Words I Hate
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Because it used to be a language of conquest, they conquered a lot of foreign words from different languages plus some wordforms from the languages of their own conquerors like Italy/Rome and France and added them in.
Some people include fed and bled in the group. It's read which seems like the outlier past tense. There isn't a lot of consistency in making the past tense of lead lead if read is the only other verb which follows that pattern.
Some people include fed and bled in the group. It's read which seems like the outlier past tense. There isn't a lot of consistency in making the past tense of lead lead if read is the only other verb which follows that pattern.
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"Diffuse" like a surprisingly weak word choice for clickbait, considering you've prevented a large and powerful wild animal from maiming people.
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I'm sure pled is used in the UK but that might be just informally in non-legal contexts.
I can't quite answer this fully but kneel follows the same spelling pattern as feel, deal and sleep, amongst others; the long E sound in certain English verbs undergoes an umlaut shift in the past tense. English doesn't have umlaut marks (unlike other Germanic languages) but the spelling and sounds are still changed.
Sure, many verbs with similar sounds don't follow this pattern and I would hypothesise that they are verbs that appeared later where the need to create an irregular past tense form felt (huh) weird and unnecessary. It's annoying, yes, it's irregular, sure, but it isn't quite as random as it seems. I haven't done the legwork on cognates in other related languages but irregular spelling patterns do exist in them and they're surprisingly consistent.
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As someone who likes analysing media and figuring what I like or not like about something and likes getting in these discussions with others. I hate the words "Aura" and "Peak" when they are trying to be used in this context.
They don't explain anything of a persons taste. Its just a single frame and use a single word of Aura or Peak and expect it to be a profound argument to why its good. Can't even give out a single sentence like how it grabs the attention or how it makes you feel that can applied anywhere else to get an understanding of the things that please you.
Maybe I hate it also cause I used to do something similar years ago and just use single phrases to hate or like something and now I try my best to avoid because I realise it adds nothing to the discussions and doesn't really apply everywhere.
They don't explain anything of a persons taste. Its just a single frame and use a single word of Aura or Peak and expect it to be a profound argument to why its good. Can't even give out a single sentence like how it grabs the attention or how it makes you feel that can applied anywhere else to get an understanding of the things that please you.
Maybe I hate it also cause I used to do something similar years ago and just use single phrases to hate or like something and now I try my best to avoid because I realise it adds nothing to the discussions and doesn't really apply everywhere.
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My line manager loves the phrase "taking ownership" when referring to how employees should approach work. You're not offering me shares or any other form of control of the means of production, just say "accept responsibility" instead of that Linkedinese crap.
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I have no issues with using the word "GOAT" as an acronym for "Greatest of all Time". It's a good, catchy name for it and a vaguely humourous metaphor to imagine a great sports person as the animal. Yes, it's overused and the meaning diminishes as the phrase is a few years old now, but it still works.
However, in the last few months in brainrot doomscrolling, I have seen a related but utterly awful acronym start to enter the phraseology.
"oat" - for "of all time"
Not OAT or O.A.T. to show it's an acronym, but just generally oat all in lowercase. This isn't being used as a Noun like Goat where it feels like a name and works in the bad grammar sentences, but is just smashed into a statement as an adjective while disguising itself as a noun for a singular piece of a cereal.
C'mon. I grew up in the golden age of text speak in the 2000's and at least there was some logic and cre8iviT behind those shorthand comments. I doubt a Tiktok or Snapchat caption needs to be that lazy.
This truly is one of the worst pieces of slang oat.
However, in the last few months in brainrot doomscrolling, I have seen a related but utterly awful acronym start to enter the phraseology.
"oat" - for "of all time"
Not OAT or O.A.T. to show it's an acronym, but just generally oat all in lowercase. This isn't being used as a Noun like Goat where it feels like a name and works in the bad grammar sentences, but is just smashed into a statement as an adjective while disguising itself as a noun for a singular piece of a cereal.
C'mon. I grew up in the golden age of text speak in the 2000's and at least there was some logic and cre8iviT behind those shorthand comments. I doubt a Tiktok or Snapchat caption needs to be that lazy.
This truly is one of the worst pieces of slang oat.
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In the general context it is ok-ish, however, I think it is so overused in F1 and motorsport that for me it's beyond diminishing the phrase. Ok-ish as a generalisation and where it's caveated on statistical data (in which case 7 is categorically greater than 5).
When used less generally when people say it with conviction and belief and not as lightheartedly - including and especially commentators who lean heavy into one-of-the-greatest-of-all-times superlatives such that easily duped viewers, or new to the sport viewers, into thinking they are watching the best ever... In this context, I consider it a statement of ignorance and or disrespect to the incomparability of different eras of motorsport sport.
Ok I do not get that at all.
