Comments on: Attention Wordists

By: pegr

pegr — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:12:48 +0000

I know I’m late to this party but…why do people on these home improvement blogs or tv show say that they “staple gunned it” or glue gunned it? Ugh!

By: Juicifer

Juicifer — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:46:54 +0000

Bit late to the debate but boo yah:

I don’t think anyone should describe themselves as:

Rather odd
Peculiar
Mental

I don’t like edgy but I think its okay to say “I’m on edge” if you intend it as a warning. Not that I would say it.

I hate it when women refer to their breasts as “the girls”. aaargh! Wackness.

Also not fond of the fashion singular – a navy trouser or a clumpy shoe
And also “piece”, as in “I have one of his pieces”

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:32:07 +0000

I realise you’ve all moved on, but today I remembered my pet hate word and knew where I could rant about it! ‘Fine’ – I hate the word ‘fine’! Particularly when I’ve asked ‘How do I look?’ – and the reponse is ‘fine’. ‘Do you like my new so and so?’ – it’s fine … Fine? What kind of a word is that? It’s the worst insult – totally unacceptable. I’d prefer hideous, disgusting, grotesque. Anything but fine.

By: kate

kate — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:56:34 +0000

people cannot say their own movie, book or t.v. show is groundbreaking.

By: The ex Anton

The ex Anton — Mon, 02 May 2011 01:25:41 +0000

Oh God!!! Not the “random” word!!! Can we just erase “random” from existence??? Why and when did it all of a sudden become so popular to misuse? I can’t take it!!!

By: The ex Anton

The ex Anton — Mon, 02 May 2011 01:23:18 +0000

Since we talked about this yesterday I can’t use any of those words now without cracking up.

By: RLC

RLC — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:01:01 +0000

Also, as a student of something called “communications” (whatever, even I don’t know what that means) I encounter the word “space” almost daily and it makes me want to scream. I have to “study” a lot of “spaces”, in particular “postmodern” “spaces” and the way in which the “inhabitors” of the space “relate to it”. BLERG. I also enjoy when people call their art galleries “independent art spaces” (note: these are usually hipsters with a spare attic/basement/studio, semi-artistic friends and access to free beer)

By: RLC

RLC — Sun, 01 May 2011 15:51:06 +0000

Oohhh, I always call myself lanky in the most self-deprecating way. I am tall with long limbs that I routinely trip over and I wish my body were more in proportion. I can’t really think of another way to say ‘tall and awkward’ without using the word ‘lanky’ but I’m open to any suggestions!

I definitely agree that a true eccentric wouldn’t call themselves eccentric, I guess people get confused and see it as a synonym for ‘weird’ which it is not.

By: Dru

Dru — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:15:33 +0000

Jenny- who in possession of a dictionary can possibly think a stain and a lacquer are the same thing?!!

If knowing the difference makes me a pedant, I’ll happily be a pedant. Or an anachronism, whatever the ignorants choose to call me.

By: Jaimi

Jaimi — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:27:09 +0000

Jenny, so with you on people describing themselves in terms of psychological diagnoses — especially self-diagnosed ones. What the fuck is with that? Boring attention whores, all of ’em. I guess I take particular offense ’cause I’ve got mad obsessive compulsive issues and there’s nothing I find quirky or cute or compelling about it, just that it’s a drag on existing period.