Banished words

[Swoop]

"When did the notorious Guantanamo Bay Naval Base change to 'Gitmo?"
A f*cking long time before you were born!

[Brian d marge]

Kill slowly and painfully those who say;
meet with
talk with
and all texters should die.

I like meat with.....

especially me spuds and new peas

Stephen

[Deviant Esq]

One of the wordier posts I've seen today.

Personal gripes for me is the wrong "your". Gets on my wick when people type things like "your welcome." Bah! Especially when people who should know better - it reflects poorly on them. The other one that's annoying is when they use "alot." It is not one word, never has been, there is no such word as "alot (in that spelling or context)." It's two words: a lot. Less frustrating, but anther is the confusion between "brought" and "bought". Buy / bought, bring / brought. Easy.

It's more when people get the basics wrong that annoys me. As I suppose it does with people having gripes with "should of / should have, would of / would have" etcetera.

and all texters should die.

Disagree totally. Just because you send a text message, doesn't mean you always use "txt spk." I know so many people who send text messages that don't abbreviate or use stupid "txt spk" spellings (even if it doesn't make the word shorter. THAT pisses me off. What the fuck do you gain by writing it as "gurl?"). But my old man often sends me a text message when he wants to communicate, and he never abbreviates anything or uses text misappropriations. Neither do I - just don't see the need, and I think it looks stupid and reflects poorly on general intellect. Just my two cents though.

[MisterD]

"aluminum"

That one's problematic Hitcher. Discovered by Humphrey Davy in 1808, he originally named it Alumium then changed his mind and called it Aluminum.
It was us Brits that decided that such a name upset the pattern of -ium endings (Calcium, Sodium, Lithium etc) and added the extra 'i'.

[scumdog]

And Olympic athletes' desires to "medal".

And TV promos for something "coming up", rather than "next" or "later".

But "coming up" would be correct if one was not practising coitus interuptus.....(sp?)

[scumdog]

Less frustrating, but anther is the confusion between "brought" and "bought". Buy / bought, bring / brought. Easy.
.

Huh, you should be so lucky!
Down here there seems to be a word 'broughrt' -WTF?
Does it mean they purchased it?
Does it mean they transported it from elsewhere?
Or a combination of both?


Most likely it's just a continuation of the Southern accent thing whereupon the letter 'r' gets chucked into words willy-nilly - even ones that do not have the letter 'r' in them!!

[Fatjim]

Huh, you should be so lucky!
Down here there seems to be a word 'broughrt' -WTF?
Does it mean they purchased it?
Does it mean they transported it from elsewhere?
Or a combination of both?


Most likely it's just a continuation of the Southern accent thing whereupon the letter 'r' gets chucked into words willy-nilly - even ones that do not have the letter 'r' in them!!

So do you get called a prig much?

[scumdog]

So do you get called a prig much?

About the same amount of times I get called a crop...

[McJim]

But "coming up" would be correct if one was not practising coitus interuptus.....(sp?)

You practice coitus interruptus? I'm going to start calling you Mr Completely from now on.

[scumdog]

You practice coitus interruptus? I'm going to start calling you Mr Completely from now on.

Nay lad, I was just passing comment on those that do......

Ar ya coming up yourself????


(Ducks for cover)

[McJim]

Nay lad, I was just passing comment on those that do......

Ar ya coming up yourself????


(Ducks for cover)

Been fixed dude - can do what I like without getting more sprogs!

[Beemer]

My mother refers to the 'heighth' of something, irritates the hell out of me! She's also a great one for having 'brought' something from a shop, and she thinks that drinks come in 'alminyum' cans...

'Diss' as in 'disrespect' is also another one I loathe. In fact I swear the next person who asks if I am dissing them will get a beating! As in "take dis".

And don't get me started on grocers' apostrophes - 'apple's and banana's for sale' and '1000's of specials' - it's so WRONG!

I hate the wrong 'your' as well - and I'm not a fan of 'yous guys' either!

I've just seen a great one in a thread on here too - she was "humming and harring" over buying a bike... I rest my case!

[yungatart]

Like, umm, like one of my pet hates, like would be, like when people, like put like, into random sentences like. It really pisses me off, like.. yeah, like, well it just does like.

[McJim]

Like, umm, like one of my pet hates, like would be, like when people, like put like, into random sentences like. It really pisses me off, like.. yeah, like, well it just does like.

Well that would be just like you to dislike something like that.

[Hitcher]

Like, umm, like one of my pet hates, like would be, like when people, like put like, into random sentences like. It really pisses me off, like.. yeah, like, well it just does like.

It's a version of English called "Training-bra". Like. Its posher utterers pronounce it "lake", like.