you want fries with that? Yes. "Perfect". Kind of a pet peeve of mine. That’s a British thing, it’s popular over there and a lot of women in large cities like to mimic brit speech thinking it makes them sound sophisticated. What I hate more than slang are acronyms. For some reason people think that all these screwy acronyms are common knowledge and it makes posts really hard to interpret.
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Slang bothers me far less than mis-spoken clichés and sayings.
I hear "hone-in" on something, and "unchartered" waters a lot. That's the stuff that bugs me.
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A ton of people, especially women, under the age of 40 uses the word "perfect" as a catch all universal reply to just about anything. Are you going to pay cash or charge for that? Cash. "Perfect". Are you coming in to work tomorrow? Yes. "Perfect". Do you want fries with that? Yes. "Perfect". Kind of a pet peeve of mine. That’s a British thing, it’s popular over there and a lot of women in large cities like to mimic brit speech thinking it makes them sound sophisticated. What I hate more than slang are acronyms. For some reason people think that all these screwy acronyms are common knowledge and it makes posts really hard to interpret. Brilliant and bespoke seem to be popular terms over there, as well.
4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan.
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Brilliant and bespoke seem to be popular terms over there, as well.
"Bespoke"... ugh. This is a big hipster thing.
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A ton of people, especially women, under the age of 40 uses the word "perfect" as a catch all universal reply to just about anything. Are you going to pay cash or charge for that? Cash. "Perfect". Are you coming in to work tomorrow? Yes. "Perfect". Do you want fries with that? Yes. "Perfect". Kind of a pet peeve of mine. That’s a British thing, it’s popular over there and a lot of women in large cities like to mimic brit speech thinking it makes them sound sophisticated. What I hate more than slang are acronyms. For some reason people think that all these screwy acronyms are common knowledge and it makes posts really hard to interpret. Brilliant and bespoke seem to be popular terms over there, as well. And then there is their abandonment of articles - "in hospital" "Doctor will see you." Of course we have our own idiocy with "graduated high school".
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The misuse of words bothers me far more. Hero, for example.
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The misuse of words bothers me far more. Hero, for example. Grinder is even worse.
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The misuse of words bothers me far more. Hero, for example. Grinder is even worse. Did you hear that joke at Subway?
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Oh, and buttons. I hate buttons. Buttons are gross looking, stupid shiny little plastic or metal discs. Alot of the time they aren't even necessary or functional but added for some sort of decoration! Makes my skin crawl just thinking about them. I'm not weird, your weird! That is all. I heard that Napoleon ordered buttons to be added to the cuffs of the Soldier's uniforms so that they would not wipe their noses on the sleeves. Is that functional enough?
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