Oct 10 2009

Cute

Category: Linguistics — The Bum @ 5:49 pm

If there is one word in the entire scope of the English language and off the variants, off-shoots, creoles, slang, and just gibberish that I loath above all else, a single word in the over a billion words in the language, it’s the word cute. No word is as frivolous, and without meaning. I have asked many people, primarily females since they are by far more likely to use it, what their definition of it is. Most say adorable and I must interject that a real definition extends beyond only using a synonym. They look dumbfounded and say it can’t be done. Here in lies my point. I have received definitions for this word as if some schizophrenic decided to play Jeopardy! one day and crossed it with Scrabble and just shot craps loaded on LSD. “Something I want to eat.” “Something that reminds me of a baby.” “Something that…

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