Modern adjectives you hate

[Blarg]

Everywhere I've lived; Guam, Hawaii, Los Angeles. I've seen people get ribbed over using three or even two syllable words, even if they were by far the best word to use to describe something. I see this a lot more in downscale and certain ethnic crowds than in the upper middle class and above.

[Boris]

Oh right, the little people. That explains why I didn't relate to your comment.

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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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Word.

[Boris]

lol

[Ulysses]

"off the hook" and "off the chain" are particularly grating.

[Slow Play Ray]

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"off the hook" and "off the chain" are particularly grating.

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yes, and it gets even worse when morphed to "off the hizzle"

Kinko's had a slogan a while back, "The new way to office." I will never go into a Kinko's again.
Currently, I am really tired of hearing, "Avian Bird Flu." What exactly is a avian? Its a bird. Like there is some bird flu of the non-avian type going around?

[lu_hawk]

I vote for any sort of word where the person doesn't use the normal word that comes naturally but consciously picks another word that they think makes them sound cool. Like on 2+2 people use 'meh' or say something like 'i smoothchecked', in real life you hear people say things like 'tits' or something. This isn't part of their normal vocabulary and they were probably going to say something else but then they thought 'let me say this word instead so I sound cool.' Anytime I hear someone say a word like that I automatically label them as a giant tool and I have never been wrong.

[Blarg]

I've never heard anyone say "tits" to describe anything but tits, and "meh" isn't pretentious. It's not even a word, maybe closer to a grunt or a sneeze. What would it substitute for, anyway, "eh"? Or "bah"? Or "whatever"? None of these really need substituting for, and "meh" sure won't be any more cool. It's used because it's used, and as to effect, it would have none. It's hard for me to picture someone thinking "meh" was an attempt to be cool. It's about as exotic as clearing your throat and spitting. I think this was a bad call.

[Superfluous Man]

"snarky" and it's not even close.