Words I don't use

[tloonya]

At 9am getting text from the Princess:
I am tired

So I am like from what? Sleeping?

(though I had heard once before my customer who had never worked in USA day of her life went to a cruise and returned complaining how tired she is - I wanted to chock her...)

So I thought I have never use this word. Tired? So...who cares, right? Rest!

Also I do not ever use word 'bored'. I don't understand how can anyone be bored.

Do you have some taboo words? I also hate word 'hate'

[Green Eyed Lady]

I detest the word "super" when it comes before something else.  Like, "I'm super hungry."   Makes people sound like some sort of valley girl/boy.

I detest the word "ummmm" when it comes right before a person thinking they know everything and are about to proceed to tell the person they are talking to that they are basically dumb.  It's usually used by a person not smart enough to speak properly so I don't pay much attention to what comes after.

I detest the phrase "reply back". It makes me crazy.

I detest the word "detest".  "Hate" works better and is less pretentious.

[tloonya]

Jan 20, 2016 13:01:59 GMT -5 Green Eyed Lady said:

I detest the word "super" when it proceeds something else.  Like, "I'm super hungry."   Makes people sound like some sort of valley girl/boy.

I detest the word "ummmm" when it comes right before a person thinking they know everything and are about to proceed to tell the person they are talking to that they are basically dumb.  It's usually used by a person not smart enough to speak properly so I don't pay much attention to what comes after.

I detest the phrase "reply back". It makes me crazy.

I detest the word "detest".  "Hate" works better and is less pretentious.

I super detest word hate.

[Green Eyed Lady]

Ummm.......I'm not even going to reply back to that one.

[NancysSummerSip]

A lot of common slang words annoy me. I'm not sure why, but I guess because I write for money, I notice them more and see them as fluff or fillers. Some writers use them for the sake of trying to connect with a certain age/ethnic group audience, and so much of the time, it's just not appropriate.

Using computer slang in everyday speech ("I LOL'ed when I heard about that!") really annoys me. You sound like a preteen when you do that.

[Green Eyed Lady]

Agreed....and I do it all the time without thinking. Going to work on that. 

Of course, there is the old irritant of saying, "I feel like I'm loosing my mind." I just can't go on reading after that.

[Deleted]

hult-maker.  I avoid that term whenever possible.

[Regis]

"the new normal"

[tloonya]

Jan 20, 2016 14:29:10 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

hult-maker.  I avoid that term whenever possible.

Why? What does it do for you? Is it bad?

[quince]

Aardvark. 

[ArchietheDragon]

SUASAGE

[Green Eyed Lady]

Jan 20, 2016 14:58:52 GMT -5 quince said:

Aardvark. 

That made me laugh! I have no idea why.

[dannylion]

I avoid using the word thrombocytopenia because I am not entirely sure what it means.  Also because opportunities to use it seldom come up in normal conversation. 

[tloonya]

Jan 20, 2016 15:29:27 GMT -5 dannylion said:

I avoid using the word thrombocytopenia because I am not entirely sure what it means.  Also because opportunities to use it seldom come up in normal conversation. 

deficiency of platelets in the blood. This causes bleeding into the tissues, bruising, and slow blood clotting after injury.

You need to hit someone and see if you can then strike a conversation to use THE word. 

[Green Eyed Lady]

Oops! Sorry! My fist gave you thrombocytopenia! 

[tloonya]

Jan 20, 2016 15:04:03 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

SUASAGE

Because of resemblance of something?

[ArchietheDragon]

Jan 20, 2016 15:49:43 GMT -5 tloonya said:

Jan 20, 2016 15:04:03 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

SUASAGE

Because of resemblance of something?

This huge sausage is very suspicious

[Deleted]

totes...short for totally, which is also stupid

[Green Eyed Lady]

Yes, LB! Yes! And "adorbs". I hate "adorbs".

[tloonya]

Jan 20, 2016 15:52:24 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Jan 20, 2016 15:49:43 GMT -5 tloonya said:

Because of resemblance of something?

This huge sausage is very suspicious

Its suspect what? That its bigger then a cooks?

[ArchietheDragon]

Jan 20, 2016 16:02:30 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

totes...short for totally, which is also stupid

[Deleted]

OMG! That's looks exactly like the kid in the office that says it!!!!

[Deleted]

kid, get it?

[haapai]

I don't use the phrase "I'm bored" anywhere within my mother's hearing and pretty much avoid it the rest of the time just to be on the safe side.  I learned long ago that saying that would either lead to me cleaning windows or being told that only boring people get bored. 

[greeniis10]

Jan 20, 2016 16:03:35 GMT -5 Green Eyed Lady said:

Yes, LB! Yes! And "adorbs". I hate "adorbs".

Same here. And "prolly" for "probably". That grates on my nerves.

[wyouser]

"enhance your experience"  Some nutcase in an ivory tower's brilliant improvement to your computer that will make your life on the computer all unicorns and bunny rabbits. UNTIL the unintended consequences hit!! I cannot stand that phrase!

[zibazinski]

Mine is obviously "retard." When it's used to describe someone with issues as opposed to slowing down. DH actually used it one time only and when I cringed like he had struck me, the pain on my face so obvious, he never used it again. When I think how casually my friends and I used it as kids not even realizing what it truly meant, I feel ashamed   

[gregintenn]

Jan 20, 2016 14:29:10 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

hult-maker.  I avoid that term whenever possible.

O.k. I'll ask. What the hell does hult maker mean? I've never heard the term before, and thought it was something Loony made up.

[zibazinski]

Jan 20, 2016 18:26:14 GMT -5 gregintenn said:

Jan 20, 2016 14:29:10 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

hult-maker.  I avoid that term whenever possible.

O.k. I'll ask. What the hell does hult maker mean? I've never heard the term before, and thought it was something Loony made up.

Thank you for asking

[cronewitch]

Jan 20, 2016 17:04:44 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Mine is obviously "retard." When it's used to describe someone with issues as opposed to slowing down. DH actually used it one time only and when I cringed like he had struck me, the pain on my face so obvious, he never used it again. When I think how casually my friends and I used it as kids not even realizing what it truly meant, I feel ashamed   

When I was young it was a medical term to describe a person who is now considered learning disabled or brain damaged, developmentally disabled. I hate it used as an insult or other disabilities like spastic but not when used to describe a person who is actually disabled.
My best friend had a son who had MD and mental retardation, he died from them around 1980 before they changed the words, he was disabled enough not to be insulted by the description which wasn't used as an insult just what he was. Now my great niece has down syndrome and is in special ed but she is pretty smart and would be very insulted if someone called her retarded and if she was retarded and heard someone else called retarded it might hurt her feeling if they were or not. It is a word I think should be gone as should all insults about birth conditions like race or being born a little people it isn't an insult just what we are. I was born female and think it is offensive to call a boy a girl as an insult for example. You throw like a girl or you run like a girl isn't an insult stop using it to mean you do something badly.

Words I don't use are curse words or insults that are offensive to anyone.