Originally posted by asmkm22

Originally posted by grimgryphon

Originally posted by asmkm22

Originally posted by grimgryphon

Originally posted by asmkm22

Originally posted by grimgryphon

What are the words that drive you crazy and why?

I guess my entry would be:

Hyperbole: Way too overused and usually incorrectly. It doesn't make you sound more intelligent.  Nothing says, "I'm in my first year at community college and I just learned a new word" like the term hyperbole.

Do you have an alternative to the word "hyperbole?"  The word is fine.  Hearing people try and pronounce it is kind of funny though.

Exaggerate.

That word lacks the implied sarcasm or rhetoric that hyperbole conveys.  It would be like using the word fruit when you are talking about a banana.  Correct, but not accurate.

Ok, lets not rathole with a discussion about the intricacies in the use of the word hyperbole. You're trying to tell me that people on these forums can fully understand the nuances between exaggeration and hyperbole and therefore use the word properly. The very same people who post every day without the least bit of awareness of spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation. Yeah, right.

As far as I'm concerned, the world hyperbole is everyone's favorite, "look, I can use big words too" expression. In most cases, the word exaggerate clearly communicates what the person thinks of any other poster's overstatement.

That's why I'd like to see gamers stop using it.

Can we get back on topic now?

 

That's quite the generalization you have going there...

In addtiion to properly understanding the word 'hyperbole', you should also spend a bit of time researching the word 'generalization'.

Try using something other than Wikipedia this time.

"polish"

oh god the game is a pile but as long as its polished everythings fine.

"Hackers".

There are no hackers in mmo's. There are only script kiddies.

Originally posted by charlizd
WoW clone and U mad bro, both of these are old and way over used, 

Oh, I forgot about 'U mad bro'

That phrase should be an executable offense.

Toon.

Even in games that do actually have cartoon styled graphics, this still bugs me. It's my avatar, my character, but never my 'toon.'

Originally posted by Zorgo

Originally posted by Cecropia

Originally posted by asmkm22

Originally posted by grimgryphon

Originally posted by asmkm22

Do you have an alternative to the word "hyperbole?"  The word is fine.  Hearing people try and pronounce it is kind of funny though.

Exaggerate.

That word lacks the implied sarcasm or rhetoric that hyperbole conveys.  It would be like using the word fruit when you are talking about a banana.  Correct, but not accurate.

A few years ago you saw the word used next to never. Then, some sort of outbreak took place, and we now have everyone and their dogs spewing it up all over the place. The quest to be clever has reduced it's impact to squat. Similar to the case of "straw man argument". Instead of coming across as bright and original (which is obviously the intention), you just end up looking like a putz.

Overuse seems to be a problem with a lot of the examples in this thread. It's funny, much like the titles that make up this the genre, the gamers who play them are just as unoriginal and stagnant

Hyperbole is the greatest term ever to be used in regards to mmo's - bar none;  from the past, for now and for the future, and anyone who thinks differently is the type which will bring our entire society to destruction.

I get it, well played.  Well played indeed.

FAIL!

I'm so sick of seeing that word.  It's so over used, it doesn't have any meaning any more.  

The second a person use that word, he or she lost all of their credibilities in my book.

Plox: Oh dear sweet merciful... what hideous, deformed being first ripped this term out from the depths of his or her ignorance and unleashed it upon the swarming internet hordes? IT MAKES NO SENSE! PLS or PLZ at least make some kind of sense, and sound like the word they're trying to shorten, but PLOX?!? AAARRRGGHHH. People who use this word need to be enslaved by Daleks.

"whipe" used to describe a database wipe or when a party wipes out during a raid, etc. 

"roll playing" when not used in its proper original context as derogatory term for role-playing that emphasizes numbers and stats (meta-gaming) rather than playing any actual role.

Originally posted by dreamsofwar
rouge

Ha!  I've never been entirely sure if the people that use this are intentionally misspelling it or not.  

I never really liked "lolumad" or "cool story, bro".   Over used and makes me imagine an adolescent grinning about pissing someone off.

Ganker (=someone better than you in PvP)

Griefer (=someone better than you in PvP)

Troll (=someone with better arguments)

also, "would of, should of and could of" 

Originally posted by strangiato2112
If you use words like 'baddies' I know you arent worth my time to socialize with.  

Same. That whole mad/bad/sad thing must be from the mind of an 11 yr old.