newly annoying misuses of language

[Dorothy Wood]

*shutters* instead of *shudders*

calling a small photo a "thumbprint" instead of "thumbnail".

saying "dead duck" instead of "lame duck".

[Splashleigh]

totes annoying

[A. Chimendez]

I was saying the other day that we have have all these ways to communicate to ANYONE instantly we, but nobody knows how to speak English correctly.

Around here everybody has "seen" that.

"Oh yeah I seen that!" No, I'm pretty sure you saw it.

[jabumbo]

can i axe you something?

[Caribou]

can i axe you something?

I never got this. wtf is wrong with poeple.

[NicRN77]

can i axe you something?

I was just going to say this! how can people talk this way?!?

another one I can't stand is when people say "Happy New Years!" No, isn't multiple years.

[Bob]

I was just going to say this! how can people talk this way?!?

another one I can't stand is when people say "Happy New Years!" No, isn't multiple years.

i say happy new year to people, but with the secret wish that this will be their last

[checkyourprez]

i say happy new year to people, but with the secret wish that this will be their last

keep it in the bob joke thread funny boy.

[checkyourprez]

...back on the topic....:rolleyes:


" Yo you got 75 cent? "

in this case there is 74 cents more than the 1 cent they are using the word as representing.

[Bob]

keep it in the bob joke thread funny boy.

maybe we can get a mod to move it

minton? tpk? little help?

[ms.peachy]

I have had to get over annoying misuses of the English language. I'm sure you can figure out why.

[Planetary]

IZ IT BCUZ U LIV IN CHINA LOL?!11

[ms.peachy]

Speaking with English is make me so happy everyday.

[Guy Incognito]

misuses?

[TAL]

I enjoyed the Dead Duck comic book (http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Duck-Jay-P-Fosgitt/dp/1934944726).

[Dorothy Wood]

misuses?

what would be the correct way to say that?

[mickill]

The correct term would be shenanigans.

[gbsuey]

can i axe you something?

here it's more like i'm arksing you a question

i don't even know how to write it but i can't stand how "like" becomes laaaaak-as in just about every new "artist" to come out of Lundun

can i arks you the taaaaam

and my biggest pet hate is ent and nothing, as in "i ent done nothing" TWATS

[Guy Incognito]

what would be the correct way to say that?

not sure, it looked right at first but not so sure now. If I happened to be pedantic , i would actually say its just "annoying use of.." or "annoying abuse of". i just thought it was a bit ironic.

shenanigans is good. tomfoolery. pissballing about is also applicable.

[Dorothy Wood]

not sure, it looked right at first but not so sure now. If I happened to be pedantic , i would actually say its just "annoying use of.." or "annoying abuse of". i just thought it was a bit ironic.

shenanigans is good. tomfoolery. pissballing about is also applicable.


well, I googled it before posting it. seemed to be correct, but the internet is filled with lies. I made the title awkward on purpose. is irony still irony when it's purposeful?

[Turchinator]

when something is "for sell"

[100% ILL]

I hate that to (too).

Everyone needs to here (hear) this.

You "see" what I'm sayin?

The building was completely destroyed.

When someone uses O (oh) instead of 0 (zero) when reciting numbers.

[jabumbo]

shenanigans and tomfoolery these are not.


it's just people who are stupid trying to talk.

[Guy Incognito]

well, I googled it before posting it. seemed to be correct, but the internet is filled with lies. I made the title awkward on purpose. is irony still irony when it's purposeful?

it seemed ok at first and probably is. I doubt very much that the internet is anything other than 100% fact.

[Guy Incognito]

is irony still irony when it's purposeful?

Ironically, no.

[MCD]

conversate, conversate, conversate. any tense of this non-word pisses me off.

[ericlee]

ROR instead of LOL.

*shutters*

[M|X|Y]

its not "axe" you something, its "ax" you something.

people are stupid.

[M|X|Y]

its really annoying when people call tomato sauce "gravy"

[checkyourprez]

its really annoying when people call tomato sauce "gravy"

ya thats just weird.

[synch]

There/their
Wierd/weird
Than/then
Then/than

Ugh.

[M|X|Y]

i seen this. i seen that.

[gbsuey]

My son yeah has a friend yeah who talks ridiculously fast,yeah and every couple of words yeah he says yeah. totally didn't figure in when having kids that they'd have really annoying friends that i have to tolerate. I think his mum would beat me up if i were to forget myself and tell him to shut the fuck up,she's a bit like biffa bacon's mum

[TimDoolan]

"Itch my back?"

Why on earth would anybody ask another human to “itch their back”?

[M|X|Y]

ad hominem

[Lex Diamonds]

Saying "the hell with it". I just saw it in an article:

Ben Stassen, a producer and director whose new 3D film, Sammy's Adventure, opens in British cinemas this month, has long warned that audiences would revolt against overpriced, second-rate 3D movies. "People are getting fed up with having the surcharge on 3D and not getting the goods," Stassen says. "People might reject 3D as a whole and say the hell with that."

Sorry Stassen, but no people won't say that. Only stupid retards will say "the hell with that". What does that even mean? "To hell with that" has a clear meaning, but what the fuck is "the hell"?

This shit pisses me off.

[synch]

There/their
Wierd/weird
Than/then
Then/than

Ugh.I'm not the only one apparently. (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling)

[miss soul fire]

Saying "the hell with it". I just saw it in an article:



Sorry Stassen, but no people won't say that. Only stupid retards will say "the hell with that". What does that even mean? "To hell with that" has a clear meaning, but what the fuck is "the hell"?

This shit pisses me off.

They forgot the "what" word.:p

People are making senteces so shorter these days that sometime soon we will be speaking like the Japanese people.:D

[monkey]

i dont know if anyone mentioned this; i only skimmed the thread.

i literally cant literally stand the number of people literally using literally completely incorrectly literally all the time. literally.

i know that i probably overused that word sometimes, but now its usage is akin to saying like. imagine that convo: like i literally like totally!

edit: i feel really old now that i read this over. i remember my family poking fun of me for saying "like" too much.

[Kid Presentable]

I think 'literally' is now more than ever used as an intensifier, with its incorrect application being the correct way to apply it as such. You will literally see the rules change on that word with the next generation, I bet.

[Bob]

we need a new word to replace "literally" if that word doesn't mean what its definition means anymore. that word is literally useless if it doesn't literally mean literally anymore

also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ly1UTgiBXM

[miss soul fire]

i dont know if anyone mentioned this; i only skimmed the thread.

i literally cant literally stand the number of people literally using literally completely incorrectly literally all the time. literally.

i know that i probably overused that word sometimes, but now its usage is akin to saying like. imagine that convo: like i literally like totally!

edit: i feel really old now that i read this over. i remember my family poking fun of me for saying "like" too much.

Me too!!! My boss love to say "literally" to nearly everything she says! People don't really know what it means. It pisses me off. Like "I was literally crazy". Whaaaat?!

[Kid Presentable]

^ In the sense that it should be used (I didn't look at the youtube clip - blocked here), 'literally' is almost a tautology. Bear with me.

You can state a truism (that is, something that is literal in and of itself) without saying literally at all, since it's self-evident. I wouldn't say "That is literally a car". Even "He was literally angry".

Or, you can qualify a statement as being 'figurative'. Thing is, I don't often hear people say "It's figuratively as useless as a hole in the head". The listener has to play a part in this also.

I had a point.....:confused:

[Dorothy Wood]

"Itch my back?"

Why on earth would anybody ask another human to “itch their back”?

my mom used to say that when I was a kid, to make me laugh. so I say it too.

not in public though.

[Lex Diamonds]

However, Dr Rick said that it was too early to upend the larger picture of human migration across the Americas, and that further finds - some of which now lie underwater around the Channel Islands - could shed more light on the story in the future.

"My colleague Jon Erlandson refers to them as 'postcards from the past'," Dr Rick said. "They give us just a brief snapshot of 'hey, we were here and here's what we were doing for a brief period of time'.
This just gives us a brief snapshot of 'hey, I'm an annoying dickwad who talks about science like he's teaching a class of 3 year olds'.

"This is almost like a baseball bat to the side of the head of the archaeological community to wake up and say, 'hey, there are pre-Clovis people here, that we have to stop quibbling and we need to develop a new model for peopling of the Americas'," Michael Waters, a Texas A&M University anthropologist, told reporters.
And you are almost like a baseball bat to the side of my head to say 'hey, I'm a stupid American douche who is incapable of intelligent discussion so has to liken things to baseball bats and add the word "hey" in there somewhere'.