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NIlooc223
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Over on USA,Texas the top overused words that I hate are

1.fail
2.beastly (used to say something is awsome like I'm beastly)
3.noob

What are the 3 most over used or annoying words used in your area?

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1. The
2. Of
3. And

Those are the 3 most overused words I hear.

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1. Gaylord
2. Fail
3. Noob

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1. like
2. epic fail
3. sweet

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1.No
2.No
3.No

The wife

Awesome! Its one of those threads.
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I live in Hungary, and still, i hear quite a lot those (seems to me rejected even by some English people, which makes me feel there is still hope for humanity...) stupid words mentioned already.

Epic goes like in its hungarian form "epikus" though, but obviously 'we' brought that in from outside, because a couple years ago i only heard that in connection with great wars from thousands of years ago. Now i hear it when someone farts. Yes, this is certainly progress.

I slap everybody near me, who says 'lol'.

Fail also occurs here and there, i once asked the guy what he thinks 'fail' means, couldn't tell me.

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Quote: "1.No
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3.No"


lol. Time for a new wife.

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Posted: 28th Feb 2012 12:57 Edited at: 28th Feb 2012 13:05
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1. innit
2. bruv
3. wellard

From Chav speak into human speech:

1. Isn't it?
2. Brother, slang for a mate
3. Well hard, this person is tough

And used in a sentence:

U fink ur wellard innit bruv?

My town has its fair share of chavs. Oh...and it's on the front cover of Crap Towns volume 2.


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Posted: 28th Feb 2012 13:56
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My top 3 most annoyingly overused words:

1. Splendid
2. Legs
3. Antidisestablishmentarianism

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Quote: "Oh...and it's on the front cover of Crap Towns volume 2"
If I remember rightly the town I live (Bracknell) is in one of them, and so is where I work (Slough).

Interestingly Bracknell town centre was chosen years ago as a good spot for Dr Who. Mainly because it looked like a depressing futuristic post apocalyptic wasteland of a town centre. Bit like 1984. Unsurprisingly it still looks the same now.

Not so interestingly the name of Slough when you look it up in a dictionary means loads of things, including snake skin, well of despair, a place that sucks up all good things etc. The word Slough must be seriously old, probably older than the town, but it can only mean two things. One is that someone saw this place and thought hmmm, what a hole. I know we shall call it Slough after that really bad word. Or the place was such a dump since forever that the name because associated with lots of bad things. Either way it's amusing. Unless you are me stuck in the stupid traffic (you have to go through a single lane village to pretty much get out of the biggest industrial estate in Europe).

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Sounds like a lovely place to live. I hear my town (Huntingdon) was in the first Crap Towns, but I've not actually seen a copy of it, so I can't confirm with my own eyes. Despite being on the front cover of the second, it's not actually in there. I just find it amusing, on the front cover is Cash Converters (I used to work there) and they kept a copy of the book in the staff room. Though that's quite an old photograph as CC has moved and it's a furniture clearance store now, so I can't quite claim that it used to be my workplace.


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Posted: 28th Feb 2012 15:04 Edited at: 28th Feb 2012 15:18
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Sorry Seppuku,, But even I felt a sense of depression looking at the picture for a few seconds. Perhaps some greenery could have livened things up a bit. A facelift on what I like to refer to (80's non-architectual,, non-historic prison school look) is in order as well. Perhaps I'm just used to New England towns... but that pic just effervesces of drab!!!!

Not the best pics of my town (Port Jefferson Long Island NY),, but this is a similar shopping square.





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Posted: 28th Feb 2012 15:21 Edited at: 28th Feb 2012 15:23
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Quote: "Sorry Seppuku,, But even I felt a sense of depression looking at the picture for a few seconds."


Probably explains why so many people are miserable around here. But I agree, they've tried face lifting some parts of the town, but it still looks pretty bleak overall. I agree on the greenery, it'd (quite literally) breath life to the town. I am lucky, I don't live inside of Huntingdon, it's just the nearest town. Some parts of the town aren't so bad looking to be fair, but the town centre is still pretty oppressive.


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Posted: 28th Feb 2012 15:27 Edited at: 28th Feb 2012 15:53
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The irony here... Huntington (L.I., N.Y.) got voted the best downtown on Long Island.
Port Jefferson got 2nd Place

http://bestof.longislandpress.com/li/commerce/downtown


Back on topic 3 most overused words/phrases that annoy me in my town...

1. "That's 'Money!!!' or 'Bank!!'
2. "I'm not a fan (of)..."
3. "Like" (Used like multiple times, in like, every sentence. Isn't there like a 10 year limit? (It's been like over 20 already.)

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This is where half my family come from:-


Although I do moan Bracknell isn't too bad. It has an interesting mixture of new and old as this picture shows:-


Interestingly I work just around the corner from where the outside of the Office series (ie. the original UK one) building was filmed. It's like literally 3 or 4 streets away apparently and I still haven't seen it after a decade or so

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Posted: 28th Feb 2012 17:13 Edited at: 28th Feb 2012 17:15
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1.Pub
2.Aye
3.Pint

An example of a conversation:
Tam: Pub?
Wullie: Aye
Tam: Pint?
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1. Fam
2. Wasteman
3. Safe

Human translation:

1. Friend
2. An Insult to someone
3. Thanks.

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@Dazzag, Beautiful town. The pic with the sailboat mooring and the village is like a painting!

Btw,, Finding some of this vernacular quite interesting. I'll admit I'm a bit old and out of touch with lingo of the youth/culture. When I was younger everything was Phat, Dope, Blaze'n, "RAD"(ical), Gnarly (Which I guess has been replaced with Sketchy ~ even I use the term daily). I just don't sound cool saying things like "You feel me?" or "I Feel ya bro/cuz", I'll do my best to not use them.

You Feel'n Me???

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Posted: 28th Feb 2012 20:40 Edited at: 28th Feb 2012 20:41
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Quote: "You Feel'n Me???"


bruv. wat kind of wasteman phrase is that bruv? today is 21st century fam, your bere old init, do you get me?

*Example of a common sentence where I live (East London.)*

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Quote: "use the term daily). I just don't sound cool saying things like "You feel me?" or "I Feel ya bro/cuz", I'll do my best to not use them. "


What's also interesting is how they differ between regions. I've never heard anybody say 'fam', people say 'bruv' and 'mate' around here, though I tend to say 'mate' and 'dude' as I wouldn't dream of talking like a chav.

But some chavs here use 'mate', "aww mate dat is well blingin'".


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Where I go to school, these 3 words are WAY over used.
1. Retard\Retarded (Unfortunately)
2. Die
3. The "F" word.
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1.) Gay
2.) Uhhh... "See You Next Tuesday"
3.) F word...
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1. No
2. Stop
3. Rape!

xD sorry had to be done.

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Lol obese Hillary's XD

Ya retarted and the f word are over used at my school people don't realize the people they offend with there words as I haveca family member who is "retarted" and it's not something to joke about

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Quote: "Beautiful town. The pic with the sailboat mooring and the village is like a painting!"
It's Aberaeron in Wales. Yeah is seriously nice. Amazingly small though so I really wouldn't want to live there. I went to University just up the road from it (Aberystwyth):-

I lived for a while about 5 houses down from the nearest one to the camera. Sometimes you would get stones hitting the windows from the sea (4 storeys up). Totally didn't really appreciate it while in Uni (for instance the camera is up a big hill that has a tram type thingy going up to a tea house which I never ever went up even though there 3 years).

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1: Model
2: independent
3: marginal

Ya, 18 credits of math economics and engineering makes these words pretty common.

A 4th one would be "Halo".


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3. wellard

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3. Well hard, this person is tough
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See, I always thought they were talking about the dog off Eastenders.

I can't really tell what 3 most used words are but I know the word "Fam" is used quite regularly, which means Family but in a way that it means 'mate'. I know... Stupid but hey chavs will always be chavs.

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@Dazzag

Although isn't the glass building in the background empty, wasn't it owned by 3M or something. Maybe I'm thinking of a different building.

I stay in the Bracknell Hilton occasionally, so I've come to know Bracknell quite well.

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I kept thinking that, but I don't think the chavs I went to school with were enquiring whether or not I was a fictional dog from their favourite TV soap.


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Here, a lot of people seem to say "Genuinely" and "Generally", but they use them as though the words are interchangeable in all situations.

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1) Forreal? (People in fact combined it into one word)
2) Real talk!
3) Gay

All of these I cannot stand.

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1. mega (luxemburgian girls use it as an adjective for ...everything. I swear, I sometimes have mega fat conversations where they say mega mega often. I'm not even kidding, I had dates where nothing was good, pretty, big, tasty, interesting or fascinating...everything is, was and will be mega)

2. Paranoia (random shout of serbian/bosnian immigrants in my age group... to everything. Havent figured it out yet....I concider it a verbal tick)

3. Mec (french for dude...just sounds annoying)

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Like.
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Fail.

But there's more... many more.





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lol,, this thread got me thinking back to when I was in school. The word of the day was....

Fresh!!! Everything was Fresh.

That Jacket.. Dat's Fresh, Yo!
That girl she be keep'n it Fresh!
Dat Jam be Fresh RightDere!!!
Yo Dem kicks (shoes/sneakers) be Fresh,, furreal bra (kinda like bro),, you be kill'n it!!!

The next day...

Just replace "Fresh" with "Sick". Now dat be Fresh, cuz!!!

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Quote: "Although isn't the glass building in the background empty, wasn't it owned by 3M or something. Maybe I'm thinking of a different building."
Yep it's been empty for years. They have been talking about taking it down for years.

Quote: "I stay in the Bracknell Hilton occasionally, so I've come to know Bracknell quite well."
Oh yeah I've been there for a couple of shows. Used to live about 5 mins walk from there. Best thing about that place though is there is a comedy club just 2 mins walk away from it (South hill park comedy cellar). Good place that.

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1,Like
2,Total
3,Actually

All used in the same sentence, in nearly EVERY sentence!!

Everywhere else Awesome and Epic are the 2 most overused words.

Screenshots of someone's latest game level are neither awesome nor epic.

The Universe is awesome and the big bang was epic!!

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Quote: "3. Mec (french for dude...just sounds annoying)"


I like being called it, it makes me imagine I'm a big mechanical war machine.



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Quote: "I like being called it, it makes me imagine I'm a big mechanical war machine.
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Well, now I think its awesome XD Thank you for that.

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I hate the word retard. When people think and call when it comes to kids who are having a difficult time in special ed or with special ed teachers.

Annoying fart noises. Trust me it gets pretty immature because of the kids at my high school do it.

Like is pretty annoying.

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Quote: "Like is pretty annoying."

Like, when people like say it and they, uh like don't know what they are like trying to say, you know?

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1)it

2)wasn't

3)me

people getting into trouble typical

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Quote: "people getting into trouble typical"


Or Shaggy?

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Quote: "I can't really tell what 3 most used words are but I know the word "Fam" is used quite regularly, which means Family but in a way that it means 'mate'. I know... Stupid but hey chavs will always be chavs."


I use 'fam' to actually mean family, so this confuses me. Never heard it to mean 'mate' before.

I also use 'like' but only in certain contexts: I wouldn't say 'it was like, awful' because what I mean is 'it was awful' so I can just say that. But I would say 'and she was like, what?' because what I mean is 'And she said, what?', which sounds clunky and awkward.

Also: There seems to be a lot of language snobbery going on in the thread I feel I should probably counter with my favorite stephen fry video.



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I think there's nothing wrong with language change and don't think we should all follow a standardised form of English because it wouldn't be as fun as being creative with language. (and I think that Stephen Fry video is awesome) Though standardised English has its uses.

But of course there are words I don't like, it's down to taste I guess. Seems like an odd thing to have a 'taste' form, but there you go. What Stephen Fry was going on about was the annoying sticklers who worry more about people using 'correct' language than actually enjoying it.

"Oh noes you forgot an apostrophe!". The Lynne Truss Mafia if you like, whilst her book was an entertaining read for learning more about punctuation, it has kind of bred some language snobbery, probably because she directly encouraged people to go out with a marker pen and fix people's grammar...I didn't think she was being serious, but maybe she was.


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I have to disagree, why should we be prohibited from questioning anyone's use of the English language? Are we not part of contemporary language too? Of course there's nothing wrong with making up words and using them in different ways, and I wouldn't say doing so was "wrong", but many of these new words are redundant and ugly.
There are so many Americanisms that make me cringe, like "winningest" for example. That's just lazy language and that's why I don't like those words, because it dumbs down language, it removes so much of the expression.
I am not a literary buff but I've read a bit of Shakespeare and it makes me sad how much of that beautiful language has disappeared.

Words that are useful however, should be used, whether they came from Shakespeare or some drunk chav outside mcdonalds. Chav itself is one of those words, and noob, and so on. I'm sure I use more than I realise and that's good. That's how language changes, but I just hope we can add to it and not diminish its power.

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