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12 April 2008
Which word makes your skin crawl?→[More:]I was watching the news today morning and they were reporting on an incident of a woman who had been "gang raped", and I just cringed on hearing the word and realized how much I despised it.
Oh dear god yes, "full of win" is like nails on chalkboard. As is "hella", although I don't hear that one so much anymore. For which small favor I am ever so grateful.
I just wrote about this on my blog the other day. In every Sweet Valley High book, someone talks to someone with a voice husky with emotion. I love you, Elizabeth, Todd said huskily. Huskily? Bleech, gross.
OK, you really wanna know what makes my skin crawl? I just saw arse_hat's last comment and read the second line as *shakes fistula huskily*. That's a mental image I'd really like to unsee.
Tasking. As in to task someone. A task is a noun, not a verb. It seems to be increasibly common and it makes me want to punch people in the nose. With a cactus. Make of steel. That sprays lemon-juice and vinegar.
'Phlegmatic' and 'seminal'. I don't think they make my skin crawl so much as cause a very visceral reaction that causes me to tune out everything that comes after those words.
anything said in a conference room that indicates future action: leverage, socialize, steady-state, buy-in, action item, tasking someone with a deliverable, metrics, functionality, resource, and forecasting.
Also, I have issues with anyone who is overly conversant with acronyms that are actually just office forms.
Someone at my current job just this week used this entire list in one sentence. One hideously cruel, vapid and ultimately meaningless sentence.
Ooh, I have to agree with "moist." Yeeehhhh. On the other hand, I love the word "ointment." It makes me giggle. Oint-oint-ointment.
"Seminal," yes. It just makes me think of "seminal fluids," and about how the word "seminal" is weirdly gross and sort of sexist, and then I think about how to make a female version of seminal which just quickly devolves ... (ovarial; fallopial; oval .. )
"At stake". Some authors keep using this as if the problem they are discussing is a matter of life and death and if they turn out to be mistaken in some minor point, the Universe will fall apart.
I used to be an entrepreneur who gave phlegmatic and seminal webinars about lifestyles. This caused me to have a rippage in my fistula, which in spite of the ointment, continued to smell like tunafish. To counter that I am wearing a moist gusset in my wholesome privates.
Would any one like a libation? I can pour it into your abscess if you wish.
A bit of a late reply. A phrase has crept into (English) football commentary that makes me cringe. It comes up when, for example, one player puts in a cross that's going to be very difficult for the forwards to reach. Instead of saying "It was a lot to ask of Ronaldo to expect him to get on the end of that cross" instead the commentators say "That was a big ask".
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