This Troper's roommate like to play first-person shooters and used to announce his going in for "epic" kills by saying, "I'm going in for the money shot." "Right. Either you need to stop saying that or you need to stop ''doing'' that."

The term does predate pornographic cinema if it makes you feel any better.

Here's a thought: he's being metaphorical.

This troper's English class apparently learned nothing from their unit on humor. Just because it is funny, does not mean it is ironic.

What annoys Tropers/HappyDuck the most? Mixing up "disinterested" and "uninterested". THEY ARE NOT SYNONYMS!!

Uh huh, I get the problem with irony all the time (sometimes from young'uns trying to annoy me, though). Also, a friend using the word "chronic" to describe something intense.

That's the opposite of what chronic means. -facepalm-

..."intense" is the opposite of "continuing a long time or recurring frequently"?

In practice, yes, typically.

An inverse example: in my high school, everyone used "ignorant" as a synonym for "rude." This isn't incorrect, but when I attempted to make use of its other meaning - "uninformed" - people looked at me like I was insane. Bonus points for everyone assuming, when I tried to explain, that "uninformed" meant the exact same thing as "stupid."

Seconded. In my high school "ignorant" is used to mean "racist." So, when young oblivious I confessed to being ignorant on Spanish history...

This troper feels both your pains immensely. Luckily the whole "ignorant = racist" thing went out of style, but what bugs me even more is how "ignorant = stupid." I know they're easy to confuse, but come on people.

I've heard "ignorant" used by ideologues towards anyone who even so much as implies that the ideology they espouse might be flawed. I find this amusing because in order to point out flaws, you clearly have to comprehend the ideology in question first.

Ignorant = Not knowing. Stupid = Not having an ability to learn/Poor ability to learn. Anyway, that must've been pretty annoying.

This troper goes to extreme (unsuccessful) lengths to get his old high school friends (and current university friends) to distinguish sardonic and sarcastic.

This troper's friend, after watching a few episodes of The Nostalgia Critic, consistently believe Nostalgia to define that style of comedic review, despite being told otherwise, multiple times. The last time he was corrected, this troper even did an Inigo Montoya impression, although it flew over his head.

Same with my brother.

Two of this troper's college classmates, my future colleagues, keep using the word dissonance, as in cognitive dissonance, when talking about any kind of mistake or misunderstanding, no matter the context. At first I figured they were just happy to learn a new word and that they were just milking it as much as they can but after almost a year of that bullshit it's just fucking annoying. They even use it for typos! Look, one of them says with delight, I've found a dissonance right here! It's Psychosis not Sychosis! So Dissonant! Answers his douchebag friend.

This troper was once one of three temps working in a warehouse. The other temps were one guy who was 19 years old but really had his head together, the other was a 23 year old, obese, stupid-shirt-wearing punk with a motor mouth. One day he started going on about his need to pass gas, except he used the word "queef." "Man, I gotta QUEEF!" "Oh man, I just queefed a good one..." Finally, I exploded -- first with a "DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A 'QUEEF' IS?" then with an Inigo Montoya impression. The 19 year old caught it, the motormouth didn't.

And for those who ''don't'' know what the word "queef" means, it's a slang term for vaginal flatulence. In other words, a pussy fart. Meaning guys can't do it.

He can! :)

Thinking "yea" is shorthand for "yeah". While somewhat antiquated, "yea" is still a word, pronounced "yay". The confusion usually isn't a problem, until someone says "yea or nay" and the reply is "I usually say yay or nay"

This Troper and a group of tourist she was guiding. An American guy was talking about the differences between Americans and Latinos. Then the Spanish and French tourist started rolling their eyes at the generalization because they thought "Latinos" mean "cultures from speaking a romance language" and it includes France, Spain, Italy and Romania. While one of the indigenous guides looked puzzled he didn't known spanish very well and faill to see the difference between "American" and "Latinos" in this part of my country US citizen are called only "estadounidense" or "gringos".

I know this one's REALLY common, but I'll just bring up that when I was in middle school, the majority of guys in my class used the word "gay" as a synonym for "stupid" so much, that I honestly think they've forgotten its real meaning.

This troper has met an unfortunate amount of people who will ''defend'' their use of "gay" in this manner when called on it, using the excuse that "it's just casual, and anyway, gay also means happy". Indeed. And "negro" also refers to the colour black, and surely wouldn't offend anyone if I casually used it as a synonym for, say, "douchebag".

This troper has met a person who takes this a step further. When they are criticising something, they will say that it's intended for gay people.

Amen for "That's retarded!" I admit, it can also mean "slowed-down" or "backwards," but those meanings are so archaic that I ''can't'' see them meaning it as anything but a potshot at humans who actually are.

One thing that gets my dander is when someone says "All X are not Y" when they actually mean "Not all X are Y". It's Boolean Standard, people! The former statement means that there is ''no'' intersection between groups X and Y, while the latter merely means that X is not solely a subset of Y. I mean, sure we have some street-savvy people and/or persons past middle age here, but if they try to justify their presence by saying "All Tropers are not Nerds/Teens/College Students", then they are saying This Trope is a lie.

Know what's worse? Tolkien did it, too.

This is an example of the inadequacy of a natural language to describe logical concepts. "All X is not Y" can translate to either "For all X, X is not Y" OR "There exists at least one X such that X is not Y".

This troper always says this to her younger brother when he uses the word silly. He often uses it to describe something awesome or funny (funny meaning... well, not funny in a silly way) and he's actually decreased his usage of it since this troper started saying "{{you keep using that word}}."

A lot of non-shooters, and some shooters, mis-use the term "jam" to refer to a weapon which fails to shoot. This is incorrect. I won't get too involved but a "jam" means that the weapon failed to either feed ammunition into the chamber, or it failed to extract a spent case from the chamber. When a weapon successfully feeds ammunition into the chamber, but the round does not go off, that is NOT a jam, that is a "misfire." Let me put it this way: a jam is when the weapon is faulty, and a misfire is when the ammunition is faulty. A weapon can work perfectly fine, free of any jams, but it can still fail to fire because of faulty ammunition. Moreover, these days most shooters don't use the term "jam" because it's imprecise; they use terms like "failure to feed" (FTF) or "failure to extract"(FTE). As for my Troper Tale, the reason I bring this up is because I saw a comedian taking part in a Civil War reenactment and after loading his rifle musket he pulled the trigger and nothing happened. He then said something like "it's a jam!" and ran off. But that type of weapon is incapable of loading its own ammunition into its chamber. Back then, that action had to be done by the operator. So for that weapon, a "jam" is impossible. Either his ammunition was bad or (much more likely) the comedian did something wrong.

This Troper works for a major mobile carrier. One thing that pisses me off is their insistence of using "$69.99" instead of "$70." Many of my customers seem to believe that they were declared a religion or have tax exempt status for whatever reason. Once, I was talking with a customer who was confused as to why their bill was over $69.99. I kept telling him that he had taxes applied to his bill. After a few mentions of these taxes, my customer straight up says, "Why do you keep saying that word?" "Which word?" "Taxes! They ain't on my bill!"

In my 12th grade government class, we played a game of Dangerous Parallel. It ended rather quickly when Outland chose to surrender. During the next class, the teacher announced each nation's actions and how Outland had allowed itself to be taken under control by Inland. Outland protests: "When we said surrender, we didn't mean give up! We just wanted to stop fighting!" The misuse may have only happened that one time (unless all the Outland students were using it that way in their discussion), but it's a real doozy.

An obnoxious acquaintance of this troper uses the word "literally" in places where words like "really", "greatly", or "extremely" should be used.

Under the original meaning of "really", it ''is'' synonymous with "literally", although it's modern useage is not.

A number of people I know refuse to use the word "snarky" properly.

This troper has used "like" in all of her life. Then again, there's always {{The One Guy}} group.

My boyfriend's mother uses the word "scandal" to refer to any time somebody is disagreeing with anything she says. She's Ukrainian, though, so I don't even know how to begin to explain that she's misusing it in a way she would understand.

Subverted with this troper. His friend Mike always says "yaoi" whenever he passes me by. I'm just about ready to yell out "IF YOU SAY THAT WORD ONE MORE TIME SO HELP ME I WILL SUMMON A TENTACLE MONSTER!"

How about a little backstory... please...

If I had a nickel for every time an ''Avatar'' fanfic writer used the word "topknot" when "ponytail" was the word they were looking for, I'd be able to pay back my student loans. That is all.

Last year some of the kids in my class thought metal retardation, autism and cerebal palsy were all the same thing.

Maybe they had all three?

"Enormity" does not mean the same thing as "enormousness"

This troper gets the feeling that she '''still''' doesn't quite grasp the meaning of the word {{Fetish}}. Or I might. And then there was the realization that being "the cheeriest {{emo}} in town" essentially negates the whole purpose of being {{emo}}.

This same troper would like to chide her past self via the space-time continuum about the ''striking'' difference between "concert" and "concept," and still managing to use a certain four-letter-expletive in ''startlingly'' appropriate context at the age of four.

There are a bunch of kids at my high school who use the word theoretically far to often, and are never using it corectly, it's starting to become another one of my berserk buttons

This troper once was described by others and self-described as anti-social, as in one who avoids politely avoids social situations and ''crowds''. (Especially combined) Any conversation that involved the word anti-social became ''very'' awkward in hindsight after this troper learned about other variations of the term.

This troper once mentioned to five people that despite their continued swearing, he knew what the word '{{Yiff}}' meant and they didn't. One of them proceeded to use it as a personal insult to someone else (in the same context as 'idiot').

This troper, having gone through all of elementary school in a private Christian school, went to public middle school quite fuzzy on many major points of sex. Consequently, in her seventh grade life science class, she assumed that "orgasm" was shorthand for "organism", and took all her tests using "orgasm" instead of "organism". For example: "Orgasms can be unicellular or multicellular."

This troper once called his mothat a "wench" because he thought it meant along the lines of "stupid". You should have seen the look on his face when he found out it pretty much mean the same thing as "bitch".

This Troper thought that Circumcision meant the removal of the Scrotum while the testicles stayed and ended up looking like a Newton's Cradle.

@/FarseerLolotea has noticed that most accusations of "hypocrisy" have nothing to do with feigning virtues or standards that one does not actually hold. Or, for that matter, even the inability to practice what one preaches.

A former classmate once told me that one of ''his'' former classmates went around proudly declaring himself to be "primitive". When he told him what the word means, he didn't believe it. As for a more personal tale, a bunch of kids during my first class in elementary school used to march around wearing their backpacks backwards, calling themselves "amateurs". I don't think any of us knew what it meant. And later they thought "perverse" simply meant "mean".

To me, "apparently" means "according to another entity, that is not me, and it was not of my choice and/or I had little to no influence in it". ''Or something.'' Nobody has called me on it yet. I also, on the internets use the expression "*cough*", which is pretty hard to explain. It's like a fail/that's interesting/what an idiot type thing.