Re: Modern adjectives you hate
 

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"penultimate"

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Wow, I've read this one but don't think I've ever heard it in my life.

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WTF dude, I basically count on you to explain crap like this for me. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Re: Modern adjectives you hate
 

Um...this one isn't modern...actually, far from it. It's more archaic than anything else, meaning second to last.

Go-Go-Gadget-Liberal-Arts-Degree!

Re: Modern adjectives you hate
 

'Crunk' wins this hands down.

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Re: Modern adjectives you hate
 

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Yeah verbing bugs me too. It almost always seems cheesy or somehow grates on the ear.

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surely you can apprecite the irony of the above


peace

john nickle

Re: Modern adjectives you hate
 

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"Everything happens for a reason."

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This is definitely at the top of my list. Not a phrase I hate really, but one that bugs me or sticks out to me or whatever that is commonly used: literally, when meaning figuratively, e.g. "I literally died laughing".

GoT

Brilliant
 

I'm choosing brilliant just becuase that's the only adjective they use over in England. But then they try to lord over the Americans with how the "the Queen's English" uses so many more words than us. Whatever.

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Yeah verbing bugs me too. It almost always seems cheesy or somehow grates on the ear.

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surely you can apprecite the irony of the above


peace

john nickle

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So much so that I felt it went without saying.

Re: Brilliant
 

There's a strong anti-intellectual aspect to American society that doesn't do us much credit on every level. I think the use of "brilliant" is pretty silly, but we could learn a thing or two from the fluency with the language that even pretty average Britons seem to have. The ones I've seen with any amount of intelligence at all who come over here don't fight so hard to keep their vocabulary small, and the result is they speak more naturally in a way. In America, unfortunately, dumb is cool, and attempts to be anything else get frowned on as terminally unhip or just snooty. It kind of makes speaking suck when people have the right word at hand, but then have to actually search their minds to find a dumber way to say what they mean.

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Yeah verbing bugs me too. It almost always seems cheesy or somehow grates on the ear.

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surely you can apprecite the irony of the above


peace

john nickle

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So much so that I felt it went without saying.

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dammit, i missed another one....

peace

john nickle

Re: Brilliant
 

Where do you live that people intentionally act dumb. Like the people are smart but are afraid to show it?