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"have a fun"

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

'Action' - "We need to action this now..."

Short for "We need an action item for this now..."?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

"It's a nonsense"

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

"Tragedy" or "tragic" to refer to anything other than a story that fits the classic theatrical tragedy formula.

"Schizophrenia" used to refer to multiple personality or other psychological disorders.

Certain people's way of pronouncing "ask" as "ax."

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

Anything to do with psychoanalysis. I hate psychoanalysis.

― Gilles Deleuze (daria g), Thursday, 25 September 2003 01:25 (twenty years ago) link

Pueblo and Ott

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 25 September 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

Anything to do with psychoanalysis. I hate psychoanalysis.
-- Gilles Deleuze (anti_oedipu...) (webmail), September 25th, 2003. (daria g)

That's because Freud represents your father to you; no doubt the fear is related to a childhood incident where you were discovered doing something naughty. You are now projecting your fear on to authority figures of all kinds, and on to theories which may, so to speak, 'find you out' by revealing the psychodynamics of your neurosis. But, due to the psychological defence of reaction formation, you may find this hard to accept during the initial phase of treatment.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 25 September 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

Eeew, gross. That's disgusting.

― Roland Barf (daria g), Thursday, 25 September 2003 01:44 (twenty years ago) link

Prerogative. Not sure what annoys me more: the people that leave out the 'r' or the people that emphasize the 'r' to point out that the word contains an 'r' that people often leave out.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 25 September 2003 03:31 (twenty years ago) link

"Simpologie"

― lupine lupin (lupinelupin), Thursday, 25 September 2003 03:36 (twenty years ago) link

"optics, I hate the business bastardization of that one. "

As in the study of light? why is that a bastardization or annoying?

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

"to botch up"
"to flub up"

and any host of words used by annoying people I know.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

"geschenker", "doobiewackie" and "dongle" for technical things you don't know the name of.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:18 (twenty years ago) link

The abbriviation: sci-fi especially when said really fast on the Sci-Fi channel, ugh.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:29 (twenty years ago) link

wholesome
smorg
assless (as in "assless chaps")
hang on...assless is a great word

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:52 (twenty years ago) link

i share distaste for the word paradigm, i also hate "discourse".

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:04 (twenty years ago) link

prog
latté
nouveau
herbivore
all corporate initials: HR, IT, VP, HQ, etc

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link

What's wrong with latte? I just had one!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:14 (twenty years ago) link

some (most?) annoyances aren't really rational

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link

Ok, I hate to take this into the bathroom, but I'm surprised no one has yet to cast out "penis" or "vagina." I know, I know - the cringe often produced by these words has been addressed by countless comics. But honestly, what is it about them that makes it so awful to hear them said? It has to be the phonemes (which word I'm sure annoys plenty). "Peenis" is so nasal its smells dirty. "Va-gi-na." Say it slow and its seems simply obscene, no matter what it means.

Anyone else have any anatomical or medical terms that annoy? I think saying "syphilis" is just plain fun, but "chlamydia?" I shudder to type it.

― Major Grubert (Grandin), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:29 (twenty years ago) link

Re: discourse

It's terrible to use, but sometimes, what else would you use?

Could you imagine if grad students ran around saying "zeitgeist" and "weltanschauung?" "Postmodern" and "paradigm" are bad enough. I think "discourse" is the least of our worries.

Ooooh, but you know what I bet is the worst? Applying "discourse" to ILE.

― Major Grubert (Grandin), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:32 (twenty years ago) link

i've never been a fan of "haemorrhage"

if fact, anything with a 'rrh' in it..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:35 (twenty years ago) link

Colin- magnificently pedantic dissection of "steep learning curve"! Fantastic!

― Officer Pupp, Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:33 (twenty years ago) link

"ORIENTATE." People, the word you want is "orient." I'm not a dictionary crank by any means, but it seems ridiculous that a made up word has slipped into common usage that is LONGER and CLUNKIER than its predecessor.

― rob geary (rgeary), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:49 (twenty years ago) link

"monetize"

― rob geary (rgeary), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:50 (twenty years ago) link

(i really like the british "cheers" as "thank you" thing)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:59 (twenty years ago) link

I often use 'cheers' as my sign off comment in emails, particularly in work emails because I think the phrase 'best regards' is much, much worse. Unless you type it quick and it comes out 'breast dregs'.

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 25 September 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link

"Golf"

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

I'm with Tom on the foreign words thing. My annoying coworker (TM) is fairly religious, so if she accidently says shit or fuck, she says "Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry." But then she sits at her desk and swears in Spanish all day long, and that seems to be ok. Apparently her god is monolingual and pretty dim.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

....and i detest the word "irregardless". no one uses it correctly...

So what WOULD be a correct use of 'irregardless'?

Furthermore, I DETEST:

'the bottom line'

'flexibility' when used by Human Resources people (not real keen on 'human resources' either)

'mutual obligation'

24/7

'sooner than later' without the rather in the middle,

'at the end of the day'

all SMS shorthand but especially 'prolly'

'would/could/should of'

'traitor' and 'tragedy' used in sporting contexts

'bias' as an adjective (as in 'the ABC is bias', what does that mean: the ABC goes to Mass 12 times a week?)

Most Freudian or postmod jargon

'Go Pies'

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:24 (twenty years ago) link

"Verdammt doch mal" is my new annoying foreign swearing thing for work. I used to do nothing but swear in Spanish all day at work! But then I decided to do nothing but swear, really loudly and nonstop, in English all day at work. Now I'm trying to work in some other languages to confuse them further.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

Swearing in a foreign language is a dud. You just have to admit to yourself that it's not as satisfying.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:36 (twenty years ago) link

I dunno, I kind of enjoy it. It's satisfying in a different way, in that the people you are telling off to their faces just have no idea what's going on half the time. The problem is everyone knows Spanish swear words now, so I have to learn other ones, I'm thinking of learning a pile of Sanskrit curses.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:38 (twenty years ago) link

what abt all the ones used by IT departments?

"Power down" is pretty bad. Why can't they say "switch off" like everybody else?

and what abt outage? Our website was down earlier and I received an email to say that "They" were going to be "investigating the cause of this outage". I promptly sent an email back to say that they'd missed the 'r' out of "outrage".

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:44 (twenty years ago) link

Perhaps they had a problem with their poxy server?

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:00 (twenty years ago) link

overly disgusting words like:
booty-juice
pussy-fart

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

Or booty flakes?

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

'dipshit'

(unless it's the time when Brad Pitt says it on Kalifornia)

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

people using "begs the question" incorrectly. When someone uses it correctly it really makes me want to weep for joy.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

That begs the question of a moot point.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

'Out the door' and 'out the window'. Unless either are in the closet, there is not need to out them. It is 'out _of_ the door' and 'out _of_ the window'.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 25 September 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

I'm letting you in on the bottom floor of this one. People are always saying this to me.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

i like everything on this thread and will use it when i choose so f u

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 25 September 2003 20:16 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, i hate that too.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

pop, as in soda pop

― danny (Oops), Thursday, 25 September 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

over-qualified: usually when I get this gem of wisdom, is from a smarmy interviewer. Though I understand that I'm the millionth person you've seen for that job, how qualified must you be to turn a computer on, sell clothes/shoes/whatever? Makes me mad to think the degree I'd worked so hard for is now worth less than the paper tis printed on.

(Pardon the mini-rant. Ahem.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 25 September 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

precipice

― danny (Oops), Thursday, 25 September 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

supine

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 September 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link

for anyone who's worked w/content management - METADATA. I hate that word.

I picked up swearing in French habits as did many other American students I hung out with in Paris. which is OK around the office in the US because generally nobody understands, but did lead to a rather embarrassing moment at this big francophone party at the French embassy.. drunk friend disappointed at not winning a drawing for a voyage to Quebec yelling oh MERDE! PUTAIN! etc.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 26 September 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

Panties.
It connotes innocence: the "ies" seem to make it child-like. This word is often perverted by its reference to the underwear of grown women; an infantalization, and supposedly 'sexy'. It sounds lecherous.

― jeremyjeremy, Friday, 26 September 2003 04:22 (twenty years ago) link

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