# Hate words? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209 "2004-01-07T14:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209/61 "2004-01-10T02:59:43Z")
the way the business community uses **grow** — they are going to **grow** the business — hearing it or reading it enrages me for some reason two that aren’t mine… but I like repeating **hungry/starving** when used in commercials for junk food… I have a friend who screams back at the television during the snickers commercials “You spoiled little brats have never known hunger… you’re barely even peckish!!!” **so unique** there was a Shell commercial talking about their gasoline formulations and how they were “so unique”… my ex used to hit the roof every time the advertisement came on… ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209/62 "2004-01-10T04:08:44Z")
How about “support” as in I support the troops. How do you do that, exactly? Are you sending them money, cans of food, ammunition? Or is that just something meaningless you say when a microphone is placed in your face or a phrase with which you decorate your bumper sticker? I support your decision. You may agree with my decision or accept it meekly, but if you support it I expect a check in the mail from you or some other type of favor. Is it just me or did the word support once mean something? ---
**Author:** ![Gest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Gest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gest)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209/63 "2004-01-10T06:54:23Z")
The kinds of people telling pollsters they support the troops should be given that followup; how? FedExed ambient light gear? Ballistic plates for their vests? I think the usual answer would be; prayers and wishing them godspeed for their safe return. Wouldn’t you prefer prayers over body armour any day? ---
**Author:** ![Headspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@Headspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headspace)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209/64 "2004-01-10T15:14:46Z")
my bugbear = “actually” as in “if you actually do/say sthg” Why not just use the plain "if you do/say sthg? How can you ‘notactually’ do/say sthg anyway. Isnt actually do a tautology? Crappy lazy uneducated use of English for emphasis -AAARGGHH ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209/65 "2004-01-10T15:29:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Headspace \* > \*\*my bugbear = “actually” as in “if you actually do/say sthg” Why not just use the plain "if you do/say sthg? How can you ‘notactually’ do/say sthg anyway. Isnt actually do a tautology? Crappy lazy uneducated use of English for emphasis -AAARGGHH \*\* Though tautological, wouldn’t it be seen as a legitimate emphatic - as in “it is possible to do/say something, but if you _actually_ do/say something…”. On a similar note, I have that problem with “basically”. In a 30-minute business meeting last year I kept a “basically” score card: two of the speakers tallied about 15 "basically"s, but one guy said it 26 times, and he had obviously so overused it that it had mutated to something that sounded like “basally”. BTW, and welcome to the SDMB, **Ellis Aponte Jr.** and **Headspace**! ---
**Author:** ![netscape\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209/66 "2004-01-10T15:45:38Z")
**utilize** can’t say use which means the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209/67 "2004-01-10T17:57:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gest \* > Wouldn’t you prefer prayers over body armour any day? \*\* I would most definitely prefer body armor over prayers! Or were you being facetious? ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209/68 "2004-01-10T19:17:51Z")
I don’t mind the word fiance as a word, but I really, truly, thoroughly _despise_ it when “my fiance” takes the place of someone’s name. I’ve had a few friends who, when they were just dating, the boyfriend had a name. It was Jack said this, Tony did that, etc., never my boyfriend did this, or my boyfriend said that. Slap a ring on that finger, though, and it’s always my fiance got me…, my fiance says…, my fiance this that and the other till I finally congratulated a couple of them on their name changes. Introducing someone as “my fiance, [fill in name]” is perfectly fine. Permanently replacing someone’s name with their relationship to you, that’s just gross. ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209/69 "2004-01-10T21:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Man With The Golden Gun \* > \*\*Here’s one I’ve seen around here a lot that gets on my nerves: > > straight supremacist. > > Guys, there is already a word for people who hate homosexuals. That word is “homophobe”. There is no need to add a extra word and an extra syllable. \*\* I’m not doubting you, but “homophobe” as a word annoys me, simply because of the dodgy etymology. I’ve always thought that there should be an “ism” with the same meaning. Racism, sexism, homophobia? Nah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-words/223209.md?page=3)