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Most Overrated Vocabulary Words

post #1 of 17
12/7/06 at 3:50pm
Thread Starter 
1. "Interesting"

It says nothing. It means nothing. It is what you say when you want to sound like you're complimentary, but you really have nothing to say about the topic at hand. It is fucking whitebread.

For more proof, see Jeff Daniels in "The Squid and the Whale."
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post #2 of 17
12/7/06 at 3:53pm
2. Pedantic.

As in, this thread is pedantic.
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post #3 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:25pm
Yes, but who's doing the overrating? I happen to think "interesting" is perfectly interesting.
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post #4 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:26pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB
Yes, but who's doing the overrating? I happen to think "interesting" is perfectly interesting.
God, you're so pedantic.
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post #5 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:26pm
Rath, you don't know complimentary from complementary, so I think this list is off to a bad start.

Also, please, enough fucking list threads.
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post #6 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:28pm
Overrated and Underrated.
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post #7 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:41pm
Thread Starter 
Devin, the first was a spelling error. The second was a joke.
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post #8 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:44pm
Without any meta-snark, I honestly think "overrated" is the word that annoys me the most in the way that you're describing.
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post #9 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:54pm
Do you people realize how ridiculous it is to attempt to impose ordering on words.

Every word has its place in some context. The problem is that most words are used at inappropriate times, in front of inappropriate audiences, by an inappropriate author.


A better thread would be most misused words or something like that.
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post #10 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:56pm
I remember reading a Book of Lists back when I was a kid that had list where a bunch of linguists called gonorrhea one of the most beautiful-sounding words in the English language.
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post #11 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:57pm
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Originally Posted by phr34k

A better thread would be most misused words or something like that.
we do not need that thread.
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post #12 of 17
12/7/06 at 4:58pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
I remember reading a Book of Lists back when I was a kid that had list where a bunch of linguists called gonorrhea one of the most beautiful-sounding words in the English language.
i'm trying to get a cunning linguist joke out of this.
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post #13 of 17
12/7/06 at 6:45pm
Cockblock.

Rather, just stop doing it.
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post #14 of 17
12/7/06 at 6:50pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
I remember reading a Book of Lists back when I was a kid that had list where a bunch of linguists called gonorrhea one of the most beautiful-sounding words in the English language.
Nothing rolls off the tongue (or penis) like gonorrhea.
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post #15 of 17
12/7/06 at 8:53pm
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Originally Posted by RathBandu
1. "Interesting"

It says nothing. It means nothing. It is what you say when you want to sound like you're complimentary, but you really have nothing to say about the topic at hand. It is fucking whitebread.
Prez Bush's response to recently released report on Iraq War concluding previous strategies have resulted in failure: "It has some very interesting ideas."
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post #16 of 17
12/7/06 at 10:06pm
The word "interesting" is not over-rated. It's abused, as are many others. I'm already sick of hearing that the Iraq report is under "serious" consideration, for example. But then, the Iraq situation is very serious, is it not?

May I recommend the book Junk English, by Ken Smith? It discusses the common abuse, misuse, and over-use of words and phrases in modern English. It's funny and "interesting."

For example, after reading it I couldn't help noticing how often politicians invoke the term "unfortunate" as a euphamism for "bad," "wrong," or "improper," since it has a less negative connotation. It's sad how the desire to avoid offending anyone or to sound more sophisticated is making speech vague and imprecise.
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post #17 of 17
12/8/06 at 7:52pm
Isn't this the section of the message boards designated for lists? Better here than clogging up some other area. Or was this thread simply meant as a dig/companion for the "Pretentious/boring" thread?

I hate my Mom's constant and passive-aggresive-derogatory use of the word "different".

ME: "What did you think of that movie, Mom?"
MOM: "Well, it was... different."

ME: "Mom, what do think of this drawing I did?"
MOM: "It's certainly... different."

ME: "Hey, Mom, what do you think of Trever's (my brother) new girlfriend?"
MOM: "She sure dresses... different."
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