/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12609463]

ITT the most aesthetically disgusting words in English
>pressurise (as in 'to pressurise someone into doing something', not sure why people started saying that instead of 'pressure someone into...')
>fitment
>any word ending in -ise when it's spelt with a z (pressurize, catalyze)

[Anonymous No.12609472]

>>12609463
Pulchritude, always found that one quite at odds with its definition

[Anonymous No.12609479]

>>12609463
>>any word ending in -ise when it's spelt with a z (pressurize, catalyze)
fuck off

[Anonymous No.12609482]

moist

[Anonymous No.12609588]

>>12609463
impactful
classy
the mispronouncing of both kudos and forte- the former shouldn't be made a poor cousin of 'plaudits,' as what it means is praise and pronounced correctly terminates like the correct pronunciation of pathos (pay-thahss; ku-dahss); and the latter is not from the Italian for 'loud,' but the Latin/French for 'strength,' and should be pronounced fort, or even for.
Consistent misuse has admitted these repulsive usages into the latest lexicons, however, and it just makes me sick..
sick, SICK....

[Anonymous No.12609664]

>>12609463
>Analyticity

>Putative

I’m barfing just thinking about them

[Anonymous No.12609821]

republican

[Anonymous No.12609941]

>>12609463
lying

[Anonymous No.12609974]

>>12609821
shut up libtard

[Anonymous No.12609983]

>>12609588
>not pronouncing the long υ of kudos with its correct pitch accent (circumflex) and correct vowel quality (like German ü)

I agree with you that “impactful” is horrid. The other stuff is incredibly anal though. And if you adopt a Latinate pronunciation of “forte,” it would indeed still be bisyllabic.

[Anonymous No.12609987]

>>12609472
Amp up your Latinitas my nigga

[Anonymous No.12610026]

>>12609983
I don't deny as in
Fortis esto
But it's from the French
Otherwise perhaps yeah, but note the topic.

[Anonymous No.12610056]

>>12609463
literally and argued, as in, Literally, it could be argued...

[Anonymous No.12610077]

sex
>any word ending with -x

[Anonymous No.12610094]

>>12609463
utilize

[Anonymous No.12610107]

When people use “overly” to mean “very,” which is something people seem to be doing in just the past year. Using it correctly to mean “excessively” is also pretty inarticulate imo.

[Anonymous No.12610119]

>>12610107
>which is something people seem to be doing in just the past year.

no

[Anonymous No.12610126]

>>12610119
Well, alright. It’s still not good.

[Anonymous No.12610478]

>>12610077
I like mox and nox in Latin
>mox nox erit

[Anonymous No.12610486]

>>12609463
"girl"
awful word aesthetically for something so good

[Anonymous No.12610595]

Capital (when used in the 20th century British schoolboy sense of “that’s capital”; use in Rosemary Edmonds translation of Tolstoy’s Childhood, Boyhood, Youth almost made me hate Tolstoy’s character)

I find the singular word for foot too blunt and the plural feet too venal. Expresses none of the grace and formal complexity of the body part’s structure. In his commentary on Pushkin, Nabokov expressed a preference for the Russian words for foot/feet—noga/nogi (and particularly “little feet”—can’t remember but I think it would have been “malyy nogi”) over that of other European languages, ranking the French pied over the “stodgy” English foot and the German fuß, but only marginally.

Moist is a meme word for low IQs to hate.

[Anonymous No.12610606]

>>12609463
Existence of Q

[Anonymous No.12610613]

>>12609479
exactly. OP is a motherfucking cunt and likely a stupid American. The -ise and generally using an 's' instead of a 'z' makes reading much more smooth. Z is jarring, S is smooth.

[Anonymous No.12610688]

Proclivity.
Not sure why, but never did like it too much.

[Anonymous No.12610701]

>>12610613
Yeah, the average American is a stupid piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.12610831]

>>12609472
>Pulchritude
>physical beauty; comeliness
wtf, it does sound like something absolutely disgusting and revolting.

[Anonymous No.12611875]

another anglocuck thread
when will the anti-anglocuck upheaval on /lit/ start?

[Anonymous No.12611892]

action (v.) (corporate) - to do
e.g. I need you to action this by tomorrow

[Anonymous No.12611909]

>>12609463
sexy

womanly

[Anonymous No.12612069]

>>12609588
the classical Latin pronunciation of forte is the same as the common one, retard

[Anonymous No.12612121]

>>12610486
I'm at the point where even the word sounds arousing, so I have to disagree.

[Anonymous No.12612157]

>>12609479
>>12610613
>>12610701
OP here, there seems to be a misunderstanding, I mean that it's disgusting to spell it -ize
>any word ending in -ise when it's spelt with a z (pressurize, catalyze)
[I find] any word ending in -ise [disgusting] when it's spelt with a z (pressurize, catalyze)

[Anonymous No.12612204]

sepulcher
especially as a synonym for tomb, one of the most aesthetically pleasing words in english. it just can't compete

[Anonymous No.12612206]

>felch

[Anonymous No.12612364]

Plethora

Only used by people trying to sound smart, plenty of words that mean basically the same thing

[Anonymous No.12612404]

>>12609479
this

[Anonymous No.12612427]

>>12610478
i bet you like dix and cox too fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.12612437]

Callipygian
I’ve always liked this word, and it’s definition.

[Anonymous No.12612442]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqe3uHZeUcM

[Anonymous No.12612584]

>>12612069
That's real cute, anon.
And the meaning (and it isn't pronounced forTAY, numbskull) is chance, perchance, etc.
>My perchance is.. uhhhh
It wd appear your forte's an empty head, cuck.

[Anonymous No.12612626]

>>12612427
Those are common English patronyms and should be 'capitalized' accordingly, anon. Also, vague association's no clever riposte, though no doubt youre the type of person that thinks it is.

[Anonymous No.12613030]

>>12609463
>>12609479
>>12610613
>>12610701
>>12612157
Learn some Greek, monolingual an**os. It's -ιζειν not -ισειν, and it was transmitted to Latin as -izare not -isare.

[Anonymous No.12613048]

>world
its terrible and awful

[Anonymous No.12613110]

>>12609482
Yes yes yes. Unironically:
>moist
>seep
>panties
While the actual thing itself is very nice (moist panties), the words themselves are so unnerving and bad.

By the way, for binafides do you guys say
>bone-uh-fieds
Or
>bone-uh-fee-dees?

[Anonymous No.12613148]

>>12613110
By habit I say the former, but I try to say the latte instead.

[Anonymous No.12613193]

>>12611875
when you become relevant

[Anonymous. No.12613202]

>>12609463
Blow, molest, synthesize, very, like.

[Anonymous No.12613221]

>>12613110
Agree on moist and panties, adding tummy and belly

[Anonymous No.12614615]

>>12612584
How pedantic can you be? I admit that the I didn't account for the emphasis, nor the rolled R of classical Latin, but you yourself made the case for the word to be correctly pronounced as "for/t", which is a complete departure from Latin, which you seem to respect as the "valid" pronunciation.
>My perchance is... uhhh
And you still said in your earlier post that forte is the Latin word for strength. So which is it?

[Anonymous No.12614639]

slimeball

[Anonymous No.12614664]

>>12610613
Jarring can be good sometimes.

[Anonymous No.12614761]

>>12609463
Breakfast.
It's so awkward and clumsy while describing one of the most common and simple things.

[Anonymous No.12614798]

>>12614615
Ok
Just to make this simple and no hard feelings
Forte (fort) for strength or strong point was regularly pronounced the way in parentheses up until about 50 or so years ago when generations of middle school and high school band students began pronouncing it the way they learned the Italian musical direction for 'loud,' which bugged my parents and lo, wound up bugging me. I freely admit the pedantry, *but this is a thread for little pedantries*
The English word is from the French (though derived from a Latin root of course) i.e. NOT from the Italian (also derived etc.).

[Anonymous No.12615739]

>>12614761
Better than some dumb shit like petit déjeuner. I always like desayuno.