Overused words

[Anonymous No.4530191]

ITT: words that make you stop reading.

I start:
>trembling

[Anonymous No.4530206]

>implying there isn't an appropriate time to use every word

[Anonymous No.4530218]

I ignore, whomps, wumbo, woozle-wozzle and other words that start with w and appear in cartoons

[Anonymous No.4530222]

>muttered
>swathes (seriously people on /lit/: stop saying swathes)
>vast (but only in conjunction with swathes)
>verily (in contemporary writing)
>modicum
>dribble (for drivel)
>specious
>quarrel
>unnecessary Yiddish words
>problematic
>thunderous
There are others

[Anonymous No.4530223]

>overused

This makes me stop reading

[Anonymous No.4530227]

>>4530218
Wumbo is a completely cromulent word, you fool.

[Anonymous No.4530230]

>>4530223
I hate the word "overly"

[Anonymous No.4530234]

>credible
>unnecessary
>crescendo
>staccato
>andante
>allegro
>symphonic
>orchestral

[Anonymous No.4530243]

>>4530234

did you get abused by a conductor at some point or something

[Anonymous No.4530279]

>>4530191
>poetic when not describing poetry
>"these data are"

[Anonymous No.4530287]

>>4530279
>poetic when not describing poetry

it'd be redundant to describe poetry as poetic

[Anonymous No.4530296]

It's never the word, it's always the context. For instance, "trembling" in the context of a description of something scary has not potency. But "trembling" in the context to something spiritual (trembling before God) or eternal (love) can still be effective.

[Anonymous No.4530302]

>>4530296
better yet, trembling before something that doesn't already have a million instances of being trembled before in literature would be perfectly interesting.

[Anonymous No.4530331]

>grand

[Anonymous No.4530345]

>>4530302
Does the trembling of a mountain of blue jelly before the rough northern wind counts ?

[Anonymous No.4530347]

>>4530296
>>4530302
What would use instead? To avoid being cliche.

[Anonymous No.4530386]

>>4530243
Yes and I'd thank you not to bring it up; my ass is still sore from the baton

[Anonymous No.4530390]

>>4530287
no I think he meant describing poetry yourself in a poetic fashion

I hope

[Anonymous No.4530394]

>>4530331
>phony

[Anonymous No.4530416]

>privilege

[Anonymous No.4530420]

>because
>that's why
>this means
>is
>are
>was
>were
>had been
>has been

[Anonymous No.4530533]

>>4530420

[Anonymous No.4530541]

>>4530420
>no "the"

[Anonymous No.4530543]

>>4530191
>scoff

[Anonymous No.4530546]

Great thread OP.

sage

[Anonymous No.4530556]

>book

[Anonymous No.4532813]

>>4530222

"And as I drifted in this vast ocean, my ears numb from the thunderous waves, and my whole body trembling from cold, trying to remember how it got into this situation, I realized that I had been muttering to myself: 'Oy vey. The goyms are up to us!' 'Verily, I say. Quite problematic!'
... What the hell is this dribble? Hallucinating specious nonsense and pretending to have some kind of inner quarral... am I going mad?"

Such were the thoughts of little Alice, as she was being swathed in webs by a quite reasonably-sized gardenspider.

[Anonymous No.4532851]

>very

[Anonymous No.4532883]

>>4532851
someone read On Writing

[Anonymous No.4532889]

>>4530222
>>problematic

I hate the way this word has been appropriated by tumblr fucktards.

[Anonymous No.4532891]

Any word that is awkwardly placed and shows authorial intent to use "big words", I.E. any pretentious use of a word.

[Anonymous No.4532897]

>facetious
>troglodyte

And there is another but I forgot.

[Anonymous No.4532898]

>>4532889
>While it is somewhat understandable, not wanting to gobble afro-penises as an act of penance is nevertheless quite problematic.

[Anonymous No.4532923]

>>4530234
>mfw i use musical terms sparingly all the time and there's this fagot
You got a problem?

[Anonymous No.4532980]

>>4530191
What the hell's wrong with trembling? I never found a problem with it--it seems colloquial enough and it describes the act pretty specifically while not being as overused as shaking or vibrating. Has it become a cliché and I just didn't realize?

[Anonymous No.4533005]

>>4532897
I think you don't like facetious because it's a word girls use when they think they're being clever. "I'm just being facetious"
It's a very feminine word, but I agree. I might be projecting - I know it's why I don't like it.
No words really make me want to stop reading, but themes do, certainly.

[Anonymous No.4533021]

>>4530234
So I shouldn't talk about the piano concerto then?

[Anonymous No.4533027]

>>4532923
>sparingly all the time

[Anonymous No.4533029]

>>4532980
because some writers use it to the level that some characters seem to have Parkinson's disease, coupled with some authors not knowing any other synonyms for trembling. I think thats more an authors problem than a personal one.

[Anonymous No.4533047]

>>4530222
Oh and "limn"

[Anonymous No.4533051]

>and

[Anonymous No.4533056]

>>4530222
I don't get the hate for problematic. It seems to have become some sort of a meme but I still can't see why. Is it used by SJWs? Yuppies? What is that even about?

Nothing wrong with quarrel and modicum though, imao.

[Anonymous No.4533129]

>>4533056
faveisproblematic.tumblr.com/list
It's used by people who wish to point out imagined problems with our perfect society and our enlightened values

[Anonymous No.4533134]

>>4533056
yourfaveisproblematic.tumblr.com/list
It's used by people who wish to point out imagined problems with our perfect society and our enlightened values

[Anonymous No.4535224]

>>4530227
I agree, I feel it's embiggening to use.

[Anonymous No.4535239]

>>>>>>CONSTRUCT

[Anonymous No.4536089]

>>4530191
I

[Deep&Edgy !!BfzNblz4cXS No.4536106]

>immanent
>immanence

[Anonymous No.4536129]

You know those books that read like the author looked every other word up in a thesaurus just to make it more pretentious and high brow? That.

If you use a word naturally, it sounds fine. If you cram in as many polysyllabics as possible, you sound like a cunt.

>>4530222
>>modicum

This is a great word, fuck you.

[Anonymous No.4536133]

>>4530191
i'm assuming you've never read Fear & Trembling

[Anonymous No.4536150]

>>4532813
Well done. I enjoyed it

[Anonymous No.4536156]

>>4530234
did some conductor put his baton in your naughty place and then not staccato?

[Anonymous No.4536163]

>and

[Anonymous No.4536207]

>>4530191
> "beg the question" when about bringing up questions instead of answering questions with themselves

[Anonymous No.4536209]

anyone got a good list of words plebs use in the real world to create the illusion they went to college. I need it for reasons

[Anonymous No.4536224]

>>4536209
http://scaparoom304.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/why-im-better-than-everyone-else-living-as-an-english-major/

[Anonymous No.4536250]

>>4536150
Glad you did.

[Anonymous No.4536260]

quotidian
asbestos
asymptote
verisimilitude
primordial
pencil
affected

[Anonymous No.4536315]

>>4536260
>asymptote

Got something against calculus? Babby can't into maths?

[Anonymous No.4536344]

>>4536260
>pencil
wat. has anyone actually used that word since the 1990s? go to sleep, grandpa.

[Anonymous No.4536374]

>>4530222
the fucking yiddish words man. as a german i always notice them and get annoyed by them.

[Anonymous No.4536382]

>>4533047
Leave Hemingway alone

[Anonymous No.4536394]

>>4533134
>yourfaveisproblematic.tumblr.com/list
I just spent an hour on there...and now I want to bomb the world.

Gallicisms
>duvet
being the worst offender. Can't stand Gallicisms unless they are an extremely common word like fiancee or something. It's not because you can't get use out of another language phrasing something concisely, by no means. In fact, I throw in a lot of Spanish and Mandarin into my writing because I grew up with the languages and can't really help it. It's just that writers usually use Gallicisms to show off their education and it's just so elitist.

[Anonymous No.4536456]

>>4536394
C'est la vie

[Anonymous No.4536653]

>>4530234
Violent stepfather was a cellist.

>>4530331
Owes money to the mafia.

>>4532897
Got involved in fake fossil scam.

>>4532923
>sparingly all the time
You're funny.

>>4530222
What am I supposed to have, feuds? I'm not a hip-hop producer my ludicrous friend.

I'm LITERALLY laughing my ass off, like, totally.

[Anonymous No.4536688]

>>4530222
>unnecessary Yiddish words
>mfw

[Anonymous No.4536692]

>>4536394
http://yourfaveisproblematic.tumblr.com/post/50119377326/stephen-colbert

>tfw you imagine every one in his voice with his delivery
>tfw they're all funny as fuck

Always trust a man who likes a good tranny joke

[Anonymous No.4536737]

>>4530222
Feh! No Yiddish word is "unnecessary," you meshugener!

[Anonymous No.4536768]

>>4530296
my nipples are trembling with delight

[Anonymous No.4536786]

>>4536737

[Anonymous No.4536793]

>>4536786
Yiddish comes from Germany, bro.

[Anonymous No.4536809]

>capitalist
>hegemony
>proletariat
>post-modern
>cultural marxism
>enamored of

[Anonymous No.4536815]

>>4536692
wow, people like that actually exist. I thought 4chan was joking about Tumblr.

[Anonymous No.4536847]

>>4536815
>multiple paragraphs explaining why Eminem is misogynist
>Misogyny in “Shit on You:” A lot of people say misogynistic which is true/I can’t deny it matter of fact I stand by it”

Are women trying to achieve parity in autism?

[Anonymous No.4536849]

>>4533134
>Grimes
>Appropriation of dreadlocks in “Gensis” video
You cant make this shit up.

[Anonymous No.4536852]

>lyconically

[Anonymous No.4536856]

>>4536852
er, Laconically

[Anonymous No.4536858]

>>4536852
I feel like some people just don't know what "overused" means.

[Anonymous No.4536859]

>>4536858
>ITT: words that make you stop reading.

[Anonymous No.4536863]

>>4536859
>Overused Words

[Anonymous No.4536874]

>>4536863
I just read a novel where laconically was used in multiple ways every chapter.

[Anonymous No.4536881]

>>4536874
I'm sorry.

[Anonymous No.4536882]

>sigh
>shrug

Nobody does these things in the context of real life conversations nearly as often as the majority of English literature would have you believe.

[Anonymous No.4536892]

>>4536882
>concise
>succinct
>laconic
>precise
>exacting
>deliberate
are there more?

[Anonymous No.4536893]

>>4536882
75% of my conversations are shrugging and sighing. You'd be surprised.

[Anonymous No.4536902]

>genuflect
>propitiate
>sacrosanct

[Anonymous No.4536907]

>>4536892
oh, lapidary

[Anonymous No.4536916]

>>4536106

[Anonymous No.4536921]

>>4536892
I like "succinct." Nothing beats a brief, yet comprehensive, explanation.

[Anonymous No.4536935]

>>4536692
This is probably the most stupid and autistic shit I've seen on the internet. I'm almost angry right now.

[Anonymous No.4536937]

>antideluvian
Every time.

[Anonymous No.4536964]

inb4 butthurt

All of these are terrible and the fallbacks of hacks everywhere

>Laconic
>Succor
>Enjoinder
>Precipitated
>Odious
>Dutiful
>Diaphanous
>Ineffable
>Tendentious
>Polemic
>Corporeal
>Incorrigible
>Incipient
>Stolid
>Idyll
>Segue
>Supine
>Quotidian
>Mellifluous
>Mercurial
>Opulent
>Genuflect
>Undulate
>Detente
>Nugatory
>Ventricose
>Miasma
>Provident
>Itinerant
>Peripatetic
>Transient
>Fleeting
>Stigmata
>Puerile
>Purulent
>Nadir
>pathic
>Plaintive
>Atrophy
>Cloister
>Effete
>Sinecure
>Perfunctory
>Surfeit
>Querulous
>Desultory
>Somnolence
>Unctuous
>Redolence
>Effusive
>Sibilant
>Innerable
>Aleatory
>Prandial
>Pernicious
>Piebald
>Comportment
>Recondite
>Brachiform
>Gentrification
>Carom
>Propitiate
>Apotropaic
>Lacuna
>Sanguine
>Prosaic
>Candent
>Obverse
>Brintfrained
>Seraphic
>Lascivious
>Solecism
>Lissom
>Rubensian
>Bellicosity
>Profligate
>Picayune
>Verisimilitude
>Contrite
>Rapacious
>Obstreperous
>Confabulate
>offal
>imprecate
>inveterate
>salient
>blarney
>prevarication
>malefic
>putative
>imprimatur
>lapidary
>ichor

[Anonymous No.4536971]

>>4536937
>anti
>not ante
pleb

>>4536902
Hate Catholics, much? Fuck you, limey.

[Anonymous No.4537017]

>>4530331
lol have you read a farewell to arms ?

[Anonymous No.4537025]

>>4536937
always makes me think of World of Darkness

[Anonymous No.4537039]

>>4536971
begone, papist filth

[Anonymous No.4537049]

>>4537039
I'm having fun with this exchange

[Anonymous No.4537059]

>>4536260
>asbestos

[Anonymous No.4537077]

>>4537049
take your cabal of popery elsewhere shitlord

[Anonymous No.4537081]

>>4537077
lel

>get these paddy bastards out of my neighborhood

[Anonymous No.4537156]

>engendered
gender of course being a social construct in service of an oppressive patriarchy

[Anonymous No.4537174]

>lighted

[Anonymous No.4537390]

>deadpan

[Anonymous No.4537605]

>>4536964
Hi, my name is George and I hate any word not cutting the 80% most frequently used list.

>>4537390
Deadpan humor is absolutely orgasmic you fucking jizz-cock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loIoWquy4KM

[Anonymous No.4538831]

>no one has said it yet
Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

[Anonymous No.4538849]

>>4532889
>appropriated

[Anonymous No.4538858]

>>4536129
coolguy

[Anonymous No.4538896]

>>4536964
some of these are hard to avoid using:

what if you are writing about an effete butcher who lives next to the cloisters of a cathedral in the Ypres salient; who due to war shortages can only get offal and is nursing a piebald horse with muscular atrophy back to health?

inb4 this gets published

[Anonymous No.4538943]

>>4537605
>Steven Wright
Good lord that was unbearable.

[Anonymous No.4539343]

>>4530222

[Anonymous No.4539402]

>>4539343
>the dog is never human

[Anonymous No.4539770]

>>4538943
you love it

[Anonymous No.4539973]

>deserves