Necessary
I am quite serious when I say no other word in the English language gives me so much trouble for spelling. I hope I am not the only idiot who cannot fucking spell this word. And it’s not like this is...
View ArticleSanguine
This word does not deserve to exist. In the US, everyone learns it when studying for the SATs. It has no other usefulness in our language than tripping up vacuous high school juniors. And that’s a...
View ArticleRemiss
Remiss is a needy needy word, at least in modern spoken English. I’m sure at some point years ago people actually used “remiss” on its own, actually using it to describe a state of carelessness or...
View ArticleMorose
I think I’ve hated morose longer than any word I can remember hating. It’s likely I first got acquainted with it while studying for the SATs in high school, but I’m sure I hated it even before I heard...
View ArticleAwesome
Awesome is not such an awesome word that you people need to say it all the time. Seriously, “awesome” has been blown completely out of proportion. It used to be that anything that was AWESOME was...
View ArticleMeta
People, listen up and listen good. “Meta” is not an adjective. It is a prefix which can take one of two meanings: connected with a change of position or state metamorphosis metabolism higher; beyond...
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Irony / Ironic
“Irony” has been a word I hated for a long time, but it’s almost TOO BIG now to blog about. The problems with this word are almost too egregious and too numerous to do justice to it. Nonetheless, it...
View ArticleTight-Knit
No joke here, I am actually filled with anxiety to write about this word. It pesters me. It traps me and fills me with bile and ire. Even more than its brother, “tightly-knit”, which I hate just 10%...
View ArticleKinky
I hate the word “kinky”. It makes me think of desperate married couples searching vainly for a way to “spice up” their sex life. “What about these ‘vibrating nipple clamps’?” “Ooh that’s kinky!” “Yeah?...
View ArticleEpic
It saddens me to announce the death of the adjectival epic. It seems all you shitheads have had your fill of awesome, and have jumped one step up to epic. Now it’s dead. You killed it. First, if you...
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