are there any words you just dont like?

[Ghost1986]

i have come across some words that just annoy me when i hear them.

risque (to me the dumbest sounding word ever) and innocent (outside of a court room i dont want to hear this word) are perhaps the 2 words that annoy me the most.

other words are...

diversity
hero (word is used way to often)
NAZI (like hero, its used way too often)
Commie (same as nazi)
nice

 

[transformers]

"special", especially in reference to people or relationships.

 

[Ombat]

diversity

Aryan nation FTW!!

But I understand what you're saying. People overuse words to the point where they seemingly cease to have meaning, or like they're part of some sort of law.

I'll think of some later.

 

[Felan]

People overuse sorry, unless you did something that you need to apologize for I don't think you should say it.

Bad uses of sorry in my opinion:
Learn of some bad news, "I'm sorry to hear that."
Ask a question with an ackward answer, "I'm sorry I didn't know."
Bump into someone, "I'm sorry."

Good uses:
Knock over the urn of ashes, "I am so sorry."

 

[Jordan~]

Standards, decency, nuclear family, sane, healthy, clean, proper, current economic climate, transparency, terror, freedom, absolutely, remember, owe, hello, how are you, stop that, why should I, that hurts, help, Marjorie is dead.

 

[Felan]

Standards, decency, nuclear family, sane, healthy, clean, proper, current economic climate, transparency, terror, freedom, absolutely, remember, owe, hello, how are you, stop that, why should I, that hurts, help, Marjorie is dead.

Who is Marjorie?

 

[Madoness]

Who is Marjorie?

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHQ2756cyD8

Imagine a piano keyboard, eighty-eight keys, only eighty-eight and yet, and yet, new tunes,melodies, harmonies are being composed upon hundreds of keyboards every day in Dorset alone. Our language, Tiger, our language, hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of possible legitimate new ideas, so that I can say this sentence and be confident it has never been uttered before in the history of human communication: "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers." One sentence, common words, but never before placed in that order. And yet, oh and yet, all of us spend our days saying the same things to each other, time after weary time, living by clichaic, learned response: "I love you", "Don't go in there", "You have no right to say that", "shut up", "I'm hungry", "that hurt", "why should I?", "it's not my fault", "help", "Marjorie is dead". You see? That surely is a thought to take out for a cream tea on a rainy Sunday afternoon.​

 

[sagewolf]

Satire (unless the person using it actually happens to know what it means)
Nice/good-- bleh. Bland.
Any word at the end of a statement yet inexplicably containing an updard inflection? Like this? It's as if they think everything's a question? Even though by all the rules of grammar and common sense it's not? And it makes me want to kill them? Specifically, I would be using fire and acid, after opening about a dozen wounds on each of their limbs, because it annoys me that much?
And one of my co-workers has permanently ruined the word "seriously" for me (bonus points of DEATH if preceeded by the word 'like' and the two words are treated as a complete question-statement) . Forever.

 

[cheese]

People communicate in templates. I think that's because a lot of interaction is driven by the need for personal bolstering, which involves communication of emotional states, and/or cultural memes (eg the Nagging Wife) and experiences (eg drunkenness). Interaction of this sort reinforces one's sense of belonging, rather than serves as self-expression, which is what I think a lot of us aim for. It's this general tendency to stand up and rock the boat that quite literally separates us from the community-minded. People don't intend to be boring, and it's not that they're incapable of original thought (please oh please) - it's just that their aims in interaction are different.

I suppose I'm actually saying they're not very original people.* Goddammit, another foot gone.

*by choice though, by choice! And that's only their social persona anyway.

 

[EditorOne]

I just plain don't like the word 'pusillanimous'.

 

[preilemus]

depression. It's not just a dislike, I actually hate the word. every time I read it, hear it, or sound it out in my head, I cringe inside.

 

[Anthile]

Shenanigans... what the hell?

 

[Ghost1986]

Aryan nation FTW!!

But I understand what you're saying. People overuse words to the point where they seemingly cease to have meaning, or like they're part of some sort of law.

I'll think of some later.

i am not racist i hate every animate and inanimate noun. except kittens. kittens are awesome.

 

[echoplex]

Literally, unless it's really literally of course.

Actually, I don't dislike any words, I just dislike certain usages of them. Mainly incorrect ones, which I have been and will continue to be guilty of. And I will also continue to hypocritically criticize them, without any sense of guilt, because it's fun really.

Being me is weird though. On one hand, I notice flaws like mad and I hate them. But I also hate it when people are super-nerdy and feel the need to complain about said flaws. I mean, yes, I know it should be "figuratively" and not "literally", but who gives a shit?

I guess I do. *sigh*

 

[Kokoro]

"Gay" as in "That is/You are so gay!" Too overused.

 

[sadprofessor909]

This is probably just because I'm from Texas and it's used fairly annually, but I have grown to hate the word "hunker." Every year during hurricane season every other sentence I hear is "Okay guys, we're gonna really have to hunker down."

It bothers me.

 

[Ombat]

i am not racist i hate every animate and inanimate noun. except kittens. kittens are awesome.

Yeah, as long as they're blonde haired, blue eyed kittens, right?

</Nazi jokes>

This is probably just because I'm from Texas and it's used fairly annually, but I have grown to hate the word "hunker." Every year during hurricane season every other sentence I hear is "Okay guys, we're gonna really have to hunker down."

No... I would hate that word no matter where I was from.

 

[Ghost1986]

Yeah, as long as they're blonde haired, blue eyed kittens, right?
.

DA COMRADE! ALL HAIL STALIN! YAY NKVD!

 

[Kuu]

I don't think I hate any word per se, only the way people use words...

I do love some words though.

 

[merzbau]

i cringe every time i hear or read "juxtaposition" ... it's one of those words that people throw in to spice up a particularly dull review, but it just makes them sound like a twat.

and the word "delicious" has been used as an selling point on so much food packaging (the contents of which are usually barely edible) that whenever i see it, my mind draws a total blank. it's like they think it magically infers a glowing positive benefit to whatever it's written on. i can see it printed of disposal trucks of the future - "delicious septic waste".

 

[Claverhouse]

Shenanigans... what the hell?

Yeah.

By the way, do you know that people who use the phrase 'My two cents', or any variant thereof, are actually saying in it's full meaning: 'I am a worthless degenerate without even two braincells, who ought to be thrown off a cliff and beaten to death with oars since I don't have the sense God gave me.' ?




Claverhouse

 

[Ran]

Any word at the end of a statement yet inexplicably containing an updard inflection? Like this? It's as if they think everything's a question? Even though by all the rules of grammar and common sense it's not? And it makes me want to kill them? Specifically, I would be using fire and acid, after opening about a dozen wounds on each of their limbs, because it annoys me that much?
And one of my co-workers has permanently ruined the word "seriously" for me (bonus points of DEATH if preceeded by the word 'like' and the two words are treated as a complete question-statement) . Forever.

YES.


I don't know if it's a wide spread thing but "sketchy" has somehow devolved to mean suspicious / dangerous. I hate it. Also can't stand people leaving out every syllable of a word except for the first (or first two).

Sketchy -> sketch. "That neighborhood is so sketch."
Fabulous -> Fab. "Your dress is so fab."
Ridiculous -> Ridic. "That test was redic."

Makes me want to pull fingernails.

EDIT: Changed "evolved" to "devolved." It used to sound artistic.

 

[cheese]

Literally, unless it's really literally of course.

Actually, I don't dislike any words, I just dislike certain usages of them. Mainly incorrect ones, which I have been and will continue to be guilty of. And I will also continue to hypocritically criticize them, without any sense of guilt, because it's fun really.

Being me is weird though. On one hand, I notice flaws like mad and I hate them. But I also hate it when people are super-nerdy and feel the need to complain about said flaws. I mean, yes, I know it should be "figuratively" and not "literally", but who gives a shit?

I guess I do. *sigh*

Yeah. I have the same problem (though I do feel guilty about it). When you start attempting to be morally consistent, things get rather difficult for yourself.* I'm finding it interesting that the more I think and learn, the more I realise humility is really the only possible path, the only one that is logically consistent with the things I believe in. At least this makes it easier to stick to it. I suppose this could be a T thing? Fs would probably have no problem adhering to a value for its own sake.

*maybe this is just me though. Perhaps most of you are doing fine at keeping to the standards you have for others?

 

[Jordan~]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHQ2756cyD8

Imagine a piano keyboard, eighty-eight keys, only eighty-eight and yet, and yet, new tunes,melodies, harmonies are being composed upon hundreds of keyboards every day in Dorset alone. Our language, Tiger, our language, hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of possible legitimate new ideas, so that I can say this sentence and be confident it has never been uttered before in the history of human communication: "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers." One sentence, common words, but never before placed in that order. And yet, oh and yet, all of us spend our days saying the same things to each other, time after weary time, living by clichaic, learned response: "I love you", "Don't go in there", "You have no right to say that", "shut up", "I'm hungry", "that hurt", "why should I?", "it's not my fault", "help", "Marjorie is dead". You see? That surely is a thought to take out for a cream tea on a rainy Sunday afternoon.​

I love you forever for getting that reference.

 

[420MuNkEy]

I have nothing but contempt for the word 'unnatural'

Using such a word pre-supposes supra-natural forces (i.e. a supreme being being or force of some kind). Using it to describe human creations is even worse, as human beings, our actions and our creations are merely another cog in the machine that is 'nature'.

 

[Darby]

I would say that I do not have a dislike or hate of any words, but phrases that leave things very vague, as if they didn't bother to finish their thought ("that thing over there," "did you watch that one video," etc.).

 

[INTPINFP]

like omg WTF is wrong with u pple? Seriosly...

 

[shoeless]

"cut".

 

[Fukyo]

The word "posting" used as a noun.

 

[Tyria]

The word 'whatever'.

 

[420MuNkEy]

like omg WTF is wrong with u pple? Seriosly...

I can't quite tell if this is sarcasm...

 

[Ghost1986]

Love is another word i dont like. the idea of love i find appealing. i also dont mind the sound of the word. the problem i have is that people throw it around to much. like it has no meaning. perhaps my lack of expireance causes me to put too much meaning in to the word?

 

[Cavallier]

Baby.

I hate it when gushing women sart cooing and shouting in irritating nasally voices "oooooooh it's a baaaaaaaaby!". Shoot. Me. Now.

I hate it when couples refer to each other as "baby". Why? Is she/he infantile to you? Then why the hell are you together?

I hate it when people attempt to be sympathetic by saying, "you poor baby". Even when somebody uses this statement because they are actually sympathetic the statement itself still implies that you are infantile and therefore pathetic.

 

[Van]

I don't like chagrin.

 

[420MuNkEy]

Baby.

I hate it when gushing women sart cooing and shouting in irritating nasally voices "oooooooh it's a baaaaaaaaby!". Shoot. Me. Now.

I hate it when couples refer to each other as "baby". Why? Is she/he infantile to you? Then why the hell are you together?

I hate it when people attempt to be sympathetic by saying, "you poor baby". Even when somebody uses this statement because they are actually sympathetic the statement itself still implies that you are infantile and therefore pathetic.

I share this hatred

 

[Tunesimah]

I hate the word commingled. And plenty of other words with the prefix co.

I got into a discussion during a meeting about the word commingled, and I argued it was a useless word since it has the same meaning of mingled.

I'm not allowed to do meetings anymore...

 

[420MuNkEy]

The word 'tabernacle' irritates me. It's just the way it sounds.

 

[Taprobane]

My house mate gets freaked out by the word 'moist' which I find hilarious. 'Gushing' is also a rather dirty word, even when used innocently.

 

[bananaphallus]

I have nothing but contempt for the word 'unnatural'

Using such a word pre-supposes supra-natural forces (i.e. a supreme being being or force of some kind). Using it to describe human creations is even worse, as human beings, our actions and our creations are merely another cog in the machine that is 'nature'.

I'm not sure if what I have to say is even related to what you've posted, but when people say things along the lines of, 'I wasn't being myself', it irks me.

Are you really not being yourself? Is it possible to ever be anything other than ourselves? Or are you, in actuality, just not doing a satisfactory job of manifesting what you've come to identify as being the 'ideal' version of yourself?

As for the words which really chafe my girdle - litigious, it's impossible to use that word without sounding like a twat-jerk. 'Atheist' too, but probably more for the connotation of the word/how people react to hearing it, than the word itself.

 

[asdfasdfasdfsdf]

-crazy - people always say "im crazy" or "he'd crazy" but they are only mediocre in their least normal state.
-conformist & noncomformist - way too overused by douches who think they are non-conformist by conforming to the same attention-whore image.
-ignorant - i am sick of people, when they dont get there way, calling other people "ignorant" this word is so overused in the wrong context, and is more of an attempt at an insult.
-cool
-bra, bro, broski, brahski, nigga, etc.
- religion. the word just bugs me.
- hate - overused out of context.
- love - similar to hate.
- epic - used way to much. i swear there are about 1000 "epic" things to most people.
- patriotic - this word is just bullshit.

 

[Sugarpop]

'Art'.

 

[420MuNkEy]

I hate the word 'frick'. It's just one of many bad words (whatever the hell that means) sugarcoated with infantile language.

 

[RubberDucky451]

Cute

 

[echoplex]

I'm not sure if what I have to say is even related to what you've posted, but when people say things along the lines of, 'I wasn't being myself', it irks me.

Are you really not being yourself? Is it possible to ever be anything other than ourselves? Or are you, in actuality, just not doing a satisfactory job of manifesting what you've come to identify as being the 'ideal' version of yourself?

It may be a bit off-topic, but I couldn't agree more. Maybe we need a "phrases you don't like" thread.

 

[420MuNkEy]

-ignorant - i am sick of people, when they dont get there way, calling other people "ignorant" this word is so overused in the wrong context, and is more of an attempt at an insult.

I too am sick of people who interpret and use this word as an insult, but I actually really like the word itself when used correctly.

I'd liken this to my relationship with the word 'hacker'. It really just means someone with a high level of technological skill and ability (mainly in computer software and hardware), but thanks to the mass media, the mainstream thinks that a 'hacker' is someone who breaks into networks, steals identities, and murders children (...okay, so maybe not the last one ). This fact does not stop me for referring to myself and others (including public figures such as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs) as hackers, despite knowing that the statement will likely be misinterpreted out of ignorance.

 

[Nicholas A. A. E.]

Ignorant being used incorrectly? Enlighten me! I go by the definition "destitute of knowledge" and I thought the rest of the world did too.

 

[420MuNkEy]

Ignorant being used incorrectly? Enlighten me! I go by the definition "destitute of knowledge" and I thought the rest of the world did too.

• Lacking education or knowledge.
• Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge: an ignorant mistake.
• Unaware or uninformed.

 

[Nicholas A. A. E.]

Well, right. I don't see the distinction. What's an example of something you'd call incorrect usage of "ignorant"?

 

[Döden]

Yummy.
Delicious.
Scrumptious.
Tasty. (Only a chosen few can say this without my wanting to rip their heads off).
-icious (i.e. Fergalicious, bootylicious, modelicious)

Oh and "Ironic."

 

[asdfasdfasdfsdf]

Well, right. I don't see the distinction. What's an example of something you'd call incorrect usage of "ignorant"?

"i dont like obama"
"thats ignorant, man."