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01-05-2009, 09:50 PM
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#46 | | Member
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"independant" gets me. Is that something you wear like a brooch? An Inde-pendant.
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01-05-2009, 11:38 PM
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#47 | | Member
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I vote to ban "definately." Given that it's not a real word in the first place, that ought to be easy, but it seems to turn up again and again on this forum and in countless college essays, even those submitted by tip-top students applying to the most selective schools.
Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine, but whenever I read a review that tells me that I "definately" need to buy a particular product, eat at a recommended restaurant, or stay at a suggested hotel, I almost definitely don't!
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Sally, I'm with you on "definately." I don't see this one as frequently on CC but I see it regularly in classified ads: "convertable." Grrr.
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^I think you mean rediculous.
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Sorry dudes, had to be a spelling nazi with all the word nazis here. 
Speaking of which, irrelevant online use of the word Nazi has to be banned.
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01-06-2009, 12:11 AM
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#48 | | New Member
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I can't believe no one has mentioned legit yet. Walk down the halls of a high school and try to listen for a sentence lacking the word "legit". It's a shortened form of legitimate - it doesn't mean cool or great.
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01-06-2009, 01:08 AM
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#49 | | Junior Member
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"If I had a dime for everyone who said 'your' when they meant 'you're' I'd be richer than Bill Gates. Christ, it's simple English!"
Yeah, that's true. But you know, I always have difficulty picking up the difference when they're saying it; I usually have to wait until I see it written down before I can recognize one from the other. I guess when I'm listening to it, I just assume they know which one they're (their?) using. * --this marks the spot where I should insert a little smiley face but I don't know how to do that. That's another thing that bothers me--not that I don't know how to insert it, but that it exists as a marker of a tongue in a cheek in the first place. Language carries its own nuances, whether you can see a person's face when they are speaking or not, and the more room there is to interpret or misinterpret what a person means can only add depth to what, as most evidence seems to suggest, is a rather shallow human existence, generally speaking.
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01-06-2009, 03:32 PM
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#50 | | Member
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Well, obviously. "Your" and "you're" sound the same. Maybe that's why you don't hear a difference.
But, beyond that, I agree it should get 6 months off. It's such a simple one. I can't stand how often it's misused.
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DD/DS/DH/DW: Since when are we all so darling?
| Perhaps it's because they have husbands, sons, etc..., but this is used by older people quite a bit. They'll write coherent sentences with full words, then throw that on top. So annoying.
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01-06-2009, 06:14 PM
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#51 | | Junior Member
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Nothing ****es me off on CC more than when people use "S" or "D" to refer to their children. Losers.
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01-06-2009, 07:08 PM
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#52 | | Senior Member
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Gee, parthiv, tell us how you really feel.
I thought we were discussing overused & misused words to be banned from college essays, not shorthand expressions used in a (normally) cordial forum. Pardon me for existing.
Do you never use shortened forms of anything when texting?
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01-06-2009, 08:09 PM
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#53 | | Member
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How about CC instead of College Confidential?
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01-06-2009, 08:38 PM
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#54 | | Member
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I hate the slang term "da sh1t"
That one should forever be banned.
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01-06-2009, 09:01 PM
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#55 | | Senior Member
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Whenever I see CC I think Community College first, then College Confidential. Guess I'm slow.
ShesOnHerWay: I see you refer to your children as D1 and D2.  | |
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01-06-2009, 09:03 PM
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#56 | | Senior Member
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Whenever I see CC I think Community College first, then College Confidential. Guess I'm slow.
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01-06-2009, 10:51 PM
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#57 | | Member
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Oh, I also hate any word that did not already end in the suffix -ness, that people insist oon adding that ending to.
Sweet-ness
Cool-ness
It just sounds horrible.
I also despise the suffix, if you can call it that, "shizzle".
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01-07-2009, 12:57 AM
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#58 | | Member
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I was making a reference for parthiv who didn't like "D" and "S" but had no problem using "CC" (post #53). I thought the irony was humorous.  | |
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01-07-2009, 10:19 AM
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#59 | | Junior Member
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applejack
Well, maybe even more obvious than one might think!
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01-07-2009, 04:09 PM
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#60 | | Senior Member
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"Win" and "fail" being used as anything but verbs.
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