Things people say in conversation that annoy the hell out of you.

[Mozza444]

I've posted it before and i will post it again..

Spoiler: Anybody like this

 

[whiskey rock n' roller]

Wow I'm guilty of quite a few of those. To me its not what the person says exactly, but how they say it.

 

[mezmerizer02]

I really hate "you know", you know?

I also get annoyed at English people saying sKedule instead of schedule. We know that the Americans have caned our fine language, but that is not an excuse for copying them. Add 'erb and aluminum to that list too.

so you don't pronounce it sKool, you pronounce it school?

Hey, it's an old language with irregular words and crazy rules. Why do you say 'erb instead of herb and not 'istory instead of history?

For the same reason we pronounce it "nife" and not "Knife". Also how you do not pronounce the P at the beginning of "pseudo". Same reason we don't call the trunk a "boot". a trunk in where you store things, a boot if something you wear on your foot. Some things just aren't meant to be, but going through the entire dictionary and editing it to an American form would take too long, so we just pronounce them correctly to make up for the "olde" people's mistakes.

 

[Batfred]

I really hate "you know", you know?

I also get annoyed at English people saying sKedule instead of schedule. We know that the Americans have caned our fine language, but that is not an excuse for copying them. Add 'erb and aluminum to that list too.

so you don't pronounce it sKool, you pronounce it school?

Hey, it's an old language with irregular words and crazy rules. Why do you say 'erb instead of herb and not 'istory instead of history?

For the same reason we pronounce it "nife" and not "Knife". Also how you do not pronounce the P at the beginning of "pseudo". Same reason we don't call the trunk a "boot". a trunk in where you store things, a boot if something you wear on your foot. Some things just aren't meant to be, but going through the entire dictionary and editing it to an American form would take too long, so we just pronounce them correctly to make up for the "olde" people's mistakes.

It's alright for you guys in your "new" shiny countries changing the rules to suit yourself. Back here in the "olde worlde", we got lumbered with tradition. So in exchange for history and heritage etc., we got words that stick a middle finger up to phonetics and get down and dirty with spelling's barely legal daughter.

 

[cheese_wizington]

I could care less.
I like could like care like less.
I like could like care like less ya know?
I like could like care like less ya know whatever.

It's I couldn't care less. Otherwise it means nothing.

Exactly, half the people in my school say it like that.

 

[SilverApple]

"At the end of the day". I make allowances for football managers and footballers, but I would prefer it if people did not use this phrase more than once per each minute of speaking.

 

[Arcadia2000]

Wow, I finally made it through all the things people hate you for saying. I do hate "warsh" but quite possibly the phrase I hate the most is "The fact of the matter is..." as made famous by my stepmother. We (my sisters and I) hate it when she says that, because she says it all the time. You can guarantee in any kind of discussion that she'll say it almost every other sentence and what makes it worse is it's usually not a fact but just her opinion! Arg!

[sub]We love our stepmom but really, her mouth waiting to speak is like a train wreck waiting to happen. It's so sad.[/sub]

... Also, college guys who ask me if I am in college to get my MRS Degree. It makes me want to kick them in the balls.

I suppose you are majoring in a soft science, then, Ms historybuff? ...

Actually, I'm majoring in History and I'm taking the Foreign Service Officer Test at the end of February to work for the State Department.

And it shouldn't matter what I'm majoring in. For a male to assume that I have no other purpose in college other than to find a husband is blatantly sexist. He's making an ignorant assumption based entirely on my gender.

And yes, life isn't fair--but this thread is about annoying things people say.

So that's what MRS means. Wow, I didn't know there was anyone contemporary left in the western world that was that sexist about women in college. Thanks for the unintended explanation. I really was going to have to ask.

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You know what else annoys me? "-snip-" I've done it from time to time but I find when others do it that I have no idea what they were commenting on and I get really confused. I mean it's fine in places but it's getting overused in my opinion and I'm going to make an effort to stop snipping.

 

[DocBot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1aqmuyZE8

People like that..

That was terrible!

I am pretty tolerant of people's speech because of my retail days. But, the people who constantly finish your sentences like they know what you're talking about. Once, twice, solid. More than about four or five when I'm around you....no dice.

I had this friend of a friend who did it all the time. My friend thought her and this other girl close because "they thought so much alike," no this rapid parroting just gave a semblance of it. Speak, don't copy.

 

[Johnmw]

I also get annoyed at English people saying sKedule instead of schedule. We know that the Americans have caned our fine language, but that is not an excuse for copying them. Add 'erb and aluminum to that list too.

This pretty much, (although technically the US pronunciation of aluminium is correct). London accent + Californian sentence delivery (every sentence sounds like a bloody question) + US gangster rap vocabulary = RAGE! You live in London with your parents, your not on the O.C and your not tough.

 

[Godavari]

"my bad"

How is that grammatically correct?

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

"my bad"

How is that grammatically correct?

Congratulations! You've gone

Spoiler

OT: one thing that drives me totally nuts is "irregardless". It's not a word! Gah! You just say regardless.

 

[cptawesome]

there is a girl in my class who has the most horrific grammar i have ever heard from anyone, ever, in my entire life. she's actually intelligent, but she sounds like a complete dumbass, especially when she askes questions like "what religious is you?" actually, she is an idiot.

 

[QuickDEMOL1SHER]

Dude.

Hey dude, i'm a dude, dude and you're like, a dude. dude thats so dude dude.

 

[-BloodRush-]

so many nazi's in here. let people talk the way they want.

 

[x0ny]

I don't like it when people repeat a word as if to alter its meaning slightly. I don't know how to explain it, so I'll use several examples, I'll also throw in other things people say which annoy me:

"Yeah well, I mean, I like this dress, you know, but, like, it's not for going out, out."
"It's not like a mug, mug. You know what I'm sayin?"

So going out out, means to "properly" go out, and a mug mug, is a "proper" mug. To be honest, if it isn't a mug mug then you're probably holding a spoon, or something that simply isn't a mug.

 

[Cheesebob]

Grammar Nazis piss me off.

People who think they are clever when they spot a double negative. Its not clever, its part of certain places in england's dialect.

People who ***** about grammar on internet forums also annoy me.

 

[carlisn]

On MSN conversations; just about every abbreviation ever...( yes, I am aware of the irony)

In real life: "like" and "I".

 

[superking9292]

When people talk like they are from the inner city but aren't.

Also less common is when people append "zilla" to the end of things to emphasize that it is large. I mean, godzilla was big, but there are bigger things... The Death Star, Galactus those were pretty big.

 

[Tharwen]

People who add a 'wuh' to the ends of words to emphasise them.

Example:

"Are you coming?"

"Noooooooooo-wuh!"

[sub]bad example but you get my point (I hope)[/sub]