Um two different meanings. "I have been ill" indicates very recent in the past whereas "I had been ill" indicates further in the past than have been Not strictly. Have been describes something before the present, had been describes something before a certain point in the past. I have been ill alot over the last few years I had been ill for years before I was given this treatment.
I do not "hate" any word. They all have their place in writing and literature. Yes, even words with vile meanings are important to language in my opinion.
There really aren't any words I can't stand, but I don't use words deemed as curse words, and I avoid slang.
And words with vile meanings today have not always been so horrid. Such as 'Bast*rd' meaning illigitamite; and a 'F*ggit' is a type of food.
actually, faggots used to be bundles of 'kindling'... small sticks that one would need to start a fire... and faggoting is a sort of embroidery ornamentation on fabric... how it got to be used as a 'bad' word for a homosexual male, i've no clue, but starting around 1590 or so, it was being used as a contemptuous term for a woman ... why should they be 'hated'?... it's those who use them in denigrating ways who should be shunned, not the words themselves, each of which has integrity as a word, in and of itself... be mad at those who use them to hurt others, not at the words... and hating anything but hate itself is a totally un-useful and destructive emotion we should all eschew, imo...
Words are tools, like someone already stated here. I don't really hate any word. I mean like hate, burning loathing, with a strong inclination to erradicate, hate. I'll use whatever words I think will bring my meaning across. I would paint if I had any idea how to be good at it. So instead I strive to paint with words. It would be weird, I think, to suddenly hate the color blue.
A teacher I had in high school once said there is not such thing as a bad word. Only a bad time to use it.
... and you can buy Turkey Faggits in British shops, and it is a type of drum stick. Nevertheless, my point still stands, words are only offensive because people use them in such a way.
Didn't fags mean something altogether different in the UK? I fondly remember reading this word in a Roald Dahl story.
"Whilst." So many people try to use it to sound smart, when "while" or even "when" would work just as well or even better. And I just think it sounds ridiculously stupid.
Reminds me of a funny story about the meaning of that word actually. I play World of Warcraft, and we use ventrilo, voice communication you know. So I was in a guild there with a guy a few months back. He's english, but plays on US servers. So he needs a break and announces over vent hes 'off to smoke a fag.' Our guild leader freaks out about it and rants until the guy comes back, at which point the smoking dude is totally confused. Someone else chimed in that if he lived in the US, 'smoking a fag' would get him 25 to life... I don't know, it seemed funny at the time, we had a good laugh about it afterwards.
I don't hate any word, but after reading Twilight I didn't like the word grimace. I think I'm over that now. I don't like the old words, whilst, leaveth . . .
Come to think of it, I haven't played in about a month, my sub is totally being wasted. I started to write, and just never stopped. I might be ocd...
Alright if anyone dares to cut down their writing in order to play WoW I'm tracking down their houses and - after carefully retrieving any paper or backup media - setting fire to them. Let's get our priorities straight, people!
Anytime you feel lucky, you can come over and I might just let you play with matches. At your own risk of course.
There aren't any particular words that I don't like. However various Americanisations of English words get on my nerves, especially the previously mentioned 'gotten'. Also words because loathsome when someone uses them incorrectly. The worst offender in my opinion is see/saw. 'I went to the shops the other day and I seen my mother.' No, you didn't. You saw her. Using the word as badly as that makes the entire sentence sound childish and irriating
I'm the weird one on WoW because I always spell out everything and try to sound as grammatically correct as possible. But that's just me. Personally, I dislike words that are spelled the same, but pronounced differently gives them completely different meanings. Like present. One could be a gift, another could be you doing something [i.e. I will present the project today.]
Some of you never heard of 'gotten'? Go back to England. All of you! The only word that I can think of that I hate is juxtaposition. It sounds completely stupid when someone says it out loud. "Umm, let me see, if I juxtapose this word next to the other one then I'll achieve this effect." *Pulls hair out*
I love the word 'juxtapose.' Really descriptive with only a single word. I hate this word: Antidisestablishmentarianism. It's big and has a simple meaning. Agh. The most obnoxious word ever, right next to 'pretentious'.
