Three connotions I despise

I got a little boost the other day listening to the radio. They mentioned that the word......"WHATEVER" is the word that pisses most people off, or most annoying. The other word that pissed off or annoyed people was "....YOU KNOW..." during conversations and sticking the word....."LIKE"....as in LIKE what's your name pal, or Like I enjoy taking walks."

The one that pisses me off and annoys the hell out of me is the ........"YA THINK?" I never heard this phrase being used. I maybe I've said more like....."Oh, you think so eh? and the word "Whatever" always had to go along with something else like....."ok, man, whatever you say". I think Hollywood came out with this "WHATEVER" craze under a movie, forgot which movie it was but it was a 90's movie. But here is the kicker. My cousins up in Massachusetts always used that word, under a New England strong accent. Sounded like ......"WHAT-EH-VAH".


The phrase...."Don't go there". Meaning like don't take this subject that is touchy and lay it out. I hear this alot in IAH, but I gotta wonder how it got down here in Texas because that is a typical New England phrase. My guess is the Newark guys that worked there somehow brought it down to Texas via working for the airlines with hubs in the Northeast.....or Massachusetts airline employees working at IAH.

But those words....."YA THINK"? and "WHATEVER"...(said in a whiney California swing) tick me off to the max.

Oh, shoot, I forgot one more that ticks me off. "YOU ROCK" or "THAT ROCKS". How wimpy sounding is that?

And don't let me catch you all taking a "SELFIE". (Somebody give me a blade to do my wrist on this one term.) But here is a very cool term, phrase, conotation, meaning, I do like. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

'Whatever,' Like, Totally Tops List of Most Annoying Words

Published October 08, 2009Associated Press

So, you know, it is what it is, but Americans are totally annoyed by the use of "whatever" in conversations.
The popular slacker term of indifference was found "most annoying in conversation" by 47 percent of Americans surveyed in a Marist College poll released Wednesday.
"Whatever" easily beat out "you know," which especially grated a quarter of respondents. The other annoying contenders were "anyway" (at 7 percent), "it is what it is" (11 percent) and "at the end of the day" (2 percent).
"Whatever" — pronounced "WHAT'-ehv-errr" when exasperated — is an expression with staying power. Immortalized in song by Nirvana ("oh well, whatever, nevermind") in 1991, popularized by the Valley girls in "Clueless" later that decade, it is still commonly used, often by younger people.
It can be an all-purpose argument-ender or a signal of apathy. And it can really be annoying. The poll found "whatever" to be consistently disliked by Americans regardless of their race, gender, age, income or where they live.
"It doesn't surprise me because 'whatever' is in a special class, probably," said Michael Adams, author of "Slang: The People's Poetry" and an associate professor of English at Indiana University. "It's a word that — and it depends how a speaker uses it — can suggest dismissiveness."
Adams, who was not involved in the poll and is not annoyed by "whatever," points out that its use is not always negative. It also can be used in place of other, neutral phrases that have fallen out of favor, like "six of one, half dozen of the other," he said.
But the negative connotation might explain why "whatever" was judged more annoying than the ever-popular "you know," which was recently given a public workout by Caroline Kennedy during her flirtation with the New York U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. "You know," Adams notes, is a way for speakers to seek assent from others.
Pollsters at the Poughkeepsie, N.Y. college surveyed 938 U.S. adults by telephone Aug. 3-Aug 6. The margin of error is 3.2 percentage points. The five choices included were chosen by people at the poll discussing what popular words and phrases might be considered especially annoying, said spokeswoman Mary Azzoli.

And forgive the mispelling of "Connotation". I put down connotion in a mispell.

Here is another phrase that annoys me......"and what not."