Author Topic: Words that you hate (Read 5414 times)

Cerveza mas fina · « **on:** June 03, 2015, 01:20:05 PM »

I was at a product launch today and heard disgusting words like:

Empower
Reinvent
Inspire

Ill also give a shoutout to

Authentic
Disruptive

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #1 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:21:08 PM »

Engage

$:-\$

king of the internet · « **Reply #2 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:21:18 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:22:38 PM »

touching-base

Atramental · « **Reply #4 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:22:59 PM »

Authentic
Epic
Synergy

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #5 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:25:56 PM »

Dont see or hear Synergy that much anymore thank god

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:29:32 PM »

Synergy
Positive Reinforcement

Mr. Nobody · « **Reply #7 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:32:35 PM »

Amazeballs
Awesome Sauce

Beezy · « **Reply #8 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:33:23 PM »

Anything said in the presentation parodies in Silicon Valley.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #9 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:36:01 PM »

Kara · « **Reply #10 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:38:08 PM »

antediluvian - an overly specific word in a language with a lexicon that's already too big that erudite people made into a generic adjective

crenelated - almost never used to describe fortifications

happiness - an illusory state of being used to justify being a shithead

Kara · « **Reply #11 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:38:54 PM »

Y'all need to stop being tech

s btw.

Mr. Nobody · « **Reply #12 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:46:36 PM »

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on June 03, 2015, 01:36:01 PM

No

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #13 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:54:13 PM »

archie4208 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:56:55 PM »

Toxic. Its original intent is buried and now means "thing I don't like".

Purrp Skirrp · « **Reply #15 on:** June 03, 2015, 01:57:00 PM »

"Huzzah" because it's my spergy coworker's catch phrase apparently.

He just throws it out randomly to affirm whatever he just said.

Huzzah!

Also had a friend say "obviously" a lot with smug undertones so fuck that word too, obviously.

Kara · « **Reply #16 on:** June 03, 2015, 02:01:25 PM »

derailleur - a French word that you HAVE to butcher the pronunciation of in English, every time I say it the English way irl I feel like I'm groping Marianne

splendiferous - has no business being uttered outside a Mary Poppins revival

archnemesis · « **Reply #17 on:** June 03, 2015, 02:06:00 PM »

feg
stan
yolo
rachet
bae
yas
doe
thirsty
feels
dead

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #18 on:** June 03, 2015, 02:06:30 PM »

Quote from: Esch on June 03, 2015, 02:00:29 PM

Iconic.

Disgusting

Brehvolution · « **Reply #19 on:** June 03, 2015, 02:40:13 PM »

Cloud
BYOD
Aks

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #20 on:** June 03, 2015, 02:43:09 PM »

Minimalist

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #21 on:** June 03, 2015, 02:45:01 PM »

disgusting
problematic
mouth-feel

Reb · « **Reply #22 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:23:53 PM »

Intuitive is doing the rounds again at work lately. Disruptive as well.

toku · « **Reply #23 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:26:21 PM »

Penetration

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #24 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:56:35 PM »

Good
Bad
Red
Blue
Green
Yellow
Clean
Dirty
Animal
Vegetable
Mineral

eleuin · « **Reply #25 on:** June 03, 2015, 04:46:45 PM »

brawndolicious · « **Reply #26 on:** June 03, 2015, 04:55:25 PM »

I get more annoyed by how people try to enunciate certain words like:

Effi-shent
Profi-shent
Suffi-shent

But I do always hate when people say guac instead of guacamole.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #27 on:** June 03, 2015, 05:01:10 PM »

Multigrain

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #28 on:** June 03, 2015, 05:26:08 PM »

talent

VomKriege · « **Reply #29 on:** June 03, 2015, 05:46:58 PM »

Visceral

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #30 on:** June 03, 2015, 06:23:39 PM »

I fucking hate when people pronounce "literally" lit-rilly.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #31 on:** June 03, 2015, 06:57:35 PM »

mouthfeel

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #32 on:** June 03, 2015, 07:22:51 PM »

also any evo psych term like "alpha", "beta", or "dominance theory"

AAAAND any misappropriation of quantum mechanics terminology as used by wootards (see: deepak chopra, pseudointellectual gaf narbos)

Rufus · « **Reply #33 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:06:02 PM »

quantum leap
immersive

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #34 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:09:36 PM »

Remember when every single video game review had the word "visceral" in it? Do they still do that?

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #35 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:09:53 PM »

epic
classic
i'd also like to include the phrase "at its finest"

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #36 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:11:35 PM »

shortcut words like "guac" for guacamole

just fucking talk like a normal person

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #37 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:12:00 PM »

I think "holistic" has taken the place of "synergy" in terms of meaningless corporate speak, which I think is an even more useless term than synergy.

Basically any corporate speak and any word derived from the internet in the past 15 years are words that I hate.

Quote

shortcut words like "guac" for guacamole

just fucking talk like a normal person

Yes. I've rarely heard anyone interesting use words like "guac" or "amazeballs".

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #38 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:12:38 PM »

I only have two words I hate.

"Solutions" in marketing/sales/engineering. I fucking hope you have "solutions", otherwise you wouldn't have a business. Now tell me what the fuck it is you actually do.

The German word "pieseln", which simply means pissing, but seems to be so much closer to what the act sounds like. Can't stand it.

Rufus · « **Reply #39 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:22:29 PM »

While I have someone to possibly sympathize on Denglish...

Rocken (though it seems to be dying)
Fighten
Managen

Fuck. Off.

Huff · « **Reply #40 on:** June 03, 2015, 09:18:04 PM »

Yolo is my fave

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #41 on:** June 03, 2015, 09:19:35 PM »

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on June 03, 2015, 07:22:51 PM

also any evo psych term like "alpha", "beta", or "dominance theory"

How do you feel about Omegas and their ability to get m-pregged?

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #42 on:** June 03, 2015, 09:19:55 PM »

ludonarrative dissonance

Purrp Skirrp · « **Reply #43 on:** June 03, 2015, 09:29:18 PM »

Yeti · « **Reply #44 on:** June 03, 2015, 09:40:35 PM »

I like YOLO because in my mind I always change it to YOLT for You Only Live Twice, which was a very soothing James Bond song.

benjipwns · « **Reply #45 on:** June 03, 2015, 09:42:06 PM »

historic

chronovore · « **Reply #46 on:** June 03, 2015, 11:12:43 PM »

As far as words that annoyed me, "wheelhouse" really pisses me off for some reason. I hate it. As far as phrases go, "Very unique" is super annoying to me. Unique has a meaning superseding such adverbs.

Quote from: I'm a Puppy! on June 03, 2015, 09:19:55 PM

ludonarrative dissonance

I understand what you mean here, but at the same time, can you think of any other two words which neatly encompass that? I mean, other than "bullshit story"?

Kara · « **Reply #47 on:** June 03, 2015, 11:21:51 PM »

dour - it doesn't rhyme with hour you illiterate fool (I like the word in a vacuum but in practice it's a disaster)

au fait - perhaps the most baffling adjective in English; at least a la carte has an adverb usage to help you understand it

excoriate - technical term blithely rendered into a synonym for chastise by people who should have had their creative licenses suspended

PlayDat · « **Reply #48 on:** June 04, 2015, 12:10:52 AM »

Awkward - 9/10 times the situation wouldn't have been awkward if you hadn't said so.

Overrated/Underrated - reeks of "My opinion is the only correct one" self-centered nonsense. There are lots of classic albums/movies/games/whatever that didn't really blow me away, but I can still recognize that they're well put together. On the flipside sometimes I get tons of enjoyment out of works that are mediocre or have glaring flaws. I kind of like when my opinion clashes with the majority because it teaches me a lot about my own tastes.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #49 on:** June 04, 2015, 12:13:11 AM »

Epic. 99.99% of the time it's used to describe fucking ANYTHING, it's not actually something that's, you know, epic.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #50 on:** June 04, 2015, 12:17:56 AM »

Rustic

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #51 on:** June 04, 2015, 12:36:33 AM »

Squiddy

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #52 on:** June 04, 2015, 12:36:38 AM »

Beezy · « **Reply #53 on:** June 04, 2015, 01:02:25 AM »

Quote from: Human Snorenado on June 04, 2015, 12:13:11 AM

Epic. 99.99% of the time it's used to describe fucking ANYTHING, it's not actually something that's, you know, epic.

A friend of mine purposely describes things as epic because she knows it pisses me off.

naff · « **Reply #54 on:** June 04, 2015, 01:10:58 AM »

rekt

see also, other gamer nerd shit & dubstep culture

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i was deeply into dnb culture as a teen. hate other people coz you hate(d) yourself brehs

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VomKriege · « **Reply #55 on:** June 04, 2015, 01:22:43 AM »

Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on June 03, 2015, 08:09:36 PM

Remember when every single video game review had the word "visceral" in it? Do they still do that?

In concert with "generous"and "sincere", which are empty qualifiers for movies and games most of the time.

chronovore · « **Reply #56 on:** June 04, 2015, 01:27:29 AM »

Quote from: Vularai on June 03, 2015, 11:21:51 PM

dour - it doesn't rhyme with hour you illiterate fool (I like the word in a vacuum but in practice it's a disaster)

**checks**

"(US) IPA(key): /ˈdʊɹ/, /ˈdaʊɚ/, /ˈdaʊ.ɚ/"

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on June 04, 2015, 12:36:38 AM

ipa

Enjoy your PBR before toodling off on your two-wheeled Italian maintenance hobby.

Rufus · « **Reply #57 on:** June 04, 2015, 09:30:48 AM »

Quote from: PlayDat on June 04, 2015, 12:10:52 AM

Awkward - 9/10 times the situation wouldn't have been awkward if you hadn't said so.

I wish that were true.

Quote from: chronovore on June 04, 2015, 01:27:29 AM

Quote from: Vularai on June 03, 2015, 11:21:51 PM
dour - it doesn't rhyme with hour you illiterate fool (I like the word in a vacuum but in practice it's a disaster)
**checks**

"(US) IPA(key): /ˈdʊɹ/, /ˈdaʊɚ/, /ˈdaʊ.ɚ/"

2:1 in favour of rhyming with hour.

I've never heard it any differently, to be honest.

The commonwealth needs to get together and work on an orthography reform. The disconnect between writing and pronunciation is comical with some words.

fizzel · « **Reply #58 on:** June 04, 2015, 09:43:08 AM »

Job-creator.

Kara · « **Reply #59 on:** June 10, 2015, 12:05:08 AM »

cloacal - what does a bird penis have to do with a sewer

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Author Topic: Words that you hate (Read 5414 times)