05-31-2006, 02:16 PM | #21 |
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Yeah, text speak is annoying, outside of texting obviously. I don't understand people who write emails like that. Oh, also 'guesstimate'. It's either a guess or an estimate, guesstimate isn't even a goddamn word, grr!
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05-31-2006, 02:18 PM | #22 |
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Your [sic] dead right, their [sic]!
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05-31-2006, 02:28 PM | #23 |
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Closure
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05-31-2006, 02:52 PM | #24 |
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Closure, closure, closure, closure, closure.
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05-31-2006, 02:53 PM | #25 | |
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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05-31-2006, 03:01 PM | #26 |
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Ah, but I've planned for just such an eventuality! If I should be eaten, that would bring closure to the topic, no? Closure is so lovely.
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05-31-2006, 03:04 PM | #27 | |
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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05-31-2006, 03:08 PM | #28 |
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moody
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05-31-2006, 03:08 PM | #29 |
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Oh, I figured this thread allowed nonsense too, when I saw the perfectly reasonable word "closure" here.
Speaking of which, what's wrong with "moody"? |
05-31-2006, 03:42 PM | #30 |
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"Phoney" as a noun.
Due mostly to excessive over usage by one Holden Caulfield.
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05-31-2006, 03:58 PM | #31 |
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"Verbification" of words annoys me. Just because you'd quite like there to be a verb form of a word doesn't mean that you can just "verbify" any word you like...
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05-31-2006, 04:03 PM | #32 |
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Or, as Calvin put it, "Verbing words weirds language."
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05-31-2006, 04:11 PM | #33 |
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Like when people say they're "vacationing", that really grates on me.
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05-31-2006, 05:15 PM | #34 |
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Hearing "chaise lounge" makes we want to throw something in exasperation... Sadly, this mispronunciation is becoming more and more common. It's chaise longue people, from the French for "long chair"! I got into an minor argument with a co-worker about this, and she reasoned, "Well, you lounge on a 'chaise lounge' don't you?" Ugh.
Also, people who say 'whatchamacallit', 'doohickey' and 'thingamajig' when they don't know the correct term for something really annoy me. Saying "a'ight", "word (whured)" @ Saksie or "bling-bling" should also be banned. *throws something*
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05-31-2006, 06:42 PM | #36 | |
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05-31-2006, 06:45 PM | #37 |
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lozenge
I think I officially hated the word after I heard a quite pedantic, stuck-up girl say it. |
06-01-2006, 12:30 AM | #38 |
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'So', as used extensively by spoilt annoying American teenage brat girls.
"That outfit is like, SO last season." *SLAP!*
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06-01-2006, 12:49 AM | #39 |
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Writing "a lot" as one word. I see that all the time and it invariably makes me cringe and want to throw small objects at people. It's just wrong. It's so wrong, that if it were an adventure game, it would be "Mirage."
"Blog." Oh, how I hate that word. I might be able to accept it if it were used on very rare occasions, and even then only to refer to something pulled out of one's nose. Which it sounds like it should be. |
06-01-2006, 03:07 AM | #40 | |
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...any annoying technological buzzword and the belief that goes with them, in the media, that they should be mentioned all the time!!!! Podcast. Despite how often we hear this word, who actually listens to them? That's right - nobody. Blogosphere - a very fancy word for what's basically a pile of cretins who write things on the interweb. I'm signed up to the BBC techie mailing list, because the technology they're playing with interests me, but oh man you should see their ideas about new-fangled Web 2.0 interactivity and how people will be itching to sit in front of their computer for 24 hours to download the latest episode of Ground Force. Some of the jargon that goes along with it is horrendous. And of course, buzzwords of years past: information superhighway, cyberspace, etc etc. Argh. |
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