Words That Drive You Insane:

Postby **AuthorTony** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 5:11 pm

Squash. As in, "let's squash this."

Postby **Spangler** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 4:17 pm

Selfie

"Brand" when referring to a person. I hate it even more when referring to a person who is not famous.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 4:21 pm

Ooh, "selfie" is a good one...

Postby **Pavement** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 4:38 pm

Postby **Pavement** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 4:39 pm

Haters.

Postby **skullman80** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:39 pm

Bae.

Oh sweet jesus yes.

Postby **Pavement** » Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:59 pm

Bae.
Oh sweet jesus yes.

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:35 am

Mrs Tif reports that she doesn't really have words that drive her batty (she doesn't consider 'irregardless' to be a real word). What she hates is clearly improper word usage..... literally when you mean figuratively, things like that.

Postby **shmenguin** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:38 am

it's not hard to use "literally" correctly.

you deserve to have your overall intelligence questioned when you screw it up.

Postby **dodint** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:48 am

lit-trally.

Postby **meecrofilm** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 12:17 pm

"would of" and "could of," though I guess that really only applies to typed out language.

Postby **MR25** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 12:48 pm

My mom says "supposedly" as "supposively". It drives me crazy.

Postby **King Colby** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 1:19 pm

In the fake words realm, "automagically" is pretty homicide-inducing

Postby **Shyster** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:42 pm

Shall.

The word "shall" in the legal world is supposed to carry the meaning "[named party] has a duty to [do something]." It's basically the same as "must." The problem is that lawyers—especially transactional lawyers—who are careless, ignorant, or both use shall to create conditional or permissive obligations, use shall to refer to entitlements instead of duties, or even use shall in situations with no duty at all.

Postby **Silentom** » Sat Mar 26, 2016 10:08 pm

I hate the term "shipped". I just listened to my wife and her sister try to explain it to my in-laws that fandom people "ship" characters.

I'll never get those brain cells back.

Postby **columbia** » Sun Mar 27, 2016 1:36 am

The lack of distinction between may and might.

The former should be used when it is an issue of being allowed and latter for all other instances.

Postby **Sam's Drunk Dog** » Sun Mar 27, 2016 8:29 am

The lack of distinction between may and might.

The former should be used when it is an issue of being allowed and latter for all other instances.

I may take that into consideration.

Postby **Gaucho** » Sun Mar 27, 2016 9:53 am

You just might.

Postby **dodint** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 9:59 am

Wind.

As in, the wind blows. A noun. Pronounced with a soft 'i', w-in-d.
As in, wind a watch. A verb. Pronounced with a "y" sound, wine-d.

I *haaaaaaaaaaate* when **** heels like Steigerwald say something like "And he w-in-ds the puck around the boards."

Postby **Craig** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 10:05 am

That used to bother me a lot too.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 7:08 pm

That's a good one...another tire on the Steigy fire...it's like he goes out of his way to pronounce it wrong...

Postby **Craig** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 9:20 pm

If he were pronouncing it correctly I would still hate the use of it, this just compounds the issue.