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swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

My most hated words are: "moist," "poignant," "nurture," and "celeb."
If I ever saw all four of them in a single sentence, I would pull a full Lear and poke my eyes out.
If I ever heard all four of them in a single sentence, my head would explode like a microwaved haggis in a '70's Cronenberg movie.
You see, in the early nineties, I had a Hippie girlfriend for a while. Yeah, yeah, whatever, it wasn't my fault. I was baked. Shut up. Anyway, she and all her Hippie friends had Secret Hippie Names that had been given to them by some lecherous old paedophile junkie who claimed to be a Holy Man. My girl's Secret Hippie Name was 'Nurture.'
Not sure why I hate those other words so much...allergies, maybe? Dunno.
What are your most loathed words, good people?

cosmicgirlie · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

"Paris Hilton is a poignant and well established celeb that when nurtured the right way is a moist young lady."

Sorry Swetepete I just couldn't resist the challenge. Now poke yer eye out arrrrrrh Laughing

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

tomato · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject:

appropriate: This word seems to be a favorite among supercilious people, and supercilious people are my least favorite people.

whatever: This was a fad word in the Nineties, serving as a catch-all when the speaker was unable to find the right word.

awesome: This was a fad word in the Eighties. The most popular modifier for this word was totally.

in-depth: I seem to have inherited my mother's aversion to this word. She never could understand why people say "in-depth" to mean "deep" but not "in-width" to mean "wide" or "in-height" to mean "high."

poet13 · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject:

"What Words Do You Hate the Most?"

I suppose, "You're fired" is pretty near the top of my list.

My name, the way Koreans kids pronounce it, is my current number one.

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Koreans' misuse of the word "funny". "Soccer was funny yesterday" "I like computer games because they're funny".

This and Koreans adding extra syllables to English words.

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject:

"hate"

zappadelta · Joined: 31 Aug 2004

Yea, I think it's the words that I head my students misuse the most.

Like diligent, convenient, and famous.

Richard Krainium · Joined: 12 Jan 2006

preventative - cracks me up when I hear the bigwigs on AFN use it. The correct word is preventive.

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject:

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

FIGHTING!

simpleminds · Joined: 04 May 2006

"actually"

Like, "Actually, I thought I was gonna die." or "It's not too bad, actually."

You thought you were going to die or you didn't. It's not too bad, or it's bad. Or it's good.

Another one is 'war on terror' Isn't it supposed to be 'war on terroism'?

'At this point in time.' How about 'now'?

OK, they are phrases, but, whatever. Very Happy

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

"Talent" when used as a noun to describe a lip syncing tart.

JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

unknown9398 · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Location: Yeongcheon, S. Korea