Words that make you cringe

Richardm · March 10, 2006, 3:02am

Cringe or the bunny dies.

ratlung · March 10, 2006, 4:50am

SCAN - when talking about medical image acquisitions.

The only modality where you would be able to talk about a scan is x-ray imaging or computed tomorgraphy (maybe MRI, but that would be debateable)

Scanning implies that some form of external beam is emitted that is modified by an object, which then gives you the signal you want to measure. Now in nuclear medicine the rays are emitted from the inside, and you just want to know the radiotracer distribution. So any modification of these rays is unwanted and considered as noise or artifacts. So you cannot talk of scanning when you are talking about PET or SPECT image acquisition.

My guess is that MD’s have introduced this term in Nuclear Medicine. MD’s are typically not very technically oriented, and probably have no idea how cringy this sounds to an engineer.

QAM · April 20, 2006, 2:08am

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Quarters · April 20, 2006, 2:12am

Seattle TECO :fume: :fume: :fume: :fume: :fume: :fume: :fume:

Taffy · April 20, 2006, 2:13am

Remove the ‘Seattle’ and I’ll agree with you.

Ironman · April 20, 2006, 2:18am

Melbourne is great. I must have got lucky.

Loretta · April 20, 2006, 2:33am

Remove the ‘Seattle’ and I’ll agree with you.[/quote]

Maybe we should just remove Seattle? Has anything good ever come from there?

Boeing, Microsoft. Yuk.

Jimi Hendrix. OK, all is forgiven.

According to Douglas Adams, Seattle is a verb which means ‘to make a noise like a train going along’.

navillus · April 20, 2006, 4:04am

Missed this thread the first time round and just wasted the better part of my morning reading the whole thing. (note: My morning starts at 10 am.)

“Banal” or anything using banal as a root makes me cringe.

“an history” It may be correct grammar but I hate hearing it.

Anyone_for_Tiffin · April 20, 2006, 5:46am

Tony Blair :wanker: Now those two words together really do make me ill!!

shiadoa · March 22, 2019, 5:55pm

Never heard of the word “Dench” but aware of all the rest . Useful translation tool if you meet an English person. Well , not all. I wonder how many of these expressions Forumosans have heard?

Gain · March 22, 2019, 6:20pm

Off the top of my head:

Journey
Dream (unless in the context of “I had a dream last night”)
Adventure
Lad
Dude
Bloke
Bro
Chap
Goddamn

shiadoa · March 22, 2019, 6:29pm

How are you getting on with the London slang?

Danielw · March 23, 2019, 4:55am

Yolo, swag, finna, pretty much anything that teenagers say these days.

A friend of mine hates “moist”, so I used it as much as possible to piss her off muahaha

SuiGeneris · March 23, 2019, 9:38am

The use of “cause” in place of because.

“Yap” instead of yup or yep

“A.P.P.” instead of App.

Hanna · March 23, 2019, 10:09am

You guys are too uptight! About the only words that make me cringe are slurs.

Ok, here’s one I hate: people saying “addicting” when it should be “addictive.”

Dr_Milker · March 23, 2019, 10:39am

Kismet, uni and kudos (although I enjoy using kudos to annoy people).

Hamletintaiwan · March 23, 2019, 10:45am

The word happy when it’s used like a noun or verb.
I can give you happy.
Do you want happy.

Chris · March 23, 2019, 11:06am

conversate
step foot
gift (as a verb)
drop (meaning “to be released”)

uni, when used by an American (unless talking about sea urchin roe).

BiggusDickus · March 23, 2019, 11:55am

Cripes there used to be some grumpy old buggers on here 13 years ago.

BiggusDickus · March 23, 2019, 11:58am

And of course it’s fantastic that several of them are still posting.