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 Jihadin wrote:
Boo



I hate that word as a term of endearment.

Careful Minsc might hear you.

"I could care less" as opposed to "I couldn't care less"

It annoys me slightly (I furrow my brow a smidge) then I go back to whatever I was doing before someone said "I could care less."

 Orlanth wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
Boo



I hate that word as a term of endearment.

Careful Minsc might hear you.

Knock his miniature giant space hamster at your own risk

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 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.

And that worked out well for you last time.

Send Fluttershy instead.

Bullockist wrote:
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?

It's describing a relationship from the POV of the mother. I have a baby, and that's baby's father is this guy over here.

The idea is that when couples have a kid but don't stay together, we need a way to describe their relationship to each other. And baby-daddy does that, with heavy overtones of 'these people are feth-ups'


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 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
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.

I'm not sure that works at all. Shellshock has implications of being a passing thing, while PTSD has that word 'traumatic' in there, and also highlights that it's an on-going condition.

I mean, look into how soldiers suffering shellshock were treated by their own during WWII. We may not be doing a good enough job with PTSD, but we've come a long way from when it was called shellshock.


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 azazel the cat wrote:
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.

Yes, yes, this. 1000 times this. It's what I came into this thread to post. It not only isn't a word, but it's a non-word that idiots think is a big, impressive sounding word.


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 d-usa wrote:
-republic

Every so often one or more people on Dakka will declare the US is a republic, not a democracy, and every time it happens I lose a year off my life.

 azazel the cat wrote:
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.

This is the "word" I came to post as well.

I wasn't going to post anything, but irregardless pisses me off, too, so +1 to that one.

I also hate the term "the exception proves the rule". It doesn't.

Yolo and swag don't really bother me. One is a what uneducated people call carpe diem, and the other just means you're a moron with more money than sense.

I do like swagger, though.

Also, the US is a democracy in name only. In reality, it's moving closer and closer to an oligarchy every day.

"spiritual", "zen", "cosmic" and "Mystical"

I don't dislike the ideas behind them, but they're overused buzz words to describe a plethora of silly things that really don't deserve such hyperbole.

I mess around with words in video games, because I find them boring. An example is the word Assault. That word is so ambiguous and meaningless, that I can't help but purposely say it wrong. Some variants include Assnault, Snipper, riffel, shootgun, submarine gun, limiguh (LMG), Rip-a-gah (RPG)... It gets tiring to say the same words over and over again. I don't really play shooters anymore, but I noticed myself doing this the most in COD, which I refer to exclusively as "cowadoot".

Bran Dawri wrote:
I also hate the term "the exception proves the rule". It doesn't.

Well, it does, it's just the people don't understand the concept and misuse it.

The actual meaning of the concept is that if there's an exception, then there must be an unstated underlying rule in place. So, for instance, there might be some debate as to whether parking is banned on a street, the only rule in place states that parking is allowed there on Sundays. "The exception proves the rule" will argue that the presence of the exception for Sunday parking implies that parking must be allowed there on other days.

Unfortunately, most people think it's a rebuttal you can use to a counter-example, instead of actually thinking up something informative to say.

Thought of another word the grinds my grears.


Its a stupid word made up to try and breach censors and word filters, (which i am in way trying to do by typing it here by the way!) and people who use it should be shot.


Like many above me I am also not a fan of Irregardless. Also alot. Alot is not a word people. A lot is, alot is not. A lot is actually 2 words so uh....




Oh and Motyak, i see what you did there. I see.

Irregardless - If someone uses this word, I immediately stop listening to them and automatically assume that they're stupid. It's the comic sans of the English language.
Irony - As mentioned earlier, the improper labeling of it. Alannis Morissette should die in a fire. I was so proud of my mother when she finally managed to use the concept correctly.
Any word used as a replacement for an expletive - If you're going to say it, say it. You can cover it up, but the intended meaning is still the same, you've just made yourself sound silly while saying it.

Needless abbreviations. And a lot of times, its in the local gaming community. Initiative shortened to inish, and so on...

The word I hate the most is "chill" as in "He's so chill!" Apparently apathy has so pervaded my generation that we need to moderate the concept of "cool".

 azazel the cat wrote:

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'.

Good God yes. In misusing it we're not only destroying the word, but a foundation of sarcasm.

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

-libertarian (small l)
-socialist
-republic

I'll also add "conservative" and "liberal".

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

Maybe you be jealous of my swag.

#YOLO

There's one thing I say to people who have swag:
I'll have the double cheeseburger meal with a diet coke please

as for me, the word 'enough' really annoys me, as does my own name (Richard, if anyone is curious), which I why I usually introduce myself as my nickname, except when I can't for legal reasons.

A "mute" point.

It's "moot".

Not even getting into how a "moot point" (which WAS a point fit to be mooted (or discussed)) became the equivalent of an irrelevancy.

I hate 'verbing' - basically, taking words that are not verbs and using them like verbs.

'I need you to action that for me', 'I was able to leverage my investments', 'let's party' etc.

There are some words I just don't like at all. 'Moist' has already been mentioned, so +1 to that, but the word I fear most is 'Disappointed'.
As a kid, my parents could have told me that my room was a 'disgrace' or a 'pit' or 'unfit for human habitation' and it would have made no difference to me what so ever.
But tell me that they were 'Disappointed' in the way that I was keeping it and you wouldn't have seen me for dust in the rush to get upstairs and get the Dettol out. It's the same today, the bank could send me a message saying that it is 'noted' that I have £2000 of their money and it wouldn't make a Ha'porth of difference. But chuck in the word 'Disappointed', and I would be rushing over to the bank in floods of tear's with missive's and apologies flooding out of me.....

 Albatross wrote:
...'I was able to leverage my investments'....

Leverage is an acceptable verb.

 dogma wrote:

 Albatross wrote:
...'I was able to leverage my investments'....

Leverage is an acceptable verb.

Only in American English. 'To Lever' is the correct verb.

When, like, people kind of , you know, like, just kind of, like throw in, you know, like, certain words that, like, don't really belong but, like you know are etc etc

Banter.

Is just a way of justifying being a complete so and so (to put it politely).

Albatross wrote:I hate 'verbing' - basically, taking words that are not verbs and using them like verbs.

'I need you to action that for me', 'I was able to leverage my investments', 'let's party' etc.

Obligatory Dilbert Strip:

I secretly love YOLO... I once used it in a Pathfinder game. My gunslinger saw a glowing orb, and you know that in DnD/Pathfinder/what have you, glowing objects aren't something to be touched... I looked at the party, yelled YOLO! and slammed the table as my character touched the orb...

I dislike many of the words here, but at the same time I couldn't care less, as long as the person makes the attempt for correct usage. I mean two nights ago I received a wrong number phone call and the guy asked if I thought he was "ig'nant"... oh well...

 rodgers37 wrote:
Banter.

Is just a way of justifying being a complete so and so (to put it politely).

God, this. I hate that. It tends to be a certain type of witless knucklehead that says it.

YOLO is said by dumbasses about to get drunk.

You Only Live Once means to get out and see the world. Go sky diving. Do something memorable.

Not get gak-faced and then drunk text all your ex-boyfriends.

I'd never heard of YOLO before this thread. I guess I've been out, only living once, and missed it...

Not really a word, but any conversation that begins with "I had this crazy dream last night..." is my ticket to check out of the conversation for the nest 20 minutes or more while said person drones on and on about a dream she had because she ate fried chicken too close to bed time.

I don't care that you dreamed about hunting giant frogs with Brooke Shields with a harpoon gun in the White House.


Unless you were both naked...

It is a well documented fact amongst DCMs that Alpharius dislikes the word methinks....

I tend to enjoy the crazy dream stories that don't start with I had this crazy dream.

If I hear, "So then I was swimming through jello, being chased by a trio of midget wrestlers while they smoked cigars made from human fingers..."

Then I know I've just heard a great story. if I hear, "I had the craziest dream last night." I can expect it to be weird.

So Kronk, last night I had the craziest dream. That's all you need to know

Of course he also doesn't like the word pro-tip.

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:

There are some words I just don't like at all. 'Moist' has already been mentioned, so +1 to that, but the word I fear most is 'Disappointed'.
As a kid, my parents could have told me that my room was a 'disgrace' or a 'pit' or 'unfit for human habitation' and it would have made no difference to me what so ever.
But tell me that they were 'Disappointed' in the way that I was keeping it and you wouldn't have seen me for dust in the rush to get upstairs and get the Dettol out. It's the same today, the bank could send me a message saying that it is 'noted' that I have £2000 of their money and it wouldn't make a Ha'porth of difference. But chuck in the word 'Disappointed', and I would be rushing over to the bank in floods of tear's with missive's and apologies flooding out of me.....

Ooooh, yeah, that's right, you said you'd look after £10,000 for me whilst I waited for the Fraud Office to give up, and now I kinda want it back... I'm really quite disappointed that I have to ask...