Yet another example of the constantly shifting landscape of the English language - 'literally' appears to no longer mean 'literally'. It can mean it's exact opposite: "I literally exploded with rage" or as a general purpose intensifier: "I have literally no idea what you mean".
1) "Literally"
brilliant/amazing/fantastic
when people mean slightly better than just good
AWESOME
2) Awesome
Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
"That was awesome!, That's awesome!!"
"Awesome, dude!"
I'd like to nominate "random"
Particularly when used in the context of a teenage female being all "wacky" and "strange" and "annoying".
this
one of my friends describes himself on myspace as 'a touch random'.
He is the quietest and most introverted person I know.
in this sense
he means "sociopathic"
Agreed, random is a much abused word....
I blame Hollyoaks
I hate these people.
"Oh, I'm so random sometimes"
"I'm pretty crazy but I like it that way"
Please go away, crawl under a rock and wait to die thank you.
I think i heard Lawro say this yesterday on Footi Focus/MoTD:
"Newcastle literally haven't won in ten games".
But
Newcastle literally haven't won in ten games!
"mad"
example: oh, me and my friends are a bit mad when we're all together!
really means: my friends and i have a few in-jokes and we laugh together like diseased, oxygen-starved babboons
same goes for mental
as in "last night was mental" to be translated as I was very drunk. Oh and trashed too.
that like
saying something is like being "on acid"
battles, they're like the beatles... on acid. (they're not.. i just like Bs this afternoon)
what about
bees? Them too?
not seen any yet
but it is only febuary. heres hoping.
as someone very wise once said:
"stop describing your band as [person] on acid. The only person who sounded like Jimi Hendrix on acid was Jimi Hendrix"
try picnics
that's how I managed to lure out the bumblebees in February.
i like you
but, that might just be a b thing, again.
brilliant!
*blush*
:)
i've run
out of b words :(
bottom!!
bugger
use your BRAIN!
Talking of like..
I'd like to nominate "like" as well. It's like wayyy too uverused these days, like.
Agnes Deyn
Must have like said it about like a million times in her Jonathan Ross interview the other day like.
"Subjective" / "objective"
People say them so often without having a clue about what they mean or when it's appropriate to use them.
ethnic
pandemic
"OMG you're so gay!"
meaning "OMG you're so stupid/annoying"
glare!
"like"
isn't like like the most like abused like word like
and it looks really weird after writing it that much!
"Actual" or "Actually"
this board is a major offender with this. Even the threads have it! "Name an actual good band" "This is ACTUALLY shocking", things like that. The emphasis on actually or actual boils my blood.
actualol
I saw the title of thought "Literally"
random is a close second.
Love/hate
I am guilty of this very much so! But I think it's safe to assume that blaaast HATES porky (see Oh Lordy. thread).
"Basically"
It always pisses me off when people say this and then say something that isn't basic at all.
In terms of spelling, it has to be
definitely.
I am so sick of reading definatly, definately, defenitely, definetley and a whole host of other hideous spellings.
...
Defo.
:(!
Sorry, but I think I've sorted it out now :)!
Yes, I've mentioned this before
It seems only 1% of people are able to spell this word properly
I am guilty of this, so so much :(
Not a word
but an expression "to be honest". You'd like to question if they're usually lying when they don't use it... grr, my sister does it, drives me mad, I probably do it by default too (SLAP me if you catch me doing it on these boards).
Yeah, or...
"No offence but..." followed by something offensive.
"Now I'm not racist, but *hates on arabs*"
^
"Let's face it, it's different when it's *ethnic group*!"
"political correctness gone mad"
otherwise known as the battle cry of the thwarted bigot
MTFU.
fuck the fuck off.
:D
:D
Jamie Redknapp, talking about somebody getting round a defender
"He's literally left him for dead"
Someone else also said "The defenders are literally on top of Crouch".
BLATANTLY
yick
"no offence but.."
followed either by something utterly inoffensive like " i'm working tomorow" or something horrible eg. "your boyfriend is really unattractive."
i say "pure" far too much.
My bezzi says that all the time.
"No offence to him, but he's basically just one gigantic spot."
"No offence to her, but she looks like a bald baby vulture."
Who
looks like a bald baby vulture?! Poor them!
I love you.
Will you be my DiS wife?
brilliant
...my English teacher used to be so bitter that everyone uses that for "good" ...she'd spend five hours shouting about how "things can't be brilliant unless they're giving off light" etc etc.
She was a dweeb but she was right.
jokes
No, it may be funny but I don't remember it actually being a joke..
or a number of..
damn plurals
freedom
:)
Any business style usage of nouns as verbs
'I need you to action this'
'We are going to author a report on it'
Although I do quite like MTFU so I guess I'm quite literally a hypocrite, basically.
Just noted my own usage of usage.
There was a real thing a few years ago now for using 'age' as a suffix to ANYTHING:
'Anyone up for some beerage?'
'There's insufficent curtainage here to prevent my cockage being displayed to the passerbyage.'
Was that just my insular little clique at uni of did anyone else suffer that?
I'm still suffering it.
Guy at work behind me says it all the fucking time.
Coinage.
Sockage. Anything gets an "age" added. I like him a lot but he drives me fucking NUTS with it.
So much so
it would appear, that I had to use the "f" word twice.
Oh, George, what have you done to me? :(
"going to the shops? Trekkage"
"Up for some giggage?"
Ironic
despite the fact I (or anyone I KNOW)couldn't give you a solid definition, at least I know when to use it. Things that are merely a coincidence are NOT ironic.
I blame Ms Morrisette.
"-ness"
Generally added by girls well into their twenties who are under the laughable impression that they're "quirky".