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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 12:29:51 GMT
Reading something today, I realized that I absolutely despise the term "to munch" when referring to human beings eating. I have no idea why, probably the visual image that it gives me.
I never forgot a teacher that I had who would have a fit whenever I would use the word "despite." "I can't stand to see that! You should write 'in spite of' instead. 'Despite' is just so ugly."
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Post by lagatta on Apr 14, 2014 12:45:36 GMT
I also hate the munch words as applied to humans, but sometimes munch, munchy, munchies are appropriate, when humans are eating a bit as bovines do. A while back, bixa mentioned "crispy" - "crisp" is a much crisper word.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 13:38:00 GMT
No words per se send me into a tizzy. My father cringes at the use of "tasty" for some reason. However, I object to words being used incorrectly. Friends know never to use the word "impact" as a verb around me. I'm so last century, I know, but it just sets my teeth on edge. I won't even get into "impactful".
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Post by Kimby on Apr 14, 2014 14:50:28 GMT
"Improper" word uses are becoming standard usage.
"Copy me any email you send to him" struck me as so strange the first time I heard it. As it saves time and words, though, I've come to accept it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 16:55:03 GMT
I dunno. I might unfriend some people if it goes too far.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2014 17:30:50 GMT
I agree with LaGatta that munch would occasionally be appropriate, but yeah, it is somehow irritating.
The food-related word that I hate is "sip". WHY in every reference to tea, are people always sipping it? It has such an annoying raised-pinky tone to it.
I've ranted elsewhere about "veggies" (almost puked writing that), but any baby talk word by adults sets my teeth on edge. This one may be dying out, thank goodness: "pooter" instead of computer. Wouldn't pooter be something one does after eating beansies?
When I mentioned "crispy" (shudder) earlier, it was to point out that crisp is all the word that is needed. Saying "crispy" is tantamount to saying "funnyy" for funny.
Lizzy, strangely enough the word delicious used to affect me the way that tasty affects your dad. What I hate is tasty used to describe things that aren't food. Ditto edgy used to mean cutting edge instead of um, edgy.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 17:41:34 GMT
That was a delicious post, Bixa.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2014 0:48:02 GMT
Too late, Kerouac -- I've long since gotten over my dislike of delicicious. I know you don't have a Munchkin imagination, so can find something more apt with which to twit.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 15, 2014 1:23:27 GMT
There is worse, bixa. (By the way, I was a bit sloppy: I should have pointed out that you were decrying "crispy" and promoting the much lovelier "crisp").
A crispy crisp seems like a wisp but lingers long around the hisps.
Perhaps "crispy" only refers to foods that are crispy due to fried fat? One would never say a crispy apple.
I sometimes post at chowhound. Their house writers are far less obnoxious and gung-ho than some years back, when they talked about "deliciousness"
I wanted to be sick.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2014 2:52:33 GMT
One wouldn't say that, but "they" often do.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 13:19:35 GMT
"Proactive" sends me up the wall.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 14:51:00 GMT
Closure.
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Post by bjd on Mar 12, 2015 8:05:09 GMT
"gifting"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2015 11:13:11 GMT
Ooh, I like your thinking, people!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2015 22:36:21 GMT
"feminazi"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2015 23:43:14 GMT
On travel forum, I see more and more people who ask about training it rather than flying. My blood curdles.
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Post by lugg on Mar 13, 2015 19:16:41 GMT
"Just sayin"
Even worse with a missing "g"
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2015 5:49:34 GMT
Bjd & Lugg ~~ yes! and yes!
I realize that this is a real word, but something about it sets my teeth on edge: horrific.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 16:19:06 GMT
That one, "horrific", I'm trying to understand the disdain or as the OP deems "hate". More so curious than being contrary.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 17:25:48 GMT
A lot of the hated words are hated because they are used much too often and in mostly inappropriate circumstances.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 14, 2015 20:11:26 GMT
"Whom" can drop out of the dictionary, if you ask me. It almost never sounds right, unless there's a "to" in front of it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 20:57:42 GMT
Anarchist!
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Post by Kimby on Mar 14, 2015 22:35:28 GMT
Depends on whom you ask! Grates on my ears.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2015 22:39:53 GMT
What makes me crazy about horrific and any form of gift-used-as-a-verb is how those words get glommed upon and used ad nauseam. It makes the users sound so mindlessly copy-cattish. Everything now is "horrific", to the exclusion of appalling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmare, nightmarish, shocking, terrible, or any other word that served perfectly well in the recent past. Ditto gift-as-a-verb. Why? If I give someone something, I did not lend, sell, trade, nor rent it, which makes it a gift -- which means I don't need to beat listeners over the head with the concept by saying I gifted it. And hearing that someone was gifted with something makes me wish I didn't even know English so I'd never have to be that irritated again. Here -- The Atlantic says it better than I: www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/gifting-is-not-a-verb/383676/
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 22:48:44 GMT
I don't even impact people. I prefer to make an impact.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2015 23:21:48 GMT
"to impact" seems as though it should mean "to constipate".
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Post by Kimby on Mar 14, 2015 23:25:22 GMT
Any misused word, especially OVER-used misused words, makes me cranky.
Like "reticent" which has suddenly broadened its meaning to include both hesitant and reluctant, when I'm pretty sure its true meaning has to do with a tendency not to SPEAK.
Also, "massive", which has a specific definition pertaining to weight per volume, is constantly misused to apply to anything large or significant, whether it is dense or not.
And anymore, the word "anymore" is misused like I just did! It's original use was at the END of a sentence to negate something that once was, but isn't anymore.
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Post by questa on Mar 15, 2015 0:07:50 GMT
The word that grates on me is the pronunciation of "mischievous" as "mischeevy-ous". Once the sign of poorly educated it is now creeping in to TV and radio talking heads, thus giving it credibility. My kids used to wind me up by using it deliberately to get my response.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 15, 2015 0:13:13 GMT
Since when do talking heads have any credibility?
And I agree "mischeevious" is just plain wrong.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 24, 2015 15:43:44 GMT
Unthaw. No, it doesn't mean freeze. It means the same thing as "thaw". I just came across that particular horror.
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