Least favourite words

ChrisSamsDad · Post by **ChrisSamsDad** » 14 Oct 2009, 05:19

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.

Woodland Nymph · Post by **Woodland Nymph** » 14 Oct 2009, 13:03

I forgot about "emo". I despise that word.

CollegeGal09 · Post by **CollegeGal09** » 14 Oct 2009, 19:46

shoulda coulda woulda . . . they're all just terrible.

Moore · Post by **Moore** » 15 Oct 2009, 03:23

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!

ChrisSamsDad · Post by **ChrisSamsDad** » 15 Oct 2009, 04:20

'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.

kitty5495 · Post by **kitty5495** » 15 Oct 2009, 17:28

pouch.
I just hate that word.. ugh

ryan2 · Post by **ryan2** » 19 Oct 2009, 11:13

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."

ChrisSamsDad · Post by **ChrisSamsDad** » 21 Oct 2009, 05:59

that dialogue above means absolutely nothing to me - I'm proud to say!

andr70 · Post by **andr70** » 22 Oct 2009, 08:44

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

darbook · Post by **darbook** » 24 Oct 2009, 02:27

i hate the word - obviously

if it`s so obvious then why we have to use this word?

ChrisSamsDad · Post by **ChrisSamsDad** » 26 Oct 2009, 12:13

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".

K M Britt · Post by **K M Britt** » 26 Oct 2009, 17:24

Ethnic slurs make me cringe.

tinyViolin · Post by **tinyViolin** » 27 Oct 2009, 08:28

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.