You are forgetting the ultimate abuse of the english language:
"Ain’t"
Kills me every time someone says it.
And what is with the phrase “State-of-the-art”? What art are we comparing it to?
Last, but not least, “ax”. (someone mentioned it earlier) Or is it “aks”?
Either way it is the quickest way for you to be put in my “moron” category.
According to Merriam-Webster, “ain’t” has been in use for 224 years now. Isn’t two-and-a-quarter centuries enough to not consider a word “the ultimate abuse of the English language” anymore? Please?
The answer to this is so blindingly obvious that I’m taken aback. If someone refers to “state-of-the-art” electronics, do you think he or she is comparing it to oil painting?
Oh, I forgot: As far as the “aks/ask” thing goes, “acs” was a common Anglo-Saxon pronunciation of the word in early English, appeared in print as both “acs” and “ax,” and fell out of use around 1600. It’s still an acceptable part of some variant dialects in both the United States and the UK. It has nothing to do with education.
And why is it you think “author” is not a verb? Per Dictionary.com
Whereas “authorize” means
Um, Broken Doll a confession here, I say “destructions” instead of “instructions”, probably drives everyone here insane.
Isn’t it, “For all intents and purposes”?
My biggest pet peeve is the abbreviation of the word “vacation” to “Vaca” (pronounced, vay-cay). Makes the hair on my neck stand up when I hear that.
In writing, it bugs the shit out of me when someone types “loose” when they mean “lose”.
Hey, I say ‘destructions’ too.
Well, I say a lot of the stuff mentioned in this thread.
If that upsets you, my bad.
“Basically…”
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHH! What a worthless, overused, polysyllabic crutch. I was at a presentation where one speaker used it FOUR TIMES in a single sentence. My ears were bleeding.
Followed by “hopefully” on my short list of words I hate to hear.
I had a teacher once who used it in every other sentence. Every other day. For an entire semester. And I had her for two classes.
Urge to kill…rising…rising…
Every single day rather. See, it bugged me so much my brain melted just hearing it again.
tsk…tsk… the master should know better:D 
Holy shit
Between you and I, their alot of people which might of been comprised by this. Can’t we all just get a long?
Um…“parent” is a verb. Really. Check the dictionary. It’s not like English hasn’t the amazing capacity of verbing nouns, or anything like that. :rolleyes: It’s one of the things that makes or language so damn cool.
“Ain’t” is a wonderful word. Too bad uptight grammarians with sticks up their asses won’t give it the legitimacy it deserves. Apparently the completely illogical “aren’t I” is more acceptable than “ain’t I” for who knows what reason. Wouldn’t it be nice to have such a contraction?
“It was like,” “I’m like” - Interesting. I don’t particularly like these forms, but I use them. It’s normally used when providing an approximation of an event, not an exact from memory transcription. For example, if I say “so I’m like, ‘hey, how ya doin’,” this means that I said something to that effect, although I may not have used those exact words. That’s my understanding of its use.
“Could care less.” We’ve discussed this a bajillion times. Once again, it’s sarcasm people. This statement is not meant to be taken literally, not is it said in a literal manner.
On the other hand, I despise “mmm’kay” because it’s so friggin condescending (at least how I read it) and I’m also sick of “BAND NAME!!!” on these boards and the whole “…makes the baby Jesus cry” schtick. Christ on a pogo stick, can’t we think of something more clever?
I agree, but in the wrong hands this could be bad. My manager once used the “word” productionization in a memo. He was trying to say, “moving a server into production” but for some reason didn’t want to just say that.