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'29 tech phrases you should be punched in the face for using'

LOL, intarwebs, other stupid "cute" online phrases. Christ I hate them. Or at least the people that use them.

Sent from a handheld device.
Please excuse brevity or typo's.
;)
 
They totally got it wrong about pwned. Tweet is too new to really be that old. Bang on the money about crowd sourcing though..
 
The ones I have issue with:

1, 2 and 3. Tweeted, Tweetup and Tweeple
8. I can haz
10, 11 and 12. teh intarwebs, t'interweb and t'internet

Someone is being twee! Quick call the fun police. Internets is serious!
Also ban all women off the web. They keep cluttering the web with cutisie stuff. Don't they know the web is for men and manly language use only. :rolleyes: :p :D

6. Sheeple
One of the smuggest, most annoying words that's ever appeared online, sheeple is used patronisingly by the same people who think it's clever to write M$, Micro$oft, Windoze or MicroShaft. It isn't.

M$ is fine cause its expressing disgust at a greedy corporation. Sheeple however is used by self important anti-snobs who think they are better than others for turning their noses up at something the general public like.

9. n00b and all other forms of l33t speak
Used to be funny. Isn't any more.

Except when used ironically or to take the piss out of ha><0rz.

14. Sent from my iPhone
You can change this, you know. And you should. Now. Now. DO IT NOW.

I did. It now says:

Mark
[Sent from my iPhone]

:p

19. Rig
Is your PC in the sea, drilling for oil? No? Then it is not a rig. It's a PC.

I think it comes more from trucking. Driving my rig. Nice try. It is still shit though.

23 and 24. Webinar and Webisode
That's "seminar" and "episode". We don't talk about "hotelinars" or "tellysodes", do we?

Nothing wrong with new words to seperate new media from existing media.
Other wise people have confused meetings where they say "Sorry I'm lost are we talking about TV episode 3 or Web episode 3".

29. Reboot
Are you talking about rebooting a computer? Fine. Are you talking about rebooting something that isn't a computer, such as a movie franchise, or a meeting, or America? That's crazy talk!

Saying you have to reboot your brain is both amusing and effectively expressive I find.

Okay and yes i know I'm a sub-branch of the fun police for disecting this.
 
Shippou-Chan said:
it still means something to the right crowd


but the samed can be said about tongue in cheek leet speak
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That's my point, I and my friends used that term years ago as online gamers, it's only when twats who have no connection to that culture come along and start using it (like all that 'it's like such and such on acid' by people who've never taken LSD) that it gets on lists like this...
 
Shippou-Chan said:
or people who say "a cat is fine too" or "delicious cake i must eat it" but don't know the origins
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The thing is that pretty much nobody can use any internet phrase after about, oh, a week, because the internet eats itself. It doesn't matter whether you made it up yourself or not, really. It takes about 1% of the time for something to become an annoying overused cliche online compared to RL.

The only tolerable phrases are ones for which there is no proper or convenient replacement, like "relog", and I might stretch that to "noob" as well. Abbreviations can be a bit different but when they start turning into punctuation lol they're shit.
 
it will be overused as fuck but it can be a nice touch along the way

like seeing a new backer and sticking in a delicious cake knowing that the person you ar talking to will get it
 
#22 is very rubbish.
Someone asked me a couple of months ago whether I had any bandwidth and I had to ask him what on earth he meant.

I suppose it would make sense. If I was some sort of comms line. Or something.
 
They missed out "the cloud". Stop talking about "storing things in the cloud" when all you actually mean is "online". I saw the phrase "supercloud" just now - what the fuck's that suppose to be? A cloud of clouds? Does it store data on multiple internets?
 
FridgeMagnet said:
They missed out "the cloud". Stop talking about "storing things in the cloud" when all you actually mean is "online". I saw the phrase "supercloud" just now - what the fuck's that suppose to be? A cloud of clouds? Does it store data on multiple internets?
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That's God's database.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
They missed out "the cloud". Stop talking about "storing things in the cloud" when all you actually mean is "online". I saw the phrase "supercloud" just now - what the fuck's that suppose to be? A cloud of clouds? Does it store data on multiple internets?
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Yeah I'm with you on that one. Never liked that term, just sounds too poncey...
 
The word 'rig' long pre-dates oil rigs. In fact it is older than the discovery of oil. It was used in the days of sailing ships - the rigging. Also the expression to 'rig up' something meaning to assemble something has been English common usage for many years. A 'jury rig' meaning something put together in an emergency also goes back to maritime history when a temporary mast or a repair to a mast had to be made in an emergency. So for me I have no problems with people describing a computer set-up of being a rig. Nobody complains at the use of 'rig' for a musician's sound system.

As you see I have made rigorous researches into this topic.
 
Well, i was reasonably happy to find that i'm only guilty of one part of one category on that list.

I sometimes say "interweb," but i do it for comic effect, and if they think that's unacceptable, they can blow me.

Most of the list i agree with wholeheartedly, though.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
They missed out "the cloud". Stop talking about "storing things in the cloud" when all you actually mean is "online". I saw the phrase "supercloud" just now - what the fuck's that suppose to be? A cloud of clouds? Does it store data on multiple internets?
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ooh - i've never heard that before, but i quite like it. so, if i'm talking about the fact that i have all my pic files on photobucket, can i say they're backed up in the cloud?

it's much nicer annd a better metaphor than 'online'.:cool:
 
Hocus Eye. said:
The word 'rig' long pre-dates oil rigs. In fact it is older than the discovery of oil. It was used in the days of sailing ships - the rigging. Also the expression to 'rig up' something meaning to assemble something has been English common usage for many years. A 'jury rig' meaning something put together in an emergency also goes back to maritime history when a temporary mast or a repair to a mast had to be made in an emergency. So for me I have no problems with people describing a computer set-up of being a rig. Nobody complains at the use of 'rig' for a musician's sound system.

As you see I have made rigorous researches into this topic.
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It's not a matter of etymological correctness, but of need: if you have a multifarious group of items that you are unable to succinctly refer to (like a bunch of music-making equipment), then by all means appropriate a byword. If you have a group of items for which there is already a perfectly good byword (eg, a computer), then appropriating another byword can probably be motivated only by pretentiosness.
 
editor said:
OK - so who's guilty of using any of these?
I like #19 best.

And, yes, I am a guilty man.

Courtesy: http://www.techradar.com/news/world...in-the-face-for-using-534598?src=rss&attr=all
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1, 2 and 3. Tweeted, Tweetup and Tweeple
What are you, four? The only person in the entire universe who can get away with this is Stephen Fry. Everyone else deserves to be pelted with bricks.
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I was taking about something he'd posted/twittered Friday, ended up telling my mum that if I ever use Tweet/Tweets she has my permission to kill me.
 
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