Words vs. Slang!

[Helsinki]

I hate when people use letters to represent words (u, ur, c, n, r, etc) and especially hate it when these are used in actual business titles! I also hate when people mix up possessives with contractions (your vs you're, their/they're [and there!!]). And I especially hate when people purposely misspell words (dat, dis, adding a z to anything instead of an s) although there are particular exceptions I don't mind. In general, I dislike it when a block of text is so misspelled, lazy, and grammatically incorrect that it makes me assume that the author hasn't made it past second grade. I realize nobody is perfect all of the time, but I'm sure many of you have that family member or Facebook friend whose posts, texts and emails just make you cringe and make you consider sending them a book on phonics.

Aside from that... Totally agree on dollop and irregardless. Also hate moist. "Same difference" drives me nuts. I also prefer "okay" to "ok."

Edit: dat rite their b how y'all complainz bout words n slang yo. Fo sho.

Haha

 

[muddpuddles01]

I realize nobody is perfect all of the time, but I'm sure many of you have that family member or Facebook friend whose posts, texts and emails just make you cringe and make you consider sending them a book on phonics.

Sending a phonics book would be too subtle a hint for some, I'm afraid. However, making a swift and forceful connection between their face and an unabridged dictionary should work quite nicely!

 

[Helsinki]

Sending a phonics book would be too subtle a hint for some, I'm afraid. However, making a swift and forceful connection between their face and an unabridged dictionary should work quite nicely!

I like your style! Hahaha

 

[muddpuddles01]

I like your style! Hahaha

I fancy myself as having a flair for making violence sound appealing!

 

[Caloci]

Can't think of an English word right now but what I think is cringeworthy is the trend in The Netherlands to use English words when there's a perfectly normal Dutch word for it.
For example, there are Dutch translators who use "kids" in subtitles in stead of "kinderen" (the Dutch word). I have no idea why, maybe because it's shorter?
Anyways (hihi, it's actually in my text prediction), that is what really grinds my gears!

My ex husbands ex girlfriend is Norwegian and she used hihi all the time. I never understood it.

 

[Caloci]

Aside from the normal asinine, accurately stereotypical Southern gems like "y'all" and "ain't", which I loathe, "irregardless" drives me positively bonkers, the word "armpit" makes me cringe (axilla sounds much nicer anyway), and I DETEST the word "yonder". Oh my goat I just want to stab someone in the kneecaps when they say yonder!

I also dislike the word nostril.

 

[cleozmama]

@Inflamed
Spelling errors drive me crazy!! Most of them are laziness, I think. I remember writing a letter to a big company when I was in ninth grade. The response had several errors in the first paragraph alone. I was so disgusted, I wanted to blue pencil it and send it back for corrections !

 

[cleozmama]

I hate when people use letters to represent words (u, ur, c, n, r, etc) and especially hate it when these are used in actual business titles! I also hate when people mix up possessives with contractions (your vs you're, their/they're [and there!!]). And I especially hate when people purposely misspell words (dat, dis, adding a z to anything instead of an s) although there are particular exceptions I don't mind. In general, I dislike it when a block of text is so misspelled, lazy, and grammatically incorrect that it makes me assume that the author hasn't made it past second grade. I realize nobody is perfect all of the time, but I'm sure many of you have that family member or Facebook friend whose posts, texts and emails just make you cringe and make you consider sending them a book on phonics.

Aside from that... Totally agree on dollop and irregardless. Also hate moist. "Same difference" drives me nuts. I also prefer "okay" to "ok."

Edit: dat rite their b how y'all complainz bout words n slang yo. Fo sho.

Haha

You hit lots of nails on the head! Another word misuse is discrete when it should be discreet! I don't think schools teach students how to use the DICTIONARY anymore. It's still a very useful tool.

 

[cleozmama]

Here's another word that makes me want to scream. Homage--according to Webster's-- Main Entry: hom·age Pronunciation: \ˈä-mij, ˈhä-\Function: noun.

Every time I hear it spoken on TV, the speaker is mis-pronouncing it "O-majj".

 

[Helsinki]

You hit lots of nails on the head! Another word misuse is discrete when it should be discreet! I don't think schools teach students how to use the DICTIONARY anymore. It's still a very useful tool.

Or compliment vs complement! Totally different meanings! And stationary vs stationery...accept vs except... But I do feel effect/affect is forgivable :b

Oh and it drives me nuts when people misuse apart/a part. Completely opposite meanings >_< "I love having you apart of our family!" Oh so you want me to go away...? :,( haha

 

[cleozmama]

Or compliment vs complement! Totally different meanings! And stationary vs stationery...accept vs except... But I do feel effect/affect is forgivable :b

Oh and it drives me nuts when people misuse apart/a part. Completely opposite meanings >_< "I love having you apart of our family!" Oh so you want me to go away...? :,( haha

Oh, YES, YES, YES!!!!!!!

 

[Inflamed]

My ex husbands ex girlfriend is Norwegian and she used hihi all the time. I never understood it.

It's basically the same as haha (represents more a giggle than a laugh I guess). Didn't know it wasn't correct English so I'll stop using it now!

 

[SphynxKid]

It's basically the same as haha (represents more a giggle than a laugh I guess). Didn't know it wasn't correct English so I'll stop using it now!

I can honestly tell you that before SMS TEXT came about, I was part of the IRC phase - I don't know if anyone remembers that from back in the late 1990s/early 2000s, IRC stood for Inter Relay Chat, the beginning of chat rooms, such as AOL and things like that but based on HTML coding before there were functional chat rooms. That is where a lot of the text craze came from the things like, LOL, ROFL, etc. Many people from Europe used to greet us with "hihi" all of the time, so I assumed it was some sort of greeting- I never checked to see if it was associated with a particular country. After awhile it was adapted by quite a few people and even said by those who spoke English, from the US. It was safe to say that was a good...18-19 yrs ago?

Jen

 

[andreanar]

@SphynxKid I picture you being very young. Maybe mid 20's? Lol I must be a little off base! Haha

 

[SphynxKid]

@SphynxKid I picture you being very young. Maybe mid 20's? Lol I must be a little off base! Haha

Lol - I am 32, my parents started me on a little programmable Mac when I was probably 4 yrs old, one that hooked up to the TV and you input 900 lines of HTML code to make a rainbow cross the screen. By the time I was 8, my dad had me started on his computer, and by the time I was 16, I had gone thru 3-4 of my own and had the rule of my house with the internet. I didn't really find a place to belong until after college, lol - I got kicked out of HS twice and my parents didn't really mind because they knew I was just as smart as any other kid and had friends all over the world! Just like now!

Jen

 

[Inflamed]

I can honestly tell you that before SMS TEXT came about, I was part of the IRC phase - I don't know if anyone remembers that from back in the late 1990s/early 2000s, IRC stood for Inter Relay Chat, the beginning of chat rooms, such as AOL and things like that but based on HTML coding before there were functional chat rooms. That is where a lot of the text craze came from the things like, LOL, ROFL, etc. Many people from Europe used to greet us with "hihi" all of the time, so I assumed it was some sort of greeting- I never checked to see if it was associated with a particular country. After awhile it was adapted by quite a few people and even said by those who spoke English, from the US. It was safe to say that was a good...18-19 yrs ago?

Jen

They probably did use it as a greeting, a double hi or something like that?

 

[andreanar]

@SphynxKid you were kicked out of high school? No way! I remember the good old computer days. I was in grade school when they first came out. My son is a computer nerd, the police came for him when he was 9 for hacking into peoples accounts online.

 

[curlysue]

@GizmosMommy DITTO I am just as bad!

 

[GizmosMommy]

@GizmosMommy DITTO I am just as bad!

I call curse words my sentence enhancers...it just comes very naturally to me. Must be a gift

 

[curlysue]

My cousin is 21 and has the worst habit of doing this! He tries to act all tough and speak like a "gangster" and call people "bruh". He goes out of his way to type it out exactly like that. It's bad enough hearing it, but seeing it written out that way is an affront to the very delicacy of my nature. I hate it so much! It doesn't look/sound impressive in any capacity; it simply changes his image from 'scrawny white boy from rural South Carolina' to 'UNEDUCATED scrawny white boy from rural South Carolina'.

OMG I can so agree with you (not that I know your cousin)! I was born and raised in southern California and now living in southeast Georgia for the past 9 years I have to laugh when I see these punk @sses trying to be a "thug" or "gangster". I think to myself...hmmmm really I would love to drop your @ss in Compton and see how "gangster" you are now. I grew up when the Crips and Bloods were so bad. I remember not being able to wear red or blue to school even.

Alright I am done venting! LOL

 

[muddpuddles01]

OMG I can so agree with you (not that I know your cousin)! I was born and raised in southern California and now living in southeast Georgia for the past 9 years I have to laugh when I see these punk @sses trying to be a "thug" or "gangster". I think to myself...hmmmm really I would love to drop your @ss in Compton and see how "gangster" you are now. I grew up when the Crips and Bloods were so bad. I remember not being able to wear red or blue to school even.

Alright I am done venting! LOL

I know, right? I'd love to see how tough they really are!

 

[curlysue]

I call curse words my sentence enhancers...it just comes very naturally to me. Must be a gift

Me too!!! I don't even realize I am doing it.

 

[curlysue]

Well I do hate the word "panties". Why I have no clue but it just makes my skin crawl.

Although after living in Southeast Georgia for the past 9 years I HATE the word "aint" I don't even know if I spelled it right. I was born and raised in California (I know we have some bad slang there too) but for the most part I always get "you sleek so clearly" or "you pronounce every word exactly right" from people I meet and Co-workers. This word "aint" to me just shows ignorance kills the English language. My husband says it and I have tried for two years to get him to stop saying it. He will even text or email it in a sentence :rage: My daughter (who also was born and lived in California till she was 7) tried using this word (once). OMG I flipped out and I don't think she has used it again.

 

[SphynxKid]

Well I do hate the word "panties". Why I have no clue but it just makes my skin crawl.

Although after living in Southeast Georgia for the past 9 years I HATE the word "aint" I don't even know if I spelled it right. I was born and raised in California (I know we have some bad slang there too) but for the most part I always get "you sleek so clearly" or "you pronounce every word exactly right" from people I meet and Co-workers. This word "aint" to me just shows ignorance kills the English language. My husband says it and I have tried for two years to get him to stop saying it. He will even text or email it in a sentence :rage: My daughter (who also was born and lived in California till she was 7) tried using this word (once). OMG I flipped out and I don't think she has used it again.

I do TOO! I CANNOT stand the p- word. It feels dirty to me. Lol. Eww. I have a friend who pronounced every syllable and letter on purpose as she is from a different country. She said once, if I go home and say it the way you dohere, my dad will ask, what in the word are "pannies?", they are "pah,-n-tees!!" Oh ew Ew Ew.


Jen

 

[curlysue]

I do TOO! I CANNOT stand the p- word. It feels dirty to me. Lol. Eww. I have a friend who pronounced every syllable and letter on purpose as she is from a different country. She said once, if I go home and say it the way you dohere, my dad will ask, what in the word are "pannies?", they are "pah,-n-tees!!" Oh ew Ew Ew.


Jen

LOL I thought I was the only weirdo that hated that word. My best friend that lives with us says it just to see me cringe.