Top 10 irritants

nidzhar

RESEARCHERS at Oxford University recently compiled a list of the top 10 irritating expressions. Heading it was 揳t the end of the day

seribulan

'In a nutshell...'  

Al Lebam

11. frankly speaking....

iza_yuss

actually...

shalidrus

'thanx darwin' hehe

scidbu

sepatutnye???

hyie

whatever..

nanat87

boleh habaq dak, irritating dari segi apa pekataan2 atau expressions tuh?aku dak rasa apa2 mungkin sobab aku bukan native speaker bagi english..awat depa rasa irritated pulok

nidzhar

'went horribly wrong' do things ever go beautifully wrong

nidzhar

irritating yg depa maksudkan is how certain words and expressions are being misused, over-used and out of context..bagi aku takdak apa pon cuma mungkin the english language has evolved so much and that's why depa wanted to preserve the beauty of english language kot..be it written or spoken..leave it to the Brits to be so pious about language

jeriah_md

'dont give it a damn' ...
termasuk x ni???

nidzhar

'Whatever' so totally tops most annoying word poll

So, you know, it is what it is, but Americans are totally annoyed by the use of "whatever" in conversations.

The popular slacker term of indifference was found "most annoying in conversation" by 47 percent of Americans surveyed in a Marist College poll released Wednesday.

"Whatever" easily beat out "you know," which especially grated a quarter of respondents. The other annoying contenders were "anyway" (at 7 percent), "it is what it is" (11 percent) and "at the end of the day" (2 percent).

"Whatever" — pronounced "WHAT'-ehv-errr" when exasperated — is an expression with staying power. Immortalized in song by Nirvana ("oh well, whatever, nevermind") in 1991, popularized by the Valley girls in "Clueless" later that decade, it is still commonly used, often by younger people.

It can be an all-purpose argument-ender or a signal of apathy. And it can really be annoying. The poll found "whatever" to be consistently disliked by Americans regardless of their race, gender, age, income or where they live.

"It doesn't surprise me because 'whatever' is in a special class, probably," said Michael Adams, author of "Slang: The People's Poetry" and an associate professor of English at Indiana University. "It's a word that — and it depends how a speaker uses it — can suggest dismissiveness."

Adams, who was not involved in the poll and is not annoyed by "whatever," points out that its use is not always negative. It also can be used in place of other, neutral phrases that have fallen out of favor, like "six of one, half dozen of the other," he said.

But the negative connotation might explain why "whatever" was judged more annoying than the ever-popular "you know," which was recently given a public workout by Caroline Kennedy during her flirtation with the New York U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. "You know," Adams notes, is a way for speakers to seek assent from others.

Pollsters at the Poughkeepsie, N.Y. college surveyed 938 U.S. adults by telephone Aug. 3-Aug 6. The margin of error is 3.2 percentage points. The five choices included were chosen by people at the poll discussing what popular words and phrases might be considered especially annoying, said spokeswoman Mary Azzoli.

lagi annoying kalau ckp "whatttt-everrrr" sambil juling2 kan mata

w_md_harris

i dont a give damn

pure_lady

watever...........daaa~~~

like i care