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    I dislike words with the nasal E sound, specifically meal. I don’t know what but for the last three years I can’t stand the word meal. “Oh I hope you had a good MEEEEEEEeeeeal”

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    I like woody sort of words. Bound, prudy, recidivist. Erogenous zone, loose woman… concubine! Errrogenous zooooone!

    Funny thing, dear. All the naughty words sound woody.

    E: It appears I have misread the question. But I’ll leave my Monty Python reference here.

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    biweekly, bimonthly, etc.

    Wtf does it mean? Twice a week? Every two weeks? Who knows. What’s the point of this word when it’s so ambiguous.

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      Twice a time period. Semi for every two time periods. So every two weeks is semiweekely. However it gets misused so often you almost always have to check making it almost useless.

      Similar to failsafe vs redundant.

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        Frustratingly enough, it’s the other way around. Biweekly is every two weeks, semi weekly is two times a week.

        I remember it like this:

        • bicycles are two circles, biweekly is two weeks
        • semicircles are half a circle, semiweekly is half a week

        But yes, people use the words interchangeably so often that it’s faster just to avoid the problem altogether and just say “every two weeks”.

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      In the UK we have the word “fortnight” for two weeks, which helps. I also found out very recently that “biannual” mean twice a year and “biennial” means every other year so, yeah, fuck knows.

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    Feminism

    Between the toxic terfs and the toxic trads i think the word has been sullied, maybe beyond recovery.

    I beleive in equality and free expression for all, but I don’t feel like that’s a goal that aligns with most modern forms of Feminism.

    It is a word that’s supposed to mean eqality, but these days when someone identifies as a feminist my mind assumes they’re gonna be a reactionary bigot.

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          I personally feel like anyone who’s not a bigot IS by nature a feminist at least in a solidarity for the ENTIRE human race sense, but keep in mind, this is coming from my perspective as a male, so I might be missing something by virtue of it not regularly impacting me personally.

          I’d love a less-abused word, personally.

          As a guy, I don’t think I’d WANT to call myself a feminist, lest I be incorrectly associated with the likes of Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman, or a whole host of other clearly NON-feminists who hid behind the word to cover their actions.

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        Just can’t stand the way it sounds, starts with an idi like your going into something then ends with an um. It feels like someone stopped making the name partway through.

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    When people call sex “breeding”.

    It sounds like some puritanical shit where they believe that sex is only for procreation.

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    Can’t pick just one so here’re a couple.

    “Crypto” used in the context of cryptocurrrencies. “AI”, referring only to LLMs. “Research”, referring to an indeterminate amount of reading up on the topic at hand, such as in the phrase “do your own research” that’s being bandied around in some communities.

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      “AI”, referring only to LLMs.

      Yeah, it’s annoying because there are a lot of legit image recognition and pattern matching applications in my work field, and I need to ask for clarification every time someone says “AI”.

      Like, is this actually useful, or do you mean “we asked ChatGPT to generate you 20% nonsense”?

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    Penultimate. Anyone writing about or reviewing the second last of anything uses it in their first breath like their English degree depends on it.

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    Slay because my 10 year uses it for everything. Slayalicious, slaytastic, slayme…

    Nag. Just sounds harsh

    Bungalow. Should be obvious.

    People who shorten food names aren’t doing English any favors…

    'za (Pizza), taters, sgetti, nanners, gnosh (im hungry I need some gnosh gnosh)