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Words that you never want to see again

#41 User is offline   tiam 

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Posted 04 November 2011 - 03:27 PM

Just read TTH again

Kallors early POV are literally just 'Empire Banal Humanity Banal life Banal. Im never going to change because im Banal'
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Posted 04 November 2011 - 05:22 PM

In "A dance with dragons"- mummery, mummer's farce, mummer's face or anything like that. Made me puke after a few chapters
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Posted 04 November 2011 - 09:57 PM

I can picture that, puking like a mummer all over the place.
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Posted 04 June 2012 - 08:02 PM

I'm so tired of everyone "growling." Surely there are other synonyms! And they "sigh" a lot too. Ugh!
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 07:32 PM

Hands down Banal. he really needed to find a new word. Fuckin Banal this and Banal that
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 07:37 PM

View Postfooty_, on 04 November 2011 - 05:22 PM, said:

In "A dance with dragons"- mummery, mummer's farce, mummer's face or anything like that. Made me puke after a few chapters


footy when it comes to a dance with dragons i could have done without every zo arikc mo zarick blah blah blah. i hated just about half the names of every one in meeren
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Posted 01 December 2012 - 04:53 AM

Cyclopean.
"Ah, she has roe. Delicious."
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Posted 01 December 2012 - 06:45 AM

anyone who's finished Blood and Bone will sympathize:

"Very good"

GODDAMMIT NOTHING THAT IS HAPPENING IS VERY GOOD!
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Posted 01 December 2012 - 07:31 PM

Except for First Scribe Thorn's comments to Golan ;)
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Posted 08 January 2013 - 11:13 PM

I'm only to Memories of Ice, but so far there's been ALOT of 'hissing through (one's) teeth'. I mean, these people are serious. habitual hissers--- the more hardened, the more they hiss. Like snakes? Like cats? It's a strange thing.
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Posted 09 January 2013 - 03:14 PM

Freaking.

If you're reading Cold Days, you'll know what I mean.

It's not bad on its own, but several times on a page is a bit freaking much.
So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.
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Posted 05 April 2013 - 09:15 AM

Grizzled. Too many damned grizzled veterans in this series.
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Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
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Posted 17 April 2013 - 12:21 PM

"The huge man"

huge-ness in general
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Posted 17 April 2013 - 12:51 PM

I swear, if one more person had 'resisted the urge to salute' at the beginning of blood and bone...

There was something that took over from that but I forget what. Skinner's mail coat got pretty annoying in that too.
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Posted 03 October 2016 - 07:59 PM

actinic - Seen SE use it a time or 3 but ICE is constantly dropping this stupid word.

roynish - Okay, I never saw this word used in any MBotF, but Donaldson used it ad nauseam in the Thomas Covenant books (usually in referring to Ur Viles) and I never found out what it actually means. Perhaps someone here could enlighten me about the meaning of the word 'roynish'.
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Posted 20 October 2016 - 10:47 PM

"Civilisation".
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Posted 31 July 2017 - 02:28 AM

I definitely grew tired of the constant use of "must needs..." But otherwise I enjoyed his incredible depth of vocabulary.
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Posted 26 February 2018 - 08:12 PM

orientated
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Posted 22 April 2018 - 06:24 PM

All of George Martin's writing hurts my eyes.

The 'Whole Magic Rap battle'-that oh so annoying effing Snake deal taking up way too many pages in the MBoF. Kill me now pls.

Also, in general-the verbose nature of the Tiste Trilogy is a bit much, even for me-you talk too much!!!
As Kruppe from Darujistan says, it has a ROynish quality to it-the Tiste Trilogy. Lmao
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