words that annoy

For example, all the words in Chinese annoy me, because why can't they fucking standardize on an alphabet and some basic usage patterns, and why do the damn Shanghainese have to pronounce everything different from everybody else and etc. Fuck Chinese words, they annoy me.

All the words in Japanese annoy me because what in the jesus do you need three writing systems for. Especially anything written in Katakana, jesus. MA KU RO DO NA RU DO!!!! Arrrrrgh, fuck them words.

And all the words in Korean ESPECIALLY annoy me because I hear them and I read them and I learned all of them and I should know them and be able to understand them very well and I don't because I haven't used a lick of it in like two years. That shit is about the most irritating thing on earth. Fuck some Korean words.

And all the other foreign languages? Those words annoy me too because what are you, talking in code? Are you saying shit about my girlfriend? I ought to kick your ass. Speak English, you twerp. This is America! Learn the rules!!

I heart the Tombot.

I'm going to go get lunch now. It will be... food. With food in it.

By the way, restaurantese is REALLY annoying. They use a lot of nouns in verbs: "Plate that right this time!" meaning "put it on a plate and use all the proper garnishes in our standard hideous arrangement or you will be fucked with by your manager for the rest of the day."

"Magnificently plated!"

Every job I've ever had has turned me into a bigger language crank.

There is such a shock of recognition from post to post, as phrases I didn't know I hated alternate with ones I use too much...

'Action' - "We need to action this now..."

'Paradigm' - you can blame Thomas Kuhn for this one I think. It arrived into common parlance (ugh! hate that phrase) via the caring professions (ow!) ex-students of which had digested it as part of their philosophy units (in spite of the fact that Kuhn thought the social sciences and philosophy were preparadigmatic - which makes you wonder whether he thought his own theory of paradigms was preparadigmatic). As his critics never tired of pointing out, Kuhn never defined the word consistently either, using it in all kinds of ways. Now all it really means is 'area' or 'field'.

'Do a 360' when it should be 'do a 180' was mentioned above; what about 'it's a steep learning curve' to describe a task that is hard to pick up? Now, if time is on the Y axis and competence is on the X-axis, as is the convention, then a steep curve indicates a job that is picked up very quickly. It's a _shallow_ curve that indicates difficulty. Perhaps people have the mental picture of a steep curve being hard to climb.

(Also, I am a dick but not THAT much of a dick.)

Short for "We need an action item for this now..."?

"Schizophrenia" used to refer to multiple personality or other psychological disorders.

Certain people's way of pronouncing "ask" as "ax."

That's because Freud represents your father to you; no doubt the fear is related to a childhood incident where you were discovered doing something naughty. You are now projecting your fear on to authority figures of all kinds, and on to theories which may, so to speak, 'find you out' by revealing the psychodynamics of your neurosis. But, due to the psychological defence of reaction formation, you may find this hard to accept during the initial phase of treatment.

As in the study of light? why is that a bastardization or annoying?

and any host of words used by annoying people I know.

Anyone else have any anatomical or medical terms that annoy? I think saying "syphilis" is just plain fun, but "chlamydia?" I shudder to type it.

It's terrible to use, but sometimes, what else would you use?

Could you imagine if grad students ran around saying "zeitgeist" and "weltanschauung?" "Postmodern" and "paradigm" are bad enough. I think "discourse" is the least of our worries.

Ooooh, but you know what I bet is the worst? Applying "discourse" to ILE.

if fact, anything with a 'rrh' in it..

So what WOULD be a correct use of 'irregardless'?

Furthermore, I DETEST:

'the bottom line'

'flexibility' when used by Human Resources people (not real keen on 'human resources' either)

'mutual obligation'

24/7

'sooner than later' without the rather in the middle,

'at the end of the day'

all SMS shorthand but especially 'prolly'

'would/could/should of'

'traitor' and 'tragedy' used in sporting contexts

'bias' as an adjective (as in 'the ABC is bias', what does that mean: the ABC goes to Mass 12 times a week?)

Most Freudian or postmod jargon

'Go Pies'

"Power down" is pretty bad. Why can't they say "switch off" like everybody else?

and what abt outage? Our website was down earlier and I received an email to say that "They" were going to be "investigating the cause of this outage". I promptly sent an email back to say that they'd missed the 'r' out of "outrage".