Most-Used, Least-Favorite Words

'aye, but ken, but, aye, but.'.

I'm told I use 'gosh' and 'cripes' far too frequently. but it's usually when I'm surprised [or feigning it]. so I don't have to be imaginative or alternative in those circumstances. might try 'crikey' more often. 'kind of' is a phrase I over use in critiques. 'like'. yeah. explanation.

I put "I dunno" in the middle of sentences even when I do know and am just pausing.

My writing tics are worse, though, because I tend to remember words like "argot" and then muddle my core point in a pathetic attempt to flex my vocabulary.

"Heh."

"Good one" "Nice one" etc (no Get Sorted tho')

estuary (last seen on a sign in Essex, CT)

wait, wrong thread. isn't there a favo(u)rite words thread?

I can't complete a conversation without saying either "right on" "far out" or "righteous." I sound like a holdover from the sixties and it really needs to stop. I also qualify things with "pretty much."

example: "It was pretty much right on, ya know?"

And that's why I prefer to type at people than to engage in spoken discourse.

?

I think I have more annoying habits when I type than when I talk (lots of useless words like "honestly", "actually", "pretty much", "definitely")

but wait I mostly only use those on ILX! so maybe I'm just trying to make my sentences longer for some reason? okay that's it I hereby resolve to bring my patented brand of fractured half-idea internet-posting to ILX, POSTHASTE

on ilx, it's a tie between "i'm not a racist/homophobe...." and "i'm not condoning..."

which

(i) starts to get pretty annoying for everyone real soon

(ii) never fuckin works anyways.

on the phone, it's that dreadful uuhh noise between sentences.

"anyways", "per se", "whatnot", "sick", "dope" ...

apparently

"special"

so,

i actually used "outta sight" appropriately the other day and it felt... awesome

"rad"

which is now the calling card for 18 yr old no idea hipster knob CYHSY fans.

i hate it when drooone says "CYHSY"

in eighth grade a friend of mine told me and some others to use "physical therapy" (i.e. slamming a fist hard into his arm) whenever he said the word "fresh" - we were all too happy to do so

"I was using it ironically"
xpost

^self hatred.

"awesome". I say everything is "awesome" all the time. I'm not even sure where I picked it up from but I did somehow.

I have a feeling I wont be using that word much at all anymore, but thats an aside.

People in Ireland use "absolutely" instead of "yes" when they want to appear emphatic about their answer. It drives me insane.

I start every spoken sentence with "I mean", which also drives me insane. Lately I've taken to saying "I mean, why do I always say "I mean", anyway..." and then the sentence starts. I wish I could stop.

If you'd like, I could pop you with a rubber band every time I hear you do it this Sept.

Er, thanks.

OH MAN SEPTEMBER WILL BE SO COOL!

Sorry for off-topic outburst there.

I KNOW IT'S HAPPENING NOW 'CAUSE I ALREADY GOT THE BILL FOR THE PLANE TICKETS! PSYCHED!

ahem

That reminds me, "awesome" is another one. I hate myself a little every time I hear myself use it.

There's going to be a lot of rubber band popping on this holiday.

I've picked up lots of Americanisms from the missus but not many of them annoy me, until I get laughed at by my friends for saying pants and sidewalk and store. And I used to HATE "man" in any context but the classic, yet now I use it far too much.

I say 'like' too often, and I have picked up the Canadianism of saying 'eh' after every statement, and I also say fuck too often.

I go through phases of using the words 'pre-emptive' and 'ubiquitous' in every other sentence, too. It's very annoying.

Oh god. "Proactive"

Hardly a sentence goes by without me adding a "maybe" or a "probably". Or just about any such word that weaken my point. To the great joy of my friends who keep teasing me about it.

Like franny, I say "fuck" too often.

matt pinfield made me hate the word "amazing"

i have an intense hate for that word, but much like the band journey, ive come to perversely enjoy its usage, especially on "the bachelor"

also: its getting harder to resist the urge of punching a person that starts every sentence with "basically" in the face

until I get laughed at by my friends for saying pants and sidewalk and store.

Heh. After my trip to the Europe in '98 I used "trousers" a lot. My personal trousers - a gigantic pair of JNCOs - had been the subject of much ridicule during the trip.

At one point in Scotland, a drunken soccer fan composed and led the rest of the train in a song about me. The lyrics were "he's Mr. Baggy Trousers Maaaannnnnn!" I would have been pretty offended had I not been convinced of the stylishness and cultural superiority of my denim.

Afterwards, instead of saying "pants" or "jeans," "trousers" crept into my lexicon. My friends thought I was really pretentious.

Also "Cheers." I probably said "cheers" way too much for someone who wasn't talking about George Wendt.

Weirdly, I say "cheers" too, and was once told off in work by someone who said he didn't like to hear Irish people using English slang. Mentaller.

he has a point