Most Annoying Words 9

[CajunCenturion]

'Whatever,' Like, Totally Tops List of Most Annoying Words

For me, the most annoying word is 'like', like it appears in the like, title.
What word or catch phrase do you find most annoying?


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[genomon]

Cool beans" - thankfully absent as of late.

Cogito eggo sum – I think, therefore I am a waffle.

 

[2ffat]

Genomon,
[tab]Sorry, but it's on the upswing, lately. I hear it at least once a week and I still cringe.


James P. Cottingham
[sup]I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229![/sup]

 

[SantaMufasa]

To be honest...

Does this mean that without this "advisement", everything else you tell me defaults to "Don't believe what I'm going to say next"?

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[SantaMufasa]

Sorry, Randy, in review, my "To be honest..." is similar enough to your "To tell you the truth..." that it makes my entry border on superfluous...but I nonetheless still despise "To be honest...".

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[kjv1611]

When I was your age



I remember that song from when I was oh 12 or 13, I guess.

--

"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[SantaMufasa]

I remember that song from when I was oh 12 or 13, I guess.

You had songs when you were younger? Heck, when I was a boy, all we had was lyrics. <grin>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Most annoying word? awesome!

Bye, Olaf.

 

[BadBigBen]

Mine would be: "No problem!"

and I've been known to say that as well...

but I tend to cringe more, when colleagues try to speak English, be it the Queens or the American English, and mispronounce the words/letters to such a degree, that I do not understand it, e.g. the letter 'G' gets pronounced as 'Jay'...

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[stackdump]

Use of the word "basically" basically.

Also hate
- "like" when someone says it's like annoying.
- made up words such as "guesstimate", "imagineering" etc.
- use of "of" in "fed up of that" rather than "fed up with that".
- mixing up "your" and "you're".
Pronunication of "nomenclature" like four distinct words no-men-clay-ture as opposed to the (proper) pronunication sounding more like nomenclatchure with "a" like c"a"t.

 

[gbaughma]

stackdump:

Really? I have never, in 43 years, heard a short "a" in nomenclature.



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com

 

[gbaughma]

... and just because I was curious, I clicked on the little speaker at

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nomenclature

... and heard it the way I've always heard it.

<Shrug>



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com

 

[Annihilannic]

Sounds like American vs. British pronunciation; I don't ever recall having heard it the way dictionary.reference.com pronounces it. wiktionary.org lists it with an "a" as in about.

I hate corporate verbisms, the worst example I can recall is "onboarding a new team member". Ugh!

Annihilannic.

 

[addy]

'D'ya know wha' I mean?'

(Translation - Do you know what I mean?)

Yes, I do know what you mean thank you. I am an intelligent, articulate person.

 

[rjoubert]

Management speak: Going forward...
At a previous job, I used to keep track of how many times we'd hear that in our big corporate meetings with the CEO and other big wigs. It's the only thing that kept me awake during those meetings.

 

[manhunter2826]

'D'ya know wha' I mean?'

(Translation - Do you know what I mean?)

Yes, I do know what you mean thank you. I am an intelligent, articulate person.

 

[tcsbiz]

For me it's "on accident". "I erased your files on accident." I always remembered this as "I erased your files accidentally."

Another one is "bottom line". "Bottom line it for me.

 

[SkipVought]

Help

OnAccident Property

Returns or sets the name of a macro that’s run when user defined intent is not equal to real-world reality. Read/write String.

Example
This example causes Microsoft to run the OhS*** procedure whenever the user's plan fails to meet the actual.

Life.OnAccident = "OhS***"



Skip,
[sub]
Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE![/sub]

 

[Error7]

"To die for"

and on cookery programmes, after tasting the food some say

"that's beautiful"

[gray]Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.[/gray]

 

[flapeyre]

On Facebook, one of my nieces posted, "Exams suck!"

I posted back, "Vacuum cleaners suck. Exams are a necessary evil."

-- Francis
I'd like to change the world, but I can't find the source code.

 

[bigchiefdan]

They"
They say it cannot be done. They say you can get the part at Autozone.

I would love to meet them since "they" know so much.