Modern adjectives you hate

[Thythe]

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I like when nouns are turned into verbs. I think it was in calvin and hobbes, calvin points out the "verbing" of nouns.

I like "friending", which is used by a lot of dumbasses on My Space and Friendset, "dude, I friended you on myspace"

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I really hate this too. Rarely heard, but always annoying is when scrapbook is used as a verb..."I've been scrapbooking" Uhhhh...

There's some college (I've never even heard of it) that puts together a list of banished words and phrases. Most of the stuff mentioned here ends up on there eventually. Here's the 2005 list: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
It's a little off topic, but funny and entertaining.

[Blarg]

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

I've heard the scrapbooking one before, and that one always struck me as stupid too.

Business in the 80's and 90's was coining cheesy new words at a really quick clip, and it became popular to apply them outside the business world. They did lots of grotesque verbing there.

[cnfuzzd]

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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

[Blarg]

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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.

[mrgold]

Get your *any word in the whole [censored] language apparently* on

[Adam Carolla]

"Everything happens for a reason."

[BusterStacks]

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"Everything happens for a reason."

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Yes, this is a huge load of BS that I hear all the time.

[Blarg]

I can't stand this one too. It has an ugly and disrespectful way of trivializing bad things, sometimes right to the face of the person the bad things are happening to.

[illusionS]

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"Everything happens for a reason."

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I had a girlfriend who used this one almost daily. She really felt like it justified every stupid [censored] thing that happened. Sweet girl, but not much of a thinker.

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"Everything happens for a reason."

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This answer is an extreme cop out that gives way to the sort of self-pitying "oh well" sort of thinking. We are all outraged at this.