Which "word" is worse?

[loinburger]

[Darius871]

AAAAGH! I KNEW I forgot one!!!11one

And don't get me started on "appropriate"...

AAAAAAAAGHH!!! The prof. just spouted another: "adequate"!

[Darius871]

Oh, and how could I forget "many"! The word that only leaves you guessing, guessing 'bout the things you really ought to know, whoah oh! I really oughta know, you know I should, you know I should!

[The Mad Monk]

AAAAGH! I KNEW I forgot one!!!11one

And don't get me started on "appropriate"...

You're never running for Congress then, I take it?

[Nikolai]

Of those, obviously thrade. lulz is just cute girly talk. But thrade is just like someone trying to offer you a deal on a fetus coctail, and he even can't manage to talk properly.

[Darius871]

You're never running for Congress then, I take it?

No, I'd gladly be in Congress for the purposes of prohibiting such words and providing a black-letter, numerical bright line rule for every single situation that could possibly implicate any law.

For just one out of a few billion examples, 26 USC 280A(c)(1) home office deductions would be available to anyone who spends some time doing work-related administrative or managerial activities in said office and spends no more than 20% of work time on such activities somewhere else (e.g. the workplace), instead of barring the deduction when there's a "substantial" amount of the latter. And so on and so forth.

[-Jrabbit]

Some schmuck on wikipedia spends all of his time looking for articles on portmanteaus and inserting "this word is a portmanteau" into the article along with a link to the portmanteau article. Within five minutes of learning the word "portmanteau" I hated it.

I think the same guy looks for articles in which to insert a link to "eponymous."

The thing to do is to hijack all his links. Try to convince the world that "portmanteau" is actually a long cape with a ruffled collar.

[Drake Tungsten]

**** you, Wikipedia dorks...

Although Deandra shows no on-camera stage fright, she consistently faces severe glossophobia when performing in front of an audience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Always_Sunny_in_Philadelphia

[BeBMan]

Dunno which is moar annoying...

[Japher]

It's not so much the word, but the delivery... or more so, the deliverer.

If someone is using leet speak to try any be annoying than it is generally ignored. If, however, someone is using it because they can be arsed to use proper grammar, spell check, or punctuation than you are looking for the "poke in eye" button on your computer.

Still, people who always write in italics are the real evils of the interweebs.

[OzzyKP]

lulz has kind of grown on me.

[HalfLotus]

I had to google thrade and check the urban dictionary.

Whoever mentioned irregardless was the winner though

[Boris Godunov]

"thrade"

Only an idiot would use it.

[Flubber]

As a law student, I'd like to see the words "substantial," "reasonable," and "undue" permanently deleted from the English language.

(Yes, I know that would hurt my chances at employment, and yes, it'd be worth it.)

Reasonable is here to stay. You would not BELIEVE how many lawyers require a reasonable standard on all sorts of contractual terms and requirements

Plus so many standard terms . .. . .


In Canada we don't use substantial that much

[Cort Haus]

Thrade.