Ditto.
Say USE, dammit, use!
Someone mentioned management-speak; in addition to that, I can’t stand self help-speak like Self-actualization, and its horrid verb form Self-actualize; Closure; and most of all, Empowerment.
God, yes. I want to rip people’s tongues out when they say preggers, preggo, etc. It’s the same amount of fucking syllables so it doesn’t make sense to try to abbreviate it and it sounds like you’re some ignorant slack-jawed idiot when you say it. God, I hate thos words.
Okay, here’s alleged complimentary terms for women that I despise:
“feisty”
To me it means rebellious in a completely non-threatening, cute and media friendly way. Not rebellious at all, therefore. Very condenscending in a “you look cute when you’re angry” kind of way.
“bubbly”
“She’s is a very bubbly person.” This immediately makes the person sound dimwitted, much more so than if they had used “lively”. It’s also often feels as though the person uttering this sentence can’t really think of any actual good qualities the person he is describing would have, but feels under some social pressure to come up with something. You’ll rarely hear a really beatiful woman described as “bubbly”, for instance. It’s a complete non-compliment.
P.s. One more vote for the hideous “belly”. Shudder.
I hate the word “nice”
I also hate the word ‘nice’ almost as much as I hate the word ‘got’. There are no circumstances under which it would not be better to use better, more suitable, words.
“hostile”
i hate having to pronounce it, because it comes out either like “hostel” which is a completely different thing, or “hos-style” which sounds pretentious to me. i always imagine capt. picard saying it on the bridge in his snooty british accent, and i feel silly saying it that way…
i also don’t like “snuck”. it’s NOT a word. drives me batty when people use it.
One of my lecturers uses the word
“guesstimate”
A very pointless mix of two similar meaning words.
Also I hate “Tummy” and the phrase “silly-billy”
I have Manic Depression. Two of my mother’s brothers have manic depression. The diagnosis de jour in mental health circles, now, is Bipolar. I will not use the term. I also dislike that children that used to be referred to as BRATS, now have ADHD and should be on drugs rather that having their asses cut. Maybe I am in the wrong thread.
Kudos, too Birkenstock wearing, NPR listening, tofu eating pseudointellucal-speak for my taste.
Good Morning, the only good morning is the one you sleep through. It should be spelled Good Mourning.
TTFN Hon 
wonderful, misspelled pseudo-intellectual :smack:
No kudos for me.
I’m noticing the word “roil” in newspapers lately, and “tony” to describe something that’s upscale and trendy. I have never been able to bring myself to say either one aloud – yech .
For my fellow Californians:
Temblor. It’s an earthquake, dammit, or a tremor. Nobody, but nobody, says temblor except the talking heads on the local news.
Except, of course, for people actually speaking the Spanish language, in which case I don’t have a problem with it.
THANKYOU!!! Add to that, “Cali” and “Frisco.” shudder
“strategize”
I hate that word. I don’t know why. Just sounds wrong.
The phrases at the end of the day and outside the box.
There is one that I see in essays all the time but I don’t remember what it is at the moment.
I don’t like the word “guy” in the phrase “Yo, guy.” shudders
“…as it were…” and “…if you will…”
Freaking pompous and pretentious.
I hate “basically.” I basically use it all the time as punctuation when I’m talking, and I basically want to kick myself every time I do it.
“Going forward” for “in the future.”
And the winner is: “glean.” Ugliest damned word in the language, and out-uglying “vagina” takes some doing.
I think it was Ed Koch who said that, when applied to a male politician, “feisty” has one meaning: “short”.
That word annoys me no end. I lose track of conversations and just start counting how many times a person can use the word “like” in a freaking sentence!