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ParMizaN
Body Count Inc.
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2006.07.18 12:43:00 -
[61]
"m8" or "mate" or "lolo" (and it's variations) "emo" for anybody who doesn't wear bling and burberry.
sig edited for lack of pink really
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Rainbow Sunshine
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Posted - 2006.07.18 12:50:00 -
[62]
 Originally by: Crumplecorn
The English are pretty crap at English TBH.
According to my gf who's reading this over my shoulder.. the Scottish speak English better than English :(
She would say that though. *looks outside window at Edinburgh and shakes fist*
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 12:59:00 -
[63]
Originally by: ParMizaN
"m8" or "mate" or "lolo" (and it's variations) "emo" for anybody who doesn't wear bling and burberry.
Mate is fine if you're Australian.
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Lluthiunne Atalaron
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Posted - 2006.07.18 13:09:00 -
[64]
Do phrases count?
If so then...
'At the end of the day'
'Do you know what i mean'
Example!
Its going to be alright because at the end of the day its nothing to worry about. Do you know what I mean.
It fattens up any sentence and takes an age to say anything yet there are some people 'I' know who will continue to use this in just about every single sentence they mutter.
Despite myself I can't help but feel that using repetitive useless speech has a direct correlation towards how stupid you are.
Then again I' am becoming more and more anti-social, cynical and impatient as I get older. I feel like shaking the before mentioned people and screaming 'spit it out' or 'Hurry up im going to die in 40 years'
'Do you know what i mean' shudder!!! notice the lack of question mark.
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Crumplecorn
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.07.18 13:29:00 -
[65]
Originally by: Rainbow Sunshine
Originally by: Crumplecorn
The English are pretty crap at English TBH.
According to my gf who's reading this over my shoulder.. the Scottish speak English better than English :(
She would say that though. *looks outside window at Edinburgh and shakes fist*
The Irish do too. Which is just so ironic.
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Nikolai Nuvolari
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 13:44:00 -
[66]
Originally by: Tuxford
Guesstimate *shivers*
Yet another word that doesn't exist.
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Originally by: Rainbow Sunshine
I don't even think Americans should be able to say they speak 'English' with all the butchering of pronunciation and spelling of the language. It probably started off as lazyness and now it's... oh wait, it's lazyness.
Actually, British English and American English are different because the British changed their language after the fact to sound more French.  . If I remember correctly, Thomas Jefferson never used the word "colour."
*sigh*
Okay.
The bottom line is that NOBODY uses the same English that was used in 1750.
American English, British English, Canadian English, Australian English, and the other dialects have ALL changed over the past 250 years.
Originally by: Corunna ElMan
I hate it when people use non-words like "irregardless".
Regardless means "without regards to", addng an ir- to it would creat a double negative.
As I said before, I detest fake words...but irregardless, surprisingly enough, isn't one of them...it's just like flammable and inflammable, they both mean the same thing. Irregardless is just much more unusual than regardless (I think it's a regional thing).
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Nikolai Nuvolari
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 13:48:00 -
[67]
Anyway, another thing:
Militant feminist molestation of the language.
When talking about a theoretical person of unspecified gender, the correct pronoun is the gender-neutral "he".
It is not "they".
"They" refers to MULTIPLE PEOPLE!
"He/she", "s/he", and "he or she" are also INCORRECT.
Example: "If a person were to build a titan, he would be the only person in EVE to have one."
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Treg Valar
The Caldari Confederation
New-Dawn
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Posted - 2006.07.18 13:50:00 -
[68]
The word that really gets me annoyed is "toon" when people are talking about their characters. Might only be me that it annoys. 
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 13:57:00 -
[69]
Edited by: Dark Shikari on 18/07/2006 13:57:09
Originally by: Nikolai Nuvolari
The bottom line is that NOBODY uses the same English that was used in 1750.
Shakespearean troupes do... 
(OK, so 1610, not 1750, but whatever)
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Rodj Blake
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.07.18 14:01:00 -
[70]
Edited by: Rodj Blake on 18/07/2006 14:02:50
Burglarize.
It's a word that really annoys me. It's mainly used in the US, but it's spread in recent years to the UK (in the form of burglarise).
Do builders builderize?
No, they build.
Likewise, burglars burgle.
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 14:03:00 -
[71]
Edited by: Dark Shikari on 18/07/2006 14:03:14
Originally by: Rodj Blake
Burglarize.
It's a word that really annoys me. It's mainly used in the US, but it's spread in recent years to the UK (in the form of burglarise).
Burglars burgle.
Hmm, according to the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary, burgle simply links to burglarize/burglarise, which has the actual definition. This implies that burglarize/burglarise is more correct.
I've never even heard burgle before.
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Nikolai Nuvolari
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 14:07:00 -
[72]
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Originally by: Nikolai Nuvolari
The bottom line is that NOBODY uses the same English that was used in 1750.
Shakespearean troupes do...
(OK, so 1610, not 1750, but whatever)
Do I need to repeat myself?
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Rodj Blake
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.07.18 14:09:00 -
[73]
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Edited by: Dark Shikari on 18/07/2006 14:03:14
Originally by: Rodj Blake
Burglarize.
It's a word that really annoys me. It's mainly used in the US, but it's spread in recent years to the UK (in the form of burglarise).
Burglars burgle.
Hmm, according to the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary, burgle simply links to burglarize/burglarise, which has the actual definition. This implies that burglarize/burglarise is more correct.
I've never even heard burgle before.
You're American though, and I'm guessing that the Mirriam-Webster is as well.
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Kurren
Farscape Mining
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Posted - 2006.07.18 14:53:00 -
[74]
Originally by: Nikolai Nuvolari
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Originally by: Nikolai Nuvolari
The bottom line is that NOBODY uses the same English that was used in 1750.
Shakespearean troupes do...
(OK, so 1610, not 1750, but whatever)
Do I need to repeat myself?
Shakespeare used to make fun of the way people talked in his plays by over-exagerating his wording and word play.
Also, all languages are some form of Latin derivative. Nobody is speaking proper English. We're all speaking incorrect Latin.
And, only the British would think color needed a damn U. Kind of "through" needs that silent O in the middle and silent GH at the end... 
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 14:56:00 -
[75]
Originally by: Rodj Blake
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Originally by: Rodj Blake
Burglarize.
It's a word that really annoys me. It's mainly used in the US, but it's spread in recent years to the UK (in the form of burglarise).
Burglars burgle.
Hmm, according to the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary, burgle simply links to burglarize/burglarise, which has the actual definition. This implies that burglarize/burglarise is more correct.
I've never even heard burgle before.
You're American though, and I'm guessing that the Mirriam-Webster is as well.
Burgle is the normal word to use in the UK.
Well its not a "wrong" word then, its simply from a different dialect.
There are plenty of words whose use is completely, utterly wrong to complain about
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Frobisher
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 14:58:00 -
[76]
The one the really annoyed me most when I lived in the US was "winningest". As he was the winningest coach in college football .... never could deal with that.
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Rodj Blake
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.07.18 15:00:00 -
[77]
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Originally by: Rodj Blake
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Originally by: Rodj Blake
Burglarize.
It's a word that really annoys me. It's mainly used in the US, but it's spread in recent years to the UK (in the form of burglarise).
Burglars burgle.
Hmm, according to the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary, burgle simply links to burglarize/burglarise, which has the actual definition. This implies that burglarize/burglarise is more correct.
I've never even heard burgle before.
You're American though, and I'm guessing that the Mirriam-Webster is as well.
Burgle is the normal word to use in the UK.
Well its not a "wrong" word then, its simply from a different dialect.
There are plenty of words whose use is completely, utterly wrong to complain about
But that doesn't mean that it won't irritate me.
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Benefactor
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Posted - 2006.07.18 15:03:00 -
[78]
Edited by: Benefactor on 18/07/2006 15:03:40
"smirk"
Roleplayers across virtually every genre, that is, bad roleplayers, when they have nothing interesting to say and not enough imagination to react to whatever just happened, just drop a *smirks* bomb on everyone. What the hell is up with that?
It just announces "Hi, I'm a smug, smirking jerk who has nothing worthwhile to say, so I'm going to act too cool to react in any other way.
I guess everyone wants to be the "cool," smug anime antihero ****er who leans in a dark corner of a bar or whatever and just smirks at everyone because he sucks. 
Only the President of the United States smirks as much in real life as bad roleplayers smirk in MMOs.
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 15:07:00 -
[79]
Originally by: Benefactor
Edited by: Benefactor on 18/07/2006 15:03:40
"smirk"
Roleplayers across virtually every genre, that is, bad roleplayers, when they have nothing interesting to say and not enough imagination to react to whatever just happened, just drop a *smirks* bomb on everyone. What the hell is up with that?
It just announces "Hi, I'm a smug, smirking jerk who has nothing worthwhile to say, so I'm going to act too cool to react in any other way.
I guess everyone wants to be the "cool," smug anime antihero ****er who leans in a dark corner of a bar or whatever and just smirks at everyone because he sucks.
Only the President of the United States smirks as much in real life as bad roleplayers smirk in MMOs.
Definitely... people don't seem to understand what it means to smirk at all.
I try to avoid using emotes that involve doing something like "*smirk*" or "*smiles*" or the like: it looks really contrived.
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Samirol
Ore Mongers
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Posted - 2006.07.18 15:09:00 -
[80]
i really don't mind mate, even if it is basically an "across the pond" term
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Nikolai Nuvolari
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 15:11:00 -
[81]
Originally by: Kurren
Also, all languages are some form of Latin derivative.
Uh, no, hopelessly wrong.
The Romance languages (such as Italian, French, Spanish, Portugese, etc) are Latin derivatives.
English is a Germanic language with Latin influence.
The majority of languages, however, are not related to Latin in any way (Do you think that Mandarin is a Latin derivative?)
Originally by: Benefactor
"smirk"
Roleplayers across virtually every genre, that is, bad roleplayers, when they have nothing interesting to say and not enough imagination to react to whatever just happened, just drop a *smirks* bomb on everyone. What the hell is up with that?
It just announces "Hi, I'm a smug, smirking jerk who has nothing worthwhile to say, so I'm going to act too cool to react in any other way.
I guess everyone wants to be the "cool," smug anime antihero ****er who leans in a dark corner of a bar or whatever and just smirks at everyone because he sucks.
Only the President of the United States smirks as much in real life as bad roleplayers smirk in MMOs.
The appropriate response might be *Punches [name] in his smirking mouth*
On the other hand, I always figured the President is the only one who smirks because he's the one with the finger on the I-Win button (read: nukes), however we've all got nukes in EVE...but what about the first guy to get a titan? Maybe he should be allowed to smirk.
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Samirol
Ore Mongers
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Posted - 2006.07.18 15:13:00 -
[82]
Originally by: Nikolai Nuvolari
but what about the first guy to get a titan? Maybe he should be allowed to smirk.
that is definitely the ticket for smirking
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Drizit
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.07.18 15:19:00 -
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While it's true that the English language does lack a certain forceful content, it has a good way of defining things. For that reason, I find made up words to add more potency to something rather annoying. Such words like 'incredulastic' are used as if it adds more weight because incredible and fantastic have been merged to make a new word.
All it does for me is prove the lack of vocabulary of the speaker. The language has enough words to describe things without adding more and if you can't find a word with enough potency, go read a dictionary.
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Samirol
Ore Mongers
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Posted - 2006.07.18 15:20:00 -
[84]
doesn't english have some of the most words out of every language as well?
"incredulous" style words are good for filler in essays 
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Tao Han
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.07.18 16:01:00 -
[85]
the word "uber"(nber) used in any non-german sentence....
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Etumretniw
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.07.18 16:09:00 -
[86]
Originally by: Treg Valar
The word that really gets me annoyed is "toon" when people are talking about their characters. Might only be me that it annoys.
Couldn't agree more. Toon sounds stupid, and makes me want to check if maybe I have accidentally clicked myself in to the forum for some colorful anime MMO, featuring schoolgirls with tails and catears.
Oh, and also (though it's not a word) the manga-style smiley: ^^ makes Etum mad.
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Verizana
The Kru
Coalition of Carebear Killers
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Posted - 2006.07.18 16:17:00 -
[87]
pie
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Rodj Blake
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.07.18 16:27:00 -
[88]
Originally by: Verizana
pie
Oi!
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Kar ValNemik
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Posted - 2006.07.18 16:27:00 -
[89]
The phrase "oh-snap" really annoys me. Oh and "cheers" when you are saying goodbye to someone from England.
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Xeios
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Posted - 2006.07.18 16:43:00 -
[90]
Originally by: Kar ValNemik
The phrase "oh-snap" really annoys me. Oh and "cheers" when you are saying goodbye to someone from England.
Cheers is used to say thankyou not goodbye.
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