The ten most hated words on the Internet

Pollsters produce the ten most-loathed words on the web, and we add a few of our own.<BR><BR>Read More

 

[ecstatic]

What's wrong with mashup?<BR><BR>Also, what is a Blook and a Webinar?<BR><BR>And when I hear "blogosphere" I imagine that game Tetrisphere, except with blogs... or the biosphere, and think of bloggers sneaking in pizzas to their secret computer labs where they discuss all their conspiracy theories...

 

[Tekzel]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by kcarlile:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hinton:<BR>Thanks for adding "podcast". If you use this word you're a total tool, litteraly speaking.<BR> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Litteraly. Bonus points for misspelling it while using it wrong! </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>It could be correct usage if the subject was, in fact, a tool. He could be considered a tool of the Apple propaganda machine, by pushing the term "podcast" to mean ALL RSS delivered media. If he (again, our hypothetical podcast term user), in fact, was a huge Apple shill, constantly talking about how great the iPod is, the iMac is, the iPhone will be, he would also be a "total tool". So, depending on the context his usage could be considered correct!<BR><BR>I will give you the misspelling though.

 

[Galley]

Interweb - there is no such thing. it's either the Internet, or the World Wide Web.<BR><BR>Deets - short for details, but just plain annoying.

 

[Grocer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hinton:<BR>How about Australians, can you honestly say you don't find anything they do or say incredible anoying?<BR> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Used to live with an Austrailian for a while. I remain convinced that most of it is just done for the tourists. Nobody says crikey anymore.

 

[Personne]

I somehow find this thread irresistibly funny: considering how people in the US started messing-up the English language before there even was an Internet; words like thru (through) color (colour) center (centre) etc, etc.<br><br>As if there was such a thing as US English... -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif --

 

[swalsh76]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"><BR>Jebus (and making him cry)<BR>Captions of cat pictures </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>The Jebus "thing" is pretty old. We were using "you mak babby jesu cry =(((" in 1995 on EFNet.<BR><BR>The cat pictures were great when it was just Caturday. The LOLCats thing is just stupid (esp since most of the good ones came from Caturday anyway).

 

[Tempus --)-------]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Yoweigh:<BR>IM IN UR THREAD<BR>PISSIN IN UR SKULL<BR><BR>HAPPY CATURDAY!!1! </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Heh you realise that there's a programming language being started (as a joke people) based on the whole LOLCATS stuff?<BR><BR>check out www.lolcode.com <BR><BR>I strongly recommend against attempting to eat or drink anything when reading the code examples..<BR><BR>ktksbye

 

[thebackwash]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by NickN:<BR>The phrase that still bugs me for some reason is "You've got mail." Apparently "You have mail" was just too grammatically correct. For some reason we just need that extra syllable. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>This usage is more common in Britain. In the US we don't use you've got so much, but it's everywhere in the UK.

 

[kns2c]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by johneee:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by stash:<BR>Not really an Internet word, but I hate the word "deliverable". As in "what is your deliverable for this project?"<BR> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Meh. Coming from the project management world, the term "deliverable" is a perfectly ok word. I can't think of any other way to say that kind of thing (and I've seen people write project charters that tell what they're going to do, but not actually say what they'll deliver at the end to know that isn't an option either)<BR><BR> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>After a year of trying I still can't pronounce it. And you're right, it's a project manager's word that nobody else understands.

 

[kns2c]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Senjutsu:<BR>And scores of quasi-literate morons appear to be graduating from high schools with no functional understanding of the $ and % signs.<BR><BR>Its $10 and and a 15% tip, you retards, not 10$ and a %15 tip. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I haven't seen %15 used anywhere, but the placement of the currency symbol is different in many countries - to my knowledge Germany, France, and many Slavic countries place it after the number. That means you could also blame those damn furriners in addition to the US education system.

 

[Yoozer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ecstatic:<BR>What's wrong with mashup? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Because every hack thinks himself to be Girl Talk while in fact they are not and just throw Jay Z acapellas over some 3-chord punk song, thinking they're edgy.<BR><BR>Actually mixing it properly so that it's more than the sum of parts is an art.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Also, what is a Blook </div></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR>Blog + book. Online book published via a blog.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Webinar? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Web seminar.

 

[acc15]

TLIUWA<br>(this list is useless without acronyms) <br><br>Seriously, is it too much to ask from writers to identify their pet acronyms just <i>once</i> on each post they use them? From my point of view, most acronyms are useless to begin with -- more often than not, they're a childish way to elevate the "hip", "inside" group above the rest of the "plebeians".<br><br>It is amusing how "AOL-speak" will get so much flak from the very same people who can't be bothered to type complete sentences for the sake of, you know, actually <i>communicating</i> with people outside their particular group and brand of vernacular. It seems like you have to lurk a couple of weeks before you get to understand who's saying what in internet fora these days.. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif --

 

[Lithium79]

Oh, I forgot "prolly".<br><br>Oh! And anime emoticons like this: ^_^<br><br>Oh! Oh! and the word "emoticons".<br><br>Boy this thread sure is therapeutic! -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif --

 

[Pariah]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Usernamelol:<BR>If I never heard the word blogosphere again it would be too soon. I've yet to hear someone use it who wasn't a gigantic faggot. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Thanks for the reminder. Nothing and I do mean NOTHING makes a poster look more sophomoric, juvinile and ignorant that using "fag", "Gay" or Faggot" or some other bigoted, anti-gay term, to denote something they think is bad.

 

[sprocket999]

So this is where the Steam Punks and Retro Grouches are hanging out, eh? Allow me to participate: Yeah -- I despise: Blog, Wiki, Webinar, eTailing, Web 2.0, Podcast and my al-time fave since 1995 'Surf'(I 'cruise' the web). Yes, I know the origins of these terms, I just hate the sound of them and go out of my way to find substitutes. I mean, a 'blog' is something I leave in the toilet.<BR><BR>/rant

 

[mark m]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by JournalBot:<BR>Pollsters produce the ten most-loathed words on the web, and we add a few of our own.<BR><BR>Read More </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>O RLY?

 

[noisetonepause]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jeppe Utzon:<BR>Oh, and "automagically" too... </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I like that one... og 'automagisk' er også fint.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by thebackwash:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by NickN:<BR>The phrase that still bugs me for some reason is "You've got mail." Apparently "You have mail" was just too grammatically correct. For some reason we just need that extra syllable. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>This usage is more common in Britain. In the US we don't use you've got so much, but it's everywhere in the UK. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>All my real British mates (I'm just pretend British) actually say 'you got' and make no distinction between ''ve' and 'of'. Their English is actually quite horrible, very, very butchered and not at all aestethic, but it's the way they speak... and Languages Belong To The People Who Speak Them.<BR><BR>Supposedly the phrase 'I have less apples then he does' is "incorrect" - it should be 'fewer', according to some arcane usage rules. How often do you actually hear that coming out of the mouth of a native English speaker, though? <BR><BR>Then there's 'don't end sentences with a preposition' and 'English has grammatical gender just like Latin' idiocy.<BR><BR>All said, though, if I ever hear someone say 'between you and I' in a southern US accent again...

 

[Greasy Breakfast]

I hate when "community" is used to describe a group of people who share an interest and make it known on the internet.<BR><BR>That's not a community. You live in a community.

 

[erratic]

Not words as such, but commonly used misspellings bother me.<BR><BR>For example:<BR><BR>Missle, instead of missile<BR>cloths, instead of clothes <BR>breaks, instead of brakes (on a car)<BR><BR>Whenever I see them used I have to resist the strong urge to make uncharitable comments about the OP's level of literacy and/or level of schooling, which is actually quite unreasonable of me.

 

[Hak Foo]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Yoozer:<BR><BR>I also think "solution" is used because most people who have a problem think in, well, terms of "problems" instead of "challenges" or "issues". A challenge has no solution, it has a response.<BR> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>If that's the logic, rarely do they actually sell the product as a solution for the problem people have.<BR><BR>If I want to sell products online, I know I need a shopping cart or something similar. My problem is not "e-commerce"; that one was solved years ago by the first guy who developed a workable shopping cart, so I don't need an "e-commerce solution". The "solution" I need is "a deciding which cart to use solution." I have never seen a "solution" product marketed that way.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"><BR>PPS: Why were anime smileys excluded? ^_^ and XD and T_T should make any reasonable person's blood boil. <BR> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I think there was an interesting article a while ago about how the difference between American and Japanese smiley styles tended to be grounded in cultural differences-- seeing emotions drawn in the eyes versus the mouth. There are also a few expressions-- eye-centric ones-- that work better with that style.<BR><BR> I use a lot, it's very expressive.

 

[legoman666]

I have a few pet peeves of my own as well.<BR>1. "ur" My god, everytime I see that mispelling I want to break someone's face with a rock. Nothing else screams "I'm an overly excited 13 year old" who is too hip to spell out words fully more.<BR><BR>2. "i*" or "e*" I swear, nothing is more annoying than going to Apple's website and seeing iTunes (worst program ever), iPod, iLife, iPhone, iMac, iWhatever. Or those god damned eSurance commercials with the crappy anitmated "insurance super hero" or whatever the hell that character is supposed to be.<BR><BR>I could probably go on and on, but for the sake of my sanity, I'll stop here.