Words that make you cringe

[Pete]

"Flange" a truly brutal term

[angel_kohaku]

Flange is hilarious, as are fanny and minge.

I hate the use of "me either". Grrrrgh!

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I wanna be an anarchist, get pissed, destroy

[Rocky]

Here are mine;

"Who's all going?" - Why not say "Who's going?".

"I'm going through to Edinburgh" - Why not "I'm going to Edinburgh"?!

Suppose these are phrases and not specific words though.

[Fawksie]

Quoting Rocky from 20:49, 26th Feb 2006
"Who's all going?" - Why not say "Who's going?".

Heh, that's a Northern Irish thing, I'd say that routinely. "Cringe" makes me cringe, actually.

[Smith]

Quoting just me? from 20:16, 24th Feb 2006
i hate 'meh'

'uber'- a word that, for some reason, became extremly popular midway through 2005, mostly by the shoddy writers for the Saint.

saying someone is 'off of'. (e.g- Pierce Brosnan OFF OF James Bond). Scott Mills, the radio 1 dj, says it ALL the time.

I started saying uber in 2002, when it was still underground. The funny thing is that it's german for "over" and the way it's used in English is thus nonsensical.

I don't like 'grand' 'prejudiced' 'beautiful' and 'shoddy'

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We're not drunk, we're multi-millionaires...
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[Eddie Baby]

Quoting angel_kohaku from 20:53, 24th Feb 2006
I don't like the C word (SATC ref: See You Next Tuesday). I only use it in moments of extreme anger and hate. (I can't bring myself to use it now )


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I wanna be an anarchist, get pissed, destroy

Cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt

Hahahaha!

[exnihilo]

Quoting Smith from 22:17, 26th Feb 2006
I started saying uber in 2002, when it was still underground. The funny thing is that it's german for "over" and the way it's used in English is thus nonsensical.

Though, in fairness, it is used in much the same way in German slang as it is in English slang, and although it means over it is used to denote super and other superlative terms.

[richey]

Fungal, Syphilis, clammy, festering, decaying

Euugggggh.....

[the reason for the word w]

Just, to be really nitpicky, it's "über" in German and even tough the word in itself means "over", it is in a lot of compound words, for example in Nietzsche's "Übermensch", which could probably be translated superior being with the "über" indeed meaning "great", "superior" or sometimes even "over the top". Ok, German lesson over...

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Are you a terrorist?
- Depends! Are you terrified?

[novium]

http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=de&se ... arch=ueber
I would say that probably about covers almost every usage of the term.

Quoting exnihilo from 23:09, 26th Feb 2006

Quoting Smith from 22:17, 26th Feb 2006
I started saying uber in 2002, when it was still underground. The funny thing is that it's german for "over" and the way it's used in English is thus nonsensical.

Though, in fairness, it is used in much the same way in German slang as it is in English slang, and although it means over it is used to denote super and other superlative terms.

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"those who wish to be feared must inevitably be afraid of those whom they intimidate"
"In anger nothing right or judicious can be done."

[exnihilo]

Indeed!

[Fawksie]

"Adolf, der Übermensch: schluckt Gold und redet Blech" - one of my favourite posters

[The chap]

I hate that word.

[Smith]

Quoting the reason for the word witch from 01:19, 27th Feb 2006
Just, to be really nitpicky, it's "über" in German and even tough the word in itself means "over", it is in a lot of compound words, for example in Nietzsche's "Übermensch", which could probably be translated superior being with the "über" indeed meaning "great", "superior" or sometimes even "over the top". Ok, German lesson over...

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Are you a terrorist?
- Depends! Are you terrified?

Kind of like an Overlord in English. Or overbearing. Or overcast. The list goes on.
I'm not entirely sure how to get an umlaut vowel on my English keyboard, and for the purpose of a message board, I really didn't think it too necessary.

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Cake, and fine wine.

[exnihilo]

Alt+U followed by the letter you want on a Mac, ü.

Though ueber works in a pinch.

[Lyra]

'Beautiful' I don't really understand what it means, and it's a bit of a cop-out compliment.
Also 'nice' Nice is just insipid, bland and unmemorable.

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The Man With No Name - Danger fits him like a tight black glove

[flarewearer]

Any words used in the advertisment of woman's cosmetics

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[Smith]

Quoting Lyra from 13:28, 27th Feb 2006
'Beautiful' I don't really understand what it means, and it's a bit of a cop-out compliment.
Also 'nice' Nice is just insipid, bland and unmemorable.

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The Man With No Name - Danger fits him like a tight black glove

Not a big fan of compliments?

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Cake, and fine wine.

[munchingfoo]

Munging

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[Gubbins]

Quoting novium from 20:24, 24th Feb 2006
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/di ... try/gotten
VERB:

A past participle of get.

http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/0144.html
on its legitimacy and roots....

Chambers Dictionary: got is the past participle of get, gotten is an archaic form from Scottish roots, revived in America.

Oxford English Dictionary (from Webster's dictionary of 1864) describes "gotten" as obsolescent.

The etymology of "gotten" appears to come from the Old English cognate "gietan", whereas the past tense "got" comes similarly from "gat".

Thus my understanding is that "gotten", while prevelant in America, is not part of British English. Things may be different over the water.

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.