<p>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.</p>
<p>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 defin*ite*ly don't!</p>
<p>How about these hackneyed phrases "at the end of the day" and "that said". It makes me cringe just to write them, much less hear them over and over again.</p>
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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.</p>
<p>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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Definitely.</p>
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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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Definitely.</p>
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^I think you mean rediculous.</p>
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Ridiculous.</p>
<p>Sorry dudes, had to be a spelling nazi with all the word nazis here. :(</p>
<p>Speaking of which, irrelevant online use of the word Nazi has to be banned.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>"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!"</p>
<p>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.</p>
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Well, obviously. "Your" and "you're" sound the same. Maybe that's why you don't hear a difference. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You are stupid. You're stupid. So simple. (I'm not calling anyone stupid. Just using it as an example).</p>
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DD/DS/DH/DW: Since when are we all so darling?
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Do you never use shortened forms of anything when texting?</p>