Supper: It's like "dinner", except annoying.
Crazy: "Crazy" is not an adverb. When you use it as one (ex: "You language butchers are crazy stupid"), you sound like a moron. Which you clearly are if you use "crazy" as an adverb, but that doesn't mean I want to hear about it. I know it's just a fantasy, but sometimes I like to pretend I'm not surrounded by idiots. Hearing people advertise their stupidity via gross misuse of "crazy" makes it difficult to maintain that blissful delusion.
Sopping: As if just hearing the word wasn't grating enough, what does it even mean? It certainly can't mean "wet" because then "sopping wet" would be redundant. You wouldn't be saying something that pointlessly redundant, would you? Fortunately, nobody born after 1960 actually uses this word.
Cloud (except as water vaper): The word you're looking for, dumbfuck, is "Internet".
Tween: The word you're looking for is "preteen". "Tween" is an animation term. No, it can't mean both - because I said so. And I say so because you already have "preteen" - use it.
Ibibyte: If you kids these days really want your goofy SI-imitating "bytes", you can go call them "decimal bytes" (as in 5MB10). And I'll call mine "binary bytes" (5MB2). Hell, write them as 5MB10 and 5MB2 if you must. But ibibytes can fuck off.
PostgreSQL: How the hell am I supposed to pronounce this?!? (Yea, yea, I know, but still...)
SQL: "Sequel" (ironically) was its predecessor. Stop calling it "sequel".
Synergy: What is this, an MBA convention?
"Acrosst": "Across" has no "t". So why are you pronouncing one? My fourth grade teacher used to say this. All the damn time. Fuck, I hated her.
"Heighth": "Height" does not end in "th". Nobody around you pronounces it "th". So why are you pronouncing it "th"? Yes, I've actually heard people consistently pronounce it like this. (Is this possibly a Pittsburgh thing? Like "wush", "warsh" and "ruoin"?)
Anything ending in "-izzle": It began stillborn, and now...even as a joke it's painfully old. Can we please just let it finally die?
Pwned: Just...let...it...die.
Pr0n: Is it delightful porn or delicious seafood? Stop confusing me!
2 comments for "Words I Hate"
I thoroughly enjoyed this. We share many of the same word-loathings. Thankfully I've never encountered an "acrosst" or "heighth", though.
I feel bad for cringing at "ibibytes", because it's well-intentioned. But then so many well-intentioned things are cringeworthy.
"Acrosst" and "heighth" are rare. When you do hear it though, boy can it be annoying. But maybe that's just me :)
That's a good point about "ibibyte". I think one of the problems I see with it, besides sounding goofy, is that it doesn't really solve the problem anyway: Sure, if you see "MiB" you know it's 2^20. But when you see "MB" you still don't know whether it's the "officially" correct SI-style 10^6 or someone using 2^20 out of habit, or if it was written before "ibibytes" got started, or if (like me ;) ) they're just defiant of "ibibyte". I've heard there's even at least one EE-related standard that still officially defines "whateverbyte" as being based on powers of two.
And ok, I get that "MB", "GB" etc. were all ambiguous and inconsistent to begin with, and weren't *universally* 2^X. But "ibibyte" doesn't change that anyway because "MB", despite supposedly being SI-like now, is still (in practice) just as ambiguous as ever. So that, and the goofiness of "ibibyte" is why I advocate just using "decimal vs binary megabytes" using numeric suffixes (as subscripts when possible).