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Words you hate for no apparent reason.
2004-06-05, 10:19 AM #41
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<insert stereotypical "Gangster"-style words here>. Dear god. You're not cool. [/B]</font>


Well, he's cool to annother 'gangster'-wannabe... you know, kinda like a corpse eating turkey vulture looks sexy to another corpse eating turkey vulture.

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2004-06-05, 10:35 AM #42
What is correct English anyway?
The language keeps changing. Words that didn't exist yesterday become everyday words overnight.
Definitions change, as does usage.
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2004-06-05, 11:32 AM #43
"Assnugget"

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2004-06-05, 11:57 AM #44
Why did Snoop Dog carry and umbrella?

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2004-06-05, 12:02 PM #45
fo'shizzsle my nizzle dawg.

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2004-06-05, 12:32 PM #46
and the word "silly", it bothers me, i dont like it.

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2004-06-05, 2:10 PM #47
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by - Tony -:

A**. It's ar**. It has an a, r, s and e.</font>


A** is a word too!

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2004-06-05, 2:20 PM #48
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Matthew Pate:
I don't know how many times I've told my friends, never call broads chicks.</font>


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2004-06-05, 2:31 PM #49
I hate the word "thru". I can't STAND it. Although it is technically a word, it is informal according to most dictionaries. I mean, can't you put in three more letters and say it properly?

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2004-06-05, 2:37 PM #50
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Elana14:
and the word "silly", it bothers me, i dont like it.</font>


Oh, thats just silly... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-06-05, 3:12 PM #51
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by -God-:
Why did Snoop Dog carry and umbrella?

fo'drizzle

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I love that joke.
Actually, Snoop Dog is the most uncreative rapper. For example, he can make kitchen rhyme with bathtub.


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2004-06-05, 3:15 PM #52
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SMOCK!:
For example, he can make kitchen rhyme with bathtub.


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I'd say if he can do that, then he must be pretty creative! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-06-05, 3:29 PM #53
"Proactive"

What does it mean? "In favour of being active"? People who use it deserve to die. Painfully. Possibly involving spikes and some sort of crushing mechanism.
2004-06-05, 3:32 PM #54
Proactive means taking action in advance when you know there's a good chance something could happen. It's not a way of describing people who support being active. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

And no, it's not a synomym of 'prevention'. Prevention is the action that you take. Being proactive is taking that action.

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2004-06-05, 5:03 PM #55
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Matthew Pate:
I don't know how many times I've told my friends, never call broads chicks.</font>



Indeed. It's sexist, and chicks hate it.


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2004-06-05, 5:04 PM #56
Meh. Maybe it's just because it's a favourite of "useless business lingo" people. Like; "we have to be proactive". It sounds like a sports drink.
2004-06-05, 6:38 PM #57
Pre-Past tense verb

"precooked"
"prewashed"
"predrilled"

So you're telling me you coocked it before cooking it? Wouldn't the verb itself suffice? "cooked"

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2004-06-05, 6:54 PM #58
I don't like the word like. And awkward is a very awkward looking word.

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2004-06-05, 10:25 PM #59
Slut and skank and any forms of. And it's not for 'no apparent reason'. They're just so ... disgusting, and I hear them used far too casually.

I also hate 'pwned' and 'lol', for obvious reasons. Owned I can stand.

But one abbreviation (?) I do hate for no apparent reason is 'LAFF' (used in the same way as lol or rofl). I can't work out if it's an abbreviation or a mutation of 'laugh'.
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2004-06-06, 12:00 AM #60
I didn't realise it before but the word 'prevention' amuses me.
'Prevention' is acting before an event occurs, 'intervention' is acting when an event is the process of occuring, so I assume 'postvention' is acting after that event has occured?
I wonder what 'vention' is, just acting regardless of any event occuring at all?
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2004-06-06, 5:04 AM #61
Also, on the flip side, the phrase 'cellar door' sounds lovely when spoken in a soft American accent, California or somewhere, or a non-Flirbnic Canadian accent. It doesn't sound very good in a British accent as the 'r' isn't pronounced making it 'cella dor'. Sounds like a nice name, that, though, Cellador.
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2004-06-06, 5:10 AM #62
Actually, I don't think the "r" at the end of "door" would be pronounced by Brits, either. Australians certainly don't.

But then, "aluminum" sounds really stupid coming out of the mouth of anyone who doesn't realise "aluminium" has 2 "i"s :P
2004-06-06, 7:01 AM #63
If we include annoying mispronunciations, then "loch" has to be my favourite. Or least favourite. You know what I mean.

For all the annoying mispronouncers (especially those who live south of Berwick and north of Normandy as you've had a good 200+ since the Act of Union to get this right): It's NOT "lock". Got it?
2004-06-06, 7:05 AM #64
Who says we Aussies don't pronounce the 'r' in door?
I know I do... and my freinds... and my family..
and kinda everybody I know...



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2004-06-06, 7:10 AM #65
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CookedHaggis:
If we include annoying mispronunciations, then "loch" has to be my favourite. Or least favourite. You know what I mean.

For all the annoying mispronouncers (especially those who live south of Berwick and north of Normandy as you've had a good 200+ since the Act of Union to get this right): It's NOT "lock". Got it?</font>


Then what is it? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/confused.gif]

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2004-06-06, 7:24 AM #66
it's "loch".
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2004-06-06, 7:37 AM #67
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Mort-Hog:
I didn't realise it before but the word 'prevention' amuses me.
'Prevention' is acting before an event occurs, 'intervention' is acting when an event is the process of occuring, so I assume 'postvention' is acting after that event has occured?
I wonder what 'vention' is, just acting regardless of any event occuring at all?</font>


Prevention comes from the french word - you've guessed it - prevention, which comes from the word prevenir, which comes from the word venir, which means 'to come'.

From dictionary.com:

prevention

\Pre*ven"tion\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]vention.] 1. The act of going, or state of being, before. [Obs.]


I'm saying this because this relates to something I've been trying to explain earlier on another thread. This is why I concider english an 'ugly' language. Prevention makes sense in french, because it's a derivative of the verb 'venir'. In english, there is no verb 'venir', nor is there any latin equivalent. Yet, they borrow some of it's derivatives. So you end up with a bunch of words like prevention, that are basicly just a group of letters put together without any good reason.

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2004-06-06, 9:09 AM #68
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Correction:
Then what is it? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/confused.gif]

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Loch. And not "lotch" (as in "lo" followed by a "ch" sound, which at least would be logical, rather than "lock", which comes out of nowhere), but rather "l" followed by "och" (as in the och in "och aye").
Loch.

Now go tell your friends so they can say it right too.
2004-06-06, 10:06 AM #69
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by gothicX:
"y'know wha I'm saying?"

And anything disrespectful to women, god how I hate that.</font>


agreed

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2004-06-06, 10:34 AM #70
1337-speak.

It just makes you look either:
a) stupid,
b) ignorant, or
c) like you think you are too important to bother wasting your time spelling things correctly.

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2004-06-06, 10:47 AM #71
when people say "Ideer" instead of "idea"

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2004-06-06, 10:52 AM #72
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by kyle90:
1337-speak....</font>


j00 s|_|><0rz0rz!!!oneoneone

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2004-06-06, 10:58 AM #73
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Flexor:
Prevention comes from the french word - you've guessed it - prevention, which comes from the word prevenir, which comes from the word venir, which means 'to come'.

From dictionary.com:

prevention

\Pre*ven"tion\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]vention.] 1. The act of going, or state of being, before. [Obs.]


I'm saying this because this relates to something I've been trying to explain earlier on another thread. This is why I concider english an 'ugly' language. Prevention makes sense in french, because it's a derivative of the verb 'venir'. In english, there is no verb 'venir', nor is there any latin equivalent. Yet, they borrow some of it's derivatives. So you end up with a bunch of words like prevention, that are basicly just a group of letters put together without any good reason.

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Oh? Does French use the 'post' and 'inter' prefixes, so to form postvenir or intervenir? Or is it just coincidence that the 'pre' prefix is the same?
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2004-06-06, 11:11 AM #74
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Matthew Pate:
Actually, I don't think the "r" at the end of "door" would be pronounced by Brits, either. Australians certainly don't.

But then, "aluminum" sounds really stupid coming out of the mouth of anyone who doesn't realise "aluminium" has 2 "i"s :P</font>


Yes, it would be an open 'doohe' but I wasn't quite sure how to write it as 'doo' would give completely the wrong idea of how Brits pronounce 'door'. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

Also, yes, I thought 'aluminum' was really silly when I first heard it, but I think that is actually the legitimate American spelling of 'aluminium'. The guy that first discovered the element named it 'aluminum' but later changed it so to fit in with the 'ium' ending of many elements. The official international spelling is 'aluminium', according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), and that is the spelling you should find in most science textbooks, even American ones.
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2004-06-06, 11:50 AM #75
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by MBeggar:
when people say "Ideer" instead of "idea"</font>


Like virtually /every kakdamn time/ the word 'idea' was used in all of the various LotR dvd commentaries.. oh my qod..

And i say y'all.. because it annoys me that English doesn't have a standard you-plural form. And actually i use 'heavy' as well.. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gif]

I think probably 'jakarutu', every time someone says it i have this post-hypnotic impulse to go kill myself..

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2004-06-06, 12:06 PM #76
This is why I love Dor. I have no bloody idea what he just said, but it was funny.

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2004-06-06, 12:13 PM #77
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CookedHaggis:

Loch. And not "lotch" (as in "lo" followed by a "ch" sound, which at least would be logical, rather than "lock", which comes out of nowhere), but rather "l" followed by "och" (as in the och in "och aye").
Loch.

Now go tell your friends so they can say it right too.</font>


Sorry Haggis, that didn't help at all for me. What the [insert explitive] is "och aye" suppose to be?? Is och one of those "sound-like-I'm-throwing-up" gutteral noises that kill my throat when I try to say it?

And according to [url=
[url="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=loch]dictionary.com[/url]"]http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=loch]dictionary.com[/url][/url] both "lock" and this other version which I have no idea what it sounds like appear to be correct.

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2004-06-06, 12:16 PM #78
I hate the word "poop".
2004-06-06, 1:50 PM #79
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Gebohq:
Sorry Haggis, that didn't help at all for me. What the [insert explitive] is "och aye" suppose to be?? Is och one of those "sound-like-I'm-throwing-up" gutteral noises that kill my throat when I try to say it?

And according to dictionary.com both "lock" and this other version which I have no idea what it sounds like appear to be correct.

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Well it's kinda hard to describe in text since there isn't (I don't think) any parallel of the "och" syllable in standard English. But trust me when I say that saying "lock" instead of "loch" is incredibly annoying.

The closest thing I can think of offhand to "och" is the German "ach" (as in "Achtung!") only with a long o sound instead of a. Of course, if you pronounce "achtung" as "acktung" then it's not really very helpful.
2004-06-06, 1:56 PM #80
I hate it when someone bothers to type four stars to represent foul language. ****. I makes you cuss in your mind, and it's as bad as reading it, or worse.

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