Words you find annoying.

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Originally posted by Solid Lifters
One word I'm starting to see a lot here, and maybe we shouldn't, is ricer. The word beaner is considered offensive, so why not ricer?

I also see Japanese a lot. Now I know that is offensive.

Do any of you feel the same way?
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I do. And I said something once and everybody jumped all over me. Japanese is like Spic or ******. All three are racial slurs and bad.
 
Originally posted by milefile
Like Kleenex.
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You can't foget Coke, Xerox, Sweet-N-Low, Frisbee, Band-Aid, Polaroid, Jell-o, and Q-Tips.

There are loads more of brand names that are now the generic equivalents, but that's about all I can think of off hand.

I use all of those. I don't say cola, sugar substitue, flying disc, bandage, instant photograph, gelatin, or cotton swab.
 
Originally posted by milefile
I do. And I said something once and everybody jumped all over me. Japanese is like Spic or ******. All three are racial slurs and bad.
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This is why I only use racial slurs that are real words anyway.

I'd say them, but then I'd be an evil racist.
 
Originally posted by milefile
There are also indiosyncratic things people say that are very annoying. A guy I work with will close 75 percent of his sentences with what I thnk is supposed to be "and that", but he pronounces it "enyat". First of all it's totally unecessary as it points to nothing and only detracts from his already vapid comments, and secondly because it is some made up pronucialtion of some made up word that he tosses out there as an obvious clarifier, enyat.

He also does this after he prnounces his sentences as if they are questions when they're not.
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This kind of thing is affecting British culture too. Kids are starting to say "Innit?" (a poor contraction of "Isn't it?", which makes them sound Welsh) at the end of EVERY sentence, regardless of whether or not the sentence contains a question.

As in "That trick woz sick, innit?". Butt-heads.
 
Originally posted by Famine
This kind of thing is affecting British culture too. Kids are starting to say "Innit?" (a poor contraction of "Isn't it?", which makes them sound Welsh) at the end of EVERY sentence, regardless of whether or not the sentence contains a question.

As in "That trick woz sick, innit?". Butt-heads.
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Is that innit with a northern accent?

Now that would sound weird.
 
No - it's all "Ali G" language. They seem to imitate him, without realising that it's people like them he's taking the (rise) out of...

Sad, innit?

Damn.
 
I hate words that people use all the time although there is no cencensus as to what exactly they mean. One of the biggest offending words is "friend". People stretch the meaning of this one all the time.

I hate it when people call their cars by the model or make instead of just calling it a car.

I hate the word "dualie".

I hate the exclamation "cowboy up".

I hate the label "road rage". Its just rage that happened to occur on the road.

I hate the term "racist" because people assume it it always necessarily bad. They usually mean "bigot".

I hate the word "opinion". It automatically cheapens and/or negates what you just said.

I hate when people say "talk" when they mean "speak".
 
"Ax" is a tool, "Ask" is what you do when you want to reply verbally.

"Fo 'sho" is getting grating on the ears.

People who use the phrase "got yelled at", when all that happened is that somebody told then they were doing their job wrong and could stand some improvement.

And "rice" has probably already been mentioned...but it's still annoying to hear or read.
 
Two more: "...Who's your Daddy?" and "...Open a can of whoop-ass..."
 
Did I axe 'fo 'yo opinion?

Shiznit is still a riot to hear, though.
 
Originally posted by pupik
Did I axe 'fo 'yo opinion?

Shiznit is still a riot to hear, though.
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Like, whatever. A real classic . People who go and "whatever" you, should to be made to eat a cigar every time they use that expression.
 
Originally posted by Famine
There's a whole letter there you sodding colonials never even bother with! :D

Coop - Where you keep chickens.
Coupe (pr. Koo-pay - there's a nice acute accent on the e, which I can't be bothered to find on the computer) - Sporty vehicle.
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Don't make me drag out my chicken coop joke!
 
I hate the word "drift", and everyone who uses it in the context of driving a car (Or not, actually), and the people on the internet who commonly associate themselves with the term/"sport"(I use that very loosely).
 
I hate it when people say "you know what im saying" at the end of their sentences.

and i hate when people repeat what i just said back to me.

e.g. "I'm going to bed now. Your going to bed" aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh forgive me for saying this but wtf did i just say, someone shoot those people so I dont have to hear it.


PS i hate it when people realize my name is Josh and then proceed to say "im just joshin you" at every possible opportunity
 
Someone said "tinkle" to me today, meaning "telephone call". After my rant about that in this thread earlier, I didn't know whether to laugh or punch him. I opted for the poker face.

I seem to be doing that more and more these days.

I hate it when expansion modifiers are added to superlatives, i.e. "very best". It's either "best" or it's not "best". There are no degrees of "best", it's a boolean value.

People who say "most winningest" should be shot. Immediately.
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie

People who say "most winningest" should be shot. Immediately.
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Thats a yank word, aint'it :D

Recent problem words include: "corporate culture", "brainstorm" and "integrate"

I wish giving someone Evil Eyes actually worked :(
 
"Like" and "Dude"

Like Dude, I went over there, Dude, and it was like way to cool dude, ya get me?

Listening to the raido this morning there was an interview with a student at a local high school and she used "like" so often I lost count.

AO
 
Oh, I've got another one, and TurboSmoke will identify with this, because it's pretty much restricted to Scotland:

The use of the word "Right?" as a full stop.

As in: "I went down to the shops today, right?"

It's annoying because it's so aggressive. It's an attempt to get you to contribute to the conversation, but it's so full-face. I have taken to remaining completely mute when people say it.
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
"Like" and "Dude"

Like Dude, I went over there, Dude, and it was like way to cool dude, ya get me?

Listening to the raido this morning there was an interview with a student at a local high school and she used "like" so often I lost count.

AO
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Like, so whatever dude!
 
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AO
 
A surprising number of people say "supposably" instead of "supposedly", which sounds stupid.

I also hear people say "taken for granite" instead of "taken for granted". I've even seen that written!
 
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