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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. The list by plover · · Score: 5, Funny
    To save you the trouble of Reading TFA, here they are:

    10. Chump.
    9. Chumpette.
    8. Yours.
    7. Up.
    6. Pimpmobile.
    5. Bite.
    4. My.
    3. Shiny.
    2. Blogosphere.
    1. Ass.

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    1. Re:The list by aichpvee · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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    2. Re:The list by heptapod · · Score: 5, Funny

      So pretty much any term used at BoingBoing???

    3. Re:The list by arun_s · · Score: 5, Informative

      Oblig. maddox link.

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    4. Re:The list by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mashup comes from the underground music scene. It's when people download two copyrighted pieces of music which required lots of musical ability to produce and mix them together ironically on their Mac (which requires a hell of a lot less ability) and then generously donate the result to the Creative Commons.

      Actually, that reminds me of my least favourite word, digerati. It's the blogosphere equivalent of the popular group in an American high school. Annoyingly it's usually used by socially well connected Web 2.0 types who have little talent or idea about the underlying technology.

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    5. Re:The list by krelian · · Score: 5, Funny

      I cant think of any words spawned by the internet which I really dislike but one internet phenomena that irritates me are people who reply to the first comment just to get their post near the top even though they have no intention to actually reply to the parent.

    6. Re:The list by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, 'mashup' is a word used in Jamaica and some other former British colonies in Britain.

      I meant to say 'British colonies in the Caribbean'. Need sleep....

      What you originally wrote made perfect sense to me. I thought you meant South London.

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    7. Re:The list by Dal+Platinum · · Score: 5, Funny

      Luxury.

      I had to write my first blog by hand.

      In binary.

      And then take a sack full of paper two towns over, barefoot, to have it moderated.

      Getting your post flamed back then was a whole different story.

      sigh.

  2. FP by JEGSYDAU · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG PONIEZ First post.... Now THAT's annoying.

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  3. Top of the list... by bennomatic · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slashdotted!

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  4. mashup by shird · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  5. The poll. by Zeebs · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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  6. LOOSE by PingXao · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  7. MIssing an important one by Fett101 · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  8. Re:Not the first post! by megaditto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fortune for you!

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  9. "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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  10. Netiquette by arth1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  11. Words on the Internet that irritate me by VGPowerlord · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  12. Re:Wired's Memes by funkify · · Score: 5, Funny

    Myself, I would have said "spread". There's really nothing wrong with short, simple, ancient, Anglo-Saxon words.

    Of course, that's a perfectly cromulent word.