new category time. words that should die. these are words that i've come across numerous times online and they irritate the crap out of me. feel free to add to the list.
1. any word that ends in -ster. see napster, friendster, feedster.
2. proverbial. the quick brown fox jumps over the proverbial lazy dog.
Posted by jon at February 18, 2004 03:18 AM | TrackBack"row"
Seems like every other Yahoo news article I read has the word "row" in it... and for the longest time I had no idea what the heck it meant other than the typical "row a boat" or "row vs. column" definitions. It's not exactly something you can figure out the meaning of by context either. So after I finally discovered it's some stupid British term meaning "fight, or disagreement" that's when I noticed all of the articles it appeared in were Reuters or occasionally AP wire articles. Damn those Brits and their non-American words that don't make any sense... I'm just waiting to see "bloody" in an article one of these days.
Posted by: c on February 18, 2004 04:37 PM"deprecated"
I see this one at work all the time and it always makes me think of someone taking a crap.