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Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet
prostoalex writes "If you're launching a new blog into the blogosphere, does the common netiquette allow you to have a separate wiki to go with a blog? If the previous sentence irritated you, you're not alone. Folksonomy, blogosphere, blog, netiquette and blook are among the most hated Internet words, Lulu Blooker Prize research found."
10. Chump.
9. Chumpette.
8. Yours.
7. Up.
6. Pimpmobile.
5. Bite.
4. My.
3. Shiny.
2. Blogosphere.
1. Ass.
John
OMG PONIEZ First post.... Now THAT's annoying.
JEG / SYD / AU
Since the article only has about 100 words beyond the description, I think it is a reasonable assumption that this story kept getting positive votes on the Firehose entirely based on the annoying nature of summary.
Let's hope this doesn't catch on. (I know I know... )
Folksonomy is the #1 most hated word??? This poll is the first time I've even heard it. Same goes for blook.
I call shenanigans!
-- I prefer the term "karma escort."
It's PROBABLY people!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
developers, developers, developers.
Anything with 133t. Noob. Lol and all derivatives thereof. And I've never heard blook or folksonomy -- must be a UK thing.
Why do I M2 everything negatively?
The word is annoying on its own merits. Coined by fucktarded media types who want to sound all edgy and like they live in The Matrix but they're seven months behind the curve.
Hi, Jenny Gardener!!!
I mean really! The list sounds like they're stuck in the early '80s.
Interblag
The CB App. What's your 20?
This should be a poll... "mashup" would get my vote. Its a lame attempt to seem 'cool' but in reality makes my skin crawl reading it.
I.O.U One Sig.
The poll also showed that respondants had a desire for children to 'get off their lawn'.
Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
Slashdot has whole articles full of words I hate.
"Zonk" for example.
And this ever re-occuring "?" at the end of article descriptions is a sign for bad journalism, btw.
Now, if we can only get more people to read the Oxford English Dictionary maybe more people on the internet will become literate. Anyway, blog or blogosphere wasn't the TOP of the list? blog is the single most stupid word in the English language, followed in close second by anything-osphere
Behold! Uh, what was I going to say?
My eyes find great displeasure in seeing the "word" wat.
This is one abbreviation that I feel needs to "gtfo."
For those unaware linguists out there: wat tends to be the abbreviated form of what
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Just because you're computer illiterate doesn't mean you should hate innocent cookies. The word sounds cute, and cookies are cute.
What? That's the first time I've ever seen that word.
Less than 3000 respondents to their poll, and it goes on Slashdot as Top Irritating Words?
I look forward to next week's GameFAQS poll being quoted as certified research material.
As in loose your ability spell. Most people who spell 'lose' this way prolly never learned to spell in the first place. It drives me up a wall every time I see it.
dub,dub,dub aka www. I hate when people say that. Sounds like they are trying way to hard to be cool.
Amazed they left out the worst buzzword ever. Web 2.0 *shudder*
web 2.0 and Myspace would get my votes except for the fact myspace had something like a hundred million accounts going so the mainstream likes it but I am sure a lot don't.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
1)Cory Doctorow, the internet hipster who, despite claiming to be such a damn good author, hasn't been able to get a publishing contract. He's against copyright, but he's got no problem with a little book-burning:
What kind of jerk sculptor sells the city a piece of public art for a public park and then demands that no one take pictures of it? Christ, they should run this guy out of town on a rail and melt the goddamned sculpture down for scrap.
2)Xeni Jardin, the girl who is just too cool to use her real name. Because, like, something happened with her dad. She's the world's foremost self-appointed expert on how we use cell phones. Or...something like that.
Put them together and you have the most irritating self-righteous people on the planet.
Please help metamoderate.
First Post should be added as the most annoying word... but that's two words... argh! Dilema!
To add to that, ChinaDaily (site with TFA) saved two cookies on my computer.
Viable Slashdot alternatives: https://pipedot.org/ and http://soylentnews.org/
Cookie? Wiki? I guess I just don't get those. Sure, wiki sounds odd until you get used to it, but it doesn't have the pretense of "blog" or the idiocy of "blook". And what's so bad about a nice little cookie?
Possibly unintentional irony from the article:
So, was the list of irritating words inspired by "cyberspace, as in the Internet", or "cyberspace, the original most irritating word"?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
The only one I hate worse than blog is iPod...not necessarily just the iPod itself though...but all the inaccurately named iProducts that came after it. The i was originally for internet, and iPod was the first major step down a slippery slope of many non-internet i-thingies. Although now it's arguably a term for any personal device, the i meaning simply 'I'.
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RIAA, MPAA, DHS, NSA, FBI, IRS, and Vista. Not necessarily in that order.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
Anything that encompasses "leet/1337" speak. I was fine with it years ago, but now it's become tiresome.
There are only so many times the phrase "OMG I PWNED J00 N00BZ0RZ LOLOLOLOL" can be uttered over VoIP before you want to punch the little shit in the head.
spam
Deserves a double prize, no?
Isn't spam the second oldest true Internet irritation?
I remember the the ur-spam: the Green Card Lawyer Spam on Usenet.
Of course the first oldest Internet irritation was the "troll",
and to this date, still the worst.
Honorable mentions:
ROFL
pwned
pron
Web *.*
doubleyewdoubleyewdoubleyew
mmorpg
ajax
"The Lulu Blooker Prize is the world's first literary prize devoted to "blooks"-books based on blogs or other websites, including webcomics."
No punchline needed....
Three Squirrels
Intellectual Property
Funny, I'm pretty sure I remember hearing the word "cookie" long before I had ever heard of the Internet.
Too bad that "Ajax" didn't make the list. I'm glad that one has pretty much died by now.
If I don't put anything here, will anyone recognize me anymore?
would you like to go to school in my short bus hummer.
windows?? http://planetlinux.no-ip.org/
... but on the whole media sphere too. This is especially true since the George W. election, there are all kinds of funny words popping up all over the place, such as "evildoer" (Let's be honest here, raise your hand if you didn't frown when you heard this term for the first time) and the likes. With that kind of Newspeak, I could imagine that the future will only be plusplusgood.
By far, the one term that irritates me above all: GNU/Linux.
How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. First, there is the awkward nature of GNU itself -- the idiocy that the hard-G is pronounced (gah-new -- UGH). Then there is uglyness of the term, all those syllables falling over each other. Thirdly, there is the irritation of the arrogance itself, that RMS thinks that a set of tools is more important than every other function of the operating system.
And finally, there is Stallman himself, who is so dogmatic and, above all, impolite that he's actually been known not to speak to people unless they use his preferred term.
When you add it all up, nothing beats GNU/Linux for sheer irritation.
(And yes, I realize that some people will disagree with me about the above. Fine, it doesn't irritate you, I'm happy for you.)
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
They asked 2000 whole people. Clearly, this is authoritative and accurate.
The following and all derivatives.
Newbie
Owned
The (Teh)
Elite
Cry
funny that never turned up
I dont know from words, but one of the most irritating things with the Internet these days has got to be having a simple Open Source systems ad on slashdot immediately followed by a Microsoft NCSOFT WONT PLAY WITH LINUX, SECRET TO SUCCESS REVEALED. PAY THE TOPLESS GYPSY 10$ ad almost gave me a stroke from contrast alone.
seriously, what the hell
How is the word "cookie" annoying. That's what it's called, and I don't know any other word for it. Internet words that are annoying fall into a couple of categories:
Your ad here. Ask me how!
ur rite u took the words rite outta my mouth., i also hate the no grammer non spelin txt msg shortnin punks and the gf's they road in on, heheheheh lololol
Mikh was here.
Your ad here. Ask me how!
That has got to be the most annoying term I have ever heard.
It means nothing more than "Computer Vulnerability", and yet most of the population thinks it is akin to Armageddon.
Today's show is brought to you by the number 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0: 25
Deliberately misspelled words that the writer cannot be bothered to fix or shortened words which they might think are cute or otherwise 'cool' - It's fine for lolcats but everyone else needs to at least listen to their spell checkers.
Enjoy your Karma, after all you earned it. Feel your Karma Joe, feel it burn.
I thought those were perfectly cromulent words.
In many European countries (Poland being one of them), Internet users are being called "internauts" which I find pretty cool =)
The only people that voted for Netiquette are the people that don't understand why it used to exist in the first place.
I remember the times when good netiquette was thought essential (which was not that long ago).
"lol ur a netiket fag i typ lik i want"
1. Leverage: that is, I'm going to leverage something - magically turning an adjective into a verb.
2. Incentivise: WTF? How 'bout "provide an incentive"? sure its three words, but it doesn't sound so stupid.
"Laugh while you can a-monkey boy!" - Dr Emilio Lizardo
"I call"... BS, shenanigans, whatever.
"Ok, I'll play"...
Those are annoying!
Yes, they exist independent of the Internet, but damn, I've grown to hate these terms:
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
first it was e-this and e-that and now it's i-everything. fucking annoying people
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
...is "unscientific poll."
Wait, that's two words. Okay, my least favorite word is "unscientificpoll". It rhymes with "folksonomy".
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
I quite like STFU. It stands for something, but when you read it as a word, it's kinda like "stuff you". I think that's kinda neat.
IANAL, on the other hand....
IANAL annoys the b'jesus out of me. What is that, some kind of Apple butt plug?
I don't therefore I'm not.
I don't think Wired really creates much of anything. They seem to basically troll around to various blogs and dig up anything that seems to be coming into use, and then blast it all over a few pages.
I guess that might make them responsible for promulgating some memes that otherwise would have died a blissful and natural death, but I've never seen them actually create something from whole cloth. (Whether that's a good or bad thing, I'm not sure.)
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Why do we need these words? They're almost as annoying as a teenage girl that won't stop using "omigod". What's wrong with the words "critic" and "vandal"?
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Because mine certainly are.
My mom says I'm cool.
God I hate the word "netizen". And of course "netiquette" is right behind it. Blog is irritating, too. People who are nobodys who whine about no one ever visiting their blog is also pretty annoying. (yes, I am happy to admit I'm a nobody and I don't have a blog!) :) --- also annoying
The term "blook" made the list... which is weird because I've never even heard that word before. A look at Google generated only 300,000 hits. Some of the others I tried had well over a million hits. How could a word in so little usage be so hated?
Then I looked again at the article. The organization who commissioned the survey is called "The Lulu Blooker Prize". The parent organization, Lulu, apparently helps authors sell books as well as "blooks".
My gut feeling here is that the word "blook" barely existed until these guys came up with their business plan, fueled by a little marketing masked as a survey and spread around the internet as an amusing story.
3. Profit
-David
God I hate this word. It took me ~6 months to figure out what people meant when they said that they were programming "in AJAX" until I realized that they had no idea what AJAX meant either. As far as I can tell, it's an acronym that describes a mashup (pardon me, I couldn't resist) of various programming techniques into one programming style. The thing people particularly care about is the asynchronous part, why not just call it A instead of creating another meaningless and widely misunderstood buzzword?
roflcopter
Jesus Saves
Correction: "Netiquette" is a much older term than what many seem to think, and stands for network etiquette, not Internet etiquette.
Netiquette applies just as much to Fidonet, Bitnet, Usenet[1] and other networks.
[1]: Usenet isn't all inside Internet. It becomes more and more so with time, but there's still nodes that use other forms of propagation, whether it's BBS gateways, Fidonet or UUCP.
I can't believe no one posted that . . . I STILL cringe when I hear that word.
Looser.
Belgium?
Semprini?
Both words seems to be lacking!
'Slashdotted'
"Drawing closer to world domination, keystroke by keystroke."
I have a completely different list of words from the Internet that irritate me.
For example, my list starts out with "u" and "r" and continues with other words that are caused by people being too lazy to type the extra few characters that real words contain.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
Internet Addiction...Wtf
"Drawing closer to world domination, keystroke by keystroke."
None of the words in their poll are a problem for me (excepting blook, which I suspect they made up just to fluff out their poll options), but the phrase, "I'm sorry, but...." drives me nuts.
ok that's old.
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
You combine them into the sockets of a weapon and they imbue it with certain powers based on their combination.
NSA attracts all the script kiddies near you, and FBI gives you pedophilia imminuties to look at those script kiddies naked (and be immune from punnishment with the presumption of "law enforcment"). RIAA and MPAA attracts all the creative artists of the day near you for an instant 50% gain in money, while IRS lets you take 75% of their 50% you let them keep. DHS lets you seize crack, heroine, meth-amphetamine, and speed from smugglers and aliens. Vista is just eye candy to make your appearance seem more polished and attractive because it costs the most; this gives anyone bearing a Vista to be "rich" or royal, as we say. Slick eh?
The best combination of all is a DHS, FBI, NSA, and Vista; This is so we can send our agents (DHS) to hire aliens to tattle smuggling routes, then we send ours (FBI) to seize their drugs, then we open a house in the middle of a modest neighborhood (Vista) to entrap stressed parents to so much as touch or consider to touch our drugs (FBI), then we seize their house and send their children to Social/Protective Services in preparation to send them through 24hr drug-induced (FBI) sex-rape rings run in the Foster Homes.
All of the immunity is lost when someone approaches you with a State-Citizen card, which tends to pre-date 2nd Amendment and out of the reach of our 14th Amendment re-shuffle alienation we try to switch on them. Run your ass off when he insists he is exempt from the gun-concealing permit as long as he wears his gun outside his pants on the hip: You will lose.
Asshat. This has to be my favorite new word!
I have to agree here.
I run several sites, blog, have a youtube channel and am a an active Wikipedian(now that's an annoying word) and generally am an annoying Web2.0 whore to most people. I also buy books online, read reviews, etc...
Never if my fucking life have I heard of a blook. This is clearly a very well executed marketing stunt to promote the usage of the term blook, and the phenomena itself. Remember, that even silly ideas with microscopic demand (such as podcasts), once fueled with enough hype and publicity, and 3-5 analyst reviews claiming some start-up in that field is worth 100 million, can generate enough buzz for Google/Yahoo/MS to buy some of the Blook-platform-providing companies, just in case.
My Starcraft 2 Blog
Just because people like something, and they come to a forum to talk about it doesn't give some of you jerks the right to fling "fanboi" around. Same goes for Troll. I'm no troll (unless I'm playing WoW), but am often labeled as such for no apparent reason other than having a strong opinion backed with logical reasoning.
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That this is published in a wiki!
Of course, there is the question of authoritativeness, given the sample size, and the sampler. But then again, a lack of peer review and vetting is also a characteristic of the wikiQ.
(I didn't call it a sphere, but rather tipped my had to the Q Continuum, which has more than 3 dimensions, with the pun on the idea that wikis answer Questions.)
I just hate that word.
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
"gotten" - popularised by television and the internet by those too lazy to learn and use the correct grammatical contructs.
e.g. "he'd gotten out of the care" How about simply saying "He got out of the car"?!?!
Srsly, gb2 1990s
My most hated word is gaiafag.
Reduce, reuse, cycle
Wikipedia has it pegged as a publication run by the Communist party, so it should occur as no surprise that words like "blog", "blogosphere", and "wiki", which suggest the dissemination of information, are going to be on the list.
isn't so much with those who fail to use spellcheckers, but those who use the damn things and don't bother to proof read it.
Just because the red underlining has gone doesn't mean the document is complete. Proof-reading, people!
LOL: PhD quality reserach findings
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
An individual subscription to the OED Online costs $295USD annually.
While that might be a justifiable expense for someone in an English department somewhere, it's a rather large chunk of change to expect an average person to pay, for something that will probably be used only very occasionally -- effectively an entertainment resource (albeit a geeky one). I have an interest in it, but three hundred bucks a year is more than a year's worth of Netflix, more than half of what I pay for broadband. Pick your own metric; at any rate, it's a lot of money.
I'm not against paying money for things, but the value proposition is just not there -- not even close to being there. And I think that's unfortunate, because if they changed their pricing model at the low end, I think they could pick up some additional users; a pay-per-use model wouldn't be bad at all, maybe a buck or so a pop. That would discourage anyone who uses it frequently from downgrading but make it available to a lot of people that aren't going to shell out three C-notes just to settle an obscure etymological argument on an internet forum once in a while.
(I've decided just to ignore the various personal attacks in your and the sibling post as not really being worth responding to. Believe what you want to believe; I'm not going to get in some dick-length contest with some troll over who I am or what I do in real life.)
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
l8r, m8, 1337 h4x0r etc.
It's either maths or it's English - not both!
But I don't mind the other words. It's just another culture establishing it's own language. Isn't that how most languages and dialects develop?
but "cool" has become number one for me and "podcast" comes a close second.
Come on! How can the word wiki have grown so irritating? Who are the people who took the test? And howcome IE is not there on the list?
Rather like the carbon and nitrogen cycles, there is a continuous process whereby experts in given domains coin new jargon terms. They do this because the terms are needed. Blog, folksonomy, and so on... all useful, meaningful, crisply denoting ideas that otherwise would have to be laboriously explained using several words (or even several sentences).
People outside the charmed circle of that specific domain of expertise react in diverse ways. Most totally ignore the alien jargon - quite rightly, too. I don't worry about Chinese usage, for the simple reason that I don't live in China and don't speak any Chinese. In short, it's none of my business.
Some others love to plunder specialist terms from other people's domains. IT is a classic case in point: think of all the words and phrases, from "interface" to "ping", "access", and "download", that have crept into everyday discourse. Like a jackdaw stealing shiny objects to decorate its nest, many people seem to feel that larding their conversation with these clever-sounding terms will gain them more respect. Of course, they usually misunderstand the jargon they borrow, and thus use it incorrectly. Often enough, this incorrect usage then becomes standard, by sheer weight of numbers.
A third group react to other people's jargon by resenting and condemning it. They typically complain that the language is being polluted and degraded, failing to understand that the many sets of specialist jargon are like optional extensions to the basic language. As the waiter says in the old cartoon, "Eef you don' like heem, don' eat heem".
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
If it only were one lost letter, I'd probably even think it's a typo. I tend to occasionally lose a letter or two too.
My biggest gripes are with (1) l33t, and (2) words mangled for no other reason than mangling them.
I mean, take the following example taken verbatim from a COH group chat: "soz m8 g2g gt skewl 2moz" No, literally.
Where shall I even start on that abhomination:
1. "skewl" I mean, what the _bloody_ fuck? It's only one letter shorter than "school", but the "o" in "school" is double, so you don't even need to move your fingers much to type it. And _especially_ for one finger typists (since often the excuse for such monstrosities is "I can't type fast enough"), "skewl" actually involves moving your finger around more.
It's a word mangled by retards just to sound "kewl". Fucktards.
2. "soz", "2moz" and other such use of "z" for half the word endings in the fucking dictionary. I mean, wtf? "Z" doesn't even remotely sound like anything with a "r" in it. And which ending _is_ is supposed to be, anyway? "rry" and "rrow" are very different bits of word.
3. "m8", "2moz" and other such l33t use of digits. Here's a thought for those smackards: not everyone is a native English speaker, so their reflex reading of a digit will be in their mother tongue, not in English. So is it "macht"? (8 = Acht in German. "Macht" = power, or the Force.) Mocho? Mhuit? Or what? You're forcing someone to effectively translate it back and forth, piece by piece, just to discover what it means.
Ah well...
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
The original Reuters article, before it got "amended" by China Daily, is here:
? type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2007-06-21T212831Z_ 01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-304208-1.xml
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx
...simply because it's a marketing term with no connection to technology.
"Netroots" has to be the worst Internet word ever, along with its pejoritive "nutroots."
"Wingnuts" seems forced. And for some reason, I love "Barking Moonbats."
Outside of politics, I hate "Blog," but think that "Podcast" is just fine.
Go figure.
AK
There are lots of annoying words, but the thing that really makes me seeth is the hanging statement, a common reflexive response used by fools. To me, it reads 'savour my words, reflect upon them, I speak from the highest altar of knowledge.' Or in short, 'I am a self-important asshat'. An example: Reasonable question: 'I was thinking of buying xyz processor, would anyone be able to suggest a good motherboard' Asshat response: 'I didn't know anyone would buy an xyz processor...' Sorry, crap example I know but the minute you go looking for one of these loathsome phrases you can't find one.
"Boxen"
"Vaxen"
FUCK OFF!!! It's not clever, it's not grammatically correct as a plural
AND IT MAKES YOU SOUND LIKE THE TIT YOU TRULY ARE! You spoddy geek.
Also: "wibble". That just makes me want to hit people who say it.
"Absorbing your worst..."
Internet or no, that's still pretty damned irritating.
OK it's two words.
Or really a word-and-a-half.
Oh wait, now *I'm* irritating.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Where's "noob" on that list?
was i the only person who read that name as 'Lulz?'
Why UNIX?
Or is that Good++, followed by Good#?
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
I'm pretty sure 'snowclone' either ties or beats 'blogosphere' in my book. Probably two of the dumbest words ever coined.
Insert Sig Here
I remember the times when good netiquette was thought essential (which was not that long ago).
Where "not that long" == "at least seven years". That is an epoch in Internet time. (Look, another annoying phrase!)
In all seriousness, that is roughly when I left Usenet. Even the Linux and Sun newsgroups were being overrun by somewhat anonymous people who saw the fora as places to be complete morons in public, topic/charter/threading/RTFM/netiquette be darned.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Blogo-motherfucking-sphere. Worst. Word. Ever.
Bad English & bad Latin.
"wireline."
Though it's not exactly spawned by the internet, it's the result of heavy wifi penetration, which I suppose is close enough. Things like "blog" at least describe something that didn't exactly have a useful term before (though why "weblog" itself needed to be shortened, I can't really understand), but "wireline" is essentially a synonym for "wired" or "plugged in" or "cabled," which is used only in marketing materials since it sounds more like "wireless" (and "wireless" is just, you know, way cool).
If that's not bad enough, wireline is actually a real term with a distinct existing meaning - so not only is its new usage unnecessary, it's also incompatible with the old usage. Hooray!
The only good thing about "wireline" is that it hasn't really penetrated the web 2.0 consciousness yet, and it seems to still be mostly a marketing term. For example, I haven't heard about it much in the blogosphere, it hasn't started showing up in mashups, and it isn't appearing in many tag clouds. I can only guess the technocrati haven't finished working out the folksonomy for it yet - but once they do, you can bet it'll spread quickly on all those social networking sites the kids love these days...
I've noticed quite a few sites popping up that seem to have caught the same disease that flickr caught that made them drop the e. Don't know why, but that bugs me just a little.
Windows has more viruses because linux has more virus coders.
Calvary Greetings!
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
I HATE SNEAKERNET!
This is the DUMBEST word ever invented. If it actually meant "a net comprised of sneakers" that'd be one thing...
If you have ever used the word "sneakernet" in any manner except the manner in which I use it (proclaiming my hatred for this word), you are a retard.
Seriously.
The most irritating word of the day is CRACKERS!
I don't know about the results, but after reading the article, I'm going to add YouGov to my list of annoying words.
*BOOM*
was connecting at 300 baud to a modem by making funny nosies on the phone to it. I sang a sweet melody that reminded it of its birth place in Taiwan and it opened its 300 baud bosom unto me. After the transmission of data, we smoked American cigarettes that reminded us of cowboys and liquid metal. And I knew that day, that I was a boy no longer, but a Man.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Some of these are not word dislike, but really the idea behind them. "Cookie"?!? Who the hell doesn't like a cookie? It's the browser function, overhyped by techinical miscomprehension for years, that draws ire.
I find some of the coined words annoying on a purely semantic level, but don't have a problem with the idea they are mean to contain. e.g. blogsphere.
In the other direction, I think "godcast" is an amusing word. However, the idea of recorded sermons seems rather souless and kind of irks me.
That's it exactly. Actually, anything that looks like a book, but isn't is (ie it has a book look) is a blook. It could be a DVD boxed set, a whiskey decanter, a book safe, or whatever.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I'm surrounded by technically intelligent people that blissfully butcher the most common words and phrases. They think they're respected, but once they demonstrate their lack of attention to detail in how they talk, they lose more than half of their audience when trying to convey an idea to anyone but their inner circle of geeks. Thus, I've begun to bounce interview candidates who can't use English effectively.
I'm not a grammar nazi by any means and don't particularly watch spelling all that closely, but I'd expect educated intellectuals to pay attention to how they're presenting ideas. Some geeks are completely unable to do so, and it's sad. Not that being able to communicate effectively is the only thing they need to know, but it's a fundamental skill and it's obvious when it's missing.
Some on my bounce list:
1) "That's a mute point" (What they mean to say is that the point is moot. I wish I had a mute point for these people.)
2) "NIC Card" or "RAID Array" (Network Interface Card Card, Redundant Array of Independent Disks Array.)
3) "Kick a gift horse in the mouth" (it's "Look a gift horse in the mouth". If you're going to use an archaic idiomatic phrase, look it up and use it correctly.)
4) There, Their, and They're. They're three separate words that kids learn in fourth grade now. I mentally note "it's" versus "its" errors, but those don't bother me as much.
5) "Thru" is not a word, even though it appears on some traffic signs.
There are more, but you get the idea. As for new words and phrases, I have no problem with creativity. I just think you should have to prove that you're skilled in the fundamentals before you can branch out from them.
You made "kshhhhhh boing, boing! Kshhhhhhhh." ?
56k is pure luxury! In my time we had 9600baud modems! (Nobody knew the difference between baud and bits/s back then)
if it was a .plan, I'd disagree it is the same thing as a blog. .plans had to do with a project, a work schedule, and while I understand they could be used in a manner similar to how blogs are used today, that wasn't their intention at least initially. A blog is a log of whatever happened to you and you fancy putting there, while a .plan is a ... well, a plan, or at least had to do with it.
Where is that guy who'd die defending what I had to say when I need him?
First it doesn't really explain how they got this info. Did they ask people online, did they ask random people in the street, or in libraries? location and people matter.
Half the words they mentioned arn't "annoying" they just might not be interesting to the people who commented. Cookies, wiki, and blogs are pretty important terms, even if you don't like them. Netiquette was big in the 90s but has kinda died. The others I've never heard of.
The other big problem is TFA doesn't even have all 10 words, it has 7. Come on editors and moderators step up and get better articles, not some informationless piece that could easily be marked "flamebait" as "informative"
And how the hell could FTW not be on the most hated internet words list. Come on. Hell I've heard people say it in conversation (the actual letters).
I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy that says 'shenanigans'!!
I hear a commercial on the radio, they say, or visit us online at www.example.com backslash somestuff. That really annoys me. I want to call the radio station and beg them to fire their advertising director for allowing that kind of commercial on the air. '/' is a slash .
Did you mount a military-grade, variable-focus MASER on an unlicensed artificial intelligence?
...I hate the following: "Cyberspace," it's usually used by people who don't know jack about anything. What's more it's not even an Internet word, it's from some pretty awful novels. And lastly, I hate "ZERGRUSH! kekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekeke..." I mean, does that need to be in every Starcraft posting?
I don't really much love or hate the term "blook" but I do occasionally search it out because I find the format can be quite engaging, much like serial publishing of the past. For one of many interesting examples, check out http://www.hackoff.com/
How about using "Google" as a verb; i.e. "googling"?
Someone else already commented that "elite speech" ;) tends to be English-based. Along those lines, if I see "wat" my first thought is "Buddhist temple".
The term "blook" made the list... which is weird because I've never even heard that word before.
You didn't make the list, either, so why should it contain only words that you've heard of?
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Never if my fucking life have I heard of a blook.
The internet is a very big place.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
Finland is not part of Scandinavia, its just Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and arguably Iceland. Finland is a distinctly different culteral, linguistic, and ethnic group.
What Fucking AOL user from hell came up with that shit.
Interweb needs to be on that list.
I can't stand the term technorati, which is always seems to be used to refer to smug, self-satisfied, techier-than-thou individuals.
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
I don't mind lazy typists all that much. When I see excessive use of 133t, "u r kewl," etc. I know that I can safely ignore whatever that person is writing. It's makes a whole class of idiots easy to filter, like spam that uses the word "viagra." What bugs me is when I waste my time reading something with good spelling and grammar only to find that the author had nothing to say, though I suppose that doesn't happen often.
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The top ten most hated lists on the Internet!
Who is Slashdot Ted? He's not a parody of MS Bob is he?
This is funnier than Slashdottit (Slashdot tit).
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How did "Lulu Blooker" not make the list?
This has been going on forever. Our beloved "O.K" comes from young kids in the early 20th century deliberately misspelling "All Correct" as "Oll Korrect", just to be 1337.
Wow, that's going to come as quite a shock to the folks over at Tor. They'll have to wonder why they've been paying him royalties.
...and am a an active Wikipedian... [but] Never if my fucking life have I heard of a blook
Err.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlookIcan imagine somebody making a blog for a wiki, but not so much a wiki for a blog; anyway, Idon't think there can be anything bad in it, if it's an informative resource rather than a personal homepage only displaying the author's contact info. Hmm, poorly worded; Imean that a wiki potentially editable by only one person is a waste of screen space. Though, as you can choose a different layout, that makes it less bad. But, as long as it's separate, what's the big deal with making it with a blog, or without?
Sorry, but you, sir, are wrong about "URL," "VOIP," and "RIAA." I have rarely if ever heard people pronounce those words as acronyms, and for damn good reason. "Earl" is a noun already; "voyp" sounds really stupid, and doesn't reflect the "IP" origin of the word; "rhea" for RIAA, while certainly appropriate in its evocation of diarrhea, doesn't capture the second "A," unless you pronounce it "ree-AAH." "are-eye-double-A" would be a better choice. I also had to consult the interwebs to figure out who the hell uses "FIAT" as an abbreviation (the answer, for anyone besides Atario, is Python programmers: FInite element Automatic Tabulator).
You may think you're ahead of the curve, or some sort of trend-setter by treating these abbreviations as acronyms, but sometimes it just isn't meant to be. Ever heard someone try to pronounce, rather than spell, PCMCIA? Or NAACP? Maybe someday earl, voyp, and rhea will be common usage--then I'll have to eat my words. But in this argument, today, you sound like a snotty script kiddie who pronounces IRC as "irk."
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Seriously, Web 2.0 has to be the most annoying new catch phrase re: internet. I've read various definitions and I still don't get what Web 2.0 is, especially considering many of the things people cite as examples of Web 2.0 were capable during the "1.0" period, or at least the technology exist.
There is no point in referring to any aspect of the World Wide Web as Web 2.0.
This is the first appearance of the word on the public web. And as painful as folksonomy is as a word, it was and is useful shorthand to talk about tagging. I know it sounds like it should be illegal in 13 states, and I think it's ridiculous to use a specialized disciplinary term like that on a survey of lay people (why not include specialized medical jargon if you're going to include jargon from IA geeks).
Folksonomy is at home with tagging, facets, controlled vocabulary, taxonomy, and classification...regular folks shouldn't need to think about such things, any more than they think about LISP or Ruby on Rails or Apache or Tomcat or J2EE.
The article posted reveals the firth through fifth results of the survey (folksonomy, blogosphere, blog, netiquette, blook), and then the ninth and tenth (cookie and wiki). What were the sixth, seventh and eighth most irritating internet words, according to the study?