It's a word used to describe "running and jumping off stuff," but people use it like they expect everyone else to already know what it is, and they use it ALL THE TIME. Just say "running and jumping off stuff," and we'll get the idea.
I hate when people use the word gay to mean stupid.
That's not very fair to gay people. It's not like a gay person says, "Oh, that's so straight!" to mean something is dumb. People quickly realized it wasn't polite to say, "That's Jewish!" so why is, "That's gay!" still around?
I hate when people abbreviate Microsoft with a dollar sign, like M$.
I think they do this as a way to be clever and point out that Microsoft loves money. Well, duh! It's a company! Of course it loves money! I love money, too, so I guess you can go ahead and call me $ean, now. Why don't you switch out the S in every other company name with $ while you're at it? $ony. $am$ung. UP$. I'm so funny.
I hate when journalists write that a "company have."
I read a lot of game reviews and constantly see journalists write something like, "Nintendo have a knack for..." or "Pop Cap have created a..." Seriously? You are getting paid to write, and you write like that? Nintendo is a company. It's ONE thing. It HAS a knack, not have. If you want to say have, then you'd write, "The people at Nintendo have..."