[Closed] Words which grate against the very fabric of your soul

Use the words properly!

innit... 😀

Celebrity.

dis fred am well wkd.

social media

accountant

Wha'ever

Loath it.

Put out.

real-time.

Just watching season 8 of 24 and they want everything real time. What other sort of time would in anyway be relevant? What would someone give you by mistake if they didn't realise you specifically needed real time information?

Alex curran! Eurgh..

For sure, it's certain you eejits

'kinda like' - so annoying

'Ourselves', 'yourselves' and 'myself'....

Utterly neutral on their own, but when left in the hands of some of my plantlife colleagues you end up receiving emails/telephone calls along the lines of:

'Ourselves have contacted yourselves about this matter on previous occasions. If yourselves could reply to myself, then ourselves will be in a position to pursue it further'

Synergy.

'Innit' gets on my nerves as well.
'Frank' & 'Skinner' are another two.
'Football'
'Management' (not linked to the previous bit)
'Medication'
'Methodone'

Isn't 'celebs' even more irksome?

'Butt' and 'ass' and other such Americanisms are really unhelpful to my mental well-being.

24/7

Real time has a specific meaning. In TV it means that one minute of screen time equals one minute of plot time. In computing it means that calculations or functions are performed on a continuous basis all the time.

Not a silly word at all.

'Ourselves have contacted yourselves about this matter on previous occasions. If yourselves could reply to myself, then ourselves will be in a position to pursue it further'

AAAAAAAAAARGH!
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period

Guesstimate.

"Manchester United"

😉

MOT

Verbation of the noun 'Medal'.

Empowering
Facilitating

Know what I mean

Reality when applied to any TV shows

'celebrity' chef.

actioned

Your instead of you're.
Yeah yeah yeah,instead of just one yeah.

"most unique" or any variation thereof.

What's wrong with celebrity? What adjective should we use?

What annoys me is words being used as verbs when they are derived from verbs in the first place.

Such as leverage. The verb is to lever.

Any word that should have 'ing' on the end - Please pronounce the 'G', it does my head in. As does missing the 'H' off the beginning of words, except maybe 'otel' which is posh.

Hate Basically..... arggghhh.

I say could have

they say 'could of'

is not
does not in any way
wuzzent
dijical

all pre-pubescent affectations of a vertically challenged forum member who is now banned.

'an' when preceding mountainbike or hotel

Strategic
Premier
Springboard
Demystify

And many many other business BS words.

LOL, ROFL, LMAO, ROFLMAO,!!!! etc.

Pedant(ic/ism /ary) consistently being used improperly, and being considered a virtue as opposed to a flaw.

'I'm sorry, it's passed closing time',
'I', when the speaker means 'me',
'Disinterested', when the speaker means 'uninterested',
'Myself' when 'me' is correct,
'Decimated', when speaking of a situation where less or more than 10% of the subjects of the sentence are dead,
'Enormity', when speaking of the large size of something
'And now we leave the live action for another episode of the Good Life / Dad's Army [delete as applicable]'

And what's wrong with abbeviations?

Christ, your worlds must be dull as ditchwater if you can't cope with humorous linguistic creativity.

TORY.

"my bad"

Proactive.

molgrips - Member
In computing it means that calculations or functions are performed on a continuous basis all the time.

Afraid not, it means they have a constrained response time. Nothing to do with operating continuously.

"winningest"

Oh my god, that was so [b]banter[/b]...unts

NewLabour. A synonym for a bunch of upper middle-class twonks masquerading as having working-class sympathies.

Fail, in its internet use. I dont know why but it does my head in.

I've took
It's broke
I've wrote
Yous lot
etc, etc, etc...
All of which my colleagues say on a daily basis.

Awsome
Bling
Stoked
Monstered
Unbelievable
Like
Streamlining
Radical
Hero

Nothing wrong with most of the above except some are now used so often they have lost most of their original meaning.

I'm with molgrips.

Poor flashy's been misunderstood again too.

The words which stir the stomach to shout soup;

I get wound up by sentences which aren't really sentences. Liberal use of the semi-colon should be avoided by the inexperienced. 🙂

Hm. Well my point still stands 🙂

I suppose I was thinking that if something had to happen on a continuous basis then it'd have to execute quickly enough to not run up a backlog.

Angela, we seem to work in the same office

classic today was being asked how to spell 'pilot'

then one of the main bosses saying, 'one of the things what it does be what is different is'

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit... sounds like a lot of youse lot would hate my lazy colloquialism..

I find it hard to dislike any words really apart from some obvious ones that are used to express prejudice which I won't use here.. I think this comes from a love of the english language and all of it's enchanting diversities.
I used to distrust that terribly well annunciated and stiff brand of english though.. It seemed very harsh and rude and dishonest..

Then I pulled my head out of my arse and tried to stop being so shallow and xenophobic..

iDave...I work in a school ffs...that's how the other teachers speak!!!! 🙄

8)

I think this comes from a love of the english language and all of it's enchanting diversities

Abso-frigging-lutely. Right on.

Free when they mean three. One is without cost, the other is a number.
etc.etc.etc. One is enough. Adding more doesn't mean more of more.
Youse (pronounced as Use). Try "You people", it sounds much better.

"You've got to do the math", I can tolerate it from our American cousins, no excuse over here though.

Saying "Oh" instead of zero. O is a letter zero is a number, you wouldn't spell zoo "zed zero zero".

'touch base', 'hook up', SOD OFF!

Offov

As in "Oi you! Get offov my land!"

or The Rolling Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud"

"6am in the morning". It's either 6am, or 6 in the morning.

Free when they mean three

LOL.. my other half is very well spoken but has buck teeth(?) so cannot pronounce a 'th' sound having to use an 'f' instead.. a constant source of amusement to myself.. an habitual exponent of the 'ih dunt mah'er duzzit' school of linguistics..

YA' KNOW, and repeatedly saying LIKE

Conservative.
Choice.
Patriot.

splirrit wirrus (would you share your curry with me old bean)

+1 Monksie

My boss tells me to 'chillaxe' ....hhmmmmmm

enough already

every thing that is spoken in the BB house

the word 'legend' when applied to footballers under the age of 30, popstars who've had 2 singles released and film stars from romcoms and the like.

across the piece - I can barely tolerate any BS business speak

Actually.

It never fails to grate when I'm listening to people who use it as a sentence filler. Mainly London folk. As in;

"I actually think that you actually don't believe what you're actually sayin' bruv"

****s.

nonk's example is almost Yorkshire Dialect. Nowt up wi that, lad.

oh and 'apparently'

it just means you're about to be lied to.....

I hate "and stuff" after (seemingly) every sentence. What stuff? Do you mean some knd of singular to stuffing as in the substance used to plump up cushions?
I'm going to bed before I really start ranting.

S'funny, the other thread was about words you like the sound of. End of. This thread has evolved to describe words you dislike the misuse of, or the connotations of.

I dislike words that I've only ever seen written down, that I don't actually know the sound of. Words I make an arse of myself with when I try to slip them into conversation. Foreign words, mostly. Pince-nez. Laissez-faire. Zeitgeist. Tange. Bontrager. That kind of thing.

White101 beat me to it. But...

Chillax

...makes me sad.

Absolutely, but pronounced Ab-so-lutely.

You'll know exactly what I mean the next time you hear it. makes me f&&king boil..

[i]icon[/i] as used to describe anything or anyone in the news

more personal but it really gets me [i]ap[/i] as in application or is it apple application? i'm pretty sure it will morph into more general use and i look forward to buying a fridge with [i]iconic lifestyle aps[/i]

'incentivise'

usually used by his bloody toniness - the git. what's wrong with 'encourage' or 'motivate'?

'synergy' - although this word is also usefull, if you hear someone use it you know you can stop listening to them, safe in the knowledge that they're idiots.

and if i'm allowed to complain about phrases as well as words:

'was like'

as in; 'i was like XXXXX, and he was like XXXXX'

i've reached the end of my patience with people who use this, and now repeat the word 'like' everytime they use it as above, they quickly stop.

"good times" or on the other hand "bad times" !

Colourway

Makes me grind my teeth every time I see it. Grrrr.

Whatever

Lessons have been learnt.

'Oh my days!'

This little expression seems to be the exclusive preserve of slack jawed wiggers and the permatanned communal sperm receptacles who love them.

Reality Star

[b]Your[/b] - when they meant [b]you're[/b]
There - when they meant their
to - when they meant too

[b]Gunna[/b]}
[b]Gonna[/b]} Say “No” to Americanisms! These are not English words.

Sentences that start, "Basically..." Shoot them on the spot! Don't hesitate - they are idiots and should not be allowed to exist (despot that I am!).

The verb To Sit is always (or so it seems) conjugated incorrectly:
"I was sat by the car..." wrong.
"I was sitting by the car..." correct.

Innit ????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Hero - when used to describe to££ers who kick a football - or such like. Send them all to Helmand & let's see some genuine heroism.

simples

Transportation
Rad
Sweet ,as in it will be a sweet ride (a favourite of the bloke in Bad Ass Bikes)
Totally stoked (Like a steam engine?)
Ball park figures
Blue sky thinking

more personal but it really gets me ap as in application or is it apple application?

App was in use many many years before iPhones came out.

Some right pathetic losers on this thread. Get a grip!