Words you hate

[Daverson]

Any slur, especially if it's just being used as a lazy insult. Anyone who ever done this, get the fuck off my planet. (cop out? Perhaps. Though, I wouldn't stoop to dirtying this fine post by naming examples!)

On a more personal note, though.... "homophobia", "pansexual" and "cisgender". Look, I have nothing against the LGBTQ movement, in fact, I quite like you guys, but... why? The Greeks and Romans, they loved a bit of good old fashioned sodomy, what could they have possibly done to deserve having their languages butchered in such a horrific manner? I know that some more hypocritical groups have co-opted Latin over the past few millennia, but that's no excuse! Show some respect to the people who gave us the Toga!

I recently seem to have picked up the habit of saying "I mean" every other sentence, and I imagine it's quite annoying to read, so that can go on the list. Got to maintain a healthy degree of self-loathing, after all.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

"quintessential" "percolate"

These are pretty good choices. A lot of writers seem to think that educated lexis equals good writing. It doesn't.

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...

To go with these, "ludonarrative." As in, "ludonarrative dissonance." Just use English and call it "gameplay and story." Making up pseudo-latin words does not make you sound smarter, nor does it lend an air of respectability to your hobby. All it does is make you look like an insecure kid who is trying to prove to his parents that he isn't wasting his time.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

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.

Often used when someone actually IS entitled to something, but people are using it as a pejorative.

Oh man, does this annoy me. Case in point, the ME3 debacle. Please tell me how customers who paid (quite a large sum of) money to buy a game /aren't/ entitled to the game that was advertised, instead of something very, very different?

 

[MediocoreUser]

"fucking" as a way to describe things.

I understand why people use it; sometimes people want to throw emphasis on something while they're saying it. It still gets annoying when people have to curse 60 times in a sentence to get their point across. (We took english classes so we wouldn't have to do this.)

It's probably the laziest way to go about describing anything. Even more so than "very".

Another one: the word "hate".

It's too strong of a word to be used this often. I can't really think of anything or anyone that I really hate. I dislike some things and I'm disappointed from time to time but I can't really say that I hate anything.

 

[JemothSkarii]

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To be honest I should have replied to the other two, but yours is the most recent. I think my issue with it has been the context - The places I've often seen it (mainly that dark corner of Tumblr known as Tumblr) it has been used as a slur and I have only seen it used as a slur apart from one or two threads here (Yes, I'm well aware of the trouble that trans people have had...this is going to be really hard to word out without angering someone). It just seems like an unnecessary descriptor with so much bile behind it.

 

[Mocmocman]

"I'm going to Europe for holidays"

I went on vacation that was to many different countries all over Europe, and so it's easier to say that the vacation was to Europe than to say that I went to France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

OT: If it sounds like it should be in a kids commercial; Zanny, Wonky, Krazy (with that spelling, especially if coupled with other words that start with a K, or worse, words that don't start with a K but has also been changed to start with one), and Wacky. I also hate the word silly, but only if used as a pronoun, such as "Not that one, silly!" The word buzz also is one I just don't like to say.

I love words like YOLO and Swag though. If you un-ironicly use them, I know I don't have to spend the energy listening to you anymore.

 

[Sir Christopher McFarlane]

Overrated: trying to cloak one's opinion with an appearance of objectivity.

Pronunciation: I always say "pronounciation".

 

[Remus]

onomatopoeia. Is there a better word that means what this word means?

 

[Angelowl]

"Tranny", mainly because I still don't get if it's supposed to refer to me or fetishistic transvestites. And partly because it's used by people who would beat me up if they got the chance. Contrast "ladyboy" and "dickgirl", which are used by neutral and positive people. Heck I even use then for jokes amongst friends. But "Tranny" still ticks me off.

 

[Froken Keke]

I also hate abbreviations, mostly because I don't know what the fuck they mean most of the time. There are so many times I have to look that stuff up.
The worst case scenario is when it's used in the context of something relatively internal and specific. I hate reading discussions of bands and seeing every fucking song by them written out like SORK and GNFU. I often have to think for a long while to know what they're even talking about.

Just write full words, it looks nicer and doesn't take much longer.

"Tranny", mainly because I still don't get if it's supposed to refer to me or fetishistic transvestites. And partly because it's used by people who would beat me up if they got the chance. Contrast "ladyboy" and "dickgirl", which are used by neutral and positive people. Heck I even use then for jokes amongst friends. But "Tranny" still ticks me off.

I like that word, and I don't really see what's bad about it. It's just a simpler word for transperson, easier to use. And it's not an abbreviation, so pluspoints for that.

Opinion of a fellow tranny.

 

[Malkav]

"I'm going to Europe for holidays"

I went on vacation that was to many different countries all over Europe, and so it's easier to say that the vacation was to Europe than to say that I went to France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

If you actually saw more than two European countries, I see no problem with it.

 

[tahrey]

Ughghghh...

"Addicting", or any other "-ive" replaced with "-ing". The quoted example is just the worst, though.

"Going forward" ... which in most contexts conveys as much additional meaning, information and conversational value as "um".

If you use either of these then please, just... just stop talking. Stop now, and don't start again until you've figured out some way to prevent that combination of noises escaping your lips in that order.

And something else I've noticed a lot recently, and I don't even know if there's a term for it, except that it's probably not "split infinitive". Which is replacing a perfectly good regular verb with "be [verb]ing". IE instead of "will you dance", the offender says "will you be dancing" - but not in anything like the correct context for that particular construct. There's a couple guys on the local radio station that do it a LOT, as in sometimes two or three times in a sentence if it's a particularly bad day, and it's started creeping into the regional dialect as a result... and it be driving me absolutely cream crackers as a result, I be telling you. If I could be ordering them surgically muted and be banning them from typing or writing except through a secretary given absolute editorial power, then I would.

Nrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Captcha: Yelling Goat. Indeed.

 

[tahrey]

"I'm going to Europe for holidays"

I went on vacation that was to many different countries all over Europe, and so it's easier to say that the vacation was to Europe than to say that I went to France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

If you actually saw more than two European countries, I see no problem with it.

Speaking as a Brit, I don't really see much issue with someone from further afield saying that even if they just came to one particular place within the continent - it's no worse than one of us saying that we "went to America" or "Africa", etc. If the person you're talking to wants greater clarification beyond what is basically "I'm travelling intercontinentially", then great, you can give them that. And obviously you would be more specific if you were already on that continent / within that federal state and discussing travelling to another part of it.

(Special case, as we have to cross a sea channel to get to the mainland, we may also say "going to europe", but really only in the most generalised of senses - otherwise it would indeed be "France", "Austria", "Belarus" etc instead.)

edit: just noticed...

Moc-moc-a-moc!

onomatopoeia. Is there a better word that means what this word means?

Soundalikeywordiness.


Another captcha: rent-a-swag. I'm sure that's relevant to this discussion... somehow.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

?Specific?. Due to my mild-to-moderate stutter, I tend to have an inexplicably difficult time trying to say it.

 

[BeeGeenie]

I saw something that said "How I look like when..." as opposed to the correct usage:
"What I look like when..." or "How I look when..."

I died a little bit inside.

But that's not a word that bothers me, just an incorrect usage.

See also, "should of"

 

[Samantha Burt]

As a comedian I like (Adam Hills) pointed out, the word "bouncebackability" is apparently a real thing. Seriously.

Apparently common use is enough to make that monstrosity acceptable, even though we have a word for it already! ARGH!

 

[Galletea]

Quadrilogy. It's not a real word but it is printed on many box sets of movies. And that pisses me off greatly.

 

[The Funslinger]

Inspired by the "The Worst Insult" thread, what words (or phrases) do you hate?

Mine is "******". It's such a dull, unoriginal, tasteless insult, whether it's being used on a homosexual or not.

I wouldn't say tasteless, but only because the sort of people who use it put a bad taste in my mouth.

OT: Tryhard. Fortunately (for them) I have never physically encountered someone who uses that as an insult.

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."

I... what... you... they...

I think I might be having a stroke.

Slang words for masturbating are hilarious though. >.>

Spank the monkey. Fap. Tug. Flog the dolphin. Drain the pipes.

Clot/clotted. When people say clotted cream it makes me sick.

I saw some "strawberries and clotted cream" ice cream in the freezer and nearly threw up all over the kitchen.

Also, all the slang words for vagina.

Clunge.