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May 13, 2015 10:23AM
so whassamatter wif "bad in a sexy way"? hmmm? heheheee!
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Owen wrote: "Dwayne wrote: "Fridge & veggiesCutesy and stupid sounding. They sound like baby talk.
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Now I'm curious: what do they call a fridge where you're located? I can't recall the last time I heard..."
Refrigerator?
I dislike the word "very". It is one of the weakest words in the English language.It is unnecessary, whether used as an adjective or an adverb; it adds nothing.
G.G. wrote: "Refrigerator? "Now I'm going to pay attention to what people say out here. (I don't even recall my mom, who was punctilious to a fault, ever saying refrigerator, but maybe she did when I was little.)
I never say refrigerator either. Of course, when I was a kid my parents owned a Frigidaire. They kept that thing for almost 30 years (after they got a new one, that one went in the basement) so for us it was the Frigidaire and later on it was shortened to Fridge. Refrigerator's too long. Who has time to use that word? :P
Helen wrote: "I dislike the word "very". It is one of the weakest words in the English language.It is unnecessary, whether used as an adjective or an adverb; it adds nothing."
I prefer very to the Franglais use if très. That's très cool! That's très passé. Especially when I see it spelled 'tray' on Twitter. :/
G.G. wrote: "I never say refrigerator either. Of course, when I was a kid my parents owned a Frigidaire. They kept that thing for almost 30 years (after they got a new one, that one went in the basement) so for..."Funny, I always thought Frigidaire was the fancy word for refrigerator. Apparently my mom thought the same thing when she was younger. I will not admit what age I was when I realized it was the words frigid and air. ;)
Christina wrote: "Funny, I always thought Frigidaire was the fancy word for refrigerator. Apparently my mom thought the same thing when she was younger. I will not admit what age I was when I realized it was the words frigid and air..."Nope. It's the brand name for it. The first one who invented the thing. Kind of like Skidoo, Band-aid, Dumpster etc.
Now...I bet I was older than you when I realized it was both words Fridge and Air, since I hadn't seen the link until now.
/blushes, runs, and hides undercover
G.G. wrote: "Christina wrote: "Funny, I always thought Frigidaire was the fancy word for refrigerator. Apparently my mom thought the same thing when she was younger. I will not admit what age I was when I reali..."Oh, I know that now, but when I was younger, I was sure it was a fancy name. ;)
Helen wrote: "I dislike the word "very". It is one of the weakest words in the English language.It is unnecessary, whether used as an adjective or an adverb; it adds nothing."
Helen - I hate it too, and I tend to use it. In my final edits I do a "search and delete"
Personally "love" is overused. I like the word when it's sincere in writing and in life, but I hate it when someone loves ice cream or rain!
Question, has anyone seen the word "quietened" used often? Or at all? I never knew this version of "quiet" even existed until recently, and I honestly thought that people were either spelling it wrong or trying too hard to be fancy with their writing.
Melissa wrote: "Question, has anyone seen the word "quietened" used often? Or at all? I never knew this version of "quiet" even existed until recently, and I honestly thought that people were either spelling it wr..."I have, but not in "modern" writing. It might be British?
Owen wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Question, has anyone seen the word "quietened" used often? Or at all? I never knew this version of "quiet" even existed until recently, and I honestly thought that people were eithe..."That's what I was wondering, too.
Rachael wrote: "While we're on the subject of "belly", I've never liked "tummy", which sounds infantile. I'm not crazy about "poorly" either - what's wrong with sick or ill?"I especially hate "stomach" when people use it to mean abdomen. I think they are avoiding "belly"
I hate almost all the words that start with "ign" -- ignore, ignorant, etc. I don't like them because of the sound, and I often hear the words I'm reading in my head. For some reason, ingenious sounds really cool, just switching two letters.
In writing a scene yesterday I used "belly" to describe a man (secondary character who is an antagonist) with a "beer belly". How else would I describe this?
In reading YA, a very popular word is "smirk" but to me this sounds just... I can't even explain it. Maybe it's the meaning of the word that bothers me.
Kristin wrote: "In reading YA, a very popular word is "smirk" but to me this sounds just... I can't even explain it. Maybe it's the meaning of the word that bothers me."If a YA were to be realistic, smirk would be the only descriptive. ;)
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I call it a refrigerator. Yes, there are people that call them fridges here, but it grates on me for some reason.
*lays back on the couch*
I think it all goes back to my childhood when my mom started calling our refrigerator "the fridge". I had never heard anyone call it that and for years I only heard my mom call it that. It was one of those many words that only mom seemed to use. "Tromp" is another.
But, one day, oh... one day I finally escaped the cellar...
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Inconceivable
People keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
Dwayne wrote: "I thought of another word that bothers me.Inconceivable
People keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means."
I chortled when I read this. :)
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Shoot. I was going for a belly laugh.
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That reminds me of when I was a kid. I loved Beverly Cleary's books. But, for some reason, I often cringed when Ramona would scowl. Dunno why. I have my characters scowl (and smirk) from time to time. I guess it was because it seemed that Ramona was always scowling.
Yes, Ramona was a little scowly-pants.Poor Beezus. :(
Dwayne wrote: "Owen wrote: "Now I'm curious: what do they call a fridge where you're located?"I call it a refrigerator. Yes, there are people that call them fridges here, but it grates on me for some reason.
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We don't have cellars here in Los Angeles, so I guess you would have been under the slab. Lucky you weren't here.
We call it a fridge because we are too lazy to say all those syllables, and it is sort of the middle of refrigerator. I always have trouble spelling the real word, because I want to put a 'd' in it.
Charles wrote: "Yes, Ramona was a little scowly-pants.Poor Beezus. :("
"Scowly-pants"? ROFLMAO!
This isn't so much words, as a tendency some places have: making up verbs. This drives me absolutely nuts. "Flyering" for the acting of distributing flyers. "Thrifting" to describe shopping in thrift stores. "Status me on that proposal."
At one point, people at my job started pronouncing "entry" as "entrée" when referring to get a foot in the door with a new customer or business area: "Who can get us entrée into the Whatzit Office?"
Thinking back on that makes me so glad I retired (very) early.
Yo bro, pizza me! -Someone I probably knew circa 1994
And Beezus was kind of a snob iirc.
The general consensus of the community was that Beezus was a diligent student, proper, courteous and a well-rounded young lady that wanted to succeed in life.She probably has 2.5 kids, and maybe even a couple of grandchildren by now.
And Ramona was eating crayons and pooping rainbows in her pants.
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I remember this word being used everywhere a couple of years ago, even so much as being the title of a movie. It lost all meaning for me and I refuse to use it.
I don't care how good it is, a sandwich, a nap, or even a car should not be described as "epic".
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Exactly how I feel about the way "awesome" is used 99% of the time. I agree with you on "epic". Doubly so when it was coupled with the word "fail" or "failure". Cute the first 4,592 times I saw it, but then it became trite and old.
Dwayne wrote: "*lays back on the couch*"Me: "I'm just going to lie down on the couch."
My wife: "It's a sofa, not a couch."
Me: "What's the difference?"
She: "Couch just sounds...crass."
Me: "Uh...OK."
Dwayne wrote: "I call it a refrigerator."I call it an erator.
Owen wrote: "At one point, people at my job started pronouncing "entry" as "entrée"..."That's when you break out the Fawlty Towers references:
"Pretentious? Moi?"
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Me: "I'm just going to lie down on the couch."
My wife: "It's a sofa, not a couch."
Me: "What's the difference?"
She: "Couch just sounds...crass."
Me: "Uh... OK"
You guys argue about what to call the davenport?
Nah, we all know it's called a chesterfield. :P
Christina wrote: "You mean the divan?"Oh that's what we used to call it when I was a kid. I had totally forgotten about that one.
Dwayne wrote: "You guys argue about what to call the davenport?You missed my point. We don't argue. She objects and I end up acquiescing...Isn't this the marriage counseling thread? No? Oops, my bad.
Christina wrote: "You mean the divan?"Of course not. She was clearly talking about the settee.
I shop at IKEA because if it's good enough for Babylon 5, it's good enough for me (AND, I have a hex key [Allen wrench] and I know how to use it!)
The F word.... I once taught the proper use and forms of the word f.... I was teaching English in a Berlitz school, in Germany, and two businessmen came to class with a paper: How to use the word f..., as a noun, a verb, etc. A good laugh.
The word 'gasp'. I'm not saying I would never use it but many romance novels are riddled with it; makes you wonder if the characters are suffering from some respiratory illness!lol!
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Sweet, now I can make fun of my dad for being named after a piece of Ikea furniture.
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Riley, that is just silly! Why would you do that when you could...
Let him listen to the song where that joke came from by Jonathan Coulton to really rub it AS in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUPu_...
Words I love and don't... Well, I enjoy my cuss words. I use them frequently, in life and in my writing.I hate the contemporary fad of shortening or deliberately misspelling words. "He's totes adorbz but u don't want 2 go thru dat no mo." I even use proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar when I text message.
In erotica writing, there are a few euphamisms I don't enjoy... "sleeves" in reference to orifices of the body. I just find it a weird one. And I don't like the really colorful euphamisms... his lethal weapon, his mighty staff, etc. Or the varying terms for the female 'gates of paradise' (and yeah, I've seen that one'. I could get more specific, but this isn't that sort of board.
