People don't say derring-do enough IMO.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
actioned (this is the first time i have seen this "word")
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― sarahel, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"stunned"
whenever something mildly unexpected happens in sport, politics &c the person or persons on the receiving end are always said to be "stunned".
― Neil S, Monday, 27 June 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
similarly "floored"
― corey, Monday, 27 June 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
'extravaganza''bonanza'
ugh
and er
'mentalist', as in a nutty, crazy person.
also when people use 'depressive' as an adjective. stfu. 'depressing' is obviously right.
― jumpskins, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
'blogosphere'
come on really what the fuck
― jumpskins, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
utilize
― remy bean, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
and any word with the same letter in more than about 4 times. i cant think of an example right now. but yeah.
― jumpskins, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I will try to popularize the term "protes" for proteins.
― fletrejet, Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:36 PM (7 years ago)
So happy this never materialized.
― Aimless, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ouster
― flopson, Thursday, 10 November 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
idk what I was thinking choosing to intern at a middle school when, for 15 years straight, my least favorite word has been and still isappropriateSometimes it's the right word to use but so many of the times it's notand I have caught the diseaseI just flung it out there in a way that wasn't appropriateyou guys really don't know the complex web of hatred I have for this wordeven though sometimes it is the right word
― puffy paint (Abbbottt), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
lather. rinse. repeat.
― Aimless, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
today is a good day for me and crippling long-term hatred!
― puffy paint (Abbbottt), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
"amusing" -- almost always used in an arch, self-aware way. ugh. "arguably" -- rarely actually needed in a sentence. "old school" -- should never be applied to anything that is not old hip-hop.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
transmittal
― kashi west: late vegetarian (rustic italian flatbread), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
I think I'm guilty of nearly all three of J.D's.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
I want to murder people who use the word "timely" as an adverb ("submit the application timely"), even though I know it's grammatically correct. it seems to be a favorite usage of bureaucratic assholes who will punish you for untimeliness, so maybe it's tainted by association. on the other hand, the clunky phrase "in a timely manner" (in which "timely" is an adjective) doesn't enrage me much at all.
― cher's missing (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
I thought maybe I hated all words that had an -ly ending in both their adjectival and adverbial forms, but words like "weekly" and "daily" and "early" don't seem to bother me, so "timely" must be uniquely evil.
― cher's missing (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
i hate that use of "timely" too! the same people i've heard use "timely" like that also said "verbage" (to mean "legal language").
― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
former english majors with depressive disorders should not go into dilbert/office space type careers.
― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
haw
on further thought, it seems like people use the adverb "timely" for brevity's sake to avoid the wordy construction "in a timely manner". but for some reason it doesn't occur to these people that they can use similarly brief (and far less irritating) alternatives like "on time" and "early" and "promptly". I guess assholes who edit themselves for brevity and plain speech are still assholes.
verbage/verbiage is absolutely vile, I agree.
― cher's missing (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
(but "verbose" is alright)
― cher's missing (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
One thing that has been getting on my nerves lately is "journey" as used by reality show contestants "it's been an amazing journey and I just don't want it to end" and otherwise intelligent documentary presenters talking to camera at the end of the film: "I've been a journey and have discovered..."
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
I'v e been *on* a journey, I mean.
'anyways'
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 June 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
stateside
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
magisterial.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
^ I'm guessing that poor word has been badly overworked lately on BBC.
― Aimless, Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
very possibly, but it's more the frequent use in book reviews and then blurbs that causes me to go IA in bookshops or other bookish places. wild eyes. handwaving. raised voice. concerned confused looks from companions. angry asseverations it's to do with a lubberly fear of masterly/masterful pedantry.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
i see now from whence you arrived and you have my full sympathy.
― Aimless, Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
thanks, A. not sure it is actually used out of the masterly/masterful fear, but I can't understand why ever else you'd use it. how can magisterial possibly be an appealing quality in a book, unless maybe its a historical/genre survey or other secondary text? (don't have a problem with these types of books, but they're the only groups I can imagine the word magisterial being a recommendation.)
but generally it just annoys me.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
blurb writers seems to think 'magisterial' is a useful word to convey the idea that they were favorably impressed, while also showing off their vocabulary. when it turns out the book is not magisterial in any sense, you come to understand that their vocabulary is rather smaller than they thought it was.
― Aimless, Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/literally-everyone-is-lying.html
"Literally," I'm okay--I use it every now and again. "Actually" I use too often. My Achilles Heel is "just." I use "just" (when writing) like a teenager uses "like."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
noise. noise annoys.
― rods & cones (doo dah), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
grokparsetruthsquaddingwonkspasoupsmouthfeel
― horribl ecreature (harbl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
mouthfeel
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
iconic
― horribl ecreature (harbl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
activate
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
pecadillo
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
totessimpatico (in Gringo usage)
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 13 September 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
Heard these both tonight in the course of a conversation and wanted to get up and leave.
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 13 September 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
females
― estela, Thursday, 13 September 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
moisturize
― tuplet nester (clouds), Sunday, 21 October 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
One of my sisters hates the word "tender" because her 3rd grade teacher privately admitted to her that she had a mole in "one of her more tender areas" after seeing a mole on my sister.
― overfaded aeropostale bootcuts I have owned (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 21 October 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
what about some love for the old legal tender?
― Aimless, Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
That one, so soon after telling my sister's story, made me cringe as well.
― overfaded aeropostale bootcuts I have owned (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 21 October 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
"lil'" as an abbreviation for little. I have no problem with this as a rapper prefix, but in the vernacular it annoys the shit out of me.
― kathryn bigelow, female juggalo (qiqing), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
"Bodied"
― brimstead, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
"prior to"
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 January 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
"undeniably"
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 January 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link