What are your least favourite words?

ZenGum · 09-22-2010, 09:15 AM

Managerial.

.

And yeah, that's how I spell favourite. I is ethnic.

Shawnee123 · 09-22-2010, 09:24 AM

mindset

gonna

gotta

Nirvana · 09-22-2010, 09:38 AM

one of them is swell and the other is lousy ...

GunMaster357 · 09-22-2010, 09:38 AM

Not words as they are, but people who use words to look important or confuse others.

As an example, I read some years ago a text about school. To describe a ball (soccer), the writer used in French 'référentiel bondissant' that can roughly translate as 'leaping reference'. In the same text, that person used some expression I can only translate as 'learner's begetter' to describe parents.

And it was a serious text, at least I assumed it to be, the source being the French Ministry of Education .

Shawnee123 · 09-22-2010, 09:39 AM

poupon

casimendocina · 09-22-2010, 09:41 AM

fecund

Shawnee123 · 09-22-2010, 09:42 AM

bofus

monster · 09-22-2010, 10:33 AM

impact (verb)

Shawnee123 · 09-22-2010, 10:40 AM

whine

sycophant

Rhianne · 09-22-2010, 11:18 AM

Loo.

Any of the other names for it, even the more graphic ones, are fine.

monster · 09-22-2010, 11:23 AM

A friend at uni couldn't abide the word plimsoll.

Shawnee123 · 09-22-2010, 11:27 AM

jodhpurs :shudder:

I don't even know how to say it, but it has the effect of wet yarn.

Trilby · 09-22-2010, 01:03 PM

remit.

HungLikeJesus · 09-22-2010, 01:20 PM

Genre

Clodfobble · 09-22-2010, 04:33 PM

rural

legislation

09-22-2010, 09:15 AM	#1
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	What are your least favourite words? Managerial. . And yeah, that's how I spell favourite. I is ethnic. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

09-22-2010, 09:24 AM	#2
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	mindset gonna gotta __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby Last edited by Shawnee123; 09-22-2010 at 09:33 AM.

09-22-2010, 09:38 AM	#3
Nirvana Back in 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,684	one of them is swell and the other is lousy ... __________________ Speaking simply... do not confuse this with having a simple mind.

09-22-2010, 09:38 AM	#4
GunMaster357 Professor Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Brest (FRANCE) Posts: 1,837	Not words as they are, but people who use words to look important or confuse others. As an example, I read some years ago a text about school. To describe a ball (soccer), the writer used in French 'référentiel bondissant' that can roughly translate as 'leaping reference'. In the same text, that person used some expression I can only translate as 'learner's begetter' to describe parents. And it was a serious text, at least I assumed it to be, the source being the French Ministry of Education . __________________ "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce

09-22-2010, 09:39 AM	#5
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	poupon __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

09-22-2010, 09:41 AM	#6
casimendocina Professor Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,622	fecund

09-22-2010, 09:42 AM	#7
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	bofus __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

09-22-2010, 10:33 AM	#8
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	impact (verb) __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-22-2010, 10:40 AM	#9
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	whine sycophant __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

09-22-2010, 11:18 AM	#10
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	Loo. Any of the other names for it, even the more graphic ones, are fine.

09-22-2010, 11:23 AM	#11
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	A friend at uni couldn't abide the word plimsoll. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-22-2010, 11:27 AM	#12
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	jodhpurs :shudder: I don't even know how to say it, but it has the effect of wet yarn. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

09-22-2010, 01:03 PM	#13
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	remit. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

09-22-2010, 01:20 PM	#14
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Genre __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

09-22-2010, 04:33 PM	#15
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	rural legislation __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

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