Bad or Otherwise Stupid/Mis-Understood Terms

[Lt._nefarious]

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*sigh*

Maybe it's an Edinburgh phenomenon but recently the word "pedo" has joined in with "fag", "gay" and "homo" in the stupid teenage insults vocabulary and what has begun to piss me off to an intolerable level is the reason they use the word pedo. Not so much Peadophile but they use it in the context of if you are attracted to someone.

For instance I have the hots Jennifer Aniston (let's be fair who isn't? Oh, no-one else? fuck...) and have a picture of her on my phone. When this information spread people began to say I "pedo'd" her. I have no problem with insults and I've heard "fag" so much I just can't hear it any more but "pedo"? it doesn't even make sense in that context...

Another piece of stupid that has cropped up is (and prepare yourself) refering to lesbian couples as "lesbifriends". It makes me want to vomit...

So anyway I want to know if other people are hearing these terms crop up or my friends are just scum and if there are any derogatory(-ish) terms that make literally no sense.

 

[Keoul]

Clearly the logical step would be to create some new swears.
Everybody wins, kids would be able to swear to their hearts content and adults having no clue what it means could just shrug it off! that and they'd be less offensive such as gay and fag.

Man my mind was completely off track I was just thinking about the word Irony and how it's usually used completely wrong.

 

[Dusty Donuts]

The worst I've heard is the young'uns trying to use the word "trolled". And it was all alongside the usual words like "owned" and...oh yes, liberal use of the phrase "you're so gay".
And don't even look at online games. I'm surprised they don't choke on what comes out there.

 

[Nouw]

Pedo. I don't know, it just really grinds my gears when someone uses pedo as a substitute for child molester.

 

[Shadowstar38]

Ha. I've actually seen this before. A friend of mine said that someone posted loli in a chat, and proceeded to call him a pedo.

In my head

I'm actually guilty of this myself. Usually when something happens that annoys the hell out of me, I say, "Well thats gay". People who talk to me tend to know I mean that something is bad, and not take it literally.

 

[Kae]

I've got nothing, I live in México so when I get angry about these things it's normally with poorly used Spanish terms, or the fact that people keep using English words instead of words that we do have in Spanish, this really grinds my gears, or worse yet, when they combine the English word with Spanish word, drives me insane and I normally start yelling at people to speak properly, though to be fair most people my age speak a completely different kind of Spanish which I don't understand too well, and I don't really speak English too often IRL so I've got nothing there.

[sub]My slang is so outdated that it's literally from before I was even born, so yeah I have a few problems communicating with my own people, and don't get me started with Mexicans that live in the US, they may as well speak Klingon because I've got no idea what they are saying.[/sub]

 

[Scrustle]

Many people don't seem to understand what noob means. I can understand people using it to describe someone who is inept at a game or something, like a noob would be, but people use noob to mean practically nothing now. I've spoken to these people a few times and they literally have no idea where the word comes from or what it actually means. They just seem to think it means stupid or something. It kind of makes them look like noobs...

 

[Zantos]

Ech, different people say different things. A lot of the insults we use now are completely disassociated from their original meanings. Let them have their fun, and if they annoy you just think about setting fire to them.

 

[Launcelot111]

Maxminimization is a principle in game theory where one party chooses a course of action through which he will receive the highest possible minimum payment (ie. he will choose a 50/50 chance of 1 dollar or 2 dollars over the same odds of 0 or 100 because the minimum payment is higher)

Having learned this first, I've never understood where the gaming minmax came from.

 

[Imthatguy]

Ha. I've actually seen this before. A friend of mine said that someone posted loli in a chat, and proceeded to call him a pedo.

Ehh... I kinda see where that ones coming from buddy. A loli is supposed to have child like feature and be a object of sexuality... you connect the dots.

 

[Innegativeion]

One very oft-misused word I can think of is "literal", and its variations thereof. That one particularly aggravates me.

"Literally" does not mean "to a great extent" or "very". Using it as an intensifier is fine "literally makes no sense". I mean, at least the fact of something's literal nonsensical-ness could be made, but something like "That was literally the greatest thing ever" makes me cringe every time.

I'm all for the progression of language. Old words gradually evolve to mean new things, but the word "literally" is pretty much the only adverb of its kind, with its specific meaning (words like "actually" or "completely" can be applied to hyperbole). It is an extremely apt, useful word with a unique meaning, and it is a damned shame to hear/see people use it incorrectly.

It's especially horrendous when it's used to intensify a metaphor. I don't think these people could miss the point more if they tried.

 

[Dusty Donuts]

One very oft-misused word I can think of is "literal", and its variations thereof. That one particularly aggravates me.

"Literally" does not mean "to a great extent" or "very". Using it as an intensifier is fine "literally makes no sense". I mean, at least the fact of something's literal nonsensical-ness could be made, but something like "That was literally the greatest thing ever" makes me cringe every time.

I'm all for the progression of language. Old words gradually evolve to mean new things, but the word "literally" is pretty much the only adverb of its kind, with its specific meaning (words like "actually" or "completely" can be applied to hyperbole). It is an extremely apt, useful word with a unique meaning, and it is a damned shame to hear/see people use it incorrectly.

It's especially horrendous when it's used to intensify a metaphor. I don't think these people could miss the point more if they tried.

Spoiler: Don't hurt me

That LITERALLY burned my eyes. This argument is LITERALLY the worst in existence.

But yeah, I agree, I forgot about that. Literally is a good one.

 

[Zakarath]

Maxminimization is a principle in game theory where one party chooses a course of action through which he will receive the highest possible minimum payment (ie. he will choose a 50/50 chance of 1 dollar or 2 dollars over the same odds of 0 or 100 because the minimum payment is higher)

Having learned this first, I've never understood where the gaming minmax came from.

Well, minmax comes from the concept of driving your attribute point spread towards maximizing the abilities seen most useful (generally combat stats) while minimizing those seen as less useful (I.E. social attributes like charisma). I'd say it's a pretty reasonable term, even if it does end up sounding rather close to a term that means almost the opposite. (As you are kind of setting yourself up for the worst possible outcome in a variety of situations that might well come up, especially if your DM gets irritated by munchkin tactics.)

 

[VeryOddGamer]

Entitled.
Yeah, I went there.

For some time, people that used it really meant: "false sense of entitlement".
It really started to bug me.