Made-Up Words that Annoy the Crap Out of You

[Rowsdower!]

I think we all have accidentally merged a couple of words here and there. That's normal and not something really worth making fun of (most of the time). However, if there's one thing I can't stand, it's when people make up some idiotic word, derived from one or two other words just because they think it sounds cute and clever.

For example, I want to shoot myself whenever I heard someone use the term, "preggers." Seriously, is it that f**king hard to just say "pregnant?" Where the hell did this bullsh** word come from and why has it caught on? I blame Entertainment Tonight.

Another one: "Vay-cay" (or however you spell this idiotic abbreviation for the word vacation)... I think this one is expecially grating because its seems that the majority of people who use it are the ones who are fortunate enough to take frequent vacations, while the rest of us are stuck working our asses off day-in and day-out.

Also... "ginormous." And this one is in the dictionary now! This is a word derived from "giant" and "enormous." Two words that essentially mean the same thing. So why combine them? Can you imagine if we did this with everything? "Damn, looks like my motorengine is acting up... better go take my cartomobile down to the garagepairshop and have a mechnician take lookstare at it."

 

[Prison Mike]

When people say "my bad". I can almost understand teenagers saying it. They're stupid so that's their excuse. Adults, however, I can not forgive. You should all be ashamed of yourselves!

 

[Rowsdower!]

Haha, good one. That annoys me too.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

"Damn, looks like my motorengine is acting up... better go take my cartomobile down to the garagepairshop and have a mechnician take lookstare at it."

But...that is the most interesting sentence in your post, lol.
Seriously though, those are old slang, preggers? that was around back when i was at school. Slang will always exist, people will always play with language.

Have you ever read the book Trainspotting? It is a work of great literature, well, it will go down in history in time as that I imagine, but it is full of Scottish slang and colloquialisms, and it all reads beautifully.
The thing is, that sentence you just typed upo, no-one would ever talk like that because it is too convoluted. Slang is about expressing words in nice, easy packages. You are tlaking like, and perhaps assuming the people who use slang like that are idiots, they are not, they would not hit out with such silly sentences as the one you just did. I think it's yourself that's being silly about it all tbh, i mean, where have you been living? on a desert island? people have been talking in slang , like forever and a day my man.

 

[Immortalfire]

Just about all of them.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

When people say "my bad". I can almost understand teenagers saying it. They're stupid so that's their excuse. Adults, however, I can not forgive. You should all be ashamed of yourselves!

That is very different from what he is talking about in the op though, that is a jokey turn of phrase. Those types of things end up getting overused to the point where they are not funny anymore, or else, they can get so unfunny, that they go right back to being funny, in a different way, so annoying it's good kind of thing.

I know what you mean, i read of people saying they hate the character in TDK, the van cop, who says, 'that's not good'(which is the companion piece to 'my bad' I think), but to me, that is kind of a funny thing to get mad about. So i like it when he says it now, lol. A real cop would be swearing his ass off in that scene, and they can't have that in a kid's film like Batman, so, whatyagonnado, try and make it funny for the kids, yeah, just go that way, what is the problem with that?

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

meecrob

 

[Rowsdower!]

But...that is the most interesting sentence in your post, lol.
Seriously though, those are old slang, preggers? that was around back when i was at school. Slang will always exist, people will always play with language.

Have you ever read the book Trainspotting? It is a work of great literature, well, it will go down in history in time as that I imagine, but it is full of Scottish slang and colloquialisms, and it all reads beautifully.
The thing is, that sentence you just typed upo, no-one would ever talk like that because it is too convoluted. Slang is about expressing words in nice, easy packages. You are tlaking like, and perhaps assuming the people who use slang like that are idiots, they are not, they would not hit out with such silly sentences as the one you just did. I think it's yourself that's being silly about it all tbh, i mean, where have you been living? on a desert island? people have been talking in slang , like forever and a day my man.

Well, I'm not sure how old preggers is, but I've only really noticed it catching on over the past decade or so. And yes, I've read Trainspotting and there is quite a bit of slang there. And it's true, slang can involve made up words, but it doesn't necessarily have to. There are plenty of slang terms that don't involve made-up words. As for assuming that people who use these pseudo-words are idiots... well, I would argue that at least a few of them are, though obviously not all of them. But as I mentioned with the ginormous example, if you keep repeating something stupid, it will eventually become accepted and will wind up in a dictionary, despite not being a word. You could say that's just slang becoming mainstream, but I don't know that we need to accept all forms of worthless words just because people keep repeating them. Because with the decline of good education, at least in the U.S., people are going to start thinking that these words are the proper terms.

 

[Rowsdower!]

meecrob

Not familiar with that one... what does it mean?

 

[Hurm...]

My nephew made up the word "bane." It means to bone (someone), but it is the past tense of it. It can apparently be used as a noun also. So for example...

Verb: "A few years ago, I baned this hot female named Emma!"
Noun: "Damn. That is one hot piece of bane!"

I got a good chuckle from it at first, but now it pisses me the f*** off

 

[Speedball]

but... "boned" is the past tense of bone... WTF?!
You could say you'll bane them if they keep saying it, then tell them it actually means to break someones spine with the knee, Batman included.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Any text or internet word.


O M G. Or W T F. Anything that's lazy. We have contractions. Use those.


I really hate when I'm playing a multiplayer game and everyone is speaking in text messages. It's like the goddamn New York Stock Exchange in there.


Just tell me what ****ing dungeon you want to adventure in and what ****ing class you're looking for!!!

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

My nephew made up the word "bane." It means to bone (someone), but it is the past tense of it. It can apparently be used as a noun also. So for example...

Verb: "A few years ago, I baned this hot female named Emma!"
Noun: "Damn. That is one hot piece of bane!"

I got a good chuckle from it at first, but now it pisses me the f*** off

Yeah, dude, i'm going to be slightly serious with you here, you sound like an angry guy, watch yourself with that. You could develop stuff within yourself that you might not like, and then wonder where it came from.

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, and eat, not smoke, eat marajuana every day, by melting it into yogurts. I was as depressed as you can get as i felt i was the ugliest man in the world cause i had a massive broken nose. I experienced tinnitus and a beeathing dysfunction like asthma that almost killed me too during this time. I cut myself off from any chance of having relaetionships in my life and as a result ended up with all sorts of crazy **** going on in my head as a result. When i was around people, i was ok, a good friend actually, i had lots of good friends, but i was very mentally ill, and it was only because i was v intelligent that i was able to hide it for the most part from them. That was because even though i had crazy **** in my head sometimes, it never ever entered my thought processes when i was outside interacting with the world. So it was very easy to get rid of all that mentally ill junk when i got better with the addictions.

but you sound like you have a lot of anger and could well take that out on strangers, i don't know what your story is man, but you should be careful with your emotions and mind. It can slip away from you before you know it, and in a very short space of time too.
Like yesterday, you seemed to lack some empathy when you went into the relationship thread and made a very inappropriate joke at the expense of someone's sensitive problems. Dude, i am not trying to call you out on that again, you did delete it when i did yesterday, so no harm done, but i get the sense you carry a lot of anger in you, and i don't want you to end up the way i did years ago.
Believe it or not.

 

[Schlosser85]

Based on your posts here I find it a little hard to believe that you were very good at hiding being mentally ill from people.

 

[Hurm...]

I'm not going to even reply to that.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Based on your posts here I find it a little hard to believe that you were very good at hiding being mentally ill from people.

No, you are right Schlosser, the people i was around a lot, my bandmates for instance, knew i had a lot of problems, as i would drink a lot b4 i got onstage, mess up important things, like a live radio performance(v embarressing), but a lot of other people who i only saw now and again, no, they had n v little idea i was so messed up. Same with my family, i coul dhide it from them.

anyway, hope i was not out of line there Hurm, i just had to go with my instincts there, i don't want to have a constant running battle with you on the boards because i called you out on that thing yesterday. and i would hope you wouldn't either, becasue it might just wind you up too much, all the time, trust me, i know, iand i do not want that, i am not the kind of person who wants to go around trying to do people's heads in, and i'm sure at heart neither are you. I am cool as a cucumber now i hav e sorted out some poisioning problems. nothing will get to me. Try to be calm, we might not all get on and like each other, but we can live alongside each other without harbouring grudges or having seething feelings towartds each other, yes, i am an old hippy at heart.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I'm not going to even reply to that.

Well, i think it would be in the best interests of your mental health to read the post i did after it, because I am not going to indulge you in a running battle, nor do i want you seething with hate every time you come on the boards and i am here, because i am going to be here a very long time.

 

[Immortalfire]

My nephew made up the word "bane." It means to bone (someone), but it is the past tense of it. It can apparently be used as a noun also. So for example...

Verb: "A few years ago, I baned this hot female named Emma!"
Noun: "Damn. That is one hot piece of bane!"

I got a good chuckle from it at first, but now it pisses me the f*** off

Does he not know that "bane" is already a word, and thus already has a meaning?

 

[Hurm...]

Does he not know that "bane" is already a word, and thus already has a meaning?

Lol apparently not.

P.S. Thebumwhowalks, I am not an angry person, I am just a person who may curse a bit too much haha. So I'm working on that, and I apologize if I offend you. My mental health is fine.

 

[piccolo]

75% of any text messages from a woman.

 

[Harls]

but... "boned" is the past tense of bone... WTF?!
You could say you'll bane them if they keep saying it, then tell them it actually means to break someones spine with the knee, Batman included.

Nice.

Hmm, a lot of people are going to disagree with me here and it's not a slang word, but the words "a lot" often get written as "alot," which is not a word & annoys me to no end.

Again, not really a word but it also annoys me when people write or type a Q in place of a G. For example, "The qoose took a qander at the qiant, flyinq qoats."

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

P.S. Thebumwhowalks, I am not an angry person, I am just a person who may curse a bit too much haha. So I'm working on that, and I apologize if I offend you.

Ok man, I thought i might have been going overboard with the psychoanalysis in that first post, so please excuse by armchair shrink bs. Although i have had some lucky hits with that crap in the past. But yeah, I just don't wany any probs between us cause of yesterday and whatnot, ok man, thanks for replying.

 

[AndThePickles]

75% of any text messages from a woman.

Explain

 

[SuperFerret]

Women are annoying, duh.



Men too. Of which, I am a prime example.


And technically, all words are made up.

 

[Assassin32]

Preggers is an awesome word.