I think the term "epic" has been overused on the internet to the point it no longer holds the meaning it once held. "Epic" is now used to describe even the mundane and commonplace.
What other words are overused and no longer have the meaning they once had?
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"Yeah", "totally", "shit", "fuck", "hot" and all the other 4chan memes for starters.
"Owned"
Seriously, some of my brother's friends think killing someone, now matter how, in an online game means they "owned" them, no matter how many more times the opponent "owned" them back.
"pwned" is heading in the same direction I think.
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Worst one for me is "Procrastinate". Everyone learned that word back in 6th or 7th grade and then started using it every time they wanted to talk about putting something off or being lazy. Not a misuse of the word at all, I'm just tired of hearing it just because people feel the need to use a word more than 3 syllables long to impress someone.
"Hey, whatcha doing?"
"Oh, I'm supposed to be writing a paper but I decided to PROCRASTINATE instead"
Also I hate hearing words like "emo" or "random" or basically anything else you'd hear a 15 year-old goth using.
Just to clarify, have they completely reinterpreted "to own" as "to kill" or are they simply over exaggerating their accomplishments?Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
One of my favorite recent reinterpretations of a word is the use of "real" to mean "sincere". Real talk.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
That's not so recent. "Real" is a word with many interconnected meanings, the most central of which are synonymous with "true", "actual", "genuine", and "authentic". Also, a tertiary meaning is synonymous with "Free of pretense, falsehood, or affectation"
"After all, I am strangely colored."
I guess that is true, but I think that would refer to something like "a real friend" or "a real hero" rather than saying, for example, that the lyrics of a song were "real" or that someone was "being real". Maybe my own interpretation of the word isn't quite accurate, but I've never heard that construction before about 3 or 4 years ago.
See, I actually find this a really cool phenomenon. It feels weird to us since we're used to using "own" as a humorous way to refer to one-upping someone in a video game, but who knows what kind of definitions it will adopt in the future.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
To kill.
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Flame pit material right here
Genius is, and for that matter "retard". Those terms actually are supposed to be very limited in scope; and not every other person is one or the other.
I have to agree with "retard". It's pretty sad how much that word is overused to describe even the mildest of brain farts. I personally do not use it, as I do not wish to incur the wrath of karma resulting in my first born having a mental handicap because of my insensitivity.
I think the term "hero" is overused. I don't have a problem with people calling firefighters and police officers "hero", but I think it's a stretch. Really they're just doing their jobs or what is normally (un)common decency.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
When I was in high school some famous NASCAR driver died, and the next day every redneck was calling him a "hero". He was just a damn race car driver; he didn't cure cancer.
Fucking A. I'm an IT guy and I hear that nonsense all the time. "I'm not computer literate" really means "I'm a grown adult who thinks it's alright to live in the twenty-first century and not know how to use a computer, so I expect you to do it for me".
This reminds me; I'd like to add "fucking A" to the list of overused expressions.
I have to pay five cents for every text I send whether its five characters or eighty-eight characters. I never abbreviate in text messages unless I'm running out of room.
"Samsonlonghair - The Defender of the Oppressed And Shunned!" -Kraco
Well I pay 25c.
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I think we'd be best friends if we ever hung out. Or we'd get sick of each other.
I also get charged 5 cents per text message and I do not abbreviate, ever. I also use correct punctuation in my texts, which is actually a pain since I only have the numerical keypad and not a qwerty keypad so I have to hunt for every letter and symbol.
Another term I dislike: "emails". Email is the same as mail, there is no plural form. Why is it ok to say "emails", but not "mails"? I've started saying "deers" and "foods" just to piss people off who say "emails". Not that big a deal, but I get annoyed with these little exceptions people make because it's computer related.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
Because email and mail are not the same?
For example, you don't say "I'm going to send you a mail", though you say "I'm going to send you an email"... in the former you would've simply said, "I'm going to send you a letter by mail" or something along those lines. In the case above, email's usage is closer to that of a letter than of mail.
If email doesn't have a plural form officially, then the rule should be changed because it's completely dumb.
As far as I know, "mail" is considered a mass noun, while "email" is not (while it can be used as one in certain occasions).
No one is taking exceptions because it's computer related in this case. They're two different words, and should be treated as such.
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gay - That's totally gay.
like - That's like...totally gay.
Noob, newb, n00b, nub, or any other variation.
One of the worst TV moments ever for me was when Jane Pauly from the Today Show called herself a "newbie" when interviewing some computer geek. She giggled like it was the most amusing thing she'd ever heard.
I don't like the overuse of the term "guru" and "literacy" as it pertains to computing. I especially hate hearing "you're going to have to fix it for me, I'm not computer literate." Biggest cop-out I've ever heard. You don't tell your mechanic to fix your car because he's the "mechanical guru" and you're not "mechanically literate". Why is it ok to tell your IT tech that bs?
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For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
kawaii
^^even worse when heard in person and interjected into everyday speech
weeaboo
^^if you like anything the japanese like you must be a weeaboo guyz
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"suck my ...." johnson. Seems played out to me.
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