Phrases and words that just have to go.

[ThatPurpleGuy]

One that i absolutely hate is "I'm not gonna lie" Why the hell can't you just say what you gonna say? It doesn't matter if you tell me your not lying i'm going to decide whether or not your lying depending on what you say.

Yeah this is one that gets me too..When ever someone starts a sentence with "honestly" or "no word of lie", I instantly think at the very least they are embellishing on their story.

Another one is when people say "at the end of the day". I don't know why but this phrase drives me nuts.

Example- "Look we have had bad run for a while but 'at the end of the day' at least we have our health"...Dumb example I know but thats the context in which its said.

Also whenever I hear footballers interviewed (rugby league or AFL players as I am in Australia) after a game it is always the same crap with "ya know" after nearly every sentence. It just makes someone sound so stupid.

Heres how it normally goes-

Commentator: "Tough game out there today you played well"

Dirty, sweaty football player: "Yeah thanks, but it was hard 'ya know', the boys played really well out there today 'ya know', just good to get to the win the end 'ya know'.

See how it just doesn't really fit there but they say it anyway? Anyway, it just annoys me lol

 

[Denizen]

Overuse of the word "Fantastic" in place of a proper descriptor when trying to say something was pleasant. I hear it used in that way so much and it irritates me when people describe mundane but nonetheless pleasing circmustances to them with "fantastic." Fantastic is meant to be used when describing a very surreal event that occurred or referring to how the event seemed like it took place in a "fantasy" setting thus we get "fantastic" to describe the EXPERIENCE of the event and not the quality or condition!

 

[revjay]

Misuse of the word literally. It literally annoys the hell out of me.

 

[Denizen]

Sorry double post, had to mention this and any variation of it: "know what im saying?"

Excellent example is from the south park episode where a re-occurring joke was how pimps would say "know what im saying" alot.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/251900

 

[Chipperz]

The idea of the terms Hardcore and Casual piss me off, but the biggest pisstake of ALL TIME is people who actually say Zero Punctuation jokes. I'm fucking sick of people saying "Mummorperger" at me, it makes me want to break things.

Everything else, I'm honestly fine with.

 

[EeveeElectro]

"Butter wouldn't melt" always confuses me.
I say things I don't understand - "at the end of the day" "I turned round and said"
They make no sense, but it's what I've picked up from my mum.
I hate the word rancid because it reminds me of chavs trying to sound intelligent.
"You've got another thing/think coming" Arg! Which is it!? and it makes no sense!

 

[Jama7301]

The word "Epic"
I feel that it is massivley overused on the internet.

Seconded... Whenever I try to use the proper usage of "epic", I end up having to make it very clear to people I mean it in it's intended purpose, not the watered down internet variety.

There are a few more examples like this, but they elude me at this moment.

 

[LordChhaya]

Chillax. No, just no! You can tell me to chill or to relax, but tell me to chillax and we'll have some problems. Actually the combination of any two words when not used in a comedic sense pisse me off.

 

[Revolutionary]

"cool beans"
"ZOMG"
"Like,yeah"
"he cake is a lie"
"should of"
"An hero"
"hasnt afraid of anything"
ITT :anything that demonstrates an obvious lack of education.

 

[Wintio]

I'm not sure how I feel about combining words to make new ones. On the one hand, most of them sound awkward and annoying, but if you look at the etymology of words, almost every long word is a combination of words... and over time that just became normal. Personally I love looking up those roots, so who am I to complain about these portmanteaus (combination of 2 words, the word itself is a portmanteau)?

For every "greenscaping" or "crisitunity" we get some like archeology (the ology means study of something, the arch comes from Archon, one of the nine chief magistrates of ancient Athens, which has come to mean ruler or master "architect" or beginning as it does here), seriously, it's a hard choice.

 

[phimax100]

Irregardless..

ITS NOT A WORD PEOPLE

Merriam-Webster cares to differ:
"The most frequently repeated remark about it is that 'there is no such word.' There is such a word, however."
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

OP: I was annoyed at first when people sounded out acronyms, but I have since embraced it, even saying them without even noticing I was doing it. Scary...

 

[Nifarious]

The word "Epic"
I feel that it is massivley overused on the internet.

It is, but the word must be preserved for silly, semi-sarcastic usage.

I'll admit that I'm at the stage in life when you aren't around people who are just learning that the way you speak can become your most essential accessory, but here are some key points.

"That's gay". NOTHING makes a person look like a pesky jr. high kid than saying this. One would think that this would be buried and ancient given the quasi progress civil rights have made in the past decade, but noooo...And if a kid says it to be slightly shocking/offensive , they couldn't be farther from it. Number one sign of having the amount of culture that a troll does. And I mean a troll from Willow.

"your" No, not your possessive. Your pretending it can be you are. The only way to screw this up is to NOT READ. The words are as different as night and day. Of course, there for their and to for too also fall into this category. But always with the your. Apostrophes DO NOT take any extra effort to type.

One could go on, as everyone is, but fixing these two would make the internet a much happier place.

 

[Chaos Marine]

Ebonics. It makes me twitch in rage.

Also, some of the Irish equivalent to trailer trash pronounce 'computer' as 'compooter'. It's like a bastard offspring between the Cork city borderline-knacker and Russian accent's bastard offspring.

 

[Bat Vader]

One thing that really annoys me is when someone uses the word like three or more times in a sentence. It is just plain annoying to me.

Example: I like went to a fair with like my best friends and we like had a great time. To me that is one of the most annoying things I can think of that annoys me. If the word like does not belong anywhere in the sentence than don't use it.

I also annoy myself because I say sorry a lot. It is kind of a bad habit that I have.

 

[wildpeaks]

Cool beans. Unless somebody can tell me some adorable story about how this abortion of a phrase came to be, just stop it. Stop it right now.

I never heard of this one :/

And besides this, mine would be "voire même" (french), both words mean the same thing and it's an unfortunatly common error to put them together.

 

[Silent Eagle]

I concur, i hate it when people say "thats what she said" in the middle of me talking to them! I just wanna AAHHH! (head explode) Its just annoying.
Shenanigans is kinda annoying as well.

Hey farve what the name of the restraunt you like with all the goofy shit on the wall?
Shenanigans?
Oooohhhhh!

 

[mageyolook]

i hate seeing all of the comments on youtube where people just say "did he died?" WHAT THE FUCK? no that cat did not just die when it did a barrel roll, no that singing fat kid did not just died, that comes later when she has a heart attack from never eating salad!

 

[Zonbei]

I hate when anyone says "hella days" to describe a length of time. Like as in " I haven't seen him for hella days". Pisses me off to no end. Especially when they say it and it's been like a WEEK to a month. You'd be surprised how often that happens.
The most annoying thing though, are the few people I've heard say something like "I haven't heard this for hella minutes" and it's been MONTHS.
What is WRONG with people?

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

Irregardless..

ITS NOT A WORD PEOPLE

Merriam-Webster cares to differ:
"The most frequently repeated remark about it is that 'there is no such word.' There is such a word, however."
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

OP: I was annoyed at first when people sounded out acronyms, but I have since embraced it, even saying them without even noticing I was doing it. Scary...

sure while the word exists it has no actualy meaning.

its jsut adding ir to the fron of regardless to sound smart.