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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 5, 2011 3:24:49 GMT -5
I didn't think I had a least favorite word... until I heard someone say "goiter" yesterday. UGH! PFFahahahaha. Also I'm adding this because I'm seeing one and they make my skin crawl and I hate everything about them which means I must hate their name as well: house centipedes. Blargleroarehabg. |
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Post by pjthefey on Jun 6, 2011 7:53:40 GMT -5
Within the context of peer reviews and peer editing I can't stand the word "one" when it is used as a reference to a person. It always seems very pretentious to me.
This is especially true when it is used excessively. In such cases I circle them all and explain to the writer that they need to find better ways to express themselves if they do not wish their writing to seemed puffed up with fluff and offer a few alternate suggestions.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 11, 2011 21:07:46 GMT -5
Just realised how much I hate the word "skin"; I find it kind of gross.
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Post by Silva on Jun 11, 2011 22:53:39 GMT -5
Mildew....
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Post by cyanea on Jun 12, 2011 2:36:33 GMT -5
We're not playing Scrabble, right? Proper nouns are okay?
I hate the name Russell. Whenever I hear it or read it, I always think of russet which is a kind of potato, and they're among my least favorite foods. (Yeah, I'm a bad Irish person).
No offense to people named Russell, of course. You can't help the starchiness of your name. (Starch...there's another unpleasant sounding word...)
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Post by Vergissmeinnicht on Jun 13, 2011 11:14:38 GMT -5
Curdle.
Even saying it feels disgusting in my mouth.
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Post by inarikins on Jun 13, 2011 23:41:27 GMT -5
'Tolerate'. Or at least the way people tend to use it. I know what people think it means, but that's not what it actually means. Just because you tolerate something doesn't mean you accept that thing. Tolerance and acceptance are not the same thing and it bugs me that people think they are.
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Post by ashshields on Jun 15, 2011 2:56:54 GMT -5
I agree with the moist hate. Same goes for 'tender', but weirdly, only when in reference to food. It just makes me cringe. Which is one of the reasons I can't stand cooking shows; I can only stand so much "tender and moist" chicken.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 16, 2011 12:56:58 GMT -5
I agree with the moist hate. Same goes for 'tender', but weirdly, only when in reference to food. It just makes me cringe. Which is one of the reasons I can't stand cooking shows; I can only stand so much "tender and moist" chicken. Whaaaaaaaat? I bet Recess was awful for you. |
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Post by Dobby on Jun 16, 2011 13:34:50 GMT -5
I don't like moist either. It's one of those words that makes me cringe if I think about the word.
Ointment is another word I hate. It makes me shudder.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jul 31, 2011 20:28:37 GMT -5
I lied, I have another word I hate: "pantsuit".
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jul 31, 2011 23:34:13 GMT -5
I lied, I have another word I hate: "pantsuit". I have no preference on the word, but the outfit is infinitely better than skirtsuits, so I'm inclined to throw that in as a hated word. |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jul 31, 2011 23:57:14 GMT -5
A suit is a suit is a suit, dammit!
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Post by tosney on Aug 1, 2011 20:10:49 GMT -5
I hate it when girls call each other 'gorg'. It's not really a word, just a supposed abbreviation of gorgeous, but still. It doesn't sound pleasant - why would you call your friend that?
This has more to do with writing than with words, but I dislike words like 'probably' and 'almost' and 'even' in certain contexts. They tend to make writing sound tacky, and those words along with their equally uncertain relatives also make the writing have less impact. I'm guilty of it too, but I always remove the little horrors when I come across them. Even before I studied writing seriously, I instinctively disliked them. (This isn't so bad in dialogue and internal thought, but I shudder at sentences like "The hills were rolling, almost like waves. There was even wind moving the grass in soft currents")
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Aug 3, 2011 15:45:28 GMT -5
I've never heard "gorg" before, and think I prefer it that way.
In writing, I despise "a lot" or, even worse, "lots." Just... no. Find a more specific quantifier. Please. (Though, as tosney says, this is excusable in dialogue or other character voices.)
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