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Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stop-saying-that dept.

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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  1. The list by plover · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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    1. Re:The list by heptapod · · Score: 5, Funny

      So pretty much any term used at BoingBoing???

    2. Re:The list by The+Mad+Debugger · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    3. Re:The list by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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    4. Re:The list by krelian · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

    5. Re:The list by AoT · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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    6. Re:The list by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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    7. Re:The list by Dal+Platinum · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

    8. Re:The list by grammar+fascist · · Score: 4, Funny

      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...

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  2. FP by JEGSYDAU · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. 3 obvious missing words .. by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny
    Where are:
    1. goatse.cz
    2. tubgirl.jpg
    3. 133t

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

  4. xkcd Annoying Internet Terms Grid by Compholio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Interblag

  5. Top of the list... by bennomatic · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slashdotted!

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  6. Re:Not the first post! by megaditto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fortune for you!

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  7. Re:The poll. by thegrassyknowl · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  8. Spam terms by Infonaut · · Score: 4, Funny

    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
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  9. A UK thing?!? It's Scandinavian.. by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.
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  10. Re:Wired's Memes by funkify · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  11. Re:Netiquette by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 4, Funny

    Usenet has etiquette? Who'd have thought?