I didn't know how to accurately phrase the question, but here's what I mean.
Some people get bothered by moist. I think it's the way the word sounds intertwined with some mental imagery that's conjured up when they think about it.
Cup and pop bother the shit out of me on a much more basic level. It's the way the words sound. I think it's the "hardness" of the "p" at the end. This is more of what I mean, but feel free to include any words that bug you.
I also hate when adults talk to babies or animals in that high-pitched "baby voice".
Pretty much all "business talk". Sure, let's synergize our portfolio by optimizing the diversification of our assets. Why not. Also the word "tart" rubs me wrong.
There's a kind of person who makes 6 or 7 digit purchasing decisions for proprietary software when an open source solution would have sufficed. Because they make stupid decisions, they need a psychological defense mechanism to feel good about their decisions. These people are stuck in the 90s and believe that proprietary software is, as a rule, of higher quality than open source software. So to them, "proprietary" signals "quality". "Proprietary Algorithm? Must be so good they need to keep it a secret!" And actually, that's true for a lot of industries. FOSS has changed web development for the better, but there's plenty of other industries that just don't have that. Just compare Octave with Matlab, or Sage with Mathematica, or Blender with Maya, etc...
Well excuse me, but you probably didn't touch Blender in forever. Having experience with all four main 3d modelling and animation suites (Blender, Daz Studio, 3DS Max and Maya), Blender is a serious contender (if not being slighly better than) for any of the other three. The learning curve is steep, but anything any other 3D software can do Blender can do natively - Maya and 3DS require plugins for physics, IIRC, and only 3DS has a game engine plugin.
It's true, I don't have any significant personal experience with 3D modeling or animation. I think my point stands, though: It took a LONG time for Blender to catch up (exceed?) the proprietary alternatives, and it's certainly not going to see widespread adoption in industry for a long time more, if ever.
And it took a long time for LibreOffice to match Excel. And for LMMS to match FL Studio's capacities. And for Linux distros to become as user-friendly as Windows. Corporation-side, sure, it'll most likely take the retirement/death of the Baby Boomers for that to change. But it's already changing in the public, though.
Yeah. You still DO have to find instrument samples (the base ones are, as expected, not that great), but the beat and synth parts are just as developed as FL's. Still a little bit harder to learn, and your result will sound a little bit midi-ish if you don't entirely know what you're doing, but I consider LMMS to be professional-grade now.
...That is a good ass point. I think back when nothing was expected to be compatible with anything else, 'Proprietary' would mean more 'Works with our other shit, or is somehow guaranteed' rather than 'Only works the stuff we tell you it can work with.'
Seeing your post title and I immediately thought of "Moist". I don't hate it, but a lot of people that I've met do. The word I hate the most is "Potty". Even if you are talking to a child this word is unacceptable, but the main issue I have with it is when adults use the word when talking to other adults. When you say it, I immediately think you have the vocabulary of a 2 year old.
I'm interested to know what you would call it. One side benefit we've noticed of using the word potty is that he is able to express himself a bit more clearly, he will tell us whether he wants to use that or the toilet and so we're not calling after him when he immediately runs out of the room and up the stairs.
Growing up I learned just to ask to go to the bathroom. I wonder if my parents didn't like the word. I remember hearing other families use it around children, but I don't think my parents ever said it around any of their kids.
Is there a difference? I thought potty was just an easier word for a kid to pronounce than toilet, so people teach potty first and graduate to toilet.
In my mind potty implies the non-flushing plastic kind, with toilet being the porcelain throne. I'd be interested to see what other cultures would say on this subject, do they have special squat toilets for children? I imagine it's more natural for a child to want to squat when they go to the toilet, so perhaps the whole training process is over quicker?
Elimination training so yes, it looks like the process does seem to go much quicker. Interesting!
Is anyone here bothered when someone over the age of twenty-five or so uses the word "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" when referring to their significant other in a sentence? One guy from another forum I am on was bothered when a guy referred to his partner as his "girlfriend." He was around thirty five. I personally have no problem with using girlfriend or boyfriend when I'm older.
Nope. Don't know what else you'd call the other person. Partner? Not-wife/not-husband?
Significant Other is becoming a popular phrase as I have gotten older.
I live in NZ, and we usually say "partner". If you mean "business partner", you say "business partner"; otherwise it's assumed to mean "romantic partner", which I think is kinda opposite of the American usage.
Not so much specific words, but people who abbreviate words because speaking is too much effort: "totes whatev". This bothers me a lot less today than when I was younger, but I will still shut down a conversation with anyone who sounds like a bored, unwilling participant.
But efficiency!! "Totally" and "whatever" are highly frequent words that carry next to no information content and are great candidates for being shortened. Similar examples in other domains of language abound and are formalized in "uniform information density", the idea that there is an optimal level of information transfer rate. Spending too long on low-information content structures (including words) or too short on high-information content structures is a suboptimal communication strategy. For more you might be interested in Jaeger (2010).
Ah, you mean I should gear my preferences around the less than 1% of people I communicate with who mangle words for efficiency, forcing the inefficient process of deciphering the communication onto me, rather than around the more than 99% of people who will say things such as, "... So I was, like... totes whatevs, right... Cos... You know?" Actually, in a more serious tone, I believe in the evolution of language, and I accept it will change in ways that don't match my preferences. We have such a rich and beautiful language, and I appreciate people who are articulate, and will naturally gravitate towards them in conversation. I don't expect anyone to feel any loss if I wander away from a conversation because the way the person who is speaking is making me want to beat them into a coma with a heavy thesaurus.
I don't know if this counts, but the expression "Ugh whatever" for unknown reasons is like daggers to my ears.
"panties" irks me. I don't know why though; I didn't even hear it used for most of my life.
You could always borrow the Australian word "grundies". I mean, sure, I could understand why you wouldn't want to...
I was just having a chat with my friend thenewgreen and I mentioned that something was "amazeballs". His response was: "Also, please don't use the phrase amazeballs. You're better than that :)" He went on to explain "There are just phrases grown men/women just shouldn't use" After short consideration (and the assumption that tng always has my best interests in mind) , I vowed to remove the word from my vocabulary (which I just broke twice by typing this post - but I was quoting, so I think it is still ok).
I knew a girl that hated the word "slice." Personally, I don't like it when a stranger calls me "buddy." Actually, I hate it. I didn't hire a lawn service because the owner kept calling me "buddy."
That irks me as well. Buddy in that context sounds almost condescending.
Synthesizer. Because fuck pronouncing that 'th' in seventh grade.
Checking in with a dental θ instead of an interdental θ. I drop the t in the same situation, so I assumed the same would apply there.
how does one drop the T in synthesizer?? i'm whispering synthesizer at my desk like a weirdo trying to figure it out
winter and winner are homophones for me unless i really try to enunciate the t and it feels unnatural to do so if the th in synthesizer was instead a t, it would sound to me like synne-sizer as it is it just changes the sound to being created behind my front teeth instead of between the front and back
I'm not a native and it was in english class and my fuckhead class mates thought it was funny. Kind of a trauma, I guess. Germans to tend to have a hard time learning the th, basically just pronouncing it as t. It's actually a good way to detemrine how well someone speaks English.
The problem for me back then was the soft th contrasting with the sharp s (synthesizer). So for some reason I decided to say "synsesizer". I feel like you would enjoy our 'intro to (computer)linguistics' lecture. Taught in English by a German professor.
I don't like it when people say, "you're so grown" or "Hey, you ain't grown." It's always bothered me when people use the word, "grown" in a context where they are stating they or someone else is now an adult or can't be an adult yet. I heard it a couple of times in college and it always sounded like an immature way of saying, "I'm an a adult."
I hate the word "bitchin'", and I get very annoyed when people miss the first 'r' in 'frustrated'.
Yes. In English, "Hubby". A fluffy but pointless toy rather than a person. It conveys such disrespect, belittlement and uncaring for the man you're with that it's a wonder why the fuck are you still with him. EDIT: Also, "wifebeater". Why the fuck?!.. In German, the way some natives of the country apparently pronounce the English "puzzle": POOTZ-leh. Looking at it written that way makes me laugh, but hearing it scratches my ears. It sound immensely stupid, as if mocking by the uneducated and mindless folks who're simply looking for approval of their peers by belittling others. In Russian, the whole swearing words list. They sound expressive, but the way they're used - overly often and without consideration to where it's appropriate and adequate - makes the feeling of respect for the released anger wash away. It has a few swear-phrases with very interesting linguistic constructions and the forgotten meaning which are, in their own morbid way, beautiful. One of them is "(я) ёб твою мать" [(ya) yob tva-YUH mat'] - "(I) fucked your mother", an implication of seniority and experience that the younger generations pretend upon. It's used most often to swear off the pain when hitting your fingers with a hammer or somesuch.
Growing up, learning to say "library" and "Wednesday" properly was a frustrating experience. And also getting laughed at in class for mispronouncing "cathedral" along the lines of how you would pronounce "catheter". To this day, I don't know what dark magic goes into giving the 'e' in cathedral the 'ee' sound.
no words bother me for their sounds, but plenty of words bother me for their meanings.
I despise the word "peanut" when used to describe a baby, especially mine. They just don't look like peanuts. At all. And yet the usage is ubiquitous. It makes no sense and bothers me to no end. Thankfully mine is just about out of the "peanut" phase, so I''ll only have to put up with it on rare occasions when my wife sees another baby.
I'm not bothered by any, I actually like the word "moist". It's one of those words that sounds like what it means. I understand why people are offended by many words too, but I have none that would offend me. It's the intention that I'm bothered about. Should someone call me a cunt, I'd be more concerned about whether or not they intended offense than the history of the word itself.
I can't really think of any words that bother me but I very nearly plug my ears every time I hear someone whisper in a loud enough voice to be heard from across the room. The sharp sounds that come out with each escaping breath give me palpitations.
The video is scarily accurate to how these words sound in my head. Like two punches held together by a vowel. Lip and tip aren't terrible. Bob and gob are fine unless someone says them like dude in the video. Tit and tat are alright. Dunno why they bug me!