Researchers combed through a variety of British books, blogs, magazines and broadcast transcripts to compile a database of words and phrases in current overuse/misuse, and then chose the worst offenders. Among their top picks were bad grammar ("shouldn't of," #8), redundant verbal tics ("I personally," #3) and regular old overused terms ("24/7," #9).
The rest of the Oxford list: "It's not rocket science" (#10), "It's a nightmare" (#7), "Absolutely" (#6), "With all due respect" (#5), "At this moment in time" (#4), and "Fairly unique" (#2). Their top pick? "At the end of the day," gratingly popular (and totally meaningless) with politicians, athletes, pundits, and management types. It's basically a glimpse at what it will sound like in hell.
Cliches from 2006: best.[something].ever, I just threw up in my mouth, going green, [blank] is the new [blank], tween, douche, rad, drama, blogosphere, ginormous, bajillion, totes, bro, bra, bromance.
Faux Ghetto Slang: killin it, for real/for reals/on the real/keepin' it real, hit me up, oh snap!, chillaxing.
Unnecessary Conjunctions and Transitions: no offense but ..., all of the sudden, basically, ironically, actually, honestly, totally, hopefully, as to whether, I swear to God, you know.
Misused/Mispronounced Phrases: irregardless (for "regardless"), aggravate (for "irritate"), anyways/towards (anyway, toward), for all intensive purposes (for "for all intents and purposes"), suppose to (for "supposed to"), could of (for "could have"), analyzing/analyzation (for "analysis"), literally (when meant figuratively).
Internet acronyms/LOLCat slang (Even When Used Ironically): OMG, i can haz, LOLz, teh Internets, Oh noes!, Obvs, PWN.
To which I usually reply: "Yehhh, I smell watchu steppin in." I love that phrase.
"I understand" gets under my skin at times. It just kills everything.
e.g.
Person A: "Could you please be a little more quiet, it's hard to concentrate..."
Person B: "I understand :sunny:"
Noooooooo, really??? oh:
I also get annoyed when people say "Guess what?" It always begins a series of irritations that goes something like "Guess what?" and you're like "What?" and theyre like "GUESS!" and your like "WHATTTT???" and they're like "OMG JUST GUESS!" and then you don't wanna know anymore so they're like "Ok ok I'll tell you", and you're just waiting while giving em the ok go on face and they start the story with "Ok soooooo...." LIKE OH MY GAWD :mad:
One of my lecturers said 'Basically' a lot, and he knew it. Once, mid-lecture, he said "I say 'basically' too much". Then he started saying "essentially" and said "wait, that's just the same as 'basically'".
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Really Mimi? It annoys you, huh ... I understand.
I practically don't use/or hear English in my daily life much at all, that's why I can't understand why some people find some of those phrases annoying. But if anyone is interested in Finnish or Swedish irritating phrases, let me know.
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True leaders don't create followers...
.... They create new leaders.
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format_quote Originally Posted by MSN
I'm trying really hard to come up with something but there seems to be non.now THAT'S irritating!!
Seriously why can't i think of anything?
I mean, oh my god!
Like, whatever.
The above are examples of how I have heard others speak and how I do not speak and have never spoken in my entire life yes it's true honest really I'm not joking please don't think I'm joking.
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Assalamu Alaikum
format_quote Originally Posted by Al-Zaara
Really Mimi? It annoys you, huh ... I understand.
I practically don't use/or hear English in my daily life much at all, that's why I can't understand why some people find some of those phrases annoying. But if anyone is interested in Finnish or Swedish irritating phrases, let me know.
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format_quote Originally Posted by Jawharah
Wow. Wow annoys you? Well, I understand why...
Lol @ the guess what rant. :X
Yeh, cuz it's said to intentionally make people feel really dumb..I won't lie tho I use it sometimes cuz people do say lots of dumb things, I just don't like it used on me muwahaha, hypocritical, I know *sigh*
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It's 2008, and we're pretty sure we recently had a conversation that didn't involve a single catchphrase from "Clueless." Progress, right? Eh, kinda. Oxford University -- home to the wordsmiths responsible for adding "bootylicious" to the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language -- recently released a list of the top 10 most irritating phrases in current use, and it doesn't give us much hope for humanity.
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