Yeah, everything before the "but" is bullsh--Quote:
Originally Posted by sgtiger
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Yeah, everything before the "but" is bullsh--Quote:
Originally Posted by sgtiger
More family words -- shocks - shoes and socks, and one I've heard from more than one person baskettie - spaghetti.:D
I know this isn't really about hated words (sorry for the thread hijack) but seeing the spaghetti one brought this to mind.
When my son was about 4 years old, he asked what was for dinner. I said "Pork". He thought for a minute then said "Oh. Dead pig":D
We have two local roads called Pierroz Rd. and Jacquier Rd. You should hear all the different pronunciations! I really have no idea how you're supposed to say either. Many people call Jacquier "Jay-Quay", while others say "Jack-wire". Pierroz runs the gamut from "Pierre-rose" to "Puh-rahhs" to "you know, that road over between Placerville Drive and Cold Springs with the funny name."
I don't really want to type my last name here on the forum, but I'll tell you this much...it's one of my most hated words! No one can pronounce it or spell it. And I've had people laugh out loud when I say it. At least it's easy to tell when it's a telemarketer calling on the phone. They murder the pronunciation and I just hang up on them.
I think the word, "irregardless" drives me nuts b/c it's not a word. Yet so many people use it.
I also hate it when people use Latin phrases without understand their proper useage.
My husband's boss is always telling someone to massage something -- as in "why don't you massage that idea a little...."
:eek: :eek: :eek: I'm glad that I don't work for him -- that just creeps me out! :confused: My husband is the master of the blank stare -- he can hear this stuff and not even blink:D We call it "the power to ignore" -- that's the super power I'd like to have:rolleyes:
By the way -- has anyone else heard that expression? It was new to me.
ohmygosh!!
lizbid's post made me think of the overused phrase everybody is getting wrong lately on sportscasts.
"mano a mano"
It does NOT mean "man to man," phil ligget et al!
It means "hand to hand"
geeeeeeeeez
And a word I'm learning to hate:
Penultimate
its like it was just discovered and now everybody has to use it to sound upscale. all it means is next to last.
sheeeeeeeez
Do I get a waiver? I've used it for 30+ years. :rolleyes:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ate#post202387
I'm fixin to go to the store.
I like fixin.Quote:
Originally Posted by stacie
Since you're fixin to go to the store, get me some orange pop, ya hear?
It's a southern thing.
Heee heeee..Pop..heee heeeee..
I don't hear that word very often..It's hilarious! When Ian arrived in Canada he visted a local fast food joint. She asked him "what pop do ya want with blah blah" . It took a while for both of them to understand eachother..It eventually dawned on him that she wanted to know what soft drink he wanted..
Goes to show that although most of us speak english, it's not always the same english..
C
There's soda and pop, and then when I returned to the south, I rediscovered the universal "coke". "Want a coke? What kind of coke do you want? Coke, Sprite, Mr. Pib...?"
I just discovered this thread, and am soooo looking forward to reading it! No time now, must zip over to the Y to swim before the guppies invade (little kid swim time). But I'll throw out some of my most loathed words:
Operationalize. NO! WRONG! NOT A WORD!
Impact. Correct if you mean "one object hit another. There was an impact." Or, "the patient can't poop."
BUT NOT TO BE USED AS A VERB! "It really impacted me." NO! WRONG!
Thank you. Having thus vented my spleen, I'm off to swim. :p
LOL! My husband's whole family says, "pop" for soda and we tease them mercilessly about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
I second utilize when use will work just fine....it doesn't add meaning or subtlety so why not just use use?
And pronunciations that grate on me....mute for moot as in moot point. The point is not silent.
And pitcher for picture. There may be a picture on the pitcher or a pitcher in the picture, but they are not pronouced the same! The boss uses this one all the time and I have to restrain myself from leaping over the table and throttling him.
Penultimate has become popular?Quote:
Originally Posted by PinkBike
At last! I'm one of the cool kids! :p A teacher made fun of me in 7th grade for using "redundant" (correctly, by the way). "Ooh, don't we use big words?!" I should've replied, "ooh, don't you have a little vocabulary?!" But I digress.
I've read the entire thread, and am comforted to find that many fine women are offended by the misuse of "impacted". Phew. This is a great relief to me. I feared that I was alone in the world.
This "hated" word is unique to certain areas, where folks have grown up speaking Spanish at home, but English everywhere else: Drank. As in: (in English), "I drank my pills", because the word "tomar" in Spanish means both "to take" and "to drink". I grit my teeth every time I hear it, but have abandoned all hope of correcting it. Argh, that makes me imagine how much my patients must endure my misuse of words in Spanish...:o
I have a girlfriend who says "dranked". I dranked all the juice. Arrrrrrrrrgh.
Here's one that strikes fear into every Information Systems person "I'm a technical kind of guy". Usually said when a clueless moron decides to "fix" something on his PC. :eek:
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Originally Posted by snapdragen
Second only to a management type who says to the developer, "I used to write software, too." Which we all translate to "and if you were any good at it, you'd still be writing it"
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Originally Posted by Lise
I had a 9th grade civics teacher who pronouced Bourgeois as ber-gor-is. At age 14 I knew how to say the word, but I didn't have the nerve to correct her. I probably would have gotten suspended, or at least paddled. This was the mid-60s in Alabama where corporal punishment was still in use. The same woman said colyum instead of column. Over 40 years later, I can still dredge up the feeling of my teeth being on edge in that class.
I haven't looked at the rest of this thread so someone may have already mentioned this one
NUCULAR - as regarding to a nuclear power plant or device
aaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhh
its not NEW-CUE-LER -unless you are talking about the nucleus of a cell
its NEW-CLEE-UR
I don't know why, but this drives me unreasonably batty
hmmmm I've heard it a lot recently, but usually in a bike race context. The penultimate stage of the Giro, etc. I do believe they are using it in the correct manner to refer to the second to last stage of a grand tour, which is often, if not usually, the stage that decides the outcome of the race. I'll bet this could lead to the idea that it means the greatest or best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
I get annoyed when I hear the word "Oriental" to describe someone who is Asian or of Asian descent. I limit my use of that word to rugs. Of course, I'm also not a fan of any of the pejorative words used to describe various groups and minorities. I have one coworker--an otherwise lovely person--who has used a number of such words in my presence, although she's since learned to edit herself in front of me to avoid a comment in return. It's not only offensive but also makes her sound like an idiot.
I also hate that text messaging phrases like "BFF" are starting to enter regular parlance. There's a commercial that plays on just that, with a mother struggling to "speak" to her daughter in "text," that makes light of it. It's a funny commercial, but I think it speaks to a real language barrier that's developing between the old and the young. Apparently, thanks to spell check and text messaging, kids are also having an increasingly hard time with spelling. I can accept that more and more computer and technology-related words are entering our "regular" vocabulary, but at least they're words.
Some misspellings and misuse get on my nerves. advise versus advice; effect versus affect, the word itinerary, recur versus reoccur, and judgment versus judgement (Judgment is the much preferred spelling. I work for a court; trust me on this).
And I hate, hate, hate the phrase "no worries." I have a friend who uses it constantly. I'll say something like, "I'm sorry that I'm just now getting back to you. My cat died yesterday, and I've been really upset." And he'll respond with "no worries." Okay, this is an extreme example, but whatever the context, I always end up feeling like the first and foremost thing that should be on my mind is how my life is affecting him. I hate to break the news to him, but it's not.
I recommend a book by Bill Bryson called "The Mother Tongue." It traces the development of English and provides funny and interesting explanations of the etymology of various words and phrases, especially those that are unique to American English.
i hear "pro-nounce-i-ation" instead of pronunciation
and "lair-nyx" instead of larynx
i love words. i do the daily crossword puzzle in about 7 minutes.
but i cant do sudoku (soduku? suduko? sokudu? sukudo?) to save my life!
Marketing director in a presentation yesterday - "I had them electronic-fy the print media so that . . . . . ."
Did you notice that all of us in the back row were rolling on the floor in gales of laugher? Some of us were already disgusted because you had already forgotten to mention our product (which the bigger revenue stream) as part of this incredibly important integration plan for our new business unit. Did you actually listen to any of the VPs talk about our unit's product vision? Then you went 20 mins over as the last presenter before dinner when we had been right on schedule all day. During the team building exercise last night your team voted you off the team because they, incorrectly, thought you were the mole in our Secret Agent/Spy exercise. You might want to think about why that happened and "electronick-fy" your observation and respect skills.
Y'all have hit on every word that I can think of - especially the "seen" thread & the "alot" thread.....both really drive me up the wall! The biggest problem for me is that my SO - easily the sweetest, kindest man I have ever known - says "seen" sometimes. He grew up (Pacific Northwest) saying it and now it is such a habit that he sometimes does it without thinking. I remind him every time he does it & he sweetly corrects himself. :o Still, it is like fingernails on a blackboard.
On a lighter note, when my son (now 31) was about 4 or 5 & was just learning to read, he saw a "Pedestrian Crossing" sign & said, "Mommy, what is a pedesteranian?" :)
OK
I heard one this last week I didn't even know about, but I disliked it instantly
I was watching one of my fave TV shows - Pen & Teller: BullS ** t
It was the episode where they took the concept of the 90's buzzword in tertiary institutes apart... the buzz-word being "diversity"
So there were obviously alot of people talking about diversity... trying to define it, justify it as a concept etc etc...
But one young UCLA woman took the proverbial cake when she said she wanted to more "diversed"
What the f?
Diversed?
And she is completing a degree?
C'mon... gimme a break!
OK. This was just in a newspaper (The Durango Herald) article, as the first words! "For all intensive purposes . . ." What? That makes no sense. I've actually seen this before. It's supposed to be "For all intents and purposes . . ."
I thought of one today that I absolutely despise: Someone saying that they are a "girly girl"
As opposed to....
For me pretty much either an excuse or word for wimp. :D
Have to chime in about names of roads, only this one is a name we cyclists have purposely modified from its actual name. Near a little mining town named Coulterville in the Sierra mountain range, there's a road named Pinion Blanco that, although short, is horrifyingly steep, rutted, potholed, etc. However, that's not all -- once you get to the top, you face a descent that is almost as worse as getting up the darned thing -- jars you silly, so much that you think your eyes are going to jiggle out of their sockets. In a word, it's a challenge, and on that spirit alone, we still climb the darn thing. So, we affectionately renamed it "Pain 'n Blackout." First you experience pain like no other, then you nearly blackout. :p :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sara
Now back to the thread, this one is my husband....gggrrrr:
AND since his mother says it that way too, now my KIDS are starting to say it. I draw the line there -- arrgh. Irks me to no end. I've given up correcting my husband and my ma-in-law is a lost cause anyway, but I tirelessly correct my kids. I figure it's not too late to save them from the abyss that is the word "seen."Quote:
Originally Posted by csr1210
I love this thread, SK! I have to admit, I use the phrase "no worries" all too much....
Friendz and tailwindz,
(dont'cha hate it when people put a "z" on the end of wordz?)
<snicker, snicker> :p
BikeMomma
Keep up with training your kids! They will not be perfect, but it will help. When I was younger (growing up in the, like, 90's), whenever my mom would hear me misuse "like", she would tell me. Just a "you said 'like' again" inserted into the conversation. Made me much more conscious of what words were pouring out of my mouth!
I laugh at how some people say "suite" like "suit". Lovely bedroom suit!
Regina, are we related? That was one of the words my Dad hated regardless of who uses it. Worse still and equally made up: more importantlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Regina
Since when did the word "as" become a substitute for "because"? OK, OK, I know that it is a correct use, but that use has become so very popular lately, and it grates on me. "I have written my term paper with a pencil, as my computer has just exploded."
Just say "because," or "since," when you mean "because," and save "as" for one of its many other uses, such as "during the time", or "like." E.g., "As I was riding along, a turtle crossed in front of me." Or, "As I said before, we have to use these cover sheets on our TPS reports."
The word "chagrin" has become popular lately. And it's usually used incorrectly, and usually preceeded by "much to my" . E.g., "Much to my chagrin, a tornado interrupted my ride." The word "dismay," or "disappointment" should be used here instead.
Chagrin means extreme embarrassment. It can also be used as verb. To chagrin means to embarrass. "I was chagrined to see that I got an F minus." "Much to my chagrin, Ralph noticed my panty line."
Guilty!!! :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Voodoo Sally
I also use "awesome" here just WAY too much, but can't help it....you ladies are (think, think)... superb! Yea, that's it! Superb! :p
~BikeMomma