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Category Archives: Parts of Speech

Kerfuffle

See brouhaha. Then gouge out your eyes.

Posted 16 February 2010 † Christopher § Nouns § Trying to be Funny ‡ Comments (2) °

Real (adverb)

“Real” is not an adverb. It is an adjective. If you remember back to your school days (and I know it’s tough with all the bong residue clouding your memory) an adjective modifies a noun, while an adverb modifies an adjective, or another adverb. So, for example, the following is grammatically correct: That guy is [...]

Posted 12 November 2009 † Christopher § Adverbs § Incorrectly Used ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Pornography

It’s not 1955 anymore. With the exception of a few holdouts (probably loosely affiliated with Jesus) pornography is accepted as part of modern living. And while it may still have some very important political issues concerning the exploitation of women, most of what you will find out there is not obscene, much of it is [...]

Posted 10 November 2009 † Christopher § Nouns § Poor Connotation § Sex § Too Long ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

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 [...]

Posted 29 September 2009 † Christopher § Adjectives § SATs § Sounds too Much Like Meaning ‡ Comments (0) °

Cosplay

I think it is wonderful that adults like to play dress-up, be it for sexual purposes or just for fun. In fact, I even think it’s fair that we have a word specifically to describe the practice. But the word “cosplay” was thought up by a monkey. A STUPID monkey. One with a brain injury [...]

Posted 23 September 2009 † Christopher § Neologisms § Sex § Sounds Stupid § Trying to be Cool ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: ,

Goosepimples

I have actually stabbed people for saying this word. No foolin’. Guy says “goosepimples”, I pull out my supercool switchblade and stab him in the brainstem and also his throat several times. You probably saw it in the news. It was classified as a hate crime because I hate this word so much. Here’s the [...]

Posted 16 September 2009 † Christopher § Bad Context § Nouns ‡ Comments (1) °

Vegas, Baby!

Please observe the following phenomenon: When a person is going to Las Vegas, or even when simply talking about Las Vegas, rather than saying I’m going to Las Vegas. they say I’m going to Vegas, baby! Did Las Vegas change its name to Vegas Baby? It is the only reasonable explanation. The alternative is that [...]

Posted 13 September 2009 † Christopher § Expressions § Sounds Stupid § Trying to be Cool ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

Chyron

This is a word you may not be familiar with, but you’ve surely seen one. If you watch news, particularly cable news, the chyron is the section in the lower third of the screen where the station shows names, headlines, a news feed, or a stock ticker. It’s basically all the graphics layed over whatever [...]

Posted 08 May 2009 † Christopher § Doesn't Match Meaning § Weird Stuff ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Blowjob

This one has bugged me for years. We have many euphemisms for oral sex, which I won’t go into here, but only a few terms that are used in common parlance.  There are a fair number of sexy ways a person can describe fellatio, such as “suck your cock”, “suck you off”, “fuck my mouth”, [...]

Posted 06 May 2009 † Christopher § Nouns § Sex ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

Oxymoron

Get rid of this word. Just get rid of it. We cannot have a word that ends in “moron” that has nothing to do with morons. Granted the “moron” in “oxymoron” comes from the same place as the “moron” in “moron” (the Greeks, those pedophiles), and I’m sure at some point this word had a [...]

Posted 27 April 2009 † Christopher § Doesn't Match Meaning § Nouns § Sounds Stupid ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: