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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. Re:The list by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My number 1 term is "mashup". "Netiquette" doesn't bother me so much because it's just a shortening of "Internet Etiquette". Thus "netiquette" is perfectly natural. Similarly if you wanted to call "service combinations" something like "webcombos" I'd have no issue. But "mashup"?!? Who came up with that one? It sounds like it needs potatoes (!) or something. :P

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  2. needless prefixing by timmarhy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    first it was e-this and e-that and now it's i-everything. fucking annoying people

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  3. Re:LOOSE by dp3n3tr8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would prolly vote for prolly. That being said there are prolly other people who prolly find prolly less offensive than something other than prolly. Prolly.

  4. "Blook" - Something is Fishy by DavidD_CA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

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