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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."
10. Chump.
9. Chumpette.
8. Yours.
7. Up.
6. Pimpmobile.
5. Bite.
4. My.
3. Shiny.
2. Blogosphere.
1. Ass.
John
OMG PONIEZ First post.... Now THAT's annoying.
JEG / SYD / AU
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?
I mean really! The list sounds like they're stuck in the early '80s.
Interblag
The CB App. What's your 20?
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.
I.O.U One Sig.
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!!"
I see your "Grammar Nazi" and raise you a "Creative Interpretation" :-)
Then again, while its probably people, it might be a script ... or a dog ... after all, on the internet, nobody knows if ...
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*
1)Cory Doctorow, the internet hipster who, despite claiming to be such a damn good author, hasn't been able to get a publishing contract. He's against copyright, but he's got no problem with a little book-burning:
What kind of jerk sculptor sells the city a piece of public art for a public park and then demands that no one take pictures of it? Christ, they should run this guy out of town on a rail and melt the goddamned sculpture down for scrap.
2)Xeni Jardin, the girl who is just too cool to use her real name. Because, like, something happened with her dad. She's the world's foremost self-appointed expert on how we use cell phones. Or...something like that.
Put them together and you have the most irritating self-righteous people on the planet.
Please help metamoderate.
It has to be called a "cookie". It's stored in a file called cookies.txt.
RIAA, MPAA, DHS, NSA, FBI, IRS, and Vista. Not necessarily in that order.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
Anything that encompasses "leet/1337" speak. I was fine with it years ago, but now it's become tiresome.
There are only so many times the phrase "OMG I PWNED J00 N00BZ0RZ LOLOLOLOL" can be uttered over VoIP before you want to punch the little shit in the head.
"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....
Three Squirrels
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?
Fortune for you!
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
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:
Your ad here. Ask me how!
Your ad here. Ask me how!
Just remember, cookies are delicious delicacies...
Actio personalis moritur cum persona. (Dead men don't sue)
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!
Yes, they exist independent of the Internet, but damn, I've grown to hate these terms:
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
first it was e-this and e-that and now it's i-everything. fucking annoying people
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
I quite like STFU. It stands for something, but when you read it as a word, it's kinda like "stuff you". I think that's kinda neat.
IANAL, on the other hand....
IANAL annoys the b'jesus out of me. What is that, some kind of Apple butt plug?
I don't therefore I'm not.
God I hate the word "netizen". And of course "netiquette" is right behind it. Blog is irritating, too. People who are nobodys who whine about no one ever visiting their blog is also pretty annoying. (yes, I am happy to admit I'm a nobody and I don't have a blog!) :) --- also 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
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
-David
God I hate this word. It took me ~6 months to figure out what people meant when they said that they were programming "in AJAX" until I realized that they had no idea what AJAX meant either. As far as I can tell, it's an acronym that describes a mashup (pardon me, I couldn't resist) of various programming techniques into one programming style. The thing people particularly care about is the asynchronous part, why not just call it A instead of creating another meaningless and widely misunderstood buzzword?
Correction: "Netiquette" is a much older term than what many seem to think, and stands for network etiquette, not Internet etiquette.
Netiquette applies just as much to Fidonet, Bitnet, Usenet[1] and other networks.
[1]: Usenet isn't all inside Internet. It becomes more and more so with time, but there's still nodes that use other forms of propagation, whether it's BBS gateways, Fidonet or UUCP.
I think promulgate works fine. Wird is making them known by open declaration, it's publishing it, and in a sense it's teaching an "etc." publicly. It might be slightly awkward in that sentence, but no more so than propagate would be.
Myself, I would have said "spread". There's really nothing wrong with short, simple, ancient, Anglo-Saxon words.
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.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
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.
My Starcraft 2 Blog
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.
It's spelled 'cookie' but it's pronounce 'Throat-warbler-mangrove'.
"It doesn't cost enough, and it makes too much sense."
Wikipedia has it pegged as a publication run by the Communist party, so it should occur as no surprise that words like "blog", "blogosphere", and "wiki", which suggest the dissemination of information, are going to be on the list.
except that meme was coined by a biologist long before 'the internet' was a viable system
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
l8r, m8, 1337 h4x0r etc.
It's either maths or it's English - not both!
But I don't mind the other words. It's just another culture establishing it's own language. Isn't that how most languages and dialects develop?
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.
If it only were one lost letter, I'd probably even think it's a typo. I tend to occasionally lose a letter or two too.
My biggest gripes are with (1) l33t, and (2) words mangled for no other reason than mangling them.
I mean, take the following example taken verbatim from a COH group chat: "soz m8 g2g gt skewl 2moz" No, literally.
Where shall I even start on that abhomination:
1. "skewl" I mean, what the _bloody_ fuck? It's only one letter shorter than "school", but the "o" in "school" is double, so you don't even need to move your fingers much to type it. And _especially_ for one finger typists (since often the excuse for such monstrosities is "I can't type fast enough"), "skewl" actually involves moving your finger around more.
It's a word mangled by retards just to sound "kewl". Fucktards.
2. "soz", "2moz" and other such use of "z" for half the word endings in the fucking dictionary. I mean, wtf? "Z" doesn't even remotely sound like anything with a "r" in it. And which ending _is_ is supposed to be, anyway? "rry" and "rrow" are very different bits of word.
3. "m8", "2moz" and other such l33t use of digits. Here's a thought for those smackards: not everyone is a native English speaker, so their reflex reading of a digit will be in their mother tongue, not in English. So is it "macht"? (8 = Acht in German. "Macht" = power, or the Force.) Mocho? Mhuit? Or what? You're forcing someone to effectively translate it back and forth, piece by piece, just to discover what it means.
Ah well...
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Of course, that's a perfectly cromulent word.
...simply because it's a marketing term with no connection to technology.
Bad English & bad Latin.
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.
Myself, I would have said "spread". There's really nothing wrong with short, simple, ancient, Anglo-Saxon words.
;-).
Except that we native English speakers have roughly 1000 years of social propaganda telling us that Anglo-Saxon words are coarse and vulgar, while words with Latin or French roots are classy. Greek is OK, too, as long as you don't make the mistake of mixing them (despite the fact that the Romans and French have done this all along
It's hard to fight this sort of attitude.
Then there was Mark Twain, who explained that he wrote "cop" rather than "policeman" because he got paid the same for a 1-syllable word as for a 3-syllable word.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.