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ChrisSamsDad
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I hate it when people misuse words - the all-time most abused word is 'simplistic' - which means 'over-simplified', but people use it instead of 'simple' to make them (they think) sound cleverer.

I hate all those meaningless words and phrases that are used for padding too - "at this moment in time" being the worst.
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Post by Woodland Nymph »

I forgot about "emo". I despise that word.
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Post by CollegeGal09 »

shoulda coulda woulda . . . they're all just terrible.
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Post by Moore »

i dislike all the words that are connected with sexual harrasment and abuse and also some taboo words. I feel disgusting when hear how people pronounce them especially in public or with kids!
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'Taboo' words? I think swearing can be extremely entertaining, amusing and creative personally. It's funny though how different countries have different types of swearing. I lived in the Netherlands for a while and their swearing is quite different than in Britain.

The worse swearing in Dutch is related to hoping you catch terrible diseases, whereas the equivalents of thesexual swearwords we have in Britain are much milder there.

When you think about it, by getting all uptight about swearing is us, the person hearing them, giving the words power. I'm not sure that you can use them in this forum, but although the words stand for the same substance, we've decidedly that 'poop' is acceptable whereas otherwords for the same thing, aren't. It could easily be the other way around.
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pouch.
I just hate that word.. ugh
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Post by ryan2 »

I don't like conjunctions in general. I like being clear with what I say.

I also am annoyed by shizzel, dizzel, word when it is used as a meaningless response, Dog as it is used when you are substituting it for someone's name, and probably most of all hey when you say it like haaaeeey and it is used as a pleasurable response to causing harm to another person.

A demonstration:
Matt: "Hey Ry Dog this guy didn't answer his door. What should I do?"
Ryan: (silent and busy)
Nate: "Just put the food on top of the oven."
Matt: "Word, Dizzel."
Dave2: "Why don't you flip it upside down first. It tastes better that way."
Matt: "Haaaeeey."
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that dialogue above means absolutely nothing to me - I'm proud to say!
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For me all the words fall into three groups: positive, negative and neutral.So I dislike all the negative ones, I won't enumerate them here, o'k
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Post by darbook »

i hate the word - obviously

if it`s so obvious then why we have to use this word?
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darbook wrote:i hate the word - obviously

if it`s so obvious then why we have to use this word?
It means, "If you argue with this, you're an idiot" to some people hearing it, which is why it's a useful too when you're selling an idea to someone. It takes someone with guts to say "Er, excuse me? It's not obvious to me".
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Ethnic slurs make me cringe.
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Post by tinyViolin »

I have to agree with Bowlie and Classical about punctuation.

I hate seeing posts like this:

'so your not it i get it ok i seen it yestrday'~ What? Exactly!

People who don't know the difference between "there", they're and "their" as well as "your" and "you're" don't deserve French fries. There's a point when it becomes willful laziness.

I don't have a problem with curses spoken, but in written form, they somehow annoy me. I guess it's because the author is usually going for a "punch" that's cheap and doesn't work.
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I don't like "basically." Basically because I used to use the word to basically describe everything I basically talked about.
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Post by Classical is Classy »

TTPro wrote:I don't like "basically." Basically because I used to use the word to basically describe everything I basically talked about.
My brother does that, lol.
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