Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet 576
prostoalex writes "If you're launching a new blog into the blogosphere, does the common netiquette allow you to have a separate wiki to go with a blog? If the previous sentence irritated you, you're not alone. Folksonomy, blogosphere, blog, netiquette and blook are among the most hated Internet words, Lulu Blooker Prize research found."
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10. Chump.
9. Chumpette.
8. Yours.
7. Up.
6. Pimpmobile.
5. Bite.
4. My.
3. Shiny.
2. Blogosphere.
1. Ass.
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Asynchronous is one of those words like inflammable. If you think about it too long, your brain hurts. Asynchronous means things not happening at the same time. Thus people cannot collaborate on a document at the same time. Of course, in computing, asynchronous takes on a different meaning, though it essentially means the same thing only on a very small scale, which in turn allows more instant updates / refreshes, which flips the definition.
He should have just said that Sharepoint allows people to work together interactively on a document. Plain speech doesn't make you sound dumb. It takes a sharp mind to take complex concepts and make them simple and easily understood. Any idiot can take complex things (or for the bigger idiot, simple things) and make them complex. Which brings me back to software vendors and buzzwords...
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I think people use newspeak bullcrap words like and "meme" because they're so ill-defined that people can use them any way they want without conveying any meaning at all.
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I think promulgate works fine. Wird is making them known by open declaration, it's publishing it, and in a sense it's teaching an "etc." publicly. It might be slightly awkward in that sentence, but no more so than propagate would be.
Myself, I would have said "spread". There's really nothing wrong with short, simple, ancient, Anglo-Saxon words.
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Of course, that's a perfectly cromulent word.
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Except that we native English speakers have roughly 1000 years of social propaganda telling us that Anglo-Saxon words are coarse and vulgar, while words with Latin or French roots are classy. Greek is OK, too, as long as you don't make the mistake of mixing them (despite the fact that the Romans and French have done this all along
It's hard to fight this sort of attitude.
Then there was Mark Tw
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I disagree.... I think "meme" is a useful word to use when you want to draw attention to the way that ideas propagate and evolve over time. It's only 'newspeak' for a few years and then it becomes part of the language, just like any other word.
Of course it is possible to misuse or overuse the concept, but that's the speaker's fault, not the
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Actually, that reminds me of my least favourite word, digerati [edge.org]. It's the blogosphere equivalent of the popular group in an American high school. Annoyingly it's usually used by socially well connected Web 2.0 types who have little talent or idea about the underlying technology.
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I meant to say 'British colonies in the Caribbean'. Need sleep....
What you originally wrote made perfect sense to me. I thought you meant South London.
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I meant to say 'British colonies in the Caribbean'. Need sleep....
What you originally wrote made perfect sense to me. I thought you meant South London.
Foreigners walk the streets, many of them... Hungarian. (The foreigners, not the streets.)
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it's the first translation I think of whenever I see a new intarweb word.
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However, some of the other words are okay in themselves (e.g. "meme", "cookie".... actually, I'm surprised that cookie was in the list at all). I think that a lot of them have been soiled by association with pretentious twats who wanted to get their name in Wired and overused them.
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Indeed; it's usually difficult to even find the top-level replies.
I've often wished there were a mode of access that would show me only the first-level replies, each accompanied by a button/link that would expand it and show its 2nd-level replies, and so on recursively.
That way, I could easily spot and avoid the parts of the tree that degenerate to OT flamefests about religion, politics, Micro$oft, whatever. And I'd probably read at level 1 or 0 rather than the 2 or 3 I usually use now, because there are lots of good posts at the lower levels, and they'd be easier to separate from the chaff.
Now if I could only get my hands on the code and surreptitiously implement it
Netiquette (Score:5, Informative)
Netiquette applies just as much to Fidonet, Bitnet, Usenet[1] and other networks.
[1]: Usenet isn't all inside Internet. It becomes more and more so with time, but there's still nodes that use other forms of propagation, whether it's BBS gateways, Fidonet or UUCP.
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Now get off my lawn, kids.
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Nothing wrong with the things, you know I had a blog before the were even called blogs.(gotta build up my internet cred.)
Back then we had to telnet in, both ways! Over dial-up if we were lucky, or else we would just make weird noises on the phone. "kshhhhhh boing, boing! Kshhhhhhhh."
Ahh the god old days.
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I had to write my first blog by hand.
In binary.
And then take a sack full of paper two towns over, barefoot, to have it moderated.
Getting your post flamed back then was a whole different story.
sigh.
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In my day, I had to write my first blog post by scratching the symbols on stone with my teeth. I did it in unary. With little bison as the digits. (Three bison followed by four means "mood: hungry".) If you wanted your post read, you removed it from the cave wall with your bare fingers and then traveled, beating people over the head with it.
Don't get me started on my grandpa's first blog post. He had to emit a chemical signal, which was released by wiggling his flagellum...
Re:The list (Score:4, Funny)
Back in my day people who made these tired ass "back in my day" jokes in every single damn thread got shot in the face.
Now get off my lawn!
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How about another annoying word: meatspace? Or anything starting with "Cyber".
"On the Internet" is a trademark of Patent Trolls Inc. We patent any old technology applied to the internet, because applying something to the internet is obviously a new and innovative thing to do worthy of paying us huge piles of cash... And if you do't think so, we just sue you anyway.
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How does weblog get shortened to 'blog' anyway... Silly.
I think it holds a special annoyance for me because it reminds of when I used to work with some people that thought it was awfully cute to refer to their computer as "My Puter" and I really did want to throttle them in their sleep.
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Web log::Weblog::"We blog"
Like you said, silly. It's a terrible word. Who would want to call themselves a "blogger"? Yet thousands do, and think themselves quite important to boot.
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Actually, I can imagine Al Gore or Hillary Clinton saying that, but not the current meathead.
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Ahh the god old days.
No, in the god old days, there was no telnet and important communications were sent using a burning bush (great for getting the recipient's attention, though some might question the lack of a heat sink) and the only recordable media available for downloading things like commandments were stone tablets, which got pretty heavy if you bought a whole spindle.
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I use the sensible terms whenever possible: Audio Feed and Video Feed. Or maybe Audiocast and Videocast.
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By the way, anyone who blames Apple for the name "Podcast" should note that Apple didn't get on board the Podcasting bandwagon until over a year later. Of course Apple is happy with the name, and Microsoft hates it.
3 obvious missing words .. (Score:5, Funny)
I mean really! The list sounds like they're stuck in the early '80s.
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The word 'blog' annoys me, as does 'voip' when it's said as a word (they pronounce it voyp) and not an acronym. Most of the time people saying "voyp" don't even understand what the technology means.
The term 'hacker' bothers me now because it's been usurped by the media to have a malicious meaning.
Actually lots of words annoy me...
'online' is used far too much.
'NAT firewall' is ponied around too much by clueless people who do
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If it isn't pronounced it's not properly an acronym. I.E. NATO, FUBAR and VOIP are proper acronyms where as IBM is not.
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Dealing with wireless vendors for an enterprise-wide deployment, I can't get one meeting without someone bringing up "VoFi" (VoIP over wireless, for the slow ones), despite mention at the beginning that we don't allow VoIP to begin with.
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Also, for some stupid reason, when I play WoW, people use it to mean "log-off", as in "my mom's calling, I gotta log, sorry." At first I thought the kids were just keeping t
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Bite my shiny metal ass.
Bite my colossal metal ass.
Bite my glorious golden ass.
Bite my shiny metal blogosphere.
bite my splintery wooden ass
One of these is not like the other.
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FP (Score:5, Funny)
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Folksonomy??? (Score:5, Insightful)
I call shenanigans!
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Yes, and now don't you hate it! ARGH!
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A UK thing?!? It's Scandinavian.. (Score:5, Funny)
xkcd Annoying Internet Terms Grid (Score:5, Funny)
Top of the list... (Score:5, Funny)
mashup (Score:5, Insightful)
The poll. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Word compression (Score:4, Insightful)
This is one abbreviation that I feel needs to "gtfo."
For those unaware linguists out there: wat tends to be the abbreviated form of what
Re:Word compression (Score:5, Insightful)
It also bothers me when people use abbreviations I've never heard of. It took me for ever to figure out what IANAL stood for (for those who still don't know, "I Am Not A Lawyer").
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iPod, iPhone, and now the IANAL...for lawyers.
The IANAL started life as a 90 pound jackhammer powered by an 80 horsepower diesel driven air compressor, modified to run off of your USB port. As an added bonus, it retains the quick change tool-tip feature, so it can still be used as a jackhammer if needed!
Be the first lawyer on your block with IANAL. Liven up your next Bar Association meeting, wow your friends, and you too can be the next goatse!
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My biggest gripes are with (1) l33t, and (2) words mangled for no other reason than mangling them.
I mean, take the following example taken verbatim from a COH group chat: "soz m8 g2g gt skewl 2moz" No, literally.
Where shall I even start on that abhomination:
1. "skewl" I mean, what the _bloody_ fuck? It's only one letter shorter than "school", but the "o" in "school" is double, so you don't even need to move your fingers much to type it. And _especially_ for one finger typists (since often the excuse for such monstrosities is "I can't type fast enough"), "skewl" actually involves moving your finger around more.
It's a word mangled by retards just to sound "kewl". Fucktards.
2. "soz", "2moz" and other such use of "z" for half the word endings in the fucking dictionary. I mean, wtf? "Z" doesn't even remotely sound like anything with a "r" in it. And which ending _is_ is supposed to be, anyway? "rry" and "rrow" are very different bits of word.
3. "m8", "2moz" and other such l33t use of digits. Here's a thought for those smackards: not everyone is a native English speaker, so their reflex reading of a digit will be in their mother tongue, not in English. So is it "macht"? (8 = Acht in German. "Macht" = power, or the Force.) Mocho? Mhuit? Or what? You're forcing someone to effectively translate it back and forth, piece by piece, just to discover what it means.
Ah well...
LOOSE (Score:5, Insightful)
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MIssing an important one (Score:5, Insightful)
My votes are for irritating people (Score:3, Funny)
1)Cory Doctorow, the internet hipster who, despite claiming to be such a damn good author, hasn't been able to get a publishing contract. He's against copyright, but he's got no problem with a little book-burning:
What kind of jerk sculptor sells the city a piece of public art for a public park and then demands that no one take pictures of it? Christ, they should run this guy out of town on a rail and melt the goddamned sculpture down for scrap.
2)Xeni Jardin, the girl who is just too cool to use her real name. Because, like, something happened with her dad. She's the world's foremost self-appointed expert on how we use cell phones. Or...something like that.
Put them together and you have the most irritating self-righteous people on the planet.
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1337 speak (Score:4, Funny)
There are only so many times the phrase "OMG I PWNED J00 N00BZ0RZ LOLOLOLOL" can be uttered over VoIP before you want to punch the little shit in the head.
Consider the Source..... (Score:4, Insightful)
No punchline needed....
Spawned by the Internet?? (Score:3, Insightful)
Funny, I'm pretty sure I remember hearing the word "cookie" long before I had ever heard of the Internet.
Too bad that "Ajax" didn't make the list. I'm glad that one has pretty much died by now.
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Cookie?? (Score:4, Insightful)
How is the word "cookie" annoying. That's what it's called, and I don't know any other word for it. Internet words that are annoying fall into a couple of categories:
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Well, I agree with your basic point that a "podcast" is certainly not something that really needed a newly-coined name.
But a podcast is certainly not streaming audio. IPods don't have wifi, so listening to streamed audio on an iPod would require it to be connected to a computer at all times: this defeats the entire purpose of a portable audio player.
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Netiquette? (Score:5, Insightful)
I remember the times when good netiquette was thought essential (which was not that long ago).
"lol ur a netiket fag i typ lik i want"
Spam terms (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, they exist independent of the Internet, but damn, I've grown to hate these terms:
needless prefixing (Score:5, Interesting)
Netizen (Score:3, Interesting)
"Blook" - Something is Fishy (Score:5, Interesting)
Then I looked again at the article. The organization who commissioned the survey is called "The Lulu Blooker Prize". The parent organization, Lulu, apparently helps authors sell books as well as "blooks".
My gut feeling here is that the word "blook" barely existed until these guys came up with their business plan, fueled by a little marketing masked as a survey and spread around the internet as an amusing story.
3. Profit
Re:"Blook" - Something is Fishy (Score:5, Insightful)
I run several sites, blog, have a youtube channel and am a an active Wikipedian(now that's an annoying word) and generally am an annoying Web2.0 whore to most people. I also buy books online, read reviews, etc...
Never if my fucking life have I heard of a blook. This is clearly a very well executed marketing stunt to promote the usage of the term blook, and the phenomena itself. Remember, that even silly ideas with microscopic demand (such as podcasts), once fueled with enough hype and publicity, and 3-5 analyst reviews claiming some start-up in that field is worth 100 million, can generate enough buzz for Google/Yahoo/MS to buy some of the Blook-platform-providing companies, just in case.
Words on the Internet that irritate me (Score:5, Insightful)
For example, my list starts out with "u" and "r" and continues with other words that are caused by people being too lazy to type the extra few characters that real words contain.
Fanboi (Score:5, Insightful)
Just because people like something, and they come to a forum to talk about it doesn't give some of you jerks the right to fling "fanboi" around. Same goes for Troll. I'm no troll (unless I'm playing WoW), but am often labeled as such for no apparent reason other than having a strong opinion backed with logical reasoning.
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If it helps, this is a well known phenonemon [wikipedia.org].
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As for 'lazy spelling'... It's not. It's an additional deliberate insult. 'boi' is used to mean 'gay boy', so they are insulting your fanatical one-sidedness as well as calling you 'gay'. 'Fanboys' are simply fanatically one-sided.
If you're giving 'PhD quality' information, you are probably also talking over their heads. If you sound like you are just spewing 'big words', they are going to think you are only trying to confuse them with made-up information. (It's a self protection mechanism. If they knew how stupid they were, they couldn't deal with life.) High-level logic is totally pointless with these people, and dumbing the logic down to a sufficient level is rarely going to be worth your time.
Personally, I've just accepted the fact that there are more idiots than geniuses, and I've quit responding -at all- to the idiots. They really do just go away if you ignore them.
China Daily (Score:4, Interesting)
Standard jargon misunderstandings (Score:5, Insightful)
People outside the charmed circle of that specific domain of expertise react in diverse ways. Most totally ignore the alien jargon - quite rightly, too. I don't worry about Chinese usage, for the simple reason that I don't live in China and don't speak any Chinese. In short, it's none of my business.
Some others love to plunder specialist terms from other people's domains. IT is a classic case in point: think of all the words and phrases, from "interface" to "ping", "access", and "download", that have crept into everyday discourse. Like a jackdaw stealing shiny objects to decorate its nest, many people seem to feel that larding their conversation with these clever-sounding terms will gain them more respect. Of course, they usually misunderstand the jargon they borrow, and thus use it incorrectly. Often enough, this incorrect usage then becomes standard, by sheer weight of numbers.
A third group react to other people's jargon by resenting and condemning it. They typically complain that the language is being polluted and degraded, failing to understand that the many sets of specialist jargon are like optional extensions to the basic language. As the waiter says in the old cartoon, "Eef you don' like heem, don' eat heem".
Web 2.0 is the most annoying term... (Score:4, Insightful)
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steve
ballmer
Re:Yes, I am a grammar Nazi (Score:4, Funny)
I see your "Grammar Nazi" and raise you a "Creative Interpretation" :-)
Then again, while its probably people, it might be a script ... or a dog ... after all, on the internet, nobody knows if ...
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"Yarly."
"Kthx."
"Kekeke"
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*Attacks the annoying Final Fantasy bats that never move out of the fricking way*
Can you tell I was playing Dawn of Souls recently?
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aah, STFU (Score:4, Funny)
I quite like STFU. It stands for something, but when you read it as a word, it's kinda like "stuff you". I think that's kinda neat.
IANAL, on the other hand....
IANAL annoys the b'jesus out of me. What is that, some kind of Apple butt plug?
Re:AJAX (Score:4, Informative)
XMLHTTP was originally created by Microsoft so they could use it for Outlook Web Access in Internet Explorer 5. Mozilla imitated it with the non-proprietary XMLHTTPRequest, which everyone else quickly adopted.