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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Maizie B. -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:07:46 PM --
8 of 1806
goosepimple
kismet -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:09:19 PM --
9 of 1806
losing points on my "stay out of the asylum" score
Oh, I hate panties too! Everybody I know has to refer to them as underthings.
VanPear -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:10:03 PM --
10 of 1806
Also I hate all faux-word businessdrone speak
Like, say, sandbar?
Biscuit -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:10:47 PM --
11 of 1806
LITTLE PINK SOCK / LITTLE PINK SOCK
Like, say, sandbar?
Har har
Say - what about skanties?
Elizabeth Barrett -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:10:47 PM --
12 of 1806
I don't patronize bunny rabbits.
I like underpants, or underwears. Panties is not allowed.
Biscuit -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:11:09 PM --
13 of 1806
LITTLE PINK SOCK / LITTLE PINK SOCK
I say underpants too.
Mistress Manners -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:11:52 PM --
14 of 1806
Still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model.
utilize.
There is just no reason not to use "use."
Maizie B. -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:13:57 PM --
15 of 1806
mature, when pronounced ma-tour (as opposed to ma-chur)
VanPear -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:15:06 PM --
16 of 1806
I guess it's two words, but mother's milk squicks me terribly.
kismet -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:18:06 PM --
17 of 1806
losing points on my "stay out of the asylum" score
Van, aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! What is it supposed to mean?!
Dear Lord, I have the vapors!
susan b. -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:19:27 PM --
18 of 1806
Mocking in extreme comfort
I hate "chunk" and "chunky". I also hate "wedge". "Cut into wedges". "serve with a wedge of cheese". Ick.
I also hate "moist". And I dislike "meal".
Eustacia -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:28:05 PM --
19 of 1806
Krusticus Rex
Baffle.
Squab.
Cornucopia.
VanPear -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:29:45 PM --
20 of 1806
Are you kidding, Eustacia? Those are FABULOUS words!
(kismet, ya know, like breastfeeding. creeeepy, though.)
Nay -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:31:40 PM --
21 of 1806
Why? Fuck you, that's why.
Titties. Tits to a lesser degree.
kismet -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:31:49 PM --
22 of 1806
losing points on my "stay out of the asylum" score
Van, sorry to keep pressing this point but I have to understand... So, it's not a metaphor for anything?! And people would use this in a non-breastfeeding context?!
I seriously feel weak.
Nay -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:33:46 PM --
23 of 1806
Why? Fuck you, that's why.
On my hatred of titties: I have to add that my bizarre hatred of this word runs so deeply, that I don't think I could be good friends with someone who used it regularly. In fact, my husband has only said the word in front of me once and hasn't repeated it since, such was my fervent request that he never say it again in front of me.
Brigit M -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:35:18 PM --
24 of 1806
kismet, yes, people do use it. You read things like "Scotch was mother's milk to old Uncle Horace."
I don't like "titties" either, though "tits" doesn't bother me in context. I also dislike "panties."
kismet -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:35:59 PM --
25 of 1806
losing points on my "stay out of the asylum" score
Nay, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Roy Kay -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:37:26 PM --
26 of 1806
Sluttius Maximus
Inappropriate - It's a sneaky sort of moral condemnation.
Nicola O. -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:37:28 PM --
27 of 1806
my blog: http://alphaheroes.blogspot.com
utilize. There is just no reason not to use "use."
Actually, there are specific reasons for "utilize." Generally when speaking of the capacity of capital equipment.
But in the same vein, "orientate." The verb is "orient."
And "irregardless," a word/argument that spawned several hundred posts on the "It's 'Its!" thread in TT some years ago (and incidently taught me how and when to disengage before my BP is affected...)
Eustacia -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:38:56 PM --
28 of 1806
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 -- 04:44:47 PM --
29 of 1806
I'm pretty sure Strunk and White urge us to eschew "irregardless".
My mother hated "shutup".
Nay -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 04:46:26 PM --
30 of 1806
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 -- 05:00:49 PM --
31 of 1806
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 -- 05:02:14 PM --
32 of 1806
My mom came from the anti-shutup tribe too. I personally don't much like buttocks.
j. ross -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 05:02:36 PM --
33 of 1806
Shut up. Do not!
Brigit M -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 05:03:12 PM --
34 of 1806
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 -- 05:07:57 PM --
35 of 1806
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 -- 05:08:33 PM --
36 of 1806
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 -- 05:09:30 PM --
37 of 1806
such a fucking bitch about taupe and borders and fireplace mantles that aren't just so
Boob. Panties. Swimsuit.
Biscuit -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 05:11:53 PM --
38 of 1806
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 -- 05:13:53 PM --
39 of 1806
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 -- 05:14:58 PM --
40 of 1806
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 -- 05:16:32 PM --
41 of 1806
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 -- 05:19:12 PM --
42 of 1806
LITTLE PINK SOCK / LITTLE PINK SOCK
Alystra, I was thinking of that one, too.
tikibar -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 05:30:33 PM --
43 of 1806
What is wrong with me? I LIKE panties and certainly wear them, not underwear. I hate, hate G-String.
Susanne -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 05:31:03 PM --
44 of 1806
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 -- 05:31:07 PM --
45 of 1806
oh yes, and COMFY instead of comfortable, and FIXIN'S.
Susanne -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 05:32:37 PM --
46 of 1806
Susanne
Hubby.
Biscuit -- Monday, June 02, 2003 -- 05:34:42 PM --
47 of 1806
LITTLE PINK SOCK / LITTLE PINK SOCK
Yes, hubby. Hate hubby.
