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ajuma
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 Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject: Appearance/personality adjectives/nouns |
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I'm tired of the same old adjectives (handsome, kind, pretty...) for teaching personality and appearance. I DO teach some new stuff like airhead, idiot and hunk, but I'm looking for more real-life words. Could some of you 20-somethings (or even you older folks!  ) give me some ideas for real-life adjectives that you use to describe your friends and enemies? They're uni students so a few "bad" words would be ok.
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Pak Yu Man
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:43 am Post subject: |
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hunk? You mean 'hot' correct.
You could always use cutie  |
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ajuma
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
hunk? You mean 'hot' correct.
You could always use cutie |
 I tell them that "cutie" is a noun...NOT an adjective!!
And yes, I mean hunk!  They already know "hot" and "sexy"! Gotta give the girls some words too! |
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faster
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| ajuma wrote: |
| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
hunk? You mean 'hot' correct.
You could always use cutie |
I tell them that "cutie" is a noun...NOT an adjective!!
And yes, I mean hunk! They already know "hot" and "sexy"! Gotta give the girls some words too! |
Not to put too fine a point on it, but idiot, airhead, and hunk are nouns as well. |
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Are they the lemmings
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Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: |
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Would babe-licious be inappropriate?
I think I remember my mum once saying that someone was "dishy". Didn't Lorraine Baines describe future son Marty McFly as "dreamy" in Back to the Future? (Or was it "a dream"? Can't remember). On the West Wing, Margaret apologised to Joe Quincy on behalf of the girls working in the Political Affairs Office, saying they wouldn't have smeared mayonnaise all over his parking space if they'd known he was "a biscuit". On my headphones right now, Paul Simon has just sung about a woman who thought he was "alright in a kind of limited way for an off night", but I get the feeling that's not what you're looking for 
Umm, stunning? Drop-dead beautiful? |
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ajuma
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| faster wrote: |
| ajuma wrote: |
| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
hunk? You mean 'hot' correct.
You could always use cutie |
I tell them that "cutie" is a noun...NOT an adjective!!
And yes, I mean hunk! They already know "hot" and "sexy"! Gotta give the girls some words too! |
Not to put too fine a point on it, but idiot, airhead, and hunk are nouns as well. |
True, but students say things like "The cutie boy", which is wrong. You CAN say "The boy is a cutie" or "The cute boy".
There must be some other words! Yesterday I thought of geek, nerd and freak. "Babe-licious" is fine...but do people actually use it? |
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ChuckECheese
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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faster
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| ajuma wrote: |
| faster wrote: |
| ajuma wrote: |
| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
hunk? You mean 'hot' correct.
You could always use cutie |
I tell them that "cutie" is a noun...NOT an adjective!!
And yes, I mean hunk! They already know "hot" and "sexy"! Gotta give the girls some words too! |
Not to put too fine a point on it, but idiot, airhead, and hunk are nouns as well. |
True, but students say things like "The cutie boy", which is wrong. You CAN say "The boy is a cutie" or "The cute boy".
There must be some other words! Yesterday I thought of geek, nerd and freak. "Babe-licious" is fine...but do people actually use it? |
Uh...more nouns. |
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ajuma
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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faster: You don't understand. Nouns are fine! (Notice that I changed the title to reflect that.) It's just the way that the students use the word "cutie" that I object to.
When Pak Yu Man wrote that
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| You could always use cutie |
, he was commenting on uni student's over-use and incorrect use of the word. |
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faster
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authoritarian
pompous
narcissistic
jumpy
imperious
pallid
bilious
earnest
slow-witted
pious
wan
chagrined
smug
defeated
sanguine
florid
apoplectic
magnanimous
angelic
thuggish
shady
shifty
grim
brutish
overweening
prissy
sneering
wounded
twitchy
pensive
melancholy
impish
scheming
smarmy / lubricious
(good synonyms for the Korean "butter" adjective) |
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Alyallen
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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gorgeous
smokin'
delectable
appealing
I'll think of some more later. I have a headache 
Edit....more to add
nutjob
fruitloop
lunatic
nut
loon
moron
dumbass
dufus
weirdo
wacko
trashy
low-class
juvenile
infantile
nutty
special (in a saarcastic or sincere way)
brain-dead
ingrate
imbecile
dingbat
unique
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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What? Nouns are OK as well? In that case...
Dude
Hard case or hard-case
Two-faced
Dishevelled
Raggedy
Noble
Grotty
Homely
Obese
Pencil-thin
Lanky
Sullen
How 'bout something political?
Left-wing, right-wing
Conservative
Tory
Pinko
Reactionary
Militant
Something from the past?
Groovy
Hip
Far-out
Or, if you want to get really adventurous, something from the Shakespearean Insulter. |
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Pak Yu Man
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| ajuma wrote: |
faster: You don't understand. Nouns are fine! (Notice that I changed the title to reflect that.) It's just the way that the students use the word "cutie" that I object to.
When Pak Yu Man wrote that
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| You could always use cutie |
, he was commenting on uni student's over-use and incorrect use of the word. |
Oh yes I was. That's the big 'new' word this year.
They use it like they use "nice to meet you" All the time and incorrectly. |
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ajuma
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 6:01 am Post subject: |
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Harsh Bloke and Alyallen: Thanks!! These are the kinds of words I'm looking for!!
faster: Are you Frazier's sister? I've never used narcissistic in a conversation before...I'd probably use "stuck on him/herself"!
Pak Yu Man: I've also outlawed "gloomy" in my classes! If one more student tells me that they're gloomy, I'm going to strangle them!! |
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Alyallen
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| ajuma wrote: |
Harsh Bloke and Alyallen: Thanks!! These are the kinds of words I'm looking for!!
faster: Are you Frazier's sister? I've never used narcissistic in a conversation before...I'd probably use "stuck on him/herself"!
Pak Yu Man: I've also outlawed "gloomy" in my classes! If one more student tells me that they're gloomy, I'm going to strangle them!! |
Glad I can help. Been here so long that I think I'm forgetting all my semi polite but insulting words
I forgot 2 of my favorites: nimrod and dipstick
Off topic but....I find it funny that I've met 3 guys named Nimrod and they WERE nimrods! |
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