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Are there any words that piss you off?

MY favourite is disconnect as in "there has been a disconnect somewhere" For a start it's the wrong tense, secondly if you added "ion" to the word it would be passable. WHY BUSINESS WORLD WHY!

My 2nd is baby-daddy. WTh? is there any form of daddy that doesn't relate to being a father of progeny? Do you need to add the "baby" part?

/rant

None for me, though I was watching God Bless America and the girl brought up that she hates people who say 'actually' a lot.
I say 'actually' A LOT and it got me wondering if that annoys anyone

ironically, irk is one of the words that annoys me XD

I suppose stuff like swag also annoys me too along with yolo :/

I hate the word "crave". Don't know why, I just do.

Yes.

Swag
Swagger
Playa

The word "Irk" Irks me.

Some people must have been really annoyed watching Invader Zim

Moist. It is the only word I can think of that sounds exactly like what it describes and the only time it doesn't sound completely disgusting to me is in the context of baked goods.

Boo



I hate that word as a term of endearment.

Swag - Destroyed the use of the proper word "Swagger".
YOLO - Do i even need a reason.
Like - Silly people who put like at the end of every sentance. Facebook didn't help either.
Bling - Its a stupid word. *pout*

For me, the list is quite long, so I'll try and be brief, or summarize where I can.

For starters, we'll go with "Urban Slang" basically, if it was a word or phrase that caught on through the usage by a rapper, the Jersey Shore, or any place that doesn't have a very high intelligence level, I hate it.
Some of George Carlin's favorites ie, saying PTSD, instead of Shellshock. I really don't care that it's a more "refined" term for a mental health issue, there'd be quite a bit more done about it, if we still called it something that actually sounds bad.

One thing that bugs me occasionally, is when people refer to their spouse as "the old lady" "old man", "ball and chain" or anything that suggests that they don't love that person. You're married for feths sake! Along this same line, when the kids do something good, and I'm being told about it after the fact, its "my kids did X today", but when they were bad it's, "guess what YOUR kids did today"

Ohh, and I'd guess that saying "baby-daddy" is the urban way of saying the Father as opposed to the "Dad", which are two completely different things.

Call me "Sarge" in uniform will piss me off. I rpetty much ignore you if your a civie.

 Jihadin wrote:
Call me "Sarge" in uniform will piss me off. I rpetty much ignore you if your a civie.

I was avoiding using our military issues... I mean, I hate things like sarge (even though I'm not), "smaj" or some variation to that, etc. Other things, like "Top" or "L.T." it really depends on who's mouth is saying either one of those. I also hate hooah about as much as other people hate "ai-ee-ya"

Irregardless - This is not a word. 'Regardless' is a word. 'Irrespective' is a word. I'm not sure how his monstrosity found its way to the mainland of regular usage from the Isliand of Dr. Moreau's English Teacher, but it needs to go back. As a side note, I've noticed a strange correlation between this word and living exemplars of the Peter Principle.

Muggle - This is also not a word, and any dictionary that chooses to claim otherwise should lose its credibility. The current usage of the word denotes a human incapable of sorcery. Which is every human, ever, making this word superfluous in the extreme as there can never be any such circumstance wherein it would fit better than simply using the word 'human'.

Ironic - It's not the word itself that bothers me, but its usage. Contrary to what 95% of people seem to think, 'irony is not synonymous with 'coincidence'.

Hella, stupid left coasters.... And not so much a word but the phrase "could care less". It's couldn't care less you dimwit..

DPBellathrom wrote:ironically, irk is one of the words that annoys me XD

That's not irony.

It would be ironic if you had named the thread and made use of the word, or if you had said something to the effect of "irk is a good one".

Bubon.

The image it evokes is horrible. I also saw the X-file E. Emasculata two days ago, which might have something to do with it.

 Avatar 720 wrote:



Yes.

Is this new? I thought I watched the whole series! Is there season 8 of peep show? Hilarious.

Uh. I hate when people emphasize the 'z' in Nazi, like... "Nah-zee". Just annoys me, especially on television. I'll think of something else.

 azazel the cat wrote:

[color=violet]Muggle - This is also not a word, and any dictionary that chooses to claim otherwise should lose its credibility. The current usage of the word denotes a human incapable of sorcery. Which is every human, ever, making this word superfluous in the extreme as there can never be any such circumstance wherein it would fit better than simply using the word 'human'.

You just keep thinking that human. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go tame a dragon.

 Samus_aran115 wrote:

Is this new? I thought I watched the whole series! Is there season 8 of peep show? Hilarious.

Uh. I hate when people emphasize the 'z' in Nazi, like... "Nah-zee". Just annoys me, especially on television. I'll think of something else.

Pretty sure the proper pronounciation is something like Nat-zee. At least that's how my german friend used to say it.

Also, inb4 Inquisitor Ehrenstein and his hatred of Nazis

I'm not defending the Nazis at all, but it annoys me when people go out of their way to say the word in a way that expresses their venom and hatred of them. People do it with everything, but this one's particularly annoying to me for some reason.

Hmm. How can I explain the pronunciation.. Well. Have you watched King Of The Hill? The way Cotton says it is what I'm talking about.

Bullockist wrote:
Are there any words that piss you off?

MY favourite is disconnect as in "there has been a disconnect somewhere" For a start it's the wrong tense, secondly if you added "ion" to the word it would be passable. WHY BUSINESS WORLD WHY!

It can't be in the wrong tense because it's not a verb. In that context "disconnect" is a noun.


I like languages though, and I think dialects are really cool, so finding a word that I specifically dislike is pretty difficult.

"rant"

"It is what it is."

It just makes me want to watch as wiener dogs lick the flesh off your screaming face.

Not words as such, more the misuse of words.

For example:
GFs Mother: Do you want a coffee per se?
Me: No, but I'll have one in a mug please.

Followed by an explanation of the term.

Yes I'm a pedant and I've spent ten minutes spell checking this post.

 Frazzled wrote:
"It is what it is."

It just makes me want to watch as wiener dogs lick the flesh off your screaming face.

That phrase is almost like it's a lazy Yogi-ism... And of course, yogi-isms are the bees knees, but being lazy is not.

Mine are mostly political at this time, since people use them pretenting they know what they are talking about:

-libertarian (small l)
-socialist
-republic

 DPBellathrom wrote:

I suppose stuff like swag also annoys me too

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Swag

 Snrub wrote:
Swag

You are all against comfy outdoor sleeping arrangements?

I guess the phrase 'I could care less' when people mean that they could not care less. I don't even know how that came about to be honest.

I'm curious, why do people dislike YOLO and swag?

Maybe you be jealous of my swag.

#YOLO