Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?

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Post by aaronbrethorst » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 10:29 PM UTC

AndrewDucker wrote: post #27

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #10

"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!

On a similar note: http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2012/10/01/watered-down

I'm now required to respond by saying "I see what you did there."

Re: Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?

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Post by pktm » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 10:32 PM UTC

"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."

Re: Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?

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Post by subsection1h » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 11:38 PM UTC

It'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".

Re: Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?

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Post by bakersma » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 3:26 AM UTC

When people refer to their email address as an "addy". Drives me crazy. Why do they do it ????

Re: Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?

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Post by hollerith » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 3:47 AM UTC

subsection1h wrote: post #33

It'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".

The 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"?

Re: Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?

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Post by daGrevis » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:16 AM UTC

U mad, bro?

Re: Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?

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Post by _mhp_ » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

$location: I am in you.

Re: Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?

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Post by starnixgod » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 8:56 PM UTC

code177 wrote: post #18

YOLO.

YOLO is Carpe Diem for stupid people.

Re: Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?

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Post by darkf » Wed, Mar 20, 2013, 3:36 PM UTC

general_failure wrote: post #12

josephjrobison wrote: post #4

Overused 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.

everyone's favorite - synergy

Synergy of the Cloud, man.