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    Words/Phrases you HATE

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

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

      i.e. I like cookies more then cake.

      No!
    • Posts: 831 Member
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      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?
    • 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
    • Posts: 1,100 Member
      "Swag"
      "YOLO"
      "Dope"
      "Sick" (e.g. That is sick! - to mean that is good)
    • Posts: 83
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      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!
    • 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
    • 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)
    • Posts: 1,375 Member
      Actionable
      "Let's discuss this off-line"
      Deliverable
      "The Cloud"
      turn-key
    • 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
    • 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.
    • Posts: 32 Member
      YOLO

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

      Also, people who apologize profusely and unnecessarily.
    • Posts: 2,186 Member
      Panties
    • 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?
    • 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"
    • Posts: 784 Member
      Lose vs loose

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

      Also the word drawer is odd to me
    • 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!
    • 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".
    • Posts: 1,430 Member
      unbeknownst to you...

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