Words You Find Tasteless or Tacky

[Fawn Liebowitz]

I HATE it when people announce that they have to piss or pee - I find it particularly offensive when other women say it. Must just be the context, because someone saying they're "pissed off" doesn't bother me nearly as much.

[Benzgirl]

Dude!

[AlethiaSi]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Dude!

hijack/
I say this allllll the time,
dude, what happened?
it's an awful habit that I def need to break.
/end hijack

[nittanyalum]

I also can't stand "text speak". It's one thing if you're saving effort and money on your little phone, but it shouldn't spill over into other full-forms of communication. I realize "R" reads as "are" and "U" reads as "you", "4" subs for "for", etc. etc. etc. But it's aggravating and I feel like a little part of my brain dies every time I read it.

And one other thing, this isn't necessarily about just words but how they're used, this is primarily a central-PA thing, but the dropping of whole parts of sentences always cracks me up. Instead of saying "I need to get my car washed" or "I need to wash my car", central PAers will tend to say "My car needs washed." Kills me.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

...central PAers will tend to say "My car needs washed."

[EEKappa]

Over-use of "surreal." It used to be a term that you only heard in Art History 101.

Also, because I was a psych major, using "anal" to describe someone, when "fastidious" or "detail oriented" is probably more accurate. Anyone who knew Freud's theory on this would not be so quick to call themselves "anal" as if it were a good thing!

[AlethiaSi]

Going off of what Nittanyalum said, I hateee it when words are shortened, like wat instead of what (don't like the letter h?) nite instead of night, or B4 for before... I feel dumber when I read that sh*t....


I must confess that sometimes I'll use the letter U when my phone is closed (I have the EnV) and I'm in the middle of doing something, but that's about it...

[Zeta13Girl]

This was probably already said, but people that are always throwing in curse words into the conversation. Can't you have a normal conversation without swearing. Just really not classy especially on girls.

[Benzgirl]

"Drop-Dead Date"

Why? Maybe it was because this guy I disliked used it all of the time.

[Fawn Liebowitz]

This is a Southern thing, I think: People saying "I was fixin' to...", meaning "I was about to...".

This isn't tasteless or tacky, it just sounds stupid.

[ladylike]

"Coo." As in "that's coo." The word is "cool."

Drives me insane.

[Benzgirl]

"K"
Is it possible to shorten OK even more? Come on, people!

[preciousjeni]

Don't recall if I've posted this before. It drives me crazy when people say "non-for-profit." It's either "not-for-profit" or "non-profit."

[SelfProclaimed]

I hate the word "DUH." i want to kill any time i hear it flutter out of someone's mouth. That and whatever... *shudders*

[cheerfulgreek]

When every word that comes out of somones mouth is a swearword. We all swear, but it's ridiculous when the F word, or the S word is after each ordinary word within a conversation.