My mini-list of words that annoy

Azure Skye · Jan 12, 2007

Right now, these words annoy me and suffer from overuse syndrome. They're tired and need to rest.

edgy
fierce
flirty
whimsical

I will not use them in my ms.

Have any words you'd like to add?

Jadezuki · Jan 12, 2007

janetbellinger · Jan 12, 2007

"N-o-o-o" used in conversation

most descriptions of facial expressions or body language or physical descriptions of emotion, such as the feeling in the pit of the stomach etc.

PeeDee · Jan 12, 2007

90% of all dialogue attrition. Do not gasp, jerk, ejaculate, snort, horrify, gloat, or any other word you can think. Just say it, with few exceptions. Pleeeeease.

Otherwise, it'll be "N-o-o-o," Pete bellowed in fiercly horrification.

Silver King · Jan 12, 2007

I mentioned this one in an earlier thread, and I don't know why it drives me up a wall the way it does, but I can't stand hearing it:

"With that being said," to emphasize the previous statement.

Please stop saying that, or any derivative of the phrase, even while posting.

Okay, you can tease me now.

Shades of Humanity · Jan 12, 2007

I saw your avatar and thought she's pretty - what can I say to be a little flirty- but after reading your post, you sounded kind of edgy.

With that being said, my attempts at flirtation usually makes the opposite sex nauseous. They tell me to stop listening to my damn emo music and cut my hair. I'm like, N-o-o-o. My hair is what makes me, me. I can't imagine the impact cutting it would have on my life.

okay, this isn't fun. It reminds me of grade school where it says: "Use the following words in a sentence" :tongue

PeeDee · Jan 12, 2007

All the words they use in formal business documents. Even the perfectly normal words are dressed trashy and made to walk in the gutter. And then you have words like "synergy" which was a whore from th start.

If you use "at this time," I'll kill you.

Chasing the Horizon · Jan 12, 2007

Menacingly (really, ominously sounds so much better)
Hissed (as a speech tag like 'she hissed'. The she being referenced had better be a snake)

Silver King · Jan 12, 2007

Shades of Humanity said:
I saw your avatar and thought she's pretty

Are you talking to me or Azura?

With that being said

All right, now you've done it.

My attempts at flirtation usually makes the opposite sex nauseous.

It sure does. I think. I don't know. How could I be sure? I'm confused.

It reminds me of grade school

Me, too. I'm going back to recess now...

jbal · Jan 12, 2007

This is unrelated, but I hate hearing that someone "needs no introduction". Unfailingly, it's said by someone introducing them.

ETA: the incorrect use of "literally" bugs the crap out of me too.
e.g. "It literally came down to the wire." what the hell does that mean?

PeeDee · Jan 12, 2007

I hate my dad. I want to stay up late. Limp Bizkit rocks. I'm going to get a nose ring and a tattoo and a car. All my friends hate me too.

There. Can we move rapidly past this now

Silver King · Jan 12, 2007

jbal said:
This is unrelated, but I hate hearing that someone "needs no introduction". Unfailingly, it's said by someone introducing them.

I never thought of that one before. I'm adding it to my list right now.

Really, if a person needs no introduction, they should walk out without any intentional fanfare. Literally.

Shades of Humanity · Jan 12, 2007

jbal said:
This is unrelated, but I hate hearing that someone "needs no introduction". Unfailingly, it's said by someone introducing them.

ETA: the incorrect use of "literally" bugs the crap out of me too.
e.g. "It literally came down to the wire." what the hell does that mean?

One time we were hot air ballooning and it sprung a leak. Down we fell. Looking below, we saw houses and trees and telephone poles rapidly approaching. It became evident our balloon was gonna land in a tangled mess of power lines. It literally came down on the wire.

/I'm sorry for wasting 30 seconds of your life with that stupid story. And another 5 seconds for this apology.

Ergo. I hate that word. Ergo, I've decided never to use it again.

Carmy · Jan 12, 2007

Gotten. Yech!

Higgins · Jan 13, 2007

Oh dear

Hope To The Horizon said:
Menacingly (really, ominously sounds so much better)
Hissed (as a speech tag like 'she hissed'. The she being referenced had better be a snake)

I love menacingly and ominously and hissing............

Though often the character that does something "menacingly" gets decapitated in a few paragraphs....ominously enough.

Hissing though...now if done right that can keep a character alive for a few novels of otherwise indescriminant mayhem.

Higgins · Jan 13, 2007

Unless you write Latin why worry?

Shades of Humanity said:
Ergo. I hate that word. Ergo, I've decided never to use it again.

You don't need Ergo in English.

Azure Skye · Jan 13, 2007

This thread is cracking me up.

Literally. :tongue

Higgins · Jan 13, 2007

Literally

jbal said:
This is unrelated, but I hate hearing that someone "needs no introduction". Unfailingly, it's said by someone introducing them.

ETA: the incorrect use of "literally" bugs the crap out of me too.
e.g. "It literally came down to the wire." what the hell does that mean?

Is anything in reality ever literally literal?

Even if there really was a wire and things came down to it...would it literally come down to it...unless the wire had "the wire" literally written on it?

Which brings us to "literal interpretation" ie no interpretation, ie it just says what it says, ie there is no interpretation in a literal interpretation....or there literally is no interpretation in a literal interpretation....unless one interprets "interpretation" "literally" as going from language A to language B, literally. But is that really, literally possible?

Tiger · Jan 13, 2007

I hate "jive" when people mean "jibe"

Other than that, I agree with the person who brought up the ten-words-for-one, makeupyourowntosoundtrendy, turn-any-noun-into-a-verb tendencies of corporate speak.

Anyone wishing to "synergistically transition" into anything need not apply.

Jenan Mac · Jan 13, 2007

"Awesome!"

Oh, Gods, do I hate that word. It's been on the banned words list for twenty years, and it still won't die.

If "Awesome!" is used by someone over the age of ten, it sounds even stupider, if that's possible. And if used by a member of the clergy, it's an immediate sign that they're going for your granny's pension, and probably wear a bad hairpiece.

Insert Name · Jan 13, 2007

Fiction Novel

MyFirstMystery · Jan 13, 2007

Poignant
Meaty
Juicy
Moist
Utilize

Ick Ick Ick.

MFM

PS: I love "awesome" Sad but true.

Shades of Humanity · Jan 13, 2007

MyFirstMystery said:
Meaty
Juicy
Moist

Well, there goes your career in writing erotica :tongue

Maryn · Jan 13, 2007

Please smack my hand with a ruler for every use of murmur and nod. But make it a plastic ruler, because I'm kind of a wimp.

Maryn, major wuss

Higgins · Jan 13, 2007

I love Murmur and nod

Maryn said:
Please smack my hand with a ruler for every use of murmur and nod. But make it a plastic ruler, because I'm kind of a wimp.

Maryn, major wuss

Murmuring and nodding....any character that can manage to do that much coordination is going to survive all my books.

My mini-list of words that annoy

Azure Skye

Huh?

Jadezuki

janetbellinger

PeeDee

Where's my tea, please...?

Silver King

Megalops Erectus

Shades of Humanity

PeeDee

Where's my tea, please...?

Chasing the Horizon

Blowing in the Wind

Silver King

Megalops Erectus

jbal

PeeDee

Where's my tea, please...?

Silver King

Megalops Erectus

Shades of Humanity

Carmy

Higgins

Higgins

Azure Skye

Huh?

Higgins

Tiger

AKA: "Gums of Steel"

Jenan Mac

The Deadliest Bunny

Insert Name

MyFirstMystery

Having Fun with Words

Shades of Humanity

Maryn

I Tried

Higgins