hopefully, as in “person X will hopefully arrive on Friday” If X feels hopeful on arrival, then that’s nice for X, I suppose, but often this is not what the speaker intended.
“Stop browsing the web & do some work” - for some reason, those make me go cold!
Any company buzzword (including buzzword). Although I laugh when people who would never swear say “JFDI” & wonder if they actually know…
Oh, I passed out a copy of buzzword bingo for our last team meeting. It made it a little more tolerable (almost as good as the time I wore dark glasses & went to sleep at the back)!
Okay, if you people are going to make fun of how I talk, the least you could do is address me by name.
The one word that absolutely makes me cringe is c*nt. I don’t even want to see it written. It is a nasty, hate-filled word. I’m fairly foul-mouthed, and have heard a lot, but you don’t want to use that word in my vicinity.
i hate the word FLESH
i also hate the word PATHETIC
my friend hates PANTIES, SMORGESBOARD, INTIMATE, MOIST, and several more.
someone said JUICY the other day and it bothered me
Now THAT sounds like the beginnings of a very wonderful sentence.
Hate the word freak. Cannot stand it.
No offense, FreakFreely, but I hate the word.
I used to work with an older woman who didn’t like the way people of my generation respond to thanks by saying, “Sure, no problem.” She said she always feels like saying, “I didn’t mean to be a problem…” She says we’re supposed to say, “You’re welcome.”
Somehow, I know she’s right, but I still say “No problem” or “Okay!” when people thank me.
Also, I’m surprised by how casual we’ve gotten about using words like “shit” or “bullshit” and “sucks” in mixed company. Used to be only younger people used those words, and would guiltily clean up their act when older people were around. Now that the WW II generation is beginning to die off and the let-it-all-hang-out baby boomers are passing 50, the standards are changing (bet there’s a whole thread waiting to happen in that last sentence right there)…
Personally I wish I could stop swearing as much as I do and using “sucks” and “Oh my God.”
My mother keeps saying “accept” like it was spelled “asept”, with no K sound.
Not bad in itself, but it’s her favorite word and comes up 10 times per visit.
If I correct her, she just avoid the word that night only. I guess she just doesn’t believe me and her own dictionary.
football, field goal touchdown, quarterback, receiver and the Superbowl. why? becuase i despise football! i hate it
when people put “the big game” over interacting with people
“yaknowhutimsayin” no i do not. now speak english before i break your jaw.
“ebonics” it is not a dialect. YOU cannot SPEAK.
this isn’t really a word or phrase, but I hate hearing Latin the way it’s pronounced in legal, scientific, and medical terminology. I’m talking about when they pronounce all the
long vowels like we do in English, so for example the phrase
“Sine die” is pronounced “Sign E Dye”. I don’t expect English teachers to start telling students that they’re going to study “Yulius Kaesar”, but still the whole thing
bothers me. I like things to stay true to their roots. I’m not Catholic, but the Church does a much better job when it comes to Latin. They make it sound almost like Italian, which I’m sure is more accurate.
When my nephews were little they called my parents
“Dampa” and “Nama”. I know it was really just a childish mispronunciation, like the way little kids say “Regliar” and
“Ambliance”, but my mother would encourage it. Made me cringe.
“JFDI”
what the hell does that mean?
Just fucking do it?
JB Farley drank ipecac?
cna’t figure it out…