Moist, masticate, throb, ha ha ha ha (fake laughter), and using sweet, awesome, or excellent to describe anything. More? I challenge you all.

DUDE, excellent thread, but if they should be left unsaid, why did you bring them up?

ha ha ha ha.

As a form of comedy while I drink my coffee. Oh yeah back to the convo...and coffee. If you mention your favorite type of coffee it better not be "Iced Quad Venti Sugar-Free Vanilla Nonfat w/ Whip Caramel Macchiato".

Hey

Ya Know

Dude! This morning, as I masticated an awesome muffin, I sipped my iced quad venti sugar-free vanilla nonfat w/ whip caramel macchiato. It was so excellent it made my pants throb. It was so sweet that it caused me to spill it all over myself. "Now my pants are moist!" I thought to myself. HA HA HA HA

My wife wanted to osculate this morning.

Of course, I obliged!

Seconded on the nice thread sentiment.

I use sweet! (bummer) Maybe I'll switch over to nice, to buck the trend.

"Check out my new car!"

"Nice!"

See, that works right?

>>osculate

love that word...

Yeah, me too!

I remember everything about the day I learned it. Words are this way with me. Every time I encounter a new one, it's like I take a photo of the moment in time when it happened. Something small changes with each new word. It's like a context change, the world is just a bit different because that word is now a part of it, where it was not before.

This one was in my junior year of high school. A great English teacher, Mr. Fischer, did word of the day and that one came up! I looked over at my female class mate and grinned over the prospect of actually getting to use that one! She grinned back, as we both loved to engage in word play all through school.

Squat.

Blog.

( I reserve the right to use " rad " in any office meeting I wish though ).

Speaking of office meetings, my brother works for Nike and he was in charge of a fairly important meeting. He was trying to interject a little humor with a sort of " word of the day " during a particularly dry stretch of the meeting. He had heard a word earlier that day and he liked the way it sounded. He didn't know what it meant. It just sounded neat. So, as the multi-continent teleconference wrapped up, he decided to share his little vocabulary gem;

Bukkake.

Those who knew it's definition were a little stunned. Those that didn't, well, they became stunned once they did.

My brother now works for WinCo as a grocery bagger.

To this day I cannot bring myself to eat yogurt.

That's a *snap* for sure! Picture taken, here in Cali. It's a gem all right. Rough though. Could use a few good cuts --then there would be nothing left!

I like squat! As in, "You don't know, or are not getting squat." It's a nice way to refer to the product of defecation. Handy, nice, family style.

Blog is ok, but I've a peeve with it.

A blog is sequential writings posted online for others to consume and comment on or about. I think that's enough of a niche to justify a word. Blogs used to be called web logs, or weblogs, or just blogs. That's how we got here with blog.

Somebody contributing to their blog is a blogger. easy enough. Actually doing it is then blogging.

Somebody contributing to somebody else's blog is not a blogger, and therefore cannot be blogging, or have written a blog, or blogged! They are contributors, commenter, posters (hate that one too), or maybe just people.

That act is posting, or just making a post, or comment.

What we do here is not really blogging, because this is a forum, not a blog, so we can't be bloggers, right?

So how come I hear so many people say, "I wrote a blog on that", or something similar, when they really are referring to a contribution, post, comment, or some other thing that happens in relation to a blog, but is not actually a defining part of the blog?

Maybe that's enough of a mess that blog is one of those words after all.

Speaking of snap,

"Oh Snap!" Really, really hate that one. Here's why:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/loquaciouslaura/1976942027/

Oh I have no problem performing any of those acts. I just don't like the way the words sound.

I'll live though.

From the listener side of radio or when listeneing to any public speaker, the use of "uhm" repeatedly is not good! Uhm....the figures..uhm...show a marked decline in...uhm...shareholder stock value.

"UHM" must die! As I mentioned in another discussion, when I started trying to curtail my use of this garbage word, I started to notice how frequently it was used by others--especially people being interviewed in the media and some talk show hosts. It is the most irritating "word" in the English language.

I'll second missing_kskd's comments on "blog" because of a discussion I got into with a stubborn person who asked me what a blog was and then tried to argue against the definition I gave him. The definition that I gave him was that a blog is a specific online discussion format where the maintainer of the blog starts all the discussions, and others can then comment on what he has written. This, I explained, is in contrast to newsgroups and other types of discussion boards, where any participant can start a new discussion. He then argued, "well, maybe the use of the word is changing."

In my opinion, possibly the word most misused by broadcasters, reporters, advertisers, and even engineers is (drum roll): digital. The real meaning of the word digital (as clarified by a fairy sharp engineer friend) is a system where symbols are arbitrarily assigned to represent something. However, the word commonly gets misused to identify anything done using the Internet (such as buying mp3 files), anything that uses computer software, or any electronic circuit that only has two valid states.

An example of "digital" being misused by a journalist is the story cited in the vinyl thread on the other side of this board. The story said that CDs were losing ground to "digital music formats." In that context, what they meant was that CDs were losing ground to downloads of music from Internet sites. However, the word is being misused because the compact disc *was* the first consumer digital audio format (groups of pits in the compact disc form symbols that represent the levels of the audio waveforms, among other things).

What kind of Cake is buk cake?

BTW cake is spelled with a C not a K.....

You won't find "buk cake" sold at WinCo. I am laughing pretty hard (at least for work) right now. I am actually surprised that our Web filters didn't intercept the bukkake Wikipedia page for inappropriate content.

Japanese girls often have "buk" teeth, but there generally would be no "kake" chenched between their jaws when they do the bukkake.

I didn't know they had baggers at WinCo.

Sometimes, meetings are going to be dry and boring. This has to be taken as a given.

I did not know what that word meant and then I looked it up....I'm not a shy person, I can talk a about anything, but ewww holy #@#$, what a nasty word.

" I didn't know they had baggers at WinCo."

They don't.

I agree that the word 'UHM' needs to go away.

However, if that happened, Rick Emerson's show would be reduced to about 45 minutes per day.

Totally!! Is a word that should never end or begin a sentence.

Another word that should go away entirely:
"extreme."

..."Totally!! Is a word that should never end or begin a sentence".

Totally agree.

Word!

QED

It's a "must do"
It's a "must see"
"not to be missed"
Perky

So totally like, hey, you know, um, yeah, guilty of writing "ha ha ha" because I can't stand "LOL".

Love "dude" "pal" and "bud" and probably over-use all three.

I swear I'll maim the next Mo-Fo that says Blog,Blogging,Blogger,or anything that sounds even remotely similar.


Seriously... Don't.
I'll reach through the monitor and snuff you out.

Hey, Monkeyboy is a blogging blogger! Here's a link to his blog:

http://www.monkeyboy.ws/monkeyboy/current_affairs/

Hey, this blog, er, forum is pretty dope.

The John Cleese Letter to America at the aforementioned Monkeyboy web log is worth a read, but more appropriate for discussion on "The Other Side."

"Actually" !

"May I speak to Sarah?"
"She's actually on another line."

Does that mean she's "actually" working, instead of the opposite? Like, OMG, Dude!!!

"Hi, what can I get you?"
"May I actually have a PBR?"

I suppose, but as opposed to what?

Bouya!!! Don't like it. Baahumbug.

Today's word of the day......................................... Shananigans.

I know, right?

I'm getting really sick of the (non) word, "stay-cation"

"Utility Bill".
Most real people complain about the high cost of their electric bills, heating oil bills, natural gas bills and water bills. "Utility bill" is just ad copy that real people never say in real life.

If the people in commercials talked like real people, then maybe I might listen.

I know that you real announcers out there have to read the copy that's placed in front of you, but THINK about it.

From Randy's link--
"5.There is no such thing as 'US English.' We will let Microsoft know on your behalf."

I have my Ubuntu Studio (and formerly had Mandriva) set up as plain English. Period. It gave me options for US English, British English and a bunch of others.........none of that.
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1. "Extreme Sport". There's a doozy. It seems people think really any sport which requires a helmet and pads (football excepted, it seems) nowdays is an "extreme sport".

I was talking to another guy on a bike recently, on one of my rides to the Airport Way area, and he refers to bike riding--in the context of casually riding about the city on a mountain bike--as an "extreme sport". Aside from the fact that I absolutely, positively hate that term anyways it left me with a bitter feeling toward "his kind", that they'd degrade us like that.

That's a phrase I think needs revocation from the English lexicon. Permanently.

2. "Like" is another one, like, particularly when, like, used as, like, every other word, like, by a teenager or somethin'. Like, I used to, like, keep a tally, like, when I was, like, in high school when, like, another fellow student, like, would, like, come up and, like, start speaking, like, in front of the class. It's, like,, become like, another one of the, like, most irritating words I like can stand to, like, hear..........

(Even worse, my eleventh-grade Physics instructor was notoriously prone to this habit. Had he omitted the word "like" from his vocabulary, class would have probably been a half-hour shorter than it was otherwise.......)

3. "The HDTV Transition" (or "conversion", if you prefer.) Really? So then, what will happen to all of the 4*3 standard-def ATSC channels that are currently on the air, come next February?

Hey--I use the term "utility bills." However, I find that I always use this term in a plural form to refer to all of the utilities that I use: electricity, natural gas, water/sewer, garbage collection, and telephone. I also use the term "utility pole," which a lot of people don't use.