sacramentalist: (how_much_does_a_hemingway)
sacramentalist ([personal profile] sacramentalist) wrote2013-05-30 07:47 pm

Funiculi Funicular!

Words I dislike:

Inure
Funicular
Palimpsest

Bonus: Awkward has too many w's.

[identity profile] jonthedull.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Well thankfully those words don't come up too much. There are a bunch of words I don't like but at the moment my brain is too full to remember what they are. Which is odd because normally things I hate come to mind all too easy.

[identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed.

I also hate mascarpone because everyone mispronounces it. It's mascar, like NASCAR.

And "ironic", because nobody knows what it means. Let's all just give it up.


[identity profile] quickly-9.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it really mascar like nascar? I've heard the incorrect 'mars' and I've heard the what I thought was correct 'moss'carpone, but never that longer 'a' like in nascar.

[identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah. I forgot about the Canadian vowel shift.

I suppose people in the South pronounce it with a long a.

mas-kahr-poh-nee

My point is, get rid of it. Everyone uses that chewy fondant nowadays.

[identity profile] quickly-9.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh, I am not familiar with the Canadian vowel shift.

I don't think it's a southern thing and it's not a long a in Nascar. It's an 'a' as in "apple", instead of an 'a' as in "adore" (almost like an "uhh" but not quite)

[identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not really a shift. We just don't stretch vowels. That's where that whole thing about "aboot". Which we don't say, PS.

[identity profile] quickly-9.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't pronunciations fun? We should be having this discussion by phone (I mean phooooooooooone)

[identity profile] mandydax.livejournal.com 2013-06-01 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I like the words "chitin" and "chitinous," but so many people mispronounce them. Wil Wheaton was narrating John Scalzi's The Android's Dream and said "chitinous" like it's spelled, instead of with a hard "K" and long "I" as in the Greek letter chi. I cringed.

[identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com 2013-06-01 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Damn you Wil Wheaton!

[identity profile] eyelid.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
yes but that's what makes "awkward" perfect.

[identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'll have to produce a list of words I like, ie

Cochlea.
Uxorious
Lugubrious.


[identity profile] styletax.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
No! Palimpsest is an AMAZING word!!

[identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
One of my FB friends' wife has a printing company called Palimpsest Press. I asked him if she strictly prints on used medium after the text has been erased. He was impressed I knew the term. Yet, it's not a pleasant word. Stops the flow, dead.

[identity profile] jonthedull.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to admit I had to look that word up. When I saw it remembered it though.

[identity profile] lyricmaniac.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
I think awkward is an awkward word as well.

[identity profile] emmabovary.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
We run a course called Paris as Palimpsest. I wonder how many students know what that means?

[identity profile] mary919.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I hate slacks, atop and moist.

[identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, my wife hates slacks. Of course, I use it to annoy her. I also call khakis, "chinos". Heh

[identity profile] immemor.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I hate the word “hypotenuse.” It sounds to me like that crappy band that came to everyone’s junior high school assembly day. “Hey kids, we’re Hypotenuse. We’re here to talk to you about Jesus, the dangers of drugs and the power of geometry.” About three songs in, we all wanted some meth…