Perhaps this word was considered clever in medieval France (from where supposedly it originates) but anyone who uses this word today is, simply put, asking for pain. There is just no excuse for using this word. It’s not funny. It never was funny and no matter how many times you say it, will never be funny. And if you tell me no other word correctly describes a “brouhaha” I will twist your face off and feed it to the fucking vultures.
Words to use instead of brouhaha:
- commotion
- disturbance
- flap
- furor
- pandemonium (!)
- turmoil
- uproar
- row
Words that are actually WORSE than brouhaha:
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i also hate this fucking word
Posted 03 Feb 2010 at 10:32 pm ¶Goddamn. I have to respectfully disagree here. I love “brouhaha.” You actually prefer “pandemonium”? “Brouhaha” is the Big Brother to your Winston Smith. In about five years you will feel like Winston does about Big Brother at the end of the book.
I trust you will have the decency to amend this entry at that point.
Posted 25 Oct 2010 at 1:32 am ¶Dearest Christmas Pudding,
I dare you to walk through any part of your town that isn’t GATED whilst speaking this word aloud. Count the number of times you are eviscerated. It will be more than four.
All my best,
Posted 25 Oct 2010 at 2:02 pm ¶Yadda yadda yadda
I used kerfuffle this weekend, organically. That is, I used it in natural way while speaking. It simply trickled out, from the back recesses of my brain, storing old Adam Hall thrillers I used to read at my Grandma’s house. I’m not sure how I feel about it. I found myself speaking the word before I knew what was happening, and it came out roughly, arrhythmically. Hearing now that people hate it, I’m rethinking how I should feel about it. It’s like I’ve eaten something somewhat sweet, but also slightly gross, and so I can’t decide how it tastes. I may be all right with it, and repost using my actual name. But I’m not there yet.
Posted 25 Oct 2010 at 4:37 pm ¶i like brouhaha, it describes a specific commotion that one might hear at a holiday camp , or whilst enrolled in the army or that camp in “holes”, and as for kerfuffle, i like it as a joke, it works out with an english accent, and i used it frequently when my friend was in a wheelchair and we came upon a thin door or a set of stairs. the joke originates from little britain (tv series) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBG4CzAL1w
Posted 25 Oct 2010 at 10:10 pm ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 1
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