[Closed] Least favourite words - what and why?

Empathetic.

What's wrong with empathic?

A former colleague of mine used to say "ironic". A lot.

This made me doodle pictures of medieval torture equipment.

Did you used to work with Alannis Morissette?

Don't ya think?

No.

Did you used to work with Alannis Morissette?

That would be massively...........

coincidental

Curate - it seems to be getting used as a tw*t-marker for the sort of pointless bearded, oh so desperately trying to avoid their own ordinariness, snowflakes that are *polluting our lovely world these days.

*Like, [i]literally[/i] polluting!

Cockpit when referring to bikes.

Every internet 'meme'.

Did you used to work with Alannis Morissette?

She got sacked. Turns it it's impossible to weld with one hand in your pocket.

Ironic, innit?

Verbalise

As in 'are you ok to verbalise that with the team?'

No I am not, I will just talk about it.

[quote=Rich_s ]Empathetic.
What's wrong with empathic?

they mean different things? An empathetic person is empathi

edit - nope, they mean the same thing. And empathic is the original form. Nice to learn something new!

Socialise

As in 'are you ok to socialise that with the team?'

No I am not, but I will let them have a copy of it.

BikePawl - Member

forzafkawi - Member
Aluminium as mangled the Americans to aluminum. They don't do it to the myriad of other "ium" elements in the periodic table so why single that one out?

Wikipedia Etymology
The various names all derive from its elemental presence in alum. The word comes into English from Old French, from alumen, a Latin word meaning "bitter salt".[79]

Two variants of the name are in current use: aluminium (pronunciation: /?ælj??m?ni?m/) and aluminum (/??lu?m?n?m/). There is also an obsolete variant alumium. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990 but, three years later, recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. The IUPAC periodic table uses the aluminium spelling only.[80] IUPAC internal publications use the two spelling with nearly equal frequency.[81]

I just knew some sad **** would come up with that one but we are discussing words that annoy not whether they make sense or not!

When this started being used by ALL the commentators during the Olympics...

[b]medal[/b]
?m?d(?)l

verb
1. win a medal in a sporting event. [i]"they medalled in all the relay events"[/i]

[b]It's not a ****ing verb!!!!!!![/b]

Granularity.
Do you mean more detail?

Cranberry is right. Curate is literally the worst word, like ever.

i've never heard it used other than in a religious or medical context. Give me an example?

I've curated some beautiful bespoke artisanal parts for the fixed gear I'm building.

I just knew some sad **** would come up with that one but we are discussing words that annoy not whether they make sense or not!

[Freud mode]Why does it annoy you that they are correctly using a word?[/Freud mode]

Staycation - Americans go on vacation, I go on holiday. If I chose to holiday in the UK, then I'm still on holiday.

"Hand Cut" crisps

See, also, "pan-fried".

And "hand-cooked" - literally what?

I've curated some beautiful bespoke artisanal parts for the fixed gear I'm building.

Why don't you pop over here, so I can show you my learning hammer?

"flow down"
"reach out"

I'm right there with artisan and craft and the like.

My current most hated word is "reimagine". No - you have just copied something.

Body English - as in posture adopted when cycling! Boak.

prequel and sequel - it just makes me sad that no one can be arsed to think of anything new to make a film about

If I chose to holiday in the UK, then I'm still on holiday.

It works in two ways!!
🙂

The 'can I get?' thing annoys me. It's not just youngsters using this phrase now either???

Also, when people type brought instead of bought. Is this a southern thing?

'Snowflake' is probably head of my list at the moment.

Brewery. just coz i cant say it. Bwewewerry...

Can't believe we've not had "Brexit" yet (we've not, have we?).

Portmanteau can be irritating enough when describing something frivolous, e.g. "Brangelina".

Using such a cutesy, frivolous term apply to something so far-reaching and potentially grim just seems macabre.

Coming soon: "Americaust".

The 'can I get?' thing annoys me. It's not just youngsters using this phrase now either???

It's the same people, it's just been around for so long that they are just old now...

Personality

In the context of Sports Personality.

I mean... Andy Murray and Personality, WTF!

"Going forward" always does my nut, I know what it's supposed to mean but in practice, the sort of person who says "going forward" usually means "Now I'm going to ignore everything you've just said and everything that's happened in the past and do something stupid or sociopathic"

ads678 - Member

Straw man! Ooh i'm going to undermine you now by using the term 'straw man' because i'm so **** awesome at arguing. Well on the internet anyway.....

OK but see when it's a real straw man- what you're doing is getting angry at the person who's calling out bullshit, for calling out bullshit. It's not an internet arguing tactic or trying to undermine, it's saying "We're trying to have a conversation here and you're pretending it's about something else, because you're a cock" Get angry at the bullshitter.

'Reimagine' used in place of e.g. redesign or rebuild,

'Im good' when asked 'how are you?'

As already said, 'can I get a coffee' - of course you can you prick its a ****ing cafe, would you like a coffee?

Botch vs bodge. This is more a confusion thing than a word I don't like, but... A botch is a failure, you attempt and it goes wrong. A bodge is a heroic success using inappropriate tools or hardware. If you try to fit a new part and crossthread it, that's a botch job. If you try to fit a new part and it doesn't quite fit but you machine it to shape by spinning it in a drill and turning it down with a stanley knife, that's a bodge. To confuse the two is an offence to bodgery.

buckster - Member

As already said, 'can I get a coffee' - of course you can you prick its a **** cafe, would you like a coffee?

"Here you are"
"Oh, no, you misunderstood- I'd like a coffee, that doesn't mean I'm going to buy one"
<throws coffee over customer>

So, here's the thing...

Chill, chill out, chill yer beans but most of all CHILLAX

makes me want to boak.

use of the word chillax is punishable by instant fiery death

at least, when I rule the world it will be

Just saying.............. 😐

So, here's the thing...

frankconway - Member
Granularity.
Do you mean more detail?

Or less, it's quite a useful word in software development.

Another vote for [i]going forward[/i], even if it is two words.

Get angry at the bullshitter.

You are correct, I just think it's a crap thing to say. If your calling out bullshit, just call someone a bullshitter.

It's usually found in the politics or religion threads so the whole bloody thing is stupid and annoying anyway.

Wean. As in a Scottish colloquialism for a child.

Mrs Pinetree and I (both Scottish) have just had our first kid, and my mother-in-law insists on calling him a wean. Does my tits in.

Perhaps it's just because I grew up in one of the nicer parts of western Scotland (yes, they exist) but it just sounds properly scummy to me.

https://www.indy100.com/article/the-17-grossest-words-in-the-english-language-7462691

#3 Phlegm

Why? It's gross.

Ah, but phlegmatic is beautiful word