Skip to content

Category Archives: Doesn’t Match Meaning

Sin

Leave it to the Christians to take the fun out of being bad. They could have picked any word at all, even “Quetzalcoatl” or “spork” or “abracadabra” but instead they went with the weakest, least interesting word there ever was. No hard P’s or T’s, not even a nice randy X to stir the loins. It just [...]

Posted 17 May 2011 † Christopher § Doesn't Match Meaning § Nouns ‡ Comments (2) °

The Entire Spanish Language

My hatred of words is not just limited to specific words or phrases, but also entire lexica. This is, of course, a subjective opinion based only on facts I made up,  so if you disagree with me I’ll just make something up to counter your argument. And just because I hate the Spanish language doesn’t [...]

Posted 17 January 2011 † Christopher § Doesn't Match Meaning § Foreign Language § Too Long ‡ Comments (51) °

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:

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:

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. [...]

Posted 28 March 2009 † Christopher § Adjectives § Doesn't Match Meaning § SATs ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

AIDS

Technically, it’s an acronym Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome …but after almost 30 years with it rattling around in our lives (and for some of us, our bloodstream) it’s really a word. Sort of like what happened to XEROX (Xygomorphic Endospectral Reproduction Of eXtra pages). When it was first being reported and researched, the disease was given [...]

Posted 18 March 2009 † Christopher § Acronyms § Doesn't Match Meaning ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,