Words/Phrases you HATE

Tatiyanya

oh yes
"dont take it the wrong way , but..."

Just..dont say it the wrong way then!

Also doesnt "swag' originate from like 80's and code names for parties when loving same gender person was quite often illegal ?
I am almost certain it means "Secretly We Are Gay". If that aint urban legend ...i'd like it much more than nowadays.

JJordon

I'm personally glad our language has so much variation and allows for improvisation. But please, continue with the phony hatred.

Fatguy2Fitguy

Crass stupidity!

What you mean stupid stupidity as opposed to?

SwimFan1981

Derp

SwimFan1981

don't take it personally but....

Arghh, I hate this one too! it is nearly 100% followed by something incredibly rude and/or hurtful...

RunDoozer

"Fair enough..." I find it dismissive and condescending. The person using it is usually means, "I'm right and you're wrong, but it's not worth discussing it further with you."

This is like nails on the chalkboard to me.

Also, when people AXE you a question.

SwimFan1981

I'm personally glad our language has so much variation and allows for improvisation. But please, continue with the phony hatred.

Are you being serious? :noway:

benol1

Journey
Resilience
and people who don't go to bed when they're told

yiffanarff

When people mix up then/than.

i.e. I like cookies more then cake.

No!

peachfigs

don't take it personally but....

Arghh, I hate this one too! it is nearly 100% followed by something incredibly rude and/or hurtful...

Me too. Anything that starts with:

"I'm sorry but... I'm not racist but... I'm not being sexist but... No offence but..." or whatever, always irritates me.

If you're going to say something that you obviously know is mean, then why say it at all?

peachfigs

yolo

sammich

zombies

supposebly (which isn't a word, but I hate it because some people think it is a word)

(what's with the "on my gap year" thing??? Am I missing something?)

It's an annoying breed of students that relate almost everything you say to their gap year. They go out of their way to try to sound cultured, but instead they end up just looking silly.

Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFjWR7X5dU

khall86790

"Swag"
"YOLO"
"Dope"
"Sick" (e.g. That is sick! - to mean that is good)

lre224

I cannot STAND this phrase, for exactly this reason. My husband (soon-to-be-ex, I will add) used this phrase to explain his 6-month affair with an "escort." It makes me cringe every time I hear someone using it; even though, yes, I can understand the practicality of it. It's simply too popular currently.

Yours is definitely a situation where the nature of “it” brings something that must be borne in mind. It’s one thing if someone uses the phrase to talk about the company policy regarding reserved parking spaces. Using it to attempt to conceal or downplay an affair is a different matter. After all, that molehill is STILL a molehill. You may not need a vehicle to get around it, but it will still wreck a garden. It’s not nonexistent or something less.

Thank you for your thoughts! I appreciate them!

icandowhateveriputmymindto

When someone answers "theoretically yes" or "hypothetically yes" to a simple yes or no question that has nothing hypothetical or theoretical about it simply to attempt to look intelligent. Grr

neandermagnon

When people mix up then/than.

i.e. I like cookies more then cake.

No!

I'd understand that to mean what the person likes most is cookies followed by cake (but I know that's not what they meant to say)

I don't understand why then and than get mixed up.... in British English they're both pronounced phonetically. Are they pronounced the same in some varieties of American English or something? (just curious, because I'm interested in linguistics)

justal313

Actionable
"Let's discuss this off-line"
Deliverable
"The Cloud"
turn-key

vcancel

For all intensive purposes...

It is actually For all intents and purposes...

And I don't even like that all that much... LOL

AmberMahfouz

I hate when people say "supposeBly" when it's acctually "supposedly"

and my boss says "Undoubtedly" .... a lot... and she slurs it all together like "undowly" and it just pisses me off.

Malcah1

YOLO

IRREGARDLESS (it's in the dictionary because it became so common, but regardless is what's meant)

Atarahh

unbeknownst to you...

daybehavior

OM NOM NOM or any variation thereof
Hubby
Epic (Thank you very much Blizzard)
Ironic (because so few people actually use it correctly)

Did I mention I ****ing hate OM NOM NOM?

Cindy873

Irregardless
Nucular (nuclear)
Needless to say
Right?

Also, people who apologize profusely and unnecessarily.

_DaniD_

Panties

pobalita

noms, nommy, nom nom

sammy or sammich

hammy (for hamstrings)

I see what you're doing there

K

my bad

for some reason....

swaggy

po po and cray cray

when people insert stupid nicknames for others in conversation (usually when they are talking about their children) "you should have seen Muffin watching tv " Muffin?

LMT2012

We're "bonding"

Plural of Sister in Law is not "Sister in Laws", it's "Sisters in Law"

You do not need to get "orientated", it's "oriented"

daveymac1

Lose vs loose

I wanna loose weight. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also the word drawer is odd to me

sandyrrt

Lately, using conjugation. It's=It is. Don't=Do not. I'll=I will.
Trying to cure myself of it as well. Take back the english language to the old art that it once was!

Exactly!

Lovlilyn

I can't believe no one has said, "it's to die for" - that phrase makes me cringe.

Also makes me crazy when people use "loose" when they mean "lose".

SwimFan1981

unbeknownst to you...

Urgh...This one for me too!

amosmoses88

Kamode, moist, tinkle...my list goes on haha