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I could care less
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Means that you care! One must first care some before being able to care less. submitted by Sean in Kentucky
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I like pie
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I need you to
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Used by ill-mannered people everywhere, instead of PLEASE! submitted by waydownyonder
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I want to go home
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Impacted
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Crashed, as in a collision. It's been pirated by lazy bureaucratic minds in a herd just following the trend to mean the less dramatic "influenced" or "affected." submitted by Richard M. Smith
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In summation
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The word is "summary". Summation is what mathematicians do with the letter sigma. Summary is what editors write at the end of an article.
http://www.buckeyecablesystem.com/bci_html/internet_html/security.html
Morons. Plus one of their subscribers sent me spam.
submitted by David Landgren
tip the fucking paperboy already and shut the fuck up with your corporate pirate-speak. Sales Executive Associate, Porcelain Technician, Sandwich Artist ad nauseum.
Damn, calling it by a different name doesn't remove the fact that it is still a shitty job paying $4.75/hr.. submitted by jayh
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Indian
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This is my theory. Good, old Christopher Columbus thought he was going to sail all the way around the world in 1492 to get to India in order to do business. He "found" what was to be known as the "West Indies" in what was eventually going to be known as "America" in the future. He thought he found India and people for the last 500+ years have been calling Native Americans "Indians" which are people from India. I know this is not exactly a pirated word, but i thought i could get it out there. I just want to add in that "America" is a last name of some Italian map maker, just for fun. submitted by Hunter
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Inspired by
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This phrase originally means 'influenced by' or 'small idea gave a person the urge to ellaborate into a greater creation'
But today, it's been misused as a politically correct word to mean 'copied off' or 'ripped off' submitted by
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Intellectual Property
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http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/culture/copyright-as-property-history
[4]Elsewhere, in the 2nd of a 3 part essay on propaganda and the
copyright, I discussed the [5]myth and [6]history of copyright as
"property", and have since recommended that the most appropriate term
is "intellectual monopoly right." However in looking at the new
[7]wordpirates site that attempts to "reclaim" various words in the
contemporary discourse, I'd caution against claiming that the term
"property" has only recently arrived to the discussion. Shortly after
the issuance of the [8]Statute of Ann (1710), often referenced as the
first copyright law, we can see debates invoking the concept of
property. In [9]Donaldson v. Beckett, Proceedings in the Lords (1774),
one can note:
"... he then dwelt much upon the sense of the word 'property,'
defining it philosophically, and in the separate lights of being
corporeal and spiritual; the term Literary Property, he in a manner
laughed at, as signifying nothing but what was of too abstruse and
chimerical a nature to be defined."
"... Was learning encouraged by depriving learned men of a property
they had for a perpetuity, and vesting it in them for a term of
years only? The supposition was absurd; and yet if the Act by some
certain privileges not enjoyed before, did not encourage learning,
a statute of the legislature was suffered to be published with a
direct falshood for its imprimatur..."
"... what property can a man have in ideas? whilst he keeps them to
himself they are his own, when he publishes them they are his no
longer. If I take water from the ocean it is mine, if I pour it
back it is mine no longer."
Discussions on the character of the limited monopolies of copyright
and patent have historically relied upon "property" for comparison,
but did not yield to equivelance. The balance has been that these
monopoly rights, granted for the advancement of learning, is in some
ways like property and in someways not. This understanding of
difference and balance is what has been lost in contemporary
discourse. Simply ignoring something is much more effective than the
coercive pirating of it, as [10]demonstrated when Eisner (of Disney)
had to resort to an out of context quotation from Abe Lincoln, while
ignoring the elegant sense of balance from another president, founding
father, and head of the U.S. patent office, Thomas Jefferson:
"... That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the
globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement
of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently
designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over
all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like
the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being,
incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation...."
4. http://goatee.net/2002/03.html#_13we
5. http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ipmyths.htm
6. http://www.copyrighthistory.com/quotations.html
7. http://www.wordpirates.com/
8. http://www.copyrighthistory.com/anne.html
9. http://www.copyrighthistory.com/donaldson.html
10. http://goatee.net/2002/03.html#_26tu
submitted by Joseph Reagle
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Interesting
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Interesting means that there is some sort of curiosity about what is being discussed. More commonly in business, it means "I don't like what I just heard, and I am too cowardly to confront it.". Anything "interesting" is an issue to be ignored until it simply must be dealt with. This is inane to the truly interested. submitted by Bryan Kester
If it's a service, why do I have to do all this work filling out the forms? submitted by
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Invite into politics
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Irregardless
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No such frickin word. submitted by
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Is
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Ask Bill submitted by crazyacorn
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Ishboo
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A black person submitted by **
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Issue
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There used to be problems. Now there are issues.
Thee used to be items which need attention. Now there are issues.
submitted by dmb06851
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It's all good
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Post-modern thinking seeping into casual smalltalk. Is it really *all* good? Even 9/11? submitted by
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Its Raining Outside
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Did You Ever See It Raining INside? submitted by Roman
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i.e.
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Means "that is", from the Latin "id est".
Now almost universally used by word pirates to mean "for example", for which there is already a perfectly good abbreviation - e.g. - also from Latin. submitted by Jeff White
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i love my friends
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i love u
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loving someone submitted by betty
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i love you
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They also post no comment UNlike im doing right now submitted by
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i want your stuff
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Similar to box set.
What is meant is ICED water and SKIMMED milk. submitted by dmb06851
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identity theft
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"Identity theft" is a unnecessarily scary phrase. Oh no, someone has stolen my identity! If you're a victim of this crime, no one has stolen your identity -- you still have it. You're not a victim of "theft" unless you're deprived of the item stolen.
The proper term for this crime is "identity fraud". Let's give "theft" back its original meaning and let it only mean taking something from someone and depriving them of its use. submitted by Adam
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idiot
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immolate
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Means to sacrifice, i.e. "self-immolation" means to sacrifice oneself. However the word entered popular parlance thanks to the famous photo taken on June 16, 1963, when Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc immolated himself in downtown Saigon in protest against the Vietnam War.
(see http://www.angelfire.com/nb/protest/viet.html)
The problem is the visual kind of overpowered the semantic and now most people who use or hear the word think it means to burn. More than once I've heard a newsreader (here in Australia anyway) say "A family of four were immolated yesterday when their car ran off the road ...."
Not piracy. Just plain stupid.
submitted by Chris Poole
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impact
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A physical blow.
Yet another word which is grossly misunderstood and usually misused instead of "effect".
People do it to follow the herd and think it's smart. It isn't smart. It's stupid and ignorant.
In science there is the phenomena of "cause and effect". "Cause and impact?" I don't think so. We can, however, have the effect of an impact.
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impact target groups.
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affect target groups. Impact is a noun, not a verb. The reason impact is used is because people are either too stupid or lazy to differentiate between affect and effect. (the first being the verb, the second the noun.) submitted by eric stanway
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impacted
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This word has been stolen by sports news casters to mean that someone has been greatly affected.
If they were truly impacted, they would all be very very constipated. submitted by
it seems that everything now is "impacted" you cant hear a municipal or state politician speak for three sentences without hearing about how something "impacted" something else. It is new usage that needs to be taken back and placed where it rightfully belongs.. beside the dentist' drill submitted by
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impactful
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This is corporatespeak at its worst. It is used instead of "having a strong affect". Misusing "impact" has become so common that this new word created from an abused word is no surprise. submitted by Scott
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in terms of
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Means nothing. Should use "about", "in", or other preposition. submitted by doovinator
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incest
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inclusive
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increasingly possible
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A thing is either possible or it is not. It cannot be "increasingly possible." It can only be "increasingly probable." submitted by BY
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incredible
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Breaking the word into parts, "credible" indicates that something is believable, and "in" negates that. Therefore, "incredible" means not able to be believed. In common usage, however, there is an implied positive association given to the word -- thus, winning the lottery would be described as incredible, but a horriffic bus accident involving homeless nuns and blind kittens would likely not. submitted by Will
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individual
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a word used by pretentious people who want to show they can pronounce a five-syllable word when a word of one or two syllables (e.g., man, woman, or person) would do just as well. Such people also like to precede >individual< with the equally unnecesary >particular<. submitted by
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inflammable
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In the 1950s and prior, the correct word was "inflammable" and it meant "Something that was combustible - capable of being inflamed." But when they put this on tanks, packaging, etc., people mistakenly thought that the "in" prefix meant "not" as it does on some words, and accidents were occurring. So they dropped the "in" and made it "flammable" - although this is not the true form. submitted by BY
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inflation
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means to "make bigger" or "make more of" Old time economists understood it and frequently used it to denote an increase in the supply of paper money. i.e. government or counterfeit money (same thing). today our government is counterfeiting money hand over fist. To hide this fact from the people they have corrupted college teachers and news reporters who now teach or print that inflation somehow is a change in the cost of consumerables. This is not true e.g. child Greenspan et al. inflates the amount of paper money. Borrowers can now get more money to invest in (say)China to transfer the factory for a consumerable from US or UK to China and make it for far less. It then comes back here at one tenth the retail price that it was before the inflated money was available. Thus inflation dropped the price to the consumer, not increased it.
We have "Reality TV"-- How about a program called "Reality Economics" where modern economics "professors and Fed. officials are forced to recant all the rubbish that they are pushing at rote-mental students and brainless members of the public.Before it was stolen inflation was a clearly understood word. submitted by Alan L. Miller
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inhuman language
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Nihil humanum mihi alienum puto. That is, there's no such thing. Pirated by fuzzy-thinking meme-engineers to climb the charts at Blogdex. submitted by
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innovate
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To pass off last year's bad idea as this year's new idea (from the latin for 'not a new thing') submitted by
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instore
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... well it doesn't mean anything - really! The words should be in + store - duh! Illitarisee rulez - not! submitted by Sam Labourne
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intellectual property
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The Word Pirates website misuses the term "intellectual property." Intellectual property laws seldom protect bare "ideas," but rather complex, actual creations, such as recipies, formulas, compositions, novels, plays, monographs, blueprints, and designs. These laws don't protect things like the Pythgorean Theorem, "Occam's Razor" or "form follows function." submitted by Bob Morrison
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intelligence
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intensive purporses
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intensive purposes
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There are regular purposes (like the kind that propel us to buy milk and wash the car), and then there are the "intensive" purposes (that make us decide to tie helium-filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and have a sail).
You've probably heard of these "intensive purposes" in a context similar to this one: "For all intensive purposes, Larry's the team leader here." If the purpose was regular would someone else have been team leader? Was Larry brought on because of this super-special, "intensive" purpose?
The correct phrase is the rather mundane "intents and purposes" but you'll very rarely hear it used as such. submitted by Tara Liloia
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intents and purposes
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interestingly enough
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interesting is an adjective. What sticking a suffix "ly" after it achieves escapes me. The entire phrase is meaningless garble, a way of saying "pay attention to what I am saying." submitted by eric stanway
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interweb
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The interweb does not exist. Please quit using the combination of "internet" and "web" to try and sound cool. submitted by dubdubdub
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invest
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As used by a Senator or Congressional representative, to invest in education. They really mean to increase taxes to obtain more money to spend on education. It is a ruse to deceive people into believing they are not
really raising our taxes. submitted by Mary Kiser
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irony
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Also ironic - according to the Random House dictionary, "The essential feature of irony is the indirect presentation of a contradiction between an action or an expression and the context in which it occurs." This definition, surprisingly, is quite a bit tighter than the one employed in Alanis Morissette's song (which should be retitled "Bummer"). It takes all the guts out of irony to mean, "Something happened that I didn't like" (such as "black fly in your chardonnay" or "rain on your wedding day").
submitted by Michelle Feldman
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irregardless
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"Regardless" is all that needs to be said. I can't stand it when people put ir- in front of it. It's a double-negative...ir- and -less both mean "without". Arrrrgh! Word Pirates! submitted by B.
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issue
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Root of the word really means: something that is sent out or delivered (supplies, a magazine, a child). How it became a euphemism for a problem, a bug, a point of disagreement or a failure would be an interesting bit of research. Perhaps it derived from the phrase "bring the matter to an issue", in which case the word issue means "solution" or "decision", which makes a lot more sense than calling the problem itself an "issue". submitted by Dwight C
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issue\
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it's
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Incorrectly used (everywhere) for plurals, instead of its possessive intention. submitted by Paul Perton
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