[RightWhale]

Is this National Hate A Word Day?

If we want to use a defined, autolimited language, why not just speak Arabic or French?

[VadeRetro]

Is this National Hate A Word Day?

Ugly, trendy neologisms are the noiseless equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard.

[Physicist]

Is this National Hate A Word Day?

I don't know, but as long as we're getting things off our chests, there are some constructions I hate:

• comprised of: The whole comprises the parts; it is never comprised of the parts. The whole is composed of the parts.
• different than: Two things may be different from each other, but not different than each other.
• convince...to: You may convince someone of something, or convince him that something is true or false, but you can't convince him to do something. You persuade him to do something.

Boy, those grate on me.

I also hate the word "twee".