# NO! NO, YOU STUPID TIT! Where did you get that word?! STOP USING IT! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 25, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238 "2003-11-25T19:32:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/1 "2003-11-25T19:32:43Z")
First, a little setup. I work as a corporate trainer for a major electronics distributor. We are currently in the process of hiring a new trainer, so we’re interviewing prospectives. I am expected to be in on these interviews. Each interviewee must present a 10-15 minute “training” session on a topic of their choosing, utilizing class participation and adult learning theory. This, so far, has been fairly standard. Yesterday, during his interview, one prospective trainer said he would keep it short, because “I don’t want to **monopolate** your time.” 😕 And then, during the training, he mentioned “monopolating” again. 😕 😕 Interviewee, prepare thyself for the Pitting. I understand you were probably nervous about presenting before a group of 6 other trainers. God knows I feel that way myself. However, tossing out invented words to a group of men and women who write and deliver training for a living is never going to end well. Especially, it should be said, to a group of trainers that had to abruptly stop what they were doing to attend said interview. You smug, sly little monkey fart. Did you think we wouldn’t notice? If so, what does that say about your perception of us? That we’re a bunch of stupid doe-dee-dohs with no grasp of the language? Oh, and don’t worry. We have your resume on file. We will periodically review it so we can all have a good laugh at your Bush-like command of the language. What words or phrases make your neck hair tingle, they’re so bad? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/2 "2003-11-25T20:02:26Z")
> [@](#): > > **NO! NO, YOU STUPID TIT! Where did you get that word?! STOP USING IT!** I will not use it in a box, I will not use it with a fox, I will not use it here or there, I will not use it anywhere . . . ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/3 "2003-11-25T20:09:18Z")
_snort_ That is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/4 "2003-11-25T20:12:34Z")
Ah, yes. The made-up word. Close to the real thing, but off base enough to confuse the audience. I have a friend who bought a party dress that had “gazillions of red sequences on it.” Sigh… ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/5 "2003-11-25T20:13:00Z")
Monopolate. Heh heh. I love that. Monopolate. I work with a guy who would be likely to use that if he heard it. Monopolate. Orientate and alls are two that irritate me. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/6 "2003-11-25T20:13:59Z")
I think it’s reasonable to extrapolize from your anecdote that buddy’s prospects for the future are pretty bleak, if his presentations are consistently interpolized with bastardated words. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/7 "2003-11-25T20:14:52Z")
As with every time this subject pops up, “for all intensive purposes.” No, no, no, no, no, no, NO! Nor is the word “hung” used in relation to the dangling of human bodies, except in a very specialized way that has absolutely nothing to do with dying by rope. Nor, dear speaker of what is nominally, I suppose, English, does the word “of” take the place of “have” in phrases such as “should have”, “could have”, “would have” or “must have.” \ Oh, why can’t the English teach their children how to speak…? There even are places where English completely disappears. Why, in America they haven’t used it in years…\ ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/8 "2003-11-25T20:15:36Z")
Whaddaya mean? It’s a perfectly cromulent word. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/9 "2003-11-25T20:38:27Z")
Years ago it seemed that every military weapons instructor on the planet used the word “incennerary” instead of “incendiary”. Drove me nuts. However, my favorite non-word, and one that I use often, is “crapulent”. As in, ‘this fine product brought to you by Crapulent Industries, maker of truly shitty products’. It’s a variation on the legitimate word “feculent”, but much funnier. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/10 "2003-11-25T20:56:39Z")
I remember my history teacher who kept referring to the “Carologian” period. ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/11 "2003-11-25T20:57:25Z")
I must be weird or else I’m being whooshed, but isn’t it clear that this poor sap meant to say monopolize? And if so, the OP’s reaction to his mistake seems to me to be just a bit harsh. I’m sure you’ve never in your life misspoke or said a word the wrong way. Give him a break. I sincerely doubt he was trying to pull the wool over your eyes. I’m not saying he should get the job, but it’s a little much to mock his resume in absentia and call him a monkey fart. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/12 "2003-11-25T21:02:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by emulsified \* > \*\*I must be weird or else I’m being whooshed, but isn’t it clear that this poor sap meant to say monopolize? > > And if so, the OP’s reaction to his mistake seems to me to be just a bit harsh. > > I’m sure you’ve never in your life misspoke or said a word the wrong way. Give him a break. I sincerely doubt he was trying to pull the wool over your eyes. > > I’m not saying he should get the job, but it’s a little much to mock his resume in absentia and call him a monkey fart. \*\* Sorry, pal – once is a mistake. Twice is a trend. If you have a trend towards saying something stupid, make sure it’s not in an interview, especially with wordsmiths in a job where it’s your responsibility to speak well. And FTR, he’s not getting the job because he had 7 different jobs in the past three years. Apparently he doesn’t like to monopolate the folks in Payroll, either. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/13 "2003-11-25T21:03:58Z")
And of course, my favourite maxim of English punctuation: "An apostrophe does not mean, ‘Here comes an S!’ " ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/14 "2003-11-25T21:06:32Z")
Nope. It isn’t. Monkey fart, he is. “TylenDol.” Gak. I don’t care WHO argues the point…“Irregardless” is a word only used by "_ahem_ Monkey farts! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/15 "2003-11-25T21:07:27Z")
A couple weeks ago in a staff meeting a co-worker of mine, who is actually incredibly intelligent, referred to a statement somebody else had made as “disgenius”. I just didn’t have the heart to tell her. ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/16 "2003-11-25T21:10:27Z")
**Chastain86** Yes, as you see in my post I said I didn’t think it would make sense to offer him the job. My issue is with your reaction to his stupidity. We’re all stupid from time to time. It’s a part of the human condition. You make mistakes, too. Let’s hope the people surrounding you are more forgiving than you seem to be in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/17 "2003-11-25T21:16:51Z")
**Chefguy** , “crapulent” is certainly _not_ a non-word. A malapropism, in your usage, but a honest-to-goodness real word. (It’s one of my favourites, too.) It’s (nearly) synonymous with “biblious,” although it is sometimes used more generally to mean “gluttonous.” This reminds me, I sometimes like to intentionally malappropriate “biblious,” in connection with a subset of fundamentalists. I’m crazy like that. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/18 "2003-11-25T21:21:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chastain86 \* > \*\*. . . Each interviewee must present a 10-15 minute “training” session on a topic of their choosing, utilizing class participation and adult learning theory. . . . \*\* One of my pet peeves is when someone uses “utilize” when “use” is a perfectly good (if more and more underutilized) word. I strike it out nine times out of ten when I copyedit blustery reports. My guiding principle: “Eschew obfuscatory sesquipedalianism!” ---
**Author:** ![Matchka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Matchka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matchka)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/19 "2003-11-25T21:21:40Z")
SNL on Bush: “Integritude.” I STILL use that one, but only with a Bush accent & squint. Irregardless bugs me. Nucular makes me want to kill. ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238/20 "2003-11-25T21:21:57Z")
Reminds of a family friend who used to “allegate” things. He allegated this, that and the other. He used to even allegate me of allegating. Took me a while to get it. I finally thought “allegation” - and the penny dropped. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-you-stupid-tit-where-did-you-get-that-word-stop-using-it/215238.md?page=2)