Thanks for stealing my joke. 
A friend of mine is always saying “In acturality” which appears to be a contraction of actual reality. To say “in actual reality” is bad enough, but to slop it all together makes me want to slap him!
Then there was the one who would quite clearly enunciate “In actual fact” which is also hopelessly redundant.
Oh, come on. You’re all being rediculous.
How about being loathe to do something?
I loath that!
Funner…anyone who says funner makes me cringe! I just want to grab them by the shoulders and start shaking them while I scream, “THERE’S NO SUCH WORD AS FUNNER!!!”
And yet, funnily enough, there is such a word as “funnily.”
Go figger…
Barry
I can’t stand the complete disregard for capitalizatation! Everywhere I look these days I see names of people/places all spelled out in lower case letters. And I don’t mean as mistakes. This is a very annoying trend.
I would just like to say that I despise the “word” guesstimate. It sounded dumb-ass and made-up when my third grade math teacher used it, and it causes me physical pain to hear scientists and engineers use it. You are talking to grown-ups, supposedly, and you have a choice between two perfectly respectable words. Pick one instead of sounding like a moron and making a cutesy mish-mash of them.
Oh, and while I’m at it, supposably and literally piss me the hell off. Well, literally doesn’t bother me if it’s used correctly, which is about 0.0053% of the time. I heard this little gem on the radio: “Those kids literally went through hell.” Oh, really? Were they met at the Gates of Hades by Lucifer himself? Were they subjected to tortures in a lake of fire, or was it more of a bus-tour kind of a situation? Now that we have proof of the existence of the afterlife, the worlds of philosophy, theology, and science must be all in an uproar, but strangely, I haven’t seen anything about it on the news. It must be that damned liberal media again . . .
Arggghh!!! Literally is not an intensfier!!!
amarone, you sly devil. Seriously, before you get your panties in a wad, please make sure that the word or phrase that gets your goat is in not one of the gazillions of perfectly cromulent words in the big beautiful language we use. Also, show a little tolerance for regional pronunciations and jokes. Jeebus.
Listen, I know people use it. It’s just completely unnecessary.
I’ve just spent an hour pouring over this thread. Liberally!
ATM machine.
PIN number.
Completely and totally stamp out useless repetitive redundancies!
What’s wrong with redundant acronyms? If someone came up to me and simply said “I need your PIN,” I’d probably get confused. “PIN number” is more clear, and easier to say than “PI number.”
I’d say that it’s precisely that redundancy that’s the problem.
“I need your PIN.”
“Hold on; I hafta hit the ATM.”
Both seem clear to me as is without the redundant “number” or “machine” tacked on.
And you’re right: “PI number” would be an abomination.
I was literally pissed off once. I can’t go into the details, but beer was involved. Lots of it.
Personally, I’m bothered by the use of “like” in place of “say”. “This guy came up to me and was like, ‘what are you doing?’ and I’m like, ‘I’m waiting for my friend’ and he’s like, ‘you can’t hang around here’ and I’m like, ‘what’s your problem?’ and he’s like…” It’s bad enough to hear people talk this way, but when they start writing in this style, I’m like, that’s it.
I’m also bugged by the spelling of ‘ever’ as ‘evar’.
But “crisp” isn’t an antonym for “soft”; “dry” might be. And there is a “dryly.”
To me, “crispy” just means “in a crisp-like manner,” whereas “crisp” itself means… uh… “crisp.”
:Pardon me, I’ll need your 3.1415929…"
I know this has been harped on time and time again but it annoys me to no end:
People, it’s spelled communest, dammit. Just like capitalest and, uh, thiest, yeah, that’s right, thiest.
Look, if you’re going to try to convince someone about the worth of your beliefs, at least get the name right.
I feel all whooshy inside…
I just got an email from the person who writes our newsletters. It contained this word:
strickly
And not, it’s not a typo, because the k and the t aren’t even close on the keyboard.
My jaw dropped. I couldn’t believe a professional writer would do something like that. She needs to start using a spellchecker.
ME