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today zmjezhd noodles (south of the border) regarding Likes and dislikes of languages and, relatedly, specific words. we've not had a thread here on the latter for a while, and it's always fun to see what words rankle the aesthetics of others.
my own personal distastes run to aberrations such as orientate and conversate. how about you?
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There are real words that I dislike. I always thought "succumb" an unfortunate construction, ugly in both the visual and aural parameters. And I mourn the loss of the helpful diacritical mark that prompts the otherwise uninformed (myself among them, occasionally) to say "co-operate" instead of "coop-erate" and (particularly) "zo-ology" instead of the practically universal "zoo-ology."
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I like words that by the look of them seem to have no connection with or even to be the opposite of what they mean, like:
'contumacious' (stubbornly resistant to authority). If you don't know it it seems a plaisant and complying word.
Sorry, can't think of any I particularly don't like right now. Maybe tomorrow.
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I don't like murmur. Those urs are just ugly sounds.
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I've never much liked epicaricacy. You can google the reasons.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I never much liked "fart" or "snot". so much that I invented(or appropriated) new words when my boys were young, "whiff" and "snoofer", which I suppose, aren't much better, but they were to me! now, I'm afraid my lovely wife has gotten me to accept (and even say sometimes! heaven forfend!) fart....
and I'm not sure what words my boys use now....
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I also have never liked "pshaw!" as an exclamation. I've never heard it pronounced authoritatively - maybe because it doesn't recreate in writing anything that people actually say, even when sputtering. I get the "psh" part, but the "aw" ruins it for me. They should have stopped at the psh.
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I know, also, that there are a couple I don't care for, but
having trouble remembering at the present. But the texting
world has contributed a phrase-thing I absolutely
despise: lol. For me it is "loser on the Loose".
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Wilfred J Funk's (1932) list of ten most beautiful words in English: dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, and melody. Ring Lardner's list of ten most beautiful words in English: gangrene, flit, scram, mange, wretch, smoot with a small ‘s’, guzzle, McNaboe, blute, crene. A blute being a smoker who doesn’t inhale, and a crene a man who inhales but doesn’t smoke. I had a professor at college who used to admonish us not to confuse a symbol with its meaning. He used to say: Syphilis is a beautiful word but a horrible thing. The sentence "Phyllis has syphilis" is beautiful. Poor Phyllis. These lists are just a nuisance.
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High School students I used to teach, a few years back,
had a couple, chode and dingleberry. Images notwithstanding
I don't care for them.
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