Did anyone ever have an aversion to certain words?

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EvilKimEvil
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15 Oct 2007, 11:50 pm

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I actually love the word persnickety! That and other ones that sound similar to it. I do, however, have an aversion to certain ethnic accents. They hurt my ears.


I don't think I've ever heard of that word 'persnickety'. But I love it now too. It really is a nice word.


:D My mom loves that word too. I think that's how I ended up hearing it enough to start hating it.



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15 Oct 2007, 11:50 pm

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*like* as in *I was like going to call you, but like my brother asked me to like help him with his homework*


and *you know* as in *There's this great painting hanging in the Louvre, you know and it's got all this red and blue all over it, you know, and whenever you look at it you get sun spots in your eyes, like you're being flashed by some kind of supersonic strobe light, you know? You know what I'm saying?*


I also hate those words and in the same context, as well.


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15 Oct 2007, 11:52 pm

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My daughter HATES certain words... She hated the word celcius and cute. ..she just cringed with the sound of the word being spoken...

I used to not be able to say words that started with the letter "B" and/or contained a lot of "B's" just because I hated the sound (e.g. "turbo boost") and spent hours making lists of words that I loved or hated. The sound of the word was all that mattered, not the meaning at all. Later, the word "Percocet" was painful- literally- to hear or say. My latest group of words I just can't get enough of are all iam compounds. Toothpaste, schoolbag, kickstand, and a fantastic neologism- "hangdown." As in, "I'm parked underneath the hangdown." They just feel good to say. So I guess this is a positive thing, to focus on words that I love rather than ones I hate.



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15 Oct 2007, 11:55 pm

And I wanted to add, that Susanne Antoinetta in her book A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World has a great section on her own word aversions. She is bipolar.



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16 Oct 2007, 5:51 am

Phenylelenine- that fake sugar stuff- that word gets me so stressed out. Once I was stuck with it in my head for a few days over and over and over. I think my head was trying to calm itself down.



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16 Oct 2007, 8:10 am

I hate it when people say Liberry instead of library. It is the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.



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16 Oct 2007, 8:49 am

AutisticDiva,

I hate that too, especially from people who work in a library and work the phones. It is irritatating.



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16 Oct 2007, 10:35 am

EvilKimEvil wrote:
I think "irregardless" is funny. It's actually in the dictionary. But how about "ginormous"?


Well, I guess I'm just being old-fashioned. It will remain strictly forbidden in my own private dictionary. :-)
"Ginormous"? I enjoyed that word when I was 7. At this point, while it doesn't cause a physical reaction, it should be used sparingly and accurately.

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Phenylelenine- that fake sugar stuff- that word gets me so stressed out. Once I was stuck with it in my head for a few days over and over and over.


I hate that word too. I try not to look at it whenever possible because I will think about it repeatedly for the rest of the day.



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16 Oct 2007, 11:17 am

One word in particular that I still loathe so much that I don't even type it. Unfortunately it is a rather common word. :x


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16 Oct 2007, 11:31 am

I don't have any word aversions that I know of, but I hate it when people say 'You know what I mean?' after nearly every sentence.


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16 Oct 2007, 5:11 pm

riverotter wrote:
makelifehappen wrote:
My daughter HATES certain words... She hated the word celcius and cute. ..she just cringed with the sound of the word being spoken...

I used to not be able to say words that started with the letter "B" and/or contained a lot of "B's" just because I hated the sound (e.g. "turbo boost") and spent hours making lists of words that I loved or hated. The sound of the word was all that mattered, not the meaning at all. Later, the word "Percocet" was painful- literally- to hear or say. My latest group of words I just can't get enough of are all iam compounds. Toothpaste, schoolbag, kickstand, and a fantastic neologism- "hangdown." As in, "I'm parked underneath the hangdown." They just feel good to say. So I guess this is a positive thing, to focus on words that I love rather than ones I hate.


I make lists, too.


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16 Oct 2007, 8:32 pm

I can't stand the words "rubric" and "signage" among others.

I really love the sound of other words. I also have echolalia. Or I spell the last word in a sentence that someone says to me (under my breath, of course! :roll: )



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17 Oct 2007, 3:23 am

I have a few word aversions, mostly around bodily outputs. Funnily, many of the words have synonyms that do not bother me.



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17 Oct 2007, 4:17 am

Words that make me grind my teeth are: community (as in, the [fill in the blank] community), glocal (local reactions to global economic/cultural forces), queering (the queering of...), gendered or gendering, speech (gendered speech, queered speech, postcolonial speech, etc.), and so on.

Maybe it's because I'm an academic in the social sciences/liberal arts. But words like that seem contrived and usually imply that the person throwing those terms around like it's second nature is not that much fun to bull**** with at the bar after work.



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17 Oct 2007, 6:17 am

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I hate it when people spell because as cuz. I actually feel ill, as if I'd stepped into something icky! :x


Come on cuz is a great word. How can you hate the "Z"?

I hate any word that has "pant" in it. I think it is the ugliest sound on the planet.



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17 Oct 2007, 9:06 am

Co-morbid, with its association with death. The term is useful with some physical problems (obesity linked with heart disease and diabetes, for example), but with AS and related difficulties, co-existing conditions is a better term.