― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― boragonis, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link
BETTERN'T IS NOT A WORD
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to adopt that one now. Over the holidays, I came up with the phrase "might could oughta" as in "We might could oughta order the tapenade". I was drunk, but I still realized it was over the line.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Accidental misuse is cool, but when you get in the lift with some bogan who loudly proclaims 'I'd better get one then, bettern't I?' it takes considerable effort to not remove said bogan's spleen.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate the word "squat" when used in reference to illegal housing.
Also any word that ends in "-icky": picky, sticky, colicky, garlicky.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost: Oh, and the word "bogan"
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
harry potter and the bogan's spleen
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
-- kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 13:27 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Why?
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Sike! I don't even know what that means.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Which country are you in? I can give you a localised equivalent
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Ban freedom ducunt.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 09:06 (sixteen years ago) link
"legal eagle"
― S-, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"Israel"
Sorry. I just know I'm going to be annoyed in the next couple of minutes as soon as I hear the word on the news or something.
e.g. just now, Bush arrives in Israel (not annoyed yet), couple of images, talk of (haha) peace, but then, short quote by some woman: "our god given homeland! don't give it to the arab enemy!" (DIE! ALL OF YOU! BOTH SIDES! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!)
I have no idea why this happens, I don't know anyone involved on either side personally.
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to Israel on the 13th. I'll send your regards, Stan.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Natch
― Øystein, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry. :-)
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
:-)
― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
It's nothing personal, I think both sides are right, but the whole situation is just so... Man. Humans. Religion. Politics. *shoulders* Pfff.
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The word snarky
-- P.J.Harvey-Nicks (jimjones), Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:55 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
I just think it sounds like a shark with adenoidal issues.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Or the weird cat/lizard pet thing from Thundercats.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I really hate the word 'lotion,' it disgusts me. I would not use it for years bcz of this. I have realized it is nice to not have horribly dry skin & overcame this but the word is still uncomfortable.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
'it is what it is'
― remy bean, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
The American word "math" annoys me beyond all reason
The problem with the plural "maths" is that it kind of suggests that "math" is a shortening of some singular noun called a "mathematic"
― nabisco, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
We cut out the middleman -- "mathematics" = "math"
― nabisco, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
"The". Fuckin' HATE that word. "A" sucks lots too.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"You know wha' else gives me the 'orn? The word 'and'."
"Phwoar yeah, 'and'..."
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"Phenomenal" has got to stop. I remember a few years ago when everything every marketing person said included it. I think it's on the wane but I've heard "phenomenal performance" several times this week and I'm getting nervous.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 13 October 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Especially when the "o" is held too long.
née
― L.L.N.L. Cool J (kingkongvsgodzilla), Monday, 13 October 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
genteel
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
how does REDOUBTABLE esentially mean 'not to be doubted'
― how pretty of me (wanko ergo sum), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
that missing 's' is annoying me now
― how pretty of me (wanko ergo sum), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
These annoy me...
"Tough." as a single word sentence, in the sense of "if they don't like it, tough""Useless.", also as a single word sentence.
These words are usually used by people who want to appear to be hard men but are in fact weak cowards. Say what you mean, and say it to my face.
― snoball, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Just as every box of breakfast cereal has its small but measurable share of rodent micro-turds, so too does the English language have its share of irritating words and phrases. This is inherent in its Nature (note the capitalized 'N', lending greater weight and authority to my ex cathedra bafflegab).
If you don't like it, tough.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
reconnoiter
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
honky tonk
― wmlynch, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
comptroller
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 19 February 2009 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"impact" as a verb
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 February 2009 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I personally love "comptroller" and am considering using it in a verbal form.
― ----> (libcrypt), Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Perusing the deep thoughts in this thread it would seem that the most annoying words for most people are either recent coinages or else older words forced to do work they were not trained for.
One of these for me is: curate. Lately it has become fashionable to misuse this word. Presumably it sounds far more impressive than such mundane verbs as collect, edit, or present.
― Aimless, Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
coital/coitus
― -(••(- -)••)- (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
not annoy so much skeeve out a bit. it sounds like how bugs do it or something brrr
― -(••(- -)••)- (rent), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link