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i often read "actually" as the articulation of a change of mind. it gets used as an oppositional word, for use in corrections, suggestions and asks.
my favourite deployment comes in the form of a strained, hysterical validation of fact. "i'm actually starving" "you're actually annoying me now". it should carry the same hellish annoyance of "literally", but for some reason i just love it.

night mode (margins), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link

lol i had been assuming that "vale" was as in "vale of tears"

max, Friday, 25 March 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link

My basic college Latin makes me want to start "vale" with a W.

go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link

Words don't annoy me NEARLY as much as usages. "Simplistic" is a perfectly good word with a perfectly useful meaning. Substituting it for "simple" is where it all goes wrong.

go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Friday, 25 March 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm with cherry blossom on "Beats". Awful word, unless its used to describe, literally, plural instances of a beat. People describing any form of instrumental dance music as "beats", (i.e. "what are you listening to?" "oh, just beats" - or worse "dope beats") has ruined it for me.

EDB, Friday, 25 March 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link

Also, being in serious writing mode right now, my hatred of, but inability to avoid using, "indeed" has flared up.

EDB, Friday, 25 March 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link

inbeats

who is john nult? (dayo), Friday, 25 March 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2742334151_3223f216f4.jpg

"what are you listening to?" "oh, just beats"

ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 25 March 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link

ha, speaking of which:

http://i54.tinypic.com/154kgo7.png

corey, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link

obv he gets a pass because he's Carl fucking Craig

corey, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link

ok, serious laughs at "what are you listening to?" "oh, just beats"

EDB, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link

I mean, the kerouac picture.

EDB, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link

preggers, preggers, preggers

frogbs, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Ha. I once formed what, for me, would be the most annoying sentence ever. It was something to the effect of: "Hubbers got his wifey preggers with a stinky baby".

Just typing that makes me want to go wash my hands.

EDB, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link

ew

corey, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link

xp - what about "hubster"?

sarahel, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Dope as in it's very cool. I wish dope still only meant heroin.

JacobSanders, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link

I like this usage of dope, 1. a varnish applied to the fabric surface of model aircraft to strengthen them and keep them airtight.
-a thick liquid used as a lubricant.

JacobSanders, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link

I think it's probably the fumes from that usage that led to the druggy one!

go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link

I mean airplane glue, that's like synonymous with huffing, isn't it?

go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Ha! I never really thought you could get high from glue, just a headache? My grandmother has told me for many years, "As long are you aren't smoking that Dope!" I have no idea if she differentiates between any drugs in her mind, I think it's all just dope.

JacobSanders, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Yes, "dope" has bothered me for years. If nothing else it feel very dated at this point.

(see above post about "dope beats". Also see other usages of "dopeness".)

EDB, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't know about high, but I do love the smell of solvents. I think part of the feeling you're supposed to get from them is simple oxygen deprivation?? Which somehow sounds more stupid and dangerous than all the other really dangerous drugs out there.

go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Saturday, 26 March 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link

story about when they took their friend to a moodymann show and she stayed for about a minute and then turned round with a disgusted look and said "beats" in a contemptuous way and I always hear 'beats' that way now

ha ha im with you on this. there are exceptions but 'beats' is mostly used by the music-as-art types of the dance world and urrgh

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link

many many americaniSations fuck me off, but there's a special place in my gut for broil. such an ugly and part-confusing word, makes me think of boiling an old grey gran bra in a big pot with some overdone brocolli, and you stick your food in that - that's broiling.

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link

"Hey Abe, I've invented a new way of cooking."
"What, is it like submerging a piece of food in boiling water?"
"No no, nothing like that, this involves external heat from above."
"Oh ok, nothing like boiling then?"
"Nope, nothing like that. What shall we call this technique?"
"Hmm, how's about BROIL, that won't be confusing at all."
"WINNER"

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link

It's like saying I'm going for a WRALK when I'm actually going hangliding.

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link

@JacobSaunders & Laurel - you can definitely get high off of certain types of strong glue, for example the stuff they use to put rearview mirrors back on cars in auto body shops. It's definitely stupid and dangerous.

kkvgz, Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link

"many many americaniSations fuck me off"

Yeah, man-we're not too happy about your perversions of the language either, i dont care that you invented it. Go stick that lorry up your ass.

Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link

^ irony

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link

tee hee

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link

FLAVORFUL

Reminds me of this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-grandmother-tries-indian-food,2472/
but it annoyed me even before that.

Not the real Village People, Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link

definitely, that and 'cooked to perfection'. who judges perfection? you? YOUR magical lofty tastebuds? get to fuck

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Etymology of "broil"

From Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”) and Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of Old French bruir (“to burn”), of Germanic origin; and Old French usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulāre (“to scorch”).

nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link

"galore"

corey, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link

galoshes
panties
smorgasbord
cum

Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost aha so it was our fault after all! yup us guys came up with right shite back then, "ben borenn i þiss middellærd" and all that.. surely only a nation of numbnuts would hear that sort of tat and think 'ooh nice, lets keep this one'!

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link

obvious i know, but any true list of annoying words wouldn't be complete without:

eggplant
zucchini
'erbs

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link

'ERBS

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link

punishable by death imo

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link

what's the reasoning behind dropping that H? i understand herb is a more common guy's name in america but jimmy doesn't seem to have a problem with it, what's herbs big problem

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link

some people like to grow 'erbs indoors.

estela, Friday, 1 April 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link

haw

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 April 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link

The English like to Anglicize words, so they added the "h" sound back into it after borrowing it from the French. See also: fillet. Talk about an obnoxious word: "fillet" as pronounced by the English is grating.

nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn9Wcy88Np4

NI, Friday, 1 April 2011 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link

'webinar'

did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Friday, 1 April 2011 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link

'wankinar' morelike

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 April 2011 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link

christ, I've taken so many webinars in the last two years that it dowsn't even phase me anymore. I need a new job.

kkvgz, Friday, 1 April 2011 10:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Any corporation that brags about its "core competencies" is always incompetent. If they weren't so boneheadedly incompetent, they'd speak of their "strengths", not something as ingratiating and obfuscating as "core competencies".

Lee626, Friday, 1 April 2011 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link

The English like to Anglicize words, so they added the "h" sound back into it after borrowing it from the French. See also: fillet. Talk about an obnoxious word: "fillet" as pronounced by the English is grating.

― nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 01:29 (14 hours ago) Bookmark

Wait, what? As in US = "feelay" and UK = "fill it"?

ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link


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