Annoyingly misused words?

[Nick of Blades]

the word "gay" as an insult. it insults gays, linguists, the speaker's intelligence but not the actual person being insulted

^^^ I completely agree with this.

 

[pipers_r_gods]

Irregardless.
The word is useless, the shorter version means exactly the same thing, it's used by people who try and sound smarter.

I hate it when irregardless gets used, but the "ir" at the front of the word implies the opposite, making itself redundant, not the same word.

 

[F-I-D-O]

Fail
Epic
Irony
Gay (huge pet peeve of mine, how is object X (X=not a sexual object) homosexual/erotic?)
Irregardless (damn it, it's not a word)
OMG (in real life)
Any internet acronym in real life
Over 9000
Faceplam
Addicting

I get annoyed easily.

 

[SD-Fiend]

anthropomorphic

 

[mike1921]

Literally. If there would be no alternative interpretation of your sentence by removing the word you're using it wrong. Not to mention when people use the word literally and it's not even correct in that sentence instead of just being redundant.

 

[DannibalG36]

"literally" sees abuse every... single... day...

I just hope that one day every person who overuses that word will see what they are saying come true.

 

[William Dickbringer]

really cussing not that I'm against cussing just when you say curse words as describing word like "she's so fucking hot" or "that's so fucking annoying" seriously expand your vocabulary it'll make you more smarter

 

[Andrew Abbess]

When a grown up says pokeyman.It's pokemon people.I thought they covered spelling in 2nd grade?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Irony for sure!
Sympathy/Empathy (most people have them backwords)
Plethora

OT: "I could care less" is annoying to me. As has been pointed out a great many times, you could care a great deal, and still be able to care less.

"I could care less" is sarcasm.

Not in the way it's generally used. Most people just use it to mean they couldn't care less without thinking about it. Used properly, there's nothing wrong with the phrase.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Love - people through it around all the time when they mean physical attraction or are in lust when it comes to members of the opposite sex; to love somebody you must truly know somebody not just want to pork them as they have nice tits.

It really starts to irk me when applied to physical items, "I love this new Black Ops game" - no you don't, you may like it a great deal but you do not love it, especially if you're on facebook five minutes later bitching about the online bugs.

The main reason for my loathing of the use of love is it cheapens the meaning, when it's tossed about so carelessly then when it's come to be used for it's real reason its meaning is that much less - "I love you" when told to your spouse would probably have more weight if you hadn't minutes earlier said "I'd love a Dominoes right about now".

You know what else I hate? 'Fit', as used to describe someone attractive. No, fit means to be pychisically/mentally able to do something.

E.g. "I say, that square peg seems fit for the purpose of going into a square hole".

Not "Omg, that bird was well fit innit!"
[sub]Fucking chavs...[/sub]

Yeah! I'm fit but definitely not attactive! oh wait.

...

OT: here's another one, "noob."

whenever I run into a *ahem* "true gamer" that constantly spouts the word "noob" (both online and in real life) I often ask them if they even know what it means; they often pretend they know.

let me explain: noob is a slang, it actually roots from the term "newbie." its always treated as an insult, but really it's not.

this is the same thing with "leet"

 

[Nouw]

Gay as an insult and Epic as a verb.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

"Legit" as in "Hey dude, did you see that new movie?" "Yeah, it was legit (good)" I just want to hit people who say that, are you trying to tell me that you like the movie or that it is an actual valid peice of cinema?

 

[Temple of Dregs]

Verbatim.
I had never even heard the word used until I joined the Navy. Now, it seems I can't go more than a week or two before someone is using Verbatim wrong. The same way people use literally wrong.

"I could care less" is annoying to me. As has been pointed out a great many times, you could care a great deal, and still be able to care less.

well... yeah, that's what that phrase means! by saying it, you're saying you DO care, but not specifying exactly how much!

That's not even close to what most people mean when they're saying it. Usually they're trying to express that they DO NOT care for something. I don't think I've ever heard anyone using the expression with the intent of expressing that they care but not in a specific way. That doesn't even really make sense.

The problem is people hear it said and use it without ever questioning it.

really cussing not that I'm against cussing just when you say curse words as describing word like "she's so fucking hot" or "that's so fucking annoying" seriously expand your vocabulary it'll make you more smarter

Personally i enjoy this at times because dropping the f-bombs in every other sentence often provides some entertaining moments to interrupt the speaker.

E.G. "Me and Tom were fucking..."

Had I let him the whole sentence would have been something like '...were fucking going to the store' but catch it quick enough and you can spend a moment harassing them about it.


Which brings to mind the use of '...' in writing. I'm slightly hesitant to bring it up because it doesn't really fit the topic and there's always a bit of doubt that I'm the one wrong about its use.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Love - people through it around all the time when they mean physical attraction or are in lust when it comes to members of the opposite sex; to love somebody you must truly know somebody not just want to pork them as they have nice tits.

It really starts to irk me when applied to physical items, "I love this new Black Ops game" - no you don't, you may like it a great deal but you do not love it, especially if you're on facebook five minutes later bitching about the online bugs.

The main reason for my loathing of the use of love is it cheapens the meaning, when it's tossed about so carelessly then when it's come to be used for it's real reason its meaning is that much less - "I love you" when told to your spouse would probably have more weight if you hadn't minutes earlier said "I'd love a Dominoes right about now".

You know what else I hate? 'Fit', as used to describe someone attractive. No, fit means to be pychisically/mentally able to do something.

E.g. "I say, that square peg seems fit for the purpose of going into a square hole".

Not "Omg, that bird was well fit innit!"
[sub]Fucking chavs...[/sub]

Yeah! I'm fit but definitely not attactive! oh wait.

...

OT: here's another one, "noob."

whenever I run into a *ahem* "true gamer" that constantly spouts the word "noob" (both online and in real life) I often ask them if they even know what it means; they often pretend they know.

let me explain: noob is a slang, it actually roots from the term "newbie." its always treated as an insult, but really it's not.

this is the same thing with "leet"

No, noob is an insult, newb is the word that's short for newbie. If you'll excuse the use of the N-word, it's kind of like the difference between Negro and ******; they both come from the same word, and denotatively mean the same thing, but one of them is connotatively offensive, because it was corrupted on purpose as an insult. (I know that Negro is also considered offensive today, but if you go back 40 or 50 years, Negro was the politically correct term of the day, while ****** still meant ******.)

Edit:

And to further define noob vs. newb, a newb is someone who is new at a game, period. A noob is someone who is terrible at the game, but thinks he is good, and refuses to improve. It's fairly close in meaning to scrub, except calling someone a noob labels them as an idiot, while calling someone a scrub labels you as someone with a little bit too developed of a competitive streak, even if it gives the other person a similar label to noob in the process.

The above picture explains it better than I can.

 

[yamitami]

What really bugs me is when people you internet shorthand, such as LOL, when your actually talking to them in person.

oh yes, and whenever says the word "ax" instead of "ask." That's just butchering the language.

Sorry to pick on you, but you just used my biggest pet peeve. The underlined 'your' should be 'you're', which is the contraction of 'you are'. Your is a possessive pronoun. If you're ever unsure of which to use just replace the word with 'you are' and then with another possessive pronoun:
You are actually talking to them in person.
My are actually talking to them in person.

And then for the other side of it with 'This is you're dish.':
This is you are dish.
This is my dish.


All of the homonym misuses irritate me but your/you're is the most common and the one that irritates me the most.

 

[Omikron009]

I can't stand it when people misuse the word "literally", and I always call people out on it. NO. YOU DIDN'T LITERALLY DIE LAUGHING. GOD.

 

[Mcupobob]

I's don't know about gettings upset about words and all. I ain't that good at grammer'ers myself's here, so I don't get all uptighten about its, as long as I can understands yous.

OT: As long as I can understand what you mean, then everything is all good for me.

 

[Lynx]

Emo.
Seriously, I really hate today's use of that word.

 

[viperxvii]

Most hated: How expletives are now commonly used as any word in the dictionary. I'm not so sensitive as to be easily offended by "cussing" but it's just idiotic and degenerating to weaken your own vocabulary, often in an attempt to sound cooler/more intimidating/etc.

While there are many cases of misused phrases that aren't coming to mind, this one bugged me once. A guy thought he was being cool to constantly say a quote (incorrectly) as if he was trying to make a catch phrase "ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for me!" ...Uh, isn't the original quote "thee" and the purpose of the bell's tolls in the reference to signify who's dying/dead? So yea, while feeling victorious, he'd announce that he's dying.

 

[BlueGlowstick]

I have no idea where to start. T_T I was an English whiz & I can spell so many words.

I love the word "epitome" (not "epiphany," though it's awesome too ^_^) & I've been using it a lot lately. But I was in a media class in my sophomore year & we had those old-time punishments: writing definitions if we said "gay" or "retard." I never said those words after I took all three levels of that class unless I said it in the correct form.

one phrase: "Vox Populi" lol. name of a song I love