Words You Hate

[SharonDee]

preternatural

[Sweetie]

hate the word "cunt", vagina or pussy are fine, twat is pushing it but it's not as derogatory or sharp as the word "cunt"

[RevDahlia]

Aw, I like "cunt". It's actually an ancient and venerable word which has only acquired taboo connotations recently.

Words I hate? "Moist". HAAATE. It's so gross. I have no idea why it squicks me so, but it does.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by RevDahlia

Aw, I like "cunt". It's actually an ancient and venerable word which has only acquired taboo connotations recently.

Amen, sister! If it's good enough for Chaucer, it's good enough for me.

[Sweetie]

Haha, and I like the word "moist". It's no wonder men are so confused. :

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Sweetie

Haha, and I like the word "moist". It's no wonder men are so confused. :

And British men call each other twats and cunts. It's total anarchy!

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

And British men call each other twats and cunts. It's total anarchy!

That's rather like American males referring to other males as "pussies" or "sissies" (or the latest Austrian import, "girliemen"). It's to associate the man with femininity, that somehow being a derogatory insult.

I'm still bemused that the word "fuck", which at it's base is a word for coitus, a reputedly wonderful thing in human experience, and turned it into the most common of invectives. I would think that things like "pustulant stinking rotting flesh" or "steaming heap of human execrement" would be more to the point. But no....

I like "shitforbrains", when it comes to insults.

As a descriptive word, and not used insultingly at all, I secretly like "cunt", too. It carries a great deal of erotic content for my male mind. It's a more all-inclusive word, including the labia and clitoris, as well as the vagina. It is a erogenous region, rather than a specific site or an entire individual. For some, it also includes the anus. My wife hated the word "cunt", so I haven't used it for a long, long time. It and cunnilingus, my favorite sport, have a lot in common.

godfry

[RevDahlia]

Originally Posted by godfry n. gladI'm still bemused that the word "fuck", which at it's base is a word for [b

coitus,[/b]

Another one I hate. Coitus. Ick.

Maybe I just don't like "oi" words. Except for "foist". Why do I like "foist" and hate "moist"? Huh.

My husband volunteers "furtive", which sucks because I think that's a great word.

[Ensign Steve]

benchmark

I mean, really, what the fuck is that?

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

benchmark

I mean, really, what the fuck is that?

Now you've got me gritting my teeth on the total & ugly abuse of words by business.

empowered - what a beautiful flowing word, which is now a complete joke

[Ymir's blood]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Now you've got me gritting my teeth on the total & ugly abuse of words by business.

The word comes from surveying, in which it refers to a pre-established point with a known elevation above sea level. Knowing that elevation allows someone with an engineer's level to determine the elevation of other points.

[lisarea]

Hey! I remembered another one!

coed (n)

What a pointless, stupid, anachronistic word that is.

[LadyShea]

Most of mine have been mentioned...smegma is my least favorite word ever. I also dislike moist. I have to add bowels and diarrhea.

I also don't like the sound of sks like in desks and asks, but they aren't vile words or anything.

[Scotty]

Bush
Kerry
GOP
Terrorist
collateral
homeland
economy
taxcut (one seems to go with the other recently)
extreme
right
left
fundamentalist
oil

[Dingfod]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

benchmark

I mean, really, what the fuck is that?

While we're on corporate buzzwords, paradigm. Yuck.

[beyelzu]

Originally Posted by warrenly

While we're on corporate buzzwords, paradigm. Yuck.

synergy


although I like the word, it seems to me tht it is used as a filler word by many people which irritates the hell ou of me.

[lisarea]

Originally Posted by warrenly

While we're on corporate buzzwords, paradigm. Yuck.

What makes it worse is that it used to be a real word.

Like dynamic.

Now, even if you use those words to mean what they're supposed to mean, people aren't going to know it. They'll just assume paradigm means idea or something, and dynamic means cool.

[Dingfod]

Originally Posted by lisarea

What makes it worse is that it used to be a real word.

Like dynamic.

Or worse yet, the latest one floating around this fucked up corporation, metrics. I remember when metrics referred to the metric system. Now, it's just another way of saying dynamic benchmark paradigm.

[viscousmemories]

Originally Posted by warrenly

I remember when metrics referred to the metric system. Now, it's just another way of saying dynamic benchmark paradigm.

Good one.

[JoeP]

Nouns tortured into use as verbs:
let's dialogue around the strategy
we'll benchmark our paradigm with our stakeholders
you have to workshop it

(After all, you would hate to be verbed, wouldn't you?)

And any buzzword with -ise
Strategise, synergise, dynamicise

omg. I haven't heard it yet but I bet someone somewhere has already used paradigm as a verb ... We need to paradigm our new strategy to dynamically empower synergistic organisational learning.

key

unlock

[wade-w]

Irregardless. I hate that word. It's inherently redundant.

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by wade-w

Irregardless. I hate that word. It's inherently redundant.

It's not even a word. "Regardless" is, but that thing isn't.

godfry

[JoeP]

Non-inflammable. It has to be that way, but it's still ugly.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by wade-w

Irregardless. I hate that word. It's inherently redundant.

Definitely a hateworthy word. Definitely.

[viscousmemories]

Colleague

It just seems like a pretentious way of saying 'co-worker' to me.