Slang You Regret
 

Are there any slang words you wish had never been? This includes verbal as well as internet slang. Does anyone wish "flipping" had never been coined? Anyone ever get annoyed when someone exclaims about "pwning" someone?

The most regrettable one for me would have to be "bling bling." I mean it's one thing to infect teen banter, but the dictionary? God why?

I'm not responsible for, nor do I partake in, the mutilation of the English language, so no regrets. I'm unaffected for the most part except for when I'm greeted with ebonics. Being a dialect, I guess this is the wrong place to complain about it.

"comin' liek whut" is annoying because I have friends that ran that saying to the ground. So whenever I see it/hear it, it's not funny anymore.

"Yo mama." Makes me just want to slap them.

Saying "owned" seems rather popular even away from the internet, but it just sounds awkward to me whenever I hear it. Another one that was popular in high school was putting the word, "young" to describe anything.

People that say "sick" or "tight" constantly, need to be shot. For some reason it just bugs the hell out of me.

By the way, when I say regret, it doesn't mean something you've said or used to say; I mean stuff you regret mankind has coined in general.

What? But that shit is so tiiiiight!

There's only some slang I regret using and that's "simon" (pronounced "see-mohn"). It's a Spanish slang term that's the exclamatory equivalent of "hell yeah". Everyone in this town uses it but I'm SOOOO sick of it.

And yet, I still find myself using it all the time.

Xerxes is right... I need to be shot...

Does 'sweet' fall into that category? I use that sometimes.

Sweet is good. I use it a lot. Encephalon on the other hand... :)

For me, I find the word "bling" or "bling-bling" tends to have a funny ring to it. It's certainly not annoying to my ears, but I rarely-to-never say that. If someone witnessed me saying that, it'd just be quite awkward, for one thing.

I find the word "hip", as an adjective, just repulsive. It's not offensive, but it certainly makes me cringe.

The word "Dude". It's hurts my ears to hear it.

Dude. Everybody loves dude. What's your problem?

For real, dude.

Well not so much in a more rarely used context, but it's just becoming all common and frequent to see the word "fuck" mentioned these days. I hear the word at work at least twice from my co-workers, that doesn't include the numerous times the customers throw it around. Use it in it's proper usage or as an extreme exclaimation, not when you would use commas.

For awhile, I was really sick of everyone I know on another messageboard saying "stoked." Anything moderately decent that was coming up was met with a "dude I am so stoked." I can remember a thread for Star Wars Ep. 3 where nearly every single post had "stoked" in it. They haven't used it in a long time so I don't hate it that much anymore.

That's the one phrase I don't like =p.
To be honest, I hear it enough in class but it has made its rounds through the net. Hell it still is :(.

And for some reason "cuz" or the overuse of the word "cousin" is starting to annoy me more than ever. I must hear everyone use it on anyone and their pet dog, or maybe I'm just getting old and just now I'm starting to notice these things.

I like how I was hanging out with my asian friends and a bunch of his friends and they used the word nigger to refer to themselves or the people they were playing against online constantly. When did that being a racial slur? Also, when did it start refering to asian people or anyone else in particular? I find it kind of annoying and confusing why they would say it.

That's them trying to be black, doncha know. I know so many people like this, and they've been like this since they were in elementary school. Sigh...

Oh, and I hate it when people ask "What's up?" or any variation thereof (wassup?, 'sup?, and so on). Sooo overused.

I remember some guy in my junior high school saying something, and I'm very thankful that's the only place I've ever heard it since. Instead of responding to a joke or whatever with "That's not funny", he'd say the following:

"BIZZ!!"



And for some really retarded reason (perhaps because it was junior high), it caught on there for a while. I never used it myself, though if I heard others say it I'd have to suppress the urge to smack them upside the head because I thought it sounded so stupid.

I don't have much problem with slang, but as Jeff brought it up, "Yo Mama" gets on my nerves almost instantly.

"Hella", "Hecka", "Grip", all to sub for the word "very".

I like saying dude, dude.

Hella is so hilarious yet extreemely lame. As far as I know it originated from South Park during the early seasons possibly the first season which was a loooong time ago now.

Anyway there are a lot of barely tolerable internet slang terms which upon hearing them actually said IRL would cause an explosion.

It's seemingly a Northern California phenomenon. Does any other area of the country use it?

Yes. It's worldwide.

I don't know if this really counts, but I find it really sad that the word "Fag" is thrown around so commonly to insult people. I am not saying I don't use it because I do, but it's just sad knowing that even in front of some gayt people, people I know will just say fag over and over again.


BTW, dude rules. Dude.

You have no idea how many people I know now use the phrases Ghey and Pwned in normal conversation.

Funny though because most of the people who do it have barely touched a computer in their lives, they just find it hilarious that nerds type that kind of shite and it translates to pretty funny conversations in the pub. Sorry, phub.

I have a friend that still uses this word. "Hella, this" and "hella, that", it's always hella something. Nothing can ever be regular with him without attaching "hella" to it.

Dude is quite cool. I use it a lot myself, especially with my family.

back when i was still in secondary school, somehow the word 'safe' became the new word for 'cool' and it just annoyed me to no end for some reason. it soon evolved into 'bare safe' to mean extremely 'cool' and it even managed to end up on some societies advertising posters x.x;; it wasn't just my school either, it spread to the other local private schools and even my sister's school 10 miles away had started using it (even more annoyingly she picked it up too). another one was 'wicks' or 'wickes' instead of 'wicked' which i didn't really get either...

There was a time where a group of my friends consistently used "modus pwnd." I felt like shooting them in both kneecaps and asking, "Where's my money?"

Between my roommate, another friend, and I, we have coined a myriad (hundreds) of words and phrases and even... actions demonstrating our retardedness.. er... ridiculousness. Some words include: "GAMF, BAMF, zon't, Clutch Jodan, Rawr Foo, roffle, der." Some phrases include: "well, look at this morose mother fucker... looks like someone shit in his cereal", "take that fact. chew on it", and "biggety bam! no more shit stains in your undies." a new one that's coming about is "jejune bastard." An exemplary action has been my roommate and mine's high-five fake over-the-head.

Mind you, all the above mentioned words, phrases, and actions have been said/used at least once every single fucking day of my college life.

Probably..... "yo". It just sounds so.... different.

Here in western Washington 'Hella' has been around since I was in elementry school, at least (so about 11 years ago). When did the first season of South Park come out?

I don't know if this is as much slang as it would be an accent, but the way people from the south talk drives me crazy! With their draaaaaaaaaawwwwwwnn out sentences, and sayings like, "y'all" and "ain't no good". But every group of people from different places around the world all have their different slang, new words and sayings come and go almost as much as internet fads.

Double Post:
Oh seeing the avatar about mine makes me realized that "YEAH", "WHHHAT!?", and "OOOOKAY" all drive me crazy. "Crunk" is also a ridiculous saying.

Any of the so called pop music terms, bling bling, hella, crunk and whatever else ridiculous drivel comes out of rap/pop music.


I do use gay or fag quite a bit though. Many things are ghey/gay.

Almost any slang in a rapid video irritates me.

Is "son" still cool?

Congratulations! You've watched some Kevin Smith films.

I rememeber back in the day, when I was in primary school, the word 'choice' because the new buzz word. Things wern't cool any more, they were choice. Choice bike! Choice shirt! Choice sandwich! How retarded little kids are!