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Old 09-22-2010, 08:15 AM   #1
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What are your least favourite words?

Managerial.

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And yeah, that's how I spell favourite. I is ethnic.
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Old 09-22-2010, 08:24 AM   #2
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Old 09-22-2010, 08:38 AM   #3
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one of them is swell and the other is lousy ...
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Old 09-22-2010, 08:38 AM   #4
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Not words as they are, but people who use words to look important or confuse others.

As an example, I read some years ago a text about school. To describe a ball (soccer), the writer used in French 'référentiel bondissant' that can roughly translate as 'leaping reference'. In the same text, that person used some expression I can only translate as 'learner's begetter' to describe parents.

And it was a serious text, at least I assumed it to be, the source being the French Ministry of Education .
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Old 09-22-2010, 08:39 AM   #5
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Old 09-22-2010, 08:41 AM   #6
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Old 09-22-2010, 08:42 AM   #7
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Old 09-22-2010, 09:33 AM   #8
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Old 09-22-2010, 09:40 AM   #9
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Old 09-22-2010, 10:18 AM   #10
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Loo.

Any of the other names for it, even the more graphic ones, are fine.
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Old 09-22-2010, 10:23 AM   #11
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A friend at uni couldn't abide the word plimsoll.
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Old 09-22-2010, 10:27 AM   #12
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I don't even know how to say it, but it has the effect of wet yarn.
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Old 09-22-2010, 12:03 PM   #13
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.

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Old 09-22-2010, 03:33 PM   #15
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