Re: Treefarn
I found 'abhor' on the first page of my classmate's SAT 'verbal' 'workbook'. Try google 'define: abhor' and you see that even the glorified high school Princeton has it in its database..

What's wrong with the word abhor? (Man, I must be too american to really get you guys...)

Teethgrindingly by a long way.

Abhor, yes, abhorrent, yes. I still have never heard the original example of 'abhorred'.

Rowt is a local thing. Most Americans say root, not rowt. Kind of like Ant and Ahhhhnt. The majority say Ant, but you still hear ahhhhhnt depending on what part of the country you are in.

And then there's Canadians saying aboot.

price points
synergies
vertical integration
learnings
paradigm
deliverable.

As in:

"Based on the learnings from this new paradigm we can use the synergies created by the vertical integration process to create a better price point for the project deliverables."

As an aside, I've never once heard any Canadian pronounce it "aboot" (and I'm Canadian.) - I think it's confined to a small population of Newfoundlanders on the east coast, which nobody can understand a word of anyway.

--> Gunzo, right on. Corporate-speak=obliviate

I hear aboot all the time when watching NHL hockey. And O-fense instead of awww-fense.

"Aboot" must be a Scottish import....

Ok, I'm lost.... what is a 'price point', and what is 'vertical integration'? Can you do it with your clothes on?

I really dislike when journalists use the words 'ink' or 'slate' as verbs in headlines.

i.e. "Government officials ink plan, slating parade for Thursday"

Ink is a verb though, meaning "to make wet or mark with ink"

If you ever by a quality fountain pen, you would have it expressed as "un-inked", for example.

technique.

Oh DeliciousWolf, must we always blame the newfies? Face it, it's not that Canadians say aboot, it's that Americans say abowwwt. =)

Charlize Theron is a bitch of a name to pronounce. Apparently Theron is supposed to be pronounced Tronn, but she prefers Thrown... I prefer the more frenchy pronunciation because of the accent on the e, and I hate the blunt American Thairon.

Deceptively is another stupid word, because as an adverb it doesn't serve any meaning, or at least a very ambiguous one... "The ice cream looked deceptively cold." What the hell would that imply? That it looked colder than it was? Or not as cold as it was? Bah!

"Deceptively is another stupid word, because as an adverb it doesn't serve any meaning, or at least a very ambiguous one... "The ice cream looked deceptively cold." What the hell would that imply? That it looked colder than it was? Or not as cold as it was? Bah!"

You don't say looked though: "The Ice Cream was deceptively cold" clearly means it was colder than anticipated.

"mission creep" is pretty crap .
its such a farce. we cant do what we really want to do so therefor lets do something that while on the outside seems acceptable but will in fact lead to a situation that will make our original aim more plausible.

oh and plausible deniability sucks eggs too.

"whatever'

"impactful"

"optics," as in "I don't like the optics of that"

"collateral damage"

"Fox News"

TheGhostmaker, I don't think it clearly means that it was colder than anticipated. It could very well mean that it was less cold than you anticipated and it seemed colder than it was. Perhaps some people have an exact idea of what deceptively means but it is not agreed upon. A quick google of 'deceptively' reveals this tidbit from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

"When deceptively is used to modify an adjective, the meaning is often unclear. Does the sentence The pool is deceptively shallow mean that the pool is shallower or deeper than it appears? When the Usage Panel was asked to decide, 50 percent thought the pool shallower than it appears, 32 percent thought it deeper than it appears, and 18 percent said it was impossible to judge. Thus a warning notice worded in such a way would be misinterpreted by many of the people who read it, and others would be uncertain as to which sense was intended. Where the context does not make the meaning of deceptively clear, the sentence should be rewritten, as in The pool is shallower than it looks or The pool is shallow, despite its appearance."

I am in the 50% The Pool is shallow. It deceives you however, which means that it must seem deep, not shallow.

I had no idea there was another way (besides TheGhostmaker's example) to read a sentence with the word deceptively in it.

"nuclear" when frequently mispronounced as "new-queue-lur"
"bro", especially now that my sister uses it in reference to me.
"phi" when pronounced "fye" (analogous complaints for psi and others)

I absolutely must agree with Gobbledygook on his complaint about "green". People think they are being environmentally friendly because they can call themselves "green" for some lame reason. My city (Seattle) just passed legislation approving a "green fee" of twenty cents for every disposable paper or plastic bag issued by a grocer or retailer. Never mind that what we're putting INTO those bags is clothing made in China, computer parts assembled in Japan from materials mined in Madagascar, or apples flown in from New Zealand.

Or what about calling yourself "green" for driving a car with greater fuel efficiency? It's like justifying your support for one Presidential candidate by pointing out the shortcomings of another: being less problematic than the main alternative is not the same thing as having merits of your own.

That was me. ;-)

And people saying "they" won when it was their sport team that did all the work. They don't know how hard it is to constantly perservere in the field or the court, booing their own team when they lose and cheering for them when they win.

Yeah, but perhaps it's deceiving you into thinking it's shallow, when it's actually deeper. I think a lot (32%?) of people think of deceptively as a negative word, so the pool is not shallow.

Personally, I'm in the 18%. =D

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Ah, Dick Van Dyke. Just call him Dick.

I am becoming aware of another deep dislike of mine. It started with e and moved over to i...

i-banking

There are other words too, like legal and deceptively, that i hate because they are so vague in their definition and use. For legal, my problem is that everyone can agree that certain core things are 'legal' but its incredibly difficult to define when something is not legal because the law effects everything. A definition can be made but it is simply a relative comparison and that seems to disagree with its intended use as a precise term.

by far my biggest issue is with reasonable though. I hate it. It seems to convey meaning at first glance, but then you try to define it and you realize it is completely meaningless because it is impossible to define something that is unreasonable. I still use the word reluctantly because it has meaning to other people who havent tried to define it and think they can somehow conceive of an unreasonable action. Its only real use is to degrade someone by suggesting they are completely devoid of cognitive capacity.

I assume you are impressed with the legal system then that uses the concept of 'beyond reasonable doubt' to convict people... : )

Null. I don't know why but it bothers me.