Words you hate

[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.

 

[NightmareExpress]

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

"Sound words".
Boom, crash, smash, zip, swoosh, woof, pow.
Sound words.

Onomatopoeia means "Name(s) I make" from two Greek words.
But let's face it, you can make a name for anything and we simply call that "language".
They're sound words.

 

[omega 616]

Simpler ... makes you sound like a knuckle dragging moron.

I have no idea why but it just makes me think of the hated class (in America this would be a Jersey shore type person, In Aus it would be a lad and in the UK it would be a chav), who say things like "sup me bruddah" or "it's simpler innit, blud".

I think saying "more simple" makes you sound like a sir! "yes, that action is more simple".

It also applies to "quicker" and "more quickly".

 

[Froken Keke]

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

Oh, yeah. In the same category is the shockingly retarded SAGA. It seems like anything that has more than one part is now a SAGA, somewhere along the line we dropped calling stuff series or just a plural form ("The Star Wars movies", for example) and decided that SAGA is so much better.
The supposed linguistic origins suggest that a SAGA is like a long epic story or something, and supposedly came from my mother language.
Which is funny, because as long as I can remember we've used the word SAGA for fairytales. That's the literal Grimm-Brothers, princesses-and-pixies, Snow White-Little Red Riding Hood version of it, the cliché stuff you tell kindergarden kids. Which makes it even more ridiculous when they try to force that word around here, but regardless of that, it still sounds incredibly retarded in english, and just makes you come of as someone who wants to imply that whatever series of works is so much special, so it needs a (non-)cool special word to describe it.

SAGA

STOP

 

[dagens24]

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 love ******; it feels so good coming out of my mouth.

 

[Galletea]

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

Oh, yeah. In the same category is the shockingly retarded SAGA. It seems like anything that has more than one part is now a SAGA, somewhere along the line we dropped calling stuff series or just a plural form ("The Star Wars movies", for example) and decided that SAGA is so much better.

SAGA

STOP

I suppose if you take it as a series of incidents, instead of a series of works, it could be said to be a saga...at least it started out as a real word. I think Star Wars is a bit of an anomaly since it has so many branches that it is not really a series any more. And I suppose it is a fairy tale of sorts.

Quadrilolgy as a word only exists because whoever made it up figured tetralogy was too hard to understand, but quad + trilogy was ok for the average idiot.

Any "gangsta" culture style speak...."innit", "blud", "respec" "Nuff' trippin dog." etc.......... it's a fucking vile culture, based on vile principles and the phrases sound like what a retarded monkey would say if it had a special speech-micro chip implanted in it, and had spent 20 years constantly listening to broken English.

Also this. Watched Attack the Block the other day, and I was just getting annoyed with the people in it. Also it is a lame movie. But all the 'bruv' and 'trust' all the fucking time. Just hurry up and get savaged by the blokes in gorilla suits with the glowing plastic teeth.