bad words

Idlewild wrote: [quote=doublediamond]flavors - this is currently being overused on a project I'm on at work. "All different flavors of the order path." "The order state has different flavors." "What flavor are we talking about?" Sooo stupid. A flavor is cherry, grape, vanilla, not "open," "closed," and "pre-validation."

Stupid shit like this overheard when I lived in Jersey:

tranny - for transmission
'tein - for protein

You forgot one:



As a sidenote, New York should have won!

as soon as i saw the "80 years young" comment i was going to write what flexi wrote, about personal ads. really, the term gives me the willies.

in fact, everything about personal ads makes me want to heave (although i answer them regularly...) for example, i don't want to hear/read about how someone loves kissing and cuddling. or that they don't want someone who plays games... what games? and describing overweight people as "thick". or "pleasantly plump." gross.

i also hate:
sweet (as in when you tell someone thing good and their response is "sweet!"

word! (WTF does that mean? my 20something studio mates use it all the time. i pretend to know what it means)

"Cosy". !! And all the other words and punctuation realtors use to obfuscate.

People still say "Word!"?

Then again Flav is still around, too.

laura wrote:
Then again Flav is still around, too.

Is that street slang for Flavivirus?

brooklynpotter wrote: as soon as i saw the "80 years young" comment i was going to write what flexi wrote, about personal ads. really, the term gives me the willies.

in fact, everything about personal ads makes me want to heave (although i answer them regularly...) for example, i don't want to hear/read about how someone loves kissing and cuddling. or that they don't want someone who plays games... what games? and describing overweight people as "thick". or "pleasantly plump." gross.

my least favorite personal ad terms are:

"height/weight proportionate" or "healthy" or "active" or "takes good care of themselves" as euphamisms for "no fat people".

"soulmate" makes me cringe

"Uber________"

alafairnadia wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]as soon as i saw the "80 years young" comment i was going to write what flexi wrote, about personal ads. really, the term gives me the willies.

in fact, everything about personal ads makes me want to heave (although i answer them regularly...) for example, i don't want to hear/read about how someone loves kissing and cuddling. or that they don't want someone who plays games... what games? and describing overweight people as "thick". or "pleasantly plump." gross.

my least favorite personal ad terms are:

"height/weight proportionate" or "healthy" or "active" or "takes good care of themselves" as euphamisms for "no fat people".

When in spoken words, the euphamism for fat is "has a good personality".

Flexichick wrote:

When in spoken words, the euphamism for fat is "has a good personality".

and while growing up, i kept hearing from my parents that in the 50s/60s, "peppy!" was a euphemism for ugly and/or fat.


more:
--girlfriend (as in, "hey girlfriend!)

--tony

--randy

--dyke (i know, all my lesbian friends use this word and think it's perfectly acceptable. perhaps if i were i lesbian i would think so as well. but i doubt it.)

--republican

A word I have a problem with is "liberal". Because in the US the common usage is so weird and twisted compared with its etymology and non-US English definition, that people use it here as something the left should be ashamed of being and the right eschews, rather than something the right is proud of being and the left aspires to.

doctorj wrote: A word I have a problem with is "liberal". Because in the US the common usage is so weird and twisted compared with its etymology and non-US English definition, that people use it here as something the left should be ashamed of being and the right eschews, rather than something the right is proud of being and the left aspires to.

I know what you're saying, but it's more trouble than it's worth to fight it - I just accept two definitions of the word: "U.S." and "traditional". I reckon I've had a little more time to get accustomed to it, however.

Drano wrote:
I know what you're saying, but it's more trouble than it's worth to fight it - I just accept two definitions of the word: "U.S." and "traditional". I reckon I've had a little more time to get accustomed to it, however.

Yeah, I know I can't fight it. But having to stop and think about what on earth people mean and where they might be coming from every time I hear the word is tiring.

On the other hand, if Democrats could convince the American population that tax cuts are liberal and social security is not, that might assist them at the ballot box...

[quote=Idlewild]
You forgot one:



BUT I LOVE THE FLAVOR OF LOVE!!!

brooklynpotter wrote:

--dyke (i know, all my lesbian friends use this word and think it's perfectly acceptable. perhaps if i were i lesbian i would think so as well. but i doubt it.)

good call on avoiding this word, since you're not one. within the group, though, the connotations are very different. i like it when my queer friends call me that, hate it otherwise. (and completely shocked a straight friend by using it casually the other day. sometimes i forget when i'm in mixed company....)

doctorj wrote: [quote=Drano]
I know what you're saying, but it's more trouble than it's worth to fight it - I just accept two definitions of the word: "U.S." and "traditional". I reckon I've had a little more time to get accustomed to it, however.

Yeah, I know I can't fight it. But having to stop and think about what on earth people mean and where they might be coming from every time I hear the word is tiring.

if it makes you feel any better, my parents were offended in the other direction when they moved to mebourne and encountered the "liberals" over there.

sweet tea wrote: [quote=doctorj][quote=Drano]
I know what you're saying, but it's more trouble than it's worth to fight it - I just accept two definitions of the word: "U.S." and "traditional". I reckon I've had a little more time to get accustomed to it, however.

Yeah, I know I can't fight it. But having to stop and think about what on earth people mean and where they might be coming from every time I hear the word is tiring.

if it makes you feel any better, my parents were offended in the other direction when they moved to mebourne and encountered the "liberals" over there.

Liberals in the US are relegated to the outcast term "libertarian". Republicans and Democrats then proceed to share liberal values about 50/50. This has the unintentional side effect of irritating me greatly. :?

On Election Day, I'll add:

Pro-life (not to get in a political argument here, but somebody against this political stance is NOT "anti-life" or "pro-abortion)

flip flop (as opposed to a person who changes their mind after receiving more information)

Flexichick wrote:
Pro-life (not to get in a political argument here, but somebody against this political stance is NOT "anti-life" or "pro-abortion")

Not true. I am pro-abortion.

escap wrote: [quote=Flexichick]
Pro-life (not to get in a political argument here, but somebody against this political stance is NOT "anti-life" or "pro-abortion")

Not true. I am pro-abortion.

It sure beats being "anti-choice".

Subject: Re: slanguage quiz

GiGi wrote: A British guy I know uses a word to describe a mean email: "nastygram". Try it with a British accent, like "nostygrom". I think it's cute. After these posts, I plan to give my students a slanguage quiz this week as a funny introduction to my lesson on the misuses of standardized test scores...

Isn't nastygram from The Young Ones?

Flexichick wrote: "Sexy" and "80 years young" just sound like bad personal ad writing to me. Might as well throw in "I like walks along the beach, holding hands and staring into my soulmate's eyes" while you're at it.

Speaking of beaches...that reminds me of this song I heard yesterday. This is just all wrong. Come on, Lord Bishop.

http://www.lordbishop.org/_mp3/_great_ass.mp3

Oh, and I am getting really sick of "random". As in, "Some random dude just walked up and puked on me."

Hate list:

Due to all the over development: LUXURY
(actually saw "übber-luxury" used in the real estate listings in the NYT last weekend)

Due to too much time on brownstoner.com: 'NIMBY/NYMBIES

Due to all the politicking: VETT/VETTED/VETTING

Due to straight old uppidedness: SOLIPSISTIC

Due to made up words: UPPIDEDNESS

lostingreenwoodhts wrote: Hate list:

Due to all the over development: LUXURY
(actually saw "übber-luxury" used in the real estate listings in the NYT last weekend)

Due to made up words: UPPIDEDNESS

Due to überusage: ÜBER.

And anything in English with an umlaut (as opposed to a diæresis) apart from Spin:al Tap.

Yikes, spell check anyone?

über-embarrassed!

I cringe every time I hear someone refer to the blogosphere. (Sorry DH)

lostingreenwoodhts wrote: Yikes, spell check anyone?

If you have trouble with any of these you're in good company; Yahoo's top 20 most misspelt searches.

Most of those I can certainly understand, but for so many to misspell "weird" and get "Yankovic" right is, um, kinda weird.