Irritating phrases

Oh god, yes - "life hack" sounds like someone's trying to sell me a gadget. "Tip" is fine. Clean. No pretence.

And text speak? Like "u" instead of "you"? Makes me want to claw my eyes out. If we're talking, just say the word. I'm not your autocorrect.

You're allowed to hate them. I hate them too.

Thank you LMW, I feel like clawing my eyes out too, that of course if I understand what on earth they're on about! I'm the same with emojis, I can't see most of them, even with my glasses on, I can't make out what they're trying to express or mean and when you get a post thats a line of the thing's I start to lose the will to live. 

Thank you LMW, I feel like clawing my eyes out too, that of course if I understand what on earth they're on about! I'm the same with emojis, I can't see most of them, even with my glasses on, I can't make out what they're trying to express or mean and when you get a post thats a line of the thing's I start to lose the will to live. 

It say's eggplant instead of aubergene, I have been told what it means, but peach? I'm not sure I'd understand what anyone was on about any better if it says sob, or laugh.

If you 'hover' over them with your mouse, there is a text explanation for each.

So do I, but I find adding the simple ones I can identify helps any confusion about the tone I mean in my message incase my my wording isn't clear

TheCatWoman said:

so why would I be any better with these?

Emoji's are essentially exaggerated and consistent facial expresssions, so they're more explicit and easier to learn (you can even look them up online if need be to check what they mean). They also tend to be sarcasm-free, or even indicators that what was said is sarcasm so help to contextualise other text.

I tend to use them as a way of being expressive in textual conversation.

Not saying it works that way for everyone though.

I don't get why so many autistic people like emojis, I know they're used as emotional shorthand by some, but as an autistic person I often have problems reading emotions from faces, so why would I be any better with these?

Oh god, yes - emojis are the worst. Like, why do we need a tiny yellow face to say, "I'm sad"? Just say it!

And when someone drops a whole string -  - I'm sat there squinting like, "Is this a code? A threat? A recipe?" I literally have to Google half of them. And if it's tiny on my phone? Forget it. Might as well be hieroglyphs.

You're not alone. I once got a message that was just  and I genuinely thought it was a vegetable shopping list. Turns out... no.

So yeah. Let's ban emojis. Or at least make them optional. Like subtitles on a film - nice if you want them, but not mandatory.