Portmandon'ts

[sciencejerk]

Here are some words you should never say around me:

"Bromance". I get it. A man has a guy friend that he's close to in a completely platonic/heterosexual way. There is already a word for this--"friendship." This word has about another ten seconds before it becomes completely annoying.

"Ginormous". Ok, it's big. It's really big. Why aren't

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[farrow]

Part of me has definitely forgotten that "ginormous" isn't an actual word. It's been that long.

My money's on "bromance" being the only identified typo.

[flamingophoenix]

Mine too (bromance). It's kinda dumb. It's all right as a movie genre though.

We actually had a conversation at work today about new words being added to English all the damn time. (It's just how we roll, as a language.)

[reversedracula]

this was a brash entry

[kades905]

i'm guessing bromance and ginormous weren't counted as misspelled.

although guesstimate checks out when I type it into chrome...

[hulkingmanchild]

If I were to make a ginormous guesstimate, it wouldn't affect our bromance, would it?

[toastedcheese]

Bromance is funny because it describes a male friendship in which the guys are totally into each other, in a buddy movie way. Not an unannoying word, I agree (because I would never call anyone "bro"), but I think it has a distinct lexical meaning that makes it useful.

I also use ginormous all the time, but I should probably feel ashamed.