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I dislike words with the nasal E sound, specifically meal. I don’t know what but for the last three years I can’t stand the word meal. “Oh I hope you had a good MEEEEEEEeeeeal”
‘Woke’ when used as a perjorative.
biweekly, bimonthly, etc.
Wtf does it mean? Twice a week? Every two weeks? Who knows. What’s the point of this word when it’s so ambiguous.
Twice a time period. Semi for every two time periods. So every two weeks is semiweekely. However it gets misused so often you almost always have to check making it almost useless.
Similar to failsafe vs redundant.
Frustratingly enough, it’s the other way around. Biweekly is every two weeks, semi weekly is two times a week.
I remember it like this:
- bicycles are two circles, biweekly is two weeks
- semicircles are half a circle, semiweekly is half a week
But yes, people use the words interchangeably so often that it’s faster just to avoid the problem altogether and just say “every two weeks”.
Blah got it backwards. Back to coffee for me.
In the UK we have the word “fortnight” for two weeks, which helps. I also found out very recently that “biannual” mean twice a year and “biennial” means every other year so, yeah, fuck knows.
When people call sex “breeding”.
It sounds like some puritanical shit where they believe that sex is only for procreation.
I’d say that is more about a kink than anything remotely religious
I’m not typically one to kink shame, but that’s just creepy.
Why?
I can point out a whole collection of really creepy kinks. This is just a word that is normally used for when two animals produce offspring, so let’s use it for people shagging, makes it more animalistic.
I really don’t see the problem with this one but if you want real kina to blink twenty times, look into vore or guro
I’ve known a few people who used “breeding” as a kink word and I’m like motherfuckers i raised four kids it’s not a fucking kink, it’s a lifelong occupation.
Right? I’m raising one amd I’m constantly exhausted.
I only use “breeding” to refer disparagingly to the actions of those who believe that having kids is mandatory or, at least, unavoidable.
That’s how I thought it was used.
I uh… I’m not sure what your source is, but for mine ‘breeding’ is anything but “only for procreation”
E: in case it isn’t painfully obvious, I am le gay, so that may factor into your source woes :p
It kinda depends on context.
A gay guy? Hedonistic, in the best way.
An incel? Puritanical, in the worst way.
Apparently it’s urban slang.
Sounds like some misogynistic nonsense to me.
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I’m in a rural area of a red state.
It really sucks here.
Ouch, sorry, my condolences
that made sense, i was thinking breeding is a gay term, and often used gay porn alot, for young/older trope, which another cringe thing.
It is, maybe, something very particular as I am not familiar with that term used through “Puritanical thingy”. Sorry, I am located in Europe and lack of knowledge about Puritans 😬 [ANSWER RECEIVED]
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Did you look them up? That’s basically what most of the mainstream US churches are based off of.
I had to as I am not (like veeeerrry far away) familiar at all with any mainstream US churches phrases. At least, I have learnt something new
I like woody sort of words. Bound, prudy, recidivist. Erogenous zone, loose woman… concubine! Errrogenous zooooone!
Funny thing, dear. All the naughty words sound woody.
E: It appears I have misread the question. But I’ll leave my Monty Python reference here.
Well my dear there were only 6 words in that question.
I’m so fucking tired of the word “cringe” lately.
Cringe
Literally.
Because holy fuck, Carter, learn a new word.
Bro. Are you kidding me right now? Are you kidding me bro? Bro. Bro.
Like literally 😆
Ointment… it sounds so gross
Can’t pick just one so here’re a couple.
“Crypto” used in the context of cryptocurrrencies. “AI”, referring only to LLMs. “Research”, referring to an indeterminate amount of reading up on the topic at hand, such as in the phrase “do your own research” that’s being bandied around in some communities.
“AI”, referring only to LLMs.
Yeah, it’s annoying because there are a lot of legit image recognition and pattern matching applications in my work field, and I need to ask for clarification every time someone says “AI”.
Like, is this actually useful, or do you mean “we asked ChatGPT to generate you 20% nonsense”?
Slay because my 10 year uses it for everything. Slayalicious, slaytastic, slayme…
Nag. Just sounds harsh
Bungalow. Should be obvious.
People who shorten food names aren’t doing English any favors…
'za (Pizza), taters, sgetti, nanners, gnosh (im hungry I need some gnosh gnosh)
Phonetically, 'za should be short for lasagne, and 'sa for pizza… or people can just say the damn words.
Whatever, I guess. Peeps gon’ slang slang, for real, for real. 🤦♂️
Trump
Trump.
I will never speak it again.
Shitler
ha. haven’t heard that one.
The Annoying Orange.
good synonym 😊
Orange Mussolini
that’s nice 🙂
The Fanta Menace.
beautiful 🤩
The Cheeto
I’ve come to hate “Utilize.” It has a decent purpose as “using to the fullest extent,” or, “making do with something in a new context.”
Instead, I just hear it as a replacement for “use” when someone wants to sound smart.
"Heh heh… Utilize. 👉👌
“Me and the boys was wonderin’ if we could go family style on 'er…?”
😏
Irregardless, inflammable, idiom are all like nails on a chalkboard to me
What’s wrong with idiom?
Just can’t stand the way it sounds, starts with an idi like your going into something then ends with an um. It feels like someone stopped making the name partway through.
Feminism
Between the toxic terfs and the toxic trads i think the word has been sullied, maybe beyond recovery.
I beleive in equality and free expression for all, but I don’t feel like that’s a goal that aligns with most modern forms of Feminism.
It is a word that’s supposed to mean eqality, but these days when someone identifies as a feminist my mind assumes they’re gonna be a reactionary bigot.
I don’t agree. I think it’s still just as powerful a word even though people purposely try to weaken it
What could I call myself to show I am a feminist, but not that type of feminist.?
I personally feel like anyone who’s not a bigot IS by nature a feminist at least in a solidarity for the ENTIRE human race sense, but keep in mind, this is coming from my perspective as a male, so I might be missing something by virtue of it not regularly impacting me personally.
I’d love a less-abused word, personally.
As a guy, I don’t think I’d WANT to call myself a feminist, lest I be incorrectly associated with the likes of Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman, or a whole host of other clearly NON-feminists who hid behind the word to cover their actions.
Equalitarian?
