# Does anyone else dislike "cromulent"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818 "2013-11-26T14:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818/1 "2013-11-26T14:40:39Z")
Very many of us have particular annoyance-generating hot buttons, concerning things related to use of the English language. For most folk, objectively this stuff is pretty harmless in the general scheme of things; but people tend at times to be irrational, and “with their gut”, react negatively and with great irritation, to stuff which “with their head”, they see is trivial and harms nobody. I am that way, about the made-up adjective “cromulent” – generally signifying “good, valid, to be approved of” – which has achieved widespread currency in recent years; especially, to my perception, in Internet discourse. I’ve had explained to me, its origin from “The Simpsons” (a cartoon series which, I’ll admit, does not greatly delight me) – the “embiggen / cromulent” business. Nonetheless – the word and its use are still, to me, like the proverbial fingernails on a chalkboard. To me, it carries a general aura and odour of twee, goofy, “I’m in with the in-crowd” facetiousness – a scene which many people enjoy, and enthusiastically participate in, but which I find repellent. I admit that this reaction of mine does not make sense; and I do my best to repress the impulse which I get, to commit acts of violence on those who use “cromulent” – people are entitled to express themselves in whatever ways please them. I just wonder whether I’m unique in finding the word off-pissing; or whether anybody else feels the same way. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-cromulent/674818)._