Words We Hate

[The_old_man]

Shortfall used to describe a lack of tax revenue when the problem is overspending by the dam politicians

 

[BlackShanglan]

"Irregardless."

I love my father dearly, but this may eventally lead to one of those life-long estrangement things.

Shanglan

 

[yui]

Yui, I will never look at clematis the same way again. And "condiments" has also bothered me too.

Damn, I love that bunny! It's like a madness.

Shanglan

"Clematis" is an awful name for anything and I'm glad to hear "condiments" doesn't only give me pause.

I'm glad you like the bunny. I do, too.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

"Mandate"
No Mr. President, you don't have one.

Grr.

 

[Belegon]

"Mandate"
No Mr. President, you don't have one.

Grr.

sure he does...

with the governor of New Jersey.....

 

[Kassiana]

"Impact" used as a verb. It isn't a verb. It isn't supposed to be one. Besides, whenever someone says, "It impacted me" rather than the correct "It made an impact on me," I imagine them getting blocked up in a rather painful way.

"Homeland" makes me cringe. Images of Nazi Germany "Fatherland" come to mind.

"Enormity" does not mean "huge." It means "enormous evil." It is frequently used, however, as a synonym for "big."

 

[NoJo]

"Enormity" does not mean "huge." It means "enormous evil." It is frequently used, however, as a synonym for "big."

I better tell my wife.

 

[logophile]

"Homeland" makes me cringe. Images of Nazi Germany "Fatherland" come to mind.

This one always makes me shudder as well.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I recognize that it might be correct usage over there, but the British use of "pressurize" where we Americans would use pressure - as in "I didn't want to date him but he kept pressurizing me" - I find hysterical. I have images of people being inflated.

Shanglan

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

LIKE, well, YOU KNOW I quite LITERALLY seldom find much use for such a thread because BASICALLY I can't think of any words that fall with its PARADIGM.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I recognize that it might be correct usage over there, but the British use of "pressurize" where we Americans would use pressure - as in "I didn't want to date him but he kept pressurizing me" - I find hysterical. I have images of people being inflated.

Shanglan

Agreed. It also brings to mind Aldous Huxley's use of "pneumatic" to describe voluptuous females in Brave New World.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[neonlyte]

LIKE, well, YOU KNOW I quite LITERALLY seldom find much use for such a thread because BASICALLY I can't think of any words that fall with its PARADIGM.

Rumple Foreskin

I'm ninety percent certain you're probably right.

 

[lovescake]

"utilize"

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I'm ninety percent certain you're probably right.

SOLID!

Rumple Foreskin

 

[scheherazade_79]

Mumps - I don't know why, but that word makes my stomach turn.

Inappropriate - Grossly overused in politically correct circles, particularly with children's behaviour, when it would be more accurate to say that they're being bastards out of hell.

Special - Misused and overused. Anyone with anything wrong with them is always labelled "special". To prove the pathos of the situation - I remember kids from the Special Needs unit in school running around the yard and bragging to everyone else that they were in that class because they were "special"

 

[NoJo]

LIKE, well, YOU KNOW I quite LITERALLY seldom find much use for such a thread because BASICALLY I can't think of any words that fall with its PARADIGM.

Rumple Foreskin

Guily, Guilty, Guilty, Not Guilty.


I'll never forget a snooker commentator on TV saying, at a very tense moment in a match, "...and the spectators are quite literally electrified and glued to their seats..."

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Guily, Guilty, Guilty, Not Guilty.


I'll never forget a snooker commentator on TV saying, at a very tense moment in a match, "...and the spectators are quite literally electrified and glued to their seats..."

Poor bastards. Bless you for that LOL, Sub Joe.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[BlackShanglan]

"Unacceptable."

When it really means "we don't like this, but actually could fucking well accept it like everyone else accepts things they don't like."

Grrr. That one really sets my teeth on edge.

 

[impressive]

foundation (when used in reference to undergarments -- major turn off)

booger & snot (when used by anyone over the age of 9)

assets (when used in reference to PEOPLE)

intestinal fortitude (sigh)

Mommy! (when whined)

smegma (sorry -- WASH)

nigger (nothing but hate in that word)

 

[Dar~]

irrregardless- It's not a word, people!

I could care less-Yes, you could congratulations. This should be I couldn't care less.

 

[BlackShanglan]

irrregardless- It's not a word, people!

I could care less-Yes, you could congratulations. This should be I couldn't care less.

Amen!

And completely with Imp on the use of "booger." I would add "titties" to that too. Nothing quite so erotic as a word that sounds like a four-year-old talking.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

As far as I'm concerned, the ugliest word in the English language is phlegm.

Not only does it sound bad, but it has that disgusting ph for f thing going on, and that queasy-looking dangling g, which, since it's silent, seems to serve no purpose other than to remind you of something dripping down the word's chin.

Sputum may not be much better, but it least it feels like it has some direction to it. Phlegm just lays there.

Lunch, anyone?

 

[NoJo]

As far as I'm concerned, the ugliest word in the English language is phlegm.

Not only does it sound bad, but it has that disgusting ph for f thing going on, and that queasy-looking dangling g, which, since it's silent, seems to serve no purpose other than to remind you of something dripping down the word's chin.

Sputum may not be much better, but it least it feels like it has some direction to it. Phlegm just lays there.

Lunch, anyone?

But they're so beautifully onomatepoeic. Like piss. I mean, like 'piss'.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Like piss. I mean, like 'piss'.

Too late, your secret's out.

Fortunately, equines can provide it in considerable quantity. Drop on by. I'll start in drinking now.

Shanglan

 

[Dar~]

I hate double negatives. If I use one it will always be in jest or to give a character something.