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Internet buzzwords/phrases that get on your nerves

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I don't mean the old acronyms (LMAO, LOL, IMHO, OP, etc.), but those terms that seem to pop up in Internet conversations on blog threads or message boards. The one that is irritating me like fook right now is "meme". I love the board member meme, of course, and of course I've read Dickhead Dawkins, but that word just annoys the hell out of me. Go to a political forum, and people talk of the "meme" of a certain political candidate and their supporters; read a debate and one person writes off another's argument as a "meme". Shaaaaadappp wid dem fakkin' memes, okay!

Any other word or phrase that pisses you off?
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Cookie cutter

    Straw man

    and lately I've been seing protheletyze (sp?) and I'm sick of the sight of it! :D
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  • HinnyHinny Posts: 1,610
    'internets' and 'the google' used to piss me off until I heard Henry Rollins say it in person.
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  • TransplantedNewfTransplantedNewf Posts: 805
    "I just threw up in my mouth a little"

    a) that's disgusting.
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  • myhookmyhook Posts: 284
    I can't stand the word blog or podcast. I work in a high school and the teachers here don't really know what blogging or podcast are but they want it. I had this conversation with a teacher about a month ago:

    Teacher: Can you set me up with the podcast application.

    Me: WTF?

    Teacher: I saw on the news last night that other schools are using podcasts as a teaching tool and I would like that application installed on my computer. (as if Podcast is an app like Word or Photoshop)
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  • you areyou are Posts: 1,651
    Krisdababe wrote:
    "I just threw up in my mouth a little"

    a) that's disgusting.
    b) it's not funny. you didn't make it up, it came from a movie so don't pretend it's your own witty remark.


    i've said that before :o, but only in extreme cases! ;) i don't say it a lot....anyway -

    i hate when people say or type 'prolly' for 'probably'! hello! people sound and look so uneducated when they say or type that. it's just laziness! :o
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  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    you are wrote:
    i've said that before :o, but only in extreme cases! ;) i don't say it a lot....anyway -

    i hate when people say or type 'prolly' for 'probably'! hello! people sound and look so uneducated when they say or type that. it's just laziness! :o

    I use 'prolly' sometimes. and yeah, it is laziness. :D

    but I mainly use it if I'm in a hurry to type something (like on MSN when I need to dash).. also, I hate typing the word 'probably', the proper spelling took me ages to learn/remember so I just really, really dislike it nowadays.
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  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,931
    eMMI wrote:
    the proper spelling took me ages to learn/remember so I just really, really dislike it nowadays.

    All that work for nothing! :D
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  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,173
    myhook wrote:
    I can't stand the word blog or podcast. I work in a high school and the teachers here don't really know what blogging or podcast are but they want it. I had this conversation with a teacher about a month ago:

    Teacher: Can you set me up with the podcast application.

    Me: WTF?

    Teacher: I saw on the news last night that other schools are using podcasts as a teaching tool and I would like that application installed on my computer. (as if Podcast is an app like Word or Photoshop)
    I understand that one (well, the concept really -- not so much the actual words). I hate it when people misuse technology/software terms like that. The way I see it, people can be annoyed with my bad grammar and I can be annoyed that they don't know the difference between a gigabyte and a gigahertz.



    As for phrases/words, they really arent buzzwords, but the following annoy me:
    -using 'prolly' for 'probably'
    -using 'becos', 'becuz', 'cos', etc for 'because'
    -the words 'youtubed' or 'youtubing'

    There's probably more, but that's what immediately comes to mind.
  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    Collin wrote:
    All that work for nothing! :D

    lol. no. :p

    I do use it, I just hate it.
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  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    I can't stand when people say they are going to PING someone. Fucking say you are going to talk to them, email them, text them - you ain't gonna PING them.

    HATE IT
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    people who use 'then' instead of 'than'

    my dad is bigger then your dad... makes no fucking sense!!

    can i just add that only americans do this. :)


    also.. "i could care less"... well go on then... care less.. its COULDNT CARE LESS!!!

    can i just add that only americans do this one also :)


    this doesnt quite fit in with your thread Finsy... :o
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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    You will never see me use an emoticon. I was trained to communicate using words not pictures. I'm positive this leads to a lot of people thinking I am serious when I'm not, but I really don't care. Oh, and nothing against all of you who do. It's a personal thing...
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  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Jeanie wrote:
    Cookie cutter

    Straw man

    and lately I've been seen protheletyze (sp?) and I'm sick of the sight of it! :D



    DEAR sweet bejeebus i loather that one!


    hahahaha.


    only other i can think of off the top of my head is 'mayhaps'...it's just annoying to read imo.
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  • Super VedderSuper Vedder Posts: 1,531
    eyedclaar wrote:
    You will never see me use an emoticon. I was trained to communicate using words not pictures. I'm positive this leads to a lot of people thinking I am serious when I'm not, but I really don't care. Oh, and nothing against all of you who do. It's a personal thing...

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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Super Vedder wrote:
    ;)

    Sweet. I knew that was coming...
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    Sweet. I knew that was coming...

    :o
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    i'm sick of buzzword ;):p
  • you areyou are Posts: 1,651
    eMMI wrote:
    I use 'prolly' sometimes. and yeah, it is laziness. :D

    but I mainly use it if I'm in a hurry to type something (like on MSN when I need to dash).. also, I hate typing the word 'probably', the proper spelling took me ages to learn/remember so I just really, really dislike it nowadays.


    no worries! i won't hold it against you. ;) i'm sure someone hates that i never capitalize anything when i post on here.
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  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    you are wrote:
    no worries! i won't hold it against you. ;) i'm sure someone hates that i never capitalize anything when i post on here.

    haha. thanks. :D not that I'd care if you did. :cool:

    I'm sure someone does.. :p
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  • smg9779smg9779 Posts: 235
    pwn. Usually used in gaming. Every time I see this I want to reach through my computer screen and strangle the 14 year old punk who wrote it. Whats worse is when people try to pronounce it, "pown." Its OWN you idiots, it is a typo that spread like wildfire.
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  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    dunkman wrote:
    people who use 'then' instead of 'than'

    my dad is bigger then your dad... makes no fucking sense!!

    can i just add that only americans do this. :)


    also.. "i could care less"... well go on then... care less.. its COULDNT CARE LESS!!!

    can i just add that only americans do this one also :)


    this doesnt quite fit in with your thread Finsy... :o

    :D It does fit in and I'm glad you mentioned it because I see so many people write it. Not just Americans though. But anyway, it really bugs me. Not sure why it should? but it does. :p
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  • pirljamgirlpirljamgirl Posts: 259
    wtf is woot?????????????????????????????????
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  • bmwweirdoguybmwweirdoguy Right of Seattle Posts: 228
    AmentsChick wrote:
    newbie
    Noob! Lol
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  • you areyou are Posts: 1,651
    pirljamgirl wrote:
    wtf is woot?????????????????????????????????

    i don't type woot, but i say it when i'm being sarcastic about being excited....i picked it up from the Ghost Hunters' podcast, Grant says it a lot....yes i said podcast, but i know what one is and i subscribe to them on itunes. ;) and i use the word properly. :D
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    you are wrote:
    i hate when people say or type 'prolly' for 'probably'! hello! people sound and look so uneducated when they say or type that. it's just laziness! :o

    I use that one a lot...I caught myself writing it at work....lol
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  • Slip KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    l33t. h4ckOrz, ownd, 2lka1

    dumb
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    smg9779 wrote:
    pwn. Usually used in gaming. Every time I see this I want to reach through my computer screen and strangle the 14 year old punk who wrote it. Whats worse is when people try to pronounce it, "pown." Its OWN you idiots, it is a typo that spread like wildfire.


    YES! i freakin' hate this!!
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    decides2dream wrote:
    DEAR sweet bejeebus i loather that one!


    hahahaha.


    only other i can think of off the top of my head is 'mayhaps'...it's just annoying to read imo.

    Yeah, when I see a thread where they're all prosteletizing about the cookie cutter theory or the straw man argument I get a visual of a scene from Shrek in my head! :D

    Can't even find prosteletizing in the dictionary. :confused: It means preach doesn't it? Why not just use preach? Damn big words for no readily apparent reason just confuse me and make me think someone is just trying to be clever. :p

    On a side note Fins, there was a book I read called Just another little murder by Phil Cleary a local identity who is a former footballer and local Federal MP. It's about his sister who was murdered in 1987 by her ex boyfriend, stabbed outside the kindergarten where she worked. A really sad story and Phil talks all about the murder and the ensuing trial and his efforts to change the law. His sister's murdererer was found not guilt on the grounds of provocation. :rolleyes: Anyway it's a well written book and his story, about what happened to his sister, is incredibly sad and I wouldn't wish it on anyone but I reckon about 5 times AT LEAST in that book he uses the word lumpenproletariate and not long after on the tv I heard him use it in an interview as well!!! Just completely bamboozles me that he's so stuck on the word and around the time after I'd read the book that word started showing up all over the place and it's not like it's an easy one that rolls off the tongue OR enters the brain easily! :D
    NOPE!!!

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