Two words have annoyed me umpteen no. of times over the last few days. Must have heard each one of them about 5 times. I was aware of them from before, and always thought they were annoying. But actually hearing them is something else.

totes (adv): Slang short for 'totally', used mostly to express an extreme degree of vanity.

e.g. Lindsay Lohan's new boyfriend is totes awesome. Like, really!

Agonizing, right? Right.

swearsies (verb): Slang degenerate of an already slangabused word 'swear'.

e.g. I will come up with better topics to write on my blog, if you all stay on. Swearsies!

Seriously, for those who didn't have these terrible words in their vocabularies, how annoying an addition was it! (#insertevilgrinhere)

As I said, I have heard these words more than a few times over the last few days. I must add that I heard them come out of the mouths of nowhere-near-teeny girls. I didn't rake up an issue with them and just let it slip. But I made a mental note to say something about them on the blog. Who knows, maybe this could start a movement that could weed out these and other such words from the language! Or maybe I am just old and not 'with' the times anymore.

Actually, no. I kind of want these words around, just so I can poke fun at them. Plus some words sound different when girls say them.

I totes don't know what I am talking about, do I?