Words I Hate
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Rookie.
Maybe I've been doing a bit too much reading on IndyCar/CART and their Rookie Of The Year awards but I freaking hate the way it sounds. Rook, as in a white-billed crow or the chess piece, is fine. But not rookie.
Newbie. Similar meaning, equal hatred.
Maybe I've been doing a bit too much reading on IndyCar/CART and their Rookie Of The Year awards but I freaking hate the way it sounds. Rook, as in a white-billed crow or the chess piece, is fine. But not rookie.
Newbie. Similar meaning, equal hatred.
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It's not so much a word I hate, although I am not fond of it, but for some reason I often struggle to say statistics, and its variations, in fluid conversation. Statistically, I'd say 8 times out of 10 I am deliberately enunciating it.
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Not so much words, but the pronunciation of words in Asian languages; in Chinese tone plagued me no end. In Thailand the pronunciation of romanised letters (the phonics) are messed up and everything features a glottal sound - names starting with 'k' are sounded as a 'g' and 't' becomes 'd'...it's a bloody mess of a pronunciation system.
The main highlighter of this is the name of the Queen here, nobody knows if the romanisation is 'Pupping' (pronounced 'Poohping'), 'Booping' or 'Boobing'. All of which cause a chuckle so whatever, I guess.
The main highlighter of this is the name of the Queen here, nobody knows if the romanisation is 'Pupping' (pronounced 'Poohping'), 'Booping' or 'Boobing'. All of which cause a chuckle so whatever, I guess.
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What does that even mean?
I don't exactly hate it, I'm just mildly allergic to it: In Swedish we often take two words and fuse them together into a new word. Kind of like "foot" and "ball" has been fused together into "football" in English, and I know a lot of other languages does the same (Finnish, German, probably Dutch, etc.). What I'm allergic to is when people split those fused words apart, because not only does it look bad, a lot of times the meaning of the word(s) changes totally.
Here is an example: This sign is supposed to say "rökfritt", which means "no smoking" (literally "free from smoking").
However, since they split the word into "rök fritt", the meaning has now changed to "smoke as much as you like" (literally "smoke freely").
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That does remind me a lot of irregardless, where the person says the exact opposite of what they're trying to say. As is also the case with the phrase "I could care less". There's also a road sign that says "no self-powered vehicles" and means "only self-powered vehicles".
That does remind me a lot of irregardless, where the person says the exact opposite of what they're trying to say. As is also the case with the phrase "I could care less". There's also a road sign that says "no self-powered vehicles" and means "only self-powered vehicles".
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Not really a word but rather a phrase (if that's what it actually called...
"Back To School"
They always make it sounds like a rather happy celebration of some worst place ever to "study in"...
like why would i be happy about going every morning to some horrible place where almost every student are some low-life kids that didn't learn any respect, teachers that's bad at teaching anything, foods in there are like "prison food", full of old tech garbage stuff, some of the worst kind of people I ever seen that would bully or would gauging in fight with anyone....etc of s:censored: tons of stuff that makes me wish for stuff that I think GTP might not accept saying that so I will just keep quite about it.
Schools in here are a total joke so I don't see why I should be like...."YAY school are back! Time to meet new "friends" and learn about stuff that would be totally useful".
Not sure what i'm even saying but I guess toned down version of "Bully" by rockstar games will fit how schools are bad.
"Back To School"
They always make it sounds like a rather happy celebration of some worst place ever to "study in"...
like why would i be happy about going every morning to some horrible place where almost every student are some low-life kids that didn't learn any respect, teachers that's bad at teaching anything, foods in there are like "prison food", full of old tech garbage stuff, some of the worst kind of people I ever seen that would bully or would gauging in fight with anyone....etc of s:censored: tons of stuff that makes me wish for stuff that I think GTP might not accept saying that so I will just keep quite about it.
Schools in here are a total joke so I don't see why I should be like...."YAY school are back! Time to meet new "friends" and learn about stuff that would be totally useful".
Not sure what i'm even saying but I guess toned down version of "Bully" by rockstar games will fit how schools are bad.
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A self-powered vehicle is a vehicle that powers itself. An example of a non-self powered vehicle would be a bicycle, which is powered by the person riding it.
A self-powered vehicle is a vehicle that powers itself. An example of a non-self powered vehicle would be a bicycle, which is powered by the person riding it.
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Ok, let me try again.
The sign says "No self-powered vehicles" and is attempting to ban bicycles.
A self-powered vehicle is a vehicle that powers itself (ie: a car). So what the sign actually bans is cars.
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Sticky, when its being used to describe a grindable surface in skateboarding. i.e "That rail looks pretty sticky"
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Buddy, mainly when its being used in a fight situation, i.e "You better watch out buddy, or I'll knock you out"
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Sticky, when its being used to describe a grindable surface in skateboarding. i.e "That rail looks pretty sticky"
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Buddy, mainly when its being used in a fight situation, i.e "You better watch out buddy, or I'll knock you out"
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These irk me, much like "mate" has started to. They seem so disconnected, disingenuous and generally unpleasant. if someone's your friend, they're your friend. There's something almost condescending about these.
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