What Useless Words Do You Know?

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Bling. That "word" has been dead to me since the first time I heard it. Stupid (#*$ing "artists" - stop making up words and educate yourselves. There are already a plethora of words available to describe that new gold chain, what you drive, and what you're (@*#ing. Ok? Just make an effort to find one instead of "inventing" one.

Prelase is a word that will be useless to 99.999% of you, but of great significance to me, and my former colleagues.

 

[Sesshi]

Off the top of my head:
Mac, Macbook, Pro, Air.

 

[MagicWok]

The most useless word, if it can be called one, as it has -10 value to the English language is "init".

It has the magical ability to make me want to punch anyone who uses it. And they're mostly spotty, 14-year-old chavs.

 

[Abstract]

My students like to tell me how 'green' I am. Apparently, that means useless.

Do you teach students from Dickensian times?

 

[chilipie]

Do you teach students from Dickensian times?

Run along now Pip, and play with Miss Havisham

I've always rather like the word syzygy.

 

[synth3tik]

sassafras

 

[Sayer]

Porntipsguzardo !

SimCity FTW!

 

[Melrose]

Antidisestablishmentarianism …

Edit: This is what it means:
http://www.google.com/search?client...ntidisestablishmentarianism&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Everybody brings that up but it's really just "Establishment" with a bunch of prefixes and suffixes tacked on. Not that hard, imo...

 

[richard.mac]

^ No its really a movement that opposes disestablishment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#Constructions

 

[iBlue]

I don't know any. I think all words are useful in their own right. Even useless is useful.

 

[bigandy]

^-- I thought since you moved over here, words like "sunshine" had become useless to you.

 

[iBlue]

^-- I thought since you moved over here, words like "sunshine" had become useless to you.

Oh no, the word is still plenty useful, even if I never get to see the meaning of it anymore.

 

[Tosser]

Everybody brings that up but it's really just "Establishment" with a bunch of prefixes and suffixes tacked on. Not that hard, imo...

Ha ha, no.

^ No its really a movement that opposes disestablishment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#Constructions

Exactly. And you (Melrose) would have known that had you bothered following either of our links.

 

[gusious]

I'm not so sure about words with no meaning, but I can think of several words that are useless in much of their usage...

"Like, get real."

"Dude!"

etc. And I m guilty of many of these I admit..

Why dude? Oh come on, get real!