This is not The Haters Club You're Looking For discussion
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Words I hate:
"snack" or "snacking" used as action verbs.For example, "I like to snack on carrots" or "I'm guilty of snacking on carrots."
I dislike turning nouns into verbs in general.
"Verbing weirds language."-Bill Watterson via Calvin and Hobbes
(I hate that I can't remember which book it's in)
The word "crisp". Have always hated it.-m
I hate certain phrases like "pick your brain" and "rip him a new one" and pretty much any euphemism for diarrhea (specially "the squirts" or "the runs").
pussy. yes! i hate that word! and cunt. and vagina. and clit. blech! why do all the words for a woman's private suck while guys privates have first names like dick and peter?
I actually love the word 'cunt'. I know most women don't... I just love the way it rolls off the tongue (heh).
Rural. It's hard to say.Bulbous.
Pus.
PerfunctoryCocksure
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Compassionate-Conservative
Bush
I used to love bush, but now the chimp has ruined the word for me. I can't even walk by a shrubbery without vurping.
has our President made you celibate Fred? Or just gay?
LOl, no it is only word bush I have come to hate. Thank god there's other words for the Peach Fish.
I abhor work lingo, including but not limited to:"team-player" / "team"
"touch base"
"on your plate"
"step up"
"dialogue"
"collegial"
WTF?
I, too, hate turning nouns into verbs, but I despise it when we already have a word that means the same thing and sounds better. Like "officing" and "gifting." What is that?
I hate "moist," but I love "cunt."
Rob, I'm with you on the work lingo. The one the I loathe the most would be "opportunities". For example, my RM loves to say, imagine a deep, rumbling voice, "We all had some opportunites this quarter. I need every one to be ready to discuss their opportiunites. Blah blah opportunities blah."And even though I am guilty of this one as well, when did google become a verb?
The only word I can think of that I can't really speak out loud is "nipple". I don't know why, it just bothers me. I am also not a fan of "moist".
I hate the expression "think outside the box"...I am with you on "cunt", but prefer to spell it with a "k" for more emphasis...
and I love the word ballistic, but my mother hates it ever since I was 13 and told her not to go "ballistic"...not good
I'm with Rob and Jenn; I also hate the word "moist". I also just decided I hate the word "vurping" Thanks, Fredstrong
Since everybody's hating on "moist," can we hear a hell no to "tumescent"? Sounds cancerous...
Irregardless.Ignorant fuckers use it so often it made into Webster's ("non-standard usage").
The word "addicting" seems to have supplanted "addictive.""Cinnabon is SO addicting!"
"I love Top Model. It's so addicting."
Argh!
I hate when people say who's instead of whose. Who's is "who is" and whose is "belonging to whom."And yes, whom is appropriate there.
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TURGID
ugh. There is no good way to use that word.
message 6: by Sarah 19 hours, 43 min ago I hate certain phrases like "pick your brain" and "rip him a new one" and pretty much any euphemism for diarrhea (specially "the squirts" or "the runs").
Try this one on for size...
: Shotgun ass!
Bam!
yah "we're on the same page" makes me want to say no...no we're not.
"Conversate".....why has it made it into the dictionary!?!?!? You are not coversating...you are having a conversation or conversing.And, in honor of the holiday (which i HATE) "Valentime's" Day...maybe it's a New York thing, but oh my God people, it's an N!!!!
Conversate made the dictionary? Really? Holy shit. Yes, it's on dictionary.com. I feel old.
It's not a New York thing, it's an idiot thing.I hates me some idiots (see my previous post re: irregardless).
As in "conversate among your selves?" How would one use it? I don’t think I get it.
in that vein - utilize - I hate that word - I hate the types of people who use it - jargon speakers, letter-of-the-law followers, blank stare, flat-toned, simple-minded, tight-assed, polyester suited, blue-haired, sour cheese under the lip bureacrats on official business -why would you not just say "use" - why? -"utilize your resources" - utilize my foot in your face....
I'm all for a diverse vocabulary for connotation and all that - shades of meaning
But utilize holds no function but to stick a big stamp that says "professional and very very important" on functions that are actually as useless as the owrd utilize itself
argh! well now I've worked myself into a rage - utilize... ugh
wasn't conversate in the movie dumb and dumber? who's on the dictionary committee?
It makes me cringe everytime someone says, "Nipply" when it's cold outside.
I used to have a friend that would physically gag if you said the word "blubber" over and over. God that was fun!
I used to have a friend that would physically gag if you said the word "blubber" over and over. God that was fun!
Nick, I typically hear "conversate" used in this way...."While I was conversating with Bob..." and I agree that it is an idiot thing more than a New York thing. I probably hear it all the time because I work with a bunch of idiots!!I also discovered today that I hate when people say "can I tell you something?" and then bitch about something. I just wanted to say "NO!! YOU CAN"T!!"
Readhead... I'm delighted to be given a new venue for seeing one of my favorite words used well. Chaucer would be so proud.Turgid:
"She woke with the taste of his turgid penis on her lips. Even though he was gone, his juices and manhood lingered in her mind and on her cloying lips like Vaseline." - from the Grand Prize Winning "Untitled" by "Bill" of the Nerve Bad Erotica Contest
I haven't read everyones words so I'm sorry if these were said.But I hate the words:
Panties - it's just strange.
Lure - causes much confusion in my family, over pronunciation.
Josh, I'm with you on panties. It's a strange word...I just call them underwear!! Panties just feels too dirty :-o
"Scrod" is not a word I like. Sounds like a nasty body part.And I'm totally with you on "conversate." Along the same line, I hate people who say "orientate." Both make my blood boil.
"I'm with you on panties."There's a joke in there somewhere ("that's what she said" maybe) but I'm not man enough to find it.
I hate "process" as a verb, e.g. "We need to process this meeting." God, please kill me before the hellish boredom of "processing" something.
I also hate the phrase, "I'm not comfortable with..." It's like a weird way of saying you don't like something without coming out and saying you don't like something. "I'm not comfortable with this agenda." Why? Is the sharp end of the paper poking you in the ass?
"orientate" I hate that one too!! You can add "logistical" to my list too
I hate when people say "I could care less about it" when to me it's obvious the saying is "I couldn't care less about it" because if you CAN care less, you care. If you CAN'T care less, then you obviously have no feelings for the subject. Yet everone I know says it wrong constantly.
I am that annoying person who corrects everyone when they say "I could care less about it". I feel the need to point these things out to people...I guess that's why I'm a speech-language pathologist!! I can get paid for it!
I always correct them too, because I hate it so much. But sadly I don't get paid for it.
Josh and Kelly, I do too. I hate it. But most people couldn't care less if they are saying it correctly.
"My bad"For crying out loud get some balls and apologize properly
It's called "I'm sorry"
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