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[Anonymous No.18523921]

What's the worst word in the English dictionary and why is it "aardvark?"

[Anonymous No.18523952]

the worst word is "so"

[Anonymous No.18523958]

>>18523921
moist

[Anonymous No.18523964]

>>18523958
reddit opinion

[Anonymous No.18523967]

>>18523964
:^)

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18523969]

Shut up. Aardvark is cool.
Homonyms are the worst.

[Anonymous No.18523988]

>>18523969
whoever heard of a homophobic lesbian

[Anonymous No.18523990]

>>18523969
>fag

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18523998]

*tuba gag sting*

[Anonymous No.18524005]

>>18523969
Stupid fucking cunt.

[Anonymous No.18524023]

>>18523921
As someone who wants a complete reformation of English spelling, I hate any words which use
>the letters Q, X or C
>any digraphs containing H
But that's just me

[Anonymous No.18524053]

>>18524023
based esl

[Anonymous No.18524084]

>>18524053
What makes you assume that I'm not a native speaker?

[Anonymous No.18524086]

>>18524084
gee I wonder

[Anonymous No.18524109]

>>18524086
I'm waiting for an answer, big fella

[Anonymous No.18524163]

>>18524023
>the letters Q, X or C

[Anonymous No.18524164]

>>18523921
>What's the worst word in the English dictionary

Based.

[Anonymous No.18524169]

>>18524109
gee what could it bee

[Anonymous No.18524179]

>>18523921
Sneedly

[Anonymous No.18524216]

>>18524163
What sound does C make? Is it like an S, or like K? Does the language suffer if it is removed?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18524236]

>>18524216
It can be put to use of course.
The Italian use it for “ch” so should we.

Took a look at the word “gigantic” the other day and a more phonetic spelling would be “jigantik”

[Anonymous No.18524244]

>>18524236
>copying the Italians
You're right, I'm off to quit my job

[Anonymous No.18524308]

>>18523969
Fuck everybody else, aardvark is just fine

[Anonymous No.18524360]

>>18524236
If you don't like "gigantic" because the two "g"s are pronounced differently, then you ought to apply the same standard to the "i"s. So it should be JYGANTIK!

[Anonymous No.18524363]

>>18523988

[Anonymous No.18524374]

>>18523998
those are blatantly based words that perfectly encapsulate their meaning

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18524413]

>>18524360
Looks nice.
I also like accents. Ž and Z should stay

[Anonymous No.18524422]

>>18524360
>>18524413
I wrote an essay on this a while ago. Here are my proposals.

[Anonymous No.18524449]

>>18524413
>>18524422
Yeah, you really can't have one character -> one sound because there are just too many sounds. Russians tried that with the cyrillic alphabet and it drove them to drink. But accents are a reasonable compromise.

Ideally of course the whole alphabet would have a proper overhaul. I mean it's absurd to have a zero look the same as the letter O, or to have "b" and "6" so similar, or to have "M" like an upside-down "W", etc. You should use all the simplest shapes which are completely distinct and unambiguous in any orientation.

IIRC, George Bernard Shaw left some money in his will for a complete overhaul of English spelling, but obviously they didn't actually do anything useful with it.

[Anonymous No.18524462]

>>18524449
That definitely is a problem but I think there's a happy medium. Even the reformation of Vietnamese improved literacy drastically there, despite it being a fucking trainwreck.
Here's the Lord's Prayer in my system, as an example:
Ā fāţā hū āt in hevn,
halōd bē ţī neym,
Ţī kingdm kum, ţī wil bē dun,
On erţ, az it iz in hevn,
Giv us ţis day, ā daylē bred,
End forgiv us ā trespisez,
Az wē forgiv ţōz hū trespās agenst ās,
End lēd ās not intū temtayşn,
Bāt dilivā ās from ēvl

[Anonymous No.18524468]

>>18523921
aardvarks are adorable, dont insult my boy arthur

[Anonymous No.18524472]

>>18524023
>q
yeah
>x
alright, its a shit letter
>c
fuck right off

[Anonymous No.18524491]

>>18524472
What's the difference, phonetically, between fuck and fuk?

[Anonymous No.18524497]

>>18523921
Can you guys pick something more english?
That's straight on dutch, afrikaans even.

[Anonymous No.18524534]

>>18524462
just looks like Turkish

[Anonymous No.18524552]

>>18523921
Words can be bad for many reasons.

— ILL-BRED WORDS
>Television
is the classic example, yoking together Greek and Latin roots. When it first appeared, purists were appalled, and quite right too. Putting it bluntly, the thing is a mutt. Disgusting.

— TAINTED WORDS
When The Omen came out in 1976, people stopped calling their babies "Damien". Other words can be tainted by unpleasant associations too. For example, it's very hard to use terms like
>Equality
>Diversity
>Inclusion
>Tolerance
these days without making any right-souled, red-blooded man narrow his eyes and release the safety on his Glock. (P.S. The word "gay" also needs to be reclaimed so we can enjoy Wordswoth's poem "Daffodils" as it was meant to be enjoyed.)

— CLUNKY, PRETENTIOUS WORDS
Often there's a simple, straightforward word for something but people use/invent a long latinate alternative to sound impressive. For example,
>incentivize
instead of "encourage".
Sometimes even this isn't enough for them and we get
>disincentivize
instead of "discourage". Or even illogical monstrosities like
>irregardless
instead of just "regardless". As Tolstoy put it, how many negatives does a man need?

— WORDS WHICH ARE HARD TO SPELL
These are bad enough when the thing itself is inoffensive:
>Pharaoh
but when the thing itself is also unpleasant, it's really too much:
>Bureaucracy
>Diarrhea
English likes to trip people up with doubled letters too. You get a second helping of everything in
>accommodate
but you don't double the 'F' in
>aficionado
even though it blatantly needs it. Terrible.

[Anonymous No.18524618]

how brainlet do you need to be to want to be mad at words and letters because they are difficult?

why do you want things to be easy? difficulty is much more fun.

[Anonymous No.18524656]

It's 'to harrumph'

[Anonymous No.18524711]

>>18523921
>why is it "aardvark?"
Because it's dutch

[Anonymous No.18524726]

>>18524552
I agree with you on the first two categories but the second two categories just makes me think you don't actually know what these words mean. Incentivise implies an "incentive", i.e. a thing to work towards. Encourage could be someone shouting "you can do it" or whatever. Irregardless you're correct, it is bad grammar. The spelling things... my man... just learn to spell.

[Anonymous No.18524745]

Dord.
/thread

[Anonymous No.18525624]

>>18524552
>aficionado
but its not pronounced af-ficionado...
>ə-fĭsh″ē-ə-nä′dō

[Anonymous No.18525637]

>>18523921
what a fucking midwit. you didn't even get past the first paragraph in the dictionary. read more.
the worst word is obviously uncouth

[Anonymous No.18525652]

Well the word that I hate more than any other word in existence is the wretched word "Consent".
Not just in english. In any language. In actual fact, I loathe the entire concept and anyone appealing to it. The stench of the idea itself makes me recoil in disgust. It is a foul and revolting invention.

[Anonymous No.18525654]

>>18524552
>man
>Glock
kek'd audibly

[Anonymous No.18525660]

>>18524552
>Pharaoh
>hard to spell
must be hard living life as a retard

[Anonymous No.18525665]

>>18525652
based raper

[Anonymous No.18525692]

>>18525652
You might enjoy Don Juan:

---

And Julia's voice was lost, except in sighs,
Until too late for useful conversation;
The tears were gushing from her gentle eyes,
I wish, indeed, they had not had occasion;
But who, alas! can love, and then be wise?
Not that remorse did not oppose temptation;
A little still she strove, and much repented,
And whispering "I will ne'er consent" — consented.

[Anonymous No.18525700]

>>18523921
Filtered

[Anonymous No.18525711]

>>18525665
the idea of "rape" is merely the inverse of "consent". I reject both terms outright. Neither "consent" nor "rape" exist. I have never "raped" anyone in my life, however no sexual act I have engaged in had the putrid fetters of "consent" attached to it either. The sexual act is divine. It ought not to be weighed down by these destructive inventions. They serve no purpose but to rob it of its exeptional quality and erase the visceral nature of the act.

[Anonymous No.18525712]

>>18525700
Haha, no-one knows whether this post means "you were filtered" or "filtered is the worst word".

(Filtered is of course one of the the most annoying words on /lit/, since it's used almost exclusively by sophomoric no-nothings.)

[Anonymous No.18525722]

>>18525712
>filtered by the word filtered
impressively unimpressive

[Anonymous No.18525723]

>>18525711
sex is for the hylics bro

[Anonymous No.18525725]

>>18525711
"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil".
— Mustache Man

[Anonymous No.18525730]

>>18525712
(Or even know-nothings.)

[Anonymous No.18525732]

>>18525692
what a sublime piece of writing

[Anonymous No.18525740]

>>18525723
do not confuse cooperative masturbation with the sexual act
>>18525725
he understood

[Anonymous No.18525765]

It means earthpig

[Anonymous No.18526347]

>>18524491
[Fakk]
[Fuuk]

[Anonymous No.18526356]

>>18524462
This look incomprehensible.

[Anonymous No.18526505]

>>18526347
based ESL

[Anonymous No.18526555]

>>18525652
>>18525711
basedness abounds

[Anonymous No.18526568]

>>18523921
Pulchritude is worse

[Anonymous No.18526580]

>>18523921
"Dither."

It sounds like playing with balls.

[Anonymous No.18526953]

>>18524360
>So it should be JYGANTIK!

[Anonymous No.18527991]

No the worst word is though as an adverb

[Anonymous No.18528007]

>>18523921
>word in the English
All of your first names.

[Anonymous No.18528018]

>>18523921
>>18524023
>>18524449
>>18524552
>>18524360
I think a point a lot of you are missing is that language can, and does, contain more than just phonetic symbology. It also expresses, to some degree, the origin and nature of a word. like how ch making a k sound, like in "Arch" displays a greek influence, while things such as "handcraft" and "Manufacury" mean literally the same thing, but one is a Germanic expression and the other is more romance.

And how we tend to catagorize and use different terrms, and in effect spellings of terms to communicate other ideas and connotations. It is not a purely phonetic system, but a compositional one that has some phonetic elements as well as historical and referential elements.

[Anonymous No.18528030]

>>18528018
>like how ch making a k sound, like in "Arch" displays a greek influence
meant to say "when" ch makes a k sound.

writien language is not purely a didactic phonetic tool as pronunciation is not the sole information contained within words. Not saying we cant change it or there is a perfection of form of course, just that its not a simple topic.

[Anonymous No.18528141]

I hate the word movie

[Anonymous No.18528217]

>>18524552
>glock
>safety

Noguns detected.

[Anonymous No.18528223]

>>18524422
Kind of a fan of this. Where’s ur essay?

[anonymous No.18528587]

>>18523952
what makes 'so' so worst?

[Anonymous No.18528759]

>>18524023
How do you feel about the letter J, anon?

[Anonymous No.18528772]

>>18523921
abecedarian

[Anonymous No.18528830]

>>18523921
"Judeo-Christian"
I know it's two words, the term itself needs to die in a fire

[Anonymous No.18529350]

literally

[Anonymous No.18529731]

>>18523921
t. has only read the first page

[ESL problems No.18529779]

>>18523921
I have a hate-boner for 'penalty'. The word 'bonus' exists, so 'malus' should be there too, not penalty.

[Anonymous No.18529791]

>though

[Anonymous No.18529816]

>>18523921
what's a dictionary

[Anonymous No.18530044]

>>18525711
t. rapits

[Anonymous No.18530103]

>>18528018
Great post.

[Anonymous No.18530215]

>>18524360
>JYGANTIK!
Delete this

[Anonymous No.18530247]

>>18523958
femoid opinion. Real men apprrciate it

[Anonymous No.18530265]

>>18529791
Tho

[Anonymous No.18530299]

Exacerbate

[Anonymous No.18530334]

>>18528587
completely pointless, any sentence involving it will be improved when it is dropped

[Anonymous No.18530902]

>>18524360
>"Jaigantik"

[Anonymous No.18530926]

>>18524422
>>18524462
>non-rhotic mouthbreather thinks he can even speak English, much less reform its spelling

[Anonymous No.18530946]

>>18523988
Holy Kek my sides

[Anonymous No.18530951]

>>18530926
Australian English is the purest form of the language, cunt

[Anonymous No.18531021]

>>18523921
>and why is it "aardvark?"
Maybe because it's a Dutch loanword?

[Anonymous No.18531393]

>>18530044
No such thing exists. You are a child for thinking otherwise. Enjoy never knowing what sexual ecstasy feels like.

[Anonymous No.18531420]

>>18523969
You’re a faggot but you are right about aardvark
Homonyms are fun though