OT: Words that should be banished

[Zapranoth]

I really hate being asked "how's the fam?"  

To borrow George Carlin's voice for a moment, what LA ****sucker thought THAT one up?

[Ash]

Oh no....
Here's another one I just learned:

"Lactivist"

READ ABOUT IT HERE

(those women annoy the hell out of me)

[AndyC]

This is a tough one, because it's often not the word but the usage that annoys.

Networking - a perfectly good word if you're talking about computers, but in the hands of business types, it's bad, bad, bad. Basically any opportunity for business people to socialize. Same thing goes with "interface." Actually, any piece of technical jargon that has been misused by someone to sound cool.

Even when terms are used in their proper context, it can be annoying if the speaker thinks they're using some cool insider language. I've had to deal with somebody who liked to use words like "on-line" (and basically any computer-related terms) with extra emphasis and fingers making little quotes. "Many people these days are .....'ON LINE' ......and we should provide some sort of  .....'EMAIL' ...... notification for them."  This is just in the last couple of years. Didn't know squat about computers, but man, did she think she was the guru.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I hate "irregardless."

A friend of mine worked with a guy who thought it it was "illregardless" .  Now THAT was annoying.  
-Ed

[AndyC]

Don't remember if anybody has posted this, but I hate it when people use words like "dethaw." OK, it's either "thaw" or "defrost." To dethaw something, if there were such a word, would be to freeze it. Actually, it might only apply to refreezing something you've thawed.

I heard an even more ridiculous term when a buddy of mine bought a foil stamping machine a few years back. The instructional video was clearly a homemade affair, and the guy kept telling the viewer to "unloosen" things - on the video he's shipping with his product! Nice. And it was one of those deals where he wants to keep selling the supplies to run the machine, so it's not as though he shouldn't care about looking like an idiot.

After about the second time, I looked at my friend and said, "Uh, wouldn't unloosening something be tightening it?" After that, we laughed every time he said it. And he said it a lot.

[odinn7]

My dumb-ass brother-in-law says both irregardless AND unloosen. See what I'm up against?

[trekgeezer]

Unloosen? If you're trying elicit sympathy man, it's working.