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."

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The list

[plover]

To save you the trouble of Reading TFA, here they are:

10. Chump.
9. Chumpette.
8. Yours.
7. Up.
6. Pimpmobile.
5. Bite.
4. My.
3. Shiny.
2. Blogosphere.
1. Ass.

Re:The list

[heptapod]

So pretty much any term used at BoingBoing???

Re:The list

[The Mad Debugger]

I blame Wired. I swear they make up new stupid trendy words just to piss me off. Web 2.0. Bah.

Re:The list

[Hal_Porter]

Mashup comes from the underground music scene. It's when people download two copyrighted pieces of music which required lots of musical ability to produce and mix them together ironically on their Mac (which requires a hell of a lot less ability) and then generously donate the result to the Creative Commons.

Actually, that reminds me of my least favourite word, digerati. It's the blogosphere equivalent of the popular group in an American high school. Annoyingly it's usually used by socially well connected Web 2.0 types who have little talent or idea about the underlying technology.

Re:The list

[hobo sapiens]

I blame software vendors. I had a guy pitching MS Sharepoint to my group at work. He touted one of the virtues of Sharepoint as allowing "asynchronous collaboration". Of course we all know what he was trying to say, but to me that means MS Word: when someone has it locked for editing nobody else can open the copy and save it. That's asynchronous collaboration, right? Stupid vendors.

Re:The list

[krelian]

I cant think of any words spawned by the internet which I really dislike but one internet phenomena that irritates me are people who reply to the first comment just to get their post near the top even though they have no intention to actually reply to the parent.

Re: The list

[dedazo]

Counting from zero:

0. IM IN TEH INTERNETS IRRITATEING YUOR WORDZ

Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

Re:The list

[AoT]

I hate the damn word. It sounds like it should be a swear word. "Aaaah, blog it!"

Nothing wrong with the things, you know I had a blog before the were even called blogs.(gotta build up my internet cred.)

Back then we had to telnet in, both ways! Over dial-up if we were lucky, or else we would just make weird noises on the phone. "kshhhhhh boing, boing! Kshhhhhhhh."

Ahh the god old days.

Re:The list

[ascendant]

I like this page much more:
If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide.

Re:The list

[Hal_Porter]

Actually, 'mashup' is a word used in Jamaica and some other former British colonies in Britain.

I meant to say 'British colonies in the Caribbean'. Need sleep....

What you originally wrote made perfect sense to me. I thought you meant South London.

Re:The list

[Dal Platinum]

Luxury.

I had to write my first blog by hand.

In binary.

And then take a sack full of paper two towns over, barefoot, to have it moderated.

Getting your post flamed back then was a whole different story.

sigh.

Re:The list

[bazorg]

All of them perfectly cromulent words if you ask me...

Re:The list

[RMH101]

"Verbing weirds language"

Re:The list

[Scrameustache]

Actually, 'mashup' is a word used in Jamaica and some other former British colonies in Britain.
I meant to say 'British colonies in the Caribbean'. Need sleep....

What you originally wrote made perfect sense to me. I thought you meant South London. 2007, the British Empire lays in ruin.
Foreigners walk the streets, many of them... Hungarian. (The foreigners, not the streets.)

Re:The list

[MysteriousPreacher]

With jokes like that, looks like I picked a bad day to go internetting.

Re:The list

[rho]

Web log::Weblog::"We blog"

Like you said, silly. It's a terrible word. Who would want to call themselves a "blogger"? Yet thousands do, and think themselves quite important to boot.

Re:The list

[Experiment 626]

Ahh the god old days.

No, in the god old days, there was no telnet and important communications were sent using a burning bush (great for getting the recipient's attention, though some might question the lack of a heat sink) and the only recordable media available for downloading things like commandments were stone tablets, which got pretty heavy if you bought a whole spindle.

Re:The list

[FuzzyFox]

Anyone using the word "meatspace" and trying to sound serious just comes off as sounding like a complete twit who's trying to sound clever. God, I hate that word.

Can you imagine the President giving a speech: "We're fighting them in Meatspace in order to head off their attack in Cyberspace." Aggghh!!

Re:The list

[slashbob22]

My hovercraft is full of eels.

it's the first translation I think of whenever I see a new intarweb word.

Re:The list

[grammar fascist]

You were lucky.

In my day, I had to write my first blog post by scratching the symbols on stone with my teeth. I did it in unary. With little bison as the digits. (Three bison followed by four means "mood: hungry".) If you wanted your post read, you removed it from the cave wall with your bare fingers and then traveled, beating people over the head with it.

Don't get me started on my grandpa's first blog post. He had to emit a chemical signal, which was released by wiggling his flagellum...

Re:The list

[jc42]

Can you imagine the President giving a speech: "We're fighting them in Meatspace in order to head off their attack in Cyberspace."

Actually, I can imagine Al Gore or Hillary Clinton saying that, but not the current meathead.

Re:The list

[d34thm0nk3y]

No, you were lucky.

Back in my day people who made these tired ass "back in my day" jokes in every single damn thread got shot in the face.

Now get off my lawn!

FP

[JEGSYDAU]

OMG PONIEZ First post.... Now THAT's annoying.

3 obvious missing words ..

[tomhudson]

Where are:

1. goatse.cz
2. tubgirl.jpg
3. 133t

I mean really! The list sounds like they're stuck in the early '80s.

xkcd Annoying Internet Terms Grid

[Compholio]

Interblag

Top of the list...

[bennomatic]

Slashdotted!

Re:Folksonomy???

[Anonymous Coward]

Surprising, most people would've googlised such netcabulary

Re:Yes, I am a grammar Nazi

[tomhudson]

I see your "Grammar Nazi" and raise you a "Creative Interpretation" :-)

PROLLY

It's PROBABLY people!

Then again, while its probably people, it might be a script ... or a dog ... after all, on the internet, nobody knows if ...

Re:Read the OED

[Anonymous Coward]

atmosphere?

Re:mashup

[nlitement]

Your habit must be addicting.

My votes are for irritating people

[SuperBanana]

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.

Re:"Cookie"?

[MillionthMonkey]

It has to be called a "cookie". It's stored in a file called cookies.txt.

I thought the most hated words were

[stox]

RIAA, MPAA, DHS, NSA, FBI, IRS, and Vista. Not necessarily in that order.

Re:Folksonomy???

[Anonymous Coward]

Folksonomy is the #1 most hated word??? This poll is the first time I've even heard it.

Yes, and now don't you hate it! ARGH!

1337 speak

[GFree]

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.

Re:Not the first post!

[megaditto]

Fortune for you!

Re:The poll.

[thegrassyknowl]

It is true, old people are often concerned that children are playing on their lawn!

Most annoying phrase...

[Actually, I do RTFA]

1. In Soviet Russia, post firsts you!
2. ???????
3. All your profit are belong to us.

Re:"Cookie"?

[Drantin]

Just remember, cookies are delicious delicacies...

Re:Word compression

[rts008]

Yeah, you have the:

iPod, iPhone, and now the IANAL...for lawyers.
The IANAL started life as a 90 pound jackhammer powered by an 80 horsepower diesel driven air compressor, modified to run off of your USB port. As an added bonus, it retains the quick change tool-tip feature, so it can still be used as a jackhammer if needed!

Be the first lawyer on your block with IANAL. Liven up your next Bar Association meeting, wow your friends, and you too can be the next goatse!

Spam terms

[Infonaut]

Yes, they exist independent of the Internet, but damn, I've grown to hate these terms:

1. Viagra
2. Adobe Creative Suite 3
3. Greetings, I am ...
4. Credit
5. 0EM Softwares
6. Watch this stock
7. Allume Systems - A Smith Micro Company
8. Auto CAD
9. Weight loss
10. Bank

aah, STFU

[Max Littlemore]

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?

Re:LOOSE

[Anonymous Coward]

"Definately"!

Re:"Cookie"?

[MadMidnightBomber]

It's spelled 'cookie' but it's pronounce 'Throat-warbler-mangrove'.

A UK thing?!? It's Scandinavian..

[Savage-Rabbit]

nd I've never heard blook or folksonomy -- must be a UK thing. Actually neither has anything to do with the UK or the internet; I don't know how those words even made that list?!? Folksonomy was the name of the town the town in Finland where Linus Torvalds was born, of course that was before they changed it to Linuxsonomisalmi in his honor (btw. you Americans always get the spelling wrong, in Finnish it's: Folksonomisalmi) . The place is a Mecca for Linux users everywhere. Blook, however, is a Swedish delicacy made from herring, pickled in vodka with reindeer lichen added for flavor. Cracking open a barrel of Blook is also an excellent way of fumigating your house since Blook emits strong alcoholic vapors laced with lichen essence for the first half hour or so after you open the barrel. Just don't light any matches or operate electric equipment while the fumes are dissipating due to the danger of triggering an explosion.

Re:Wired's Memes

[funkify]

Myself, I would have said "spread". There's really nothing wrong with short, simple, ancient, Anglo-Saxon words.

Of course, that's a perfectly cromulent word.

Re:Netiquette

[Antique Geekmeister]

Usenet has etiquette? Who'd have thought?

Re:LOOSE

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, that one bugs me ALOT.