So, you know... Whatever.

[bopropadop]

So, I was reading this, you know, article online about the most annoying words and phrases. I thought I'd link it here for others to, you know, take a look at. Anyway, it is what it is. You can comment or not. Or share your own favorite annoying word or phrase. Whatever.

Anyway, find the article, you know, here (http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/08/most.annoying.words/index.html). :wink2:

[Haunted]

Ooooo:eek2: Thanks for this link, Bop.

'Whatever' as a response by a child in rebuttal to its parent's declaration is nothing but a derisive dismissal of that authority and is completely unacceptable.

'You know' constantly repeated in a given presentation indicates to me either very poor preparation of said presentation, lack of attention, lack of knowledge of his/her native language, or speaker is suffering from over medication.

[Jaedpact]

So I have this little project I started working on at the begining of the summer. Jaed's World Famous Resurrection Lexicon. The concept is that I take words that were pop culture based, made famous, over used, then never used. I then started to inject them into the venacular once again. It starts small, one or two people then they start doing it with out realizing it then you infiltrate the internets and it goes on from there.
Words and Phrases are acceptable in the Ressurection Lexicon.

Some examples:
1. Right on!
2. Word.
3. Righteous
4. Solid
5. To-the-max

I am working out a point system ( you guys may realise that i enjoy making up random point systems) wherein an individual may earn points and combo points for the successfull use of these words and phrases in common communication.

For example Ms. Mod is righteous to the max!!

[Cowboy]

Ooooo:eek2: Thanks for this link, Bop.

'Whatever' as a response by a child in rebuttal to its parent's declaration is nothing but a derisive dismissal of that authority and is completely unacceptable.

'You know' constantly repeated in a given presentation indicates to me either very poor preparation of said presentation, lack of attention, lack of knowledge of his/her native language, or speaker is suffering from over medication.

You know.....whatever, this is for sure some crazy observations...you know?:biggrin2:

[wally wonder]

hope against hope. every time i read that phrase i get :bug-eyed: i come to a full stop, my eyes wander off the page, glaze over, i lipzinnk the words, my scalp prickles with a superstitious dread (sorry, reading robert e howard/conan, by crom!) and then i shudder like a dog shaking off water and i hope against hope that i never read that phrase again. by mitra!

[phidgt]

So I have this little project I started working on at the begining of the summer. Jaed's World Famous Resurrection Lexicon. The concept is that I take words that were pop culture based, made famous, over used, then never used. I then started to inject them into the venacular once again. It starts small, one or two people then they start doing it with out realizing it then you infiltrate the internets and it goes on from there.
Words and Phrases are acceptable in the Ressurection Lexicon.

Some examples:
1. Right on!
2. Word.
3. Righteous
4. Solid
5. To-the-max

I am working out a point system ( you guys may realise that i enjoy making up random point systems) wherein an individual may earn points and combo points for the successfull use of these words and phrases in common communication.

For example Ms. Mod is righteous to the max!!

I award you 2 bazillion points for the usage of "internets" in your post. Awesomely righteous!

[SusanNorton]

This reminds me of a David Sedaris story, the one in which he teaches a college-level Creative Writing class, and a girl uses the word, "whateverishly."

[malarabid]

Snark.

Do people even know what it really means?

from dictionary.com:
snark
[Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] 1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!"
2. More generally, any kind of unexplained or threatening event on a computer (especially if it might be a boojum). Often used to refer to an event or a log file entry that might indicate an attempted security violation. See snivitz.
3. UUCP name of snark.thyrsus.com, home site of the Hacker Jargon File versions 2.*.*.

Instead, people use it to mean "spiteful." I imagine current usage originated on some forum, but now people use it to call their online foes "snarky" instead of "spiteful," the usage begging the reader to take sides . . . because calling it like it is (spiteful) makes them sound too bitter. Bleh.

[Sundrop]

This reminds me of a teacher I had in high school. She always inserted the phrase "um, you know" in every sentence she spoke. It drove us crazy. One day, a friend and I decided to keep a tally of how many times she said "um, you know". At the end of the hour, we counted 78 tally marks. We were laughing so hard that the teacher demanded to see our "note"..... We howled like hyenas when she said to us, "Girls, um, you know that is not very funny". Needless to say we spent the last half hour of class in the principles office (BTW, when we told him why we were in trouble, he laughed too) :laugh:

[Sugar Marie]

I don't know if this fits, but it really bugs me when people say "No pun intended", when a pun is so obviously intended.

[aneaglesangel]

LOL! Sounds like a college professor I had! At least he was good about it. Whenever he gave us a test the last question would be an essay question. It always started out, "ummmm"....and then the question. So he knew he did it and he knew we laughed about it. The worst time was when he came in and his hair was sticking straight up from the wind and he looked so ridiculous I couldn't even look at him. Of course, he picked that time to call on me to speak to the class, LOL! I had to look down or I was gonna crack up laughing!

[mojomofo]

I can't stand when people are having a normal conversation, and in response to a statement- NOT a question- one of them says, "no, yeah" or even "yeah, no". What??!! Even overlooking the whole inappropriate response to a declarative sentence, "no, yeah" is the best that they can come up with? It doesn't even make sense!

The other one that gets me is "I know,right?" Grrr. How the hell should I know what you know? I would rather someone commiserate with some long drawn out boring story than hear some glib, dismissive response.

Gotta get out of this thread, I can feel my teeth wanting to grind...

[Nutty Bavarian]

Two phrases that are really starting to get under my skin:
1) That's hot.
2) Rock on!

Granted I use rock on a bit, but I have a friend that says it so often people actually know him as Rock On, and not by his real name.

[StoryTellerRose]

Valley girl talk....whenever I hear someone with that high, nasal, bubble-gum voice speaking fluent Valley girl, I want to walk up them and slap the living daylights out of them! AUGH!

Ok, I'm done now.

[prettiwiccan]

Like, I really liked that article, like alot!

[Kim L.]

This reminds me of a teacher I had in high school. She always inserted the phrase "um, you know" in every sentence she spoke. It drove us crazy. One day, a friend and I decided to keep a tally of how many times she said "um, you know". At the end of the hour, we counted 78 tally marks. We were laughing so hard that the teacher demanded to see our "note"..... We howled like hyenas when she said to us, "Girls, um, you know that is not very funny". Needless to say we spent the last half hour of class in the principles office (BTW, when we told him why we were in trouble, he laughed too) :laugh:


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[ms.darkside]

One phrase with me is I say "seriously" way too much.... I know I do it....... but can't stop, seriously.
I do hate it when people drag out the word "anyway" aaaaaannnnnnyyyyyywaaaaayyyy grrrrrrrrrr.
and "it's the bomb" that phrase had its fifteen minutes already, go away now.:smile2: