Quote from: agfrommd on June 02, 2012, 05:49:38 AM
Words I hate: "Gender confusion"
...I am not confused about my gender. I know who I am. It just doesn't fit neatly into one of the usual categories.

Ok, speak for yourself.
I am still confused. I'm actually getting to a little place where I might, at some future point, if possible, maybe embrace my inner confusion and enjoy it.

--Jay Jay

I have grown to hate the words 'passion' 'enthusiasm' and 'awesome' - mainly because they were originally made to serve strong, emotions and have been watered down into blandness through overuse and misuse.

this is just a little quirk, but I don't like "wom" words. Wombat is fine because they're cute, but "woman" and "womb" bug me. Don't know why. The "wom" sound just feels and sounds weird to me.

Quote from: peky on June 01, 2012, 06:07:03 PM
Have you found Jesus?

one of the most pointless questions ever asked
especially since you can even read in the bible that nobody ever finds jesus, it's always him who finds his followers

Quote from: justmeinoz on June 02, 2012, 07:42:13 AM
Also 'arks' instead of 'ask'

it's a variation is pronunciation that has a very long history. the alternative for 'aksian' was found already in old english, and continued into middle english as 'axe'. this particular type of metathesis only appears in a very few words which all have a long history of it, and it's one of the features i really love in modern english. i don't want any bashing of something as cool as this (sorry, i'm a linguist...)

Taka,
Thank you for explaining the reason behind the alternative pronunciation of ask.  I have always wondered about it, and have asked many people who say "axe", and I have never gotten an answer.

well, it can often be hard to explain why one's grandparents and their grandparents and their neighbors etc spoke like they did. it's just an alternative pronunciation of a word. and it's even grammatically correct in the dialects where it can be found, so there's not much point in trying to "correct" it. but it might still be a point in teaching the correct spelling, since written language is somewhat different from the spoken

of course it is good to remember that

Words

- Incidentally, I thought this was originally a Buddy Holly song, I'm sure I have it somewhere.

Quote from: Bailey's Irish on June 12, 2012, 03:02:30 AM
He was behind the couch the whole time.

Yours too? I didn't even know it until I laughed at a joke on T.V. and exclaimed "Oh Jesus!!!" and he said "What!?!"

any word appended to "-challenge," like: hygienically-challenged, socially-challenged, etc. What is with the  F&*%# sugar coating

Quote from: peky on June 01, 2012, 06:07:03 PM
Have you found Jesus?

Quote from: Metroland on June 02, 2012, 12:25:18 PM
What's wrong with sloppy thinking? 

Nothing ! Unless you are arming an atomic bomb!!!

"pro tip" when used in a debate or argument. I've only ever seen it used as a condescending way of stating your opinion, again.

Also, the word "at" at the end of a question bugs the hell out of me.

So the song 'where's your head at?' is not a favourite then?

Quote from: Pica Pica on June 19, 2012, 06:15:42 PM
So the song 'where's your head at?' is not a favourite then?

Haha, I'm afraid not.

It's just a pet-peeve an old English teacher drilled into me. Where I'm living, the phrase "Where you at?" is used incessantly, and it drives me bonkers.

Actually I hate the "where are you coming from" and "where's your head at" etc et al, as it is some of the ridiculous psychobabble and not grammar. I hate psychobabble. I went thru a time in my life where there was all psychobabble all the time. 

--Jay Jay

Um, when people um, constantly um say um while they are um talking it um makes me go um mad ape $#!t!!!    I um, notice this most during um videos that people um make and I um have to um shut the um vid. off before I um go um insane 

Let's not forget about when people begin a sentence with the words "I don't think" and then I'm immediately thinking how bold they are to so blatantly overstate the obvious 

'Awesome', when it's much less than that.

Ativan

Quote from: Bailey on June 20, 2012, 09:33:06 PM
I've noticed this almost only occurs in the English language. Out of the languages I speak, I have yet to hear an equivalent to "um" or "uh" in another language.

Some Japanese speakers will do this with "ano."  I may not understand 90% of the sentence but I know when they're umming.

Words I hate:  "umad?" and recycled internet sarcasm phrases like "cool story bro."

Quote from: V M on June 20, 2012, 09:16:14 PM
Um, when people um, constantly um say um while they are um talking it um makes me go um mad ape $#!t!!!    I um, notice this most during um videos that people um make and I um have to um shut the um vid. off before I um go um insane 

Because I'm a dick: