Slang you hate

I use lede and I understand why it is used, but it still bothers me.

 

NO!

 

Is she a pretentious law student?

 

Sadly, no.

 

This guy knows.

 

My girlfriend once told me my text messages contain better spelling than most people do on a keyboard. I think that's a compliment.

I was driving at the time. 8)

 

I find it really annoying and just plain stupid when people respond to my thanking them at a store by saying to me, "It's all good."

People who use that term regularly/constantly, to me, sound stupid and uneducated.

 

Don't go there.

Please let's just not.

 

On blast. Or anything else from the Cradle Robber dictionary.

 

I'm beyond tired of that, but you know what really pisses me off?

"24/7/365"

OK, that stands for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Why in the name of parallel construction isn't it "24/7/52"? 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. One leads right to the next. Is that so freakin' hard.

Here's one that will drive you crazy if you still watch ESPN with the sound up. You will never, ever be able to watch again once I point out how many times any analyst starts off by saying "When you look at ..." Well, no shit! That's what you're doing, examining some aspect of whatever game you're "looking at." That phrase is nothing more than a leading "Er, um", a stupid, lazy prop for anybody too insipid to figure out they're saying THE SAME FREAKIN' THING EVERY TIME THEY OPEN THEIR MOUTH. "WHEN YOU LOOK AT ..."

 

Oh, and one from the newsroom: "work the scene." If there's a cop at a crime or accident scene, 100 percent of the cutlines and a great majority of breaking news stories have that piece of cop jargon in it. Drives me bonkers.

 

I do so much texting while driving, that I've become very skilled at the task. T9 is one of the greatest inventions in recent memory.