The adjective is "horrible" people! Get a clue!
Anyway, what to do with these irritating and unnecessarily twee people?
2007-07-08 07:19:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
God damn it people, "twee" is a perfectly acceptable word. And I never said "horrid" wasn't in the dictionary, I simply said it's unnecessarily twee!
2007-07-09 01:32:47 · update #1
I think the best punishment would be for them to contemplate the difference between being 'twee' and being 'unnecessarily twee'.
Incidentally, the word 'horrid' is at least Middle English in origin; it is not a neologism. The word 'twee' is chiefly British. I would presume that someone who uses the word 'twee' is British, and would be surprised that they would not be familiar with the word 'horrid'.
2007-07-08 07:37:05 · answer #1 · answered by a 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Horrid is in my dictionary, so it looks like a perfectly good word to me. It basically means the same as horrible, horrific, horrendous, and abhorrent. What's so horrible about having a choice of adjectives? That's the beauty of English. We have more choices of words than any other language.
Twee, on the other hand, is not in the dictionary. Why is it that you think you can make up your own words, and expect people to understand you, but can't stand people who use commonly understood and accepted words?
2007-07-08 09:07:24 · answer #2 · answered by mr.perfesser 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What does twee mean?
Anyway, look, words evolve. Get over it. That's how the English language is. For example, the word "disrespect" was once not a verb, but now it's being used as one. Is there anything wrong with that? No. Words evolve. Languages change. Such a merge of two words is not the end of the world. English is such a complicated hodgepodge of languages that it shouldn't even matter if meanings should change, adapt, and evolve to match their surroundings.
2007-07-08 07:26:29 · answer #3 · answered by frank a 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Send them to England. The term is very common with British English speakers and prolly will be or is already considered proper English.
2007-07-08 07:40:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sit them down in a padded room with 42 inch TV showing every episode of big brother on a constant loop!!
2007-07-08 07:35:02 · answer #5 · answered by one shot 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What would be the best cure for people who deny the existence of perfectly good words?
Definitions of horrid on the Web:
* exceedingly bad
* hideous: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Dreadful or scary.
collections.ic.gc.ca/ghost/glossary.html
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
And when she was good,
She was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
Would you believe there is also a word "horrific"?
2007-07-08 07:26:52 · answer #6 · answered by RE 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Horrid has a feminine connection. "That girl's behaviour was horrid" as opposed to "That boy's attitude was horrible".
End of.
2007-07-08 08:38:52 · answer #7 · answered by Michael B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can't think of anything specific right now, but it should be something HORRID!
2007-07-08 07:27:46 · answer #8 · answered by jonz4 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i would have to offer you as a sacrifice - as you appear to be the most HORRID person on yahoo answers
2007-07-08 07:25:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
no u get a clue it is a separate word try looking it up
2007-07-08 07:29:44 · answer #10 · answered by thefemalealphawolf 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋