GTKY: Words

KingLED · November 2013

What words do you hear adults use that make you unable to take anything else they say seriously?

KingLED · November 2013

Any adult that says tummy and isn't being sarcastic or making fun of something (or maybe talking to a small child) gets a side eye. Really? Tummy is still in your vocabulary?

LindsayDesigner · November 2013

"Tummy"
"Mommy/Daddy" unless they are talking to their own child
"No-no" especially referring to something another adult told them
Basically any words a small child would use instead of the proper word.

It also drives me crazy when adults substitute letters or numbers for words. It just makes you look lazy and kind of stupid.

kittenslove · November 2013

Any time one does not conjugate the verb "to be" correctly. One in a while slip up? I might let slide. While making a formal presentation? I tune out.

babygabe614 · November 2013

@joules235 I agree with all of the ones you listed! Add to that:

All THE sudden

Ain't

Misusing the word "anymore" (My husband and all of his family do this - I think it's a regional thing. They will say something like, "All my highschool friends are lame anymore." I think they mean "nowadays" but they ALL say "anymore" in this instance... ACK!)

You's (as in... "I thought you's were going to the game" in reference to two or more people. This is likely regional as well)

MrsAMB07 · November 2013

"Ginormous" and other made up/hybrid words. Also, text speak (LOL, WTF, OMG) that should belong to teenagers on phones(or message boards), not in a FB status, or work and personal emails, etc.

Huge one for me, I can't stand or respect someone after throwing around any form of the word "retarded" in a derogatory way.

kellyjayne · November 2013

I can't take people seriously when they use the wrong variation of too, to, two, their, there, they're...etc. Also, when someone ALWAYS refers to their significant other as "babe" or "baby"...example, "can't wait...going to pick the babe up for lunch"...or, "Missing my babe"....people have freaking names. I call my husband pet names but when speaking about him to other people, I refer to him as my husband or Adam.

KingLED · November 2013

Any variation on the word pregnant.

preggers, prego, pregly, etc

They're all awful. Add "down there" to my list, too. It annoys me most when people use this in reference to shaving. If you're going to talk about shaving your axe wound and don't want to say vulva/bikini area/some other word that is completely acceptable at least come up with something amusing.

amackattack · November 2013

When people drop the F bomb every other word, it seems to me they are trying too hard.

tbmadeamistake · November 2013

"On accident" Um, no, by mistake. Or it was AN accident. On accident means nothing. Nada.

KingLED · November 2013

Nother. Like, a whole nother story. Not a word. You made that up. Stop it.

chaysefaith · November 2013

People "minus" things, instead of "subtract" them.

Also, when people say "I resemble that!!" Instead of "I resent that." For instance "redheads are all such bitches" and then a redhead who is offended by that statement says "I resemble that!"

Seriously.

>:/

KingLED · November 2013

Oh, and prolly. Or probaly, or however you want to be wrong. It's probably.

nunzchucks · November 2013

joules235 said:

I also hate it when people type things like

I no a place u should cum 2 the store w/ me. Y not?

It's just so awful to read plus the lack of punctuation blech.

This times a million. Every time I see text speak on here, I die a little inside.

KristaU831 · November 2013

potty,

poot,

like a PP when some one says "i seen xyx",

when people mess up their/they're/there or you're/your when typing,

when they add apostrophes to things that don't need apostrophes,

when people use defiantly instead of definitely

KingLED · November 2013

People that don't know the difference between persecute and prosecute.

nunzchucks · November 2013

@joules235...got any IMPUT you want to add here? Hahahaha. Crying about the oopsie in the other thread!

KingLED · November 2013

Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How are you today? I'm having a good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fucking hell. Stop using a hundred exclamation points for every goddamn thing.

chaysefaith · November 2013

Oh oh oh!! My bf and his cousin both say "why" instead of "while." Like "I was waiting for her why she got her hair done." OMFG that sentence makes no god damn sense and they BOTH do it constantly and it makes me want to break my phone when they say it via text.

chickpea912 · November 2013

Whatnot, or other verbal crutches. One of my favorite podcasts, when it was on terrestrial radio, would hang up on callers if they said "whatnot," so it really sensitized me to that kind of crutch.

Kristalina · November 2013

I hate the phrase "same difference" it has always driven me crazy!!

babygabe614 · November 2013

Kristalina said:

I hate the phrase "same difference" it has always driven me crazy!!

^^^ Yes, this!! Does. Not. Make. Sense. AT ALL.

clee2009 · November 2013

MrsAMB07 said:

"Ginormous" and other made up/hybrid words. Also, text speak (LOL, WTF, OMG) that should belong to teenagers on phones(or message boards), not in a FB status, or work and personal emails, etc.

Huge one for me, I can't stand or respect someone after throwing around any form of the word "retarded" in a derogatory way.

Ah...my 4 year old says "ginormous" all of the time! She had to of picked it up at daycare but every time she describes something like that I laugh.

I hate when words are shortened. Particularly because/cuz. My mother of all people does it all of the time and it drives me crazy!!!

HeyAmberNicole · November 2013

I may be on my own here, and maybe this belongs on UO Thursday, but I can't stand how when people have babies, it's all baby talk.

Seriously a bottle is a bottle, not a bobby or baba. A pacifier is a pacifier, not a paci.

Then when they start talking out of their ass, I want to offer them a paci.

It annoys me to no end.

mrs_drc_rn · November 2013

I've heard use the phrase "mine as well" instead of "might as well" and it made me cringe.

I really hate the word "nom-noms." I have a guy friend who uses it frequently, along with "tummy" and some other nausea-inducing words.

I also despise the two/to/too and their/they're mix-ups.

MNOpea · November 2013

wareagle1220 said:

Oh and pacifically instead of specifically. I mean, really?

ETA: Punctuation is good! Periods, commas, and semi-colons do wonders for being able to read things more clearly.

This. I once had a boss who constantly said pacifically, I couldn't take anything she said seriously.

mrs_drc_rn · November 2013

Oh, and I really hate the "me thinks" phrase.

gmc222 · November 2013

HeyAmberNicole said:

I may be on my own here, and maybe this belongs on UO Thursday, but I can't stand how when people have babies, it's all baby talk.

Seriously a bottle is a bottle, not a bobby or baba. A pacifier is a pacifier, not a paci.

Then when they start talking out of their ass, I want to offer them a paci.

It annoys me to no end.

Ha ha, I'm guilty of this! I recently realized I do this way too much with DD, changing every word to milky, paci, time for sleepy, etc. Poor kid is going to get harrassed by her peers :-S

hjl050308 · November 2013

I can't stand when people use til instead of until. "I won't be home til 10."
Also the use of "irregardless." Makes my skin crawl.

AllyTales · November 2013

Congrads. Where is the d in congratulations? Congrads on your pregnancy! No.

"Welp, I just got home from the store..."

And mines. "I got mines check in the mail today" .. uhh..

gmc222 · November 2013

My mom has terrible grammar and it drives me insane. For example....

"I'm going to the store to get a couple-a-three apples". Um, a couple = 2, not 3.

Calls pumpkins "punkins"

Adds an 's' to all stores. ex. "I'm going to Walmarts to get groceries"

Pintobean39 · November 2013

Is fixing ok? Lol

christinemurray91 · November 2013

Its actually not a kiddy word, but it always makes me re-think everything about them when they say "rubbish".

My FIL said it the other day, I love him, he's a great guy, and all I heard from that work on was "rubbish... rubbish... rubbish" lol, its just a really weird word for anyone to say imo.

AllyTales · November 2013

Pintobean39 said:

Is fixing ok? Lol

Like I'm fixing to go to the store later?

We don't use that here, so when someone says it I'm like.. huh? haha.. but I think that's more of a regional word, not something that's "wrong". A lot of my friends from Texas use that.

christinemurray91 · November 2013

or "lololololol!!!!!!"

My mom uses that all the time online, and it kills me. "Mom, that doesn't mean that you're laughing really hard. It means you are laughing out loud out loud out loud out loud..."

babygabe614 · November 2013

Ditto on hating "mines" and "irregardless"!

chaysefaith · November 2013

gmc222 said:
My mom has terrible grammar and it drives me insane. For example....

"I'm going to the store to get a couple-a-three apples". Um, a couple = 2, not 3.

Is your mom from Chicago?

Pintobean39 · November 2013

AllyTales said:

Pintobean39 said:

Is fixing ok? Lol

Like I'm fixing to go to the store later?

We don't use that here, so when someone says it I'm like.. huh? haha.. but I think that's more of a regional word, not something that's "wrong". A lot of my friends from Texas use that.

Yes I'm fixing to go make groceries. Lol

One night on chat in TTGP I said "fixing to do something" everyone knew immediately I was from the south. We have our own language.

tbmadeamistake · November 2013

christinemurray91 said:

Its actually not a kiddy word, but it always makes me re-think everything about them when they say "rubbish".

My FIL said it the other day, I love him, he's a great guy, and all I heard from that work on was "rubbish... rubbish... rubbish" lol, its just a really weird word for anyone to say imo.

In England, rubbish is a legitimate word that means trash. I am fine when people using it correctly. I am not fine when people over here use it for anything other than a reference to actual trash.

My other one is "mute point". Nope, it's moot point. Or, I had a college roommate who used to say "play it by year". It's play it by EAR. EAR. I hate when people mess up well known idioms/adages/whatever the hell those up there are.

AllyTales · November 2013

Pintobean39 said:

Pintobean39 said:

Is fixing ok? Lol

Like I'm fixing to go to the store later?

We don't use that here, so when someone says it I'm like.. huh? haha.. but I think that's more of a regional word, not something that's "wrong". A lot of my friends from Texas use that.
Yes I'm fixing to go make groceries. Lol One night on chat in TTGP I said "fixing to do something" everyone knew immediately I was from the south. We have our own language.

Yup, I would totally assume you were from the south too

KeyLime81 · November 2013

You ladies have pretty much covered it. The biggest ones for me are "I seen it", irregardless, and nother, and all the cutesy pregnancy words.

Also, around here (west MI), a lot of people say dates wrong. I always learned to say dates with ordinal numbers (Example: His birthday is December first. The concert is on November tenth.) Around here, they say "His birthday is December one." Drives me crazy.

I do have to admit, that since DS started talking more, I am guilty of saying "bye bye." I think I censor myself pretty well, but that's the one phrase that always gets out.

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