What's your least favorite word?

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I've heard "ax" for "ask," but not the other horrors that you report. And I hope I never do!


Well...if you ever find someone that used them...act surprised. :smile: I hear some people use those words and I smile. (I don't go English gestapo on them. I just smile.)
 

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I've heard "ax" for "ask," but not the other horrors that you report. And I hope I never do!

Ahh, yes. Ghetto Vernacular. It's very.....intriguing, at times.

I grew up in an urban area, so I'm very used to that. Doesn't bother me, anymore.

If there's one word that bothers me, It's gotta be the "N" word. All racial/ethnic/homophobic/heterophobic slurs bother me, but that one gets me the most. To me, it's lower class than all other pofanities and slurs combined.
 

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Reading through this list, I'm really not bothered by most of those. Just the usual words that intend harm are the ones that bother me, like slut when it's intended to degrade someone (not in a sexy situation with a lover), or the N word, or the C word. I'm not that bothered by people who speak grammatically incorrect, especially if it's a part of regional jargon or slang or informal speech.*



*I credit DFW for that.
 
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"Please RSVP" = "Please please reply."

I'm often surprised that people don't understand Respondez s'il vous plait (RSVP) as meaning response requested (please) as often as I'm dismayed at the number of people who do not comprehend Regrets Only (please let me know if you will not be able to attend) I'm really a hard ass about the latter because you will never get a second invitation if you can't be arsed to respond after I have set a place at the table for you and you did not show up or call.
 

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I'm often surprised that people don't understand Respondez s'il vous plait (RSVP) as meaning response requested (please) as often as I'm dismayed at the number of people who do not comprehend Regrets Only (please let me know if you will not be able to attend) I'm really a hard ass about the latter because you will never get a second invitation if you can't be arsed to respond after I have set a place at the table for you and you did not show up or call.

One of the many reasons that have encouraged me to start a campaign: WWJMD?
What would Judith Martin do?
 

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Reading through this list, I'm really not bothered by most of those. Just the usual words that intend harm are the ones that bother me, like slut when it's intended to degrade someone (not in a sexy situation with a lover), or the N word, or the C word. I'm not that bothered by people who speak grammatically incorrect, especially if it's a part of regional jargon or slang or informal speech.*



*I credit DFW for that.

Yes, much of what gets mentioned in these kinds of threads amount to regionalisms and dialect. And even misused words in time become included in dictionaries, because the (English) language is continuously evolving ("conversate" for example).

I think what offends us is a wholly personal thing, and is mostly based upon the (social) associations, implications, and imagery each word or term invokes in our own minds.

Where some might be offended by word usage that seem representative of a certain stratum, others are equally offended by verbiage representative of quite another.

My particular pet peeve (as I've mentioned in similar threads) is "corporate speak". Pisses me to NO end (and I'm not referring to the British meaning of the word, y'know?)

So in addition to my aforementioned "disaggregation of data" I'm equally offended by corporate suck-ups who pretend to have the foggiest notion of what they're talking about by using snazzy jargon like, "what we can bring to the table" or "I say that to say this", or "at the end of the day"......

...y'know? :cool:
 
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"Societal": an ill-formed, pretentious substitute for "social."

"Invite" used as a noun, with the stress on the first syllable--a trendy-jackass substitute for the word "invitation."

I've heard "ax" for "ask," but not the other horrors that you report. And I hope I never do!

Well, if we're complaining about mispronunciations rather than actual words, don't forget "simular" (i.e., "similar" pronounced on a false analogy with "simulate").

:laughing:

"Please RSVP" = "Please please reply."

Remind me not to speak around you.