What word or words do you totally hate?

[tara]

And please explain why.
My answer:
"my pals"
It is one of the most vile, disgusting words ever and when I hear someone refer to an African American as such, I'd like to knock their teeth out with a shovel.

 

[Rusty]

I generally hate it when people use phrases that don't make sense, or mean something other than they were intended to mean. Double-negatives are perhaps the prime example of this. Also phrases like "I could care less".

 

[Henrik Main]

I agree with you there! But lots of coloured people call each other "my pals", in a rather ironic way I guess, but still. There are other words I dislike too, but they're Norwegian, so you wouldn't understand that much I guess

 

[tara]

I agree with you there! But lots of coloured people call each other "my pals", in a rather ironic way I guess, but still. There are other words I dislike too, but they're Norwegian, so you wouldn't understand that much I guess

Tell me!
I want to learn some naughty Norwegian words to impress friends and family members.

 

[Rusty]

Du er søt.

About the only Norweigan I know.

 

[Lamia The Great]

I don't like racial or ethnic slurs either, absolutely useless and pathetic words. blech.

I can't stand when people say 'it's all good'. That drives up up the freakin wall! It's one of those meaningless phrases that just reminds me of stupid people where I work and I want to smack em in the head.

I also can't stand blatant mispronunciations of words, that drives me bonkers, such as the classic nucular, which seems to be ok now. meh. Makes me wanna hurl!

 

[mourningstar]

in general, i find it annoying when people use some word clearly thinking they mean something else.
but i can't think of any words i particularly dislike, at the moment. i think me not liking a word depends mainly on the context it's used in, by whom, and so on.

Double-negatives are perhaps the prime example of this.

care to know in italian we're allowed to use those?

 

[Rusty]

in general, i find it annoying when people use some word clearly thinking they mean something else.
but i can't think of any words i particularly dislike, at the moment. i think me not liking a word depends mainly on the context it's used in, by whom, and so on.




care to know in italian we're allowed to use those?

Yes, please tell. [edit]By 'tell' I mean 'explain why'. [/edit]

I also hate it when people are telling a story or something, and they'll say "and I was like 'how are you??' and she was like 'okay'...". I really can't stand the "I was like" thing.

 

[mourningstar]

warning: highly boring post.

Yes, please tell. [edit]By 'tell' I mean 'explain why'. [/edit]

i'm not really the best person to ask, i wouldn't be able to find a precise rule or something, but for sure to use the double negative in italian isn't a mistake.

uh, i'm just reading somewhere a sort of "explanation": in english negatives get counted, and so they cancel each other out, while in italian, spanish and other latin-based languages it's different, so you can have two without turning the sentence into a positive one. to say, in italy - x - equals -

i remember once i was looking for some info about that online, and i was linked to a page with an online test for students of italian, and in a section there were some questions to which you had to answer with a double negative.
*finds that page again*
for example, some of the answers - that are perfectly correct in italian - would translate to:
- no, i didn't eat nothing;
- no, i haven't called noone;
- no, carl hasn't never visited chicago.

I also hate it when people are telling a story or something, and they'll say "and I was like 'how are you??' and she was like 'okay'...". I really can't stand the "I was like" thing.

so you might want to read the lyrics of this song:
http://www.toplyrics.net/show.php?l=1824

 

[nØthing]

I don't mind ethnic slurs that much on the count that I find them so idiotic and ignorant that it's funny. I mean, defaming another's ethnicity isn't funny, just the fact that people would use it as an insult when their race is just as bad.

 

[Over Broen]

i hate meh it makes you look like your too stupid to take a side and indiffrence save in a very few cases is mainly bullshit. i also dont like fhqwgads.

 

[Henrik Main]

Tell me!
I want to learn some naughty Norwegian words to impress friends and family members.

Sure, any particular words you want to learn?

Du er søt. About the only Norweigan I know.

Yes, Tara er søt Can't deny that

 

[Wandrail]

I dislike urban lingo mostly, but especially when used by suburban white kids. I've actually been called 'nigga' by a black guy before. I didn't know if that was a compliment or what. Harhar.

 

[Steve]

I hate racial slurs and "elite" dialogues, such as urban slang and "1337 5P34K" (lamespeak)

Steve

 

[nØthing]

stfu n00b i r teh 1337 h4xx0r!!1!!

pwn3d!

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

[Esteban]

I don't like racial or ethnic slurs either, absolutely useless and pathetic words. blech.

Agree with that one. I also hate when people talk mixing languages.

 

[ginkgothian]

I think "hrhr" is pretty annoying...

 

[Profanity]

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[tara]

stfu n00b i r teh 1337 h4xx0r!!1!!

pwn3d!

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

That's annoying but funny
I really can't stand it when people type "ur" instead of "you're" or "your" or "sux" instead of "sucks".

 

[xenophobe]

Racial slurs are funny, but only when used humorously and out of context....

I don't particularly dislike any words that I can think of...

What really bugs me is people speaking Ebonics, and peopel who talk in monotones... That's really disturbing.