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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."
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."
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 only one you need to know: podcast. Most annoying word EVER!
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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.
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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!!"
Bender does say Ass a lot; but I forgot his least used word. What was that again?
The word 'blog' annoys me, as does 'voip' when it's said as a word (they pronounce it voyp) and not an acronym. Most of the time people saying "voyp" don't even understand what the technology means.
The term 'hacker' bothers me now because it's been usurped by the media to have a malicious meaning.
Actually lots of words annoy me...
'online' is used far too much.
'NAT firewall' is ponied around too much by clueless people who don't realise that NAT and firewall are two separate parts (that happen to be implemented in the same module).
The term 'RAID' bothers me too because now you can get "raid" controllers in commodity PC hardware everyone suddely "has a raid". I had one guy actually tell me "I've got a raid in my computer, doesn't it go so much faster now?" even though he had the same lone crappy disk in it that he'd always had. The difference was the $200 RAID controller card he brought to plug only one disk into.
My numero-uno (un)favourite Internet-era buzzword is 'web app'. What is a web app, exactly? Everything must have a 'web interface' or 'web application component' these days or people aren't interested in it. How does that work? My ADSL router has a 'web interface' and for the most part it's just crappy.
I drink to make other people interesting!
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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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.
Amazed they left out the worst buzzword ever. Web 2.0 *shudder*
"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....
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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?
I use the sensible terms whenever possible: Audio Feed and Video Feed. Or maybe Audiocast and Videocast.
You're obviously not a punctuation Nazi, however. Let me correct you.
It's "probably," people!
Now read my sig and get over yourself.
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:
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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"
"I call"... BS, shenanigans, whatever.
"Ok, I'll play"...
Those are annoying!
One of my pet peeves is when people use big words incorrectly, like "promulgate". I believe the term you were looking for was "propagate". Promulgate basically means to officially announce a new law or rule.
I think people use newspeak bullcrap words like and "meme" because they're so ill-defined that people can use them any way they want without conveying any meaning at all.
"In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user. You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total.loser." -Weird Al
I can't believe no one posted that . . . I STILL cringe when I hear that word.
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.
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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.
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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.
I think people use newspeak bullcrap words like and "meme" because they're so ill-defined that people can use them any way they want without conveying any meaning at all.
"Meme" is actually pretty well defined isn't it? I'm fairly sure it's been used in a number of peer-reviewed papers even. Admittedly those will be Sociology papers, but even sociologists have to define their words.
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.
...simply because it's a marketing term with no connection to technology.
However, some of the other words are okay in themselves (e.g. "meme", "cookie".... actually, I'm surprised that cookie was in the list at all). I think that a lot of them have been soiled by association with pretentious twats who wanted to get their name in Wired and overused them.
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I disagree.... I think "meme" is a useful word to use when you want to draw attention to the way that ideas propagate and evolve over time. It's only 'newspeak' for a few years and then it becomes part of the language, just like any other word.
Of course it is possible to misuse or overuse the concept, but that's the speaker's fault, not the word's.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Anyone who says "roffal" or "lawl" to me is getting kicked in the nuts. They are not supposed to be pronounced. But anyway, an acronym doesn't have to be pronounced like an actual word to be an acronym.
Slashdot's discussion system is fundamentally broken, and only the first couple of posters get any real attention.
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Indeed; it's usually difficult to even find the top-level replies.
I've often wished there were a mode of access that would show me only the first-level replies, each accompanied by a button/link that would expand it and show its 2nd-level replies, and so on recursively.
That way, I could easily spot and avoid the parts of the tree that degenerate to OT flamefests about religion, politics, Micro$oft, whatever. And I'd probably read at level 1 or 0 rather than the 2 or 3 I usually use now, because there are lots of good posts at the lower levels, and they'd be easier to separate from the chaff.
Now if I could only get my hands on the code and surreptitiously implement it
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