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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[tcsbiz]

Another one that bothers me is when a movie is advertised as "laugh-out-loud funny". I hope so if it's a comedy. The fact that it is advertised as such leads me to believe that it isn't.

 

[flapeyre]

Another one that bothers me is when a movie is advertised as "laugh-out-loud funny". I hope so if it's a comedy. The fact that it is advertised as such leads me to believe that it isn't.

Or, as the "feel-good hit of the <insert season here>".

I decidedly do not feel good after shelling out ten bucks for a mediocre film, plus concessions.

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

 

[rjoubert]

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

My Film & TV Analysis professor told me "they" are 5 guys in Denver.

 

[SantaMufasa]

I have found that the "laugh-out-loud hilarious", "Uproariously funny" hyperbole that appear for a movie is inversely proportional to the actual "funnyness" of the movie, and the faster you should run away from the theater(s).

Mufasa
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[blister911]

I just heard another in a meeting:

Using "single-quote" instead of apostrophe, thus requiring "double-quotes" to be used instead of quotation marks.

(i.e. Invalid values for that field include: colon, semi-colon, single-quotes, double-quotes,....)



Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

 

[stackdump]

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

Hear both here...

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=nomenclature

 

[gbaughma]

stackdump:

Wow.. the Brits have the accent on the second syllable, where we merry-kins have it on the first.... how interesting.



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

 

[stackdump]

Indeed, with derivations of the same word, the Brit version is always consistent in terms of the "a" (as in cat).

The American versions alter the "a" sound depending on the word, so nomenclatorial for example uses "a" as in cat, nomenclatural is the "a" in clay sound.

 

[Welshbird]

Mine is 'Really?!'

as in.... I would say: "It's raining" to which the response is "Really?".

I want to answer "No, I just made that up because I have an incredibly deranged sense of humour."

Fee

"The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea." Isak Dinesen

 

[kjv1611]

Hello world!

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

 

[Welshbird]

In fact, I have another even bigger annoyance for me. It's the americanism of the English language over here. Frankly - you 'guys' can do what you wish, but here; we should keep to the English way of speaking (and I'm not English, BTW).

My pet bug-bear here at the moment is someone saying "I'll speak with him". Now, in British English, one might converse with someone or speak to someone.

They are just not the same!

Fee

"The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea." Isak Dinesen

 

[gbaughma]

I dunno...

To speak with someone indicates (IMHO) a two-way conversation.

To speak TO someone would indicate that the communication is going to be one-sided.

I speak TO a crowd.
I speak WITH a person.



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]

Speak is by definition uni-directional. When he speaks to you you LISTEN to him. ;-)

Annihilannic.

 

[BadBigBen]

I will still stick with 'talk with someone'...

"It's raining" to which the response is "Really?".

now if someone says to me that it is raining, while we are standing outside and it is obvious to us both that it is, then I will definitely say "Really!" with a sarcastic undertone...

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"

 

[Annihilannic]

I saw another on the other day that really annoys me... people talking about a "mute" point rather than "moot". Or waiting with "baited" rather than "bated" breath, which conjures up particularly unpalatable images!

Annihilannic.

 

[cmeagan656]

Mine is "You know what I mean?" stated repeatedly in a conversation. One of my bosses uses the phrase all the time. Once, I tried to count the number of times he used it in a single telephone conversation. I lost track at 10 and that was only 3 minutes into the conversation.

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[Annihilannic]

Unfortunately for some people that is a form of involuntary stuttering; I had a colleague who had a similar phrase which, when he was nervous, could be inserted between almost every word in a sentence. It made for some long conversations!

Annihilannic.

 

[addy]

/slightly off topic

Mine is 'Really?!'

as in.... I would say: "It's raining" to which the response is "Really?".

A few years ago my mate came back into the office from getting his lunch and said 'It's throwing it down with rain' to which one of the women in the office replied, for reasons known only to her, 'What, outside?'

To which my response was 'No, down the other end of the building. If you head into the Design Office you'll find them 2 feet under and bailing for their lives'

 

[flapeyre]

Baited" breath is the cat who eats cheese and waits by the mouse hole .

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

 

[MeGustaXL]

Actually using the word actually several times during an actual presentation actually sets my actual teeth on edge actually.

Using nouns as verbs, especially "Leverage", as in "We need to leverage the home office knowledge" This is made even worse if leverage is pronounced the US way, to rhyme with "cleveridge"