You know they're out there, words that make you need a cool cloth to your head when someone says them aloud. Words that can ruin enjoyment of a decent novel.
Share your (moist, creamy) instruments of torture here.
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Eustacia -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 09:38:56 PM --
28 of 1814
Krusticus Rex
VanPear, I really just don't like those words. I don't dislike their meanings, but phonetically they conjure up all sort of unpleasant textures. 'Baffle' sounds fibrous and tough like a mat of hair, and 'Cornucopia' is too much like 'corpulent'. I won't get started on 'squab'.
I probably need counseling for this, don't I?
Phil -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 09:44:47 PM --
29 of 1814
I'm pretty sure Strunk and White urge us to eschew "irregardless".
My mother hated "shutup".
Nay -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 09:46:26 PM --
30 of 1814
Why? Fuck you, that's why.
Roar and mercury. I don't know why, but both of these words are really hard for me to pronounce properly. So I hate them.
Brigit M -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:00:49 PM --
31 of 1814
I think most mothers hate "shut up," Phil. I hate it now that I'm a mother, too. I knew one mother who told her children it was a nastier word than "fuck."
palmist -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:02:14 PM --
32 of 1814
My mom came from the anti-shutup tribe too. I personally don't much like buttocks.
j. ross -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:02:36 PM --
33 of 1814
Shut up. Do not!
Brigit M -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:03:12 PM --
34 of 1814
There's no really good word or phrase for that part of the body- one that works in all contexts, that is. I tend to fall back on "rear end." My mother said "heinie," which I hated.
Reggae Junkie -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:07:57 PM --
35 of 1814
Some of the words I hate are really phrases, but some are just words.:
Big toe
Navel
Armpit
Lunch meat
insert
bra strap
Nicola O. -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:08:33 PM --
36 of 1814
my blog: http://alphaheroes.blogspot.com
I try to use "bottom." We also succomb to the crude and use "butt" pretty regularly.
Harri P. -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:09:30 PM --
37 of 1814
such a fucking bitch about taupe and borders and fireplace mantles that aren't just so
Boob. Panties. Swimsuit.
Biscuit -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:11:53 PM --
38 of 1814
LITTLE PINK SOCK / LITTLE PINK SOCK
I kinda like "boob" when it refers to someone who is an idiot.
Hate "retard".
Harri P. -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:13:53 PM --
39 of 1814
such a fucking bitch about taupe and borders and fireplace mantles that aren't just so
I like boob when it refers to idiot. I cannot fucking stand it when people use it to refer to breasts. I'm not sure whether it annoys me more when women or men use it. Women should know better; men just sound crude and revolting to me. I also hate when women refer to their breasts as "the girls." Yuck.
"Swimsuit" to me just sounds really tightassed. Possibly because I grew up saying "bathing suit."
Brigit M -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:14:58 PM --
40 of 1814
Hate "retard".
Which leads me to a pet hate: "gay" used generically to mean laughable or stupid. Every few weeks I hear this from someone in his 30s or more. Unbelievable.
Alystra -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:16:32 PM --
41 of 1814
A minute passed. After a moment, another minute passed. I waited a minute while a minute passed quickly past. And then, a minute which seemed to last an hour but was only a minute... passed.
The "word" I hate the most is "a lot", written as one word. For some reason, seeing it spelled that way just makes me seethe. Sometimes I actually resort to holding my hand up so it covers that non-word, to allow me to read the rest of the paragraph in which it appears.
Biscuit -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:19:12 PM --
42 of 1814
LITTLE PINK SOCK / LITTLE PINK SOCK
Alystra, I was thinking of that one, too.
tikibar -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:30:33 PM --
43 of 1814
What is wrong with me? I LIKE panties and certainly wear them, not underwear. I hate, hate G-String.
Susanne -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:31:03 PM --
44 of 1814
Susanne
I hate like nine kinds of hell when the word "come", as used to describe either an orgasm or its resulting goo, is misspelled as a 3-letter word I won't even type out.
Yes!! And boob. And titties (not tits). Vulva.
tikibar -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:31:07 PM --
45 of 1814
oh yes, and COMFY instead of comfortable, and FIXIN'S.
Susanne -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:32:37 PM --
46 of 1814
Susanne
Hubby.
Biscuit -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 10:34:42 PM --
47 of 1814
LITTLE PINK SOCK / LITTLE PINK SOCK
Yes, hubby. Hate hubby.
