Three of my least favorite things people say: and google is basically teaching people to speak this way. : /

🤨🤨 ??

So much this!

Google started suggesting emojis as I type on Android. Keep your fucking emojis to yourself, Google

why does that look like my fucking des, I got the same monitors and also have just as much paper flying around and headphones laying at the same position. creepy.

Google doesn’t teach people anything, it’s the people who taught Google what responses are usually used.

What exactly is your problem here?

For some context
https://m.youtube.com/watch/...

@620hun ha! Great point. My “problem” with it is that I hate those sayings. They don’t mean anything. “No worries.” Is that a statement? Are there no worries? Should I not have any worries? Wait, what? Is there something to worry about? For example - you work at a restaurant: “no problem” - yeah. There is no problem. You’re fired. Don’t even bring up the possibility of there being a problem. Things are perfect, right?

@sheriffderek you might be the first person to be mad at such benign figure of speech. “No problem” and “no worries” are just ways to acknowledge an instruction or gratitude. Obviously they’re not meant literally.

@620hun I’d guess I’m a first for a few things, but in this case - I’m sure there are countless language professors who have felt the same way. There are so many other fun things you can say - that would convey more meaning. It’s lazy.

@sheriffderek like what?

@620hun I’ve guessed that the ‘what’ is the other things you could say. In the case of “no worries” you could say, “It was a pleasure to help.” - instead of ‘no problem’ / which denotes that there might have been a problem - and that if there were, I might have chosen not to help - and that if I had / I would have felt it as a burden.

@sheriffderek I'm sure it was obvious from the context what "like what?" was referring to. And the same goes for the original issue. People just know that "no problem" doesn't imply a problem. I guess people on the autism spectrum could find that difficult, but the rest of us just understand that figurative and literal meaning are often different. Compare the length of "no problem" to “It was a pleasure to help” and you'll probably understand why one is preferred over the other.

@620hun Well, we will just have to disagree. ‘Like what’ could certainly have referred to other things in that sentence. I don’t know much about Autism, but I find that a lot of people project their own personal struggles on others. Especially here. I’ll be working to improve my vocabulary and explore new ways of expressing myself. I think you might agree that it’s allowed.