Words you hate
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That's nothing; I can tell what characters in bad movies will sayFroggy Slayer said:
My friend swears that I write them
But anyway, wanking is great
There, now there's NO WAY this can get any worse
I really dislike when the word "dick" is used as an insult. Such as the very common term: Don't be a dick. It just sounds absolutely stupid to me. It's based on no false sense of morality, such as how some people feel about the word "****". It just sounds silly. End of.
I also hate the word "hater". You apply the smallest amount of criticism on something, and you're a "hater". As if hating something is to be frowned upon anyway. I guess you could say I'm a hater "hater". Bah, what a stupid term.
I also hate the word "hater". You apply the smallest amount of criticism on something, and you're a "hater". As if hating something is to be frowned upon anyway. I guess you could say I'm a hater "hater". Bah, what a stupid term.
Rubbish, it's being overused by a bunch of girls I hang out with vicariously through people I actual give a shit about. They like to think they are British, despite having never been out of country, but apparently using a shitty British accent and owning a "Stay Calm & Carry On" poster is enough to make them British. And the word they choose to bring to life how "British" they are is "rubbish."
"Fourteen" in Russian (it doesn't look like the Escapist code recognizes the Cyrillic characters).
It's so bloody hard to say, and it only serves to remind me how bad I am at rolling my Rs.
It's so bloody hard to say, and it only serves to remind me how bad I am at rolling my Rs.
"Welp"
As in
"Welp, I guess that didn't work."
The word you're looking for is "well". I understand the letter "P" is bordering the letter "L" but there's really no need to talk about small lizards all of a sudden.
This next one isn't so much a word I hate but how it is being used: "then" in place on "than".
Examples
"I would rather eat a turd then go out with you."
See, what has just been said there is you would like to chow down on some feces and once you have finished masticating said poo proceed to go on a date with the individual in question.
What you wanted to actually convey was that consuming shit would be PREFERABLE to engaging in a romantic endeavor with our subject person.
"than" is for use in comparisons
"then" is to indicate something to take place after the previously mentioned action
As in
"Welp, I guess that didn't work."
The word you're looking for is "well". I understand the letter "P" is bordering the letter "L" but there's really no need to talk about small lizards all of a sudden.
This next one isn't so much a word I hate but how it is being used: "then" in place on "than".
Examples
"I would rather eat a turd then go out with you."
See, what has just been said there is you would like to chow down on some feces and once you have finished masticating said poo proceed to go on a date with the individual in question.
What you wanted to actually convey was that consuming shit would be PREFERABLE to engaging in a romantic endeavor with our subject person.
"than" is for use in comparisons
"then" is to indicate something to take place after the previously mentioned action
Suffice.
Two girls in my class back in High School used it ad nauseam in the most annoying, drawn out, vocal fry (the valley girl thing). They never used it correctly either.
"Oh my god. That's so suffice." "And I was like, suffice."
On the other had,
Whenever I hear "Before I forget" I think of that one Slipknot song.
Whenever I hear "Per se" I think of the "Ungroundables" episode of South Park.
I don't hate those words, they just make me think of random stuff.
Two girls in my class back in High School used it ad nauseam in the most annoying, drawn out, vocal fry (the valley girl thing). They never used it correctly either.
"Oh my god. That's so suffice." "And I was like, suffice."
On the other had,
Whenever I hear "Before I forget" I think of that one Slipknot song.
Whenever I hear "Per se" I think of the "Ungroundables" episode of South Park.
I don't hate those words, they just make me think of random stuff.
These are pretty good choices. A lot of writers seem to think that educated lexis equals good writing. It doesn't.MysticSlayer said:
There's not really any words I dislike though. All words have a time and place. Even if that place is only at the pub, when you're trying to outdo each other as to how crude you can be. There's one that irritates me because it has an unnecessary prefix, but I can't remember it now...
Despite fear of flaring up the gender wars again, I'mma have to say it:
Cis.
I'm not sure what it is, maybe the feeling of negativity behind it...I dunno but it rubs against me the wrong way. To help myself I acquired a Word Replacer so now Cis is Snake. Unfortunately that also turns stuff like Racism into RaSnakem.
Cis.
I'm not sure what it is, maybe the feeling of negativity behind it...I dunno but it rubs against me the wrong way. To help myself I acquired a Word Replacer so now Cis is Snake. Unfortunately that also turns stuff like Racism into RaSnakem.
I don't want to hear or see incorrect grammar at all.
Ewwww vagina ice cream!EeveeElectro said:
Two words I despise with the fury of a starving polar bear - "hater" and "jealous".
First off, they're often used as a replacement for a valid argument when one cannot or refuses to comprehend why someone else might have a problem with something or someone (often them) and just wants to dismiss all criticism from the opposition with a simple yet almost always unfounded blanket statement that leaves the opposition in a position of trying to prove a negative (that they're not jealous or a hater) while simultaneously detracting from and changing the original argument at hand.
Secondly and probably foremost, both are also used to give the perception that the opposition wants to be them or envies them and thus they are inherently better than the opposition, which serves primarily to make said persons feel better about themselves as the opposition will usually be unable to prove that they aren't jealous or a "hater" - once again because they need to do the difficult task of proving a negative. It also adds to whatever notion they have that they or whoever / whatever the debate is about is indeed the metaphorical center of the universe since everyone that doesn't like them / it wants to be them or has no actual reason not to like them. In other words, they think waaay too highly of themselves.
As for "hater" in particular, it also implies that not liking something is inherently a bad thing. As for "jealous", it's rarely ends up being the case that the other side is actually jealous of whoever or whatever is being argued about, yet is used quite commonly. Both "jealous" and "hater" are meant to imply that being one inherently makes you wrong as well, which has fuck all to do with the validity of an argument as horrible people can be right and vise-versa.
First off, they're often used as a replacement for a valid argument when one cannot or refuses to comprehend why someone else might have a problem with something or someone (often them) and just wants to dismiss all criticism from the opposition with a simple yet almost always unfounded blanket statement that leaves the opposition in a position of trying to prove a negative (that they're not jealous or a hater) while simultaneously detracting from and changing the original argument at hand.
Secondly and probably foremost, both are also used to give the perception that the opposition wants to be them or envies them and thus they are inherently better than the opposition, which serves primarily to make said persons feel better about themselves as the opposition will usually be unable to prove that they aren't jealous or a "hater" - once again because they need to do the difficult task of proving a negative. It also adds to whatever notion they have that they or whoever / whatever the debate is about is indeed the metaphorical center of the universe since everyone that doesn't like them / it wants to be them or has no actual reason not to like them. In other words, they think waaay too highly of themselves.
As for "hater" in particular, it also implies that not liking something is inherently a bad thing. As for "jealous", it's rarely ends up being the case that the other side is actually jealous of whoever or whatever is being argued about, yet is used quite commonly. Both "jealous" and "hater" are meant to imply that being one inherently makes you wrong as well, which has fuck all to do with the validity of an argument as horrible people can be right and vise-versa.
^ This quote here sums it up well.BathorysGraveland2 said:
Yeah, that one get's to me a bit too, but it doesn't infuriate me like the aforementioned do. I guess it comes down how "sheeple" tends to reek of paranoia, whereas "jealous" and "hater" reek of "I'm a special snowflake, of course you want to be me!"werewolfsfury said:
Epic in its modern form, i.e. to denote fucking anything that someone finds kinda cool. I have no problem with it in its original usages, as a huge story of great scope and to denote things so enormous and climactic they would be sung through ages. The modern usage has sullied a fantastic word for truly awe-inspiring things.
That's a prefix, and it's used to describe something or someone who remains in their first-introduced state, and in the context of gender it is used simply as a descriptor for someone who hasn't changed genders. If you're getting a feeling of negativity behind it, it might be because for a very long time its equal and opposite prefix, trans, carries such similar connotations that many who are in fact transgendered refuse to acknowledge it post-transition. The truth is that it is the coldest, hardest, and best-describing word the scientific and medical community has to offer, and if you don't get used to it now, well, you're going to have to get used to seeing a lot more snakes.JemothSkarii said:
Oh, there are a few...
Verse-used as a verb by those who think it's versus, except versus isn't even used that way.
Stinkyboard-which I didn't even know I hated until I saw it just now at the top of the latest content column.
I'll echo the hatred above of slang terms for vagina in general and vajayjay in particular. What are you, twelve? Also,it doesn't even have any Js in it.
You-uns/Yins-any pluralization of one. I mean, it's just one. How do you pluralize one?
Troll/Trolling-You people don't know what trolling is. If you make someone cry or go impotent with rage, you've trolled them. If you think a successful trolling is when you get any reaction at all, you've set the bar so low that someone needs to take it and beat you about the head and neck until understanding is yours.
Yolo-I'm of two minds with this one. On the one hand, it's something one says before an action which has a better than even chance of seriously fucking up their life. On the other hand, it annoys me.
Swag-Swag is shitty weed, generally from Mexico. It can also be free stuff. That's all it is.
Entitled-Telling someone they're entitled actually means they're entitled to something. What you're looking to say is that they have a false sense of entitlement, or perhaps that they're not entitled.
Charley Horse-Where does that even come from? What about charley horse describes a painful cramp in the leg?
Jammy-When used by the English in place of lucky. There's already a word for lucky. It's lucky. Not to be confused with jammy when used by the Beastie Boys to in place of handgun, which is perfectly acceptable.
Turrent-Guess what letter isn't in the word turret? Well, there are many, and N is one of them.
c-All
2-of
ne1-my
u-Rage.
Verse-used as a verb by those who think it's versus, except versus isn't even used that way.
Stinkyboard-which I didn't even know I hated until I saw it just now at the top of the latest content column.
I'll echo the hatred above of slang terms for vagina in general and vajayjay in particular. What are you, twelve? Also,it doesn't even have any Js in it.
You-uns/Yins-any pluralization of one. I mean, it's just one. How do you pluralize one?
Troll/Trolling-You people don't know what trolling is. If you make someone cry or go impotent with rage, you've trolled them. If you think a successful trolling is when you get any reaction at all, you've set the bar so low that someone needs to take it and beat you about the head and neck until understanding is yours.
Yolo-I'm of two minds with this one. On the one hand, it's something one says before an action which has a better than even chance of seriously fucking up their life. On the other hand, it annoys me.
Swag-Swag is shitty weed, generally from Mexico. It can also be free stuff. That's all it is.
Entitled-Telling someone they're entitled actually means they're entitled to something. What you're looking to say is that they have a false sense of entitlement, or perhaps that they're not entitled.
Charley Horse-Where does that even come from? What about charley horse describes a painful cramp in the leg?
Jammy-When used by the English in place of lucky. There's already a word for lucky. It's lucky. Not to be confused with jammy when used by the Beastie Boys to in place of handgun, which is perfectly acceptable.
Turrent-Guess what letter isn't in the word turret? Well, there are many, and N is one of them.
c-All
2-of
ne1-my
u-Rage.
I regret to inform you that your entire post has been invalidated, because it contained almost everything I wanted to bring up in this thread. In other words, I was ninja'd like a mofo.Abomination said:
OT: Nowadays, I tend to get annoyed whenever I see the word "of", for no other reason than people writing "should of" or "would of". I almost feel sorry for the word, because of mentally challenged people not understanding how fundamentally FUBAR that usage is, it has to deal with my mood swings even when used correctly.
I am an angry person. =(
My ears bleed a little every time I hear "bestie" or "friendo". I seriously have a strong desire to watch Steve & Larson but they seem to just love that shit. I also heard it all through high school. I guess it makes me think "I would consider you very close and personal to me, but I have to make everything lighthearted and stupid so we're going to use pet names". Plus I hate the way they sound when spoken.