• agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I dislike words with the nasal E sound, specifically meal. I don’t know what but for the last three years I can’t stand the word meal. “Oh I hope you had a good MEEEEEEEeeeeal”

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    Feminism

    Between the toxic terfs and the toxic trads i think the word has been sullied, maybe beyond recovery.

    I beleive in equality and free expression for all, but I don’t feel like that’s a goal that aligns with most modern forms of Feminism.

    It is a word that’s supposed to mean eqality, but these days when someone identifies as a feminist my mind assumes they’re gonna be a reactionary bigot.

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    I like woody sort of words. Bound, prudy, recidivist. Erogenous zone, loose woman… concubine! Errrogenous zooooone!

    Funny thing, dear. All the naughty words sound woody.

    E: It appears I have misread the question. But I’ll leave my Monty Python reference here.

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    Penultimate. Anyone writing about or reviewing the second last of anything uses it in their first breath like their English degree depends on it.

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    Broth.

    I hate that word. To be clear, I have no ethical, cultural or culinary objection to broth, but it’s an awful word to say. You have to empty your lungs to say it, it just sounds like your belching, there’s no standout syllable to emphasise, in fact, is it actually monosyllabic or not? Bro-ffff? Utter horseshit. From now on, it’s Thick Soup.

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    “y’all” its so wierd how people normalized such a cringe word, and it was originally laughed at because people who often say it dont seem so intelligent.

    also the words “academic incest” which is really wierd an cringe, it suppose to describe getting more than 1 degree, usually a grad and a UNDERGRAD In the same university.

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      As an intellectual from The South, I’m taking it back. Y’all is a missing part of speech in the English language and follows known patterns. I use it with pride.

      However, saying that out loud I realize I have opened myself up to w’all and will have to give that a try.

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      6 days ago

      “All of you all ought not to have done, do you hear?”

      Al’ay’allo’ghtn’t’ve’ny’hear?

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    biweekly, bimonthly, etc.

    Wtf does it mean? Twice a week? Every two weeks? Who knows. What the point of this word when it’s so ambiguous.

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      Twice a time period. Semi for every two time periods. So every two weeks is semiweekely. However it gets misused so often you almost always have to check making it almost useless.

      Similar to failsafe vs redundant.

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        Frustratingly enough, it’s the other way around. Biweekly is every two weeks, semi weekly is two times a week.

        I remember it like this:

        • bicycles are two circles, biweekly is two weeks
        • semicircles are half a circle, semiweekly is half a week

        But yes, people use the words interchangeably so often that it’s faster just to avoid the problem altogether and just say “every two weeks”.

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      6 days ago

      In the UK we have the word “fortnight” for two weeks, which helps. I also found out very recently that “biannual” mean twice a year and “biennial” means every other year so, yeah, fuck knows.