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.

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[crankst-girl.livejournal.com]

Boho. Nuff said.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

If we're allowed hashtags, I nominate #yolo.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

http://xkcd.com/919/

[ewx.livejournal.com]

How does shamazing grab you?

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I find "feels" (as a noun; approximately equivalent to "feelings") makes my skin crawl rather.

[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"?

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Words or phrases?

[ceb.livejournal.com]

But what does it *mean* that 'chilling' or 'relaxing' doesn't? Eh? Also it sounds like a brand of coldsore cream.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

"totes" and "amazo" and variant "amazeballs". Though I am about immune to these now as one of my coworkers uses them regularly.

[kauket.livejournal.com]

My Gentleman Friend Simon has created TMZ, which is short for 'totes amaze' short for 'totally amazing.'

It's amazing I let him speak sometimes ;) We never needed totes amaze, let alone TMZ.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I found 'jeggings' quite disturbing (as a word and as an item of clothing). But I guess that's old hat these days. How about 'cankle'?

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Do you mean specifically portmanteaux, or any horrible word? I'm particularly irked by any verbing. It's shockingly common in The Enterprise. "Can we workshop that?", "Will you action this?" et al.

And when the management types abuse terms that are already being abused by programmers. "Let's refactor the schedule!", "Can we have a QA step in the workflow?".

Augh!

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Calling the singer Rihanna 'Ri-Ri'. It sounds like a lisping two-year-old asking for the potty.