Words or phrases that annoy you

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Originally Posted by Tenchimo Dos

Similiar to those mentioned, "organic" is becoming annoying. "Organic" Rice Krispies? Give me a fucking break.

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Organic is a term that actually has to be quantified with research for you to be able to put it on your box. If a soup is certified organic then it's made with natural ingredients.

The word "natural" on the other hand is open season. Natural on a box means nothing -- you don't have to meet any standard to use it. Pork rinds and anthrax could throw it on their packaging if they wanted to.

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Originally Posted by Tenchimo Dos

"Do you have a condom?"

I hate that one.

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"Can I see some ID?" followed by "Which one of you boys is driving?" also annoys me. Likewise I guess the waitresses are probably getting tired of the "Well, there goes your tip." line directly answering their questions.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

I don't like it when people use 'would of' instead of 'would have' because it's simply wrong and stupid.

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It's "would've", a contraction, and it's not wrong. It's not their fault you can't spell.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couldof.html

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Originally Posted by Rated E

And I don’t know what it is, but whenever someone says “nice” as in praising someone, they always have to do it in the most corny/phony voice imaginable. It's especially annoying when they really emphasize the ‘I’, making it “niiiice” and add a cheesy head nod. Drives me nuts.

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If it's recent, I'm guessing it's from the South Park episode where Ike has sex with his teacher. Either that or this was going on unknown to me earlier and they were making fun of it, which in turn created the phrase in places were it didn't exist before.

Which is a lot like rain on your wedding day. Or the free advice that you just can't take.

After re-reading the entire thread. All TNL'ers are pissed at the current state of the English language.

BTW I agree with everyone's anger. What's up (even though I say it alot) annoys me some. "Niiice" with the accent on the "I" drives me batshit insane.
Anything a Cop says to me ... annoys me. No, you don't need to see my shit. You have a monitor in your car. You know what I look like, when my car was registered, and if its insured; you just ask cause you wanna be a prick.

Irregardless is fucking stupid as shit. I have to agree with Hub ... is that even a word?

If you say Nu Cu Lar instead of Nu Cle AR it makes you sound like fucking Buttcheeks (no offense). I'd beat the shit out of someone too.

I have always hated the Oscar "nod" statement. Its almost a backhanded compliment.
"Hey you got a nod, not a nomination. You were only good as a side note a referance if you will. ONly REAL actors get a nomination."

"Aheh" slightly bothers me. But a "gasp" sound on talk radio makes me go into fits. I listen to this one host and whenever something makes him shocked he gasps like "UHHH!!" I want to grab him through my speakers and choke his ass out!!

But I still love

http://users.zoominternet.net/%7Etain/ballin.gif

The White Sox TV guy's home run call, "he gone!". It's even more retarded when he says it than it looks typed. He should be fired.

Beaten with baseball bats is more like it.

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Originally Posted by Advocate

If you say Nu Cu Lar instead of Nu Cle AR it makes you sound like fucking Buttcheeks (no offense). I'd beat the shit out of someone too.

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I may very well say it wrong. I've come to th conclusion that there is something going on with my brain or sense of hearing when it comes to language. I've thought for a long time it was just my dialect, but here recently I've been called on a few things by my coworkers. Like pronouncing "hybrid" as "hybread."

I don't know why I do dumb things like that. Maybe my mind has a really odd way of organizing language and thus things are associated with each other that should not be put together. Or maybe it is something like how the Japanese have a hard time with Ls/Rs and my southern hometown has doomed me to years of bad spelling and word pronunciation.

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On the Internet:

Wow. Just wow. - Unnecessary and overused bit of poor sarcasm.

Heh. - This is not a laugh or a chuckle. It is nothing. It's not even a chortle. It is not inbetween "hah" or "meh." It's just shit, and it's usually accompanied by awkward Internet small talk. (See the reunions in the TNL "have you ever left" thread.)

Wait... [followed by exclamatory question] - Why do I have to wait on the Internet just because you suddenly found out about something?

Rampant use of cliches and unnecessary words is the worst part of communication on the Internet. The second worst part is buttcheeks fucking up all of those cliches and words.

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Originally Posted by buttcheeks

I may very well say it wrong. I've come to th conclusion that there is something going on with my brain or sense of hearing when it comes to language. I've thought for a long time it was just my dialect, but here recently I've been called on a few things by my coworkers. Like pronouncing "hybrid" as "hybread."

I don't know why I do dumb things like that. Maybe my mind has a really odd way of organizing language and thus things are associated with each other that should not be put together. Or maybe it is something like how the Japanese have a hard time with Ls/Rs and my southern hometown has doomed me to years of bad spelling and word pronunciation.=/

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The Japanese have a hard time distinguishing between Ls and Rs because their language does not distinguish between the two sounds.

Native-speaking Anglophones who cannot pronounce "nuclear" correctly are just practicing bad grammar.

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Originally Posted by Stibbons

Wow. Just wow. - Unnecessary and overused bit of poor sarcasm.

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This one in particular makes me want to pull a Ghost Dad whenever I see it. It's meaningless, unnecessary AND irritatingly smug, which is really the trifecta of irritating Internet speak.

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Originally Posted by sleeve

makes me want to pull a Ghost Dad

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