Slang you hate

[Flash]

To conversate ...

When did that become a verb?

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

To conversate ...

Raising my hand to second that emotion. Yuck.

Of course, I bristle at "commentate," so what do I know?

 

[zeke12]

After watching ten minutes of ESPN's college football coverage last weekend:

"trickeration"

 

[mike311gd]

"Whooop."

Thanks a lot, Berman.

 

[ondeadline]

"Whooop."

Thanks a lot, Berman.

I'm so sick of Berman that, when watching the Sunday night SportsCenters, I mute the "Blitz" segments.

 

[MacDaddy]

I'm with you on that. I also do not abbreviate in text messages, out of stubborn principle.

My girlfriend once told me my text messages contain better spelling than most people do on a keyboard. I think that's a compliment.

I was driving at the time. 8)

I do so much texting while driving, that I've become very skilled at the task. T9 is one of the greatest inventions in recent memory.

Methinks texting while driving is your bad.

 

[MacDaddy]

I find it really annoying and just plain stupid when people respond to my thanking them at a store by saying to me, "It's all good."

People who use that term regularly/constantly, to me, sound stupid and uneducated.

Because of a thread similar to this one years ago, I now make a point to always respond to "thank you" with "you're welcome."

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

I can't stand, "The Tom Bradys and Peyton Mannings will make this a great game."
What's wrong with just specifying that it is a particular Tom Brady or Peyton Manning we're talking about?

A standing ovation to that. I hate the plural of a player ****. Drives me nuts. If you mean the player, just say the player. If you mean someone like him, either say "A player similar to Tom Brady or Peyton Manning" or say "an elite NFL quarterback"

 

[mike311gd]

I'm with you on that. I also do not abbreviate in text messages, out of stubborn principle.

My girlfriend once told me my text messages contain better spelling than most people do on a keyboard. I think that's a compliment.

I was driving at the time. 8)

I do so much texting while driving, that I've become very skilled at the task. T9 is one of the greatest inventions in recent memory.

Methinks texting while driving is your bad.

I admit it's not safe at all, but once you memorize the keypad, you can do it without looking. And my driving can't be that bad -- it's been almost five years since my last accident and more than two years since my last ticket.

 

[Precious Roy]

methinks

love me some

sammiches

To expand on sammiches, Dane Cook did the language much injustice when he introduced the word sangwiches. I was sitting with the wife getting her enrolled in college and a girl said she was going to get a sangwich, to which I almost jumped over the desk and strangled her, never to eat that god-forsaken sangwich.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

I can't stand, "The Tom Bradys and Peyton Mannings will make this a great game."
What's wrong with just specifying that it is a particular Tom Brady or Peyton Manning we're talking about?

A standing ovation to that. I hate the plural of a player ****. Drives me nuts. If you mean the player, just say the player. If you mean someone like him, either say "A player similar to Tom Brady or Peyton Manning" or say "an elite NFL quarterback"

In all my life, I've never had a standing ovation before.
*tear*

 

[HandsomeHarley]

Not slang, but I do have a rant that may fit on this thread.

"Dodger blue"

There is no such mother ****ing color as Dodger blue. There IS Royal blue, navy blue, sky blue, midnight blue, dark blue, light blue ... but there IS NO SUCH ******* COLOR AS DODGER BLUE.

/end rant

 

[BigRed]

Scholly.
Commonly found on fanboy Internet message boards, used as, "How many schollys is Pitstain U gonna give out this year?"
Drives me up the ****ing wall.

 

[NotCalvinsKid]

GFY

 

[ADifferentOkie]

Not slang, but I do have a rant that may fit on this thread.

"Dodger blue"

There is no such mother ****ing color as Dodger blue. There IS Royal blue, navy blue, sky blue, midnight blue, dark blue, light blue ... but there IS NO SUCH ******* COLOR AS DODGER BLUE.

/end rant

In the same vein, there is "Carolina blue," which is also powder blue or baby blue.
Of course, calling North Carolina "Carolina" is slang in itself.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Not slang, but I do have a rant that may fit on this thread.

"Dodger blue"

There is no such mother ****ing color as Dodger blue. There IS Royal blue, navy blue, sky blue, midnight blue, dark blue, light blue ... but there IS NO SUCH ******* COLOR AS DODGER BLUE.

/end rant

I think Dodger Blue is supposed to be more a concept than an actual color.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

**** the concept. I hate the Dodgers.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Not slang, but I do have a rant that may fit on this thread.

"Dodger blue"

There is no such mother ****ing color as Dodger blue. There IS Royal blue, navy blue, sky blue, midnight blue, dark blue, light blue ... but there IS NO SUCH ******* COLOR AS DODGER BLUE.

/end rant

In the same vein, there is "Carolina blue," which is also powder blue or baby blue.
Of course, calling North Carolina "Carolina" is slang in itself.

And South Carolina calls its school "Carolina" as well, which is equally ignorant.

The only two things that are "Carolina," at least in the sports world, are the NFL's Panthers and the NHL's Hurricanes.