It saddens me to announce the death of the adjectival epic. It seems all you shitheads have had your fill of awesome, and have jumped one step up to epic. Now it’s dead. You killed it. First, if you haven’t already read my post on awesome, please do so now. I hate awesome because it’s overused. [...]
Words I Hate
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Kinky
I hate the word “kinky”. It makes me think of desperate married couples searching vainly for a way to “spice up” their sex life. “What about these ‘vibrating nipple clamps’?” “Ooh that’s kinky!” “Yeah? Well we should get these then.” “Oh wow they’re twenty dollars, though!” “Jesus Dora, we’re trying to save our marriage here.” [...]
Tight-Knit
No joke here, I am actually filled with anxiety to write about this word. It pesters me. It traps me and fills me with bile and ire. Even more than its brother, “tightly-knit”, which I hate just 10% less. Perhaps it’s the K following a T, or the two T endings. Perhaps it is the [...]
Meta
People, listen up and listen good. “Meta” is not an adjective. It is a prefix which can take one of two meanings: connected with a change of position or state metamorphosis metabolism higher; beyond metaphysics metalanguage But now some people have decided it would be a good idea to take this PREFIX and turn it [...]
Morose
I think I’ve hated morose longer than any word I can remember hating. It’s likely I first got acquainted with it while studying for the SATs in high school, but I’m sure I hated it even before I heard it. I hated “morose” from the womb. I could hear my mother using it, mostly while [...]
Remiss
Remiss is a needy needy word, at least in modern spoken English. I’m sure at some point years ago people actually used “remiss” on its own, actually using it to describe a state of carelessness or negligence. In fact, this definition lives on in its very useful offspring, remission. But today, people do not say [...]
Sanguine
This word does not deserve to exist. In the US, everyone learns it when studying for the SATs. It has no other usefulness in our language than tripping up vacuous high school juniors. And that’s a pretty shitty life for any word. The problem with this word is that it sounds nothing like its meaning. [...]
Necessary
I am quite serious when I say no other word in the English language gives me so much trouble for spelling. I hope I am not the only idiot who cannot fucking spell this word. And it’s not like this is “wankel-rotary engine” (which I confess I probably use MORE), this is NECESSARY. The word [...]
