Cringe Words: What are yours?

[Penguu]

I'm actually new to the guild and this is my first post. So, hello.

Words that annoy me would be "ain't", "like", "shyt" (Who would spell it tha way anyway?), and these Polish insults my geometry class keeps throwing around. Oh! Who can forget the words "f---face", "yo mama" (Yes, I sadly am acquainted with people who still use that phrase), and "slut" (When referred to someone who will not give someone they do not know or trust all their money).

Wow, do I ever feel better now. heart  

[xXOtome MizuXx]

Penguu

I'm actually new to the guild and this is my first post. So, hello.

Words that annoy me would be "ain't", "like", "shyt" (Who would spell it tha way anyway?), and these Polish insults my geometry class keeps throwing around. Oh! Who can forget the words "f---face", "yo mama" (Yes, I sadly am acquainted with people who still use that phrase), and "slut" (When referred to someone who will not give someone they do not know or trust all their money).

Wow, do I ever feel better now. heart

Fragment.
Misspelling.

Although I can see where you are heading at with your above statements, you could word it a hell of a lot better than you already did. Over-excessive usage of parentheses gets to be very disorienting to your reader and therefore should be cut down to the minimum.
That is all.
Please rewrite that, because it would just be proper of you to do so.  

[Dino]

Esmoth

Catch-22

O rly?

There is a handful of literate people on Livejournal, but their number is growing smaller ever since the site tossed out the code policy. My livejournal entries are probably riddled with errors as I tend to write when I'm upset, but at least I bother to capitalize.

You're shitting me, right? Let's try that first sentence again.  

[Esmoth]

Catch-22

Esmoth

Catch-22

O rly?

There is a handful of literate people on Livejournal, but their number is growing smaller ever since the site tossed out the code policy. My livejournal entries are probably riddled with errors as I tend to write when I'm upset, but at least I bother to capitalize.

You're shitting me, right? Let's try that first sentence again.

Handful is a singular noun. You wouldn't say there ARE a handful of peanuts, would you? Because you're not saying there are peanuts, you're saying there is a handful. I questioned that at first but came to the conclusion that the object was singular.  

[xXOtome MizuXx]

Esmoth

Catch-22

Esmoth

Catch-22

O rly?

There is a handful of literate people on Livejournal, but their number is growing smaller ever since the site tossed out the code policy. My livejournal entries are probably riddled with errors as I tend to write when I'm upset, but at least I bother to capitalize.

You're shitting me, right? Let's try that first sentence again.

Handful is a singular noun. You wouldn't say there ARE a handful of peanuts, would you? Because you're not saying there are peanuts, you're saying there is a handful. I questioned that at first but came to the conclusion that the object was singular.

I think that would go either way.
Because the word 'handful' is both singular and plural, both would be right.  

[Oh-mi-kaze]

No, actually, Esmoth is right about "handful," because it's a colloquialized figure of speech: "one hand full." Ergo, it is declined with a singular inflection, like any container full of anything.

However, the whole sentence is ungainly.

Esmoth

There is a handful of literate people on Livejournal, but their number is growing smaller ever since the site tossed out the code policy.

"There is a handful of literate people on LJ, but their numbers have been decreasing[...]," clears the parallelism error through voice, and kills that "growing smaller" eyesore. Other than that, it's grammatically correct.  

[Esmoth]

Oh-mi-kaze

No, actually, Esmoth is right about "handful," because it's a colloquialized figure of speech: "one hand full." Ergo, it is declined with a singular inflection, like any container full of anything.

However, the whole sentence is ungainly.

Esmoth

There is a handful of literate people on Livejournal, but their number is growing smaller ever since the site tossed out the code policy.

"There is a handful of literate people on LJ, but their numbers have been decreasing[...]," clears the parallelism error through voice, and kills that "growing smaller" eyesore. Other than that, it's grammatically correct.

Oh, pfft, nobody else noticed that error. Thank you.  

[Squinchy]

the phrase "freakishly obsessed."


ugh. stare  

[Jedi Incanitee]

Aryu

I hate the word 'douchebag'. No one uses it in its proper form. It's not slang. It's not a curse. It's not an insult. For God's ******** sake, it's a woman's product, not a word that teenagers should be running around calling eachother.

Gay, as well makes me mad. Calling someone gay is not an insult. It means to be 'joyous'. Not to be homosexual. If someone is homosexual, then they're HOMOSEXUAL, not gay. Unless they're happy too. neutral

Now I know you all missed me and my high spirits.

Thanks god! I hate when the word 'gay' is used as a reference to a homosexual person or as an insult. That's plain stupidity, gay does not mean homosexual or is it an insult.  

[Nekoyasha-san]

It really bothers me when people describe an verb with an adjective. Often they will be trying to congratulate me or commend me for hard work, but they will say to me, "You did good [sic]!" I aplogize for not knowing where to put in the [sic], but I had to throw it in there for my own sake. I involuntarily twitch whenever someone says that. It hurts to type that. I must go cleanse myself now.  

[Shiori-kun]

Of course, from nation to nation, the local netspeak differs. The Caribbean variation seems to me to be the most repulsive. Let's take a look:

rell - real. In Trinidad, some pronounce 'real' as 'rell' instead of 'reel'. The number of Ls can be modified for emphasis. Like: "rellllllLLLLLLLLLL"
frenz - friends
noe - know
kixy - "kicksy", meaning "causing kicks"; funny
hu d pips - "who the peeps", who is the current object of affection?
u deer/dere - are you there?
bess - best, used in the most peculiar fashion
jed - a supposedly more fashionable way of spelling "dread". They use it to end all their sentences, for example: "d gyal iz a rellllll bess ting jed".

Come to think of it, there are just too many little irksome island net-isms for me to list. I'll post a paragraph somewhere for all to witness the horror.  

[Rigu Ryu]

Hisself. (Himself.)
Cain't. (Can't.)
Paints. (Pants.)
Strenth. (Strength.)
Lenth. (Length.)
Death. (Deaf.)
And other words like that. I hate living in Arkansas.

I hate the word "gay" when used to mean "stupid."
As in: "This TV show is so gay." It has no gender, therefore it can have no gender preference! Sheesh.

WTF.
Anything in 1337sp33k.
BRB. (My brother has actually taken to saying that. The sad part of it is, he thinks it makes him sound cool.)  

[Crimson Kitten]

Rigu Ryu

And other words like that. I hate living in Arkansas.

Try Alabama. Bad grammar is a way of life there. In addition to the words you listed, "bafroom," "liberry," and "rassle" were common.

I was often requested to enunciate the word "ten" because the way I spoke it was so funny. The correct way, I learned, is "tay-un." Similarly, "tin" is pronounced "tee-un."  

[Oh-mi-kaze]

"Ten" works, as well.  

[Norly Srsly]

Hmm, i hate it when people use U and Y instead of, well..
"You" And "Why"..
I hate the word gangstuh And Blood..And Crip for that matter.
A crip is a crippled person in my opinon, not someone trying to be cool.
And just about everything in 1337Sp3@k. Its NOT cool! Its just LAME.
But most of all, I hate PLOX, Just spell PLEASE for heavens sakes