Words I'm Uber Tired Of

Once upon a time, these words were interesting. Then they became abused by a million netizens who use them over and over in cultist fervor. Now I start skipping posts that have them.

Privilege, as in blaming the "white privilege" or "male privilege" for some kind of unfair treatment. Yes, the whole world is against you, but I really don't care any more after 2,315,298 posts about other people deliberately misunderstanding the label because they are more privileged or happen to have a penis or are born white or have never been in your position due to fate or circumstance.

Heifer, as an insult. To me, it's equal to and may be even worse than the C word. I think it's horrible to call another person that word and I'm a roofer, used to the worst sort of name-calling.

Webinar, a word that makes me think ofl a seminar attended by ducks. Quack. quack, quack.

___Fail! which is now becoming a fad. It was funny when it started, as in QueryFail! and RWAFail! and RaceFail! or whatever the hot controversial topic of "bad behavior" by some group or other happened to be. But overuse has made it lose its impact. It's not cool any more, cool kids. #failFAIL!

Any word affixed to the word "green" or "carbon." I am TIRED of your greening or carbon-footprinting everything, okay? It makes me see red.

<3, which stands for "love," as in I <3 Gerard Butler. First time I saw that, I thought the "I" was doing Gerard Butler from behind. Or she wanted less than three Gerards. Or someone wants to show her boobs to Gerard. It is an irritating shortform. I'll take "heart" (which is also overused) over <3 any time.

"I want to have your babies." Words that basically shows how much you love someone or something. It's even funnier when it's a blog post from the same sex to another. Girl writing to girl: "Sally is awesome! I want to have her babies!" I've seen one male writing this to a female poster, which did crack me up. He wanted to have her babies--did he mean he wanted to take her babies or did he want to impregnate her or did he want her to impregnate him somehow? Hmm.

"At the end of the day." Come on. That was so pre-2008.

That's my Monday mini rant. Do you have words you want banned from the Internet from overuse? I'm sure there are plenty more.

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Post #2: Words Are Uber Important

Courtesy of Jeri Smith-Ready, who writes a great vampire urban fantasy series, by the way. Laugh-out-loud lines in this classic Bonnie Tyler video, including "mullets with headlights," LOL. Enjoy.

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Moar Funky Words, or, TeH Future, Iz Hopeles

This is my annual collection of funky words, phrases and netcronyms that I've come across while netsurfing this year. Please share if you have any new jargon.

1) Intertubes; Intrawebs
More and more I see these words being used instead of our very old-fashioned Internet. I'm one of the guilty ones.

2) GMAFB
Short for Gimme a frigging break.

3) OhNoSecond
That flash of a instance when you realized that you've made a mistake, like hitting SEND to an email meant for someone else.

4) NCMO
Non-commital Make-out. I'm serious, that's what it stands for.

5) Bromance
Snark among fans who ship hetero-heros as fan-fic. I personally have the best fun snerking at the bromance between House and Wilson.

6) Dead Tree Edition
Paper version. Yup, those green peeps don't call it a book any more. :-/

7) YMMV
This stumped me for a day or two. Your milleage may vary. This is tagged on when you're disagreeing with some poster so as not to incite the poster into thinking you think she's so stupid for disagreeing with you.

8) E-tact
Tact in our electronic world. Like breaking up with your ex- by texting a message means you don't have any, like, e-tact.

9) Mouse potato
You see them everywhere, this generation hooked online, their right hand fixed on that mouse.

10) WAGS
an acronym used particularly (but not exclusively) by the British tabloid press to describe the Wives And Girlfriends of the England national football team. I learned that from the overdose that is Giselle Bundsen.

11) MOW or FTW
Made of win. For the win. Said when you're in total agreement with someone who said something that's just so AwHsome. Or, as an enthusiastic phrase to end a post, for example, "GLow FTW!"

12) 404
Calling someone 404 means he's clueless.

13) Alpha Geek
The most knowledgeable tech in the group. Hey, if you can't be Alpha Male, you could be Alpha Geek.

14) Starter marriages
A short term first marriage that ends with no kids, no property, and no regrets.

15) TeH funny, it burns
It's all these LOLcat talk, I tell you. Anyway, just spell the TeH and make all adjectives into nouns, and you got lulz talk, sigh. Examples: TeH stupid, it runs our country, or, TeH crazy, there's no end.

16) tl;dr
This is my newest favorite. Too long; didn't read. When you find yourself skimming a long post that goes on and on and on, especially a crazy ranter giving teh crazy about why everyone is wrong, wrong, wrong, and then someone shoots you an email and asks "zomg, did you read what she said?! Wasn't that teh stupid?!," you just shoot back smugly, "tl;dr." HAHAHAHAHA. I find that amusing for some reason.

There you go, friends, new corruption of our English for 2008-09 for you to get hipped on. Or hopping mad at.

I'm sure I forgot a bunch but these have been very popular the past six months. Do you have any to add? Any questions? Are we tight?

Okee, then. I'm out. One.

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