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There are certain words that I absolutely hate. I didn't necessarily hate them before, but now they're so over-used that it's hard not to hate them.

The number one word that I have a problem with is AMAZING. Why does it seem that the 19-30 age group find so many things AMAZING? If it's not Sophia Coppola referring to an AMAZING book then it's somebody saying how AMAZING the Konono show was.

This could just be me though, I'M REALLY MAD TODAY.

― hervey kurtzweiler, Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

I hear this word used to describe music that would be better described as 'not much of an improvement on silence'. Another one is 'wonderful'. Most people have no real need to use this word more than once or twice in a lifetime, but use it every day like butter on their toast. Amazing.

― moley, Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

All of mine come from this list: troll, creep, pedant, bbbut... too many to list.

― Snarky Perfunctory, Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I do get certain satisfaction when people say 'extraordinary'. I like to think that they're calling something VERY ORDINARY.

― hervey kurtzweiler, Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

oh you mean as if they're actually saying "extra ordinary"? i guess that would end up being intraordinary as a compound word though.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Yes, like, "OH, this scarf feels extraordinary!". But really I'm just thinking, "children are starving AND YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE."

― hervey kurtzweiler, Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

"stalker"/"stalking".

GOD PEOPLE. Making a few cracks on an internet board is NOT stalking. When you've had someone stand outside your bedroom window smoking cigs all night, or sending flowers with the heads cut off, THEN you're being stalked.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

the thing you really notice coming from australia to the US is that everyone under 40 says 'AWESOME' all the time. if you said awesome in australia you'd get your ass kicked

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Ahahahah so true!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

two words that have bugged me my whole life: 'frock' and 'slacks'

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

Theyre both so very Kath n Kim arent they?

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Along with "cossie" which my mum says, ugh.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I hate how "random" and "randomly" have taken off recently. Maybe it's just around where I live, I don't know, but people are all "you chose the same essay topic as me? That's so random!" - you dumb fuckers, there are two essay topics. There's nothing random about it.

― Jack L., Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I hate motherfuckers who get pedantic about standard English, even tho they're not James Joyce.

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

oh my god - cossie! its a backyard BBQ around the pool c.1983

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

I hate people saying they are 'passionate' about something when all they mean is that they like it, or have a very minor talent for it.

― estela (estela), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

blatantly

― jive session (elwisty), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

Awesome! Super! Great! Excellent! Right on! Sure!

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my new life here in the States, but there are days when I long for people to just talk like they're not being graded on perkiness. My office is weird though, & not necessarily representative.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

re: "extraordinary" - the prefix "extra" does not mean "very"; it means "beyond" or "outside." Hence, "extraordinary" means "beyond or outside the ordinary." (And "extraterrestrial" does not mean "very terrestrial.")

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

never mind, I completely misunderstood what h.k. was saying.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

LITERALLY when what is meant is clearly FIGURATIVELY. Some really stupid fucking examples of this have I heard.

Another classic that is similar to LITERALLY, is EXACTLY. Both are over-emphasized and yet the the exact opposite meaning is implied. "Here is a website for reference; we want everything to look EXACTLY like this website. Too the tee, alright? But you know, different, obviously, because we're dealing with totally different colors and logo and everything and we don't even have any images and probably twice as much text."

― I AM OTM, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

otm, otm!

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

I used to waste my time on shit like this

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

i hate when people harp on people 'incorrectly' using literally when they clearly don't know what the word means themselves or how it's been used since, oh, the 1700s (ie. as an intensifier). not knowing what words mean + having stodgy ideas about the english language = being boring and stupid: yay for you!

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

i used to have a couple british friends who were always saying something was "pants." i hated that.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

hervey kurtweiler, meet Elly.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

j blount, literally guilty of speaking incorrectly. I bet he also says, "I could care less."

― I AM OTFM, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

show me where

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

I was speaking figuratively... I thought you said that was okay? Right?

― I AM OTMFM, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

I am LITERALLY such a prat!

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Nevermind, I think I misunderstood. Just ignore me everybody! *so embarrassed*

― I AM OTMFM, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Haha, you sad sack of shit. Register all the OTM names you like! :-P

― I'M SO MONEY I'M LITERALL OTM!, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

did wonder twin powers just activate or something???

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

wait is this another troll battle? watch out for them elbows dude - try not to get schooled this time!

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

how long does it take you to do all that, james? seems a lot of effort when it makes ultimately no difference, You God Damned Jackass.

― You God Damned Jackass!, Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

um, ok?

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

tech just beat miami btw

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

Right. My mistake. Carry on. As you were. And various other annoying phrases.

― You God Damned Jackass!!, Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

fresno up on trojans right now

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

the thing you really notice coming from australia to the US is that everyone under 40 says 'AWESOME' all the time. if you said awesome in australia you'd get your ass kicked

wtf? is that sarcasm? Australian kids say awesome ALL THE TIME.

― voe marshall, Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

plus noone in australia can kick anyone's ass

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

This might be a bit different from what the thread creator intended but...I used to get quite uncomfortable whenever someone used the word cunt either in real life or on tv/music(despite not being from an English speaking country). Not anymore though. That's what moving to the UK will do to you.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

tech just beat miami btw

Got it. You are too busy watching sports to care. Very convincing. Especially when you take the time to type game stats in real time.

― You God Damned Jackass!, Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

"convincing"

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 20 November 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

brilliant
genius
absolutely, especially when uttered by an actresses, singers or ayone else interviewed on a late night talk show

― BOHICA KAMAREK (BOHICA), Sunday, 20 November 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I'd also like to add how much I hate the post-outgoing message instructions given on cellular voicemail systems:

"Hey, this is Dave, leave me a message!"

AND THEN A WOMAN'S VOICE COMES ON:

"After the tone leave your message,, if you'd like to leave a call back number, press *5 for more options. To page this person, please press #*11. For delivery notices please press #4. After your message hang up or press *9 for more options."

WHAT IN THE FLYING FUCK?

― hervey kurtzweiler (hervey kurtzweiler), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

is that not just because the longer they keep you on the phone the more cash they make, harvey?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 21 November 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

the worst is those voicemail messages that just go "you have reached...7...2...0...(etc)." it's about the most excruciating thing ever devised by man.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 21 November 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

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