Words People Use That You Hate

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PanzerIV

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Originally posted by: thirtythree
Why do you capitalize every word in your subject?

LOL. I didn't start out doing that but then I ended up going with it. Funny somebody would notice but this IS ATOT. :D
 

Frew

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The word "gay". Not when used to refer to a homo-sexual but when they call somthing it. No im not gay but I do have respect for everyone.

examples,
"That video game is gay"
"This is gay, Im going home."
 

trmiv

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Originally posted by: amoeba
My friend brought this up and I agree wholeheartedly with him. I hate it when people use rape in the context of " that test really raped me."

Did that test really forcibly have sex with you? way to make rape victims feel great by comparing their trauma to your incompetence on a test.

Rape has multiple defintions, one of them being "Abusive or improper treatment" so that is an acceptable use of the word. Rape is also a plant.
 

ProviaFan

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1 h4t3 l337sp34k, d4mn17! :|

No, seriously, I do. Maybe once or twice a year, used tastefully in one word to emphasize a point - yes, that's ok. But write a whole post in l337, or try to carry on a conversation with me in that bastardized langauge, and expect to get flamed.

People who use prepubescent teen acronyms and expressions from the online world in real life deserve to be drastically punished even more so than those who use them online. There is no place for "woot" in spoken dialog, unless you also want a place upon yourself to be violently impacted by one of my hands or feet.

Aside from its/it's and the other common grammatical mistakes that frequently occur, I also take offense at the misuse of "another" as such: "a whole nother issue," when it should be "another whole issue."

Finally, people who are fvcked up enough to feel that it is their personal fvcking duty to fvcking insert a fvcking profanity between every three or four fvcking words in their fvcking lame-ass attempts at sentences also make me fvcking want to beat the fvcking sh!t out of them. Enough with the expletives, damnit! And someone, would you please invent a device to punch people over the internet, for such a thing is badly needed. :frown:
 

Babbles

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Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Ok, some things that bug the hell out of me include pronouncing the word OUR as "are" instead of like "hour"; saying OF when you mean HAVE (should have, would have, could have) . . .

I think many times people are speaking with the contraction of "should have" by saying "should've" which would sound more like "should of."

Another thing that bugs me is when two words are merged into one in a stupid way, such as guesstimate.

Those are just somewhat popular colloquialisms. I do not think there is anything wrong with them as long as the person using it does not go overboard and is using it informally as opposed to something like a formal presentation.

 

SinNisTeR

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Originally posted by: furie27
Maddox has a few that I'd also nominate.

that is like the most uber site, aint it? hmmmmm uhh, its hella tight! your the man! 1m 1337 h4x0r! no time to escape make ur time, n00b.

I'm finished. I had to get that out to further annoy those reading this thread. I seriously enjoyed reading that site you posted furie27, thanks. :)
 

badmouse

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Originally posted by: Cogman
I hate people that use the word Supercalafradulisticexpeealadosious

:music: :music: :music: :music: :music: :music: :music:

I hate the song that gets stuck in my head every time I hear supercalietc.
 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: PanzerIV
If there is one word I cannot stand it's "ain't." You could be a Nobel Laureate and if you utter "ain't" that knocks instant IQ points off my perception of someone.

Also double negatives like "I ain't got none." Some hillbilly at work uses this stuff all of the time and I cringe. I am not perfect but some of these are so obviously wrong I wonder how they aren't embarassed to ever open their mouths. Then again I am a transplanted Northerner in the South...

One more is might could as in "I might could get that for you at the store." Come on people!!
Sounds like ebonics to me, and yeah it's retarded. If you ever say "ain't", you might as well stop kidding yourself and start wearing a jon deere hat.

 

DWW

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Pretty much any and every word mentioned on BET. That network is packed with self-denigrating people who like to "keep it real", avoid the English language and act stupid on purpose.

"DATS WHACK FO SHEEZY DAWG I KNOW YOU GOT DIS NUUU HIT COMIN UP, HOWS YOU GUNNA KEEP IT RRRRHEEUL SON?"

"YALLS" "AXE ME" etc

It is one thing to add words into your rhymes, but to speak it everyday? These people probably go to job interviews speaking this trash.
 

SuperPickle

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Verbage - as if the letter 'i' is somehow too expensive to pronounce. I have bosses that say this quite often. My bosses are dumb.

Heigth
"Length, width, and heigth?"
No, dumbass
"My heigth is 6 feet."
Nope, but soon, your height will be 6 feet, two inches after crush your nuts for being stupid.:|
 

PanzerIV

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I just thought of another. People (also known as ignorant asses) that say the cent when cents should be used. For instance: "Get bananas ..99 cent per pound" or "sir, that will be .50 cent please." I remember a commercial awhile back for a local grocery store where the announcer kept saying that and it was driving me nuts.

And sell and sale. "I have a video card for sell." That is such an elementary mistake I can't believe somebody could actually say or write that. I see it all of the times on forums.
 

CVSiN

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Originally posted by: PanzerIV
If there is one word I cannot stand it's "ain't." You could be a Nobel Laureate and if you utter "ain't" that knocks instant IQ points off my perception of someone.

Also double negatives like "I ain't got none." Some hillbilly at work uses this stuff all of the time and I cringe. I am not perfect but some of these are so obviously wrong I wonder how they aren't embarassed to ever open their mouths. Then again I am a transplanted Northerner in the South...

One more is might could as in "I might could get that for you at the store." Come on people!!

die yankee scum!
y'all don't come back now ya hear!
 

Rustynuts

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I didn't read the whole thread, "AIGHT"!

Also, I hate when people say "go with" instead of go with "you" or "me", etc. (oh, and I hate when people use "etc."!
 

PanzerIV

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Originally posted by: CVSiN
Originally posted by: PanzerIV
If there is one word I cannot stand it's "ain't." You could be a Nobel Laureate and if you utter "ain't" that knocks instant IQ points off my perception of someone.

Also double negatives like "I ain't got none." Some hillbilly at work uses this stuff all of the time and I cringe. I am not perfect but some of these are so obviously wrong I wonder how they aren't embarassed to ever open their mouths. Then again I am a transplanted Northerner in the South...

One more is might could as in "I might could get that for you at the store." Come on people!!

die yankee scum!
y'all don't come back now ya hear!

LOL. Don't get me started on "ya'all." I tried, I really did, to say it when I first moved here but it sounds ridiculous and I couldn't do it.