I thought I'd start a list of annoying phrases/words.

Now, my first choice is somewhat funny when bush says it but I was reading an article today and noticed a quote by one of the Iraqi Governing Council members in which he used the term "evildoers". He wasn't making a joke, he was talking seriously about the bombings in Baghdad and Karbala.

I think it's time ... anyone using the term "evildoers" in a serious statement should be shot and/or beaten with 'The Passion of Christ' soap on a rope.

Do you guys have any other additions to the list? It doesn't have to be political, just words or phrases that put you into a blind rage.

One of my pet peeve phrases is, "I'll give it 110 percent."

No, you won't. 100% is all you have to give. You can't give 110% and just saying it proves you're a moron.

~Raithere

The phrase:"Bush Should be the next President" :D

"shock and awe" ?

"Weapons of Mass Destruction"

"irregardless"

Yes! the unholy union of "irrespective" and "regardless", that's one of my favorite words to hate as well.

here's another I love to hate, "bling-bling". I can't figure out how that caught on, it works fine in a song but in everyday use it just makes the speaker sound like an ass.

Hopefully that one will soon join "gag me with a spoon" in evil phrase hell.

I know there's a term for this but I can't remember it. It's the phenomenon of people overcorrecting out of fear of being guilty of bad grammar or pronunciation, and ending up with bad grammar or pronunciation anyway, just a less common and understandable kind. "Between you and I" is probably the most famous, people so afraid of misusing "me" that they don't even use it when it's correct. But pronouncing silent letters is my personal peeve. The "t" in "often" and the first "c" in "arctic", for example, are lexicographical errors. Those sounds were never in the English words from their first appearance in our language. Some early printer assumed that since "oft" has a "t", then the word which is pronounced "offen" must also have one, which it didn't. And that since the Latin word "arcticus" has two C's, the word that we borrowed from medieval French must also have one, even though by that time it had disappeared. I guess the reason that this stuff bothers me is that it's educated people who do it. It's easy to forgive uneducated people for speaking incorrectly, because that's one of the things that "uneducated" means. But "educated" people are supposed to be "educated"!

"I could care less"

Heh, or "PIN Number" / "ATM Machine" :D

"born again"

"scarred for life" grrr

One of my pet peeve phrases is, "I'll give it 110 percent."

No, you won't. 100% is all you have to give. You can't give 110% and just saying it proves you're a moron.

~Raithere


We had sausages here that had 140% meat in them.

We had sausages here that had 140% meat in them.
Yeah? So what was the rest of it made of? ;) :D

"Life Isn't Fair"!!!! by far the dumbest phrase ever.
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=30401

Similar to what was mentioned earlier: over-pronounced words, like when someone says "ah-Toe" for "auto" and "phoe-Toe" for "photo," because "oddo" and "phodo" are "just not correct."

I also cringe when people (particular to the South, I think) say one of the following:

"Listen at him..."
"She was kissing on him"
"Pretty rose. Here, smell of it."

Also:
"mash" when you mean push or press: "What button do I have to mash to make it go?"

I was going to say Bling Bling but someone said that already. How about "I've Got Mail" Try working in an office after crankyankers came out with that skit. Every like 20 minutes. " I've Got Mail Yeahhhh"

"shout out" as in; "I'd like to give a shout out to all my peeps"
"you go girl"

people who quote the simpsons or family guy all the time

"rate of speed"

I hate dangling participles. "Looking out the window, it was a beautiful view." for instance. Grr..

Happy Camper - I hope I live long enough to see that one go out of favor.

"the more you spend, the more you save!"

:bugeye:

'Hearts and minds' has to be the most annoying phrase I have ever heard! They say it all the time on the news in the UK and it has become the ultimate cliche.

Weird American names for things like 'Project Iraqi Freedom'. it just makes me want to vomit!

When people spell sulphur 'sulfur', dont know why, it just pisses me off!

When people spell sulphur 'sulfur', dont know why, it just pisses me off!

Apparently, according to American Heritage Dictionary, they are both acceptable spellings.


Oh! I hate this! Starting every sentence with "I mean ..." (And, of course, ending every sentence with "knowhutumsayin?")

"So, how does it feel to have just won the Super Bowl?"

"I mean, yeah, man...ya know? It feels great. knowhutumsayin?"

"How do you feel your teammates performed tonight?"

"I mean, they were great, knowhutumsayin...."

"Did you feel that the team was ready to play? Had confidence they could win from the beginning?"

"I mean....yeah. knowhutumsayin"

:bugeye:

Oh! I hate this! Starting every sentence with "I mean ..."

I do that ALL the time, I've never seen "knowhutumsayin?" before though.

Any actual term for any sexual organ or position or sexually trasmitted disease. It's hard enough (no pun intended) to take sex seriously but practically impossible to do when the words sound like something out of a cartoon.

Penis -- this could easily be a dog toy. "Oh, Speedy just loves his squeaky penis!"

Clitoris -- it sounds like an island off of the coast of Greece. "Archeologist have uncovered remnants of pottery on Clitoris, showing that ancient man was in fact capable of manipulating soft, pliable material to get the results that were required."

Vagina -- this will be the name of the next big one-word-name R&B star.

Herpes -- this has to be derived from the Greek god of eruptions.

I could go on, but I'd secure my place in hell if I were to do so.

"ROLFMAO"

I've tried n tried but never worked it out... what the fuck does that stand for?!!!

Do you mean ROFLMAO? "Rolling on floor, laughing my ass off"

"ROLFMAO" I've tried n tried but never worked it out... what the fuck does that stand for?!!!The reason you can't figure it out is that you've got it misspelled. It's "ROTFLMAO" -- rolling on THE floor laughing my ass off. Chat room abbreviations do not elide articles, conjunctions, and prepositions as we do in real life. It's just as well that you haven't tried hard enough. You'd look pretty funny with no ass. :)

Heh, the person who mentioned "I mean ..." / "...knowwhatI'msayin'?" -- I agree. I hate getting in conversations where every sentence ends with "yeah, you know what I'm sayin', man?"

"Hey, bra"


... I'm not your bra, jackass.

How about "period of time," or "have a very pleasant good evening."

Bon giorno: :)
I think the following lists should be outlawed:
Islamic Republic of ....
Virtue
I love you...
Do you love me?
democracy
traitor
devout
understanding
MISSunderstanding
and ...
ABC.... :)
with
without

In England 'sulfur' is wrong, yet they have put it wrongly in my school text book. Every time I have a Chem lesson it stares there at me, slowly driving me mad!

the following should be banned:
'dont care was made to care' (i hate when my parents say that)
when a car speeds past you: 'he wont get there any sooner' (erm were you paying attention of course he'll get there sooner)
'multiplying like rabbits' (no matter how hard humans try we wont multiply like rabbits)
'american english' (if its american it aint english)
'man united'
'god'
only jokin bout the last 2

"That's just your opinion."


Oh, really? Whose else could it have been, jackass?

In England 'sulfur' is wrong, yet they have put it wrongly in my school text book. Every time I have a Chem lesson it stares there at me, slowly driving me mad!

Yes! Good god, that describes the whole thing perfectly.

Got another one:

Britney Spears

Her name, her picture, her 'music', anything and everything that has to do with her

But first we have to find a young priest and an old priest, "The power of Christ compels you..."

~Raithere

P.S. Sorry to rant, she has an album or something coming out and I saw her new ad, shrieked like a woman and threw a shoe at the television. Damn Britney Spears broke my TV.

Hi
I think the word "outlaw" should be outlawed or those who make laws that announce their opponents outlaws, even if they are right, should be outlawed.
quack-quack :)

Chunky and fraggle - cheers :D

...I think i'll just stick with the :p !

Rolling on floor while typing seems like too much effort.

Words that should be banned. All 'txt spk'. Spell words correctly, or get ignored. I work in tech support. I bounce any calls with 'txt spk' back to the helpdesk. I speak English, not txt. Sooner or later, they'll realise that typing in txt isn't quicker than typing in their stupid childish shorthand, and retyping it in correct English so it can be understood.

Phrases. "At the end of the day, ..." what? It gets dark? We go to bed? Useless, meaningless intro.

"Well, I'm sorry but, ..." no, you aren't sorry, you're about to have a rant, but want to come across as reasonable.

"In the post Sept 11th world, ...", "With the new threat from terrorism, ..." nope, nothing much changed that day. We aren't suddenly in danger from terrorists, for some people, in some countries, it's been a very real danger for a long time.

"dude" "bud" "man" all used to respond to a specific person. That has always irritated me. i.e. "Hey bud, I'm a moron for saying this" or "Dude, I'm so stupid I can't remember your name!" or "I don't know what to say, man."

The phrase "In my honest opinion" or "IMHO". Were you really intending to give us your dishonest opinion? And if so, why bother?

And outside the forums, anyone who does the little fingers "quote" thing (i.e. when they put their hands beside their head and make imaginary quotation marks in the air) deserves to have the first two fingers of both of their hands permanently severed from their bodies.

The phrase "In my honest opinion" or "IMHO". Were you really intending to give us your dishonest opinion? And if so, why bother?
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I think that means "In my humble opinion."

I think that means "In my humble opinion."

Most people have assumed it means honest. That aside, even "humble" doesn't fit. If you are giving your humble opinion to a large community on the internet and must tell everyone that you are being humble about it, you are probably not being humble.

"To be honest,...blablabla (put something very dishonest here)"
"god bless you"

Heh, or "PIN Number" / "ATM Machine" :D

How about NIC card or VIN number? Sorry for the obscurity.

Oh, I REALLY hate "empower" and "gravitas".

I will take "God bless you" over "Have a good day," any day, sport fans!

PMT

When you're arguing with someone, and they say "Well, in my personal opinion..."

Who else's opinion would it be, moron?

(surprised Rappaccini didn't jump on this one. :D)

'Hearts and minds' has to be the most annoying phrase I have ever heard! They say it all the time on the news in the UK and it has become the ultimate cliche.

Weird American names for things like 'Project Iraqi Freedom'. it just makes me want to vomit!

When people spell sulphur 'sulfur', dont know why, it just pisses me off!

ALULINUM! vs AluminIum...bloody 'ell there's another I in the word!

ALULINUM! vs AluminIum...bloody 'ell there's another I in the word!

Well, maybe not. Sir Humphrey Davy first named the metal 'Alumium' in 1807 before it was ever successfully extracted. He himself tried to extract the metal from Alum (Potassium aluminium sulphate) , after Lavoisier claimed to have done so, but failed. Oersted successfully extracted Alumium in 1824. At the time, the names Alumium, and Aluminum were both used, but these failed to fall into the usual naming conventions, and it was accepted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists to use the 'Aluminium'. Then, in 1925, the American Chemical Society, voted to use the word 'Aluminum' in all publications.

So it's America using to an old world, just like they still use imperial measuremants. Quaint, eh?

"In the post Sept 11th world, ...", "With the new threat from terrorism, ..." nope, nothing much changed that day. We aren't suddenly in danger from terrorists, for some people, in some countries, it's been a very real danger for a long time."
by phogistican
yes, its called an excuse.......
oh and 'at the end of the day' is what can be called a metaphor.

Rate of speed? lmao.

What does that mean? Acceleration? Rate of change of speed with respect to what? Or does this mean something else?

wow.

Yikes! It's redundant Absane.
At what rate are you traveling? At what speed are you traveling? Get it?

Yup.

That there phrase is pretty mindless.

when "unthaw" is used instead of "thaw". It doesn't make any sense but I hear it all the time.

I thought it was "dethaw" ;)

I dunno - while it does not make any sense to me either, "unthaw" is in my copy of the Oxford English Dictionary, as well as here (http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/unthaw), here (http://define.ansme.com/words/u/unthaw.html) and here (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unthaw)...

:m: Peace

Oxford English Dictionary, 1

buffys, 0



You goin' to take that from a book?!

lol, I'll be damned your right. It still doesn't make sense to me but "unthaw" and "thaw" are indeed synonymous. I stand corrected.

BTW - 1 to 0? my score isn't nearly that good.

you show that book who's boss

I tried but it beat the crap out of me and then left with my girlfriend.

Man, you should've seen what it did to my illiterate friend. We left them alone for an hour, didn't find the poor sod until we found him ripped up, soaking up sewage down in the gutters.

The book was in fine condition, though.

I'll post again since you fuckers simply love hash, hash, and rehashing old threads without realizing it:

Words that should be shot:


Paradigm shift

Dicta

Dichotomy

Ad hominem

Ad nauseum

iota

plethora




And about 9/10 of the kind of words one finds in a Tiassa post.

"Words that should be banned. All 'txt spk'. Spell words correctly, or get ignored. I work in tech support. I bounce any calls with 'txt spk' back to the helpdesk. I speak English, not txt. Sooner or later, they'll realise that typing in txt isn't quicker than typing in their stupid childish shorthand, and retyping it in correct English so it can be understood."

They neednt be baneed, they have a very useful purpose in SMS, where you are charged an amount per message, and the messages have a max length of 160 characters or watever

terrorist, Aluminum and military intelligence
should all be banned as none of them actually exist (anymore)
'surfing the web' as it just sounds lame from almost anyones mouth

"Hot water heater"

You don't need to heat hot water. It is simply "Water heater."

"In the post Sept 11th world, ...", "With the new threat from terrorism, ..." nope, nothing much changed that day. We aren't suddenly in danger from terrorists, for some people, in some countries, it's been a very real danger for a long time."
by phogistican
yes, its called an excuse.......


So, brainiac, do you think that might be why I have a problem with the phrase? DUH!

oh and 'at the end of the day' is what can be called a metaphor.
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Or a cliché, .... I don't have a problem with metaphors in general.

No offense, but....

but what??

Come on! surely offense is intended.
that phrase is never followed with anthing pleasant!

I'll post again since you fuckers simply love hash, hash, and rehashing old threads without realizing it

Jesus christ, stop whining. Not everyone makes forum use into a lifestyle or knows every thread posted in the last 5 years by heart. Don't read/reply to the thread if you've seen it before, pretty simple really.

I think the expressions "You know... wahtever..." should be outlawed. I also dislike it when people use unnecessary conjunctions like "and sofourth(sp?)... or like blah blah and like blah blah it was so like blah blah blah... and it was like ...".

I forgot this one: "It was so fuckin'... and, FUCK it was... holy fuck, and... fuck.... fuckin'... fuck..."

I think that when you swear too much, it is impossible to emphasize anything when you really are feeling something important... like the pain of stubbing my toes.

Buffys:
Jesus christ, stop whining. Not everyone makes forum use into a lifestyle or knows every thread posted in the last 5 years by heart. Don't read/reply to the thread if you've seen it before, pretty simple really.
Kiss my sweet, sweet, melancholic ass.

And "5 years", "lifestyle", and "whining" is your folly.

Another group of proletarian words that should be outloawed: "pretty simple really".

what are you still doing here?

"hinky" It's meaning seems to be: strange, unusual or odd.

I just cam eback from a social outing, and I heard a few others:

AnywayZ
Regardless
Anywho
Anyhow
Jeebis
Golly
Oh my gosh!
Oh my goodness
ain't
yall (Dr. Phil)

reality tv

how bout banning "all y'all"

They neednt be baneed, they have a very useful purpose in SMS, where you are charged an amount per message, and the messages have a max length of 160 characters or watever



Useful? Only to cheapskates on crappy tarifs with non T9 phones.

There is no excuse for txt spk. If you need to convey a long message, hey, you could actually use words, expressed vocally, and talk to the recipient!

Or, send an email using WAP.

Actually everyone i know uses txt spk, and hardly anyone i know has WAP, and its surprising how quickly you can go through money on a phone, it gets very expensive, especially for young people who dont have a job. Though txt spk is exactly that, for txts, it shouldnt be used elsewhere.

i dont really get the anger toward txt spk. If someone writes "txt" and the reader understands it at a glance to mean "text" then whats the problem? words are just groups of letters that we all agree mean a certain thing, they're hardly sacred. Who cares if an "e" is missing when you understand the word without it?

I'm not saying I'd enjoy reading a book written in txt spk but a few words of it sprinkled throughout a paragraph doesn't bother me anymore than someone calling diving gear "scuba" instead of "Self Contained Underwater Breathing Aparatus".

check your 'baneed' or should it be banned

i think whenever someone who uses 'cliched' too often should made to realise that it has become the most cliched word itself. and how about words like techy, geeky, ethnic and all those which are so overused that they have probably lost their originalities.

Word that must be outlawed: PALM.
Sorry if someone already said it, but DUDE. It just sounds SO WRONG coming out of your mouth. Palm... *shudders*.

palm ... like the tree? The middle of your hand? A resort hotel?

you lost me.

middle of hand. but doesn't really matter... the word... aaaaaaugh...

Do you have a reason for hating that word?

it sounds wrong coming out of your mouth. palm... palm... say it, it's just not right.

Dude, 'palm' is like excellent!

"random", for it labeles what the mind may not be able to truly concieve, thereby creating a symbolic reference which is almost always used or percieved in an incorrect way.

I think it's been because of Dr. Laura, but there is a rash of the misuse of the word "dilemma." I hear people say, "I have a dilemma" all of the time. Problem is, they are using the word to mean a general problem. A dilemma is a problem with two possible outcomes, neither of which are satisfactory. "If I invite my parents to the wedding, it will piss off my fiance's parents. If I don't invite them, it will piss of my parents." That's a dilemma.

"My 14 year old daughter is pregnant by her uncle" is a problem, but not a dilemma.

All dilemmas are problems, not all problems are dilemmas.

Rosey Palm rocks y'all!!!

I would have to hate blissful. sounds like you are sneezing when you say it

phlogistician - "Useful? Only to cheapskates on crappy tarifs with non T9 phones."
well sorry for not having enoug money to satisfy you, i am 15 and have no job and little money, id like to spend as little as possible, that isnt being a cheapskate, its just not being an idiot

"There is no excuse for txt spk. If you need to convey a long message, hey, you could actually use words, expressed vocally, and talk to the recipient!

Or, send an email using WAP."

mobile phone conversations are probably more expensive then smsing
the idea of Mobiles is that they are mobile, so you can still comunicate with someone even if they dont have access to the internet (ie, to be more mobile)

"I forgot more than you'll ever know"---GET LOST'

Similar to what was mentioned earlier: over-pronounced words, like when someone says "ah-Toe" for "auto" and "phoe-Toe" for "photo," because "oddo" and "phodo" are "just not correct."

I fear I must take issue with the above.

There is a middle ground, a world in which someone says neither "auddo" nor "au-Toe;" they say "auto."

For instance, when I say "walk," it doesn't sound like "wok" but it's not because I fully pronounce the L - I don't.

It's more like the very subtle phonemes in Japanese, such as the implied U on the end of all words ending in neither N nor a vowell. They do not say "fork-u," but neither do they say "fork."

The word IS fork, by the way. Westerners brought the first fork to Japan and the ever practical locals have used the western word ever since.

In a world of shoddy speaking, I'll take "phoddo" over "pho-Toe." Personally however, I should choose to cultivate decent diction.

For my "English peeve of the day" I'll take a luxury (luck-shury) pronounced as "lug-zhury." That one gives me the screaming heebe-jeebies.

Also, I've actually encountered a number of words ending in "icity," periodicity for instance, pronounded ending in "issy."

"Periodissy" is simply too damned wrong.

Cheers,

Russ Bixby, geek of the plains

Power without wisdom is akin to an adze with a ruined edge, suited more to the vandal than the builder.

The entire welsh language.
10 points to whoever can guess what this means : Gwyddoniaeth

Rogue "likes".

"I have been labeled like I'm this angry girl -- I'm like, this rebel, I'm like, punk, and I am so not any of them. It's so funny, and I'm actually really shy," - Avril Lavigne

None of them are necessary, absolutely non of them, it makes you sound retarded.

In Scotland "like" is used in another annoying way mainly on the east coast, its just added onto the end of a sentence for no reason what so ever. Heres an example:

"That reefer is good shit, like."

What the fuck does that mean!?

"yo". what an annoying word.

*empowering*

I'm really sick of that word.

""I have been labeled like I'm this angry girl -- I'm like, this rebel, I'm like, punk, and I am so not any of them. It's so funny, and I'm actually really shy," - Avril Lavigne"

good idea, lets kill avril

btw, any who labels avril a punk, obviously has no clue what they are saying and should be put out of their misery

also, ban the following words; homies, nigger, and hardcore - people use them to sound cool, but ultimately fail

"mash" when you mean push or press: "What button do I have to mash to make it go?"

That's because they like to eat pressed potatoes. :D

Let us ban: Yes, No, in my opinion, I think, From my point of view, If you ask me, I am right, You are wrong. :cool:

Cliche phrases are driving me insane :)

I even find myself using cliche phrases, STOP, STOP.

the word cliche is even becoming cliche. It seems that everything we say has already been said by someone esle, and someone probably already said all the stuff in my post. Maddening

"Nuclear Friendly policy", screw my government, we have gone 164 years without anyhting nuclear, and now a politician is sucking up to the US with a proposed nuclear friendly policy so that the US will help him rig the election, but ill be able to vote in the next one*yay*

my pet hates are.

at the end of the day
knowhatimean
init
yea
man
guy
and theres more.

I listened to some man, on TV the other day, he must of spoke for ten minutes and never said anything, every sentence started on finished, with one of the above.
with a few, minor english words thrown in.
and the idiot, must have thought, he'd got is point across.

Oh, I forgot some:

God
My God
Your God
The God
My religion
Your religion
true
pure
holy

That´s about all for the moment. You´ll see, if they are banned the world would be a bit more peaceful.