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<blockquote data-quote="babomb" data-source="post: 3604520" data-attributes="member: 1316"><p><em>lol</em> doesn't bother me <em>per se</em>, but people use it when they aren't really laughing at things that aren't really funny, so it bothers me quite a bit.</p><p></p><p><em>Cyberspace</em> has always irked me, probably because I've never seen it used by anyone who was computer literate. The dreaded non-word <em>irregardless</em> makes me want to scream, especially when I see it in professionally edited books.</p><p></p><p>A lot of people use <em>literally</em> to mean "figuratively", the exact opposite of literally! It irks me to no end, except when it makes me laugh.</p><p></p><p>There is a phrase I hear often, "That's so diculous, it's RE-diculous.". Oy! On the other hand, I quite enjoy meaningful back formation, such as <em>sheveled</em>, meaning "having tidy hair".</p><p></p><p><em>Verbing</em> is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autological_words" target="_blank">autological</a> word that I rather enjoy, even if it [http://www.ourlocalstyle.com/images/uploadImages/2006/05/03/cnhVerbingWeirdsLanguage.gif]"weirds language"[/url]. But some verbs are just not meant to be, like <em>efforting</em> (*shudder*). There's already a perfectly good word for that: <em>trying</em>. <em>Heart</em> is pretty annoying as a verb, too.</p><p></p><p>I also find it amusing when quotation marks are used for emphasis, because it reads to me as though the people don't believe it themselves (or else they would assert it without resorting to quoting some unnamed source) and are being ironic. We don't have fresh fruit, but we have "fresh" (which is to say, rotten) fruit.</p><p></p><p>One of my friends uses commas as though they were semicolons, which is to say he uses them to combine sentences without a conjunction.</p><p></p><p>Some of you will enjoy this: <a href="http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif" target="_blank">http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif</a>.</p><p></p><p>N. B., as you may have noticed above, I deliberately break the rules regarding punctuation going inside of quotation marks. I think my version makes a lot more sense, although I suppose the same could be said of the attempts at English spelling reform; my grammar house rule, if I may call it that, is simply more meager and arguably looks less ridiculous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="babomb, post: 3604520, member: 1316"] [i]lol[/i] doesn't bother me [i]per se[/i], but people use it when they aren't really laughing at things that aren't really funny, so it bothers me quite a bit. [i]Cyberspace[/i] has always irked me, probably because I've never seen it used by anyone who was computer literate. The dreaded non-word [i]irregardless[/i] makes me want to scream, especially when I see it in professionally edited books. A lot of people use [i]literally[/i] to mean "figuratively", the exact opposite of literally! It irks me to no end, except when it makes me laugh. There is a phrase I hear often, "That's so diculous, it's RE-diculous.". Oy! On the other hand, I quite enjoy meaningful back formation, such as [i]sheveled[/i], meaning "having tidy hair". [i]Verbing[/i] is an [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autological_words]autological[/url] word that I rather enjoy, even if it [http://www.ourlocalstyle.com/images/uploadImages/2006/05/03/cnhVerbingWeirdsLanguage.gif]"weirds language"[/url]. But some verbs are just not meant to be, like [i]efforting[/i] (*shudder*). There's already a perfectly good word for that: [i]trying[/i]. [i]Heart[/i] is pretty annoying as a verb, too. I also find it amusing when quotation marks are used for emphasis, because it reads to me as though the people don't believe it themselves (or else they would assert it without resorting to quoting some unnamed source) and are being ironic. We don't have fresh fruit, but we have "fresh" (which is to say, rotten) fruit. One of my friends uses commas as though they were semicolons, which is to say he uses them to combine sentences without a conjunction. Some of you will enjoy this: [url]http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif[/url]. N. B., as you may have noticed above, I deliberately break the rules regarding punctuation going inside of quotation marks. I think my version makes a lot more sense, although I suppose the same could be said of the attempts at English spelling reform; my grammar house rule, if I may call it that, is simply more meager and arguably looks less ridiculous. [/QUOTE]
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