Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Annoying words?

Annoying and irritating words? Words do have power! Words do have connotations too! They can have good and bad connotation! As words gain significance and popularity, they get added to the dictionaries. As products and organizations have life cycles, words too may have life cycles. After initial euphoria and novelty, with the introduction of new alternative words and phrases, some old words get outshined and outlived. With regard to negative connotation, some words get negative connotation and prove to be annoying and irritating! Today’s Telugu (again a Telugu one) newspaper reported that the Britishers/UK citizens got bored of some words and their meaning found them irritating and annoying! Some of those annoying and irritating English words for 2012 are: Fiscal Cliff Guru Spoiler alert Kick the can down the road Double down Job creator/ creation Bucket list Trending Super food Boneless wings And the ultimate acronym YOLO “You Only Live Once” I am sure that Indians will definitely agree with their counterparts in UK about the word “YOLO”, as we in India always believe in re-birth as well as reincarnations! On the contrary, Indians may be quite upset about the negative feeling about “Guru” as expressed by the Britishers ! Basically I don’t know meaning of some of the above words! I am quite annoyed about myself about this poor word power on my part!

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  1. The general reasons for irritation, as felt by Britishers, are: 1) misuse of words, 2) high usage frequency 3) redundancy or lack of utility of the word (s)!

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