Words that annoy you…

Afgan, as a place, military folk talk of tours of duty in Afgan. The country is Afganistan.

I think if you’ve done a tour of the place, you can call it “Brian” if you like.

Any word that loses its ‘g’ ending to be replaced with a k.

My dad calls a glass receptacle a “bokkle”. And yet inexplicably he still lives.

Addicting

As used in every third Android Store review. HULK SMASH.

Incidentally,

Shouldn’t this be words which annoy you?

Bez – Member

“Colourway. Price point.”

A synonym for “colour scheme” actually winds you up?
Yes. Make it stop.

And a concise way of saying “approximate price range which is differentiable and identifiable within an economic market”? You wouldn’t get more annoyed by that phrase?

No. The first one.

Literally – it is usually pointless and adds nothing to a sentence aside for to say you want to exaggerate something boring.

Best Practice – it doesn’t exist. Good practice is the best you can really hope for.

Lol – especially when spoken – laugh if its funny, don’t say lol it makes you look me an idiot. It’s no better I. Text to be honest.

when grown ups say “Ginormous”

Makes you sound like a 4 yr old!

This thread is now officially pedant’s corner

On topic, for some reason I really dislike the word utensil

“transportation”

Dear americans, the word is simply “transport”, that is all. The “ation” is redundant, please cease its misuse.

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when grown ups say “Ginormous”

Do you also dislike monstronormous and hugemungus?

It’s Charlie, not Hugh.

Meal solutions. It’s food. Just food.
Milk—I don’t like the lk thing. Also the place name Galmpton

“It hasn’t sunk in yet: I emptied the tanks and am stoked to have podiumed”. Any combination of the above when uttered by a sweaty athlete. Or a dry athlete. Their state of post-exercise bodily cooling not being my main concern.

Mr Woppit – Member

god

Quite right Woppit, it should always be capitalised 😉

‘Breakout area’
‘Monetise’
‘Gamify’

Epic – when used to describe some GCSE hipster pish debut album that has just come out.
massif – on here
hive mind – same

Those last 2 really make me angry.

Ok, not a word per say, but:
Hunting Elephants (relating to American sales speak – easy deals)
Low hanging fruit – as above.
Oh, and myself. There is never a right time to use this word. Myself is just a no.
Any sentence that starts with “You know..” No. In fact I don’t know.

My real hate is reserved for “Me and John went for a ride”
That’s “John and I went for a ride”
The rules are easy:
1. Never put yourself first.
2. If in doubt, remove 2nd or 3rd party, and test the sentence:
“Me went for a ride” No! “I went for a ride” Yes!

Simples!

BASICALLY – I’m sure it can be removed from any slack jawed mouth breathing teenager’s utterances without changing their meaning one jot.

“My bad”

and

“Incredible” – only when used multiple times in an interview.

Off of as in “that bloke off of the telly.”

The use of holiday as a verb as in “where did you holiday?”

“my bad” always makes me want to ask what the utterer is talking about, on account of it being an incomplete sentence.

my bad foot?
my bad tooth?
my bad dad?
my bad habit of uttering poorly thought through phrases?

“Buttery smooth”

Oh **** off.

For me its ‘brought’ instead of ‘bought’, ‘expresso’ instead of ‘espresso’ and ‘gotten’. But what really annoys me is Eastenders grammar such as “I ain’t got none”, which is a double negative and actually means you have some, so not just bad grammar but actually wrong.

Random – but only when used by teenagers which want to describe something that is out of the ordinary. Used in good context it is fine.
Reem – need i explain?
Amazeballs – I don’t understand how this ever caught on…
Loam – no reason, just gets on my tits
Plush – I couldn’t describe this feeling if i tried as i don’t know what it is, but it really **** annoys me

And one that seems to be a trend with young girls who fancy themselves ..
Prinsor Prinnies (presumably short for princesses) – that one really makes my piss boil

Phablet.

Or, as someone at school used to say ‘can I lend your pencil?’

No, lend out your own pencil.

He also used to say ‘borrow us your pencil’ so he got it doubly incorrect.

Vast majority meaning I haven’t done any research and I’ve no idea what the actual figure is but I need it to be a big one or my argument falls flat on its face
Clearly when spoken by a politician. Actually any word when spoken by a politician. As serial violators of language, politicians should only be allowed to communicate using glove puppets. (Maybe this protocol is already in force—how else to explain what Nick Clegg is for?)

I agree with pretty much most of the above and don’t even begin to comprehend about a third of them!

“Antelope” does annoy me for absolutely no reason at all.

Scottish MTB Accomodation—I look at that advert and all I can see is the missing ‘m’
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RichieBoy – Member

‘vexes’ is a great word!

I love ‘vexed’, when used to describe someone who’s practically incandescent with rage. That little bit of understatement always makes me smile. 😀

Prinsor Prinnies ❓
Never heard the term. Not down wit da yoof, though, me. 😉

when ‘itch’ and ‘scratch’ are swapped i.e. can you itch my back.

Also, words like ‘basically’, ‘essentially’…

And ‘gotten’. It’s get, got, got (unless you’re American!).

“like”, when used as punctuation by teenagers – as in the interview I heard yesterday where it was about every 5th word.

Wow, 5 pages of people getting annoyed with words.

Irritable lot arent you we 😀

Surely theres better things to be annoyed with like how much Kate middletons Pram cost, or radioactive water leaking from Fukushima?

Amazeballs – I don’t understand how this ever caught on…

Originally coined by Simon Pegg on Twitter, I believe.

Since we’re doing words which annoy TJ, can I add “petrol” 😉

I love ‘vexed’

Yeah, I love the scene in Gladiator when Joaquin Phoenix uses that word.

Surely theres better things to be annoyed with like how much Kate middletons Pram cost, or radioactive water leaking from Fukushima?

Surely we can agree radiation leaks are bad but also discuss other things that annoy us?

Statements like “utterly unique”, mmm remind me of the meaning of unique.

Slightly smug that i got some adverstising cards withdrawn at my last place of work by publicly slating the term “singularly unique”.

“Oh, and myself. There is never a right time to use this word. Myself is just a no.“

Er, yes there is: it’s for when you’re both the object and subject of a transitive verb. For example, “I made myself look stupid”, or “I tried to blow myself”.

““my bad” always makes me want to ask what the utterer is talking about, on account of it being an incomplete sentence.“

Leaving aside the precise definition of a sentence for a moment, a noun phrase is a perfectly valid statement if there’s an implied verb (the explicit use of which would make it a sentence by anyone’s definition). You’d be ok with someone saying simply “my fault”, implying “that’s my fault”, right? So “my bad” is fine, given that “bad” has been nounified to become a synonym for “fault” or “mistake”. If you refuse to accept that “bad” has been nounified (or that “noun” has been verbified into “nounify”, and that “verb” has also been verbified into “verbify”) then fine, but you’re basically objecting to the mechanism by which we arrived at the rich language we have today and if you want a durable moral high ground you should really go about simply grunting and pointing at things.

😉

“Or, as someone at school used to say ‘can I lend your pencil?’ No, lend out your own pencil. He also used to say ‘borrow us your pencil’ so he got it doubly incorrect.“

There are a number of vernaculars that show this sort of inversion, though. A common example is “that’ll learn yer” where “learn” means “teach”. Is it wrong or just different? It makes perfect sense to people who speak in that vernacular so it’s really just different; same goes for “ain’t got no somethingorother”, words get inverted in specific contexts.

Fascinating fun, innit? 🙂

Is it wrong or just different?

Well if it isn’t correct it is wrong. Granted, over time words, expressions, spellings etc can change and what is a vernacular could become accepted. I maintain that ‘Can I lend your pencil?’ remains incorrect.

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Can I “get” a cappuccino? When you mean Can I “have” a cappuccino!

Can I have a cappuccino? When you mean “May” I have a cappuccino!