Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

I don't think that fewer keystrokes = better communication. Or more clarity.

All of this is a voluntary leisure activity. If I want to type "in my opinion" instead of "imo" it harms you in no way whatsoever.

Well you can’t argue with the facts

Something being better because of fewer characters was a joke :/

ok

(also a joke btw)

But yeah, if you need extra clarity of whether or not you are saying an opinion it’s because your target audience might include slow folk.

all too common in a large forum or comment section

Well this is disturbing https://t.co/TKbAQornkc pic.twitter.com/nTfyRQAftZ

— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) May 2, 2018

I'm one of those awful people who reads it as honest, not humble

I thought maybe it was just people that read buzzfeed, wtf dude

My excuse is that I'm so old, I can't properly translate internet lingo

yeah often this is necessary. people tend to take opinions in a very hostile way.

Old ILX was awful about taking things personally unless you added imo more or whatever.

taking sides: ppl who describe themselves as honest vs ppl who describe themselves as humble

Humble is definitely the dud here

Call yer self honest sure that sounds reasonable enough - but calling yourself humble? Whole other level of bullshit

wait it’s *not* honest????

i’m so old i remember when it was on irc and usenet and shit and was always “humble”

I’ve never said “honest opinion” because calling yourself honest is worse than feigning self-effacing right

Can’t bullshit the bullshitter - sage advice

If I humiliate myself often enough, do I get to call myself humble?

Humiliatable maybe

trying to find a cite pre-2000 but every irc guide has it as humble

i thought it was in my hot opinion

in my horny opinion imo

bitch
be humble

I’ve never said “honest opinion” because calling yourself honest is worse than feigning self-effacing right

― mh, Thursday, May 3, 2018 5:31 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is it???

then again i never use “imho” anyway

mookieproof otm

in my horrible opinion

in my herodotean opprobrium

brb re-reading all posts made on ilx containing "imho" where people actually, falsely, thought the h meant honestly instead of humble wtf you bunch of unhumblebraggers

in my hypoallergenic opinion

heterozygous

hermeneutic

hypnagogic

Holy shit the humble / honest thing is turning my world upside down. Humble obv

this is like a mini version of The Dress

the only real choice

in my hopinion

hipinion

wtf about imho! I feel like finding one of those "internet for dummies" books from like 1995 and waving the "internet lingo" box on page 23 in the "honest" people's faces. Do you see!

what

it's humble

I’ll make humble pie outta yall

Its def hunble - I've been online since like the mid 90s and it was always humble

Or its better cousin IMNSHO (in my not so humble opinion).

thats kind of sassy

literally have no idea why i’ve been reading it as “honest” for years i’m SORRY

then again this wouldn’t be the first time i read an internet acronym wrong for an unreasonable amount of time

Like yer face ?

BTW I thought this thread had clusterfucked because "may the 4th be with you".

NO. ITS AS FUNNY AS TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY.

...and Talk Like a Pirate Day is only funny like once.

Dan, gah, I had forgotten that people used to buy books to tell them how to internet.

to be fair IANAL was tough to parse in the era of iEverything.

fixation on words used as opposed to addressing the general thrust of a point/comment/whatever is the weakest of sauce and is to the fore of everything that is wrong with ilx/politics/the world

imho

Otm

Eh. I'm pretty sure it's "honest" for most people

At this point. But hey maybe not