Annoyingly misused words?

[Hikarikage]

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.

I stand corrected.

 

[enriel]

Random. Ugh.
Note to user - nothing you do will EVER be random, because you did it with a specific intent or outcome in mind, whether you convince yourself you didn't or not and it is therefore not random.

Also, for fuck's sake, sure, go ahead and misspell words on the internet or in text message. Though, if you use Firefox, it spellchecks while you type, so you really shouldn't even do the first. PLEASE, however, DON'T MISSPELL THINGS ON POSTED NOTICES.
Ugh, at my work every day I get the joy of being reminded to "Keep you're valuables in you're lockers."

Right. That makes no sense. And now I have no respect for my management. Awesome.

 

[The Stabilo Boss]

"I could care less" is pretty bad, but the WORST one is "would of" as in "I would of thought"

YOU MEAN "WOULD HAVE" YOU USELESS SACK OF CRAP, AND I WILL KILL YOU TO DEATH

Ahem. Excuse me. These people bother me.

 

[badgersprite]

Ambivalent. Ambivalent doesn't mean the same as indifferent. It means confused, or bemused (which, incidentally, is not a synonym for amused either). I do come across people who use this word correctly, but it seems like three quarters of the time, someone is using this incorrectly.

 

[crudus]

Irony, irregardless, then/than. Seriously, these words aren't hard to grasp. One of them isn't even a word!

 

[subject_87]

'Fail' used as an exclamation or noun, 'gay' used as an insult, endlessly apologizing, overusing 'epic', and misusing 'irony'.

 

[Xodyac]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=epic

This expresses everything I feel about the ultimate failure of language in its current state.

 

[smashmaniac64]

"Do you know what irony is?"
"Sure. It's like goldy and bronzy only made of iron."

Also, although this doesn't quite fit with OT I'm gonna include it anyway.

Winningest.

Seriously, American commentators, please stop using this....well it's not actually a word that's why it doesn't quite belong in this thread. But every time this 'word' is used, I think it physically hurts. Please. Tom Brady is not the most winningest active QB, he is the active QB with the highest winning percentage. Or with the most wins. But please, please, please NOT winningest.

im american and ive never heard the word winningest.....then again i never watch sports or anything like that either -_-

 

[Cain_Zeros]

Well irony for one, people often confuse it with sarcasm,

Actually, sarcasm is a form of verbal irony. So using "irony" where most people would use "sarcasm" is actually correct.

Overused quotes (usually ones that weren't clever to begin with) is really all I can think of that hasn't been said before.

 

[martin's a madman]

I'm not bothered by much, but the misuse of 'Irony' bugs me.

You might say it's ironic!

Get it? I'm being Ironic by misusing Irony after saying how much it... oh never mind.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

[HEADING=2]ZE LANGUAGE MUST BE USED EXACTLY AS IT IZ MEANT TO BE USED UND NOTHING MORE![/HEADING]

I generally don't get upset about "misused" words. Mainly because I don't get upset about things is general, but also because I understand that words' meanings can change over time. The point of a language isn't to "use it correctly", it's to convey a meaning. Languages evolve or else we'd all be typing this in Old English (which would just be English anyway).

"Same difference" is one of those saying that I get upset about over though. Mainly because it makes no sense. Misusing a word like ironic or epic is one thing (I'm not a grammar/proper-language nazi, so long as I can understand the message you are trying to convey I generally won't get upset about how you do it), but when you aren't purposefully making no sense, then I'll get a little annoyed.

 

[Death God]

"Tight". I hate when people start going around saying, "This video is tight man." So freaking annoying.

 

[Nouw]

Awesome. I'm trying to not use it as much now because awesome isn't the next step of 'great.' It means you're in awe of something.

 

[Berethond]

LIKE.

Like means 'similar to' or 'affinity with' (not a dictionary definition). IT DOES NOT GO IN THE MIDDLE SENTENCES AT RANDOM!!!!!!!

Yes it does. Like, stop making fun of my accent. I'm totally offended.

 

[Berethond]

Decimate. I actually call my teachers out on this. It doesn't mean the same as "destroy", "obliterate" or "annihilate", it means "to reduce by one tenth". If there are ten people in a group, and one is sick and unable to participate in the presentation, then that group has been decimated. If there is only one member in attendance, the group has been reduced to one tenth, not decimated. I know it sounds like a nifty synonym for "destroy" but it's not. In any way shape or form.

You're actually just being a douche.
<url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decimate>1.
to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

"Legit." It's misuse knows no bounds. I am sure someone Ninja'd me on this.

 

[SoulSalmon]

I don't usually jump on words unless someone is trying to brag in some way.

I also realize that I heavily misuse a lot of words
"Spewin'" (Reffering to an event being bad or unlucky; "How are you?" "Terible, got a cold and stubbed my toe..." "Spewin' :/")
"Eloo" (Instead of hello)
and I generally omit the last "G" in a word, these are rather common deviancies along with a lot of other words and habits.

What ticks me off most though is "Noob" and "Newb"!!
Noob: A derogatory term for someone who is bad at something or doesn't know how to do something BUT SHOULD, and generally refuses to learn.
Newb: Shorter version of newbie, meaning a person who is new to something.

The problem being that the two words are intertwined so often that their meanings are ACTUALLY changing to the same thing >.<

 

[WolfEdge]

Man, you know what? FUCK words.

There, I said it.

And that's what makes me a hypocrite.

I also really hate the word 'whilst'. A lot.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

LIKE.

Like means 'similar to' or 'affinity with' (not a dictionary definition). IT DOES NOT GO IN THE MIDDLE SENTENCES AT RANDOM!!!!!!!

Also, Y'KNOW.

No, I don't know. If you have to ask me if I know, then I don't. I'm not psychic.

Ohhh yes, "Welllllll its kinda, like when you do such stuff, you know?" I got some people at university, in my english courses talking like that. They learned a perfectly good language, went to the wrong part of the earth for a year and violate my ears now for the next 8 semesters.

 

[Nieroshai]

The Word Inconceivable
It does not mean what you think it means

This reference reminds me of a movie of epic proportions.