Books I Loathed discussion
Words I Loathed
Jason: I'm giddy with flattery...thank you. My son and I understand each other beautifully; I can't say the same for the parents of his friends. Matt (unlike me), though, is unfailingly polite, so usually the adults only direct their disapproval towards me...and, thankfully, he is sophisticated enough socially to pretend he's like "normal" kids (to avoid shunning and torment), so it's all good. He'll be appreciated by his own one day, perhaps; if not, he's always got his mother (good grief)!Have kids someday...the world needs it.
This happened to lots of us who, as kids, read at higher levels than everyday conversation.I have chameleon (ch-am-uh-lon), mischievous (mis-cheev-ee-ous), I'm with you on the misled (but in my head it sounded like misseled), and numerous others that I can't remember anymore.
My brother and my sister-in-law and I howled one day when we played with the www.m-w.com word pronouncer. It will pronounce almost any word you ask it to, always in the same tone of voice.Sex words: The use of "gash" for vagina is horribly loathsome. The use of "pink taco" is hilarious to me, but there we go with the pink word again.
Where are the "Pink Taco" restaurants? That's pretty bizarre. When I was in Oklahoma for one strange year there were taco restaurants everywhere, while here in NY we only have the ubiquitous Taco Bell. Okay, pink taco is funny and revolting at the same time. Now that I'm considering the various sides of the phrase, I'm going to go barf now, I think.
well I can add pink taco to my most hated words list.
Brooke, Please send me your list so I don't accidentally use one of the words on you.
What a dipstick:
"Pink Taco is a Mexican restaurant chain that has earned notoriety[1] for its name, which is the same as a slang term for a human vagina. The president and CEO, Harry Morton, contends it comes from a menu item[2] and claims that if the restaurant were truly "vagina-themed" there would be "vaginas all over the walls."[3]
"Pink Taco is a Mexican restaurant chain that has earned notoriety[1] for its name, which is the same as a slang term for a human vagina. The president and CEO, Harry Morton, contends it comes from a menu item[2] and claims that if the restaurant were truly "vagina-themed" there would be "vaginas all over the walls."[3]
I don't think Harry Morton is even his real name. By the way, I used to think dipstick was a term for penis until I learned that it's what you use to check the oil in your car. Then I was sort of ok with it.
Well, if it's a REAL quote--which is always questionable with Wikipedia--and he's being serious, he's a moron.
"What? I call my chocolate confection SHWEDDY BALLS 'cause my last name is SHWEDDY? What do you THINK I said?!"
"What? I call my chocolate confection SHWEDDY BALLS 'cause my last name is SHWEDDY? What do you THINK I said?!"
Replying to Natalie's msg #394: You're right about dipstick, but I have a compulsion to find out where words originate. Hey Brendan, is the Schweddy quote from a book or movie?
This Harry Morton guy reminds me of Larry Flynt for some reason.
Natalie: LOFL!
Kathryn: Oh, the words I mangled mentally! "Stuart" (from "Stuart Little") became something akin to "StWart"...when I discovered the true pronunciation, I couldn't read it anymore.Natalie: I love "guh"...it's going to replace "feh"; I wonder if it'll have the same impact verbally?
And Mark: "gash" is the worst. Worse than all the other, even the "c" word. I can't imagine anything quite so insulting... Since you're the word-origin man, do you know how "beaver" came into our lexicon? (Did I just use "lexicon" correctly? Urgh.)
Whenever I refer to more intimate portions of human anatomy, male or female, I use the general term "business"; if I'm speaking, I usually add a sort of hand-waving around my own...area...to clarify which "business", exactly, I'm refering to.
Self-disclosure alert: my son got a Wii for his birthday; I find it endlessly entertaining to refer to it in a lascivious way: "Come over, and you can play with Matt's Wii!" or "Matt, you do love playing with your Wii!" Incredibly un-funny, unbearably immature crap like that. I can't seem to help it, though, good sport that he is, he hasn't clobbered me a good one yet...
...but if anyone can come up with something witty (and not too awful; he IS only 10) and fresh, let me know :)
Okay, everyone you have to stop making me laugh cause I have a cold and a sore throat and it's killing my throat and mouth laughing at everything you've said. So, stop it ~ just kidding LOLBut seriously, I have a slight fever so if something doesn't make sense I'm going to blame it on the low grade fever I have and that my brain is currently boiling.
Recynd -- I love the wordplay you have with your son. My dad and I had something like that. It wasn't so much word play, but he definitely knew how to get my goat and keep me grounded, usually it took a bizarre joke. I can't remember any of them now.
I like the word "buhjiggidy". I don't know if that's how it's spelled, but Christina Applegate says it in "The Sweetest Thing". I say it whenever I'm overly twitterpated over a guy. Although, lately I haven't been twitterpated so buhjiggidy hasn't been used.
I love "curmudgeon" but can't stand "codger" as in "old codger".
On the sex stuff: I also consider "making love" and "having sex" to be completely different. But I do think it's becoming more common to use the phrases interchangeably.
You know the song, "My Humps"? I can't stand that song. I don't have humps, camels do. I don't have lady lumps, it sounds like a bad thing and having a lump is never a good thing.
"Gash" sounds like a gaping, oozing wound and is a most disgusting thing to call that part of the anatomy.When talking facetiously (that's fuh-SEESH-us-lee for those of you who've been "mizzled" in the past) of male anatomy, I like to refer to it as "junk" or "parts." But I must admit I love the word penis so I have no problem referring to it by its proper name.
I also love the word facetious. And serreptitiously. And superfluous. And obsequious. And urbane, abstruse, esoteric, and extrapolate. And antipathy. Ooh, and antithesis.
I love words.
I'll have to look up beaver. I've always assumed it was because of the tightly curled hair; the animal beaver really does have such hair; I know because I've used it when tying fishing flies.Sorry about 'gash.' I just remembered how grotesque of a word it is.
As I live and die..."twitterpated"?? My newest, favorite-ist word!! TWITTERPATED! I'm often "all a'twitter" (like at the moment) and (since I don't get out much) I'm often giddy in social settings (or, at least, I feel like I am, which is nearly as bad), but I've never defined my mood as "twitterpated"...but now I'm on the lookout!Okay, Sarah-With-an-H, you can color me impressed with your ease regarding the "p" word (that'd be...shhhhh...penis); as seriously pathetic as this sounds (though, coming from a family that refered to all parts south...east AND west...as your "bottom", I suppose I can be forgiven), I can hardly say the word to my KID. I say "wee" (if I'm being instructional) or the all-purpose "your business"...but I can say "balls" (usually, I say it, "bwals"). Gads. I can't say the "v" word, either.
I'm a year shy of 40, I can curse a blue streak without blushing, and I can't use perfectly good nouns in all-female company, let alone in a mixed group. Sigh.
But I do love pedantic. And crotch (not onomatopoetic, but could be). And revolting and repulsive. And priggish. Hirsute. Insufferable. Virulent. Lascivious.
Recynd, I used to be embarrassed by the P-word too. I don't really know what changed, but now I have no problem with it.I know this is the antithesis (see what I did there?) of the point of this thread, but it's just as fun listing words I love: lugubrious. Salubrious, for that matter. Salacious. (I'm noticing many of the words I love are adjectives.) Quintessential. Caterwaul. Melancholy.
Seriously though - Pink Taco? That one made me laugh out loud!! We've had the debate going over here as to what we should call the female "package" (ie not just the vagina). "Front butt" was very popular for a while, supposedly because it was a completely non-sexual (they've got that part right) expression and thus easy to use when talking with kids.
Thankfully, it's unfahsionable now.
Re: beavers - there's a hilarious marketing story with that. One of Sweden's biggest outdoor clothing brands (Fjällräven) has a beaver as a symbol. In the 70's (or 80's) they launched a campaign in the USA saying "The Swedish beaver has come to town..." completely oblivious of any connotations of that word...
I physically cringe when anyone says queef. It is a gross word.I don't like box to refer to a vagina...or gash that is bad too.
I find words like cubby, hearty and the phrase “made from scratch” aggravating, is that odd at all? Oh and saying “America Runs on Dunkin’” really sends me up the wall much akin to fingernails on a chalkboard. It is not bad enough that you have already shortened the name of the brand from “Dunking Doughnuts” you have to shorten Dunking too.
It doesn't change our reaction to the expression but it reminds us that good grammar is not always pravalent in rock and roll and we accept it as if it was alright. It is not even for the sake of the beat.Red Evans author On Ice
I can't think of any bad descriptions off the top of my head, but speaking of mispronouncing words - it wasn't until I got to uni that I found out that "anxiety" wasn't pronounced "ank-sh-ty"!! My big pet hates are with the use of "lay" and "laid", which are frequently incorrect, and also "gotten", which technically isn't a word - I know English is an evolving language, but for some reason "gotten" makes my skin crawl.
I also don't like reading a book that uses "would of" (phonetic of "would've"?), instead of "would have" - unless it's in dialogue, it just looks like sloppy editing to me.
I just found your group and I love all of you. I thought I was the only one who absolutely cringes reading advertisements or menus with blatant (to me!) errors. I agree with all previous posters on "irregardless"; it makes me cry.
I have alot of fun with "made from scratch." I always want to ask the proud cook what part they scratched. My son, who is as old as most of y'all, still mispronounces words that he has read but never looked up to find out the pronunciation.
English is indeed an evolving language. But laid bothers me too. I'm sort of afraid to say the word now because of its sexual meaning. For instance, I guess when people get laid off from their jobs they really get f****d.
Mark, you are a seriously funny man ...Learning words froms books can lead to misunderstandings. One word I mispronounced for years was 'epitome' - I had no idea it was the same word I heard pronounced 'e-pit-to-me'
I agree that Mark is funny. I'm proud to call him my brother(in-law).
more words I loath: taint,chode,shaft,tool.(Used as sexual references)
Thanks Brooke and Philip. I think I overcompensate with humor because when I was a kid my dad used to tell me I didn't have a sense of humor. That might have been because sometimes I didn't laugh at his jokes. He tells them all numerous times, which I get a real kick out of now, but which used to piss me off. Being told I didn't have a sense of humor really really hurt, too. Someday I'll get over it, maybe.I'm learning lots of new words on this thread. I never heard of queef or taint before this. Gracias!
I really like the ob words, like obfuscate, obviate, obdurate, obnoxious, oblong, oblique, and obtuse, along with others.
There is a rock group called Tool. I don't know what they sound like, though.
It's probably been said here previously, but an old reference to a virgin's private parts is "maidenhood." That's weird, considering what I think of as the "hood" down there.
I like when writiers ignore the actual word for the part. That is when she reached down and touched him, or massaged him, or her even, we know what part of the body the touch is on. This is much better than she reached down and touched his ________.
In Response to the C word.Really? That is one of my favorite words ever. I think it has a wonderful ability to be angry or gentle or even just quirky. Whereas words like the p word (for the same thing)are a kind of half hearted attempt.
Otherwise:
Someone I know from school said something did not make him dis-happy. I thought it was hysterical because he thought it was a word and he is such a pompous wind bag. I told a friend of mine and she said that it made her uncombobulated to hear that. We say these words wrong so often now that sometimes we have to stop and think which is the right way and which is wrong...scary.
I used to ride a certain bus to work, and this guy on it was a bigtime dingleberry, always poking into conversations about which he knew nothing. So one day I told him to shut his burger hole. He got so upset and hurt that I still feel guilty about it.
Burger hole I like that.Me being in the Navy we have many good descriptions for the mouth, the more common one when yelling at a recruit would be "Shut your C#$k Holster"
I do not use it myself but you always hear it.
I find rot for mouth funny, thanks to A Clockwork Orange. "Shut your rot recruit"
I loathe "conjunctivitis". What a yucky word.I also have a hard time with "fart" cause my mom scolded me when I was in elementary school and said it wasn't a very ladylike word (is that hyphenated, lady-like?). So, she said I had to say "pass the gas" and I got teased about by this boy in my class when I said it the next day. The thing is he teased me about it until we graduated from high school. I even moved away for 6 years between 5th grade and 11th grade and he still remembered it when I came back. What a doofus! A woman I worked with at Dillards, when I was fresh out of college, called it "poofing". I kind of like that. "Oh, excuse me, I poofed." LOL
In response to Msgs 401 & 403: I also don't have a problem saying penis. There were years when I couldn't say it at all, I would kind of stammer if for some reason I had to talk about a penis, but then I went to college and was an RA, and several of us RAs had a "safe sex education program" and had to teach several 18-19 year old men and women how to put a condom on bananas and condoms and somehow I was the one who had to discuss how to gently put it on a penis without tugging pubic hairs or getting testicles in the mix. Having to say penis and testicles in front of a room of 50 college freshmen will cure you of any stammering when it comes to anatomical parts. It also helps when one of the young men in the audience tells you that you were a good demonstrator, kind of like the Vanna White of sex ed. (I went to a private, religiously affiliated college and everything I know about alcohol, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, I learned there--it was so worth it!) Then, several years later, I heard a song about a penis. That is a funny song. It's in "The Sweetest Thing". I'm not going to say that it's a fabulous movie, but that penis song is hilarious!
In response to my Msg 352: I've been blocking this memory and it just jumped out at me.I used to hate my name! When I was in first grade I was the only little black child in my school and the kids would tease me but they didn't know any racial slurs to tease me with (thank goodness) so they would say "Tara, you're name starts with tar and you look like tar so you should lay in the street with the rest of your kind." Umm, yeah, that hurt! It still hurts now, just remembering it. So, I guess that's probably why I don't mind people pronouncing my name incorrectly (TERR-uh) rather than correctly (TARR-uh) cause it doesn't hurt when people say "Tara like terra firma? That's good; solid earth". Although I do correct them and say "No, Tara like TARR-uh, as in Tara King who replaced Emma Peele on the BBC show The Avengers." Then, if the person is old enough to remember The Avengers and Emma Peele and Tara King, they say "Oh yeah, I remember that. Great show. Your parents were fans?". So, that's my name issue. I love my name now because I like the meaning of it, actually I love the meaning. It's Gaelic Irish and I love it!
omg Tara....I love the penis song in The Sweetest Thing.
That's a horrible childhood memory Tara!My sister's name is Tara, and we have lots of silly nonesense nicknames for her, but we've always pronounced it "Ta-ra"; it wasn't until I met a Canadian called Tara that I learnt there was another pronounciation, and I have to say, quite frankly, that I hate it. It sounds exactly like "terror" which makes me think, naturally, of "terrorist". So when Canadians (I live in Canada now) pronounce my sister's name that way I always say, a bit grumpy-like, "It's "Ta-ra, actually: she's not a terrorist!"
Yeah, very mature, I know! But I get quite defensive about the Tara/Terra thing. I think it's a lovely name, and those kids in your school were absolute little shits for doing that to you.
Oh my the post about the word "fart" reminds me of my own experience with the word (I quite like that one, actually): my nanna didn't like us saying "fart" and wanted us to use "pop-off"! Can you think of anything more hideous than "pop-off"??!! *shudder* Go on, say it out loud and see if you can keep a straight face!
"Penis" doesn't bother me, but "shaft" always makes me want to giggle. "Pole" is not flattering, and "honey pot" for you-know-what sounds incredibly corny.
Speaking about penises and songs, there is of course Monty Python's penis song, sung by Eric Idle in The Meaning of Life. Classic.
I've been thinking it would be neat if a fraternity was founded on a college campus called phi alpha rho tau.
I don't think "the c-word" is bad at all. It depends on the tone of the voice using it. It can be empowering just as well as nasty. Now, a phrase like "cum dumpster" or "cock-garage"...THAT'S unequivocally derogatory.
Seriously? Cock-garage is now going to be my favorite thing to say for at least a month. That is an awesome turn of phrase.Maybe this is the wrong place for me. I can't think of a single word I hate - well, except for words that aren't words (irregardless et al).
Hadas, I'm in the same boat. I really have very few words I actually loathe. though this discussion is entertaining, irregardless. i like words that aren't words quite a bit, maybe more than words that are. my most recent favorite was in Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau. He used "cymbal" as a verb to describe the collision of bumper cars. Or rather the translator used the word. It was delightful. Another great verb few people know and which sounds much dirtier than it is: "coker"--to ride a unicycle or one-wheeled vehicle. I enjoy cokering quite a bit.
I'm really sick of the tabloid media making up words. I already mentioned how I hate the blended names like TomKat and Brangelina, but today I read a new one: celebuwreck.
Now, I laughed out loud. Celebutard...hee hee.
Yeah, those kids I went to school with were bad. It was 1st grade but by 2nd grade they weren't saying it anymore!I have 2 new favorite words now: coker and celebutard. I know a guy who cokers as part of a charity event for children, he juggles while cokering; it's pretty fun to watch. Cock-garage is a new one, and I might have to share it with my father the next time he and I are being disgusting. Our minds occasionally travel in the same gutter.
If I hear Paris Hilton say "that's hot" one more time, I'm going to pull out my eardrums and smash them to pieces!
I love "sassy". I have a special way of saying it, I have to kind of shake my head and do a little wiggle.
Natalie, how often do frat boys drive by and yell cunt at you?I heard a great make-up word yesterday at school, "recockulous". It made me stop in my tracks. In light of that and this forum I dubbed Thursday as Cock day.
I do not like the word disrespect when it is "verbacized". I hate the word utilize also, what is wrong with use. It is like when that poor miss america girl kept saying like as a filler word but wanted to sound smarter so she said like such as to correct herself.
"I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and The Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa and should help The Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our children."
Have you guys heard about Obama's new campaign targetting students? I was told he's having locker sized posters made, and they're called "Barockers" or something like that.Ridonculous!
They're Barak Stars, dude.
Anything that gets a Democrat elected is fine by me.
Anything that gets a Democrat elected is fine by me.
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Barak Stars, eh? I like Barockers better. But yeah, if some youth vote because of it, I'm down.A lactard could also be a derogatory term for a vegan. In fact, I think I shall have to use it against my vegan boss. He'll love it!
Here's a cool word that I don't loathe but which fits into this thread: guacamole. It is sauce made from the avocado. The avocado got its name from the Spanishizing of the South American Indian word for avacodo, ahucatl after the Indian's word for testicle. The Spaniards called it aguacate. The natives mispronounced it as avocado. However, the guaca part of aguacate had been lifted before the pronunciation change, and it formed the first part of the word guacamole. Therefore, guacamole means testicle sauce. Of course, it's an acquired taste. Mole mole mole!Lactard! LOL. Personally, I'm a lacto-ovo-ictho-porco-beefo-chickeno vegetarian. I guess we can add tard to the end of that. So I'm actually a lactoovoicthoporcobeefochickenotard. But that's just me.
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a couple other things. "oodge" is a great word.
that's it. no more. i lied.