Words of Warning and Stupidity

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  1. SWC Sifu Ben

    SWC Sifu Ben I am the law

    There are certain words which tend to drive me up the wall and force me to assume the general ignorance of the speaker as the words themselves are usually used to express unintelligible drivel. Personally I think these words should, outside of certain contexts, enjoy a ban from general conversational verbiage.

    The ancients → outside of a specific reference in the Stargate franchise this is usually used when the speaker is trying to add some historicity to their point while not having any actual knowledge of history

    Toxins → used by people with no knowledge of chemistry and/or biology to justify their latest dietary supplement, exercise, or other crazy nonsense

    Toning → the glorious nonsense word used on women all over because it involves neither the word muscle nor the word fat

    Anyone got any more?
     
    SWC Sifu Ben, Jul 21, 2015
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  2. Simon

    Simon Administrator Admin Supporter MAP 2017 Koyo Award

    Ordinary members of the public - sounds ever so degrading to me.
     
    Simon, Jul 21, 2015
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  3. Southpaw535

    Southpaw535 Well-Known Member Moderator Supporter

    Any word ending with class - I assume I'm about to hear a wide sweeping statement built largely on either jealousy or snobbery depending which way its going.

    Trigger - Not the gun type. Those are inoffensive little things. But while I understand the whole thing with "trigger warning" "I feel triggered" and stuff its become such an overused thing I just...I dunno. I'm becoming one of those crotchety old men complaining about the wimpification of society.

    Brussels - Within a political context. I assume I'm about to hear a lot of baseless whining about things people don't understand. Much like anti-vaccine people really.

    I tried to think of some funnier ones to do with pop-culture then remembered I'm a grumpy git.
     
    Southpaw535, Jul 21, 2015
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  4. Smitfire

    Smitfire Cactus Schlong

    Energy - gets mightily abused out of all recognition to what the word actually means.
     
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    Smitfire, Jul 21, 2015
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  5. Hannibal

    Hannibal Cry HAVOC and let slip the Dogs of War!!! Supporter

    Internal vs external
    Street vs sport

    All false paradigms
     
    Hannibal, Jul 21, 2015
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  6. holyheadjch

    holyheadjch Valued Member

    Prove
     
    holyheadjch, Jul 21, 2015
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  7. HarryF

    HarryF Malued Vember

    "Studies show..."

    Are you sure? Which ones? What do the other studies show? Are you sure it's applicable in this instance? Were their methods robust? What statistical tests did they use and at what confidence interval? Do you regret starting this conversation? :D
     
    HarryF, Jul 21, 2015
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  8. Obewan

    Obewan "Hillbilly Jedi"

    historicity Just now, I've never experienced this word before but I hate it...probably because I can't say it. Nothing personal Sifu :bow1:
     
    Obewan, Jul 22, 2015
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  9. zombiekicker

    zombiekicker bagpuss

    I use an ancient toxin toning method
     
    zombiekicker, Jul 22, 2015
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  10. Karatebadger

    Karatebadger Valued Member

    People often get historicity and historicality confused. Historicality is the property of having been recorded in history, being historical. Historicity is the possibility of being able to be recorded as history. Or something like that, I frequently got picked up on it by my tutors and it didn't stick properly in my mind even then. Now that I have graduated I find it grates upon my sensibilities less and less each day.
     
    Karatebadger, Jul 22, 2015
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  11. Johnno

    Johnno Valued Member

    Are you sure you aren't thinking of historiciousness? ;)
     
    Johnno, Jul 22, 2015
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  12. holyheadjch

    holyheadjch Valued Member

    People get historic and historical confused all the time. It really bugs me.
     
    holyheadjch, Jul 22, 2015
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  13. Smitfire

    Smitfire Cactus Schlong

    Balance and harmony - People seem to think that the world, and even their own bodies, could be some sort of steady state nirvana if only they could get the balance right. No. The world, and our bodies, are battle grounds where organisms are fighting to come out on top. They are in a constant state of flux.
     
    Smitfire, Jul 22, 2015
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  14. Johnno

    Johnno Valued Member

    My guts would totally agree with you on that right now. :cry:
     
    Johnno, Jul 22, 2015
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  15. fatcat

    fatcat Valued Member

    Reiterate - Why not just say iterate? Reads like re-repeat.
    This is a politician's favourite.
     
    fatcat, Jul 22, 2015
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  16. Johnno

    Johnno Valued Member

    Spiritual - it's one of those words which has a genuine meaning, but the way that most people tend to use it makes me cringe.
     
    Johnno, Jul 22, 2015
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  17. zombiekicker

    zombiekicker bagpuss

    At the end of the day, basically, but etc
     
    zombiekicker, Jul 22, 2015
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  18. boards

    boards Its all in the reflexes!

    Chemicals. So many anti-vaccers love to use chemicals as a reason for why medicine is bad.
     
    boards, Jul 22, 2015
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  19. Nachi

    Nachi Valued Member Supporter

    The most optimal - not sure how often this is used in English, but there are some people saying that in Czech. It makes no sense...
     
    Nachi, Jul 22, 2015
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  20. Fish Of Doom

    Fish Of Doom Will : Mind : Motion Supporter

    so basically, at the end of the day you would hate talking to me.

    also, i'm going with misuse of hypothetically and theoretically
     
    Fish Of Doom, Jul 22, 2015
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