Sayings or Slang that you love/ or cringe when heard
 

The recent things that bring you joy or annoy you inspired me to start this thread. Is there a saying or slang term that when you hear it cracks you up or worse makes you want to slap someone? I have a teenager so naturally I have both.

Love it: When people say OMG instead of actually saying Oh my God. I am very guilty of doing this.

Hate it: When people say, "That's retarded", or when I hear teen-agers say, "You feel me" instead of "Do you understand what I am saying"

When people add "at" at the end of a question. "Where you at?" "Where did you park your car at?"

Loathe "hella". "That's hella cool!"

Love the word "stacked"...when used to describe pancakes. As in "Those pancakes are stacked!"

I personally use "WTF Mate" in an Australian accent. Picked up from here long time ago.

I hate it when anyone says "ew" in any capacity. I also hate when people don't use real swear words, or over use swear words: "Frickin A!" or "I just fucking took my goddamn fucking book back to the shitty fucking poor ass library".

I love it when people but man in front of words. My girlfriend teases me about my "man-dates" or when I went on a weekend trip with my best friend and how it was a "man-cation". I read a great line in Spin Magazine where it said "We hate things like mantastic and man-date, they're driving us man-nannas!". Funny. Oh, and "word" but only used in a satirical, ironic, "I'm too nerdy to say this" kind of way.

"You feel me" is annoying. How about "You know what I'm sayin'".

Cringe: "Y'all", "Sup", "Nigger", "Shake the spot", "Dubs"
Enjoy: "Hateraid", "Shittles"

When someone says "LOL". I want to kill them the second it comes out of their mouths. Also, when someone calls me "dawg". It just annoys me.

And willravel, you would hate me and everyone I know. Down south, we say "y'all" constantly. We don't mean to, it just happens. I sometimes cringe when I hear myself say it.

Love it: Double positives applied in jest, such as "wicked awesome."

Hate it: Useless ambiguous terms applied seriously, such as "going forward."

Yes, completely agree with that and why do they say it after every sentence?

Hate: LOL, Hella, and that "You feel me?" that seems so overused

Love: craptacular, shittastic, etc.

It's nothing personal but the South and I don't get along. Cept Miami and New Orleans.

When people sound like a text message, murderous thoughts do cross my mind.

absolutely positively hate: Get r done and anyone that actually talks in text or net speak

I cant think of anything I just love to hear off the top of my head

Americans who say "I could care less" when what they really mean is the British phrase "I couldn't care less".

The US phrase makes no bloody sense: if you COULD care less, then you care above the minimum, therefore it matters.

I over-think these things, I suspect.

In Utah (which has a linguistic morphology all its own), that phrase has devolved to an expression that sounds like "Yohm-sayin?" Those of us who finished high school frequently use that phrase in jest, and I love it when used like that, and I cringe when I hear it said unironically.

24/7.....loathe...despise...shudder...

Love: "I can has ... ?" Lurkette talks like a lolcat and I love it. It helps that she's damn adorable.

Hate: Around here, people don't "get ready to" do something. They're "fixin' to", unless you're my coworker who says "Fi-in ah." Hate that.

Hate: "I feel you," OMG, LOL, dawg, any slang coined in malls or at rap parties.
Love: hella (picked it up in Northern California at the turn of the 90s), way, mondo, stoner slang, surfer slang, and anything coined by Joss Whedon.

You learn to love it ;)

Hate: Anything with an "izzle" stuck on....
Using "gay", "retarded", etc., in putdowns.

There's no phrases or slang I "love"...plenty I use out of habit that annoy myself.

Our new boss uses many variations of "....as we go down the path..." to discuss projects. I don't really mind the expression so much, but he uses it constantly. It's getting to the point where it's hard to keep a straight face when I hear it.

I hate that staple of reality show competitions: "You need to step up..."

I know what you mean. I'm always tempted to ask, ":confused: Do you mean gay good, or gay bad?"

Let's not leave out: "I'm going to take it to the next level!"

I strongly dislike "oh my god". To me it reeks of cheap US soaps/sitcoms - and teenage melodrama. So it's two things eh, xenophobia as well as a dislike of teens.

The other one that bugs me is overuse of "actually".

Actually is used as a filler in the same was as (teenage version of ) "like". However for some reason, it comes across as classier or as being meaningful. Yet if your write the speech down and remove all the actuallys, it has the same meaning. Usually.

I remember some classes with a British IT instructor who used it in almost every sentence. She'd stress it very carefully. It was more like "UC-tu-ally". As in, "you will UC-tu-ally find...".

Hmmm ... I always thought that you and I got along fairly well.

:)

Let's see ... I dislike most catch phrases from popular mainstream culture: "booyah" ... "bam" ... "take it up another notch" ... "hasta la vista, baby."

I dislike business speak: "paradigm shift" ... "think outside the box".

My favorite phrase: "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." I use it all the time.

Ooooh and giving 110%. That last 10% sets my teeth on edge.

Using "gay" is a bit unfair if you ask me.

When I hear that - I like the thought of the person using it one day in front of the wrong person, in the wrong place.

But that's just me being nasty. I'm not sure why this term is considered an acceptable put-down among kids (er, "younger people").

It's always the Brooklynites that add "no" to any regular sentence as if it were in proper question asking form. As if that stereotypical accent isn't bad enough.

"You said you wanted pizza, no?"
"You like my new fucking haircut, no?"

Ughh.

I HATE people who like, use like, in like every sentence they can do. I mean, it's like they can't, like, think of what they're saying in time. So like, they use like as a pause in the sentence so like, they can catch up with their like, words.

"Oh my god, I like, actually, really, think I just broke my nail"

Are there some fillers that I'm missing?

How about "on time and under budget".

Ok... this is not normal street talk (it's corporate speak).

But it seems to me that the phrase is most commonly used by young first time managers (or politicians) who have greatly simplified and maybe spun the story.

I hate hearing people say " huh ". Of course I say it all the time but I don't hear myself saying it until a Canuck points it out to me.

I love to hear them say " eh ".

As far as I'm concerned, Brooklyn accents, Jersey accents, and heavy Southern (redneck) accents have transcended accent territory and developed into full-blown speech impediments.

There aren't a whole lot of things that make me cringe, but most Internet catchphrases bother me, and I want to strangle most people who think it's hilarious to endlessly quote shows like Family Guy and South Park. Speaking of South Park, the first time I heard someone use "tits" as a synonym for "awesome" was Cartman on South Park, and it's the most irritating slang I can think of off the top of my head.
They could care less, but it's not even worth the effort to do that much.

Yes, you are over thinking that.

I couldn't care less is a fine phrase. "How could I care less?" Yours works just as well.

Now go smelt me some aluminium.

Only one that makes me cringe every time is "Can I ax you sumpin?"

I'm always calling my co-workers "dawg" just because it sound so silly.

I am attempting to re-introduce the word 'dig' into popular culture. I think it's a shame that it fell out of popular use.

So far it's not going well. I need to get someone famous using it.

Describing something as 'sick' or 'rude' when you mean to say that it's good always struck me as odd.

Don't worry, my super grammar ninjas and I are out to teach those bastards proper English.

Can you find all their u's while you're at it?

'Twill take my best man, but it shall be done.

While you're at it, keep an eye out for their L's, too.

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Just thought of one I hate: "[Blank] is the new [blank]." :mad: Enough, already!

I like tits. As in, this is totally fucking tits. I also like slang from ten or twenty years ago. Also, finna, as in I'm finna go take a shower. I like things that both sound dumb and annoy people who get annoyed by dumb slang. A lot of my choice words have made it onto shitlists in this thread.

Lik, totally, dude!

I actually like this one for it's fortune cookie perfection. You can fill in the blanks with whatever you want and say something that sounds meaningful, but is really just white noise. Consider:

Coke is the new Pepsi
Sex is the new television
Sony is the new harmonic
Soldering is the new leather
Contestants are the new cars

St:mad:p it, st:mad:p it, st:mad:p it!

Martian is the new Baraka_Guru!

:thumbsup:

You're right, that does sound cool!

tee hee, I have teenage nieces who kinda worship me. They tend to call and tell me about their lives constantly and every other word out of their mouths is either "like" or "um". Drives me insane!

I remembered another one: I love it when slang comes out of the mouths of people you would least expect it to. Like the lawyer and Pres/CEO of my last jobs who used to say in meeting; "Just looking out for my peeps".....still makes me smile.

Martian - I use 'dig' all the time however I'm not really that cool...

There's not so much a "Jersey" accent as a regionally influenced one depending on what part of NJ you're in.
I am from South Jersey-speech influence is from Philadelphia, in my opinion THE WORST accent outside of maybe Buffalo.
Those from the North and Central parts of NJ are influenced by New York. A Manhattan accent is not the same as a Brooklyn or Bronx accent; someone from one borough can discern another's locale by accent. Same with the south-the accents, while sounding the same somewhat, have regional nuances that, if you listen, can be easily discernable and with practice, guessed pretty correctly. They're not necessarily by state-regions cross state lines, but a person from, say Charlotte, NC does not sound the same as someone from Birmingham, AL but very similar to someone from Lynchburg, VA. They also don't use the same phrases.
"Might could" I hear from GA., never from NC. ( as in, "Could you stop by Saturday?" "I might could find the time.")

yeah filther i like tits too. tits are totally tits man. i also like it when the local clorox girls say "ohmygahhh!" it just wouldnt sound right coming out of my mouth.

i also like "thats camping." when something is intense.
yeah play on words that cracks my stoner ass up everytime. i also like when people sneak the word "neat" in at appropriate times. its not slang but i still dig it.

i need to avoid norcal because "hella," hella pisses me off! along with:
Skeet
drop it likes its hot
bootylicious
da bomb (thank fucking god thats dead)

Yeah, it's now "off the chain" or "off the hook."

My FIL has a phrase that just pisses me off...."Time heals all wounds."

Yeah, I'm sure it does, but he often applies it to situations where the context doesn't make any sense.

I am not sure why this bothers me...or if it even truly does....
I question it though..this term,


'just saying'...

sometimes it's tacked on at the end of someone's opinion,
as if to convey an apology for having one....or in effort to buffer your feelings
from being hurt by said opinion....

I dunno....I also am irked by people who use all these little dots......(me,)

instead of proper punctuation. :D

Just saying.

Hate - "yada yada yada"

"blah blah blah" falls in a similar hated catagory.

not a bigfan of "fair enough" when over used. As in...

"Hi, how are you?" - "Fine" - "Fair enough"

Of course it's fair enough, I'm FINE !

things that have snuck into my daily vocabulary...

"wee" as in, "let's play a wee tune" (I don't try any accent just use the word)

"no worries" - blatently adopted as well.

"better than a kick in the head with a frozen boot !"

yeah. i cought myself saying off the chain about 2 years ago and felt like kicking my own ass.

but i didnt.

no worries...

...just sayin'
(heh) :P

nothing to say

My owns kids actually say "LMAO" (pronounced Le Mayo) and I can't stand it.

I also object to my bad in lieu of I'm sorry.

I don't mind "I feel you", it rings true to me somehow.

Oh and phrases that quickly become totally cliche, such as think outside the box.

'Think outside the box' is the new '[X] is the new [Y]'

A recursive one, just for Baraka_Guru.

I hate when people joke about jokes. Like half the replies in this thread trying to mock what we're trying to mock. Example:

I, like totally like when people say, you know, like, "my bad."

See how I did that!! I made a funny AND showed that I like the phrase!!!! PUKE

I'm guilty of the overuse of "like" when I speak. I don't do it on purpose, it's completely subconscious, and I really have to force myself to avoid the word. I probably hate it more than listeners because I know how stupid it makes me sound.

And to all you business-speak haters, I'm right there with you. My blood boils when I hear "proactive" used in any way, shape or form. I'll be proactive and shove my pen into your eye if I get the feeling you will be saying that word.

I also hate ANY hip-hop inspired sayings being used by non-hip-hoppers. Or without trying to be racist, "white guys trying to sound black." Sorry fellow whiteys, we aren't cool, just stop it. Specifically adding "izzle" to the tail end of every word.

I tend to like obscure/old movie or TV quotes which describe like or dislike for things.

Dude, you've gotta break outta that paradigm!


"Paradigm".... *groans*

I forgot my most hated of all:

It is what it is.

Wanna piss me off? :angry:

The one thing that REALLY drives me apeshit ever since I've been living in Pennsylvania is "creek."

EVERYONE I have ever talked to here pronounces it "crick."

"Fosho"

This girl I used to work with, responds with that to every sentence.
"mm hmm fosho"
"yep! fosho"
"oh fosho!"
And that's in the office, and in meetings with clients.

I want to rip her hair out.

"Hewwo"
It's neither cute nor sexy.
Stop it.

hate: "good times," "take it up a notch"

love: I just heard Barney (NPH) on "How I met your Mother" use: "yes offense," as in the opposite of "no offense"

The use of "like" doesn't bother me in everyday conversation, but it drives me crazy in the context of public speaking. Nothing drives me more insane than someone giving a speech or presentation and saying "like" in every phrase, clause, or sentence. It really disturbed me in one of my teacher training courses to find how many of my fellow students used "like" in speeches/presentations; it's a bad verbal habit they're going to pass on to their future students.

I think that is fun. I remember it from the movie the girl next door.. "that guy is the tits"

I like the word "dude" myself, I dont know why, I always say dude.

I hate when people can't say "MILK" its Mm-ill-k not Mm-elk ..

just want to clock someone in the head when i hear MELK!

or PELLOW, its fucking PILLOW! =O! getting angered.. so i shall stop

The melk, pellow thing is very common here in Utah.

Thats funny, In Ontario, I know like 3 people that say it, their parents don't say it like that just they do.. its really strange.. in PEI (where I am now) people just don't really say their "A"s like Dad is De-ad and Bad is Be-ad .. its weird. but im used to it now

i just heard the greatest word on vh1... Mollywop.

i looked it up on the net, and it's basically...

Mollywop. verb. To strike someone abruptly on the forehead. "She was mouthing off at me, and if she had done that in the street and not the office, i would have mollywopped her ass up and down the block."

i looked up Mollywop on Youtube, and sure enough there's a bunch of video clips of people getting owned upside the head.

i know this isn't the gamer section, but i just named a new female gnome character in WoW Mollywop.... fun times to come.

My little sister says Pellow. Not sure what part of the country that is from but it always kinda irked me too. My aunts also say 'Yins' instead of you all or ya'll, they are from Pittsburgh and I am certain that is the only part of the US it is used.


AAAAA I quoted to soon

Well I definitely liked 'owned' upside the head. That sir is awesome!

i truely hate: wus good. Thats wuts up. The word "like" used a bunch of times in one sentence.

Anything taken from a rap song and using it in your sentences, as if you had been using it for years and that is how you talk for some reason. as if it gives you more of an original feel to you.


or someone telling me something and at the end saying, " You know what I'm saying?" Um, no if you hadn't had said that, I would have no Idea!

Is typing "teh" really any better than typing "the", or what about "pr0n" instead of "porn"? Really. WTF?! Srsly.

Ok I guess as an English person I might have a slightly different angle on slang.

I like:
Modern London slang because it makes me laugh.
"Oi blud" - Good day to you sir!
"wagwan" - What's going on? (like Whassup?)
"you's a wasteman" - You sir, are a lazy slob.
"easy now" - Hello
"Innit" - Yes, isn't it just!
"Safe!" - That's good news
"allow it" - Ok this one is complex. I used to hate this one but I love it now because it's so quirky and just wrong. If I was to say "Commercial whaling blud? Allow it." that would actually mean I hate the idea of commercial whaling. The word 'allow' is used in a 'let it bypass me' or 'let it rot' sense. It's a hard one to explain effectively.

Of course, I could never say any of the above because I'd sound like a complete twat. But I do anyway.

I also like pretty much anything that comes out of a cockney geezer's mouth.
"You're a bit of a James Blunt, aren't you sunshine?"
"Just gonna go for a tommy tit, wait here"

And there's the old favourite of calling everyone "mate". Even really feminine girls.

Allow:
White English people who refer to me as "dude" or "man". You're not from San Francisco, you're from Worthing you knob. It doesn't sound cool at all.

Pet Parents

:rolleyes:

No.

You are not fluffies parent. You own an animal that perhaps views you as a pack leader at best, or food dispenser more likely. Its still a dog, cat, whatever, and no it can't come to the party leave the animal at home.

Having had just about every kind of pet there is and children, I'd say the experience has very little in common after they get out of the infant stage. If you think they are very similar you either treat your kids like crap, or spend way to much time and money on your dog.

Ustwo reminded me of another:
Disneyland Dad

If you call yourself that? Kill yourself for trying to illicit sympathy for something you're fucking up.
Call someone else that? You're a fucking prick.

You both reminded me another: Yummy mummy.

It's such a gross term.

It's milf. Seriously.

Yummy mummy sounds like the infantile alternative to milf, which is a bit creepy.

:lol: I never heard it, but it sounds to me as though they came out with a candy version of him.

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/a...n/43/MPW-21717

It doesn't change a thing for me. :expressionless:
http://content.answers.com/main/cont...mmy_Mummy.jpeg

EDIT:

*Ahem*

http://www.yummymummysite.com/index....&PIDLIST=19816
http://www.yummymummy.net/
http://www.yummymummymag.com/
http://www.straight.com/article-77742/yummy-mummy

Actually I quite like saying 'hard' after something to exaggerate the meaning.

For instance:
"Mate you just fell HARD"

or "I want your new shoes HARD"

It makes me chuckle.

I hate when people mistakenly say "it's a mute point" instead of "it's a moot point." It's moot, people. MOOT.

Since the current use of 'moot point' and the original intent are now completely opposite I have a hard time using the term at all.

A moot point was an issue up for debate.

I cringe every time I hear non-black people call each other the N-word.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=my+bad

"My bad." for when people do something incorrect accidentally or wrong on purpose.

I guess it equates to "I'm sorry."

Hearing adults say this in a moment when they've made a mistake is painful and kinda makes me wanna busy a Micheal-Douglas-in-Falling-Down monologue.

"random"
When people think it is slightly strange.
That, or "how spontaneous".

They're said a lot, and they're very annoying.

Love:
Neat
Awesome

I use "finna" all the time.

Can't really think of any slang I hate atm...

"Same difference" :mad: the dumbest thing I've ever heard.


And the word, "Za" short for "pizza". :grumpy: (my ex always said that after seeing Tenacious D Pick of Destiny, and it annoyed me to no end)

I loves mah 'za! Especially with mah 'chup!