nice.
Not big on that word.
"That's so nice of you"
"You are a nice person"
Something about that word just doesn't bode well with me.
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nice.
Not big on that word.
"That's so nice of you"
"You are a nice person"
Something about that word just doesn't bode well with me.
EThugg... are you taking the piss?
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You have something PC to say about everything, don't you?Quote:
Originally posted by Master
I love how people call ebonics "dumb" and then when words that are often used become assimilated into "MTV slang" (AKA, everybody uses them) nobody says a thing. The culture known as "street" has made valuable contributions to our society and individuality to the point that its presence sets us apart from the rest of the world.
leet speak, slang, ebonics, etc. may sound dumb to you but they are dialects of real people.
PS: Word like "phat" and "Word." and all those other phrases people are tired of are used so often because people recognized their value and brought them into the mainstream, thus causing people to innovate all over again. A good portion of the speach we use today was origionally slang deriving from a different language, so tolerance is key in avoiding ignorance. PEACE. :)
"Rants". Especially if used in conjunction with "& raves".
"Coming of age" is probably the worst combination of words ever strung together since every product described as such is liable to be utter crap.
"Witty" bugs me because every jerk with a personal webpage uses it at one point or another.
Unto- it just sounds wierd
hiya- sounds like something a valley girl would say
talented- thrown around to the point of usefulness
great- ditto
I need to break out the BIG LIST OF BLACK-BALLED WORDS from my 12th grade English class... That thing was golden.
Oldschool, or oldskool. Its lost all meaning now, and it oozes tryhard.
and Ebonics are ok, but in moderation.
Japanamation. Sends bolts of anger from my feet to my fist. I wanna hurt things when I hear/see this word. Why? I dunno really. Just reminds me of thirteen year old girls who's only exposure to anime is Sailor Moon, which they think is Super Kawaii =^_^= while eating pockey. Oops, was that elitest of me?
Same Diffrence is a phrase I used to hate untill I realized that I use it fairly often.
Z-roe
"I would if I could" is an annoying as hell phrase, useless too.
1. Sometimes I feel like I am surrounded by pod people, and since no one has mentioned this word yet, I feel it again. Doesn't anyone else notice how sickeningly often the word "gonna" is used in conversation? I have talked to people who used the word in almost every single sentence they spoke, sometimes twice in one sentence!
And how does it make any sense? I can forgive saying "gonna" as a substitute for "going to," but usually it is used in place of "will" or no word at all. So a two-syllable semi-word is used in place of a short, sweet one-syllable word or suffix.
Example: "I'm gonna go to the store and I'm gonna get me some Twinkies."
Why not, "I'm going to the store to buy some Twinkies"?
"Gonna" is used as a substitute for about a hundred other - better - words, in much the same way as curse words are used as cure-alls by people too lazy to think up more accurate terms.
Our President is one of many, many, many public figures guilty of this overuse. Why can't he speak more like Colin Powell?
Anyway, pay attention next time people are speaking and see how often that infernal little wordlet is spewed. You're gonna be surprised, I'm gonna bet.
2. "Basically" used to annoy me in much the same way as "gonna," but it seems to have fallen out of favor with the up-and-coming grade schoolers. (Three syllables in one word may be too much for them.) It was extremely overused at one point, though.
3. I wish people wouldn't use "aggravate" for "irritate."
*listens to chirping crickets before moving on*
4. If you say "off-ten," I will smirk at you!
5. "Yeah, gimme some of your [insert product name]" bugs me. For example, a lot of people around here say things like, "Gimme one of your jumbo dogs," or, "Gimme one of your onion bagels."
It's not so much the "gimme" or the lack of a "please" as much as the "one of your" part. That whole stupid phrase could be replaced by a one-or-two-letter article, and it wouldn't sound as low-brow.
I think you missed my Child Molestation jokes in the Jesus thread...Quote:
Originally posted by 88mph
You have something PC to say about everything, don't you?