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Words you hate
InbetweenDreams > 04-17-2020, 03:52 AM
Are there specific words you hate hearing, or maybe the people who use such words...
Share one and why you hate it.
I'll start with one I hate.
Quaint.
People who use that word think they're better than everyone else. Like rich tourists who show up in your town and talk about how "quaint" it is. I feel like most wear fanny packs and mom jeans. You know what mom jeans are right?
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Meebs > 04-17-2020, 07:19 AM
facetious
I have no logical reason why I hate this word but I do lol -
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Mark > 04-17-2020, 11:53 AM
I hate the word 'Queer'
Even when its used in the definition for strange or odd. It just really goes through me and I'm not sure why.
I also really dislike when people start referring to the class system and refer to people as 'working class' in quite a derogatory way - as it really isn't anything to be ashamed of, as I think we've found especially in the Covid outbreak without these people we really wouldn't function. -
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InbetweenDreams > 04-18-2020, 02:16 PM
(04-17-2020, 07:19 AM)Meebs Wrote: facetious
I have no logical reason why I hate this word but I do lol
Is it the act or just the word. The act of being facetious could be a good reason...The word just make me think...Millennial.
(04-17-2020, 11:53 AM)Mark Wrote: I hate the word 'Queer'
Even when its used in the definition for strange or odd. It just really goes through me and I'm not sure why.
I also really dislike when people start referring to the class system and refer to people as 'working class' in quite a derogatory way - as it really isn't anything to be ashamed of, as I think we've found especially in the Covid outbreak without these people we really wouldn't function.
I have to say I do take some issue with Queer. Queer before it's present usage meant weird. We're not weird.
Another word I hate is not technically a word. I hate when people say IRREGARDLESS.
I pretty much just ignore anything being said after I heard that, especially if it is something political because I can feel it being pro Trump.
edit: I'm disappointed that Google Chrome's spell check didn't find that to be a misspelling -_- -
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Mark > 04-18-2020, 02:30 PM
@InbetweenDreams As you mentioned the 'T' word 'Trump' - Another term that drives me up the wall even though I'm a brit... 'Fake news'.
God I'm sure we don't have to even see him say that a fraction of what any Americans do but it drives me up the wall. -
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InbetweenDreams > 04-18-2020, 02:35 PM
(04-18-2020, 02:30 PM)Mark Wrote: @InbetweenDreams As you mentioned the 'T' word 'Trump' - Another term that drives me up the wall even though I'm a brit... 'Fake news'.
God I'm sure we don't have to even see him say that a fraction of what any Americans do but it drives me up the wall.
Yeah that word has become a curse word, literally. I hate that you cannot watch the news over here without seeing him, hearing him, a headline about him. Add the quarantine stuff to the mix and I just want to...
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Bhp91126 > 05-02-2020, 03:00 AM
(04-18-2020, 02:30 PM)Mark Wrote: @InbetweenDreams As you mentioned the 'T' word 'Trump' - Another term that drives me up the wall even though I'm a brit... 'Fake news'.
From the moment he started to mention Fake News we should have called him Fake President.
God I'm sure we don't have to even see him say that a fraction of what any Americans do but it drives me up the wall. -
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CellarDweller > 05-02-2020, 03:45 AM
bandwidth.
For some reason this word is now making the rounds at my job in conference calls and emails, always referencing people who are free to help with a project.
"Who on this call has the bandwidth to help on this special project?"
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Bhp91126 > 05-02-2020, 05:16 PM
(05-02-2020, 03:45 AM)CellarDweller Wrote: bandwidth.
Ugh, don’t remind me of office-speak, please, proactive is another of those non-words.
For some reason this word is now making the rounds at my job in conference calls and emails, always referencing people who are free to help with a project.
"Who on this call has the bandwidth to help on this special project?"
Really? Can't they just say "who's free?" -
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Chase > 05-03-2020, 03:23 AM
I hate it when people use the word "bro" disparagingly. I mean, I get that there are obnoxious guys out there who refer to each other as "bro" (two blond brothers on Youtube come to mind) but I don't think going after a family term of endearment is a way to go. Some of the nicest guys I ever met are the jock-bro-type that refer to other guys as bro. I don't call guys who aren't my brother bro, but whenever I hear it used disparagingly, all I picture is some out of touch elite at an expensive private university.
