Annoyingly misused words?

[Daystar Clarion]

Ahoy there fellow escapists! What would you consider as your favourite/most hated/most annoying misused words?

Me? Irony/ironic, quite a few people can't seem to grasp the concept and flail the word around like a sword-chuck (cookie for reference), harming all language users in their path, including themselves.

Commence!

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

The wanton abuse of "random" gets me. But I think it just about gets everyone.

And "epic". Christ, do I hate misuse of "epic".
I really do not want it becoming the new "awesome", okay, we already have one of those.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Ahoy there fellow escapists! What would you consider as your favourite/most hated/most annoying misused words?

Me? Irony/ironic, quite a few people can't seem to grasp the concept and flail the word around like a sword-chuck (cookie for reference), harming all language users in their path, including themselves.

Commence!

The reference would be to fighter from 8-bit Theatre. Cookie, please?

OT: "I could care less" is annoying to me. As has been pointed out a great many times, you could care a great deal, and still be able to care less.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Seriously, I hate it when people don't know the meaning of irony as well.

Ah Futurama, there always seems to be a reference to everything in that show.

 

[interspark]

the word "gay" as an insult. it insults gays, linguists, the speaker's intelligence but not the actual person being insulted

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Ahoy there fellow escapists! What would you consider as your favourite/most hated/most annoying misused words?

Me? Irony/ironic, quite a few people can't seem to grasp the concept and flail the word around like a sword-chuck (cookie for reference), harming all language users in their path, including themselves.

Commence!

The reference would be to fighter from 8-bit Theatre. Cookie, please?

OT: "I could care less" is annoying to me. As has been pointed out a great many times, you could care a great deal, and still be able to care less.

Here you go my good man. It's a rather special cookie too!

Spoiler: Om nom nom

 

[drbarno]

Irregardless.
The word is useless, the shorter version means exactly the same thing, it's used by people who try and sound smarter.

 

[TheWwwizard]

Too to their they're there, These all bother me A LOT when misused for some reason...

Irregardless.
The word is useless, the shorter version means exactly the same thing, it's used by people who try and sound smarter.

And this.

 

[LetoTheTyrant]

"Do you know what irony is?"
"Sure. It's like goldy and bronzy only made of iron."

Also, although this doesn't quite fit with OT I'm gonna include it anyway.

Winningest.

Seriously, American commentators, please stop using this....well it's not actually a word that's why it doesn't quite belong in this thread. But every time this 'word' is used, I think it physically hurts. Please. Tom Brady is not the most winningest active QB, he is the active QB with the highest winning percentage. Or with the most wins. But please, please, please NOT winningest.

 

[interspark]

"I could care less" is annoying to me. As has been pointed out a great many times, you could care a great deal, and still be able to care less.

well... yeah, that's what that phrase means! by saying it, you're saying you DO care, but not specifying exactly how much!

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Irregardless.
The word is useless, the shorter version means exactly the same thing, it's used by people who try and sound smarter.

Irregardless is an annoying double negative all in one neat package. I think you deserve a triple word score!

 

[Ampersand]

Language is supposed to played with, the little flourishes people add to their own spocken word doesn't do any harm.
Do you think anyone gives two shits that I constantly miss use the word Groovy?

 

[Dags90]

Specific to these forums "whom", this forum is rife with its inappropriate use. Hypercorrecting whom doesn't make you look smarter, it makes you look pretentious. It says you care more about appearing knowledgeable than actually having knowledge.

 

[vid87]

How in the world did we come to the point where "loose" is interpreted as "lose?" Like, "I didn't want to *loose* my phone" and such.

 

[shadyh8er]

I actually like to call people out when they do this. Like when someone says that something was "epic," I'll say something like, "Meh. Big, yes. Enormous, maybe. Epic, no."

 

[Sinspiration]

If anything I'm beginning to hate myself because I've picked up the habit of saying "and what-not" because I've been having difficulty explaining myself verbally lately.. And whatnot.. XD

 

[interspark]

Winningest.

oh my god, people ACTUALLY say "winningest" to mean "wins the most"? uuugh! i know how you feel! it's like the grammer part of my brain is dying and is trying to take the rest with it!

 

[Red Right Hand]

Irregardless.
The word is useless, the shorter version means exactly the same thing, it's used by people who try and sound smarter.

"Regardless. Irregardless is not a word."

Cookie for the reference.

Ahoy there fellow escapists! What would you consider as your favourite/most hated/most annoying misused words?

Me? Irony/ironic, quite a few people can't seem to grasp the concept and flail the word around like a sword-chuck (cookie for reference), harming all language users in their path, including themselves.

Commence!

The reference would be to fighter from 8-bit Theatre. Cookie, please?

OT: "I could care less" is annoying to me. As has been pointed out a great many times, you could care a great deal, and still be able to care less.

I don't understand why people say that. It makes no sense, it would be just as easy and make more sense to say "I couldn't care less" I mean seriously, are people actually taught that?