h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A thread inspired by one word: ABSOLUTELY.

It's taken over at my office. 'Yes' is gone and forgotten.


More please.

Minging.

Especially when coupled with 'blinging'.

I hate that stupid f*****g word.

Caper Plip

Oh yes. I hate both of them.

minging and blinging - are they english?

Minging sounds like 'sunglish' to me.

I hope that wasn't a joke, 'cos I still don't know what minging (or blinging) mean.

Can we ban the word "basically" as I use it all the time and basically it exposes my lack of vocabulary......ooohhhhh B***********

Minging means ugly and nasty and smelly and yuk.

Bling means like, jewellery, like big rings and medallions and stuff.

Exactly!
Used in my office to replace the Absolutely! overuse and has now become just as irritating, specially when I hear it from me...

'Blatantly'

Seems to be the new 'hip' word , but used as such:

"omg, wasn't sharon sooo drunk last night"
"Bla'antly, yeah"

thanks Cyzaki.

Really. Very. Hobbits.

The gooey mouldy crud at the bottom of the fridge is 'minging'.
Yellow limescale round the edges of a urinal is 'minging'.

Jade off Big Brother is minging.

awwww no!

Michael Winner ... no, he's just piggin'

Housework

I'm guilty of saying "cool" to often as an off-the cuff pleasentry.

another would be the stacatto effect of "y'know"

Y'know?

"Awesome"

Used in circumstances that do not inspire awe.

Grr.

"Like" as punctuation, used by illiterate footballers and their imitators
Knowwhaaramean, like?

'Like' and 'nice'.

'She's like, nice.'

Do you mean she is similar to a pleasant thing?

Blank stare.

Nice is a stupid little word now. it used to mean precise and accurate. Then it came to be applied to people who were always neat and tidy and very very proper. Which of course being the ideal in Victorian times, it came to mean a decent person, and then a pleasant person, and now it is sad bastardized little word meaning 'everything that is not actually nasty'. Talk about damning with faint praise.

And as for 'like', look, it means either 'similar to' or is the verb meaning to enjoy, appreciate, feel fond of etc. It is not the noise you make when your brain is on hold, contrary to popular belief, and nor is it part of a compound verb form menaing 'said' (as in 'he went like 'Want some crisps?') For that matter, 'to go' does NOT mean 'to speak'. Oh, you people all make me so cross. What is the point of speaking one of the most versatile and subtle languages on the planet, with one of the largest vocabularies, if all you can do with it is mulch it down to three verbs and four adjectives. George Orwell strikes me as being far too priescent, except instead of 'double plus good' we'll all be saying, 'it's like, nice.'

That's like really blatantly true, innit?


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