Words you hate.

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The Diner

#100
March 30, 2011, 12:04:33 PM
Quote from: Apollon on March 30, 2011, 11:13:51 AM
You object to the noun being verbed?

That too.

karlhenning

#101
March 30, 2011, 12:16:52 PM
But not only syntactically, you object to the tone? Excellent, excellent.

The Diner

#102
March 30, 2011, 01:24:51 PM
Quote from: Apollon on March 30, 2011, 12:16:52 PM
But not only syntactically, you object to the tone? Excellent, excellent.

Indeed.

vandermolen

#103
March 30, 2011, 01:56:58 PM
People who say that someone 'died on me' - as if the person's sole motivation was to cause them the maximum inconvenience.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Szykneij

#104
March 30, 2011, 02:08:15 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on March 30, 2011, 01:56:58 PM
People who say that someone 'died on me' - as if the person's sole motivation was to cause them the maximum inconvenience.

Unless, of course, they mean it literally as in the case, for example, of Errol Flynn's wife ...   :o
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Octo_Russ

#105
March 31, 2011, 05:19:01 PM
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia = the fear of long words!  :o

yes it really is a real word!.
I'm a Musical Octopus, I Love to get a Tentacle in every Genre of Music. http://octoruss.blogspot.com/

Kontrapunctus

#106
March 31, 2011, 08:38:44 PM
Tea Party

zamyrabyrd

#107
April 02, 2011, 09:37:44 AM
Libtard
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."

― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Ten thumbs

#108
April 02, 2011, 02:28:01 PM
Just for a change some rather nice words I have recently come across:

horrour
errour
terrour

Yes, this is how they used to be spelled!
So you Americans who have dropped colour and honour can be comforted.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

ibanezmonster

#109
April 02, 2011, 04:52:58 PM
mayo (instead of "mayonnaise")

The Six

#110
April 06, 2011, 09:35:01 AM
flaccid

Florestan

#111
April 06, 2011, 09:37:03 AM
disturbing
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

Scarpia

#112
April 06, 2011, 09:44:11 AM
Quote from: Ten thumbs on April 02, 2011, 02:28:01 PM
Just for a change some rather nice words I have recently come across:

horrour
errour
terrour

Yes, this is how they used to be spelled!
So you Americans who have dropped colour and honour can be comforted.

You object to the "words you love" thread on principle?

Ten thumbs

#113
April 06, 2011, 01:12:46 PM
Quote from: Il Barone Scarpia on April 06, 2011, 09:44:11 AM
You object to the "words you love" thread on principle?

Not at all. These are not words I love although they are perfectly valid words and I'd enjoy using them in Scrabble.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

vandermolen

#114
April 06, 2011, 10:47:25 PM
Quote from: Szykneij on March 30, 2011, 02:08:15 PM
Unless, of course, they mean it literally as in the case, for example, of Errol Flynn's wife ...   :o

Yes, I see what you mean - but, in that case, the correct English would be to say that that they had died 'on the job'.  :o
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

The Six

#115
April 07, 2011, 09:34:28 AM
condom

Ten thumbs

#116
April 08, 2011, 01:11:47 PM
Quote from: The Six on April 07, 2011, 09:34:28 AM
condom

But this is a town in France!
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

MishaK

#117
April 08, 2011, 01:23:49 PM
Quote from: Ten thumbs on April 08, 2011, 01:11:47 PM
But this is a town in France!

Its partner cities must include Tittmoning in Bavaria and Fucking in Austria.

CD

#118
April 08, 2011, 01:32:02 PM
and Brest ^_^
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