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| wineaux | Posted – 4/25/2008 3:59:17 PM | show profile I'm curious about what words grind on other people's nerves, as I have quite a few that irk me. The top contenders: Nosh....it sounds gross, so why would you use such a word to describe eating? Fabulous....once a cool word (over ten years ago) but now far overused by annoyingly stupid people who still think it is hip to use it. Chunk....ESPECIALLY when it is used to decribe food. I just think, blowing chunks every time I hear it used as a descriptive Tween......dumb, dumb dumb word! And it's always middle-aged people who use this word. Do you ever hear an actual tween use it to describe themselves? coitus....do I even need to tell you why this word should never be used? Fuck sounds more romantic. |
| caitlinkelly | Posted – 4/25/2008 4:15:49 PM | show profile But I'd love to see these combined in a sentence... |
| seeattleme2 | Posted – 4/25/2008 4:20:50 PM | show profile Coitus while noshing on a fabulous everything bagel could cause even the horniest, gross-obsessed tween boy to up-chunk. |
| catlondon | Posted – 4/25/2008 4:39:50 PM | show profile Nosh is from Yiddish. Means to eat a little something. Yiddish is a fabulous language. I had prof once who grew up in a Yiddish speaking household and she there's was a concept in the world it didn't have a word for. A wonderful, highly descriptive language. That said, I agree with you on all the rest. |
| catlondon | Posted – 4/25/2008 4:40:50 PM | show profile I meant WASN'T a concept in the world that Yiddish didn't have a word for. I'm sure there's word for error I just made. |
| Village Gal | Posted – 4/25/2008 4:50:03 PM | show profile I hate the word journaling. Why not just say "I was writing in my journal." |
| recovering_jersey_girl | Posted – 4/25/2008 4:52:14 PM | show profile Crepuscular. Sounds like something with a disease. Totes. As in short for totally. As in I think of cheap umbrellas that turn inside-out when there's barely a breeze every time I hear it. Hmm. I'm sure there are more but that's all I can think of for now. |
| Enigma418 | Posted – 4/25/2008 4:53:03 PM | show profile blog is one of the worst words ever. |
| Canadiana | Posted – 4/25/2008 6:16:29 PM | show profile My un-faves: 1) Panties 2) Fart 3) Pimple 4) Tissue 5) Biz-tech 6) Weiner |
| WordyBird | Posted – 4/25/2008 6:38:48 PM | show profile Leverage Impact (as a verb) Synergy Silo Grow (when used incorrectly, as in "grow your brand") Guess I'm not about to land any corporate contracts, eh? I really, really HATE Dilbertspeak. Oh, and "moist." What an ugly, disgusting word. |
| seeattleme2 | Posted – 4/25/2008 6:41:38 PM | show profile BFF. I agree with "fabulous". kvetch. nebbish. jonesing. delightful. fine. indeed. No? when written just like that. "A bit abrupt, no?" Also "much". As in, "jealous, much?" bohemian. eclectic. zany. folksy. the expression, "grab a cup of coffee and pull up a chair." chat. the expression: "keeping up with the Joneses" and "What you bring to the party." Cliches! Cliches! ugh. Change to "Keeping up with the Clintons" and "What you bring to the orgy." |
| wineaux | Posted – 4/26/2008 1:06:58 AM | show profile seattle, that was perfect. I agree completely about the word moist. And the word silo is one that haunts me. I have a client who insists on using that word a great deal in the marketing materials I put together for the company, even though I tell him time and again that the general public have no idea what he means, and think of graineries and ballistic missiles. |
| Brena | Posted – 4/26/2008 8:49:58 AM | show profile Plethora - I hate this word because it sounds pretentious and over-written. |
| chucho | Posted – 4/26/2008 10:45:20 AM | show profile Indeed. . . which starts at least one sentence somewhere in the New York Times almost every day. It's a word that supposedly helps with the flow of a story, but just makes the reporter sound like a pretentious all-knowing editorializing douche. |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 4/26/2008 11:55:03 AM | show profile I hate siloh, too! I just left a professional services firm, where the word "siloh" was used at least once on each page of white and blue papers. Pissed me the eff off. And...I hate the term "reach out" for contacting someone. Just say, "Yes, I will call her tomorrow," not "Yes, I will reach out to her tomorrow." |
| wineaux | Posted – 4/26/2008 3:05:07 PM | show profile it's a techie company, np. They have lots of catch words that are well-known in their industry, and often not at all in the general population (The people who buy their products). While writing ad and marketing materials that are supposed to appeal to the general population, I try my damndest to stay away from words that are alienating, so there is often a war of the words with the powers that be. |
| nandy | Posted – 4/26/2008 11:36:57 PM | show profile I am really tired of hearing that everything is "awesome." I have a friend who phrases it as a question as, "How awesome is that?" to which I always want to reply, "Not very." Funny, maybe, interesting, maybe, but nothing she has ever told me could be categorized as "awesome" as it usually has to do with her three grandchildren or her business or her love life. ******* My ex had a funny story about going into a 7-11 and asking what flavor Slurpy (or whatever their frozen drink is called) they had that day. The clerk said it was a "melange" of flavors they had created from mixing the leftovers from the day before. I can never hear that word without thinking about how my ex would say it, all accented and very affected. |
| WordyBird | Posted – 4/27/2008 2:56:00 AM | show profile Sue Ellen -- Yes! "Reach out" has got to be the most inane, pretentious, obnoxious, presumptuous, and downright stupid Dilbert-speak yet. I want to say, "Oh, you're reaching out to me? What is this, reach out and touch someone? Are you AT&T?" Oh, and another thing: I hate "no problem" in response to "thank you." The correct response is "you're welcome." It should never cross someone's mind for the execution of their duties to be a "problem," and really, talk about sounding like a douche. Like, if helping someone caused the slightest inconvenience, it would be a "problem" and therefore you wouldn't help the person? "No problem. But if it was a problem, I wouldn't have done it and wouldn't you just be out of luck?" Blech! |
| KC4 | Posted – 4/27/2008 12:40:16 PM | show profile Canoodle. Ick. |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 4/27/2008 3:49:08 PM | show profile Flesh... As in, "Let's flesh out this idea more." |
| Homer | Posted – 4/27/2008 6:17:40 PM | show profile Douche, god I hate that word. Amazes me it's so acceptable it's even written into the average TV sitcom... And "like" used every second word. I honestly heard this the other day: "Like, when it happened, I was, like, walking out the door, like, really fast, and he , like, bumped right into me. I was like, dude, like, what gives?" I think people should be surreptitiously tape recorded (me included; I think I say wow too often). Bad habits would be dropped pronto. |
| junecleaver | Posted – 4/30/2008 1:32:05 PM | show profile I'm a few days late to this board ... but this is a favorite topic. Hate -- impossibly (particularly when paired with chic or stylish)! That said, .... Notwithstanding (which has about five different definitions in Webs.) |
| mkelly | Posted – 4/30/2008 1:38:37 PM | show profile Touby |
| creatrix | Posted – 4/30/2008 2:26:39 PM | show profile Closure |
| PluckyPane | Posted – 4/30/2008 2:31:06 PM | show profile homer.... and "i mean" every other word after like. i was listening to npr last night and counted that a speaker used "i mean" 36 times within a 3-minute interview. and "you know". |
