Do certian words make you cringe?

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Civet it is really interesting, I have always felt this way about names, and never heard anyone say it before, so I kept it to myself, I'm glad to find others share the same feeling.

AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!! !

I've completely derailed this thread! CR I'm so sorry!

Now I'm going to do it again!

Amy, I'm the same, partly because if you are actually talking to someone, there's no rational reason for invoking their appelation is there! And then there's that status thing about how you address someone (are they your social superior etc.) and under what curcimstances; best kept at a distance as far as I can see!

OK, now that's out of the way, please note that Cockney Rebel started the thread to explore the connotations of derogatory labels, and our responses to them, so ignore my side track and get back in line you, you... (I'm so angry I nearly wrote "ret*ds" )

I tend to dislike words due to form rather then meaning. For example, I can't stand to see people write "original" with the prefix "un" in front of it, especially if the "u" is capitalized. It just doesn't fit with my intuitive understanding of the English language: It's as if "Unoriginal" is a foreign word. I also hate the spelling of "original": An "i" followed by a consonant followed by another "i" looks ugly in some way.

I both like and dislike the word "scrotum"

this is purely on how it sounds and is written, not on what it represents.

sk-roe TUH mmm

It is a very powerful word, easy to articulate, and has a ssss KUH sound in it, which makes the tough have a very violent movement.

Here are some words I REALLY REALLY hate:

insecurities
shut up

Well, those are the words I hate. "Shut up" is overused by kids my age and when I lied and said I had "insecurities inside myself" in 5th grade, that word began to haunt me. I really wish I could have known at that time it was just high vitamin C! But, no! I didn't! Such pressure! From that, I learned to only tell silly lies and not serious ones, or to not lie at all. But still, it haunts my brain sometimes. That word just gives me shivers, whereas "shut up" is just plain flat-out annoying.

Mich

No, not really. Why on earth would certain words make me cringe? That's ludicrous!

Well certain phrases make me cringe, as they are pointless attempts to indocrinate me into a society where I just won't fit. But I think you're more referring to words that just set off knee jerk cringes in us. For me endearments seem to do that. When people call me dear, or honey, or hon, sweetie, or babe, or any of those names I instantly cringe. They're just so meaningless; ommitting the endearment doesn't change the meaning of what the person is saying to me at all, and leaving it in there is just an implied insult to my very self.

"Dear" means important, close and inducing good feelings to be around. But when someone tells me "That's nice, dear," they're instead labeling me as someone who has no right or authority to speak. "You go ahead and think that, hon," instead of them equating me with bee barf, they are telling me I am unequal to them, subservient, young.

It's probably because as a child adults used endearments in this way, as weapons to keep my obsessive monologue from challenging their world view. So now even when people really do mean that I am important, dear, or sweet to be around, I still cringe because of how the word was used against me closer to the time I first learned to speak.

One of the words that I really dispise of is Try. Try is such a weak word. Spineless people try. Powerful people do what they set out to do. They fight their battles.

Due to previous events I now hate the phrase 'It'll be alright'. It's said as an automatic response and means basically nothing unless they can suddenly see into the future....

One of the words I hate most of all is (gulp) Ain't. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! I can't stand that word! But unfortunately, I live in a rural area where people say it all the time. Eek! I don't belong here. When I turn nineteen, I am high-tailing it out of here, probably to some city like Toronto (That's where a lot of my friends from camp Kodiak live). Ah. I will be an actor and marry a girl with Asperger's and she will love me even though I am very garrulous.
Garrulous means overtalkative, and is one of those words that I love!

Another word I don't like so much is "nice". Its meaning is too broad. If someone says "Be nice" I don't understand them because I don't know what way they want me to be nice.

Another word that I love is "sesquipedalian". This word is very funny because in the dictionary, it means "A very long word" ! So whensomeone says, "Stop using all those big word thingybobbers Christopher !" I say, "Have you been maddened by the sesquipedalians that I use in everyday conversation?" Ha ha ha!

Anyway, I love having Asperger's because it makes me smart. I don't know why but I don't like very many boys, partially because they take pride in ridiculing me, but I love all girls, as long as they aren't mean to me, and most of them are. I can't think of a single person at school who actually wants to be my friend. It makes me a little uneasy .

See yah!

Yours truly,

Christopher Grills

I hate weennie, jockey, enimic, gianormous, and emancipated. I don't know why. Everytime I hear someone say these word it drives me crazy.

Mine that I like and use are ugy(uh-gee), ugitial(uh-git-ti-tall), ladotid(lah-dot-tid), skana(sky- na, lecoritae(le-core-it-ta), and decoval(dec-o-val). I have my own language I speak. Ones I hate are troy, suey, rice, sore, and dice. Saying that is like fingers scratching down a chalkboard or moving a pen on the paper without the pen clicked. It sends chills down my spine. Brr!

Apple_Genius

For some reason, I have a great deal of difficulty saying the word "farther" very easily. When I am reading to my kids, I change it to "further".

Apart from that, I really want things to be logical and consistent. For instance, I find myself frequently agonizing over whether the period belongs after the double quote or before (see above).

I'd be interested in reading here about other people's problems with trying to make an illogical, inconsistent, incoherent world logical, consistent and coherent. I want to see if I have kindred spirits out there. Because you do feel alone and isolated with your mental idiosyncrasies. I have a very long list of these.

The period always goes before the ending quotation mark. I also had trouble with this when I was in high school (my teachers constantly corrected me) because it seemed very counterlogical. The exception occurs when you are citing a source, for example, if I said:

"We're all mad here" (Carol, pg 85).

(Just as a note, I don't know what page that quotation actually comes from, I'm just making it up as an example).

There are different rules for different types of punctuation. You can read about it at this site:

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/advice/handling_quotations.htm

My biggest grammatical problem has to be comma usage. I end up with a lot of run on sentences, much of the time, and have odd sentence breaks. My teacher in elementary school taught us to use commas "whenever we would have a pause in our speech," obviously, that doesn't work for me, since my speech is not completely "normal."


As far as words that make me cringe, one of my teachers has this awful habit of saying "togather" instead of "together." She always draws out the "a" sound and brings it up in tone, and just thinking about it makes me cringe.

"Togaaather" ::shudder::

There's a funny word that makes me laugh for hours and the word is Wigger. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I see lots of them where I live.

There are a few phrases (not single words) that for some reason really annoy me. They include:-
"Take it on board" in the sense of paying special attention to something, accepting its importance and relevance:
"come to terms" with something ... i .e learning to face and accept that something painful and unalterable has happened:
"at this moment in time" because of its redundance.. where else can a moment be, except in "time?"

I also dislike the modern tendency (in Britain, anyway) to say things like "He was stood there" and "I was sat there" instead of "He was standing there, "I was sitting there" etc. I know that languages change and evolve , that we use words in ways that our parents and grandparents might consider 'incorrect', but these particular changes seem to grate on my ear ....I dont think they enhance our language at all.