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slipstream
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posted July 14, 2006 04:19 AM
What word just rubs you the wrong way? We've got the obvious offensive ones, please leave those out.
I'm talking regular, every day words that get under your skin.
Me first!
Preggers
Next?
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cinehead
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posted July 14, 2006 04:23 AM
Phenomenal
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ncreporterdude
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posted July 14, 2006 04:46 AM
Literally.
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ncreporterdude
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posted July 14, 2006 04:46 AM
By the way, my wife is literally preggers. It's phenomenal.
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HushHush
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posted July 14, 2006 04:57 AM
{whispering}
George W Bush
{running away}
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Bobby Fischer
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posted July 14, 2006 05:00 AM
Absolutely!
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ciscoubr
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posted July 14, 2006 05:01 AM
"On the other hand"
AAAEEEEAAAHHHHH
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Jane Craig
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posted July 14, 2006 05:06 AM
Anything that would have a square on Dilbert's Buzzword Bingo: proactive, paradigm shift, downsizing, rightsizing, strategic, etc.
and Yo.
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foxravens
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posted July 14, 2006 05:12 AM
efforting
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TJAB 23
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posted July 14, 2006 05:18 AM
Flighty use of "wow".
It's usually more like, "woooooooooow?!?"
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TopRamen
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posted July 14, 2006 05:56 AM
Amen on "preggers."
Any combo name word, such as "Brangelina, Vaughnistan, Bennifer."
I hate hearing certain words mispronounced by news anchors and reporters
Children=choldren
Rural=re-wal
Realtor=real-it-or
The word "shady" is starting to grate on me a little.
"like" used as a crutch in sentences. "So I went to the store, and he told me that like, he needed some beer..." you get the picture.
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Eeps Snorps Now
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posted July 14, 2006 05:58 AM
"At the end of the day."
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Diplomat
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posted July 14, 2006 06:00 AM
I'm with foxravens on "efforting." Sounds like a made-up word to me.
"functionality"
"temblor" - for earthquake. I've NEVER heard anyone in the real world use it in conversation.
"the next level"
"disempowered"
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cinehead
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posted July 14, 2006 06:07 AM
Another made up word: Repurposing. I hate all corporate-speak.
Excuse me while I "re-purpose" my lunch.
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radio & tv
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posted July 14, 2006 06:09 AM
Succulent.
"F-bomb."
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sandwichpick
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posted July 14, 2006 06:18 AM
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Originally posted by Gravefully Sinful:
"At the end of the day."
And along with that "apprentice" speak..... "step up to the plate".
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TopRamen
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posted July 14, 2006 06:36 AM
Jargon of all kinds irritates:
"End-users"
"deliverables"
"Receivables"
"webinar"
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Jane Craig
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posted July 14, 2006 06:40 AM
Awesome.
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TopRamen
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posted July 14, 2006 06:42 AM
"think outside the box."
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Clever Login Name
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posted July 14, 2006 06:52 AM
Budgie.
Akimbo.
Chum.
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Jane Craig
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posted July 14, 2006 07:04 AM
Squat.
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sandwichpick
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posted July 14, 2006 07:17 AM
Belch
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Love Biscuit
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posted July 14, 2006 07:20 AM
When did we start using the phrase "went missing?" No one "went missing." They disapeared.
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TV Dad
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posted July 14, 2006 07:23 AM
quote:
Originally posted by cinehead:
Another made up word: Repurposing. I hate all corporate-speak.
Excuse me while I "re-purpose" my lunch.
Ugh...I'm with you! I used to work for someone who LOVED corporate-speak. We could always tell when she'd been to a big meeting because she'd come back with some new buzz-word. It reminded me of PeeWee's Playhouse. "The word for the day is..."
[ July 14, 2006, 07:26 AM: Message edited by: TV Dad ]
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Mom
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posted July 14, 2006 07:25 AM
I scrolled down to see if anyone had added "awesome" to the list and there was my soul mate, Jane, once again beating me to the punch....but just to emphasize my dislike for the word I have to post it again: AWESOME!
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Sparky
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posted July 14, 2006 07:27 AM
"Boom goes the dynamite."
Just kidding. I love that phrase!
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vnotch
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posted July 14, 2006 07:29 AM
"Having said that..."
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Anne Bonney
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posted July 14, 2006 07:36 AM
quote:
Originally posted by TopRamen:
Rural=re-wal
LOL. I can't that word right to save my life.
For me it's "ilk" ... and a current favorite of teens, "fierce" meaning awesome. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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TopRamen
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posted July 14, 2006 07:41 AM
Teens have a funny way of using negative words to mean something good. I heard one last night--"sick" that was "sick" means that was really good. what?
I freelanced for a tree care magazine once and a word that appears in this industry is "felled"--he "felled a tree" with his chainsaw. I never did get used to that.
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Mom
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posted July 14, 2006 07:57 AM
"Well ... " at the start of a sentence in a newscast. ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
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Lazlo Toth
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posted July 14, 2006 08:01 AM
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posted July 14, 2006 08:05 AM
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Originally posted by Diplomat:
I'm with foxravens on "efforting." Sounds like a made-up word to me.
It is a made up word. I can even tell you who, when and where it was made up.
In the first months of CNN (mostly, in order to fill time) they would cut to a locked down camera at the assignment desk. Ed Turner, the VP in charge of editorial for CNN, would talk about stories that were expected to come up on CNN later in the day. They couldn't say "stories we are working on" because in fact, many of them were NOT being worked on. They could not say "stories we will have later in the day" because there was a good chance they WOULDN'T have them.
So Ed would say "efforting". He was a real wordsmith and he didn't like it. But that was the only thing they could come up with that was brief enough to fit the one minute cut in he had.
Unfortunatly, it caught on.
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Jane Craig
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posted July 14, 2006 08:43 AM
"person of interest"
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Ferrycrossthemersey
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posted July 14, 2006 08:50 AM
I hate cutesy, shortened versions of perfectly good words: I especially loathe "veggies" for vegetables, or "hubby" for husband (shudder).
And in corporate-speak, there's "partnering".
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sportzchick
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posted July 14, 2006 08:53 AM
Binky instead of pacifier
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Diplomat
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posted July 14, 2006 08:56 AM
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Originally posted by Jane Craig:
and Yo.
Where I come from, that's a very necessary word. It's handy for calling out to your friends and hailing cabs, etc. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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s'news
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posted July 14, 2006 08:59 AM
"Plethora," when used to mean "lotsa" instead of "too much."
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Roy Hobbs
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posted July 14, 2006 09:02 AM
Another vote for "efforting," the high water mark of ProducerSpeak.
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sandwichpick
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posted July 14, 2006 09:05 AM
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Originally posted by sportzchick:
Binky instead of pacifier
How about dutz? It's pronounced like foots with a d on the front end. That's what we called a pacifier. I even hate it, and it's part of my family lore.
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UpNorth
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posted July 14, 2006 10:06 AM
"folks" hate it hate it hate it!
....I am guilty of the like as a\ crutch... and just can't seem to eradicate it from my speech (I'd have wrote vocab, but didn't want to offend a previous poster!)
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