For me, there are a couple of words and phrases that bug the fucking shit out of me. The two that I can think of easily, and define why, are as follows...

1. "At this current point in time..." - You mean, 'now'?

2. "The size differential..." - Unless referring to the rate at which a player's size is changing, it's totally misused. It's incredibly ridiculous how often sports announcers misuse the word 'differential'.

What words do others have?

There is a list of banished words (http://www.lssu.edu/banished/), done by Lake Superior State University (http://www.lssu.edu), that lists a group of words each year that are banished by the panel from the univeristy. They've been doing it each year since 1979, I believe.

~rpi-fan

You DA Man.....I hate that

Any time someone verbally says (as opposed to saying something non-verbally :-p) "brb" or "lol" or "jk", it annoyes the living daylights out of me. My girlfriend will do this just to annoy me, and it gets old fast.

I'm curious - when people say 'lol' - do they say 'ell - oh - ell', or 'LOL', as one word?

Same with 'jk'...

~rpi-fan

Anything that comes out of Dick Vitale's mouth...

Originally posted by RPI-Fan
I'm curious - when people say 'lol' - do they say 'ell - oh - ell', or 'LOL', as one word?

Same with 'jk'...

~rpi-fan



I've known people that thought it was pronounced, "lawl" or "lowl"

I like the banished word in 1979 at Lake Superior State's website:

Social Security - Neither social nor secure.

:D

"It's just the internet"
Assholes are assholes, regardless of medium

"Give peace a chance"
Yeah, right, it's worked so well in the past

"It's not really that bad is it"
Of course not, I'm standing on this ledge 'cause I like the view

undoubtedly

It ain't a word, people! The word is indubitably. Get it right!

Chief Rum

P.S. Vince, you actually know people who verbally say "lol" and "brb"? My Lord, I do pity you.

I had a friend whose sister said those words aloud, just can't remember the pronunciation.

Originally posted by Vince
Any time someone verbally says (as opposed to saying something non-verbally :-p) "brb" or "lol" or "jk", it annoyes the living daylights out of me. My girlfriend will do this just to annoy me, and it gets old fast.

sounds like my girlfriend. (hmm, perhaps soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend).


anyway, it is pronounced as letters. "bee-are-bee" or " Jay Slash Kay" (for the joking "j/k" abbreviation).

I think girls feel hip doing this.

I never did get the whole 'j/k' thing - it seems much easier to me to type 'joke'.

From the 1984 list:

"Frontal Nudity – How fine must the distinctions be? Is there a “backal nudity,” “testicular nudity,” or “left buttocks nudity”? It would seem that qualifications are no longer needed. We’ve gone about as far as we can go."

Originally posted by RPI-Fan
I'm curious - when people say 'lol' - do they say 'ell - oh - ell', or 'LOL', as one word?

Same with 'jk'...

~rpi-fan

I've never heard people say these words. I only read them on the internet. With a phrase like LOL I associate it with emotion rather than a written word. I look at LOL as someone who likes to laugh and kid around, and LOL is the extension of something they can't communicate on a computer.

As far as the other words, when I see BRB, I automatically interpret it as be right back, ROFL, as I'm rolling on the floor laughing!, etc., etc. I don't look at them as one word but rather lazy typing or shorthand. :p

Any time someone verbally says (as opposed to saying something non-verbally :-p) "brb" or "lol" or "jk", it annoyes the living daylights out of me. My girlfriend will do this just to annoy me, and it gets old fast.
My god, someone actually speaks like that?

SI

Yeah, like cthomer said, they actually pronounce the letters. And Chief, if you know what it's like in a college atmosphere, combine that with the intellect of young (17-19 yo) females from the valley here at SB, and you understand what kind of people are doing this kind of thing...my girlfriend only does it because she knows that it annoys me even a little when people do it online.

anything that Joninthemiddlega says.

I say "bear with me" so often it drives me crazy

the word 'resolve'. Why must everything be about 'resolve' now...we're showing our resolve by doing this...ever since Bush said this word after 9/11, EVERYTHING is about a person's 'resolve'....give it a rest!

(I might be spelling that wrong as I spell things wrong a lot. :) )

People misuse literally all the time.

An announcer: "HE LITERALLLY RIPPED HIS HEAD OFF!"

"Dude, it was so funny, I LITERALLY shit my pants man..

I just have to say...

Well, I bet you don't.

Originally posted by pjstp20
"Its all good" or "the bomb".

You would hate me :) My catchphrase is "It's all good." I probably am not too far off in saying that I don't go a half an hour of interaction with other people without saying that phrase. :)


EDIT: However, "the bomb" is no good, and I hate it.

Originally posted by RPI-Fan
Lake Superior State University

These must be the same people that were bitching about the "frozen tundra" last year.

Originally posted by Draft Dodger
I say "bear with me" so often it drives me crazy

Alright, another self loather! I say "to be completely honest..." so much it's absurd. I wonder if people now think I'm lyiing everytime I don't say it... :confused:

I also absolutely detest misuse of the word literally. Usually my dad and I can watch a sporting event (or sometimes even newscast) and just look at each other and laugh, sigh, cry, every time we hear it misused.

One I can think of, is "oh stunna" a kid that sits behind me in Math says it all the time, it's really getting annoying, actually it was annoying to begin with.

Originally posted by cthomer5000
Alright, another self loather! I say "to be completely honest..." so much it's absurd. I wonder if people now think I'm lyiing everytime I don't say it... :confused:


Funny story, I actually caught myself saying "To be completely honest..." too many times at a job interview. Needless to say, they called my bluff, and I didn't get the job.

My peeve: I hate when people say "If I would've done this, that would've happened."

Correct usage: "If I had done this, that would've happened."

I tend to notice "seriously" get overused often...it doesn't quite annoy me (although "cereally" does), though.

another thing that's annoying, is when people say like, like every like five words. Like it is like totally annoying. You would like think that like by like eleventh grade that like people would be like able to like come up with like better words like in place of like.

It pisses me off.

Originally posted by tucker342
One I can think of, is "oh stunna" a kid that sits behind me in Math says it all the time, it's really getting annoying, actually it was annoying to begin with.



What exactly does this mean?

I enjoy counting the number of times "like" is said when athletes and musicians are interviewed. :)

Originally posted by Swaggs
I enjoy counting the number of times "like" is said when athletes and musicians are interviewed. :)

Did anyone see Bedazzled? There's a great scene where Brendan Frasier plays a star athlete and the other actors call the game. Every sports cliche you can think of is in the scene including one I notice almost every athlete says: "no doubt about it."

You know, the Jerry Springer/Ricki Lake kind of guest, you know? They say this expression "you know" all the time, you know.

"Holla Back!" WTF does that mean?

Originally posted by Vince
I tend to notice "seriously" get overused often...

Guilty as charged! :redface:

I hate when people try to correct me.

Originally posted by Chief Rum
undoubtedly

It ain't a word, people! The word is indubitably. Get it right!

Are you sure about this? The dictionary I have lists undoubtedly as an adjective. Besides, I would have difficulty spitting out indubitably without laughing too hard. :)

Dude and Bro also tend to set me off.

Originally posted by couriers
Dude and Bro also tend to set me off.

I guess you aren't a fan of Randy on American Idol. He says those words at least twice every sentence.

This phrase "I don't mean to sound (Conceited/bigoted/mean/ . . .)" and then you know the next thing that comes out of their mouth is going to make them sound like whatever they're trying to disclaim. If you don't mean to sound like that then don't say it.

Invariably the person who hears that phrase then assures the speaker that they don't sound like whatever the speaker is trying to dsicalim while thinking, "That's odd, you really do sound conceited."

For some reason the word "musings" bothers me...

"It is interesting to note..." is rarely followed by something that is actually interesting to note.

"Impact" is a noun, not a verb. Government types abuse this one with seeming abandon.

If you don't know how to properly use the word "comprise," that's perfectly fine - just don't use it. "Compose" and "consist" are probably better for you.

I agree with the recent uptick in use of "literally" when what is being described is clearly figurative.

"Bite Me" annoys the hell out of me. WTF?

People always have to reinvent the wheel. "Suck my d*ck" was good enough when we were kids, it's good enough now.

If you're in a rush, I can see "Blow Me". But "Bite Me" has to go.

When someone prefaces a statement by saying "Honestly..."

Originally posted by tucker342
another thing that's annoying, is when people say like, like every like five words. Like it is like totally annoying. You would like think that like by like eleventh grade that like people would be like able to like come up with like better words like in place of like.

It pisses me off.

Replace "like" with "sort of", and you have the same problem. I find the excessive usage of "sort of" more annoying than "like" because it is typically abused by a more mature person.

My pet peeve is "no offense". If you think you might offend your audience, don't say it!

Also, what the heck does "shout out" mean? Does it mean "hello"?

'I could care less' indicates that you have a substantial amount of feeling about something-- not that you don't care.

'I couldn't care less' is the phrase that tells someone that you want when you don't care about something.

That one is so obvious that it drives me up the wall everytime.

The all time stupid word, though, is something that I heard all through college. It made me contemplate murdering a number of my college classmates,, including my girlfriend.

"Boughten" :<

I'll second the annoyance I experience at 'you know...' Check out any Iverson interview for some serious abuse of the phrase 'you know.'

I'll also second Quiksand's suggestion of impact. Impact is definitely a noun, but has increasingly come to be a verb in mainstream usage. Very annoying.

To build a bit on the e-mail speak idea, I read an article yesterday (wish I could post the link here, but I don't remember where it was) about a 13 year old in England who wrote an essay for school using 'words' like lol, b4, brb, etc. Fortunately, the teacher did not tolerate that kind of crap.

Unfortunately, I could see academics defending this kind of essay as an expression of a child's desire to express him or herself. Lamentable indeed.

Originally posted by Ajaxab

I'll also second Quiksand's suggestion of impact. Impact is definitely a noun, but has increasingly come to be a verb in mainstream usage. Very annoying.

Huh? According to my dictionary, it is also an intransitive verb:

impacted
impacting
impacts

"I'm going to the store. Do you want to come with?"


Argh--is it that hard to put the monosyllable "me" at the end of your sentence? When sentences like "He did not know who to throw the ball to" end in prepositions, it grates me, but I chalk that up to my pet peeve. When, however, someone goes out of their way to remove the object from their preposition--it drives me batty.

Originally posted by wbonnell
Huh? According to my dictionary, it is also an intransitive verb:

impacted
impacting
impacts

Don't confuse good rants with facts.

1. People who agree to "borrow" me something. You "lend" it to me, I "borrow" it from you.

2. Can you "itch" my back? No, but I can "scratch" it you ass clown!

3. People who say "that's the last thing I need right now!", especially people who use it all the time. Your life isn't that rough, get over yourself.

4. Similarily the phrase "it doesn't get much worse than..." which is usually followed by "having to eat tuna!"or something equally asinine. How about being gang raped by chilean spider monkees? That would be much worse if you ask me!

I hate it when people end arguments with "whatever" It's like they have nothing else to add, are totally beaten, so they just give up. That annoys me.

The "could care less" and "couldn't care less" bugs me too.

"I could care less."

I f*cking hate it when people say that phrase or write it. A lot of seemingly intelligent people routinely say that phrase.

Get it through your thick skull people, because the correct phrase is...

I couldn't (or could not) care less!

HornsManiac

Originally posted by ColtCrazy


The "could care less" and "couldn't care less" bugs me too.

LMAO I was wondering why no one had mentioned it yet. We were replying at the same time.

HornsManiac

I can't stand ROTFL

Some people can't resist using it for every funny thing they see online. You'll see someone ROTFLing three or four times in a thread. I just picture somebody sitting at their computer, reading the screen and then flopping onto the floor. Get up, dust off, sit down, and a few seconds later back on the floor they go.

Do these people go to parties and spend the whole night rolling around on the floor laughing at the small talk?

"you know what I'm saying"

Lighten up. I hate that one. It drives me mad.

So I say if you are going to tell me to lighten up, I'm gonna have an eruption! And if they say it again, it's like they are out of the skull! Out of their gaddamned minds! I mean, who do they think they are telling me to lighten up! It drives me crazy when people dare say that too me.

Oh wait,

Lighten up.

:)

Dutch, don't lighten up. Relax instead.

IRREGARDLESS

..... Is NOT a word!

I'm in agreement with Could/Couldn't care less as well.

Also, the misuse of literally.... did anyone read Steve Rushin's artice on that in SI? Very funny.

People who say "AXE" instead of ASK.

The phrase..."take out the garbage"...i hate that one too :)

"That was more than I needed to know"

Blah

"You thought that was for free? Don't make me call Vito!"

I hate that

What dictionary are some of you using because there have been three references now to words not being actual words yet my dictionary clearly shows otherwise. Please explain so I know whether or not to get a new dictionary.

Undoubtedly (adv)

Impact (noun)

Irregardless (adv)

I'm glad that 'talk to the hand' went out of style.

'You GO girl' is ready for retirement, also.

I have a boss who ends a lot of his sentences with "Jimmy"

Some examples are "Nice job Jimmy!", "Damn Jimmy", "Blah Blah Blah Jimmy".

I also have a friend who says "Thats a fact" at every opportunity.

They both got old fast. However, as a joke me and some of the other people who know both of them will combine them into "Thats a fact Jimmy!".

Phrases That Annoy the Hell Out of You

When people b*tch about petty word and grammar misuse! :D

I saw a stand-up comedian not too long ago that made fun of George Carlin's jokes on speech follies like his joke: "F*ck you! I'm getting in the plane, not on it!" "George, shut the hell up, you know what she means, get on the damn plane!"

Originally posted by Fidatelo
2. Can you "itch" my back? No, but I can "scratch" it you ass clown!


Itch is also a verb. You can itch an itch.

Originally posted by Craptacular
Itch is also a verb. You can itch an itch.

I am saddened to discover that this is indeed true. :eek:

However, I still think it sounds stupid. :D

Originally posted by wbonnell
Huh? According to my dictionary, it is also an intransitive verb:

impacted
impacting
impacts

Yes, true enough. Of course, that's decidedly not how it's being so frequently used. It is now frequently being bastardized to be a transitive verb, synonymous with "to affect."

e.g. The budget will impact the road building effort.

No, no, no. It will either affect it, or it will have an impact on it.


Nobody talks about "impacting" anymore in its proper sense, unless he's a dentist.

Originally posted by Fidatelo
I am saddened to discover that this is indeed true. :eek:

However, I still think it sounds stupid. :D

The only reason I bothered to say anything is becuase my wife asks me to itch her back 29 times a day.

Don't forget about people (mostly Midwesterners) who say "acrost" or "acrossed": "Joe ran acrost the street".

It's ACROSS people! Where did this desecration originate?

Dutch, don't lighten up. Relax instead.

Oh, don't get me started on that one. Makes me crazy...

I have to second "whatever" when its used as a dismissive term or the end of an argument. Hearing "whatever" makes me want to spoon their eyeballs out with my finger LITERALLY not figuratively.

Whatever.

That's a pet peeve of mine as well.

I hate "The Falcons were dominate today." No, asshole, it's "The Falcons were dominant today," or even "The Falcons dominated today." Get it right!

I am tired of "special." That is the same thing the polite old women would say about people with mental deficiencies.

What should we call you then?

Freak

Originally posted by rkmsuf
What should we call you then?

"The Maury Povich Buttafuco Trans-Caribbean Elevator Shoe Prawn Star" will do.

alrighty then...

This is my problem with the word...

It's the same thing as regardless, and wouldn't even be a word, but so many people mistakenly use it, they've put it in the dictionary. Kind of like D'oh!


2 entries found for Irregardless.
ir·re·gard·less ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-gärdls)
adv. Nonstandard
Regardless.


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[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]
Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.

Thanks, Scholes. That's exactly it with me and undoubtedly. I know that didn't used to be a word.

If couriers is finding it in the dictionary now, it's because people were too lazy to use the word indubitably correctly, and so the use of undoubtedly became so commonplace that now it's been accepted a word in the language. I hate it when laziness determines language (although my guess is that laziness is a "prime mover" in language evolution).

Chief Rum

Abbreviated or hyphenated swear words baffle me. Does this make you feel better? Is it a big secret what you are saying? I don't get how f'ing somehow changes the message or what is read...

My favorite is leaving out one letter with a * or something...

Fair enough. Would either word be acceptable to use in scrabble?

I'm still trying to figure out why the word "phonetically" is not spelled phonetically.

:D

Originally posted by rkmsuf
Abbreviated or hyphenated swear words baffle me. Does this make you feel better? Is it a big secret what you are saying? I don't get how f'ing somehow changes the message or what is read...

My favorite is leaving out one letter with a * or something...

I don't think people do that to be good Christians but rather avoid automatic board censoring. At least, that's why I never complete a curse word.

In just about every sports event...

"This is what it's all about."

EDIT:

"My favorite is leaving out one letter with a * or something..."

On that note, why do some people spell it G*d? I just don't get it. Or sometimes it's G-d.

Originally posted by sabotai
In just about every sports event...

"This is what it's all about."

Along those lines:

The word "maturation" seems to be a household word in sports broadcasters' dictionaries.

"Its deja vu all over again"

Wouldn't saying its deja vu say the exact same thing? Granted, I don't know French, but I' pretty sure they would prefer just deja vu.

Would it count if I include not only kewl d00d-speak but all of hip-hop/rap-speak?

I am soooo sick of bling bling

Originally posted by Easy Mac
"Its deja vu all over again"

Isn't that an old quote of Yogi Berra? It's been so widely used (in a joking tense, I hope) so it has turned into an idiom rather than a direct quote.

Gotta be the name "Michael Vick"

I like him also.

But for the love of god, all they do all day long is talk about how freaking much they love him and how great he is. When i watch an Atlanta game i bet they say the name "Michael Vick" a good 500 times.

It gets extremely annoying. We all know he is fun to watch and very talented but there are also 43 other guys playing the game you could talk about a little.

Originally posted by Shorty3281
People misuse literally all the time.

An announcer: "HE LITERALLLY RIPPED HIS HEAD OFF!"

"Dude, it was so funny, I LITERALLY shit my pants man..

David Cross standup bit, I love it!

You've been crossed m'man.

Originally posted by Samdari
Undoubtedly is without question, a word.

undoubtedly

Undoubted \Un*doubt"ed\, a. Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero.

That definition is from Webster's.

I think you will find the definitition of indubitably hilarious:

indubitably

\In*du"bi*ta*bly\, adv. Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt.

Since they use undoubtedly to define another word, doesn't that make it a word?

Originally posted by sabotai
"My favorite is leaving out one letter with a * or something..."

On that note, why do some people spell it G*d? I just don't get it. Or sometimes it's G-d.

In the Jewish faith, it is considered disrespectful to make direct reference to God. For that reason, when it is essentially unavoidable by context, the generally accepted convention is to use a proxy like "G-d." I'm not really defending the logic of doing so, but it is essentially a doctrine adopted by the faith in that case, and perhaps others.

Originally posted by Qwikshot
David Cross standup bit, I love it!

You've been crossed m'man.

fuck yeah, David Cross rules