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."

Comments

Folksonomy???

[EEBaum]

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!

Re:The list

[aichpvee]

The only one you need to know: podcast. Most annoying word EVER!

mashup

[shird]

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.

The poll.

[Zeebs]

The poll also showed that respondants had a desire for children to 'get off their lawn'.

LOOSE

[PingXao]

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.

MIssing an important one

[Fett101]

Amazed they left out the worst buzzword ever. Web 2.0 *shudder*

Re:Word compression

[AusIV]

Same here. My biggest gripes are when people are simply too lazy to type a couple of letters. While I am one of the faster typists around, it just seems incredibly lazy to write "wat" or "wut" instead of "what". I don't mind (and occasionally use) abbreviations such as "lol" (though Ha ha generally seems appropriate and is only 2 characters longer), and WTF - which is generally used to tone down language.

It also bothers me when people use abbreviations I've never heard of. It took me for ever to figure out what IANAL stood for (for those who still don't know, "I Am Not A Lawyer").

Netiquette?

[Lewisham]

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"

Words on the Internet that irritate me

[VGPowerlord]

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.

Re:"Blook" - Something is Fishy

[Shohat]

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.

Fanboi

[stewbacca]

Fanboi is my most hated. First, the lazy spelling... second, the misuse of the intention of the word. If I give PhD quality reserach findings about Topic X and some slashdot a$$hole has a different (and commonly incorrect) opinion, suddenly I'm a fanboi.

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.

Re:Fanboi

[Aladrin]

I would bet that most of the time you're called a troll is because of how you state the information, instead of what information you state. Using a lot of insults is the most common, but presenting things as totally one-sided will do it also.

As for 'lazy spelling'... It's not. It's an additional deliberate insult. 'boi' is used to mean 'gay boy', so they are insulting your fanatical one-sidedness as well as calling you 'gay'. 'Fanboys' are simply fanatically one-sided.

If you're giving 'PhD quality' information, you are probably also talking over their heads. If you sound like you are just spewing 'big words', they are going to think you are only trying to confuse them with made-up information. (It's a self protection mechanism. If they knew how stupid they were, they couldn't deal with life.) High-level logic is totally pointless with these people, and dumbing the logic down to a sufficient level is rarely going to be worth your time.

Personally, I've just accepted the fact that there are more idiots than geniuses, and I've quit responding -at all- to the idiots. They really do just go away if you ignore them.

Standard jargon misunderstandings

[Archtech]

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".