Words you hate

[Guffe]

When people use "fancy" words to sound good or educated.
I don't mind people using word I don't understand if the context requires it, I can just look it up and understand the context and learn a new word but just using crazy ass language for the sake of it is something I don't like.

 

[NearLifeExperience]

I'm beginning to develop a grudge against the word 'troll' , I think because of it being thrown around far too easily these days, big thanks to facebook for making memes reaching the average joe. I know I probably sound like some disgruntled internet hipster(oh god, another one of those words), but I preferred it when not every witty remark, pun and facetious behavior would be referred to as 'trolling'.

Another thing is the word 'your' when the person in question means to say 'you're' or 'you are'. This is one my major internet pet peeves, WHY DO PEOPLE DO THAT. Every time I see someone make that mistake a little piece of me dies. It's like a disease, spreading like wild fire. Who started this infection? Off with their hands!

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[/whining]

Swag-Swag is shitty weed, generally from Mexico. It can also be free stuff. That's all it is.

Actually, 'swag' or 'swagger' means to strut, to boast about something. I believe I read somewhere it dates all the way back to Shakespeare. 'Brodudes' use it to refer to their giant inflated egos, without even the slighest hint of irony, making them ideal targets for ridicule and satire. So personally, I don't mind this as much.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Well funnily enough, I used to not like the entire sublanguage including yolo, ******, swag, 2gud4u, u mad bro, u wot m8, etc. But then I started using them myself for comedic effect and now I'm perfectly fine with them. And in fact many people who seem to use them sincerely are doing the same, much like "'Murica, fuck yeah".

Sheeple, fanboy, hater, random, and iron.

Sheeple - everyone borrows ideas from other people. Accusing anyone else of doing it is such ridiculous arrogance I can't stand it. To imply that someone else doesn't think for themselves at all is demeaning to boot, and it's even worse when you proclaim to be one of the few enlightened ones.

Fanboy, hater - unless used for parody or self-referentially, these are easy ways to marginalise someone and belittle their opinion without actually addressing it, and are as overused as "That's what she said" jokes before you learn how to wait for the right fucking time.

Random - not when used properly of course, but when used to mean lesser or without value, or to mean "a random person". Same goes for literally when what follows is not what LITERALLY is the bloody case.

Iron - About the one word I pronounce strangely. I try to say 'iyen' but some sort of weird little aspect of 'r' slips in there regardless. Screw this word for being the only thing standing between me and speaking properly most of the time.

 

[NightmareExpress]

"Guesstimate"

I've always been a person that guesses or estimates.
Why bother squishing the two together? If I hear you say estimate, I'll always assume that it's a guess (informed, educated or otherwise). Regardless of what you might initially think, guesstimate is indeed a word that found its way into English vernacular circa the '30s out of the States and is even taught as a process of learning certain higher level maths/sciences.

But regardless of its legitimacy, I will not be using it and I cringe a little inside every time I hear it used.

Oh, and seeing "you" spelled as "u" on paper.
Using pen. Sent in for grading, for unintentional (partial) academic suicide.
All of my whys, hows and whats.

 

[Nowhere Man]

Every time someone says "awesome sauce" a fluffy little kitten dies.

 

[doomspore98]

The word "like". Maybe its because I'm from the midwest and we say it a lot up here, but Jesus Christ! No-one should say "And I was like, blah blah blah". That is not good, it needs to stop.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I hate when people say "Guesstimate" and "Same Difference".

It's alright if you have to make a guess at something. We're all human, we're all imperfect and, we all make mistakes. It's also fine if you have a rough estimate in relation to something. We can all deduce when something is likely to happen depending on what it is we're estimating. When you 'guesstimate' though, you're just trying too hard to sound like you know what's going on and come off sounding like an ass Dad.

Same Difference is just...it pisses me off when someone says it. It's like Mandarins and, Clementines; They are NOT the same and the same difference between one and the other is that neither one is an Apple.

"Hey, is that Link to the Past or, Zelda Awakening?"
"Link to the Past."
"Eh, same difference."
"THE SAME DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT METROID ASSHOLE!"

Another annoyance is when people say "I could care less" when they mean the opposite.

"Hey, did you like Dark Knight Rises?"
"I could care less for that movie"
"but...you wrote up a review saying it was a moldy ass..."
"Yeah; like I said I could care less"
"you mean you COULDN'T care less."
"Same difference dude."
"GO FUCK YOURSELF!!"

...

sorry.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Despite fear of flaring up the gender wars again, I'mma have to say it:

Cis.

I'm not sure what it is, maybe the feeling of negativity behind it...I dunno but it rubs against me the wrong way. To help myself I acquired a Word Replacer so now Cis is Snake. Unfortunately that also turns stuff like Racism into RaSnakem.

That's a prefix, and it's used to describe something or someone who remains in their first-introduced state, and in the context of gender it is used simply as a descriptor for someone who hasn't changed genders. If you're getting a feeling of negativity behind it, it might be because for a very long time its equal and opposite prefix, trans, carries such similar connotations that many who are in fact transgendered refuse to acknowledge it post-transition. The truth is that it is the coldest, hardest, and best-describing word the scientific and medical community has to offer, and if you don't get used to it now, well, you're going to have to get used to seeing a lot more snakes.

You've hit on all the reasons why it sucks as a prefix; it's cold, it's hard, and transgendered people don't like their prefix so why should cis? Forcing the word "cisgendered" into the vocabulary while trying to shove "trans" out the back door is precisely the sort of thing "whatever-the-prefix-of-the-day-that-isn't-trans"-gendered people are railing at everybody else for.

 

[Bucht]

I hate it when people use English words when talking Dutch, especially on tv.

 

[conmag9]

The phrase "plain and simple" usually draws my ire, as 9 times out of 10 it is used by someone to condescendingly dismiss an opinion on a topic that is NOT plain and simple. Even if it turns out that a specific use isn't doing that, my instinct is still to be annoyed.

Similarly, misuse of the word "literally" has made me stop liking it as much as I used to.

I fucking hate IMHO.

This too. I don't mind IMO quite so much, but even that is annoying on some level.

 

[an annoyed writer]

Despite fear of flaring up the gender wars again, I'mma have to say it:

Cis.

I'm not sure what it is, maybe the feeling of negativity behind it...I dunno but it rubs against me the wrong way. To help myself I acquired a Word Replacer so now Cis is Snake. Unfortunately that also turns stuff like Racism into RaSnakem.

That's a prefix, and it's used to describe something or someone who remains in their first-introduced state, and in the context of gender it is used simply as a descriptor for someone who hasn't changed genders. If you're getting a feeling of negativity behind it, it might be because for a very long time its equal and opposite prefix, trans, carries such similar connotations that many who are in fact transgendered refuse to acknowledge it post-transition. The truth is that it is the coldest, hardest, and best-describing word the scientific and medical community has to offer, and if you don't get used to it now, well, you're going to have to get used to seeing a lot more snakes.

You've hit on all the reasons why it sucks as a prefix; it's cold, it's hard, and transgendered people don't like their prefix so why should cis? Forcing the word "cisgendered" into the vocabulary while trying to shove "trans" out the back door is precisely the sort of thing "whatever-the-prefix-of-the-day-that-isn't-trans"-gendered people are railing at everybody else for.

To be honest, speaking as a transgendered woman, I don't really mind either term, and I find both to be quite useful in discussion. Linguistically speaking, it is the most accurate terminology to speak with, and I find it a bit ironic that the same pain inflicted upon my precursors is now being turned on those who once delivered it. And to be clear, us later generations of transgendered folk are in the process of taking the descriptors once used to insult us back, so you can hardly accuse us of attempting to cut "trans" out of the vocabulary. The fact of the matter is that both prefixes have stuck, and for good reason: we need a quick, effective way to communicate the meaning of both statuses, and if we're going to do that we may as well stick with a linguistically and scientifically correct terminology.

 

[Malkav]

European, as in "this is what European girls look like" or "I'm going to Europe for holidays"
I am European. I never said this out loud even once, and no European would say it the same way as US-citizens would say "I am American", or French people would say "I am French". You are UNITED states, one huge nation with a strong feel of being united, you share culture and history, we get it, and I'm not accusing you to not know Austria and Belgia are as different as Arizona and Romania. Hell, I'm German, and I was treated like a total exotic in Austria!

I'm not saying you're dumb or ignorant if you use it wrongly, nor that there are no legit uses for the word, nor that every state in America was the same. But you can't use it the same ways as American. Especially not to generalize. We share the same continent and we have a flag (which nobody would ever hang up on his roof), but that's about it.


This annoys me because of a movie in which Americans constantly said "Hm, this clue says 'Europe' lets head over to Europe and start looking! Maybe those Europeans can help!". Luckily, one of them spoke European...
Extreme example, but reading it on the internet keeps reminding me.

 

[Morsomk_v1legacy]

The Icelandic version of ******........really.

The way it is being used is really fucking dumb. I dont really know if guys use it as a insult for your sexuality....it feels like that sometimes, but most of the times it's being used as a insult for you being a weakling, "because you couldnt lift that 100 kg weight".

.....really.

 

[Hussmann54]

Well I used to hate YOLO, swag, bro etc etc then I started using them ironically and it's perfectly fine :3

It works so, so well in League.

"Have I ever told you about my YOLO and then Counter YOLO strat?"

"No what?"

"Ok you Ghost in (YOLO) then Flash out after tanking a shitton of damage (anti-YOLO.) Genius."

And

"You ok?"

"Yeah I just Swag'd out"

Then I called Cho's spikes the Swag Spikes on a whim once. The name stuck so hard.

I would say some of the more serious swear words but we all know I would be the one using it five seconds later XD

I'll just mirror the OP and say "******" Unoriginal as fuck but hey.

You just won.... I found my new favorite thing in League

 

[NearLifeExperience]

The word "like". Maybe its because I'm from the midwest and we say it a lot up here, but Jesus Christ! No-one should say "And I was like, blah blah blah". That is not good, it needs to stop.

Like, no way! I'm like, guilty of this behavior It's like, the most addicting word, like ever!

 

[drh1975]

I can't stand when adults use childish words like yummy and tummy. Those words should only be used by adults in the following situations: Mockery, as in, "Aww, does someone have a tummyache?"
When talking to a child.
Quoting the Ace Ventura movies.
A whole 'nother is another one that gets me. "'Nother" isn't even a word.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

I hate it when people use English words when talking Dutch, especially on tv.

yeah, I second that, however:

english speaking people trying to pronounce dutch names is endlessly entertaining, they either make it sound german, danish or go full yankee on it and butcher it onto the most base english syllables.

glorious!

 

[Oly J]

Yolo-I'm of two minds with this one. On the one hand, it's something one says before an action which has a better than even chance of seriously fucking up their life. On the other hand, it annoys me.

it annoys me too, not just because of it's overuse, but because it's fundamentally illogical, it means "You Only Live Once" if you're about to do something that has a better than even chance of fucking up your life, why would being reminded that you won't get another one, motivate you to go through with it?

OT: I haven't seen "I could care less" yet, which surprises me, yes, I'm british and yes, I say "couldn't care less" but y'know what? not being british is not an excuse for bad grammar, I don't care if everyone you know says it, you should know better

 

[drh1975]

I just remembered another word that irritates me to no end: "wicked" used as an adverb, as in "wicked good." I don't know who came up with this, but I first heard it when I moved to Vermont. I almost asked the person who said it if they knew that "wicked" was another word for "bad", not "very," but I didn't. I just assumed it was a northern New England thing.