What are your least favourite words?
Managerial.
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And yeah, that's how I spell favourite. I is ethnic.
one of them is swell and the other is lousy ... ;)
Not words as they are, but people who use words to look important or confuse others.
As an example, I read some years ago a text about school. To describe a ball (soccer), the writer used in French 'référentiel bondissant' that can roughly translate as 'leaping reference'. In the same text, that person used some expression I can only translate as 'learner's begetter' to describe parents.
And it was a serious text, at least I assumed it to be, the source being the French Ministry of Education .
Loo.
Any of the other names for it, even the more graphic ones, are fine.
A friend at uni couldn't abide the word plimsoll.
jodhpurs :shudder:
I don't even know how to say it, but it has the effect of wet yarn.
Least favourite phrase: "Can I talk to you?" & "Do you have time for a quick chat?"
Orgasm (as a verb). An awkward and ignorant usage from the awkward and ignorant Shere Hite. Of whom little has been heard lately.
license and registration please
could you pitch in?
that's not my finger
myself.
As in: Martha, Bob, and myself went to the game.
He gave an apple to George, Rob, and myself.
Myself is rarely useable without sounding pretentious but stupid.
Amazing, as in, "they have this amazing cheese burger."
Chillax.
I don't know, it just sounds like a laxative to me.
Welcome to the Cellar, Lucy. :D
myself.
As in: Martha, Bob, and myself went to the game.
He gave an apple to George, Rob, and myself.
Myself is rarely useable without sounding pretentious but stupid.
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:) Good one foot.
more words:
greasy
slimy
stupid
I can't think of any for myself at the moment, but I hear "moist" is pretty unpopular.
Even when applied to Brownies?
You're fired!
Whatever (as an interjection stating indifference)
venerial
An advertiser I have to deal with occasionally has a persistent habit of using "array" incorrectly and it really gets up my nose. She should be using "assortment" or "selection"
As in "We offer a wide selection of soups" rather than "We offer a wide array of soups" (Maybe to go with their phalanx of sanwiches)
Heh...I have a friend who says she was all "misconstrued" at work. No, she wasn't misunderstood, she was exasperated. :lol:
An advertiser I have to deal with occasionally has a persistent habit of using "array" incorrectly and it really gets up my nose. She should be using "assortment" or "selection"
As in "We offer a wide selection of soups" rather than "We offer a wide array of soups" (Maybe to go with their phalanx of sanwiches)
Do you think their business is impacted by that?
Or perhaps there's more to it than you think? Maybe each soup's position on the menu is dictated by their spiciness and calorific content?
Everybody loves arrayment.
ouch, Shawnee, that's gonna leave a mark.
Monster, As far as I can tell the soups are not even narrowly arrayed, I'm pretty sure they are all stacked in rubbermade containers in the fridge waiting to be taken out and heated upon demand. Or possibly on command. But who can be ensured?
I can't think of any for myself at the moment, but I hear "moist" is pretty unpopular.
Even when applied to Brownies?
Not sure, but in the
first hit in
this Google search, one person does make an exception for cake.
Yebbut, they offer the soups on the menu :p
Do you think I'm getting a little effected here?
Shawnee, go to your room and think about what you just said. No toys.
Ahhh, I think I see. Maybe they are offering soups which are widely arrayed for you after you order them.
"Yes, I'd like the soups, widely arrayed, for starters..."
I'll take the column three, row two.....
comptroller
Somebody made that shit up.
As in "We offer a wide selection of soups" rather than "We offer a wide array of soups" (Maybe to go with their phalanx of sanwiches)
Or perhaps there's more to it than you think?
If they say selection, the message is select which ones you want.
If they say array, the message is you gotta buy them all, or you fail.