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any other goddamn phony compound word these assholes can come up with.

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I agree, but I make an exception for "shenanery". It's a good one.

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i get soooo tired of hearing,

"stop screwing the hooker. she's dead."

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The use of 'literally' when they mean 'metaphorically', as a device to emphasise your statement. It pisses me off, and if used, you should have the thing in question done to you.

'He literally kills me...' - BLAM!

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I'm an idiot was does "chillax" mean?

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I'm an idiot was does "chillax" mean?

[/ QUOTE ]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chillax

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anything from 'the hood'

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The use of 'literally' when they mean 'metaphorically', as a device to emphasise your statement. It pisses me off, and if used, you should have the thing in question done to you.

'He literally kills me...' - BLAM!

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but does it literally piss you off?

yeah heard a news report where some people were "down at the courthouse literally walking on eggshells waiting for the verdict." annoying. read a dictionary.

bwana

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I'm an idiot was does "chillax" mean?

[/ QUOTE ]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chillax

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Thanks, now that I know what it means I hate it.

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The use of 'literally' when they mean 'metaphorically', as a device to emphasise your statement. It pisses me off, and if used, you should have the thing in question done to you.

'He literally kills me...' - BLAM!

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Agreed. I see this a lot. For some reason, newscasters seem addicted to it. "The crowd is so big, the stadium is literally exploding!" "That answer literally blew him away!"

WTF? They're just words; learn how to use them.

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I like when nouns are turned into verbs. I think it was in calvin and hobbes, calvin points out the "verbing" of nouns.

I like "friending", which is used by a lot of dumbasses on My Space and Friendset, "dude, I friended you on myspace"

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I really hate this too. Rarely heard, but always annoying is when scrapbook is used as a verb..."I've been scrapbooking" Uhhhh...

There's some college (I've never even heard of it) that puts together a list of banished words and phrases. Most of the stuff mentioned here ends up on there eventually. Here's the 2005 list: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
It's a little off topic, but funny and entertaining.