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08 Apr 2012, 9:17 pm

Do some words/phrases make you cringe?

Yeah.

You know when i was growing up and you were in someones way, People simply said, "Excuse me" or "Please, excuse me". Unfortunately, as time passed, a pleasant excuse me has turned in to an intentionally rude excuse YOU.

Ridiculous.


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08 Apr 2012, 10:32 pm

For some reason, the name "Fletcher" really irks me... I don't know why but I cringe whenever I hear it. Also, the word "gab", as in talking rapidly.. the word just annoys me.

I agree with those who say "could care less" annoys them... it's COULDN'T care less!!

Any homophobic, sexist, or racist language.



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09 Apr 2012, 12:58 am

Yes.

Hubby, DD, and other obnoxious abbreviations.

Kissing... the sight and sound of it makes me want to punch a baby.*
(* No babies were harmed in the making of this sentence. Obviously, not a baby... just a wall. Ok, not even a wall, but it does piss me off.)

Words that are too pronounced or staged, such as this girl at the store who was on the phone (or pretending to be). She cursed every few sentences, and it sounded super fake. She just wanted to be profane. I don't mind an occasional profane word, but too much profanity, or when it's staged/forced/not natural, it irritates me.

Sarcasm out of hate or spite.

TTYL, HAGS, and other yearbook crap of the 90s.

Anything on Fox News. :D (Ok, I'm joking. Sort of.)



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09 Apr 2012, 12:06 pm

Vulgar words make me cringe, like the F word, and God Damn and others too. I cant even type them.
Also abbreviations such as telly, brolly,hubby, they are pathetic and ridiculous.



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09 Apr 2012, 12:34 pm

Oh, and slang words for pregnancy annoy me. Why is it that when it comes to women, people have to invent nicknames for everything?...


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09 Apr 2012, 1:00 pm

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Oh, and slang words for pregnancy annoy me. Why is it that when it comes to women, people have to invent nicknames for everything?...

same here, they are so tacky, they are often used by crap newspapers, like "Victoria took her baby bump for a walk today" and so on. disgusting. lol



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09 Apr 2012, 1:04 pm

Slang words for genitalia and sexual things.
"Should of" < I could go on a homocidal rampage over this, I think.
Poor subject-verb agreement.


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09 Apr 2012, 1:28 pm

"An historic" instead of "a historic."

"Each one more ____ than the next" instead of "each one more ____ than the last."

"I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less."

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09 Apr 2012, 2:06 pm

Jory wrote:
"An historic" instead of "a historic."

"Each one more ____ than the next" instead of "each one more ____ than the last."

"I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less."

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09 Apr 2012, 3:41 pm

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I am also bugged by the phrase "I could care less".
Also "irregardless". I can't concentrate when someone says that word; my mind wants to disregard everything they're saying.

I am, on the other hand, very fond of the word "cake", and I swear it's not just because I like cake! I like to say the word and hear it. I like the "k" sounds at each end.
Also, whenever I hear someone on television say a word that isn't often used, I get all happy and point it out to my spouse. Sometimes it gets me thinking about the meaning and origin of the word, and I miss what's going on in the story for a minute. :D


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"I could care less" is irritating because the speaker means "i could NOT care less".
If you COULD care less, then you must care alot!
And "irregardless" is redundant.It should be "regardless".

Cake is fine.
In fact I think we all should celebrate the birthday of George W. Bush every year by serving yellow cake!



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09 Apr 2012, 3:44 pm

ValentineWiggin wrote:
"Should of" < I could go on a homocidal rampage over this, I think.
Gah. You certainly wouldn't be alone. :evil:
I received a letter from a very large company which began "You should of received our ..." - and it got worse, so I wrote a two-page rant in reply.


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09 Apr 2012, 3:51 pm

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09 Apr 2012, 6:42 pm

When people use the phrase: "in the last year", to refer to something that happened during the past year. I always hear "the last year" as "the year before the end of the universe" :? :oops:



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09 Apr 2012, 6:48 pm

should of, could of, I could care less. Don't understand the last one at all - couldn't care less, yes, I understand that.



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09 Apr 2012, 7:54 pm

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One of the things that makes me cringe is when people I don't know say "How are you?". It's a rhetorical question, the answer is good or fine. Why ask if you don't want to know!?!?
95% of the time they don't particularly care anyway.I never could do the small talk thing.



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10 Apr 2012, 12:11 am

the formal word for a person who has aspergers "Aspergian" it really makes me cringe i hate the sound of it, even saying it hurts.