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Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?
Internet slang often shows up on HN. Which of it most annoys you?
- bhauer 14y agoThe slang (or is it a meme?) that I feel has totally run its course is "Said nobody, ever" and its many variants. We get it, you are very clever for saying something positive and then inverting it into snark. Bravo.
- sli 14y ago"Said nobody, ever" is simply the new version of the mid-90s' use of "not."
- tokenadult 14y agoEmphasize the positive. Upvote the comments that are thoughtful and based on reliable sources, and don't worry so much about habits of written expression (which, for many people here, include using English as a second language).
- josephjrobison 14y agoOverused words of 2012/2013: Awesome - "We believe in building awesome products that make your life better." Passionate - "We are passionate about bringing 3D advertising to the web." Obsessed - "I am obsessed with brunch." I'm not dissing excited people, just wishing more people would use more creative words.
- general_failure 14y agoeveryone's favorite - synergy
- darkf 14y agoSynergy of the Cloud, man.
- jwpeddle 14y agoThe only thing that drives me irrationally bonkers is the increasing use of "loosing" instead of "losing", even here on HN (https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=loosing https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=loosing). Mostly because I cannot comprehend how anyone can not know how to spell "losing". However, this isn't slang.
- roberto 14y agoYou cannot comprehend? Goose. Rose. I can see how writing "loose" instead of "lose" happens, especially for non-native speakers.
- RougeFemme 14y agoEven if you are a native speaker, typos happen.
- cmoscoso 14y agoThis.
- davidw 14y agoOh how I loathe thee, "this.", let me count the ways...
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- mrintegrity 14y agoThis. i am so glad it is winning. chances that this poll help its speedy demise? none. at least i finally get to use it without feeling slughtly ill
- aaronbrethorst 14y ago"epic" - this. The use of the word epic makes me want to loose my mind. lol. "This burrito is so epic it should've been in Beowulf," said nobody ever. tl;dr stop using that word! Besides—ahem—epic overuse of the word 'epic,' my most loathed turn of phrase is 'The X that is Y'. For example, "the failure that is Microsoft". Stop saying this, nerds! You're not being clever!
- bhauer 14y agoNicely done, sir.
- AndrewDucker 14y agoOn a similar note: http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2012/10/01/watered-down http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2012/10/01/watered-down
- aaronbrethorst 14y agoI'm now required to respond by saying "I see what you did there."
- general_failure 14y ago"broken"
- Ao7bei3s 14y agoCould be worse: "borken"
- jscarantino 14y agoMOOC
- haydenj0nes 14y ago"relevant xkcd" (link to xkcd comic we have all read before)
- DanBC 14y agoOn HN I try to avoid contractions[1] and initialisms. I know that many people reading do not have have English as a first language. [1] Apart from the very common, such as "don't" or "can't" etc.
- calciphus 14y agoHack
- calciphus 14y agoTo be fair, I love and adore hacker culture. However "hack" and "hacker" have already become so inundated with misuse as to be nearly meaningless. "Growth hacker" "hack the <blank> industry" recruitment letters, etc.
- farinasa 14y agoHack is often used in the sense: Well it wasn't intended to work that way, but it does, it's a workaround, or "hack".
- Ao7bei3s 14y agoYes, but that's probably not what calciphus meant: the problem is that now apparently anyone doing a startup creating some random web application (using their tools pretty much exactly as intended) or whatever and making (or dreaming of making, anyway) lots of money qualifies as a "hacker". So sad that it's been commercialized like this. Just look at "Hacker" News. Thats not hacker news, that's YC marketing.
- code177 14y agoYOLO.
- calciphus 14y agoThat's an easy one to fix as adults. We just start using it badly. "Don't text and drive. YOLO."
- starnixgod 14y agoYOLO is Carpe Diem for stupid people.
- hollerith 14y agoI know these are not not technically slang, but "At the end of the day, . . ." and "I see what you did there."
- irickt 14y ago"performant" Performs well how exactly? I've gotten over the fact that "it's not a word". This is how new (useless) words enter the lexicon.
- badkangaroo 14y agoyolo
- pktm 14y ago"Meta," as an adjective and not, say, a prefix. Bad: "That show is so meta." Good: "Let's look at the metadata to make sure our tables are really well-structured."
- subsection1h 14y agoIt's not slang, but I'm bothered when people use the words "setup" and "login" as verbs while using the phrases "setting up" and "logging in". If you're going to use "setup" and "login" as verbs, please use the words "setupping" and "loginning". I especially like "loginning".
- hollerith 14y agoThe verbs are "set up" and "log in". "Setup" and "login" would be nouns, as in, "Can I see your setup?" and, "What is your login?" Since you prefer "loginning" to "logging in", do you also prefer "beatupping him" to "beating him up" and "dropoutting" to "dropping out"?
- bakersma 14y agoWhen people refer to their email address as an "addy". Drives me crazy. Why do they do it ????
- daGrevis 14y agoU mad, bro?
- _mhp_ 14y ago$location: I am in you.