Words I Hate

[SlipZtrEm]

"Ideation".

 

[Bopop4]

"In a nutshell."

 

[Danny]

I'm not sure why you're not buying in here, let's circle back and really try to nail it down and wrap our heads around it. I'm tired of you phoning it in here, there's no I in team and you need to step up to the plate. There's really a need for a paradigm shift in the way you think, we need to systematically and dynamically engage our established user base and increase our ROI and brand integration. Maybe we're putting lipstick on a pig but we've got to go viral.

We're not reinventing the wheel here, let's just work smarter, not harder, and consistently raise the bar. The past? Water under the bridge, hindsight is always 20/20. At the end of the day we can't just throw the baby out with the bathwater, but I need you to be more marketing driven so that we can be client centered. I'm trying to be proactive and transparent here, there's no need for perfection, Rome wasn't built in a day, but we need everyone on the same page so we can all be a team player.

I'll touch base later to see what you think going forward.

 

[Liquid]

Mac. And mack, but especially Mac.

I hate Mac over Macintosh.
I hate mack in American English for getting into someone.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

Everything about this word:

Coitus

From its pronunciation to its meaning.

 

[W3H5]

Hate - it's such a strong word.

Cliché, I know, but true.

 

[Joel]

Banter.

 

[lbpomg95]

"Thinking outside the box"

 

[RACECAR]

That would be more of a phrase then a word though.

 

[W3H5]

"Thinking outside the box"

That is a phrase and it has a proper meaning if you'd care to look it up, it's rather intersting if I remember correctly, but I can't be bothered to look it up again now.

 

[lbpomg95]

That is a phrase and it has a proper meaning if you'd care to look it up, it's rather intersting if I remember correctly, but I can't be bothered to look it up again now.

For a start, other people in this thread have used phrases instead of singular words.
Secondly, it's use (at least from my experience) often doesn't do justice to its meaning or origin, to the point that people use it as a buzzword with barely any meaning.

 

[W3H5]

I was merely pointing out it has an interesting origin.

 

[lbpomg95]

I was merely pointing out it has an interesting origin.

My apologies - I'm used to people shooting others down most of the time

 

[CSMDuty11]

YOLO
SWAG
Selfie
Hashtag
Noscope
rekt
Shrekt
M8
Bro (when reffering to someone that ISN'T your brother)
Qashqai
Akward

 

[Pseudopod]

I don't like when people say "motor" when talking about engines. V8 motor, V12 motor, and the worst are rotary motor or boxer motor. Just doesn't sound right. If its for electric motors that's one thing, but internal combustion ENGINES should be called engines IMO. All personal preference, though.

But at the same time, we call it motorsports, not enginesports . I'm not really bothered by it because we don't have separate words for the two types of motors in my language .

A word I hate would be... premium is pretty far up on my list.

 

[Liquid]

Ghoti. That horrible word people use as a "Isn't English strange?" like they read one blog on word play or saw one Cracked photoplasty on language.

Why do I hate it? Because it doesn't work.

Gh only makes an F sound at the end of words and even then only in the foreign, multiphonetic -ough suffix. Not at the start.
O does make an I sound in women, granted, but that is a rare occurance and barely qualifies as an exception disproving a rule.
Ti only makes a Sh sound in the middle of words like summation, national and pasteurisation. Only in words with a -tion or -tional or -tionisation sort of suffix and never just on its own at the end.

You could have PHESIY as 'fishy' instead. Ph from Phone, E from England, Si in the middle as it should be and then Y on the end.

Or you could have PHONE for 'fun' if you take the Ph from phone and the O from oven. Silent E on the end as it ought to be, that's one reason why E is the most common English letter. PHON would be silly.

Learn the rules, damn it.

 

[Fryto]

IP

 

[kennylmao]

YOLO
SWAG
Selfie
Hashtag
Noscope
rekt
Shrekt
M8
Bro (when reffering to someone that ISN'T your brother)
Qashqai

What about 'brah'? 'Bruh'? Or do you like it spelled properly as 'brother'?

I hate 'reciept', 'recieve', and a few other similar words because I can never spell them correctly.

Edit: One more, 'nucular'. I like to laugh at the person using it though so I guess it's a win-win.

 

[Tunerguy21]

But at the same time, we call it motorsports, not enginesports . I'm not really bothered by it because we don't have separate words for the two types of motors in my language .

A word I hate would be... premium is pretty far up on my list.

In the case of motorsports, I don't mind it because its not referring to the engine as a motor. I just don't like when people talk specifically about engines and call them motors. Something just doesn't sound right.

 

[ScottPuss20]

Technology

 

[JMoney]

"Low-Key"

Five different people described their Christmases as low-key to me this year. Not sure why that bothered me so much but it did. Is it supposed to reference a piano?

 

[SVX]

Bae and tank when it's used to explain something is cool.

 

[Omnis]

"Thinking outside the box"

Your disdain for "Thinking outside the box" is not thinking outside the box.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

TIL bae actually stands for "Before Anyone Else". I thought it was just a douchey way to say babe. My respect for the word has increased but not by much because douches still use it.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

Your disdain for "Thinking outside the box" is not thinking outside the box.

However, his use of a phrase rather than a word is

 

[ildd]

Bugatti

 

[Com Fox]

Sweg (when used as a variation of Swag).
Disbelief (I have no idea, I heard it when I was watching Summerslam 2008 and it made me cringe).

 

[Liquid]

Social network.

I work with the damn things but the term really irritates me.

 

[Pupik]

Social network.

Because being tuned into every notification on Twigger, Spacebook, Humblr, and Frugal+ makes one a tad anti-social, perhaps?

 

[RACECAR]

Social network.

I work with the damn things but the term really irritates me.

Isn't that just a lazy way of mentioning Twitter, facebook, instagram, and everything else?

Because being tuned into every notification on Twigger, Spacebook, Humblr, and Frugal+ makes one a tad anti-social, perhaps?

Don't forget instamotion and facetube.