My Least Favorite Word

askeladd · Dec 26, 2006

Inspired by the "My Favorite Word" thread.

This thread may also be termed "The word I absolutely can't stand"

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My candidate: Totally (as in "totally awesome, dude" :Wha:

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Ol' Fashioned Girl · Dec 26, 2006

I can't even type the word because I hate it so much. But I'll tell you it begins with a 'c' and ends with a 't'.

Little Red Barn · Dec 26, 2006

Ol' Fashioned Girl said:
I can't even type the word because I hate it so much. But I'll tell you it begins with a 'c' and ends with a 't'.

ditto on that one ol' girl...

Someones got a sassy sweet new avatar, OFG!

Rolling Thunder · Dec 26, 2006

Ol' Fashioned Girl said:
I can't even type the word because I hate it so much. But I'll tell you it begins with a 'c' and ends with a 't'.

But....but....you did use it, dirty bird.

CBeasy · Dec 26, 2006

askeladd said:
Inspired by the "My Favorite Word" thread.

This thread may also be termed "The word I absolutely can't stand" .

My candidate: Totally (as in "totally awesome, dude" )

I'm totally sorry. I totally say totally all the time. I don't know why. It's not my favorite word at all.

My least favorite word would have to be "period" but only in the context of "That was the best show ever, period." If that's not redundant, I don't know what it.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Dec 26, 2006

Rllgthunder said:
But....but....you did use it, dirty bird.

You're on a roll tonight, RT!

Unique · Dec 26, 2006

moist

ew.
:e2paperba

do not - ever - tell me your cake is **that word**

TrainofThought · Dec 26, 2006

Goiter (ugliest word)
and
starts with 'P' and ends with 'y'.

Rolling Thunder · Dec 26, 2006

Unique said:
moist

ew.
do not - ever - tell me your cake is **that word**

Your cake was the moist terrible thing I ever et.

(Is that okay?)

endless · Dec 26, 2006

Obese is the ugliest word.

benbradley · Dec 26, 2006

There are words I hate only because they are horrendously, grossly, and egregiously misused, but I can't think of one right now.

Oh yeah, now I remember:

Literally.

I can't think of an example (mis)usage right now, but I do recall reading some essay saying that the word "literally" is being used more and more when the writer does NOT mean literally.

And for words not to like just for general grossout factor, there's:

Armpit.

There are others, but you should be pleased to note that I have conveniently forgotten them at the moment...

Ol' Fashioned Girl said:
You're on a roll tonight, RT!

Be careful, don't slip on the butter!

Silver King · Dec 26, 2006

The two words I dislike the most on a writers' board: that said.

The three words I dislike the most on a writers' board: with that said.

The four words I dislike the most on a writers' board: with that being said.

I mean, come on, why in the world are you reminding people of what you said just a second ago?

janetbellinger · Dec 26, 2006

any word that is more complex than it needs to be

benbradley · Dec 26, 2006

The Five Words You Meet In Hell

Silver King said:
The two words I dislike the most on a writers' board: that said.

The three words I dislike the most on a writers' board: with that said.

The four words I dislike the most on a writers' board: with that being said.

I mean, come on, why in the world are you reminding people of what you said just a second ago?

With that having been said, ...

Silver King · Dec 26, 2006

Thanks, Ben. It stretches my list to four least favorites, and counting...

eldragon · Dec 27, 2006

I can't beat OFG's word, that one is a big one with me.

Other words: the "n" word, hubby, behooved.

Alex Bravo · Dec 27, 2006

Orifice. That word bugs me.

Oh and OFG, I knew a girl whose name was C_nny. I kid you not. I was in total shock that THAT was her real name. What were her parents thinking?

Silver King · Dec 27, 2006

Alex Bravo said:
I knew a girl whose name was C_nny. I kid you not.

That's terrible.

It reminds me of a Vietnamese woman I worked with whose name was, Dat Dam Ho. As you said, I kid you not.

scarletpeaches · Dec 27, 2006

Basically.

Overused in news reports, when the presenter goes to members of the public and asks them what happened. "Well, basically, what happened was, right..."

Other TV shows. "Tell us how you want us to redecorate your house." - "Well, basically, I want it tidied up and made to look nice."

"How was your day?" - "Basically, I did this and then did that..."

I want to kill people for using that word. And I just have, several times.

Misty_Blue · Dec 28, 2006

I find the word 'like' irritating when used like... "I was at this bar and I was like so excited..and it was like really cool..

Aggh hateful teen talk..

And here in Spain I heard this phrase alot which I wasn't getting at first, and people in dispute say it quite often... "me cago en tu muerto"... which means:

I poo on your dead!!

O.K. How nice..

tlblack · Dec 28, 2006

Basically I find the word "that" can literally be quite annoying. It's like... that word ought to be banned from that dictionary or that grammar usage book so that it couldn't get over used in this or that sentence. Now with that having been said... how many of us have overused that or read something that did?

LloydBrown · Dec 28, 2006

I don't have many that I actively dislike. More than a few make me react differently than other people do. For example, when I hear the word "penal", my brain hears "penile," as in "The mayor promised today to revamp the city's penile code."

Meerkat · Dec 28, 2006

Either the word "right?" at the end of every sentence, or its equivalent "nomesayn?" Either drags you back to an undoubtedly inane converstation from which you were starting to drift.

Soccer Mom · Dec 28, 2006

hmmmm-- I hate the made up words sportscasters use. "Defensed" and "Trickeration" are the two biggies!

jester · Dec 28, 2006

Worst word......ooze.....leaves too much to my active imagination

My Least Favorite Word

Polyglot

Hand? What hand?

haz own threads

I'm back baby!

Hand? What hand?

Agent of Doom

A flowering bud of bitchiness

Of course I'm listening....

It's a doggy dog world

Megalops Erectus

It's a doggy dog world

Megalops Erectus

in a van down by the river

Megalops Erectus

nothing simple here

Claims the loan was a gift

Crypto-fascist