"Bap"
(a small, round bun.)
Fucking shit, could you give it a name that DOESN'T sound like a term for some obscure item of personal hygiene? "Bap" brings to mind an underwear insert specifically designed to capture feces. (Which should be produced and given away with doses of "Ali") Like you're going to watch the tapes of St. Carlin, or eat Mexican food, better put a BAP in.
Or maybe you're having one of those not QUITE diarrhea but still rapid fire liquidy shit days when you want a little extra personal security because you doubt your ability to EVER wipe enough without aid of a fire hose and bemused eunuch attendants. Better pack a pack of baps.
Baps: for those who can't stand using ass tampons.
"Paradigm"
Businesspeople. I blame businesspeople. Words that can be easily understood and overused in attempts to impress people should be kept away from them. They don't mix. Kind of like toddlers with tasers, except less of a spectator sport.
"Toys"
Imagine an over stimulated child flying into a retail establishment screaming this over and over in a high pitched voice with a slight lisp while being chased by a harried, chastising parent.
"Ptosis"
Because it reminds me of stoners, poster children for fetal alcohol syndrome, and Down syndrome, who also frequently suffer from it.
"Whatever"
A catchall phrase that is used as an indecisive, passive-agressive placeholder, signalling an apathetic demeanor, and an intentional lack of effort spent answering a direct question. Implies the following message: "Neither you, nor the issue at hand, concerns me enough to make a decision. However, if future events do not please me, I shall complain about it."
"But"
This is a word that allows excuses to exist. And that's horrible. :evilmad:
"However" and "Although" too, then.
"Smorgasbord" no one can say it without sounding like a complete fucking retard. I don't care who the fuck you are, if you say this in my presence I will fuck you up both physically and emotionally.
You all know that as soon as we collect enough of these, there will be some twisted contest to see who can write the best sentence or paragraph that uses all of these.
Whatever, your paradigm is clearly not optimised enough to understand the need for Ptosis based toys to sell as part of our smorgasbord of products. Now get me a bap.
:horrormirth::hi5::lulz:
"National Security."
"Too big to fail."
"SSSS"
"First Amendment Zones."
"Flag Day"
"Patriot Day"
"I pledge allegiance to the flag, and the corporation for which it stands, one nation sorely divided, with gadgets and tasers for all."
"fundamentally" -- seriously.
This is the most overused word of 2008-2009. Every time someone says it around me I make this shrill uuuunghrgh! sound and they look at me like "wut.... duh".
They all piss me off.
That's why I'm so angry all the time.
The worst gift you could get for Nigel: The complete Oxford English Dictionary.
(http://www.labnol.org/wp/images/2008/05/oxford-english-dictionary-print.jpg)
"ASAP"
When used as if it is an actual word. It's NOT an acronym!
Quote from: LMNO on December 08, 2009, 05:31:06 PM
The worst gift you could get for Nigel: The complete Oxford English Dictionary.
(http://www.labnol.org/wp/images/2008/05/oxford-english-dictionary-print.jpg)
PURE RAGE
DON'T DO IT
ANYBODY, EVER!
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 08, 2009, 05:42:13 PM
Quote from: LMNO on December 08, 2009, 05:31:06 PM
The worst gift you could get for Nigel: The complete Oxford English Dictionary.
(http://www.labnol.org/wp/images/2008/05/oxford-english-dictionary-print.jpg)
PURE RAGE
DON'T DO IT
ANYBODY, EVER!
must...restrain...self...
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 08, 2009, 03:53:28 PM
"National Security."
"Too big to fail."
"SSSS"
"First Amendment Zones."
"Flag Day"
"Patriot Day"
"I pledge allegiance to the flag, and the corporation for which it stands, one nation sorely divided, with gadgets and tasers for all."
"People are giving more hits to this trashy rant than Sepia's latest."
"Literally"
Often used incorrectly.
I Literally threw up my lower intestines.
No you didn't. Don't be a liar, douche. :argh!:
Quote from: Chief Uwachiquen on December 10, 2009, 12:45:54 PM
"Literally"
Often used incorrectly.
I Literally threw up my lower intestines.
No you didn't. Don't be a liar, douche. :argh!:
I like the word but, when used in that context, it does fill me with homicidal urges. The same people seem to say "pacifically" a lot - also has me reaching for the alibis.
"Pacifically" ?
Do these fuckers have a speach impediment or are they just too lazy to really resist, and too morally obtuse for passive resistance or Ganhdi - Fu?
(As in: "I did not specifically say 'NO', I just pacifically recieved fucking.")
They're generally idiots who once heard a smart person say "specifically" but couldn't get their head around the "spe" part at the beginning :evilmad:
Speach impediment then. I like my idea better.
The urge to give this the Terry Prachet treatment overtakes me!
Adam, being an adherent of the Lower Pacifical Church, was one of the more ineffectual additions to an already questionable town constabulatory. Pacificalist followed the teaching of Bang - Meh, a recent day guru who insisted that the way to salvation and enlightenment was to offer no resistance or expression of will against the will of others, on the ground that such inter human conflict was the root of all inter human conflict and strife. An adherent should simply allow the opposer their way, should any level of resistance, dissatisfaction, or disagreement be displayed, and rely on the conscience of the other person to shame themselves into consideration. Bang - Meh was martyred exemplifying his own philosophy when the local Red Cross forgot to keep track of how often they sent him requests to donate blood.
Needless to say, the only things shamed by the actions of a Pacificalist were Anarchism and Communism, who promptly lost the title "Things which ONLY work in theory" by comparison.
Conversations with a Pacificalist were usually about as productive as verbal intercourse with wet toilet tissue, and conversations between pacificalist adherents were known to be lengthy affairs of generalist statements direct at no one as the two tried to figure out an entirely un offensive topic upon which to converse. They usually ended with statements about plain lettuce. One entire sect of monks had been attempting to reconcile Pacificalism and E Prime for many years, to formulate a perfectly non offensive form of speach, but their degree of success is uncertain as non of them have spoken since begining.
Adam's employ with the town guard was secured as concessions to a religious rights advocacy group composed of people who have never had their house broken into, or been mugged. In truth, Adam himself did not even WANT employ with the Guard, but did not wish to offend the vigorous and excited advocates, who were so thrilled with the concept of displayign the town's tolerance and diversity that even a Pacificalist could become a success in a town run oepration such as the Gaurd, did not stop to pay heed to Adam's pacifical treatment of his own inner wish NOT to have such a job in the first place.
The Town itself could find no reasonable way to fire or reasign Adam, the mayor professing to rather "Cover his bare ass in birdseed and take a walk through a harpy nest." than have to deal with that group again. The Chief handled this much more tactfully (having a better understanding of the advocates, and Pacificalism from several "sensitivity sessions" he was forced to attend.), and assigned Adam to patrol the south wall where nothing ever happened. Adam, having religious reason to neve GAURD anything, was instructed to hand a similar sensitivity flyer to anyone he might think questionable and ring the alarm bell immediately.
Quote from: Richter on December 10, 2009, 01:43:05 PM
Bang - Meh was martyred exemplifying his own philosophy when the local Red Cross forgot to keep track of how often they sent him requests to donate blood.
:lulz:
QuoteNeedless to say, the only things shamed by the actions of a Pacificalist were Anarchism and Communism, who promptly lost the title "Things which ONLY work in theory" by comparison.
:mittens:
:thanks:
Quote from: Chief Uwachiquen on December 10, 2009, 12:45:54 PM
"Literally"
Often used incorrectly.
I Literally threw up my lower intestines.
No you didn't. Don't be a liar, douche. :argh!:
People confuse literally with figuratively, a lot.
If you figuratively threw up your lower intestines, okay, then I know you're not feeling well. If you say literally, I'm going to be either looking at you funny, or asking you if you want an ambulance.
Quote from: Chief Uwachiquen on December 10, 2009, 12:45:54 PM
"Literally"
Often used incorrectly.
I Literally threw up my lower intestines.
No you didn't. Don't be a liar, douche. :argh!:
http://literally.barelyfitz.com/
Quote from: Suu on December 12, 2009, 03:27:36 PM
Quote from: Chief Uwachiquen on December 10, 2009, 12:45:54 PM
"Literally"
Often used incorrectly.
I Literally threw up my lower intestines.
No you didn't. Don't be a liar, douche. :argh!:
People confuse literally with figuratively, a lot.
If you figuratively threw up your lower intestines, okay, then I know you're not feeling well. If you say literally, I'm going to be either looking at you funny, or asking you if you want an ambulance.
To be fair I tend to use the word literally in exactly that context, but for comic effect. I'm being iconic :D
orientate - i feel this should not be a word. one does not get orientated or disorientated, one gets oriented or disoriented. it pisses me off cuz i looked it up and it was in the dictionary. :argh!:
Quote from: rong on December 12, 2009, 05:50:56 PM
orientate - i feel this should not be a word. one does not get orientated or disorientated, one gets oriented or disoriented. it pisses me off cuz i looked it up and it was in the dictionary. :argh!:
THAT is retarded.
nookyoular or however the fuck it is that americans spell/pronounce Nuclear
Also aloominum for the same fucking reason :argh!:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 12, 2009, 07:25:51 PM
Also aloominum for the same fucking reason :argh!:
you mean aluminum? how do you pronounce it?
Quote from: rong on December 12, 2009, 05:50:56 PM
orientate - i feel this should not be a word. one does not get orientated or disorientated, one gets oriented or disoriented. it pisses me off cuz i looked it up and it was in the dictionary. :argh!:
thats 'cos you are foreign, you know? I'm English I speak English and its in my dictionary . . .
eta That was humour btw - not humor because humor is medical and gunky
Quote from: rong on December 12, 2009, 07:38:59 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 12, 2009, 07:25:51 PM
Also aloominum for the same fucking reason :argh!:
you mean aluminum? how do you pronounce it?
us foreign folks pronounce it exactly the way we spell it:- Aluminium / Al You Min Ee Um but as you can see we spell it differently too
apparently it because the discoverer spelled it in 2 different ways and Websters regularised one as the American spelling and The Oxford made the other one British version
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 12, 2009, 07:25:51 PM
nookyoular or however the fuck it is that americans uneducated folk and/or your 43rd president spell/pronounce Nuclear
Also aloominum for the same fucking reason :argh!:
Fix'd.
I've only ever met a handful of people who actually pronounce those things like that. Everyone I know pronounces it A-Lume-In-Um.
Quote from: Chief Uwachiquen on December 12, 2009, 08:26:35 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 12, 2009, 07:25:51 PM
nookyoular or however the fuck it is that americans uneducated folk and/or your 43rd president spell/pronounce Nuclear
Also aloominum for the same fucking reason :argh!:
Fix'd.
I've only ever met a handful of people who actually pronounce those things like that. Everyone I know pronounces it A-Lume-In-Um.
But A-Lume-In-Um would sound the same as aloominum, wouldn't it?
i pronounce it aloo-minum. and, yeah, i only ever say nucular in jest.
speaking of pronunciation: i get a kick out of the word "fire" because if you go by the grade school "hand clapping" method of counting syllables, it seems to have two. but i'm pretty sure it is technically a one-syllable word. what cracks me up is that i can't ever seem to pronounce "fire" monosyllabically without sounding like i have a southern drawl.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 12, 2009, 07:25:51 PM
nookyoular or however the fuck it is that americans spell/pronounce Nuclear
Also aloominum for the same fucking reason :argh!:
MÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜV
A LU MI NI UM
i don't care what your dictionary says, it's just WRONG, you don't say titanum either, do you? or sodum?
Quote from: rong on December 12, 2009, 08:46:40 PM
i pronounce it aloo-minum. and, yeah, i only ever say nucular in jest.
speaking of pronunciation: i get a kick out of the word "fire" because if you go by the grade school "hand clapping" method of counting syllables, it seems to have two. but i'm pretty sure it is technically a one-syllable word. what cracks me up is that i can't ever seem to pronounce "fire" monosyllabically without sounding like i have a southern drawl.
Don't worry, phonetically it's two syllables.
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 12, 2009, 09:17:11 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 12, 2009, 07:25:51 PM
nookyoular or however the fuck it is that americans spell/pronounce Nuclear
Also aloominum for the same fucking reason :argh!:
MÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜV
:lulz:
Quote from: Nasturtiums on December 12, 2009, 09:38:38 PM
Quote from: rong on December 12, 2009, 08:46:40 PM
i pronounce it aloo-minum. and, yeah, i only ever say nucular in jest.
speaking of pronunciation: i get a kick out of the word "fire" because if you go by the grade school "hand clapping" method of counting syllables, it seems to have two. but i'm pretty sure it is technically a one-syllable word. what cracks me up is that i can't ever seem to pronounce "fire" monosyllabically without sounding like i have a southern drawl.
Don't worry, phonetically it's two syllables.
For who?
Is "far" two syllables for you, as well?
Quote from: rong on December 12, 2009, 05:50:56 PM
orientate - i feel this should not be a word. one does not get orientated or disorientated, one gets oriented or disoriented. it pisses me off cuz i looked it up and it was in the dictionary. :argh!:
But then "Orientation" would be "Oriention", and that just sounds stupid.
Also, knowing the etymology of the word helps its forms make sense. "To orientate oneself" means, roughly, "to face the East". Over time the suffix "-ate" has become commonly considered superfluous, but it is grammatically correct.
DICKS LOL
Also, FYI TripZip, in the US it is spelled "ALUMINUM", and adding an extra I would be retarded. I didn't make that rule, I just follow it. Americans who pronounce it "Aluminium" are GIANT DOUCHEBAGS.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 12, 2009, 10:01:04 PM
Quote from: Nasturtiums on December 12, 2009, 09:38:38 PM
Quote from: rong on December 12, 2009, 08:46:40 PM
i pronounce it aloo-minum. and, yeah, i only ever say nucular in jest.
speaking of pronunciation: i get a kick out of the word "fire" because if you go by the grade school "hand clapping" method of counting syllables, it seems to have two. but i'm pretty sure it is technically a one-syllable word. what cracks me up is that i can't ever seem to pronounce "fire" monosyllabically without sounding like i have a southern drawl.
Don't worry, phonetically it's two syllables.
For who?
Is "far" two syllables for you, as well?
I'm not sure how to explain it clearly without linguistic mumbo jumbo, but in the case of "fire" the r is it's own syllable. Far is different because the r at the end is not it's own syllable, but rather the coda to the syllable "fa".
(Don't take my words as gospel, though, because accents can vary wildly. It's just that for me, pronouncing "fire" as a true single syllable sounds extremely ridiculous.)
Arthur MillerBrown pronounced it "Fa-Yar"
ETA - mixed up my arfurs :oops:
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 12, 2009, 10:05:32 PM
Quote from: rong on December 12, 2009, 05:50:56 PM
orientate - i feel this should not be a word. one does not get orientated or disorientated, one gets oriented or disoriented. it pisses me off cuz i looked it up and it was in the dictionary. :argh!:
But then "Orientation" would be "Oriention", and that just sounds stupid.
i believe "Orientation" to be "Orient" with the suffix -ation at the end. Much like "Lament" and "Lamentation"
"Lamentate" sounds even stupider (sic) than "Orientate"
the problem probably arises from thinking too much in terms of Masturbate and Masturbation. As opposed to Relax and Relaxation.
Quote from: Nasturtiums on December 12, 2009, 10:13:18 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 12, 2009, 10:01:04 PM
Quote from: Nasturtiums on December 12, 2009, 09:38:38 PM
Quote from: rong on December 12, 2009, 08:46:40 PM
i pronounce it aloo-minum. and, yeah, i only ever say nucular in jest.
speaking of pronunciation: i get a kick out of the word "fire" because if you go by the grade school "hand clapping" method of counting syllables, it seems to have two. but i'm pretty sure it is technically a one-syllable word. what cracks me up is that i can't ever seem to pronounce "fire" monosyllabically without sounding like i have a southern drawl.
Don't worry, phonetically it's two syllables.
For who?
Is "far" two syllables for you, as well?
I'm not sure how to explain it clearly without linguistic mumbo jumbo, but in the case of "fire" the r is it's own syllable. Far is different because the r at the end is not it's own syllable, but rather the coda to the syllable "fa".
(Don't take my words as gospel, though, because accents can vary wildly. It's just that for me, pronouncing "fire" as a true single syllable sounds extremely ridiculous.)
Yeah, there are at least two major ways to pronounce words like "fire" in U.S. English. The most common way is the two-syllable, where you pronounce it Fye-err. The one syllable way is the accent in which the word is pronounced something like F(u)rrrr, which is more or less specific to the greater Appalachian region. In that accent, "fire" and "bear" rhyme, and you can make a pun about the Three Wise Men being firefighters because "afar" and "a fire" are pronounced identically (as in, "We came from afar/a fire.")
(Also, the way I say it, I'd consider "far" to be a dipthong - in between "fur" and "fire.")
Even worse than 'whatever' is 'whatev'. It suggests a whole new level of apathy and indolence.
Improper use of the possessive apostrophe is particularly annoying to me.
Quote from: Mangrove on December 13, 2009, 05:25:30 PM
Even worse than 'whatever' is 'whatev'. It suggests a whole new level of apathy and indolence.
Improper use of the possessive apostrophe is particularly annoying to me.
own'ed
Quote from: Mangrove on December 13, 2009, 05:25:30 PM
Even worse than 'whatever' is 'whatev'. It suggests a whole new level of apathy and indolence.
Improper use of the possessive apostrophe is particularly annoying to me.
Yes, but bad though "whatev" is I reckon "meh" is just as bad. Its not a word, its not an abbreviation, its just a kind of disinterested grunt. I mean, ffs, did they go to all the trouble of inventing the interwebs so we could go back to just grunting at each other . . . !
Edited for clarity
Quote from: MMIX on December 13, 2009, 07:10:42 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on December 13, 2009, 05:25:30 PM
Even worse than 'whatever' is 'whatev'. It suggests a whole new level of apathy and indolence.
Improper use of the possessive apostrophe is particularly annoying to me.
Yes, but bad though "whatev" is I reckon "meh" is just as bad. Its not a word, its not an abbreviation, its just a kind of disinterested grunt. I mean, ffs, did they go to all the trouble of inventing the interwebs so we could go back to just grunting at each other . . . !
Edited for clarity
Blame
The Simpsons. Also, I rather like "meh".
Meh, I'm torn . . .
Quote from: Mangrove on December 13, 2009, 05:25:30 PM
Even worse than 'whatever' is 'whatev'. It suggests a whole new level of apathy and indolence.
I think anybody who says "whatev" is trying to sound apathetic and indolent, though. Which just means its a word that's very effective and conveying a sentiment that pisses you off.
Quote from: GA on December 14, 2009, 09:13:52 AM
Quote from: Mangrove on December 13, 2009, 05:25:30 PM
Even worse than 'whatever' is 'whatev'. It suggests a whole new level of apathy and indolence.
I think anybody who says "whatev" is trying to sound apathetic and indolent, though. Which just means its a word that's very effective and conveying a sentiment that pisses you off.
I've never heard anyone say "whatev" if I ever do I guarantee I'll be on the news shortly afterwards :argh!:
For words like "fire"--yes, there's an added glide in there for some dialects--a "y" sound that can make it more than one syllable or VOWEL SOUND that you hear when it's spoken. So it comes out "Fie-yer" rather than "fire" as all one vowel sound.
And yes, some words like "whatev" carry connotative value like disdain or flip behavior for some dialects, but that wouldn't be across the board with every English language user, certainly.
Hendrix also went for two syllables: "Let me stand next to your fi-yar..."
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
Quote from: Richter on December 15, 2009, 04:40:18 PM
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
That is really a dialect issue..... being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO. To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd.....
Quote from: Khara on December 15, 2009, 08:28:22 PM
Quote from: Richter on December 15, 2009, 04:40:18 PM
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
That is really a dialect issue..... being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO. To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd.....
Well, yes. Proper English IS, of course, strictly forbidden on your side of the River.
Quote from: Khara on December 15, 2009, 08:28:22 PM
Quote from: Richter on December 15, 2009, 04:40:18 PM
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
That is really a dialect issue..... being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO. To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd.....
I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on December 16, 2009, 01:36:41 AM
Quote from: Khara on December 15, 2009, 08:28:22 PM
Quote from: Richter on December 15, 2009, 04:40:18 PM
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
That is really a dialect issue..... being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO. To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd.....
I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.
NO. In Chicago, people pronounce it properly. COO-PON.
Truth.
How about good ol' "begs the question"? I had a comparative lit prof who got that shit wrong. Ivy League education at work.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 16, 2009, 01:38:26 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on December 16, 2009, 01:36:41 AM
Quote from: Khara on December 15, 2009, 08:28:22 PM
Quote from: Richter on December 15, 2009, 04:40:18 PM
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
That is really a dialect issue..... being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO. To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd.....
I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.
NO. In Chicago, people pronounce it properly. COO-PON.
Well, I dunno then. I've always said it that way.
Quote from: Brotep on December 16, 2009, 01:50:27 AM
Truth.
How about good ol' "begs the question"? I had a comparative lit prof who got that shit wrong. Ivy League education at work.
"To beg the question" should just have its official meaning changed to the way people actually use it. It's more useful and makes more intuitive sense.
Ah. Dialectic differences.
They exist.
Makes linguists smack their lips and rub their hands together with glee, it does.
Quote from: Jenne on December 16, 2009, 04:33:46 AM
Ah. Dialectic differences.
They exist.
No. They don't.
Quote from: Richter on December 15, 2009, 04:40:18 PM
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
Do these people also call bags, "baigs"?
For example, "Imma lat a far under yer ass iffn yew don't put the kyew-pawn in the baig and git. Rawt nah-yew."
Some of my family from Indiana talks like that and looks like this:
:mullet:
/
"We watchin' NASS-CAH-WER"
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on December 16, 2009, 01:36:41 AM
Quote from: Khara on December 15, 2009, 08:28:22 PM
Quote from: Richter on December 15, 2009, 04:40:18 PM
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
That is really a dialect issue..... being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO. To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd.....
I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.
Yes, yes it does.
And xenophobic yankees, holed into what they are convinced is the East coast's last bastion of intelligent though, cannot be convinced this pronunciaion has no deeper connotations.
When they were switching TV over to digital, the proprietor of the "New Yankee Workshop", one of Boston Public TV's old beloved fixtures of simple woodworking how - to, did a PSA advising people about the "Kew - Pon" they could get for the digital signal converter box. He was instantly marked as an outsider, cast down by the intelligencia of Cambridge, and his show slated to end it's run months later.
Who can blame them for their panic? November before last, the rest of the country turned a different color. They knew there was nothing between them and the West coast except the RIGHT.
Never mind they had hunkered in with one of the more racist attitudes of the north. Dirty old town.
Quote from: Richter on December 16, 2009, 02:23:09 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on December 16, 2009, 01:36:41 AM
Quote from: Khara on December 15, 2009, 08:28:22 PM
Quote from: Richter on December 15, 2009, 04:40:18 PM
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
That is really a dialect issue..... being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO. To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd.....
I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.
Yes, yes it does.
And xenophobic yankees, holed into what they are convinced is the East coast's last bastion of intelligent though, cannot be convinced this pronunciaion has no deeper connotations.
When they were switching TV over to digital, the proprietor of the "New Yankee Workshop", one of Boston Public TV's old beloved fixtures of simple woodworking how - to, did a PSA advising people about the "Kew - Pon" they could get for the digital signal converter box. He was instantly marked as an outsider, cast down by the intelligencia of Cambridge, and his show slated to end it's run months later.
Who can blame them for their panic? November before last, the rest of the country turned a different color. They knew there was nothing between them and the West coast except the RIGHT.
Never mind they had hunkered in with one of the more racist attitudes of the north. Dirty old town.
You talking about Norm, right? Norm is a fucking GOD! I saw him build a DRAAAAW this one time - it looked just like a drawer but Norm knew better :argh!:
That was Norm all right. He couldn't assimilate thouhg P3nt. He couldn't adapt. the Northeast folks LOVE diversity, they LOVE people form other parts of the country, and if it wasn't for southerners, their parties would be dry as toast. Toast quietly soaking itself into a coma with expensive red wine. They won't accept it from one of their fixtures though.
If Norm had built a Draawah, for a guy from Hahvahd Yahd, he'd have blended in. Like Bob Villa or the Frudal Gourmet, they'd have kept him around forever.
But they're shuttling him off. sure as they disappeared Mr. Hooper.
how about 'fair enough'?
just pisses me off for some reason. mostly because i use it all the time and go 'what the fuck? fair enough?' in my head every time i use it.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 16, 2009, 01:34:53 AM
Quote from: Khara on December 15, 2009, 08:28:22 PM
Quote from: Richter on December 15, 2009, 04:40:18 PM
"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.
Everyone knows what a coupon is. Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.
If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"
That is really a dialect issue..... being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO. To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd.....
Well, yes. Proper English IS, of course, strictly forbidden on your side of the River.
And we
like it that way :wink:
That's why all the monkeys keep crossing the damn river. The won't let us stand on the bridge and shoot them. Which I think is truly making the crossing
too easy!!
This was in my "Communications" "Class's" "textbook" (and yes, all three of those words require scare quotes individually.)
Quote
Articulation and Pronunciation. In addition to the rate, pitch, and volume of your voice, articulation and pronunciation help give meaning to your verbal message. Articulation consists of forming vowel and consonant sounds correctly. Because many people are lazy when it comes to articulating the sounds used to communicate, they may slur the s sound or leave sounds out of words altogether. In many cultures, this is very distracting; in others, it can be seen as a behavior symbolizing group membership. Some commonly mispronounced words are listed following. How many of these do you mispronounce?
Distracting Pronunciation and Articulation
* AKS instead of ask
* PIN instead of pen
* DEM instead of them
* DIS instead of this
* JIST instead of just
* NU-CU-LER instead of nuclear
* NUTTIN instead of nothing
* GITTIN instead of getting
* CAUSE or CUZ instead of because
* AN instead of and
* BEAN instead of being
* PITCHER instead of picture
* WIF instead of with
* WORSHington instead of Washington
That's right, people who pronounce words differently than you are just being LAZY.
I'm also confused as to why the put "nuculur" in there. I mean, it's not like Bush is ever going to read take this "class," right?
Quote from: GA on December 17, 2009, 11:44:29 PM
This was in my "Communications" "Class's" "textbook" (and yes, all three of those words require scare quotes individually.)
Quote
Articulation and Pronunciation. In addition to the rate, pitch, and volume of your voice, articulation and pronunciation help give meaning to your verbal message. Articulation consists of forming vowel and consonant sounds correctly. Because many people are lazy when it comes to articulating the sounds used to communicate, they may slur the s sound or leave sounds out of words altogether. In many cultures, this is very distracting; in others, it can be seen as a behavior symbolizing group membership. Some commonly mispronounced words are listed following. How many of these do you mispronounce?
Distracting Pronunciation and Articulation
* AKS instead of ask
* PIN instead of pen
* DEM instead of them
* DIS instead of this
* JIST instead of just
* NU-CU-LER instead of nuclear
* NUTTIN instead of nothing
* GITTIN instead of getting
* CAUSE or CUZ instead of because
* AN instead of and
* BEAN instead of being
* PITCHER instead of picture
* WIF instead of with
* WORSHington instead of Washington
That's right, people who pronounce words differently than you are just being LAZY.
I'm also confused as to why the put "nuculur" in there. I mean, it's not like Bush is ever going to read take this "class," right?
:lulz:
That's also my Japanese teacher's explanation for sound changes in modern Japanese. But I'm not sure if she's serious or not.
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuk that is just retarded. ITS CALLED DIALECT YOU FUCKERS
you know I always thought those people in the south of the netherlands were just too fucking lazy to pronounce the hard g correctly. :roll:
or maybe it's me, in the north that's too lazy to pronounce the last-syllable schwa in plurals.
or those British, with their glo'al sto'. lazy fuckers, not pronouncing their consonants :argh!:
MuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuV! :argh!:
Ok, this isn't really a word, it's a mode of speech.
Does it piss me off? Yes.
Is it stilted and awkward? Yup.
Is it a way of controlling the conversation? Yes.
Does it give the illusion of providing information other than what the speaker explicitly wants? You bet.
Does it prevent other people actually asking relevant questions? Sure thing.
Is it demonstrated in the previous post?
Did I provide several working examples in the previous post? Absolutely.
Do I blame Donald Rumsfeld? You bet your ass I do.
LOVE IT.
The best part of conversation analysis (what I did part of my MA thesis in) was studying the motivations behind such constructions. The breakdown is just FUN.
Please to be revealing secret linguistic analysis.
Quote from: LMNO on December 18, 2009, 07:47:41 PM
Please to be revealing secret linguistic analysis.
We did it with film back in those days. Stopping and starting constantly, getting each eye movement, hand gesture, posture original position, posture change, intonation, prosody, and pause, with pause length.
That was the boring part. Took forever. We did it with Hi-8 material.
Then you put it together and start looking at it on paper, along with the actual video. That shit was hot. It was purely subjective, you need to REALLY know the subculture you're dealing with, but damn it was fun.
Did that answer the question? NO! :argh!:
Jenne, do you happen to know of any accessible and/or interesting/fun to read books on that subject? Yes!
Are you not thinking why I am not asking myself how I could mess up that conversational style? Not a chance!
I remember I enjoyed reading Pinker's the Language Instinct a lot, and that was also someone's course material.
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 18, 2009, 09:09:43 PM
Jenne, do you happen to know of any accessible and/or interesting/fun to read books on that subject? Yes!
Seconded. Curious individuals would be happy to know. :)
'Aks' isntead of 'ask' used to irritate me until I discovered that 'Aks' is actually quite old.
ask
O.E. ascian "ask," from earlier ahsian, from P.Gmc. *aiskojan (cf. O.S. escon, O.Fris. askia, M.Du. eiscen, O.H.G. eiscon, Ger. heischen "to ask, demand"), from PIE *ais- "to wish, desire" (cf. Skt. icchati "seeks, desires," Arm. aic "investigation," O.C.S. iskati "to seek," Lith. ieškau "to seek"). Form in Eng. infl. by a Scand. form of the word (cf. Dan. æske; the O.E. would have evolved by normal sound changes into ash, esh, which was a Midlands and s.w. England dialect form). The variant in modern dialect ax is as old as O.E. acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c.1600. O.E. also had fregnan, frignan which carried more directly the sense of "question, inquire," and is from PIE root *prek-, the common source of words for "ask" in most I.E. languages. If you ask me "in my opinion" is attested from 1910.
So it was in usage, then it fell out of usage and has now returned.
I hate hate HATE the word "ilk". Probably the most overused word this year. It just grates on my nerves.
And if you couldn't tell from the other thread, I will kill the mother fucker that came up with "attainment". :argh!:
Wanna know something worse than "aks"? "Strenth" instead of "strength". Learn to speak English, idiots!! :argh!:
i like the word "ilk"
i did realize the other day that i hate the phrase (is it a cliche?) "thereinwhich lies the rub"
I hate "outside the box" mostly cause the people who use it don't seem to understand what it means.
outside the box is the new inside the box?
Quote from: rong on December 20, 2009, 07:10:59 AM
outside the box is the new inside the box?
Memebomb potential, IMO.
Edit: Without the question mark, maybe.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on December 20, 2009, 06:31:45 AM
I hate "outside the box" mostly cause the people who use it don't seem to understand what it means.
Maybe they're just using it so much outside the box?
Quote from: Chief Uwachiquen on December 20, 2009, 09:02:10 AM
Quote from: rong on December 20, 2009, 07:10:59 AM
outside the box is the new inside the box?
Memebomb potential, IMO.
Edit: Without the question mark, maybe.
I agree
"baited breath"
Unless you've been eating worms, IT'S FUCKING BATED, LOOK IT UP.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 20, 2009, 09:16:35 PM
"baited breath"
Unless you've been eating worms, IT'S FUCKING BATED, LOOK IT UP.
Yeah, I hear you there. I hate it when people fuck up homophones.
That's when you're afraid of gay people telephoning you, right?
Grocery
Someone has got to tell how to say this fucking word.
I want your ways before I say my way---then you guys can make fun of me.
People who use "actually" like other people who use "literally".
FUCKING KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF! :argh!:
And I say it, when I see it, "GRO-sir-ee". When I'm not looking at it, I say "GRO-shrees".
Quote from: maphdet on December 20, 2009, 11:25:05 PM
Grocery
Someone has got to tell how to say this fucking word.
I want your ways before I say my way---then you guys can make fun of me.
I say it "grow-shur-ee".
Quote from: rong on December 20, 2009, 07:10:59 AM
outside the box is the new inside the box?
When does anyone ever remain in the box anymore .. Doesn't anyone ever feel for the poor cardboard?
People who say 'I could care less' when they really mean to say 'I couldn't care less'.
I usually hate it when people say something was (adjective)-ly something, rather than formulating the sentence without the "-ly" on the end of their adjective. It almost always sounds like bad high school fiction.
Those homophones had it coming, seriously.
no wait
Those homophones had some serious coming-for?
what
how do you get rid of the -ly properly?
how the proper getting rid of -ly?
fuck damnit I'm starting to sound more Engrish the more I try.
I think my homophones fucked up my grammerphones.
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 21, 2009, 07:44:40 AM
Those homophones had it coming, seriously.
no wait
Those homophones had some serious coming-for?
what
how do you get rid of the -ly properly?
how the proper getting rid of -ly?
fuck damnit I'm starting to sound more Engrish the more I try.
I think my homophones fucked up my grammerphones.
Those homophones had it coming for them in a serious manner.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 21, 2009, 02:25:23 AM
Quote from: maphdet on December 20, 2009, 11:25:05 PM
Grocery
Someone has got to tell how to say this fucking word.
I want your ways before I say my way---then you guys can make fun of me.
I say it "grow-shur-ee".
Same here.
grow-surry
gross-ree
gross-ehr-ry
NOW, IT IS TIME FOR SERIOUS QUESTION, YES?
HOW IS HIMEOBS FORMED (on your tongue)?!?!
Also, fuck all you haters. I love all the words in this thread. I love the misuse of words, the mispronunciation, the over exposure of hackneyed cliché and meaningless constructs, the sheer laziness of some people in making their animal like grunts.
Language is a tool, people. Like all tools it can sometimes be ugly as fuck, especially in every day life, and sometimes you will be used by apprentices and very poorly trained tradesmen. How they grunt is never and should never be as important as what they are trying to grunt at you.
him-obs
Quote from: Payne on December 21, 2009, 12:40:36 PM
NOW, IT IS TIME FOR SERIOUS QUESTION, YES?
HOW IS HIMEOBS FORMED (on your tongue)?!?!
Also, fuck all you haters. I love all the words in this thread. I love the misuse of words, the mispronunciation, the over exposure of hackneyed cliché and meaningless constructs, the sheer laziness of some people in making their animal like grunts.
Language is a tool, people. Like all tools it can sometimes be ugly as fuck, especially in every day life, and sometimes you will be used by apprentices and very poorly trained tradesmen. How they grunt is never and should never be as important as what they are trying to grunt at you.
"He May Obs"
Say it like the Japanese "-hime" suffix, denoting "princess" (v. rough translation). Obs as in Obstetrician.
Quote from: Payne on December 21, 2009, 12:40:36 PM
NOW, IT IS TIME FOR SERIOUS QUESTION, YES?
HOW IS HIMEOBS FORMED (on your tongue)?!?!
Also, fuck all you haters. I love all the words in this thread. I love the misuse of words, the mispronunciation, the over exposure of hackneyed cliché and meaningless constructs, the sheer laziness of some people in making their animal like grunts.
Language is a tool, people. Like all tools it can sometimes be ugly as fuck, especially in every day life, and sometimes you will be used by apprentices and very poorly trained tradesmen. How they grunt is never and should never be as important as what they are trying to grunt at you.
agreed
HIM-EEE-OBS.
HIGH-MOBS :argh!:
HIM---AUUGGGHFUCKNOpleaseohgodpleasenonotwiththerubberpickleagainIwilldoeverythingyouaskmepleaseohgodno
Books on conversation analysis/language, interaction and culture:
Anything by Allesandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs, Marjorie Goodwin, Charles Goodwin. I worked with these folks while at UCLA. Even better, Wallace Chafe or John DuBois, and I worked with those fellows at UC Santa Barbara.
Harvey Sachs also had the seminal works, but he died long, long ago.
The group I used to hang with/ present material to: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 21, 2009, 02:25:23 AM
Quote from: maphdet on December 20, 2009, 11:25:05 PM
Grocery
Someone has got to tell how to say this fucking word.
I want your ways before I say my way---then you guys can make fun of me.
I say it "grow-shur-ee".
I say it "FOODS".
GROSCH-ree
and
HIM-ee-obs
BOAT-SKUPPEN
SCHEISSE GEYSER.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 21, 2009, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on December 21, 2009, 02:25:23 AM
Quote from: maphdet on December 20, 2009, 11:25:05 PM
Grocery
Someone has got to tell how to say this fucking word.
I want your ways before I say my way---then you guys can make fun of me.
I say it "grow-shur-ee".
I say it "FOODS".
LoL@FOODS--heh-I like that, simple and to the point-"Let's go to the food store."
I say 'grow-shur-ee' as well. Some friends and I were having a spiff about it-some said it was 'gross-ehr-ry'
Oh and I'm staying out of the 'HIMEOBS'
*is certain I probably will never be able to form that word out loud*
If someone says "Boy it sure is a winter wonderland out there!" again I will shit my fucking teeth. I want to drop these people into the middle of chugiak national park, naked, with an iPod playing Nat King Cole's Christmas album and see how wonderful the land is then.
Quote from: Alty on December 22, 2009, 02:08:23 AM
If someone says "Boy it sure is a winter wonderland out there!" again I will shit my fucking teeth. I want to drop these people into the middle of chugiak national park, naked, with an iPod playing Nat King Cole's Christmas album and see how wonderful the land is then.
Ha ha, yes!
I been saying that to everyone and what's more it's from the heart y'all
(http://missanthropy.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/buddy_christ.jpg)
Quote from: Alty on December 22, 2009, 02:08:23 AM
If someone says "Boy it sure is a winter wonderland out there!" again I will shit my fucking teeth. I want to drop these people into the middle of chugiak national park, naked, with an iPod playing Nat King Cole's Christmas album and see how wonderful the land is then.
FEEL THE RAGE!
:mittens:
Fashionista. I've always hated that word and even more so now due to a T J Maxx commerical.
Quote from: Mangrove on December 22, 2009, 09:27:24 PM
Fashionista. I've always hated that word and even more so now due to a T J Maxx commerical.
I am glad I have never had the pleasure of hearing that word (Fashionista) out loud.
Quote from: Mangrove on December 22, 2009, 09:27:24 PM
Fashionista. I've always hated that word and even more so now due to a T J Maxx commerical.
Oh christ yes! Or even worse: Frugalista.
:vom:
BTW, while we're on the subject this....
(http://missanthropy.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/buddy_christ.jpg)
needs to be an emote :sincerely:
Not the word itself, but its common usage: Unique
It means "one of a kind." So a thing either is unique, or it is not. There is no such thing as "very unique" or "somewhat unique;" there are no degrees of uniqueness.
Warning Hijack-
Quote from: Cainad on December 22, 2009, 10:36:36 PM
Not the word itself, but its common usage: Unique
It means "one of a kind." So a thing either is unique, or it is not. There is no such thing as "very unique" or "somewhat unique;" there are no degrees of uniqueness.
This reminded me of the Backyardygins (sp).
Ok apologies, carry on.
"Freegan".
:x
Quote from: Mangrove on December 22, 2009, 09:27:24 PM
Fashionista. I've always hated that word and even more so now due to a T J Maxx commerical.
:lulz: I know the ones you're talking about.
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on December 23, 2009, 05:20:46 AM
Quote from: Mangrove on December 22, 2009, 09:27:24 PM
Fashionista. I've always hated that word and even more so now due to a T J Maxx commerical.
:lulz: I know the ones you're talking about.
I'M A MERRY MAXXINISTA!!!
\
:walken: <---- Mangrove in front of the tv
Recreational
Defendent
Trasnsportation. (The point of sticking fucking "ation" on the end?)
Privilege
Peacekeeper
Enforcement
Alienate
Sycophantic
Pacified
Resettlement
Counter-insurgence
Legislation
Criminalise
Socialise
Contract
Nationalist
Custody
Penitentiary
Procedure
Cleanse
Plaintiff
Landlord
Trespass
Nice
Estimate
Verify
Security
I wondered where this thread got to!
There was a word, but I forgot it.
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/journal/proceedings2009.htm
Here's some of the latest to come out of language, interaction and culture at UCLA.
Socialism
I hate this word because it no longer means what it did and I'm sick of hearing it.
Quote from: Mangrove on May 11, 2010, 08:46:34 PM
Socialism
I hate this word because it no longer means what it did and I'm sick of hearing it.
Also fascism, democracy, republic, and capitalism.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 11, 2010, 08:50:08 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on May 11, 2010, 08:46:34 PM
Socialism
I hate this word because it no longer means what it did and I'm sick of hearing it.
Also fascism, democracy, republic, and capitalism.
Good point. I think we can safely dispense with most of the 'ism' words.
Quote from: Mangrove on May 11, 2010, 08:52:41 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 11, 2010, 08:50:08 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on May 11, 2010, 08:46:34 PM
Socialism
I hate this word because it no longer means what it did and I'm sick of hearing it.
Also fascism, democracy, republic, and capitalism.
Good point. I think we can safely dispense with most of the 'ism' words.
"Terrorism"...ie, "things we don't like."
If terrorism = things we don't like then, socialism = policies we don't understand?
Quote from: Mangrove on May 11, 2010, 08:57:05 PM
If terrorism = things we don't like then, socialism = policies we don't understand?
Socialism = things my boss doesn't like.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 11, 2010, 08:58:57 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on May 11, 2010, 08:57:05 PM
If terrorism = things we don't like then, socialism = policies we don't understand?
Socialism = things my boss doesn't like.
Socialism = Policies that don't favor white supremacy?
Quote from: Mangrove on May 11, 2010, 09:00:35 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 11, 2010, 08:58:57 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on May 11, 2010, 08:57:05 PM
If terrorism = things we don't like then, socialism = policies we don't understand?
Socialism = things my boss doesn't like.
Socialism = Policies that don't favor white supremacy?
DING!
Democracy = Fictional beast. Cf Unicorn
Ok, I have to admit to a bit of pedantry, because I just saw this and had to put it here, since it irks me when people (like my dear, dear cousin) say this word like this:
(http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/050310/drownding.gif)
Anything that's had "Neo" slapped in front of,it (Including "Anderson", sorry Keanu)
Prophylactic, Shizzle, (my bizzle) whatever, Brah, Nigger, Taleban, insurgent, Peacekeeper, Democracy, Stabilise, engage, Smack, ass, (It's Arse!) Electorate, Capital, Extradite, Re-convene.
appending "INO" to something to make an acronymous label that indicates "X in name only".
Seriously can you BE more banal?
Fustrate (it's FRUSTRATE you moron!)
Libary (library, goddammit)
"More better/stupider/anything else with the suffix -er" (um, learn2English)
Mutual
Posh
Kai
Sigmatic
Dok
Mang
Discordianism
newschannel
Ne+@uNGr0+
drawer (to refer to an artist)
poppycock
stratification
tort
Here's my new least favorite word:
OFFICLE
in October, our office is being redesigned. Everybody's cubicle is being replaced by an officle. What the fuck is that, you ask? IT'S NOT A CUBICLE, IT'S NOT AN OFFICE! Actually, it IS a cubicle but there's a sliding shower door, and little plastic windows so you can get a nice view of the hall.
"OFFICLE". say it out loud, it'll stick in your throat. And if anybody hears you say it, they'll smack you upside the head.
Wow. I didn't know that word existed.
Now I want to cockslap whoever invented it.
Quote from: LMNO on July 13, 2010, 02:43:18 PM
Wow. I didn't know that word existed.
Now I want to cockslap whoever invented it.
Probably a MBA somewhere; it's a degree in creative linguistics more than anything else.
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2010, 02:36:41 PM
Here's my new least favorite word:
OFFICLE
in October, our office is being redesigned. Everybody's cubicle is being replaced by an officle. What the fuck is that, you ask? IT'S NOT A CUBICLE, IT'S NOT AN OFFICE! Actually, it IS a cubicle but there's a sliding shower door, and little plastic windows so you can get a nice view of the hall.
"OFFICLE". say it out loud, it'll stick in your throat. And if anybody hears you say it, they'll smack you upside the head.
I SHAVED MY OFFICLES FOR THIS?
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2010, 02:36:41 PM
Here's my new least favorite word:
OFFICLE
in October, our office is being redesigned. Everybody's cubicle is being replaced by an officle. What the fuck is that, you ask? IT'S NOT A CUBICLE, IT'S NOT AN OFFICE! Actually, it IS a cubicle but there's a sliding shower door, and little plastic windows so you can get a nice view of the hall.
"OFFICLE". say it out loud, it'll stick in your throat. And if anybody hears you say it, they'll smack you upside the head.
GODDAMN, I LOVE THIS CENTURY! :lulz:
Confinement in a tiny cell = time honored form of torture. :lulz:
technically
logically
clearly
really
Quote from: Sigmatic on July 13, 2010, 08:21:52 PM
technically
logically
clearly
really
Yeah, using any other those implies the person you are addressing has no grasp of the reality of the word you chose.
Quote from: Richter on July 13, 2010, 04:01:23 PM
Confinement in a tiny cell = time honored form of torture. :lulz:
It is my understanding that the cubicle office setup was a reaction to the open office layout causing a 'peripheral vision startle reflex psychosis'. If i recall correctly it was found that when you have people staring at something on their desk for long periods of time it causes a problem, in that, when one normally catches movement out of the corner of their eye, they have a reflex to look at it. in the open office layout you continuously look at something (your desk) while ignoring a bunch of movement in your peripheral vision. this extended repression of a natural reflex was said to be the cause of 'psychotic-like' behavior. so they put up cubicle walls to prevent this...
probably bullshit, but i like it anyways....
If nothing else the cublice walls focus this onto one spot, directly behind you. I'd think this would make it worse. Anywyas, I've been much calmer at work since I installed mirrors.
Also, has anyone noticed the recent wave of "Everyday" in advertising?
Seeing that does my fucking head in.
ETA: Especially on a 1200 dollar chair. WHY DON'T YOU JUST RIDE A WHEELBARROW FULL OF DICK UP MY ASS YOU FENCEFUCKING COCKNOZZLE
Quote from: Richter on July 13, 2010, 09:01:35 PM
If nothing else the cublice walls focus this onto one spot, directly behind you. I'd think this would make it worse. Anywyas, I've been much calmer at work since I installed mirrors.
If it's directly behind you, then the only workers affected would be the prey species with eyes on the sides of their heads. There may be something to this, as there is a fellow i work with that
does suffer such an ill fated physiognomy, and he is a psychotic asshole.
When people use "Never" as a reaction. ("My brother won an award." "Never.")
The phrase "At the end of the day..."
Conglomerate
Flavourful and Flavoursome.
When they stick the word "solution" after another word as shorthand. "Debt solution" "home office solution" "data management solution"
eco-friendly (it's never mentioned whether they mean ecology or economy)
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2010, 02:36:41 PM
Here's my new least favorite word:
OFFICLE
in October, our office is being redesigned. Everybody's cubicle is being replaced by an officle. What the fuck is that, you ask? IT'S NOT A CUBICLE, IT'S NOT AN OFFICE! Actually, it IS a cubicle but there's a sliding shower door, and little plastic windows so you can get a nice view of the hall.
"OFFICLE". say it out loud, it'll stick in your throat. And if anybody hears you say it, they'll smack you upside the head.
First association for me was with "offal".
Everything any politician ever says. I can't point out specific words because they use words that are fine on their own, but somehow when combined in that magical formula that only a politician can concoct, they generate an impenetrable field of bullshit. Every time I hear another UN Security Council "resolution" that not only says nothing at all, but takes 35 pages of fine print to do it, suicide automatically moves up 3 slots on my list of vacation ideas.
Also,
"literally" when you don't really mean it. "I literally shit my pants." I hope not...
"exetra" - No. It's two words. "et cetera." Besides that, it's Latin, which puts it way out of your league: just don't try to use it.
"for real" - Just shut up right fucking now.
And misusing figures of speech and other word combinations:
"use to/suppose to" - No, moron. That doesn't make any sense. It's "used to."
"would/could/should of" - Fuck you. Die. Don't you even think about what you're saying or writing?
"myriad of X" - Myriad already means "a large quantity of." Don't add another of. It makes you look you were home-schooled in Kansas.
ROBUST.
I've started seeing that one in politics a lot recently. Used as icing to sell a plan of action.
Quote from: Mangrove on May 11, 2010, 09:00:35 PM
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If terrorism = things we don't like then, socialism = policies we don't understand?
Socialism = things my boss doesn't like.
Socialism = Policies that don't favor white supremacy?
um, you forgot national socialism.
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2010, 02:36:41 PM
Here's my new least favorite word:
OFFICLE
in October, our office is being redesigned. Everybody's cubicle is being replaced by an officle. What the fuck is that, you ask? IT'S NOT A CUBICLE, IT'S NOT AN OFFICE! Actually, it IS a cubicle but there's a sliding shower door, and little plastic windows so you can get a nice view of the hall.
"OFFICLE". say it out loud, it'll stick in your throat. And if anybody hears you say it, they'll smack you upside the head.
Should be pronounced orifice.
Orifice
maxillofacial
farce
ru-ut (how my stepfather, an otherwise articulate man, says "root")
Moist
Lip
wig
"an historical" (do you say "it's an his" when you mean "it's a his" as in "a his and hers"? NO YOU DON'T)
glower
"sick" when used to describe something as awesome. UGH
Moist LipWig sounds like some sort of victorian hip hop star.
MC Moist LipWig.
Quote from: BluTakDuck on August 02, 2010, 06:11:06 AM
Moist LipWig sounds like some sort of victorian hip hop star.
MC Moist LipWig.
:lulz:
Quote from: Xooxe on August 02, 2010, 03:38:49 AM
ROBUST.
I've started seeing that one in politics a lot recently. Used as icing to sell a plan of action.
It helps if you imagine the word to be a portmanteau for ROBOTIC BREASTS.
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 02, 2010, 07:58:33 AM
Quote from: Xooxe on August 02, 2010, 03:38:49 AM
ROBUST.
I've started seeing that one in politics a lot recently. Used as icing to sell a plan of action.
It helps if you imagine the word to be a portmanteau for ROBOTIC BREASTS.
like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-BOjok3DE
Quote from: BluTakDuck on August 02, 2010, 06:11:06 AM
Moist LipWig sounds like some sort of victorian hip hop star.
MC Moist LipWig.
Moist von Lipwig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moist_von_Lipwig)
Just gonna leave this here.
Quote from: vexati0n on August 01, 2010, 08:41:11 AM
"myriad of X" - Myriad already means "a large quantity of." Don't add another of. It makes you look you were home-schooled in Kansas.
"myriad X" and "myriad of X" are both correct. Myriad is both a noun (meaning a collection of 10,000 [or other large number] things)
and a cardinal adjective. So you can have a myriad of soldiers in the same way you can have a division of them or a flock of birds.
Quote from: vexati0n on August 01, 2010, 08:41:11 AM
"use to/suppose to" - No, moron. That doesn't make any sense. It's "used to."
"would/could/should of" - Fuck you. Die. Don't you even think about what you're saying or writing?
The "d" and "t" sounds in English differ only by whether your throat is vibrating when you make the noise. Because of this, when people say phrases like "used to" and "supposed to" it comes out like [eu] [ss] [d/t] [oo]. The -ed and t- just blend together, and there's no reason to write the same sound down twice when you only say it once.
"f" and "v" differ in the same way. And "have" is often abbreviated as [schwa] [v/f] or just [v/f] in speech - compare I've, you've, etc. "Of", of course, is always pronounced [schwa] [v/f]. So in practice, people would pronounce "should have" "should've" and "should of" in exactly the same way. "Should've" is obviously not a proper word (despite following the same convention as I've, etc) so people just use "should of" instead.
I'm talking about written words, mostly. Yes, they sound the same. That isn't the point. "Should of" makes no sense, grammatically or logically. It is "Should have." Failing to recognize that is one's writing is hard evidence of indefensible ignorance. Likewise, "Use to" is brainless crap that stems from an inability to comprehend basic elements of the English language and the fundamental origins of what you're saying, and therefore exposes a writer's utter lack of value as a human being.
Basically, if you cannot conjugate a verb, you should be buried alive in a tub of itching powder.
As for "myriad," you might be right but it still feels wrong.
[edit: fix grammar error. shut up.]
Ima
It is driving me nuts, my kids start so many sentences with Ima...
"Ima gonna do that when I finish beating my brother type of bullshit."
GRRRRRRRRR :argh!:
Since the written word was primarily invented as a vehicle to convey the spoken word, isn't it a bit pedantic and disproportionately purist to expect it to follow it's own rules? Surely the written word should follow the grammatical rules of the speaker's vocal style?
For instance, this sentence, when read back phonetically, in Liverpool, perfectly conveys the speakers wish to purchase a certain article, in a larger size, but regrets that his funds were insufficient to cover the cost.
"Iwah gunna gerra bigga one, burra neva hadda nuff cash on me"
So it's actually more accurate to write like that, rather than to follow Vexation's morbidly obsessive pedantism, and insistance upon formal written structure and syntax. Ima gonna shut up now.
Quote from: BadBeast on August 17, 2010, 09:34:13 PM
Since the written word was primarily invented as a vehicle to convey the spoken word, isn't it a bit pedantic and disproportionately purist to expect it to follow it's own rules? Surely the written word should follow the grammatical rules of the speaker's vocal style?
For instance, this sentence, when read back phonetically, in Liverpool, perfectly conveys the speakers wish to purchase a certain article, in a larger size, but regrets that his funds were insufficient to cover the cost.
"Iwah gunna gerra bigga one, burra neva hadda nuff cash on me"
So it's actually more accurate to write like that, rather than to follow Vexation's morbidly obsessive pedantism, and insistance upon formal written structure and syntax. Ima gonna shut up now.
So funny.
Ima gonna smack you now!
Ima gonna scally off den, before yez chin me. L8rs.
Quote from: BadBeast on August 17, 2010, 09:47:28 PM
Ima gonna scally off den, before yez chin me. L8rs.
:lulz:
web + seminar =
WEBINAR
:vom:
if you want to run a demonstration on the web, you don't need a new portmanteau. You need to go fuck yourself.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 17, 2010, 09:53:22 PM
web + seminar =
WEBINAR
:vom:
if you want to run a demonstration on the web, you don't need a new portmanteau. You need to go fuck yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv_XrLjy7to
Quote from: BadBeast on August 17, 2010, 09:34:13 PM
Since the written word was primarily invented as a vehicle to convey the spoken word, isn't it a bit pedantic and disproportionately purist to expect it to follow it's own rules? Surely the written word should follow the grammatical rules of the speaker's vocal style?
For instance, this sentence, when read back phonetically, in Liverpool, perfectly conveys the speakers wish to purchase a certain article, in a larger size, but regrets that his funds were insufficient to cover the cost.
"Iwah gunna gerra bigga one, burra neva hadda nuff cash on me"
So it's actually more accurate to write like that, rather than to follow Vexation's morbidly obsessive pedantism, and insistance upon formal written structure and syntax. Ima gonna shut up now.
Yes, let's all just speak our own dialects and spell things however we want to because it helps us feel like special unique butterflies/snowflakes/whatever. Let's also replace all the I's in the English language with J's, while we're at it.
Quote from: vexati0n on August 17, 2010, 10:46:51 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on August 17, 2010, 09:34:13 PM
Since the written word was primarily invented as a vehicle to convey the spoken word, isn't it a bit pedantic and disproportionately purist to expect it to follow it's own rules? Surely the written word should follow the grammatical rules of the speaker's vocal style?
For instance, this sentence, when read back phonetically, in Liverpool, perfectly conveys the speakers wish to purchase a certain article, in a larger size, but regrets that his funds were insufficient to cover the cost.
"Iwah gunna gerra bigga one, burra neva hadda nuff cash on me"
So it's actually more accurate to write like that, rather than to follow Vexation's morbidly obsessive pedantism, and insistance upon formal written structure and syntax. Ima gonna shut up now.
Yes, let's all just speak our own dialects and spell things however we want to because it helps us feel like special unique butterflies/snowflakes/whatever. Let's also replace all the I's in the English language with J's, while we're at it.
:lulz:
For what it's worth, I agree with both of you to some extent.
The rules of communication in English are useful (and maybe even necessary) to ensure that communication is standard and understandable over various kinds of cultural difficulties.
But if I want to write in Scots vernacular, for example, to reinforce whatever it is I am communicating, I will. There is more colour and life in it.
Quote from: vexati0n on August 01, 2010, 08:41:11 AM"would/could/should of" - Fuck you. Die. Don't you even think about what you're saying or writing?
The one that gets me is "that [adjective] of a [noun]". I don't even know if it's actually incorrect, but it makes people sound like they're twelve.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 17, 2010, 09:53:22 PMyou don't need a new portmanteau.
Why do you hate portable man gateau?
Quote from: Mistress Freeky, HRN on August 17, 2010, 04:26:45 PM
Quote from: BluTakDuck on August 02, 2010, 06:11:06 AM
Moist LipWig sounds like some sort of victorian hip hop star.
MC Moist LipWig.
Moist von Lipwig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moist_von_Lipwig)
Just gonna leave this here.
And yet I love that character.
More + a verb ending with -er
HAAAAAATE.
The "Ima" usage is part of what's known as "fast speech phenomenon." I'm sure many an ESL learner has scratched their heads hearing Americans (and Canadians?) say,
"I'munna go to the store."
The "gonna" that we usually put on the verb go ends up being transferred, because of the proximity of /m/ to /n/ in how they are pronounced in the mouth, so I'm becomes "I'munna"...which leaves you with "I'munna go."
As to the statement of "speaking our own dialects however we want," it doesn't usually work that way. You have to have a cohort of speakers who commonly use these constructs, and then they are transferred and used amongst the cohort, and they can spread to other cohorts.
As for writing, formalized writing will have its rules and whatnot, but transferring spoken discourse to the written is always subject to some sort of "tweaking." The spelling errors of dropping the unvoiced -ed at the end of words like "supposed" was already explained above--the brain doesn't recognize what it already knows about the verb due to how it's "smooshed together" when you're saying it.
The following combination of seemingly harmless words throws me into a fit of rage.
Duck
Confit
Taco
FUCK YUO DUCK CCONFIT TACO!! GAODDMIT YOU SHOULD NT EXIST
We may have to fight.
Duck confit is a delight. It also pairs well with chipotle, and would go amazingly well with a lime-dressed cabbage slaw and most certainly with cojita. All it needs is a small corn tortilla to finish it off.
BUT ITS ON A TACO! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!
FUCKING PRETENTIOUS ASS MENU, I HAET YOU FOREVER!
Hm...now I want one.
If it bothers you so much, then you'll be happier to know I much prefer lengua.
Quote from: Doktor Alphapance on August 20, 2010, 04:43:46 PM
If it bothers you so much, then you'll be happier to know I much prefer lengua.
Somehow, beef tongue doesn't bother me. Not even on a taco.
Quote from: Jenne on August 20, 2010, 04:43:05 PM
Hm...now I want one.
AAAAAARRRRRRGAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
"It seems we mixed your lab charts with the 89 year old man's in the next room."
"Have you ever seen a painting that didn't have a painter?"
When people say "Huh" as an affirmation: "Isn't that fucked up?" ; "Huh!".
When people use a word they don't understand in a context that is obviously incorrect:
"I had this dream last night that was so lucid it was like I was actually there."
Also, people who go leaps and bounds out of their way to actually conform to all the nit-picky, aristocratic pretense
of Proper Usage, as most of the things I find endlessly annoying are also endlessly amusing.
Anything a Welsh person says.
OH!
i particularly hate it when people say "Hint" when they mean "Tip"; I have a boss that say's "I'll give you a hint" all the time, when really he means "This is how I want this shit done."
"fritters"
I'm not sure the word can even be THOUGHT without thinking it in a southern drawl, much less speaking it. I imagine it's some sort of unholy southern offspring of the word "fried" and "critters" and It makes me angry when I go to a restaurant and have to read it..
and while I'm on it, "critters" just sucks as a word.
also, using "whatever" as a response to any other statement or using it at the beginning of a statement that answer's a question.
basically using it ever.
sorry if this one's been done before.
Quote from: The Dancing Pickle on September 03, 2010, 08:54:12 PM
"fritters"
I'm not sure the word can even be THOUGHT without thinking it in a southern drawl, much less speaking it. I imagine it's some sort of unholy southern offspring of the word "fried" and "critters" and It makes me angry when I go to a restaurant and have to read it..
and while I'm on it, "critters" just sucks as a word.
also, using "whatever" as a response to any other statement or using it at the beginning of a statement that answer's a question.
basically using it ever.
sorry if this one's been done before.
Its actually from the older English "Frytour" aka a little fried bun sort of thing.
"The"
Seriously WF is that word anyways. They should eliminate it from English language.
Quote from: Ratatosk on September 03, 2010, 08:56:52 PM
Quote from: The Dancing Pickle on September 03, 2010, 08:54:12 PM
"fritters"
I'm not sure the word can even be THOUGHT without thinking it in a southern drawl, much less speaking it. I imagine it's some sort of unholy southern offspring of the word "fried" and "critters" and It makes me angry when I go to a restaurant and have to read it..
and while I'm on it, "critters" just sucks as a word.
also, using "whatever" as a response to any other statement or using it at the beginning of a statement that answer's a question.
basically using it ever.
sorry if this one's been done before.
Its actually from the older English "Frytour" aka a little fried bun sort of thing.
I didn't bother to look it up, which is actually very unlike me.
thanks for the info, but I'm still going to hate the word.
especially when it's combined with the word "conch"
I love conch as a food.. but if I see it advertised as "conch fritters" I refuse to eat it.
Quote from: The Dancing Pickle on September 03, 2010, 09:05:15 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on September 03, 2010, 08:56:52 PM
Quote from: The Dancing Pickle on September 03, 2010, 08:54:12 PM
"fritters"
I'm not sure the word can even be THOUGHT without thinking it in a southern drawl, much less speaking it. I imagine it's some sort of unholy southern offspring of the word "fried" and "critters" and It makes me angry when I go to a restaurant and have to read it..
and while I'm on it, "critters" just sucks as a word.
also, using "whatever" as a response to any other statement or using it at the beginning of a statement that answer's a question.
basically using it ever.
sorry if this one's been done before.
Its actually from the older English "Frytour" aka a little fried bun sort of thing.
I didn't bother to look it up, which is actually very unlike me.
thanks for the info, but I'm still going to hate the word.
especially when it's combined with the word "conch"
I love conch as a food.. but if I see it advertised as "conch fritters" I refuse to eat it.
Had frytours as a dish in one of the SCA feasts I ran. They were OK, but a herby flavored bun with honey was not as good as I thought it would be.
"Experience the difference"
^ was on an information pamphlet for a college I want to go to, and I raaaaged for a moment.
"Poodle" :argh!:
Poodles rule, you just haven't met the right one.
Call them "Ben Franklins" if it helps you think of them as renowned diplomats.
Quote from: Sigmatic on September 04, 2010, 01:52:33 AM
Poodles rule, you just haven't met the right one.
Call them "Ben Franklins" if it helps you think of them as renowned diplomats.
It just makes me think that they're giving it to two French ladies.
Quote from: Sigmatic on September 04, 2010, 01:52:33 AM
Poodles rule, you just haven't met the right one.
Call them "Ben Franklins" if it helps you think of them as renowned diplomats.
I don't like to word. You're confusing this with the "Dogs that piss me off" thread, which would have Chihuahuas and Boston Terriers as my top 2. Training and personality is the big part of any dog though, as my aunt's bratty lab, and Angel the awesome pitbull prove.
Quote from: Sigmatic on September 04, 2010, 01:52:33 AM
Poodles rule, you just haven't met the right one.
Call them "Ben Franklins" if it helps you think of them as renowned diplomats.
Poodles, when not trained, are nasty, ill tempered bastards, I've heard.
The "Full-Package".
Unless, of course, used as :lmnuendo:
"Refresher"
Not the meaning, just the sound. The Germans couldn't come up with something so hideous.
"tactical"
Quote from: Mistress Freeky, HRN on September 04, 2010, 06:19:26 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on September 04, 2010, 01:52:33 AM
Poodles rule, you just haven't met the right one.
Call them "Ben Franklins" if it helps you think of them as renowned diplomats.
Poodles, when not trained, are nasty, ill tempered bastards, I've heard.
I knew one like that. She escaped (again) during a week of rainstorms, didn't come back for 9 or so days. And more than that, she had a taste for expensive things that are left in chewing range. And she insisted on crapping in the house. Once she managed to almost hang herself to death by a hook off the balcony. Wasn't there for that one, but still.
Quote from: Richter on September 04, 2010, 03:42:28 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on September 04, 2010, 01:52:33 AM
Poodles rule, you just haven't met the right one.
Call them "Ben Franklins" if it helps you think of them as renowned diplomats.
I don't like to word. You're confusing this with the "Dogs that piss me off" thread, which would have Chihuahuas and Boston Terriers as my top 2. Training and personality is the big part of any dog though, as my aunt's bratty lab, and Angel the awesome pitbull prove.
Ah, yeah. Labradors are a bit hit and miss, imxp.
My dog is half pit bull, half rottweiler, and half lab. Idk how that adds up but still. She's fucking crazy. I wanted to name her Eris but got overruled, so her name is Ava. She's really nice but she will scare the shit out of anyone who doesn't know that.
Oh...
I think I might have coined imxp (In my experience).
:(
Words that piss me off.
I have a nephew with down syndrome. He loves to play vidieo games. I really really hate that word down syndrome. It isn't a very nice word.
It's named after the man who discovered it. I agree - it certainly doesn't sound very nice. What would you call it instead?
"Chortle"
Quote from: Nurse Enabler on September 05, 2010, 06:18:32 PM
I have a nephew with down syndrome. He loves to play vidieo games. I really really hate that word down syndrome. It isn't a very nice word.
Me either, I prefer the term
Mongoloid.
Quote from: vexati0n on September 05, 2010, 10:03:02 PM
Quote from: Nurse Enabler on September 05, 2010, 06:18:32 PM
I have a nephew with down syndrome. He loves to play vidieo games. I really really hate that word down syndrome. It isn't a very nice word.
Me either, I prefer the term Mongoloid.
It sounds much more macho.
I'm not a massive fan of the words, Pillock, Burke or chops. They make me go all funny and dizz..............
"Assholic", which one of my best friends says regularly. I'm slowly breaking him of it.
Using "you know?" as a filler word (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_word).
I hate that so many different things all have the same name: love.
the words "moist" and "tender" when used in the same sentence.
makes me think of an open wound.
Quote from: The Dancing Pickle on October 06, 2010, 01:22:17 PM
the words "moist" and "tender" when used in the same sentence.
makes me think of an open wound.
Totally agree with you on this one. They're two perfectly descriptive words, and the sounds of them don't annoy me as much as some others, but they are so often lumped together and overused in context by food commercials that they make me want to punch throats. Liek the "Romeo and Juliet" overture (I'm fairly certian that's the name.) Fine piece of classica music, but it's overplayed so much to try to summon up the context of "head over heals in love", that I can't stand the fucking thing.
As much as I lvoe good food, I have NEVER felt that way about a low calorie cake or sandwich cookie snack. Look forward to feeling the same way towards Hendrix and Elvis when their stuff passes into the realms of liberty free use.
Quote from: The Dancing Pickle on October 06, 2010, 01:22:17 PM
the words "moist" and "tender" when used in the same sentence.
makes me think of an open wound.
it makes me think of a vagina, which is probably why they are used together in commercials so often.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on October 07, 2010, 12:27:35 AM
Quote from: The Dancing Pickle on October 06, 2010, 01:22:17 PM
the words "moist" and "tender" when used in the same sentence.
makes me think of an open wound.
it makes me think of a vagina, which is probably why they are used together in commercials so often.
Me too. :oops:
Talking of commercials and vaginas, last week, I went to a Supermarket, to get a particular brand of breakfast cereal for a friend. I couldn't find it on the shelves, so I asked the girl who was stacking, "Can you show me where your Crispy Cunt is"?
I really did mean to say "Country Crisp". Honestly.
i wouldn't think that would be moist or tender
"addicting"
It's "addictIVE"
Quote from: Hover Cat on October 08, 2010, 09:13:40 PM
"addicting"
It's "addictIVE"
WRONG.
ADDICTING (verb). Ex: I'M ADDICTING THIS HERE SHEEP.
Duly noted. I still hate the word.
Quote from: BadBeast on October 08, 2010, 01:18:05 AM
Talking of commercials and vaginas, last week, I went to a Supermarket, to get a particular brand of breakfast cereal for a friend. I couldn't find it on the shelves, so I asked the girl who was stacking, "Can you show me where your Crispy Cunt is"?
I really did mean to say "Country Crisp". Honestly.
:lol:
So what was the reaction of the young lady you slipped over?
Quote from: Iptuous on October 08, 2010, 09:33:17 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 08, 2010, 01:18:05 AM
Talking of commercials and vaginas, last week, I went to a Supermarket, to get a particular brand of breakfast cereal for a friend. I couldn't find it on the shelves, so I asked the girl who was stacking, "Can you show me where your Crispy Cunt is"?
I really did mean to say "Country Crisp". Honestly.
:lol:
So what was the reaction of the young lady you slipped over?
Initially, baffled horror, but when I explained,
she got embarrassed, laughed, then went to the storeroom and got me a box. When she came back with it she was still blushing.
Words are virus you need meds if you use words but you ned meds anywy cause you get mad at sound patterns and lisps elitest bitches elitestbitchs all teaparty advocates "i'm gonna CONFUSE people, haha so funny I care so much about feelings I must be outer emo. I want to CHANGE the WORLD for the better/worse cant make up my mind about anything cause I'm sooooooooooo discordian is not even fair
Quote from: Daego on October 24, 2010, 07:31:14 PM
Words are virus you need meds if you use words but you ned meds anywy cause you get mad at sound patterns and lisps elitest bitches elitestbitchs all teaparty advocates "i'm gonna CONFUSE people, haha so funny I care so much about feelings I must be outer emo. I want to CHANGE the WORLD for the better/worse cant make up my mind about anything cause I'm sooooooooooo discordian is not even fair
You're about typical for Eastern Indiana.
Quote from: Daego on October 24, 2010, 07:31:14 PM
Words are virus you need meds if you use words but you ned meds anywy cause you get mad at sound patterns and lisps elitest bitches elitestbitchs all teaparty advocates "i'm gonna CONFUSE people, haha so funny I care so much about feelings I must be outer emo. I want to CHANGE the WORLD for the better/worse cant make up my mind about anything cause I'm sooooooooooo discordian is not even fair
see page 63
:argh!:*lola* :argh!:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 08, 2009, 03:26:07 PM
"Smorgasbord" no one can say it without sounding like a complete fucking retard. I don't care who the fuck you are, if you say this in my presence I will fuck you up both physically and emotionally.
Lololol
I hate the word YOLO.
That's a new one since before the last pre-Bearman post.
Oh, and swagger.
Especially when rhymed with Jagger.
I hate "antidisestablishmentarianism". HATE.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 04:56:21 AM
I hate the word YOLO.
That's a new one since before the last pre-Bearman post.
I think YOLO is funny and douchey. And then I learned about Lesbian-owned YOLO color, so now I have this whole entirely different association with it, which is earth friendly! http://www.yolocolorhouse.com/#2
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 05:33:56 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 04:56:21 AM
I hate the word YOLO.
That's a new one since before the last pre-Bearman post.
I think YOLO is funny and douchey. And then I learned about Lesbian-owned YOLO color, so now I have this whole entirely different association with it, which is earth friendly! http://www.yolocolorhouse.com/#2
Oh man.
:lulz: Yeah that kinda changes things
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 05:38:43 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 05:33:56 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 04:56:21 AM
I hate the word YOLO.
That's a new one since before the last pre-Bearman post.
I think YOLO is funny and douchey. And then I learned about Lesbian-owned YOLO color, so now I have this whole entirely different association with it, which is earth friendly! http://www.yolocolorhouse.com/#2
Oh man.
:lulz: Yeah that kinda changes things
also
You
Obviously
Like
Owls
'Solidarity' still gives me spasms after having it misused so much in high school.
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 09, 2013, 05:57:30 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 05:38:43 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 05:33:56 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 04:56:21 AM
I hate the word YOLO.
That's a new one since before the last pre-Bearman post.
I think YOLO is funny and douchey. And then I learned about Lesbian-owned YOLO color, so now I have this whole entirely different association with it, which is earth friendly! http://www.yolocolorhouse.com/#2
Oh man.
:lulz: Yeah that kinda changes things
also
You
Obviously
Like
Owls
:lulz:
"Blag".
I've usually heard it in a context of 'managed to lie my way out of trouble'.
'I blagged my way past the police officer' or 'he tried to blag his way out of being fired, but it didn't work', that sort of thing. I've never heard it used in another context, but I'm mostly london-based, I can believe it means other things up'tut north or in the wilds of the south.
Quote from: Demolition Squid on October 09, 2013, 10:28:13 PM
I've usually heard it in a context of 'managed to lie my way out of trouble'.
'I blagged my way past the police officer' or 'he tried to blag his way out of being fired, but it didn't work', that sort of thing. I've never heard it used in another context, but I'm mostly london-based, I can believe it means other things up'tut north or in the wilds of the south.
There is no South in England. After Cornwall (which is still North), you're in the ocean.
I've come to hate the word "literally" because a lot of people use it incorrectly. Sean Hannity is one of the worst offenders.
"Authentic," "artisan," "communal," "workers'" (the possessive), "awareness."
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 09:34:27 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 09:30:44 PM
"Blag".
English verb, "to rip off, rob, or steal".
Yeah, typically used online because "repost" or "share" isn't pretentious enough.
I can see that, in terms of "raising awareness," which usually means "Sharing" something on FaceBook.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 09:28:47 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 09, 2013, 05:57:30 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 05:38:43 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 05:33:56 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 09, 2013, 04:56:21 AM
I hate the word YOLO.
That's a new one since before the last pre-Bearman post.
I think YOLO is funny and douchey. And then I learned about Lesbian-owned YOLO color, so now I have this whole entirely different association with it, which is earth friendly! http://www.yolocolorhouse.com/#2
Oh man.
:lulz: Yeah that kinda changes things
also
You
Obviously
Like
Owls
:lulz:
That is what YOLO means to me, anyway.
Quote from: Demolition Squid on October 09, 2013, 10:28:13 PM
I've usually heard it in a context of 'managed to lie my way out of trouble'.
'I blagged my way past the police officer' or 'he tried to blag his way out of being fired, but it didn't work', that sort of thing. I've never heard it used in another context, but I'm mostly london-based, I can believe it means other things up'tut north or in the wilds of the south.
Blag used to mean "get into something for free" down here. Like getting free stuff or onto a guest list for a club or gig or summat..
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 11:27:44 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 09:34:27 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 09:30:44 PM
"Blag".
English verb, "to rip off, rob, or steal".
Yeah, typically used online because "repost" or "share" isn't pretentious enough.
Just wanted to make sure we were on the same page.
Yeah, it is annoying as shit, and scattered all over TDS2013 like Goddamn pigeon poop.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 09, 2013, 11:52:12 PM
I can see that, in terms of "raising awareness," which usually means "Sharing" something on FaceBook.
Raising "awareness" has meant all flavor of stupid shit in my life, including "protesting the Iraq war in a town full of hippies and no decision makers" and "Kony 2012." Also, it's Pinktober and I'm pissed.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 10, 2013, 02:05:46 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 09, 2013, 11:52:12 PM
I can see that, in terms of "raising awareness," which usually means "Sharing" something on FaceBook.
Raising "awareness" has meant all flavor of stupid shit in my life, including "protesting the Iraq war in a town full of hippies and no decision makers" and "Kony 2012." Also, it's Pinktober and I'm pissed.
Awareness=/=action.
I'm plenty aware. I'm not doing much about it. Raising my awareness is a waste of resources and time.
Also with the Kony thing, as Cain said, removing Kony will just allow some other child conscripting douche to take his place. Congrats. You took out one scumbag and allowed another to take his place.
Oh hay. Our pro-Western dictator just got ousted by an anti-Western dictator. Let's freedom the fuck out of them, even though we couldn't be arsed to freedom the fuck out of them before.
However, "awareness" unspoken or not, was a pivotal aspect of BIP. Becoming aware of your bars, your cell, the prison, the available paths, etc., etc.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 02:29:23 AM
However, "awareness" unspoken or not, was a pivotal aspect of BIP. Becoming aware of your bars, your cell, the prison, the available paths, etc., etc.
The word still pisses me off.
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 02:29:23 AM
However, "awareness" unspoken or not, was a pivotal aspect of BIP. Becoming aware of your bars, your cell, the prison, the available paths, etc., etc.
Fair, but I always considered the BIP to be a user guide for the self rather than a goad to change society. The problem I see with "awareness" is that it identifies symptoms and not problems.
To take the Kony thing, it singled out this one guy like he was the root of the evil of child soldiers. He's not. The evils of being human are very complex. If they weren't we'd all be living in a utopian society right now. We've had writing for about 6000 years and urban settlement for almost 10,000. If awareness were sufficient, we'd have colonists on exoplanets a long time ago.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 02:38:50 AM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 02:29:23 AM
However, "awareness" unspoken or not, was a pivotal aspect of BIP. Becoming aware of your bars, your cell, the prison, the available paths, etc., etc.
Fair, but I always considered the BIP to be a user guide for the self rather than a goad to change society. The problem I see with "awareness" is that it identifies symptoms and not problems.
Yes, but awareness is a micro and macro-level tool.
Are you REALLY not discerning the difference between the way the word is used in the complaint and the way you just used it?
Because it appears, in context, functionally, that you just used a classic troll move.
You might not realize it. Maybe. But it was, like, blatantly explained upthread.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on October 10, 2013, 02:38:50 AM
Quote from: Be Kind, Please RWHNd on October 10, 2013, 02:29:23 AM
However, "awareness" unspoken or not, was a pivotal aspect of BIP. Becoming aware of your bars, your cell, the prison, the available paths, etc., etc.
Fair, but I always considered the BIP to be a user guide for the self rather than a goad to change society. The problem I see with "awareness" is that it identifies symptoms and not problems.
To take the Kony thing, it singled out this one guy like he was the root of the evil of child soldiers. He's not. The evils of being human are very complex. If they weren't we'd all be living in a utopian society right now. We've had writing for about 6000 years and urban settlement for almost 10,000. If awareness were sufficient, we'd have colonists on exoplanets a long time ago.
I have been thinking about the BIP in terms of awareness of others perspectives and experiences recently and have found it pretty useful to get my head around intersectionality... That's a post for another time tho.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 10, 2013, 04:24:59 AM
Are you REALLY not discerning the difference between the way the word is used in the complaint and the way you just used it?
Because it appears, in context, functionally, that you just used a classic troll move.
You might not realize it. Maybe. But it was, like, blatantly explained upthread.
You know how trolls
pretend to not get things to wind people up? Dipshits genuinely don't get things. It still winds people up.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 10, 2013, 04:24:59 AM
Are you REALLY not discerning the difference between the way the word is used in the complaint and the way you just used it?
Because it appears, in context, functionally, that you just used a classic troll move.
You might not realize it. Maybe. But it was, like, blatantly explained upthread.
The author of the OP also expressed that they hated the word in the context I used it, so, your complaint, I'm afraid, is moot.
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 10, 2013, 11:02:04 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 10, 2013, 04:24:59 AM
Are you REALLY not discerning the difference between the way the word is used in the complaint and the way you just used it?
Because it appears, in context, functionally, that you just used a classic troll move.
You might not realize it. Maybe. But it was, like, blatantly explained upthread.
The author of the OP also expressed that they hated the word in the context I used it, so, your complaint, I'm afraid, is moot.
I vote we nuke every one of his posts from orbit.
Quote from: Pixie on October 09, 2013, 11:58:07 PM
Quote from: Demolition Squid on October 09, 2013, 10:28:13 PM
I've usually heard it in a context of 'managed to lie my way out of trouble'.
'I blagged my way past the police officer' or 'he tried to blag his way out of being fired, but it didn't work', that sort of thing. I've never heard it used in another context, but I'm mostly london-based, I can believe it means other things up'tut north or in the wilds of the south.
Blag used to mean "get into something for free" down here. Like getting free stuff or onto a guest list for a club or gig or summat..
We used to call that swag, in the US.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 12:07:25 AM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 11:27:44 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 09, 2013, 09:34:27 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 09, 2013, 09:30:44 PM
"Blag".
English verb, "to rip off, rob, or steal".
Yeah, typically used online because "repost" or "share" isn't pretentious enough.
Just wanted to make sure we were on the same page.
Yeah, it is annoying as shit, and scattered all over TDS2013 like Goddamn pigeon poop.
It's like a toddler with a new word. Adorable.
NEWSFLASH: It's totally OK for people to hate things other people like. It doesn't make them wrong, it just makes them different.
I have still never read the whole of the BIP. Parts of it, but not the whole thing. It isn't important to me. That's not to make light of the people who put hard work into it or for whom it IS important.
Furthermore, someone getting a personal chill of loathing when a word is used in a certain context does not invalidate all uses of that word.
Seriously, I mean, come the fuck on.
I mean OMG SOMEBODY HATES A WORD I MUST ARGUE WITH THEM AND TELL THEM THEY'RE WRONG.
The fuck :lol:
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 04:42:17 PM
I mean OMG SOMEBODY HATES A WORD I MUST ARGUE WITH THEM AND TELL THEM THEY'RE WRONG.
The fuck :lol:
He's TSGitR. Someone has to give You People
direction, and I guess he got drafted again (sigh).
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 10, 2013, 04:45:17 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 04:42:17 PM
I mean OMG SOMEBODY HATES A WORD I MUST ARGUE WITH THEM AND TELL THEM THEY'RE WRONG.
The fuck :lol:
He's TSGitR. Someone has to give You People direction, and I guess he got drafted again (sigh).
I don't even. The constant contrarian "nope"ing makes me wonder if he has a brain tumor.
"Organic". The most ill-used, over-hyped word in the entire history of the English language.
Yes, your veggies are organic. If they weren't you'd BREAK YOUR FUCKING TEETH. And now EVERYTHING is "organic". Why? Because it fucking SELLS SHIT. The SAME shit as everyone ELSE is selling, but it's ORGANIC.
It occurs to me that *I* am organic. And you should all buy me.
At least it kind of makes sense when it's related to food, because it refers to a specific process of using all-carbon-based nutrient sources and no antibiotics or hormones to grow the food, which in turn forces farmers to grow in more sanitary conditions. In Oregon it's illegal to label a food product "organic" unless it meets specific guidelines. It makes NO SENSE AT ALL related to lube, I'm like, :? what is it? Where does it come from? What does it mean? I went to some websites and found no answers there.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 05:46:39 PM
At least it kind of makes sense when it's related to food, because it refers to a specific process of using all-carbon-based nutrient sources and no antibiotics or hormones to grow the food, which in turn forces farmers to grow in more sanitary conditions. In Oregon it's illegal to label a food product "organic" unless it meets specific guidelines. It makes NO SENSE AT ALL related to lube, I'm like, :? what is it? Where does it come from? What does it mean? I went to some websites and found no answers there.
My food is grown in dirt.
I'm going to die.
JTTP.
I know what you mean.
I really want to know what "organic" lube is. Is it basically aloe vera gel? Or vegetable oil? Why won't they tell me?
"conversation" or "discussion"
In my line of work, I'll hear these words used in very mind-numbing ways. Like when we are in a meeting and someone says, "We need to have the conversation about how to do X". Or you bring up an issue and someone says "Let's have that discussion". Or when it gets downright stupid and someone actually says, "Let's have a discussion about how to have that conversation". more often than not it is just verbal punting.
No, we are talking NOW!
I also hate when my ex-wife wants to have a "discussion" about something for which she has already made up her mind and there is nothing really to discuss except how much of an immovable object she is. :lol:
Or when "discussion" is used to describe an event where one person is talking. For an example, an article with one author and no comments section is not a discussion.
The word that pisses me off the most?
"Whatever".
Specifically, when the message wants to convey "After mulling it over, I have no opinion positive or negative, so I abstain," but what the message means is "I don't really want to think about this, but be sure I'll have an opinion about it when someone else makes a choice."
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 10, 2013, 06:05:00 PM
The word that pisses me off the most?
"Whatever".
Specifically, when the message wants to convey "After mulling it over, I have no opinion positive or negative, so I abstain," but what the message means is "I don't really want to think about this, but be sure I'll have an opinion about it when someone else makes a choice."
My personal peeve with it is when it is used as a conversation-stopper.
"I disagree, but I am not going to respond."
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 10, 2013, 06:05:00 PM
The word that pisses me off the most?
"Whatever".
Specifically, when the message wants to convey "After mulling it over, I have no opinion positive or negative, so I abstain," but what the message means is "I don't really want to think about this, but be sure I'll have an opinion about it when someone else makes a choice."
Oh hell yes. It's used as a shutdown, and it's insulting as hell. I use it in two ways; one; directed at myself, as a way of reminding myself to let something go, and two, as a way to piss someone off, to convey that I think they're trivial.
Yeah, the dismissive nature of it is infuriating.
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 05:51:20 PM
I really want to know what "organic" lube is. Is it basically aloe vera gel? Or vegetable oil? Why won't they tell me?
there are 2 main brands, being Sliquid and Yes lube. They are both aloe based...
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Quote from: Cain on October 15, 2013, 07:09:18 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on October 09, 2013, 02:04:39 PM
'Solidarity' still gives me spasms after having it misused so much in high school.
That is because you refuse to show solidarity with the X people, and refuse to condemn the fascist aggression of Y people against X, which is an assault on civilization itself. This makes you complicit in Y people's departure from universal principles of democracy and constitutes a form of appeasement. The good intentions of X people in their intervention against Y, under the moderate leadership of Mr X, cannot be held hostage to liberal guilt, nor the conspiracy theorizing of the academic/media complex, and its false moral equivalences. The mainstream liberal culture must understand that objectively speaking, military targets chosen in good faith still constitutes self defence and that no-one could have predicted that a school would be on top of a secret military compound. That X people were willing to countenance a surgical strike shows the will to victory, which will deter future act of terrorism.
Any other position is simply unserious.
:lulz:
Nam-Shub.
It never fucking works.