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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Well, being bored this afternoon I went through the first 10 pages of this QOTW to see which topics came up most. And here they are folks, the most hated language (in the first 10 pages):
1. Management buzzwords in general. This is way ahead of anything else.
2. Redundant phrases, such as 'to be honest with you', 'I'm not racist but...'
3. Text speak. Mainly LOL.
4. Adjectives as verbs, such as Facebook, impact, diary
5. Americanisms, both American uses of words and differing pronunciation
6. Internet jargon, such as win, fail...
7. Joined words, mostly chillax
8. Incorrect pronunciation, mostly 'aks' instead of ask, although sometimes difficult to separate from the next one
9. Deliberate mispronunciation, such as chimbley and skellington
10. Local dialect words

Also highly hated: incorrect usage of words, being unnecessarily familiar in speech or writing, and filler words, especially 'like' and 'you know'.

Now I realise this was pointless, as the popular page might give us the same information. But I was bored.
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 17:37, 5 replies)
Agree with you on most of that
But dialect words add flavour to a language, and almost all of them are older than your Mum.
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 19:14, closed)
I was going to do
this exact same thing tomorrow morning before the QOTW ended with a small argument for and against.
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 22:49, closed)
Astonishing!
I completely agree.
(, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 1:33, closed)
Sorry to be a pedant
But 4. Nouns as verbs.
(, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 1:39, closed)
Darn and blast
I just knew I'd make a mistake somewhere, and someone would pick me up on it.
(, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 6:24, closed)

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