I have no patience for anyone, but I've lots of time for you

[venta]

There will be some proper content shortly. Maybe.

However... in the interim...

I don't mind people making up words. I do it all the time, after all. But there are some neologisms which just make my skin crawl.

I was reminded of this at lunchtime when a colleague included the word "chillaxin'" in a sentence[*]; it's possibly my least-favourite word from the last few years.

Any advance on chillaxing in the horribleness stakes? Has to be a word with at least some level of usage, not something one of your mates said once.

[*] Admittedly, I suspect he did this chiefly because he thought it would make my skin crawl.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I use chillax to take the piss out of people who are trying to be all hipstery. I was in IKEA with unreliable car-fixing ex when we were still going out and this woman behind us in the queue at the cafe said to her kids "you two, just chillax, will you?" - we immediately turned to each other and mouthed "chillax!" and the kids saw and laughed. Sorry mum.

My most recent hated word is "storying" as used on university mailing lists to advertise events. "Storying the student experience". What's wrong with "writing the student experience as a story" or possibly "not sending me emails about your weird social sciences things as if I have time when I blatantly don't"?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I haven't heard storying to date, but it is quite ugly.