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

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

The modern noun 'stop' comes from the verb, but the verb itself comes from an earlier noun (at least, that's my understanding. But I am not an etymological expert.)

Mm, I also dislike 'to medal' for its ugliness: but I don't have that problem with your examples 'workshop' and 'action', both of which I use as cheerfully as I do 'contact'. I think having personal taste objections to particular examples is fair enough, but to decry a whole category of word formation seems a bit extreme.