Words/Phrases you HATE

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  • Tatiyanya
    Tatiyanya Posts: 255 Member
    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
    JJordon Posts: 857 Member
    I'm personally glad our language has so much variation and allows for improvisation. But please, continue with the phony hatred.
  • Fatguy2Fitguy
    Fatguy2Fitguy Posts: 129 Member
    Crass stupidity!

    What you mean stupid stupidity as opposed to?
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    Derp
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    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
    RunDoozer Posts: 1,699 Member
    "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
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    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
    benol1 Posts: 867 Member
    Journey
    Resilience
    and people who don't go to bed when they're told
  • yiffanarff
    yiffanarff Posts: 123 Member
    When people mix up then/than.

    i.e. I like cookies more then cake.

    No!
  • peachfigs
    peachfigs Posts: 831 Member
    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
    peachfigs Posts: 831 Member
    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. :tongue:

    Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFjWR7X5dU
  • khall86790
    khall86790 Posts: 1,100 Member
    "Swag"
    "YOLO"
    "Dope"
    "Sick" (e.g. That is sick! - to mean that is good)
  • lre224
    lre224 Posts: 83
    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
    icandowhateveriputmymindto Posts: 602 Member
    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
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    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
    justal313 Posts: 1,375 Member
    Actionable
    "Let's discuss this off-line"
    Deliverable
    "The Cloud"
    turn-key
  • vcancel
    vcancel Posts: 96 Member
    For all intensive purposes...

    It is actually For all intents and purposes...

    And I don't even like that all that much... LOL
  • AmberMahfouz
    AmberMahfouz Posts: 316
    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
    Malcah1 Posts: 32 Member
    YOLO

    IRREGARDLESS (it's in the dictionary because it became so common, but regardless is what's meant)
  • Atarahh
    Atarahh Posts: 485 Member
    unbeknownst to you...
  • daybehavior
    daybehavior Posts: 1,319 Member
    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
    Cindy873 Posts: 1,165
    Irregardless
    Nucular (nuclear)
    Needless to say
    Right?

    Also, people who apologize profusely and unnecessarily.
  • _DaniD_
    _DaniD_ Posts: 2,186 Member
    Panties
  • pobalita
    pobalita Posts: 741 Member
    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
    LMT2012 Posts: 697 Member
    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
    daveymac1 Posts: 784 Member
    Lose vs loose

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

    Also the word drawer is odd to me
  • sandyrrt
    sandyrrt Posts: 255 Member
    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! :smile:

    Exactly!
  • Lovlilyn
    Lovlilyn Posts: 79 Member
    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
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    unbeknownst to you...

    Urgh...This one for me too!
  • amosmoses88
    amosmoses88 Posts: 163 Member
    Kamode, moist, tinkle...my list goes on haha

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