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#47 – Cool Words

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Words I love:

  • characterological
  • exegesis
  • juxtaposition
  • phagocytosis

Words I hate:

  • problematize
  • hegemony

Words I feel like I should love or hate, but about which I haven’t yet formed an opinion:

  • evaluand
  • expectorate

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9 comments to “#47 – Cool Words”

  1. Comment by touchyoulast:
    Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 8:15 am

    Ahhh! Teddy slept in so I'm coming in late with my near-the-end encouragement. You are a rock star! Keep on keeping on!

    Now to catch up with the last eight hours of posts…

  2. Comment by Rebecca from North Bay:
    Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 9:37 am

    All I want to add is: shenanigans.

  3. Comment by drbethsnow:
    Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 2:42 pm

    Hmmm. Shenanigans. Do you love or hate? I'm not sure I have any emotional response to shenanigans….

  4. Comment by drbethsnow:
    Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 2:42 pm

    Thanks!!!

  5. Comment by Kalev:
    Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 4:27 pm

    I love shenanigans… and the word, too. :P

    I'm pretty sure I can't hate problematize or hegemony by law as a sociologist. But I definitely prefer hegemony over problematize.

    I do like “hegemonic.”

    One word I hate is the use of “architect” as a verb. As in technobabble management-ese when people say things like, “We need to architect a solution.” Like Dear Dumbasses with no language skills, there's already a fucking verb for that: we call it “design.”

  6. Comment by Kalev:
    Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 4:27 pm

    (I still can't believe DisqUs has no comment preview! Sad, DisqUs, very sad.)

  7. Comment by drbethsnow:
    Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 5:20 pm

    LOL!! I agree “architect” as a verb is right up there with “action a solution.” FAIL!

  8. Comment by Kalev:
    Sunday, July 26th 2009 at 6:54 pm

    Let me architect the actioning of the solution for you!

  9. Comment by Rebecca from North Bay:
    Tuesday, July 28th 2009 at 7:13 am

    Love – it's fun to say, and it's a great middle ground between “getting into trouble” and “not doing anything (*trying to look innocent*)”

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