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For Southern accents: OK.
All the time: :x
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Aftershocker wrote:I got annoyed when the most used word where I live was "beast." Everyone kept saying it over and over and it just...just...BUGGED!!! I'm cool, I'm cool. (sighs)

Yes the guys from my church keep saying that that guy is beast my mo-ped is beast blah blah blah!
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You go into a southern accent, too? hahaha I usually say ain't on a regular basis.

I can't stand when people say "just" constantly. :P
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Yeah, filler words (like, you know, umm, uh, just, I mean(sometimes),) can drive a person crazy!(I know, I know. I'm not excluded. Even the best of us often throw in one of those! :lol:) It also shows your lack of proper English and that you weren't prepared for what you were going to say. Especially when people on TV who do speeches a lot do it. I mean, they are being payed to do this, and are up in front of a bunch of people, and they don't even come prepared!
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On the subject of speeches, inserting filler words doesn't sound like they're unprepared. It makes them sound natural. After all, most of these people didn't write these speeches themselves anyway, and they're reading from paper on a podium, so filler words are a good way to not sound stilted and robotic.

Filler words do get annoying when they're used over and over again, though. Once or twice is one thing (I don't think we should expect each other to speak without using a single filler word; we weren't given scripts for our lives, after all); it's quite another when you say it every other word. I've especially noticed that in discussions in my AP English class, and particularly among the girls; it's hard to create an academic environment when you're surrounded by people who sound like valley girls.
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I hate "dude" because it sounds Mean. Also, "cool" is annoying. Also "rocks" is not very friendly with me either.
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I hate 'dude', and it drives me crazy when people constantly say 'like,' but I guess I say that all the time too.
17:39<Novatom>: I'm in another boat. A boat of people who don't know what everyone's talking about. A boat that is sinking.
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I hate calling anyone boy or being called boy. Dude is kinda annoying.
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What do you mean, 'boy?' Do you mean starting a sentence by saying boy or just saying someone is a boy?
17:39<Novatom>: I'm in another boat. A boat of people who don't know what everyone's talking about. A boat that is sinking.
17:40<Sameriazx>: oh no... here we go again...
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No as in some one referring to me as boy. Or anyone for that matter.
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Blitz wrote:No as in some one referring to me as boy. Or anyone for that matter.
But, you are a boy...no?

What about girls being called girls? :P
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Oh yeah, and I hate it when my mom refers to her friends as "girls."
17:39<Novatom>: I'm in another boat. A boat of people who don't know what everyone's talking about. A boat that is sinking.
17:40<Sameriazx>: oh no... here we go again...
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I hate it when people say "I could care less", because it means the exact opposite of what they mean! What they should say is "I couldn't care less", because "I could care less" means you do care, at least a little.
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I discovered I have Misophonia:
The hatred of repetitive or weird sounds. The main one is the sound of people eating. Not even just smacking, but the sound of their teeth snapping and everything. Hahahaha *eye twitches*
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HomeschoolCowgirl wrote:Howabout "ain't"?
Drives me NUTS.
My sister uses it often -- ON PURPOSE.
I use the word [or not word] ain't in my normal speech!
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Improper grammar drives me crazy.
17:39<Novatom>: I'm in another boat. A boat of people who don't know what everyone's talking about. A boat that is sinking.
17:40<Sameriazx>: oh no... here we go again...
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Ahhhhh! Novatom where is your sense of 'coloring outside the line'? No really it's fine!
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Micky wrote:Ahhhhh! Novatom where is your sense of 'coloring outside the line'? No really it's fine!
It's quite annoying, in my opinion.
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It's also quite unprofessional. =P
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I remember a few years ago when "epic" was the word everyone used to describe everything (at least where I lived at the time, which happened to be South Korea). It always bugged me, but fortunately people have sort of stopped using it now. I agree with most of what everyone said on this topic, however. This is slightly off topic, but does anyone else hate the sound of potato chip bags being opened? I used to (well, I still do, I guess) absolutely hate that sound, and always covered my ears every time it looked like someone was about to open one within 10 feet of me. My brother used to open them right in front of me on purpose. :evil:
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