Annoying Words and Phrases

[terri]

People who say stuff without considering whether the word they've selected could mean what they deduce it to mean: "It's a mute point." No, it's actually a moot point.

Or just language mashups, in general:
"For all intensive purposes..." No, it's actually for all intents and purposes.

Silly peoples. <-- Does that annoy anyone? :razz:

 

[Derrel]

I'll limit myself to things I that see here on a regular basis:

Apostrophes are NOT used for plurals!

About 20 years ago I was at my regular gas station, filling up the car. I noticed a new sign had been hung on the front of the building. It advertised

Deli Sandwich's and Free Soda Refill's. I made a comment to the fellow inside, behind the register, that the new sign looked stupid, and he asked me why, and I told him the same thing--that one does not just slap down an apostrophe and add an s to make a plural, and I told him it was just bad grammar.

I'll never forget what he said, "Oh well, it don't matter anyways."

ANYHOOOOOOOO...another peeve of mine is the use of the term "per say", instead of per se.

 

[Josh66]

Every time I see misspelled words (or the wrong word, like defiantly in place of definitely), I always pronounce it the way it is spelled. Just to make it sound even more stupid. Maybe I'm an ass...lol.

 

[Josh66]

ANYHOOOOOOOO...another peeve of mine is the use of the term "per say", instead of per se.

Come on now, you don't really expect people to understand common Latin phrases, do you?

How many people do you think actually know that etc. is short for et cetera? (Most probably think it's "excetera" or something.) And that the ampersand (&) is also short for et, and can be used in place of it (it is supposed to resemble "et"). Or the difference between et al and et cetera... Or i.e. (id est) and e.g. (exempli gratia).

 

[Juga]

#YOLO!!!!


sorry on my fifth rum and coke and felt like adding virtual nothing to the conversation.

 

[rexbobcat]

omg, How have I not gotten in on this until now.

"Just be yourself."

Thanks for the advice. I didn't know I could be anything else.

 

[snowbear]

"Lense" (slinks out the side door)

 

[Josh66]

omg, How have I not gotten in on this until now.

"Just be yourself."

Thanks for the advice. I didn't know I could be anything else.

This doesn't really bother me, I guess because I assume that they really mean "stop pretending to be someone else".

 

[rexbobcat]

Oh, and within the realm of photography, any photographer who uses these words in their website bio automatically lose a bit of respect from me.

"Ever since..."
"precious"
"moments"
"special day"
"gorgeous"
"passion"
"dream(ed)"

Granted, I think I use at least one of these words in my About Me page, but there's just something about the combination of all those words in one bio that makes me want to contact Anonymous to hack the photog's website.

 

[rexbobcat]

omg, How have I not gotten in on this until now.

"Just be yourself."

Thanks for the advice. I didn't know I could be anything else.

This doesn't really bother me, I guess because I assume that they really mean "stop pretending to be someone else".

It just bothers me because the person who says it almost always thinks that they're giving you sage advice, like they're enlightening me or something. lol

 

[wyogirl]

I hate YOLO... and this next one might get me bashed but I hate Hipster. Who came up with that? There is nothing hip about a hipster. If you are a hipster your choice of style essentially says that you wish you were a suspender wearing nerd from the 90's.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

With a nod to Joshua's recent post on FB, people who say "supposibly", instead of supposedly.

Another new one that's creeping in is people using the word barley, which is a grain crop frequently used in brewing, as opposed to the proper word, barely.

There in place of their is not good, and on Yahoo News, there seems to be a pretty large number of commenters who love to write about the need to "support are troops".

Derrel, your loosing your mind.

For all intensive purposes, their is no reason to point fingers.

 

[rexbobcat]

I hate YOLO... and this next one might get me bashed but I hate Hipster. Who came up with that? There is nothing hip about a hipster. If you are a hipster your choice of style essentially says that you wish you were a suspender wearing nerd from the 90's.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus YOLO'd before it was cool.

#carpediem

 

[kathyt]

With a nod to Joshua's recent post on FB, people who say "supposibly", instead of supposedly.

Another new one that's creeping in is people using the word barley, which is a grain crop frequently used in brewing, as opposed to the proper word, barely.

There in place of their is not good, and on Yahoo News, there seems to be a pretty large number of commenters who love to write about the need to "support are troops".

Derrel, your loosing your mind.

For all intensive purposes, their is no reason to point fingers.

Yeah, no joke. R would have a super long list for me. That is for sure!

 

[limr]

This thread is starting to give me agida because I'm reminded of the stack of essays I have to grade tomorrow.

Okay, a couple more.
--'could have gone" and NOT "could of went"
--fewer people, NOT less people

And apropos of nothing, I hate the word 'munch.'