Words that annoy you most.

[Icehearted]

I just read an article on CNN that surprised me a little.

Nearly half of Americans surveyed said they find "whatever" to be the most annoying word or phrase, according to a poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

"You know" was the second most annoying phrase.

That phrase was spotlighted last winter, when Caroline Kennedy was being considered for the U.S. Senate seat from New York, vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

At one point, Kennedy said "you know" four times in one sentence.

"You know, I can tell you, you know, in my family, you know, there was a sense, you know, we have to work twice as hard," she said.

Politico.com said Kennedy used the phrase 142 times in the Times interview.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/08/most.annoying.words/index.html

The whole "you know" thing is pretty rooted into common American (hell, maybe global) vernacular, and it's always one that kind of amuses me because people just do it so freaking much. We'd be screwed if that ever became a drinking game.

So anyhoo, I'm torn between two words; "w00t" and "epic". W00t seems immature and nonsensical, and epic is the new extreme, which was the new awesome, which was the new totally radical to the max. I can't stand that Epic is now a slang word, and now everything is "epic".

So, what word(s) annoy you most of all?

 

[garjian]

germs... bacteria... all those incredibly broad, scare mongering words...

cool... badass... ESPECIALLY badass... i consider them an insult...
you have to be pretty damn generic for a bunch of american stoners to call you badass...

[its early morning... im not going into detail *yawn*]

 

[Slick Samurai]

Using the words "gay" or "fag" in a offensive term. Such as, "That's so gay!" instead of saying that's stupid. Usually it's just teenagers or young adults that say it, but it just seems so immature. Like they only know homosexuals through TV and only know their stereotypes. Perhaps I'm just over analyzing it, though.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

The misuse of the word 'Gay' (also goes for all crappy insults that are still being used)
Seriously, little kids throw it around as an insult so much. I wish there was a "Pummel in their little skulls" option that appears whenever people throw around lame insults.
Because of course, I've never heard the words 'gay, '******', etc etc slung around before.
Feth, go get some new insults and then try to use them on me.[/rant]

 

[James Cassidy]

Hmmm....there is a female vernacular that annoys me a lot.

I hate when they say "like" every other word.

"Like you know, like when you like go and do things and like be like some like monster and like go around and like...."

God, stop with the "likes" already. Driving me nuts.
Good thing about being a guy, no offense ladies, is that when we tell a story we tell the essentials: Who, What, When, Where, Why.

"Ray and I were at Seven-Eleven. We bought a soda and then came back."

 

[silasbufu]

"like" used 5 times in a 6 word sentence , and those women that say "gguuuuuuuuuuuurrrrllll!!!" in sentences regarding going to the mall, or some shoes they saw or smtn ..what the hell

 

[Custard_Angel]

Most hated word is "proactive".

Its used by stupid people for stupid things.

 

[Angerwing]

Stupid abbreviations or intentional misspellings. Tym (time), natch (naturally), totes (totally), and other stuff like that. If it's a normal abbreviation, sure, go nuts. But when you remove a part of the word, or deliberately misspell (with approximately the same amount of letters), that is when I rage.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It's an unnecessarily long word because as a medical condition it can be shortened to be called Silicosis.

 

[twistedshadows]

Using the words "gay" or "fag" in a offensive term. Such as, "That's so gay!" instead of saying that's stupid.

I completely agree. The word "retarded" also kind of bothers me even though I know a ton of people who use it.

 

[Icehearted]

These replies are great!
Pwned..... ugh. Played a lot oo World of Warcraft ages ago and I learned that people are terribly efficient at abusing the English language. PALOWNED!!!

Do these fools even understand how to appropriately contextualize their words?

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

LOL when used in real life speech. Absolutely abhorrent.

Now 'splendid', that's a fine word!

 

[manicfoot]

When people say something was random when it clearly isn't. "Like, I was walking down the road and saw a random frog. I was like OMG THAT'S SOOO RANDOM TEHEHEHEEH"

 

[traceur_]

Blog. It's fucking stupid, lazy pricks knock off two fucking letters of a barely tolerable term to get a word that sounds like something used to describe a huge turd.

 

[InsertWittyName]

"And like, yeah." *twitch*