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WHATEVER - Top most annoying phrases and words in a conversation.
Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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Based on a Marist poll
http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/usapolls/us0908...
AND an oxford poll
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/oxford-research/
here's the list of the top annoying words (feel free to add some of your own! - What phrases make you go nuts inside if your communication partner uses them?)
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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More than half of the population crawls up the walls hearing this one. Understandably. Meh, whatever.
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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You know, you know this one, don't you.
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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"It is what it is"
And whatever you say, like, doesn't count, eh.
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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When I read "Anyway" anywhere, I hear, in my mind, Aaaaaaanywaaaaay drawled out. A great, and super annoying word to get people back on topic. Whatever.
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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At the end of the day, this is what we need to achieve. Doesn't sound too bad to me personally, and rarely ever gets used in conversation. But, hey, whatever.
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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Not on the official poll, but, like, something that makes my brain, like, crawl (not that there's much there to crawl anywhere, but, whatever).
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It's just a ride
England
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
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I submit 'awesome' for consideration.
The universe is awesome, the feats of the great thinkers, artists and scientists in human history are awesome.
The latest pair of shoes sported by Sarah Jessica Parker are not.
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'Bernard Wingrave'
United States
Wyoming
Ohio
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Learnings (as a replacement for lessons or findings)
As in, "When we return from the conference, we'll be happy to discuss our learnings with the rest of the group."
This would irritate me a lot more, but thankfully, I haven't heard it very often.
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Board Game: Just Wait
[Average Rating:5.98 Unranked]
Bob Menzel
United States
Montpelier
Vermont
Missed it by that much ...
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. . . wait for it . . . 
a new phrase that seems to have gained an unwarranted following
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dustin boggs
Canada
Victoria
BC
these are my overtexts and
now I am without geek gold :(
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My current boss used to say thrust all the time during meetings. "The thrust of this discusion..." whatever. It got so bad I would do a thrust count for him and at the end of the meeting the thrustometer would be giving much to his shock. He was surprised he used the world so much and he made an effort to eliminate its use. When he said it he would laugh and look at me and now he has like virtually eliminated it.
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Dave Lartigue
United States
Springfield
Massachusetts
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WIN, FAIL, meh
Instantly lets me know that I can ignore the rest of what you're saying.
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Kyle W.
United States
Up Nort' Der
Wisconsin
...and furthermore, tipping answers in GeekQuestions should be fixed.
Me Grimlock teach Hulk everything he knows about smashing.
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"Do the math."
A few years ago I worked with a guy that used this phrase all the time, but I've seen or heard it plenty of other places too.
In general it seems to be used as a way to reinforce a statement (and/or add "shock value") without providing any actual data to support it, or as a way for the speaker to conceal that fact that they haven't bothered to "do the math" themselves.
It works under the assumption that the person hearing it will take the statement at face value without verifying it, whether it is actually correct or not.
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Ian Harris
United Kingdom
Chester-le-Street
County Durham
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I cringe whenever anyone begins their answer to every question with "well, basically......."
Do they assume I am unable to comprehend the full, detailed answer they could give, and must give me a simplified, basic version?
Multiply the irritation factor by one hundred when this phrase is uttered by someone with that godawful, just-outside-London John Major/ Janet Street Porter nasal whine accent.
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Andy Foulke
United States
Florissant
Missouri
Welcome to Friedey's!
You want fries with that?
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"Last but not least", uttered at least dozens of times per episode in a certain popular gaming podcast.
From now on, I'd like discussion topics to be ordered so the last is least.
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Kevin J
Canada
Toronto
Ontario
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Oh my God, I don't think I can stand hearing "oh my God" one more time.
Wouldn't a simple "wow" or "gee whiz" work just as nicely? No need to involve deities in this.
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Jay Volk
United States
Richfield
Ohio
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"Frankly"
I hate that word. If you talking to me, emailing me, whatever, you have my eternal permission to be frank.
No one ever prefaces something they say with the word "mendaciously"
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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Dude!
Used, once upon a time for everything.
Replacing, among others:
Hi!
How are you!
I'm fine thank you!
Not too well today!
That's great!
That sucks!
Well done!
Awfully done!
etc.
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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"...kind of idea".
A crutch often used to say "similarly to this", or "using a certain fudge factor", or "here, I explained this to you, you'll get the idea, right?" But hearing it dozens of times within a 10 minute presentation.  Uh oh...
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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Right.
You know, right, that's like I was going there, right, and never arrived, like, inside, right?.
Right. If you weren't right, or assuming that I would assume you weren't right, why would you need a permanent assurance that I believe you are right? Depending on the frequency, a very annoying term.
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ian morris
United Kingdom
lichfield
staffordshire
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All good choices above, but the one that really pisses me off right now, is when people say "absolutely" when they should be saying "yes" or "quite". I hear it all the time in the UK now, on the radio, on the telly, everywhere, and it devalues the word.
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Gabe Alvaro
United States
Berkeley
California
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"Meh"
Why even bother coming up with a word for a non-feeling?
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Gabe Alvaro
United States
Berkeley
California
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"Literally"
Soooo many people say "literally" when they actually mean "figuratively". This is the top of the list for me.
"She literally ripped my head off!"
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Peaceful Gamin'
Canada
Vancouver
BC
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"no doubt"
A replacement for "you are right", "yeah, no doubt, eh!"
No doubt very annoying.
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Alex
United States
St. Paul
Minnesota
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Going forward
As in, "Going forward, we'll be concentrating more on our markets in Europe," or, "We'll have to be more focused on quality control going forward."
Just another way of saying "from now on."
I hear it mostly in the business world, which seems to be the source of most of the idiotic phrases I hear.
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David Bauer
United States
Horseheads
New York
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"TECHNICALLY" This phrase would drive me nuts at work. When this guy was asked to cover someone's job for their break he would respond "technically" I am not suppose to work there, or "technically" I am not qualified on that, or "technically" that is not in the sop. I have heard this many times on movies and tv and it just bothers me.
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