I have no commentate.

I do, however, like common fries.

What are you, the Language Dictor?

'Orientate' and its derivatives. What the hell's wrong with 'orient'?

While we're on the subject, 'utilize' means 'use', yes? So why not say 'use'?

or ute?

My least favorite word is "winoyouhavetostaylatetodayandyoucantgo
homeanddrinkbeerinsteadassface"

That word sucks.

orientate used to not be a word something like twenty years ago. since then it seems to have been placed in Webster like many other incidences of slang. this does not, however, forgive you from sounding like a hayseed when you use it.

ORIENT. You ORIENT something.

oh and if I read one more time that something has re_O_curred, I shall kick the offending party, repeatedly, in the shins. When something happens, it OCCURS and is noted as an OCCURANCE. When it happens again, it RECURS and is a RECURRANCE.

have a nice day.

nother, as in "a whole nother." It's not a fucking word!!!!

also, lackadaisical. It's a really obnoxious way of saying lazy and or careless

Whenever someone says lacadaisical I always wanna kinda swoop 'em around the room like when you play airplane with a little kid and shout "lacksydaisy, whoops lacksydaisy, wheeeeeee!"

Oh yeah, utilize instead of use really pisses me off.

Actually all of the above ones do, but most are not actual words themselves. I don't know why that annoys me less, but it does.

I heard a guy on NPR recently say that the world was "literally on the edge of its seat."

Misuse of 'literally' bugs me much more than any of the others here.

nother, as in "a whole nother." It's not a fucking word!!!!

It is in the south.

Nother Butters. My favorite.

I second the movement to end 'literally' abuse. It sets my teeth on edge and makes me break out in hives. Also, it gives me a nigh-uncontrollable urge to literally smack the abuser about the head and shoulders with a dead haddock. The absence of haddock in most such situations is the only thing stopping me.

thar ain't nuthin wrong with these here words. ya'll is trying to start a whole nother civil war with yer fancy schoolin' and I ain't gonna have it. no sir!

Nother one is "ironical", which my father utilizes. How is that a word? I told him it's redundant, and yet it continually re-occurs from his lips. How lackadaisical can you get? It literally annoys the fuck out of me.

I don't think I either hear or possibly notice people misusing literally very often. In the former case, I wonder if it's regional. In the latter case, I worry that it's because I misuse it. I don't think so, though.

As for nother or 'nother, I think I just recently used it hereabouts. It's a writing affectation. I deliberately litter my writing with these to signal something I think it's important to signal. Ah, hereabouts is an example, too, isn't it?

Believe me, if I hadn't made these and other various similar modifications of how I speak and write when I was about twelve or so, I would have developed into someone even more insufferably pompous that I already am.

Jonmc, I use commenter all the time on mefi and probably here. I don't like commentator, either, it's needlessly multisyllabic. But I suspect it's the dominant term of the two and probably the biggest portion of the reason I avoid it is because it has a specific connotation of someone offering commentary in the op-ed or talking-head sense and not in the "we're posting comments as the means to participate in this Internet conversation" sense.

In the last few years—and I think it's related to age—I find I'm really putting effort into utilizing as much of my vocabulary as possible in the service of avoiding or clarifying ambiguity. I never made a deliberate decision to do this; but especially in these 'net conversations I notice that as a discussion goes on words that I've used upon which much of the discussion pivots are words that I (retrospectively) realize I chose with full awareness of their subtle connotations, usually as a result of avoiding another, often more comfortable, word that I thought was ambiguous. If you notice me using odd language, that's probably why.

I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME!!!!

This is great! It proves I'm not loco!

I HATE THAT DANG WORD!!!!!!

Argumentation? Argument. Maybe it's meant to be a portmanteau of argument and documentation, as in "show your work"? Because "arguementate" is not a verb; argue is.

nother, as in "a whole nother." It's not a fucking word!!!!

Tmesis is one of my favorite words, if only because the initial tm is such a wonderfully Greek construct. But if you hate 'nother', then you have to use ickname instead of nickname, ewt instead of newt, etc.

Oh, and ick/eke as in "an ickname" means "other". So, in a sense, you are too late.

Divine_Wino, you made me lol, literaly (neener neener, mudpuppie!)

I am with you pie, wino's made me literally pee my pants.

I don't like the word 'commentator'.

Kind of like "conversate," isn't it?