Word Pirates

Republican

With a capital R, denoting something rather far from little-r republicanism--more like "the best republic money can buy". See also "Democrat".

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diet

In modern adjectival form, "diet" attempts to convey a sense of healthiness, self-restraint or corrective action, particularly when applied to commercial food products. In fact products so labeled are likely either to have no actual health benefit or to promote different yet equally (or more) unhealthy eating habits.

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Democrat

With a capital D, denoting something rather far from little-d democracy--more like "the best democracy money can buy". See also "Republican".

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incest

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bon voyage

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wagging the dpg

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Inspired by

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'

at that point in time

When someone, particularly law enforcement in front of cameras or microphones, is telling a story, there is always gratuitous overuse of this phrase. Storytelling is giving an account of activities that occurred, IN ORDER, relative to time - it's implied! Peeople always use this to precede the POINT of their story, rather than working on being better storytellers.

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vetting

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fireworks

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social security

is neither

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Thats Cool

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fruit

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tamale

A tamal is made corn dough and can contain any sort of filling, from shredded beef and peppers, to strawberry juice and pineapple chunks. The more widely popular Mexican version is wrapped in a corn husk and steamed; the Salvadorean version is wrapped in a bannana leaf and often contains garbanzo beans. I'm not sure if this counts, as obviosly, it's a Spanish word, not English. There is no such thing as a tamale (pronounced tah-mallee). The singular is tamal, the plural is tamales.

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War on Terror

You cannot have a war on a state of mind. You can have a war on terrorism.

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shama lama ding dong

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How are you doing?

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what is the time

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just great

it really means that something is acceptable to the point where it surpasses expectations in a positive way. Now it has been bastardized to mean that something is not even close to being satifactory. in fact, afficianados of this term use it to exclaim that something is horribly wrong and offensive to the point of requiring apology! grrr!

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paranoid

Real meaning: suffering from delusion of persecution and an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. Pirated to mean "very/rather anxious about something" because it sounds impressive and significant.

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orgasm

Orgasm is BEING USED as an intransitive VERB tooo MUCH. It sounds ridiculous.. "After about five fruitless hours, she finally gave up, reached for the rabbit and ORGASMED". It sounds RIDICULOUS. ORGASM should be a NOUN and ONLY a NOUN. You want to say ORGASMED-- moved to France.. otherwise, USE "CAME".

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chim chong

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you calling me

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for free

Something which costs nothing is simply free. The word "for" is redundant. If you want to use the word "for" in this context, the expression is "for nothing".

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Politically Correct

In for instance Parliment, they stopped using certain words that implied steriotypes. This has overflowed into everyday life and you cant say what u want with out worrying if you have offended someone! It makes me sick! Something is only offensive if you mean it to be! If some one takes offence thats there problem!

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green field

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went missing

A poor grammatical combination of words that is commonly used in law enforcement and legal reporting. Why not just say, "Since they disappeared" rather than, �They went missing�?

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idiot

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kina your crazy

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Galveston

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colorized

The word is COLOURED

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burglarized

The word is BURGLED

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obligated

The word is OBLIGED

argh

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tethering

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back in the day

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Arabic Golf

meaning less term. No means!

Thank you, Mr. President.

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schizophenia

Schizophrenia is NOT multiple personality disorder. While it has many symptoms, the most common are hearing and seeing things that aren't real - NOT having different personas inhabiting a single body.

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a whole nother

Is there such a thing as a "nother?" Can you have a half nother? It is rather irksome that people will use this instead of "another whole ______", or "a whole other ______" whatever that blank shall be. Mis-use example: "That's a whole nother topic I don't want to get started on!" (complete with preposition ending the sentence...) Sheesh

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hi, who are you?

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hello customers

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Jigsaw

A jigsaw is a type of saw. Jigsaw is not a synonym of "Jigsaw Puzzle"

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Mirror

It has two syllables "mir-ror" NOT "meer"

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Creation Theory

Creationists either use the term pejoratively ("evolution is only a theory"), or they misapply the term to creationism. In scientific usage, a theory is the highest form of scientific understanding. A theory is an explanatory hypothesis which has passed test after test, and is still the best available explanation of the facts in question. In the case of creationism, however, those components of the apology which can be tested (e.g., the idea that the earth is only six thousand years old and was covered by a shell of water in the year 2,348 B.C.E.) have been tested and found to be demonstrably false - showing that creationism is not a viable theory, because viable theories have to pass tests. On the other hand, those components of creationism which involve certain types of magical events (e.g., the divine creation of a young universe with all of its components bearing the false imprint of great age) make the claims of creationism untestable - making creationism not a theory at all, because theories must be testable! Source: http://www.atheists.org/evolution/creationscience.html

those filthy jews dont deserve the name jew, they aint nothin but white niggas - lynch em all

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target

A target is a focus of attention, and the word is a noun. Misused as a verb. Does someone firing a gun at a shooting range, or someone firing arrows from a bow, target the target?

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dark mines

Is a mine a light factory,or strings of small lights two miles down...

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tye

the word means the

impact

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.

gauges

a device use for measurement. gay,jiss

Well sorry people the word is MILK

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forsizzal my nizzal

why is it realy taken over because SNOOP DOGG'S old television show and people have taken it over and why there cant be a new word like "FAMIAN MY DAMIAN".

bald-face

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ambivalate

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zen

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just do it

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Sexual Assault (see Raped)

When and why did the News media stop saying, "Raped" and start using ,"Sexually Assaulted."

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re-misunderstood

coined by George W. Bush jr. The issue is I apparently have been "re-misunderstood" again

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deserted on an isolated island

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deserted on an isolated island

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deserted on an isolated island

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Postcard competitions

A contest that requires entry written on a postcard and sent through the post.

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Winning Slogans

A list of sentences that have won recent competitions.

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Competitions

An event in which people compete, as in a contest of skill.

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Formatters:

hair pie

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Nookyooler

Sorry, Mr. Bush. The word is "nuclear".

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jihad

OK, jihad nowadays means a holy Muslim war against infidels. This is what's in the dictionary, this meaning is what's implied in the media. Although jihad *CAN* mean this, jihad means a struggle, usually INTERNAL i.e. struggling with ourselves. This is the true meaning of jihad.

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intensive purporses

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fuckin dumb

because this had not fucking meaning to it and you all need to get a live fuckin hell dumb cunts

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gossip

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In act or in fact... This word can be substituted with 'basically'. I often hear people start sentences with this word, especially at work. Do people think they sound smarter when they use this word? Are we going to be shocked, enlightened, or suprised by what follows the word? In most cases, I would think not.

outsourcing

Outsourcing used to mean using another company to do work for your own company that your own staff might otherwise have done on its own, but chose not to for one reason or another. Now, the media has used it so often where it should have used "offshoring" (outsourcing to a foreign entity) that the original meaning has been completely lost.

women

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negro pirates

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PIN Number

Personal Identification Number Number??

lee a names

here's looking at you

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issue\

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sleep

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S up

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santorum

The Word "Gay"

In the 60's it still meant Happy themn in 70's through 90'2 it meant homosexual and now it means stupid to the youth of the 21st century. It's time to take this one back to the 50's where it belongs!

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haha

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loser

some people were moking stupid kids

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harney smokes pot

Some kids were moking a pot head in school

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hahahahahhahahahahaha

epople don't like it

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stowe

because it is my name

money

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Invite into politics

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"One small step..."

According to the Associated Press and NASA officials, the true words uttered out of Neil Armstrong's mouth were, "One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind." The other saying, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," is 1)redundant and 2)false. The com device jumped during that famous speech

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bambozold

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Shiver me timbers

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youre an idiot

seriously.

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Blow job

Niether blows nor is it a job, in anyway. Doesn't pay. So people like to joke about "How can one suck and blow at the same time", in short, "blow" is meaningless, which it actually means "suck"

understood

What I am trying to say is she helped me understand my lesson

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captin jack sparrow

The best pirate in the world.He also is very good at sword fighting.

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faith

errr me harty

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take in her hand

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killing spree

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harties

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revolutionary

In the old days, revolutionary was a noun or adjective describing someone or something that was changing fundamental beliefs on a large scale, i.e. Fidel Castro. Now it's applied to new toothbrushes and other "revolutionary" new products.

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ARRRRR Matey

Peter Easton was among the most wealthiest and most successful pirates. Peter Easton was born in England to a respectable family and he was raised to serve in Queen Elizabeth I's navy as a privateer. A privateer was a person who was commissioned by the government to seize and destroy any merchant ship from other countries. Easton was a commander of a small British fleet doing convoy duty for some fishing boats. On his way to Newfoundland, he rescued "The Irish Princess" Sheila NaGeira from a Dutch warship. Sheila was the daughter of the King of Connaught. Legend has it that after Easton saved her, she fell in love with Easton's First Lieutenant, Gilbert Pike. He left Easton's crew and they got married and settled in Mosquito, which is now known as Bristol's Hope in Conception Bay. In 1602, England and Spain were at war and at the end of the war, England did not need their navy anymore. So Easton was out of a job and he and his crew were stranded in Newfoundland with no money. He and his mates turned to piracy. He first tried pirating in the English Channel. But later in 1612, he set up headquarters in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. He raided ships along the coasts of Trinity Bay to Ferryland, Newfoundland. He sailed along the Eastern coast of North America, the Caribbean and as far west as the Azores. All the time adding to his wealth and his fleet. On just one of his trips, Easton looted thirty English ships in St. John's and French and Portuguese ships in Ferryland. Easton now commanded a crew of 500 men and 9 ships. He would force the captured men to join his fleet, this is called shanghaiing,. One of the legends of Peter Easton tells us that while returning to Harbour Grace on one occasion, he was attacked by five Biscayne and French pirates just off of Harbour Grace Island. Easton was aboard the Great Spanish Galleon, St. Sabastian, which is said to have been carrying the greatest treasure ever to have been captured on the Carribean Sea. The warfare which ensured was described as the greatest battle ever fought in Conception Bay. During the clash, Easton sunk the largest of his attackers, the St. Malo, by forcing it onto Eastern Rock. In commemoration of the battle, Eastern Rock was renamed to Easton's Rock. (www.hrgrace.ca/history.html) In 1612, Peter Easton captured Sir Richard Whitbourne and held him for eleven weeks, Sir Richard Whitbourne was the Admiral of the English Fishing Fleet. He was sent to Newfoundland to bring everything up to scratch and set up a court of law. Easton wanted Whitbourne to become his First Lieutenant. Although Whitbourne refused to participate in Easton's scheme, he did agree to go to England and support a petition for pardon, which would enable Easton to return to England and spend his days living in royal splendor on his loot. (www3.nf.sympatico.ca/mayad/princess/pete.htm) So while waiting for his pardon to come, he realized that Harbour Grace could be easily attacked by sea should the King decide to send a fleet against him, so Easton moved to Ferryland and fortified the harbor. He now had his armada of 40 ships, a fortress which was virtually unassailable. (www3.nf.sympatico.ca/mayad/princess/pete.htm) When Easton did not receive his pardon in two years, he thought he would leave Newfoundland. He sailed for the Azores to capture the treasure ships of the Spanish Fleet. He seized three ships that were brimming with treasure. This was one of the most richest plunders by a pirate. So in 1614, he left for Villefranche, Savoy which was a free port for pirates with a reported two million pounds in gold and he became the "Duke of Savoy". After he married a Lady of noble birth and considerable wealth, he became the "Marquis of Savoy". He built an enormous mansion in Savoy and Easton and his wife lived there. After this, there is no record of whatever happened to Peter Easton.

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prior to the snap

Football referees use this phrase over and over even though it's redundant. If it weren't prior to the snap it wouldn't be a false start or illegal motion or encroachment now would it ? Someone told me that most NFL officials are professionals (doctors, attorneys, businessmen) who work the games on a part time basis . Every time I hear a presumably learned man use this throw-away phrase it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Your words? Where did you "get" them from? -You just borrowing them? -Paid for them? Words are free trade, issued and exchanged every day.

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heathen of god

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Be' willn' ta walk the plank!

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ar me harties

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"I don't mind telling you..."

If you did mind would you be telling me anyway? Maybe this should have the response "But I do mind hearing"

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Terrible Tragedy

Are there any other kinds?

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legend

Alegend is a traditional story popularily regarded as a historica myth. I can also mean an inscription. It does NOT mean a successful or prominent sportsperson!!

i came up with it while torturing my land loving brother

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defragmentation

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dogs

it is a name used to insult someone like the phrase you scurvy dogs!!!!

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leverage

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sevy

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tailgate

Okay, this is a silly little item but still one that I find irritating. An increasing number of people seem to believe that the word 'tailgate' is a verb rather than a noun. I've been behind countless vehicles, such as school busses, that have a sign painted on the back of them that reads, "DO NOT TAILGATE." Hey, as far as I'm concerned a 'tailgate' is still a 'thing,' not a thing that you 'do.'

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Indian

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.

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buccaneers

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i love u

loving someone

alot

How often do people use the word alot to mean a lot (many or often)? As opposed to the word allot, a verb which means to allow to have, to give out, and administer or bestow. The word alot does not exist!

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Jolly Roger

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In summation

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.

how are you

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Roxana High School is the best school in Roxana.

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America, American

Shamelessly swiped by citizens/residents of the USA -- or abused by others around the world, but particularly in the UK -- this word should apply to all persons who are citizens of nations in the New World. A Chilean or a Panamanian is just as much an American as anyone born in the USA. We need a new word for US citizens. "Yanks" is not good, as it refers to some but not all US types.

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All

Used with a form of "to be" in the present tense to mean "said," "explained," "commented." Usage: "So I asked him what he thought, and he's all, 'I want to stay here.'" Similar to "go" for "say:" "So he goes, 'I don't know.'" Horrid.

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were did pirates went

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echolades

Definition: Ghostly memories of past accomplishments.
Example: The Grand Theater held echolades of once great performances.
� Machiavellean & Lesko

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parla

well the word is the pirates code....but i was watching,,i dont remember..but they said that they really parlaed the thing...and so i dont know what they ment when they said it but ITS A PIRATES WORD!!!

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To err is human.

Err, usually pronounced UR, is incorrect. The common expression of the expression is itself an error.

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Oh, I'm not sure I talked about that.

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What fo you need?

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NIC

NIC (Network Interface Card) most people familiar with this word continue to say NIC Card.

Handgun ammunition capable of defeating soft body armor, as worn by police officers, was invented in the 1960s for police officers who found it hard to defeat automobile doors and window glass. In 1982, NBC made a "story" out of the projectile, despite the fact that any rifle or shotgun projectile can easily defeat soft body armor. There is only one incident of a police officer being shot in the U.S. by a handgun projectile specifically designed to defeat body armor. In 1994, a company attempted to market handgun ammunition called "Black Rhino," which claimed to defeat body armor. However, the ammunition was never marketed. As a consequence of bad publicity, Winchester's "Black Talon" expanding ammunition was pulled from the market. Resultingly, any bullet that was black, had the name "black" on its packaging, or was reported to have any amount of teflon, has been mistakenly labelled a "Cop-Killer Bullet." Despite the complete lack of evidence that any such ammunition has ever been used to injure or kill a law enforcement officer, anti-gun groups, certain Senators, and Presidential administrations have used a non-existent projectile to terrify the American public. It is generally believed that the entire concept of this obvious propaganda scheme is to eventually define all projectiles, for rifles, shotguns, and pistols as "armor-piercing," thus giving an open door to prescribe all ammunition, including that for sporting use, as "Cop-Killer Bullets."

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Assault Weapon / Rifle

The term is technically defined by the following characteristics of the firearm in question: 1. Firing an intermediate-sized cartridge [neither a pistol cartridge nor a full-size rifle cartridge] 2. Having the ability to be fired from the shoulder. 3. Having a detachable magazine. 4. Having select-fire capability [able to be fired in a full-automatic mode (the weapon fires until the operator releases the trigger or the weapon runs out of ammunition) or in a semi-automatic mode (each pull of the trigger fires one cartridge.)] The Nazi STG 44 is generally considered to be the first true assault weapon / rifle, although the most popular variety in the world would have to be the Kalashnikov. Any weapon that does not meet all four of the above criteria as a minimum [I do not include pistol grips, because it is possible to have an assault weapon without one] is not an assault weapon / rifle.

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You are so stupid, and you are so ugly

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language

I don't know where else to put this, and I imagine that this will create quite the stir, but I have to say what's on my mind. I have yet to come across one word on here that, when used in today's context, doesn't make sense to me. I appreciate the old definitions, but that's what they are--old. Inherently, language was made for man, not man for language. Why should words not morph into another meaning? The whole point of language is to communicate; if a word comes to mean something other than its original meaning, it means that society is changing. That's a good thing. My .02.

Faggot

People often use this word to describe a gay person but actually a Faggot is a bundle of sticks.

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god

Anyone who feels they need more power uses this word to not only amass power, but to excuse and justify the most heinous of crimes. As in "god is on my side" or "god will be with us at war". All accounts of god in the judeo christian tradition speak of an abbhorence of murder and power hungry types. I advocate taking responsibility as humans for human behavior.

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Golden

Golden means "colored yellow, colored as gold", a description of a color of an object. When someone or a situation is described as "golden", as in "we are golden", or "he is a golden boy", does that mean we are calling him "yellow", as in "chicken" ? (See yellow belly).

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Moving Forward

A phrase used in business communications in a usually nonsensical manner, often just as a way of saying "shutup and lets continue", or "quite holding us back" and the like.

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catch 22

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Direct Reader Misusing

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communities

Community is another word often best cut out. Not only is it usually unnecessary, it purports to convey a sense of togetherness that may well not exist. The black community means blacks, the business community means businessmen, the homosexual community means homosexuals, the intelligence community means spies, the international community, if it means anything, means other countries, aid agencies or, just occasionally, the family of nations. (isn't that nice? From The Economist's Style Guide)

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community

Many companies and real estate developers use this as an exalted synonym for something as banal as "users of a particular product" or "neighborhood" (as in "gated-community"). But merely using the same product or living in the same locale does not guarantee, and seldom produces, the warmth and human friendship suggested by the more general understanding of the word "community." After all, even a jail is a "gated community."

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fun size

Much less for much more.

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level playing field

A "level playing field" usually implies applying a penalty rather than creating fair circumstances. In my state, banks continually seek to "level the playing field" in their competition with credit unions for retail financial services. What this really means is that the banks would like to see the member owned and not for profit cooperatives taxed like they are as shareholder owned profitable businesses.

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New size!

Less for more.

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medal

A medal is a prize given in some athletic competitions. It is not the act of winning a medal as in "she has medalled twice before this"

Organic originally referred to anything "having to do with living matter". This means that anything NOT organic, is by definition, inorganic, which can be interpreted as 'plastic' or 'synthetic'. Sooo.... we eat organic vegetables because they are better than inorganic plastic ones?

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kleenex

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chick

eloow , im from belgium , but i think , a chick , isn't that an animal , ( chicken but shorter pronounced). and now its a good looking woman. i dont care . lol

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Ruggedized

Seen in advertising copy selling equipment the manufacturer hopes the government will buy for military use. Means "strong enough for the stated purpose -- if you don't expect it to last more than one year".

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Rankle

Was an intransive verb meaning "to rot", used figuratively to indicate a grievance that would develop into a grudge -- e.g., "It rankled with me that, being a woman, I could expect to work just as hard as a man for half the wages." Now used transitively (generally by journalists) to mean "enrage" -- e.g., "Women are rankled by continuing wage disparity." I suspect an expensive college education not backed up by enough reading.

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pole

i wanna know

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patoni

a famous pirate who had 1 leg and had orange hair he competed in a spegety competition and one a lifetimes supply of cat food

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hello

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Errrrrrr

Much like the word "the". You don't find it in a dictionary, just a connection word. I.e. "Errrrrr, what's going on?"

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Human Resources

As opposed to what? Ape resources? I know of no one in the business world who is not Human.

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pirates

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why do pirates wear ear rings

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Classical

I hate when people use the word Classical to essentially mean any music pre-1950 or so that wasn't folk music. All the music that is lumped together under 'classical' actually varies a lot, with classical music being one of many categories, including romantic, baroque, etc. Strictly speaking, Classical should refer to things from ancient Greek and Roman society, so 'classical' music would then be ancient Greek and Roman music, not Vivaldi, Beethoven, Handel, et cetera...

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a "mentle" pirate is a pirate that lets him self die and if he see's treaser he does not tell the captin

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winner

"winner" is a pirate that finds the treaser and wins a battle and does not lose a limb or get hurt in any way

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lonly fool

a "lonly fool" is a pirate with no love no friends and no famliy

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yellow belly

it means a no working pirate that sits a round all day

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feasting

To eat alot

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development

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racism

We refer to the human race as, well, the human RACE so really racism should mean discriminating between humans and other races, like maybe aliens.

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Burn

means to set something on fire, now people use it as a phrase to make fun of someone and also it is used as a phrase in the recording of music on Computer devices

= HOTTNESS

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johnny depp

= HOT!!!

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but why is all the rum gone?

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System

System originally means a flow of process or order of activity in a pre-designed criteria. Now with all these techies around, it has primarily become a synonym of a computer system. System essentially means a computer system or information system and just try using this word during a discussion with techies on whatever issue, they will jump up and catch the word to change the issue of discussion!!!

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Out of mind!!!

Here is a manager who forgets almost each and every matter discussed during previous day and when reminded about any of them, he says it's just out of my mind!!! Now if each and every matter is out of mind, let's discuss about something in your mind!!!

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That's not an issue!!!

Business Jumbos often use this phrase these days. And interesting and funny part of it is that they use it for each and every "issue"! Now, if any matter that you discuss is "not an issue", why the hell are you here for? Just to discuss what all are not "issues"?

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borrowing

This is routinely used at my school to mean stealing. An example: Someone borrowed my laundry detergent. It's called stealing if you never get it back, not borrowing.

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Theft

See 'Stealing'. There is a clear distinction in law between copyright infringement and theft.

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interweb

The interweb does not exist. Please quit using the combination of "internet" and "web" to try and sound cool.

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on the online

You don't go "on the online". That is impossible.

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Dope

Dope = drugs. Its not used to describe your new 50 cent t-shirt and matching nikes.

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story

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anti-globalisation protests

An 'anti-globalisation protest' really means a bunch of Luddites opposed to any form of international trade. Yet it's been co-opted by the media to apply to anyone who disagrees with the way world trade is run, from campaigners for debt forgiveness to African farmers asking for a chance to compete in the oversubsidised markets of the US and Europe. Real 'anti-globalisers' are a tiny minority of the WTO's critics, but that hasn't stopped everyone being tarred with the same brush.... it's a convenient way for governments to avoid the real issues, of course.

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The after life

after life is death. life after life is nonsense

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Professional Surfer

or professional golfer, or professional fisherman, or whatever. isn't the point of having a sport or activity or hobby that it's supposed to be fun, not a profession. And isn't the point of surfing (in particular) supposed to be avoiding work and a profession?

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intensive purposes

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.

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embedded journalist

This phrase has been appended to journalist's names with such reverence as if to connote that reporting on an event from deep inside one perspective is somehow more desireable than reporting on it from an objective vantage point. It has been co-opted to indicate detailed and exclusive coverage, when in fact these embedded journalists often need the permission of their military escorts into order to file a report, potentially setting up a skewed perspective in the outgoing information.

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Mission Accomplished

Need I say more?

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Liberal

Dictionary definition: Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. What it has come to mean: in the last 25 years the word "liberal" has become code for all the "worst" political traits of people on the left of the political spectrum... even if the ideas themselves are NO LONGER ideas for reform! In fact, when you look at the definition of the word subjects like welfare reform are liberal... unless you're in America, in which case they are conservative? That's another one...

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911

It might be appropriate to use this is the USA but in New Zealand ( and other countries that use this ordering for dates) nothing of note happened on the 9th of November

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Dear God

I'm sick of hearing people begin a prayer with "Dear God" as if they are writing a letter. I expect the next sentence to be "How are you?"

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Yoga

"Yoga" is an Indian (Asian) term meaning "union with God." It implies a spiritual path, requiring a commitment to living up to specific moral codes, devotion to God, and daily spiritual discipline, such as meditation and yoga postures for union with God. "Yoga" does NOT mean a bunch of women getting together to learn to tone up through sweaty postures and exertions. Give "yoga" back to yogis! Aargh!!

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Back In The Day

What day are we talking about? This overused expression makes no sense. What is meant is "back in the dayS (plural)" and should be followed by some modifying phrase like "when men were men," or "when I was a kid." "Back in the day" when used alone is vague and stupid. While we're at it, let's do away with "Old school," too.

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It has become a substitute for the phrase illegal immigrant

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Napster

We're hearing a lot of "Napster is back" stories in the media. That's because most of the mainstream media is clueless about computing. Napster is, in fact, dead--and has been for years. Buying a name and starting a new service that is fundamentally different from the old one is not a resurrection, it's just marketing.

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emergent

Emergent is an adjective describing something that is growing or emerging. It has become common in medicine to use it in place of the word emegency. Example "The surgeon performed an emergent appendectomy on the patient."

plunder, trophies of victory, spoils taken through overcoming - not the rear end of a person

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service

I think it's been pirated because it sounds fancier than serve, but the service has either automobile or animal husbandry connotations to me.

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toward

I often hear newscasters and others use the word "towards," which is not plural. You can't go several directions at the same time. You can go toward something, but not towards it. Let's take the word back and head toward the light.

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moot

Moot really means 'worthy of discussion'. People who don't read the dictionary, and infer their meanings from usage, think it means just the opposite - 'Not worthy of discussion'. It's been priated because so many people fail to verify meaning before using a word

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decimate

the word really means 'to kill one-tenth of'. Decimation was used as a punishment in the Roman Legions (you know how they loved powers of ten). Now, because it sounds so cool, people, lead by idiot broadcasters use it to mean to destroy a large portion of.

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Often used to describe a large setp ahead, whereas quantum means very, very small things as in Quantum Mechanics

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Excuse me. There is only one sky.

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Begging the Question

from http://skepdic.com/begging.html: Begging the question is what one does in an argument when one assumes what one claims to be proving. An argument is a form of reasoning whereby one gives a reason or reasons in support of some claim. The reasons are called premises and the claim one tries to support with them is called the conclusion. If one's premises entail one's conclusion, and one's premises are questionable, one is said to beg the question. The following argument begs the question. We know God exists because we can see the perfect order of His Creation, an order which demonstrates supernatural intelligence in its design. The conclusion of this argument is that God exists. The premise assumes a Creator and Designer of the universe exists, i.e., that God exists. In this argument, the arguer should not be granted the assumption that the universe exhibits intelligent design, but should be made to provide support for that claim. "Begging the question" does *not* mean asking for an answer!

As in - "What's the political situation on the ground in Iraq?" As opposed to what? The political situation of people in swimming pools? More words make it seem like reporters are really saying something... I guess.

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terrific

Means full of terror. Pirated version means "that's great"

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works

Works is not the plural of work. Often, people use "past works" or "recommended future works" in technical reports. The correct phrase is "past work". To describe "several works" (sic), one should use "several pieces of work".

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RECEPTION Room

This phrase euphemistically replaces WAITING Room. I know. I'm a chiropractor and am guilty of using it in my practice.

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Hacker

The term "hacker" has been incorrectly been defined as people who are out to damage, destroy, corrupt, or steal data, information, e-money, or any of a number ofd other things, online. Hackers are individuals who are intrigued by the nature of the net, how things work, what makes things tick, ext. They are not criminals, outlaws, or murders as the media-at-large would have people think. The correct term for the "bad guys" is "Crackers", not "Hackers"!

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everything but invisible

DOES NOT mean that it is invisible or whatever word follows the word "but". It really means exactly what it says, it is everything except invisible.

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Medium fries

McDonalds no longer sells "small" fries. They have "medium" "large" and "super large." Must be they are too embarassed by the size of their medium fries to call them small. How can you have a medium and a large with no small. They must think American Consumers are stupid. But then again, if you're eating at McDonalds......

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kill

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conversate

More and more, this non-word is being used as if it were real. And you can tell that some people are not speaking in slang when they use it; they believe they are being very literate! The correct word here is "converse".

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impacted.. when used without the word tooth

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

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Assault Rifles

A military term for a fully automatic rifle which is designed to fire 'automatically' as long as the firearm's trigger is pulled. Fully automatic weapons of any kind have been highly regulated in the USA since 1934. The term has been pirated by the anti-gun lobby and mainstream press and misconstrued to mean almost any firearm that they deem frightening and wish to demonize. Today, the vast majority of weapons identified as "assualt rifles" are in reality semi-automatics. Based on technology perfected in the 1890's other than having a 'scary' appearance to the novice or newsperson, semi-automatic rifles, which fire one round per pull of the trigger, are nothing more than glorified standard hunting rifles.

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you're

This one drives me nuts. It is a contraction of "you are". Ex. You are going to the store = You're going to the store. However, many people, including several posts on this site, use the word "your" which shows possession and is incorrect. Get it right folks.

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cobbled

past tense of what a cobbler does, however it's been pirated by journalists to describe back-room deals that have been cobbled together to satisfy a particular cause

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Leverage

The word "Leverage" has been buzzing around alot lately, about how the managers need IT profesionals to "Leverage our current systems". I always thought leverage is a physical thing you did to move something, so what do they mean? are they going to place a board underneath a server and send it flying into the ceiling? think about the mess that would make with the foam tiles.....

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collaborative

Used incorrectly to mean cooperation. I can sometimes mean: to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one's country and especially an occupying force

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talk to the hand

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don't go there

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The word is kudos, it is not a plural,it is a greek word.

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chai tea

Chai is the Hindi word for tea! When you ask for a cup of "chai tea" you are asking for a cup of tea tea!

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News

The pirates are those in the broadcast entertainment industry who have taken over what used to be a respectable profession of collecting and delivering the happenings in our communities, country, and world to the citizenry � a report of recent events. The new definition of �news� is the presentation of information and opinion that may or may not be new that can grab the attention of the citizenry and allow a profit to be made. This most often occurs by the creation or inflation of controversy where none previously existed. Other common pirating techniques involve the commerce of tragedy, pain, and suffering, and/or the promotion of depraved individuals or acts.

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Patriotic

The pirates are those in the minority who despise our democratic method of governance and protest and riot in our streets in an attempt to disrupt our economic system. They seek to impose their will on the majority. Socialists and Communists have stolen the word Patriotic in their work to overthrow our democratic government from the inside. To be patriotic is to behave in a manner that reflects your love of your country not in a manner that attempts to weaken and do harm to your country.

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America(n)

Two continents and many islands -- an area -- hijacked and compressed into a single country by the United States and its citizens. Brazilians, Chileans, Canadians, Mexicans, Cubans, Haitians . . . all are Americans, as the French, Germans, Italians, Swedes, British (since the chunnel) and all the rest are Europeans. There is no American flag. There is no American anthem, There is the United States OF America, a description, though no less silly than Canada of America or Chile of America. Bill Kurtis has a helluva noive. America -- love it or leave it: Embrace Fidel's dictatorship or move to France.

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survivor

I've recently seen people using the word survivor to put a positive heroic spin on victimhood. A harassment survivor? A rape survivor? A survivor of discrimination? NO! You survive something that is potentially lethal, such as a plane crash or a battle. You do not survive just anything that is unpleasant. This is silly.

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American

This word now seems to refer to citizens of The USA whereas all citizens of The Americas are surely Americans. I find it also interesting the term USA since lots of countries in The Americas have united states eg Canada & Mexico) .

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Evacuated

The mind boggles. Houses can be evacuated. Towns can be evacuated. But the people who inhabit them should not be evacuated unless there are as many toilets -- and newsreaders -- handy as there are people who were evacuated.

They've taken two words ("life" and "style") which are reliable, decent words and which we should take back... and turned them into one word ("lifestyle") which we should simply destroy because it's totally meaningless except to to people hell bent on selling you something you don't need or want. To quote Elizabeth Young; "People have lives, not lifestyles."

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American Eskimo

The name of a breed of white dogs bred from the Finnish Spitz. American people liked the white puppies discarded by the breeders of the Spitz and so the name American Eskimo. This fosters the belief that the dogs have some relationship to Eskimos, which is false

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may

"used to express an ability or power", according to my dictionary. A definable amount of uncertainty seems implit in the standard usage, especially when negated -- to say "I may not get there on time" doesn't rule out the possibility that I might arrive on time. Sadly, "may' has lost all its meaning in the corporate world -- it's now used to suggest that "you might think you have a chance of the ambiguity going your way, but you really don't". If you read in corporate boilerplate -- "A fee may apply." -- do you really believe there is any change you won't be paying a fee? On the other hand, if you read -- "We may offer you other rights not specified in this document. -- you have to be pretty optimistic to believe that anything will be forthcoming...

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postal service

Is really an oxymoron. Who really gets serviced by the Postal Service? Is what they deliver truly construed as service? Having worked there, I can assure you of the contrary.

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freedom

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African American

Make up your mind! Either your an American or you are not.

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family

clan, a group of persons of common ancestry or even a group of things related by common characteristics. Family can now be anybody gathered one time with very little or almost nothing in common. Example: A radio announcer saying "Our family of listeners". In that case we don't even know who each other are, especially if you just tuned in to get the sports scores and are not a regular listener.

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home for sale

You buy a house. You make a home. But the real-estate community, in an effort to make its offerings more warm and fuzzy for the house buyer, have labeled all houses "homes." "House for sale" signs are rare these days. "Home for sale" signs abound. But why would I want to buy a home? How can I buy a home? Do I get the social/family unit with that, too? What I really want is a house that I can make my home. Granted, a real-estate agent couldn't slap up a "house for sale" sign if he were selling an apartment, so the "home for sale" sign offers him a catch-all term to use. But it's the wrong term. Agents will just have to invest in signs that accurately describe what it is they are selling. And again, they are selling property -- not homes. People (residents) make homes. Construction companies make houses. And real-estate agents sell the houses. That's what's really going on.

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1. One that serves as a pattern or model. 2. A set or list of all the inflectional forms of a word or of one of its grammatical categories: the paradigm of an irregular verb. 3. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. I HATE it when I hear the phrase "paradigm shift"

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Hook me up.

This much mis-used phrase has lost it's original meaning first uttered by a defiant prisoner in the electric chair.

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summer

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gay

Gay means happy. The homosexuals have pirated it.

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gift with purchase

A gift is defined as something that is bestowed voluntarily and without compensation. If you have to make a purchase to receive it, it isn't a gift. Cosmetic marketers love to use this phrase. I wish they would use the term bonus instead.

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I need you to

Used by ill-mannered people everywhere, instead of PLEASE!

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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.

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uh, um

Neither is a word but they're worth mentioning here. Both are grunts that are being used as if they are speech. Intelligent, informed, otherwise coherent speakers are more and more often filling their speech with this garbage. It slows down the transfer of information and insults the listeners by forcing them to listen to grunting while they try to obtain information.

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Hung

The proper user: past tense of hang, for an inanimate object. He hung the picture, the picture was hung on the wall. If someone is sentenced to death by hanging, that person will be hanged, not hung.

at this time

It means "now", but is often not even necessary. It is a sample of the fluffy polysyllabic blather that keeps replacing concise, useful words. I am not sure why it is used, possibly as a rhetorical flourish? Often heard on commercial airline flights. "At this time, please fasten you safety belts."

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Roadster

I had been taught a car with the tops of the window frames was a "drop head coupe", with windows that rolled up was a "convertable" and without side windows was "roadster" - e.g. the Stutz Bearcat, Triumph TR-3 or MG-A. Now any small car with a removable top is billed as a "roadster" because it sounds more fun, I guess.

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national security

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individual

This is a great ideal to have. Shame it's a slogan for the army.

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give it up for

To give something back for a reason. Why does it suddenly mean to give a round of applause? You might never have seen the person before so you are not giving anything back to them.

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It seems to be about right to birth -- once you're born, you're free to die without education, healthcare, or unpoisoned food...

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"politically correct"

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"family values"

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growth opportunity

Often used by middle managers attempting to motivate a lower-on-the-totem pole worker to complete some piece of undesirable work while spinning it as a 'benefit' to the employee. Similar to good ol' Tom Sawyer and that painted fence notion. E.g. "Tom, converting that vintage mainframe database into SQL2000 is a great growth opportunity for you to demonstrate your RDB skills to upper management...".

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fat free

At least in the US, this just means less than 0.5g of fat per serving. So with the appropriate serving size, even butter can be fat free.

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application

A long time ago, IBM mainframes ran in two modes: "Supervisor Mode" and "Application Mode". In supervisor mode, the machine regulated itself and performed housekeeping chores like input and output. In application mode, it did useful work on behalf of the User. The computer was "applied" to the user's computation, and over time the name "application" came to stand for the binary code running on behalf of a User. I think this is an abomination; plain old "program" is much better, and less geek-centric.

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responsible

OK, maybe I'm picking nits or letting my personal impressions get in the way, but the word "responsible" implies to me something positive. Or at worst, being accountable for a mistake. Bombings are neither positive acts nor mistakes. The people who commit these acts are not "responsible", they are "to blame". I want to hear the news announcers say that this-or-that group "... has accepted the blame for yesterday's bombing...". It's small, but it's a start.

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Gay

Definition #1 used to be "Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry." The new definition #1: "Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex."

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brand

The dictionary sill defines a brand as "a mark made by burning with a hot iron to attest manufacture or quality or to designate ownership". John Wayne and John Huston did a lot of this in Hollywood. The communications industry has hi-jacked 'brand' and 'branding'and uses it to describe a wide variety of marketing activity designed to sell an idea rather than a specific product.

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terrorism

Pre-9/11, "terrorism" referred to acts committed by stateless organizations intending to instill terror to achieve political aims. Now it's used to demonize enemies and others we dislike. For example, according to a 3/2/03 report in the Washington Post, out of 62 cases of "international terrorism" prosecuted in NJ, "all but two involved Middle Eastern men who were accused of paying other people to take their English exams and who were not linked to terrorism in any way." (From a colulmn by Carol Rose in the Boston Globe, 9/16/03.) And then there's Antonio Paolucci, the chief of Florence's museums, who referred to the request for a panel to evaluate ways to restore the statue of David as "anti-restoration terrorism." The more serious result is legislation like the Patriot Act that exempts the fight against terrorism from the protections of the Bill of Rights. Expanding the definition of terrorism leads to government infringements on our right to dissent. Hell, it already has given the government the right to watch what we read.

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Free Gift

A gift is given to the recipient by the giver. It is always free. There is no such thing as a "free gift." That term is only used by marketers as a come on. Hey, come ON, folks!

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hacker

A "hacker" is (originally) an enthusiastic and knowledgeable computer programmer who enjoys understanding and improving computer software. But the word has been taken over by the media with a changed meaning, so the public now believes that a hacker is really a cracker.

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member

I'm not a member of America Online. I'm a customer.

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guest

In the context of a hotel stay, "guest" is a ridiculous word. No guest in my home pays for the room. If I invite you to dinner as my guest, you don't pay the tab.

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liberal

Free markets. Level playing field. Government support for the basics that the free market doesn't provide left to itself. Nah, now "liberal" has been deliberately paired with "tax and spend" and "reverse racism" and has been painted as unacceptably radical. Too bad. We need liberalism within our political spectrum.

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pirate

The word "pirate" itself has been taken over by the Big Content companies. They mean "people who share files." Real pirates didn't share stuff. They murdered, raped and stole.

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Compassionate conservative

speaks for itself...

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