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23 January 2006

words you hate?

post by: flopsy at: 07:57 | 33 comments

deal (often employed in clumsy phrasing)
ignorance (ironic overuse)

posted by flopsy 23 January | 07:59

ironic (always forget the correct usage)

posted by flopsy 23 January | 08:06

"Abominable." Can't say it.

"Pick." As in either: "I want to pick your brain," or "Oh, I don't eat, I just pick." Ugh.

posted by taz 23 January | 08:10

Panties.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 23 January | 08:15

"disengenuous"

posted by chewatadistance 23 January | 08:25

denigrate

posted by flopsy 23 January | 08:27

talking points

posted by rainbaby 23 January | 08:41

Q: What do you call a steer after he eats a crate of TNT?

A: Abominable.

Q: What do you call him ten minutes later?

A: Noble.

posted by Hugh Janus 23 January | 09:00

I quite liked the word meme when I first heard of it, but I am heartily sick of it now.

posted by misteraitch 23 January | 09:06

Thesaurus. It maketh me want to lithp.

posted by Tarrama 23 January | 09:10

I am with our superhero. I can't stand the word panties. And, being a father to two little girls, I hope they don't mind my use of the word "underpants", which I actually like saying. Underpants!

I have also grown to hate the word ironic thanks to Alanis.

posted by richat 23 January | 09:16

Class, as used in the sense that "one has class" or "is classy". To put it baldly, if you use that word in that way, you don't have any.

posted by Orange Swan 23 January | 09:17

Hugh, that made me laugh way harder than it should have.

I don't like words with m and n close together. I can't say cinnamon or synonym.

"Mirror" is also awkward to pronounce.

posted by jrossi4r 23 January | 09:21

Business language. In particular, the use of the word "around" to lazily relate concepts, which is a pretty new form.

"I want to understand some of your concerns around security this morning."

posted by killdevil 23 January | 09:22

hip

posted by flopsy 23 January | 09:22

Oh, and malamute. I love the dog, but my tongue has a real problem pronouncing it correctly. I don't think I'll be getting a malamute anytime soon.

posted by richat 23 January | 09:28

I also hate the word panties, along with moist and fanny (when used to describe someone's rear end. Fanny/Fannie as a name is all right. : )).

posted by sisterhavana 23 January | 09:29

Niggardly.

posted by sarah connor 23 January | 09:31

Egregious - the most overused word of the new millenium. I think I may have mentioned this before... ;)

posted by iconomy 23 January | 09:39

diarrhea.

posted by jonmc 23 January | 09:51

Signage.

And irregardless which isn't a word but gets used like one.

posted by warbaby 23 January | 10:09

Oh, and chunks. I hate it when a restaurant offers me "tender chunks" of something. Who want's to eat chunks? Keep your chunks please.

posted by richat 23 January | 10:16

scrotum is the nastiest sounding word ever!

I hate that word SO MUCH!

posted by Mrs.Pants 23 January | 10:53

"tender chunks of scrotum" is about the worst thing to cross my mind today.

Except for the earlier conversation here at work about sex with the morbidly obese. That was pretty bad.

posted by richat 23 January | 11:08

why richat why?

posted by Mrs.Pants 23 January | 11:21

"Persons" bugs the shit out of me. They're people, dammit!

posted by me3dia 23 January | 11:26

OMG! "tender chunks of scrotum" will have me laughing for the rest of the day.

posted by taz 23 January | 11:44

I can't stand people referring to children as "kiddies".

My sister doesn't have the word 'woman' in her vocabulary, it's always 'lady', and that bugs the shit out of me.

posted by essexjan 23 January | 12:26

"Zany" makes me want to stick knitting needles into my ears.

"Madcap" is the same way. And, for some reason, the words "Jenna Elfman" put my into a strange killing rage, I'm not sure why.

posted by fenriq 23 January | 12:41

It's ironic that disingenuous persons should pick today to deal with my zany style of madcap ignorance, denigrating me with 'talking points' around an egregiously hip yet classy scrotum. Signage? Chunks!

posted by mcgraw 23 January | 14:51

"Fraught" when it isn't with something. Never heard it till this year, now it's everywhere.

I also agree with killdevil about "around" meaning "about". Ugh.

posted by tangerine 23 January | 16:42

blog

posted by michelob 23 January | 20:17

I'll see your "blaaawwwgg" and raise you "wiki." Two ugly, meaningless words that look better than they sound.

posted by muddgirl 24 January | 01:28

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