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Old 12.01.2006, 04:50 PM   #1
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Mostly it's the dumbass media who are at fault for perpetrating misuse of the King's English.

My current pet peeve, as explained elsewhere in this forum: troop.
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Old 12.01.2006, 04:51 PM   #2
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Mostly it's the dumbass media who are at fault for perpetrating misuse of the King's English.

me?
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Old 12.01.2006, 04:53 PM   #3
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No you're not the dumbass media. Are you?
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Old 12.01.2006, 04:57 PM   #4
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the King can eat my shitty shorts, and i'll piss on his face.

however, i hate the way that "graphic" has come to mean a) related to fucking b) related to bodily harm

so you end up with stupidass newspaper phrases like "graphic images" -- well fuck aren't all newspaper images "graphic"? aghhhh...

(in other words: pictures of people fucking are hence "graphic graphics" -- THAT'S RETARDED).
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Old 12.01.2006, 05:00 PM   #5
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There
Their
They're


LEARN THE GODDAMN DIFFERENCE! YEESH!


"A Lot" is a two word phrase.
"Alot" is not a word.
"Allot" is a word, but meaning something else.


"Irregardless" is not a word. Just knock that shit off.
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Old 12.01.2006, 05:07 PM   #6
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blah, my bad
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Old 12.01.2006, 05:12 PM   #7
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There
Their
They're


LEARN THE GODDAMN DIFFERENCE! YEESH!



"A Lot" is a two word phrase.
"Alot" is not a word.
"Allot" is a word, but meaning something else.


"Irregardless" is not a word. Just knock that shit off.

Hell! I never knew "alot" wasn't a word. Thanks!

I hate misuse of "ironic."

I hate overuse (which is always misuse as well) of "random."
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Old 12.01.2006, 06:19 PM   #8
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I hate overuse (which is always misuse as well) of "random."

Oh that bothers me so much.
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Old 12.01.2006, 06:22 PM   #9
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"Gay". Enough said.
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Old 12.01.2006, 06:23 PM   #10
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Yeah. I hate it when someone says "Say something random!". Well it isn't really random if you were told to say something random....

Also the word "literally".

Someone said "I literally crapped my pants." He didn't really crap his pants, but he said "literally" anyway.
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Old 12.01.2006, 07:04 PM   #11
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iits never really used wrong but the word "soup" just wrecks my fuckin head.
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Old 12.01.2006, 07:13 PM   #12
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Oh that bothers me so much.

I've said it a million times before (on this board alone) and I'll say it infinite more times... god dammit it pisses me off. All the kids that say shit like "I have a random sense of humour," or, "Yr so random," etc. FUCKIN' HELL, IT'S NOT RANDOM, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT WAS THOUGHT ABOUT CLOSELY TO GET THAT VERY REACTION.
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Old 12.01.2006, 07:16 PM   #13
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Around these parts, people use the word "borrow" when they mean "lend."
F u c k i n g A n n o y i n g .
"Would you borrow me that screwdriver?"
Gaah!!
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Old 12.01.2006, 07:17 PM   #14
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Around these parts, people use the word "borrow" when they mean "lend."
F u c k i n g A n n o y i n g .
"Would you borrow me that screwdriver?"
Gaah!!
I hate things like that!

In Elementary school, it annoyed me when people said "I won you!" when they meant "I beat you!".
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Old 12.01.2006, 07:20 PM   #15
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How about people that say "seen" when they mean "saw?"

"I seen it! Up thar in the sky! A flyin' saucer, I swear!"


Fucking A!
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Old 12.01.2006, 07:35 PM   #16
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YOUR instead of YOU'RE.
I see it all over kid's backpacks "Your so cool!"

When people begin every sentence with "pretty sure.."

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"Gay". Enough said.
Of course.

"Pretty sure your gay" = most. annoying. thing. ever.


Random bugs me too.
And they're/there/their + other misusings.
When people are speaking and say "OH-EM-GEE!"
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Old 12.01.2006, 08:01 PM   #17
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This doesn't apply to words, but misunderstanding that the person is set to "away" in messenger. I often come back to my computer, only to find annoying people bitching at me because they think I'm there.

They are then ready to be blocked, and removed from the contact list.
 
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Old 12.01.2006, 08:02 PM   #18
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This doesn't apply to words, but misunderstanding that the person is set to "away" in messenger. I often come back to my computer, only to find annoying people bitching at me because they think I'm there.

They are then ready to be blocked, and removed from the contact list.

 

Word up.
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Old 12.01.2006, 08:03 PM   #19
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I hate when people use the word "LOL" in the messenger. I don´t really think they´re "laughing out hard" while typing.
me too, is that necesary? why don't people just say ahah, is more believable, I mean...
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Old 12.01.2006, 08:04 PM   #20
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I hate when people use the word "LOL" in the messenger. I don´t really think they´re "laughing out hard" while typing.

Well, it stands for laugh out loud. I always just say "hahaha," but saying "lol" isn't something to compain about. They could be saying rotfl or something.
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