Annoyingly misused words?

[Slangeveld]

"That person feeded that other person!" (It's FED, If you don't know what this means play some MOBA games )
As the OP stated, "Irony" is being abused a lot. 0.o
Their, There, They're, Where, Were, We're. <-- Yea, those are all different. Did you know?
"You are so Gay, you fucking Fag!" (The meaning of Gay has been murdered beyond repair, and other than the fact that using it as an insult is dumb, Fag means something else entirely in English Lol)

 

[Scobie]

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[Count Igor]

And all past/present/future mix ups (They may say "I writ that" not "I wrote that" and the suchlike)

ALSO THIS! Writ, drawed, sleeped...THESE ARE NOT WORDS! I can only forgive non-english speakers for words like this.

I once heard someone say, and I quote the exact words, "What do we do once we gone done catched them ball?"
I tell no lies.


Also got another: All those words that apparently mean "Good".
Ones like "Rape." (I know!) "Nectar" "Cracking" and loads more, even worse.

I'm sorry....RAPE?! Unless it 'oil seed rape', its never a good thing! 'Cracking' is a pretty old colloqialism (please excuse my spelling).

That's what I say. They just laugh.
As for Cracking, I just dislike it. Sowwy

 

[Anarchemitis]

Is Egregious pronounced egg-reg-yus or egg-ree-gee-us?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Is Egregious pronounced egg-reg-yus or egg-ree-gee-us?

The first one.

 

[fanklok]

I hate the misuse of the word 'bias'. Someone'll come into a thread and go "that source is bias".

No it fucking well isn't!

It's 'biased' dipshits!

I also hate it when you have a discussion with someone on a forum (usually an early to mid teen) and they think to themselves "herp derp I need to sound smart, I'll get a dictionary and replace every word with a smart one". It's like someone's constructed Frankenstein's monster out of words, it doesn't make them sound smarter or more intimidating, it makes no actual sense.

I do believe you mean a Thesaurus, thats the handy book you use to find words that mean the same thing as other words.

 

[krychek57]

Anal as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive

 

[Eekaida]

And all past/present/future mix ups (They may say "I writ that" not "I wrote that" and the suchlike)

ALSO THIS! Writ, drawed, sleeped...THESE ARE NOT WORDS! I can only forgive non-english speakers for words like this.

I once heard someone say, and I quote the exact words, "What do we do once we gone done catched them ball?"
I tell no lies.


Also got another: All those words that apparently mean "Good".
Ones like "Rape." (I know!) "Nectar" "Cracking" and loads more, even worse.

I'm sorry....RAPE?! Unless it 'oil seed rape', its never a good thing! 'Cracking' is a pretty old colloqialism (please excuse my spelling).

That's what I say. They just laugh.
As for Cracking, I just dislike it. Sowwy

That's understandable. I feel that way about 'innit', 'bruv' and 'blood.'

 

[Withall]

"epic", "fail", "lol", to name three. Grossly miss-used words, and very basic words of opinion that doesn't explain what you're saying either of those words to.

 

[Macrobstar]

ugh people at my school have started using the word "buff" as a replacement for hot, as in "man that girl is buff" what? hot, skinny, fit, any of those, but buff? she is in no way muscular and if she was would you find her attractive still?

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I'd like to set ablaze the next dickhole who tries to justify their close-minded bullshit by calling it their 'philosophy'.

 

[Macrobstar]

"Let me ax you a quessin". Or "sumfin". People really need to start using English.

i have a friend who says "let me axe you sumfin" ALL THE TIME, im starting to think he thinks its cool to sound like that

 

[zehydra]

I've seen way too many people use "ignorant" as meaning "Stupid", or "Unintelligent". It means uneducated in something, that's all.

 

[dsmops2003]

"Let me ax you a quessin". Or "sumfin". People really need to start using English.

i have a friend who says "let me axe you sumfin" ALL THE TIME, im starting to think he thinks its cool to sound like that

You should retrain him to not use that phrase. Punch him in the baby maker every time he says it.

 

[Nannernade]

When people confuse the words scythe and sai (Sorry if sai is spelled incorrectly) I remember back in 9th grade I had a half hour argument with my teacher about the way you pronounce the word, it is pronounced scy-th people...

 

[EternalFenix]

I would have to say the difference between "anxious" and "nervous". Yes, they can both be used for positive or negative stress, but properly, "anxious" is when you're stressed because of something you want to do (i.e. score the last goal! in a soccer game) and "nervous" is when you're stressed because of something you don't want to do (i.e. go to the dentist's office).

Also, your and you're. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

 

[Hazard12]

and by the same token, people pronouncing the "t" in "often" to try to sound smart. hey, guess what? the "t" is silent!

Minor point, but the 't' is not necessarily silent. I do sometimes pronounce the 't' in it, depending on how much emphasis I'm placing on it.

And something most of you may not have seen but might enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kge9ZzjsfW8

Some of it is quite British, but should hopefully still be amusing.

 

[DeathsHands]

Online, when people spell plural words with apostrophe's.

Another one that really gets me is 'racist.' Everyone seems to forget that racism means you have to imply something is bad about a race.

"Look at that black guy!"
"Hey, that's racist!"

It's not racist to identify something, jeez. As a black guy myself, this is quite frustrating.

 

[Alphavillain]

"Epic" is a good one, referred to above. Also, senseless use of words like someone being "paranoid", which is a mental illness, not being slightly insecure, and "schizophrenic".

 

[Wolfenbarg]

Irregardless. That isn't a damned word! The real word is two letters shorter and is easier to use! Why did this monstrosity come into being? They even use it on television.