Words You Find Tasteless or Tacky

[Benzgirl]

Dude!

[pirate00]

the term "pet peeve".

[PeppyGPhiB]

"Baby daddy." It's terrible all the way around. You could at least say, "Baby's daddy" and make it possessive. "Baby daddy" just makes it look like you can't speak English. "Son's father" or "daughter's father" is better, as in "My son's father ignores him" or "The father of my kids owes me child support!"

[SWTXBelle]

Suck.
I'm so tired of "suck". I always want to say "Sucks what?", but I'm afraid they will answer me.

[likeitsgolden26]

Wanting, as in "I was wanting to go out tonite". I only hear this in North Carolina where i now reside. Whenever I hear something phrased that way, my New York skin CRAWLS!

[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

[scbelle]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Suck.
I'm so tired of "suck". I always want to say "Sucks what?", but I'm afraid they will answer me.

LOL! Yep, they'll answer, and you don't want to know.

[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.

[Benzgirl]

"Drop-Dead Date"

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

[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!

[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.

[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.

[ladylike]

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

Drives me insane.