Do makey-uppy words piss you off ?

Liam Byrne

I was just listening to the radio and someone had texted in about a "staycation" and the word makes me want to change channel.

I have no problem with made-up words that involve the full word - e.g. "lawnmower" or the like, but a "fire engine" wasn't bastardised into "firengine" just because the end of one word sounded like the start of the other.

I always envisage the D4 types sitting around going "chortle, chortle, good one Ivor", and hitting the streets to spread their virus.

Firstly, the Irish word was "holiday"
Secondly, Irish people "stayed" - as in hit our own beaches - long before the Celtic Tiger and the recession.

So why do we need a ridiculous-sounding new "word" ?

CardBordWindow

makey-uppy :mad:

southsiderosie

Thread title: "Do makey-uppy words piss you off?"

Hee hee.

starbelgrade

Thread needs poll options;

Do Makey Uppy words piss you off?

- Yes they doodey

- Nokey dokey

- Atari Jaguary

beertons

someone take a jizz in your cornflakes?

CreepingDeath

Only "perma-banned".

Sergeant

Quite a flagulous topic.

Always hate when people say 'rosemantic', hear it in work every Valentine's Day.

positron

Liam Byrne wrote: »

I was just listening to the radio and someone had texted in about a "staycation" and the word makes me want to change channel.

I think 'staycation' as a word is being misused here.

It's supposed to mean taking time off work and staying at home - as in staying at one's own house (not home country) - but I suppose we don't have a word for 'holidaying in Ireland', or is there?

Pherekydes

Staycation is a horrible word, especially when it's used incorrectly.

Holidaying in Ireland is not a staycation. A staycation is when you take 2 weeks off work and lounge around your own house doing f*** all.

Here's a few more to get the thread going:

edutainment (ugh)
infomercial.

danniemcq

better than putting .com at the end of sentances. thats annoying and i alwasys have to resist smacking whoever i hear saying it

--Kaiser--

southsiderosie wrote: »

Thread title: "Do makey-uppy words piss you off?"

Hee hee.

The ironing is delicious

the groutch

OP needs to chillax

starbelgrade

positron wrote: »

I suppose we don't have a word for 'holidaying in Ireland', or is there?

Pointless.

Mr. Presentable

Sergeant wrote: »

Quite a flagulous topic.

Agreed. Cromulently redumnant.

minikin

Annoyifying thread is annoyifying.

ejmaztec

Pherekydes wrote: »

Staycation is a horrible word, especially when it's used incorrectly.

Holidaying in Ireland is not a staycation. A staycation is when you take 2 weeks off work and lounge around your own house doing f*** all.

Here's a few more to get the thread going:

edutainment (ugh)
infomercial.

Sounds like a fuckallation to me.

Chuck Stone

Nopers.

Liam Byrne

I had actually intended to highlight the irony of the thread title in the OP as a "P.S.", but I forgot to!

However the fact remains that I didn't chop any bits off the words, so it's more like "lawnmower" (acceptable) than "staycation" (unacceptable).

Jesus Wept

A lot of them do. It can depend on who is saying them, like any **** on Irish television.
Some are perfectly cromulent.

gugleguy

kuwlya - badunderdunks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there!

and if you don't like em then * off!!!!!!!!!!

GLaDOS

The word "guesstimate" always makes me irrationally annoyed.

Liam Byrne

gugleguy wrote: »

.....and if you don't like em then * off!!!!!!!!!!

I've unfortunately never met a girl called "off".

alexjk

50% of all words are made up. FACT.

OP I think you should chillax

Sergeant

Deleted User wrote: »

OP I think you should chillax

Whatever.

Pherekydes

alexjk wrote: »

50% of all words are made up. FACT.

90% of statistics on the interwebz are made up 10% of the time.

Malari

No, I like the sniglet-style ones. Among my favourites are:

"Window-cating" - the accidental use of the windscreen-wiper in a car when you meant to signal left.

"Lactomangulation" - Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.

"Sarchasm" - The giant gulf between what is said and the person who doesn't get it.

Glinda

All words are makey-uppy words, just madey-uppy at different times

Feeona

The word blog irritates me because by the time I finally got to know what a blog was, there was this whole group of people who were like 'OMG, you don't know what a blog is!' and they weren't even kids!

We'll all look back on this golden age of the 'internet' and combined words and shake our heads in embarrassment. Combined words are so early noughties :pac:

Liam Byrne

Deleted User wrote: »

OP I think you should chillax

If that were actually a word I might have a clue what you're on about.

Unfortunately I can't do something that doesn't exist.

Pherekydes

Feeona wrote: »

Combined words are so early noughties :pac:

Do you mean portmanteaux?

Liam Byrne

Feeona wrote: »

The word blog irritates me because by the time I finally got to know what a blog was, there was this whole group of people who were like 'OMG, you don't know what a blog is!' and they weren't even kids!

We'll all look back on this golden age of the 'internet' and combined words and shake our heads in embarrassment. Combined words are so early noughties :pac:

Ye old "web log" => "weblog" => "weblog"

The one that most people put on their websites and then update about once a month.

raah!

Not as much as when people decide that a they'd like a word with an already established meaning to mean something else.

Feeona

Pherekydes wrote: »

Do you mean portmanteaux?

Can't wait til I hear 'OMG you use 'combined words' instead of 'portmanteaux'?


FFS I must be living under a rock :mad:

--Kaiser--

raah! wrote: »

Not as much as when people decide that a they'd like a word with an already established meaning to mean something else.

Like 'revert'. People sending me emails at work saying 'I will revert with feedback'

Really? You will return to your original state? Fvck off and learn some English you twat!

--Kaiser--

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Like 'revert'. People sending me emails at work saying 'I will revert with feedback'

Really? You will return to your original state? Fvck off and learn some English you twat!

"please revert to me" :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

EverEvolving

Anyone else not realise Lawnmower is a shortened word?

Logical Fallacy

I used to work in Marketing, my tolerance for made up words is exceptionally high...otherwise i would have been killing my co workers all day.

Best one ever was "decomplexify". I just sat there and asked, "Don't you mean simplify?"

EverEvolving

EverEvolving wrote: »

Anyone else not realise Lawnmower is a shortened word?

is it? what's it short for?

Liam Byrne

EverEvolving wrote: »

Anyone else not realise Lawnmower is a shortened word?

It's a composite word : "lawn" & "mower"

There's no letters stripped out of that, as far as I can see.

The issue with "staycation" :rolleyes: is that it should be "stayvacation" and they have actually shortened it.

Enlighten me, though - what letters were removed in "lawnmower" ?

Caraville

Most of them don't really annoy me that much, but I do hate the word "recessionista" :mad:

Mostly cos it's said either by or about people who have barely even noticed there's a recession on, e.g. "Kate Middleton wears outfit more than once/wears something from Zara- what a recessionista!!!"

Yeah, poor auld Kate's money situation is only shockin', the poor creathur.

Plazaman

I have come to hate new buzz words that are used in Office situations (seeing as I work in one myself). "Facetime" bugs me no end ("I need some Facetime with the Manager"). Hows about you just set up a meeting, that worked for years. "Blamestorming" also irritates me. Just do your job right and there'll be no need to put the blame on someone else.

Having said that "Precussive Maintenance" is quite handy and therapeutic (hammering the shít out of a PC in order to get it to work).

EverEvolving

Liam Byrne wrote: »

It's a composite word : "lawn" & "mower"

There's no letters stripped out of that, as far as I can see.

The issue with "staycation" :rolleyes: is that it should be "stayvacation" and they have actually shortened it.

Enlighten me, though - what letters were removed in "lawnmower" ?

I thought you meant it was since you used it as an example earlier in the thread, I wasn't aware that it was a shortened word and must have mis-read your post.

Liam Byrne

EverEvolving wrote: »

I thought you meant it was since you used it as an example earlier in the thread, I wasn't aware that it was a shortened word and must have mis-read your post.

EverEvolving wrote: »

Anyone else not realise Lawnmower is a shortened word?

Er, OK, but to be honest the above makes no sense.

The King of Moo

I hate lots of modern portmanteaux like "staycation" and "guesstimate" (aren't a guess and estimate almost the same thing anyway?)
Business speak also, especially "going forward." Maybe someone can enlighten me, but doesn't it just mean "going forward in time," which is what we're all doing anyway?

What really bugs me is the unnecessary and lazy shortening of words, which seems to happen on American TV more often than it does here. On the many occasions on which I've had to watch E! News unwillingly, I get a little spasm of rage when they say "photog" instead of "photographer."
On Criminal Minds, when they're searching for the killer, they call him or her "the unsup." I think it might be short for "unidentified suspect."
The worst is the CSI programmes where they say "vic" instead of "victim." They really can't be bothered saying a whole extra syllable composed of three more letters?

Reading about sports in newspapers in America was also like reading a whole new language at times. I never knew "winningest" was used seriously to mean "most successful." The most annoying thing though, was a headline about a young up-and-coming footballer. It's common in U.S sports to describe a really good player as a "phenom" - short for "phenomenon." This headline read: "He's Phenom-enal!" What was the point of the hyphen!? Didn't the sub-editor actually realise the "word "phenom" comes from "phenomenom!?"

End of rant. I just really hate laziness in language.

Liam Byrne

Liam Byrne wrote: »

If that were actually a word I might have a clue what you're on about.

Unfortunately I can't do something that doesn't exist.

You're missing the entire point of languages... They're a means to communicate and not much more. If I say something like "chillax" and people understand me, then language has done it's job.

The longer I spend on boards, the more I realise how lucky I am to not get annoyed by stuff like this.

lastlaugh

positron wrote: »

It's supposed to mean taking time off work and staying at home - as in staying at one's own house (not home country) - but I suppose we don't have a word for 'holidaying in Ireland', or is there?

Staycation could be used for 'holidaying in Ireland' alright.

Sure aren't all those bleedin Fugees are over here on a Staycation!

Gracelessly Tom

The King of Moo wrote: »

On Criminal Minds, when they're searching for the killer, they call him or her "the unsup." I think it might be short for "unidentified suspect."

It's "unsub" - unidentified subject

Awful_Bliss

I can't stand this new trend of adding 'gate' at the end of some scandal. E.g. 'Bloodgate' or 'Piggygate'.

KungPao

Amazeballs.

Crapolla.

Eurobucks.

Fabtastic.

Fashionista.

:mad: