ENTRY 1: "I could care less."

Well, if you could care LESS, then it is implied that you currently care to some degree, idjit. The correct phrase is: "I couldn't care less." Get it right.

ENTRY 2: "He's going to try and hit the target (por ejemplo)."

Let's break this down - - he's going to try the target. AND he's going to hit the target. Whuhhhhh? The correct phrase is: "He's going to try to hit the target."

ENTRY 3: Anything spoken by George Dubya Bush, who is the personification of linguistic irritants and, indeed, all irritants of every variety.



How about YOU? Any particular turn of phrase or word that gets under your skin?



READER CONTRIBUTIONS:

From BigChris: morons that punctuate everything with "you know what I'm saying?"

From SherrysCherries: Yeah, people who use the F word as both an adjective and adverb for everything.

Example:

I was out F-ing walking my f-ing dog and some f-ing dude in a f-ing suv almost f-ing ran us the f over.

From The Vessel: I fucking hate the fucking word "irregardless". You know what I'm fucking saying?

Regardless means without regard. Add the prefix ir to that and you get not without regard, a double negative contained in a single word that people use to mean the opposite of what it ends up meaning. I wish people would at least try and use it right.

Eh, now that I fucking think about it, I could care less, you know what I'm saying?

NUCULER!

From ColoConnect: I know a woman that constantly uses "unremarkable" ...not a word not a phrase just an annoyance.

I hate it when some friends and family use "flusterated" or "flusteration" again not a word........it's the place that frustration meets flurry and it's an ugly place....

From NotACynic: Do overused words and expressions count? Because, "at the end of the day", If I hear the word "unbelievable" as an all-purpose adjective even once more I will lose my fucking mind. Also "official" as in Coors light is an official sponsor of some fucking shit.

From ZappaFan: Anything that comes out of Fran Dresher's mouth.

Extreme redneck speak, not Southern mind you, to me there is a difference.

Extreme New York speak, being from New York and not talking like that anymore (unless I spend time there) it makes me nuts.

Very Gay Germans, I do not have a problem with gays or Germans but if you put that lispy thing with that gutteral talk aaarrrgghhh!

Grown men and women that use the terms dawg and dude in an attempt to seem 'with it'

From TheBlaast: Let me try and hit the target. Irregardless of the fucking comments on this fucking post dawg, at the end of the day everyone uses language that is flusterating to others. Know what I'm saying,dude?
Please don't misunderestimate how much I could care less. Unbelievable!

From Adam Warlock: I guess "wanna come with" is the only thing I can think of. Not particularly that phrase, but the lack of people completing the sentance.

"I'm gonna go get a beer. You wanna come with?" (ME!)

And it's pronounced i-ther or ni-ther, not either of neither. 8-)

From Daisy: A well-timed and well-placed vulgarity can say volumes in the right situations. But I really hate to hear it in every day use, such as the word "shit" to mean "stuff."

From Bupu2: Pronouncing the word "chimney" as "chimley" is guaranteed to make me say/do most all the above.

From BigAl: One of my brothers would use the word "phenomenal" all the time. It would drive everyone in the family crazy.

A phrase I try not to use is "the thing is", although I do. I know that drives some people nuts. My dad would use that when he was making a point, so I guess I picked it up from him.

From Whispered Promise: I pronounce room, broom,and roof in short vowels and my New Jersy relatives and my Marylander friends mock it, but dang it, there is now r in the first sylable of water. Nor does it sound like wooder.
As far as phrases, My teens call each other "butt hole" and I hate that. I don't care what they say, it never will be an endearment!

From AZRon: Do you 'wash' your clothes or 'warsh' your clothes?

I never got used to 'warshing' my clothes, I'll stick with laundering them

And more from The Vessel: The Monkitty has informed me that he hates it when people use 'then' when they should use 'than', por ejemplo, "Vessel is more smarter then anyone else in the world". (Monkitty does not realize that 'more smarter' is improper grammar. He's just a monkitty for crying out loud.) This seems to happen most often in written language, which begs the questions, "When did the Monkitty learn to read?" and "Does Monkitty have a shot at the Republican presidential nomination?"

And Chanda has some more: "at the end of the day" and "it is what it is". Can you tell that I have been listening to the corporate language for too long? Then add that lingo with a boss that thought the "s" is especially was an "x"....another one that crawls under my skin.

But boy do a love the word Fuck.....for all occasions