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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."
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By far, the one term that irritates me above all: GNU/Linux.
How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. First, there is the awkward nature of GNU itself -- the idiocy that the hard-G is pronounced (gah-new -- UGH). Then there is uglyness of the term, all those syllables falling over each other. Thirdly, there is the irritation of the arrogance itself, that RMS thinks that a set of tools is more important than every other function of the operating system.
And finally, there is Stallman himself, who is so dogmatic and, above all, impolite that he's actually been known not to speak to people unless they use his preferred term.
When you add it all up, nothing beats GNU/Linux for sheer irritation.
(And yes, I realize that some people will disagree with me about the above. Fine, it doesn't irritate you, I'm happy for you.)
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.