Words you hate because of their sounds

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I hate... well, hate isn't the word. I don't like anything with [x].

[ˈχʊχːiˌχæʃtli]

[Jetboy]

I'm going to chime in on the rural hate, assuming it isn't pronounced with /u/, which is usually accompanied by a higher pitch on the first syllable, or at least that's my impression. The terser, comprised-entirely-of-syllabic-consonants /rr̩l̩/, however, is somewhat unpleasant, since it basically consists of growling and then making a sound somewhat reminiscent of a damp pile, or perhaps puddle, of mud, the so called dark /l/.

[Ulan]

I don't hate the word schlong [SlAN], but it’s an awfully ridiculous-sounding word.

I like saying schlong, and dong [ON] is p cool to me


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[Gulliver]

"Oesophageal" because it sounds like "ass o vaj-eal".

"Lilacs" when the second syllable rhymes with "wax" just feels unbalanced.

[Ulan]

"Oesophageal" because it sounds like "ass o vaj eal".

only question I ever asked to my last fish

[Qwynegold]

Gnadenlos is both hässlich and wunderbar.
English lacks a word as awesome as "gnadenlos" or any gnV- initial for that matter

Gnarly. But that's another ugly word.

[Jipí]

GschCrV ? Where did you see that? Possibly you heard ɡəʃCr

Not in Standard German, no, but in fast speech, I know people - including me - who have [ˈgʃpʁɔχɴ̩] for /geˈʃprɔχən/, for example.

There's also the lovely Angstschweiß /ˈaŋst.ʃvaɪs/ [ˈaŋkʃːv̥aes]

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What I transcribed as [v̥] sometimes verges on a labiodental stop I think.

[HandsomeRob]

"succumb"

[brandrinn]

"succumb"

Even worse: "succumbed." WHY ISN'T IT SUCCAME???

[brandrinn]

I'm going to chime in on the rural hate, assuming it isn't pronounced with /u/, which is usually accompanied by a higher pitch on the first syllable, or at least that's my impression. The terser, comprised-entirely-of-syllabic-consonants /rr̩l̩/, however, is somewhat unpleasant, since it basically consists of growling and then making a sound somewhat reminiscent of a damp pile, or perhaps puddle, of mud, the so called dark /l/.

Dark L in "rural?" Maybe in lower Alabama they treat the English language with such disdain, but surely in no civilized part of the the country/world.

But dark L is a good thing to mention if it hasn't been already. Needs to die in a fire.

[Viktor77]

"succumb"

Even worse: "succumbed." WHY ISN'T IT SUCCAME???

OMG I just succame all over your chest you bad boy you!

[brandrinn]

"succumb"

Even worse: "succumbed." WHY ISN'T IT SUCCAME???

OMG I just succame all over your chest you bad boy you!

You... have no idea what succumb means, do you?

[Herr Dunkel]

GschCrV ? Where did you see that? Possibly you heard ɡəʃCr

Not in Standard German, no, but in fast speech, I know people - including me - who have [ˈgʃpʁɔχɴ̩] for /geˈʃprɔχən/, for example.

There's also the lovely Angstschweiß /ˈaŋst.ʃvaɪs/ [ˈaŋkʃːv̥aes]

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What I transcribed as [v̥] sometimes verges on a labiodental stop I think.

I do most of my <w>s as [b̪] anyway
And Angstschweiß as [ˈaŋsts͡ʃb̪ajs] - a quick shift from [s] to [ʃ]

[Viktor77]

"succumb"

Even worse: "succumbed." WHY ISN'T IT SUCCAME???

OMG I just succame all over your chest you bad boy you!

You... have no idea what succumb means, do you?

Of course I do! I was mocking the fact that succame sounds like a sexual euphemism.

[Jipí]

I do most of my <w>s as [b̪] anyway

Aha, so my hunch wasn't without a reason

[Herr Dunkel]

I do most of my <w>s as [b̪] anyway

Aha, so my hunch wasn't without a reason

Well it's wierd, I know. Nobody from up north made such a sound. Where you from?

[Jipí]

Well it's wierd, I know. Nobody from up north made such a sound. Where you from?

I grew up in Northern Hesse. Mum's grown up at the Swiss border (but her family's from the Ruhr Area), dad grew up where I did. Might be an independent innovation, though, since I find [b̪] much easier to say than proper [v].

[MisterBernie]

...dammit, now I'm preoccupied with my /v/ to the point where I have no idea what I'm doing naturally.

I do have a tiny intrusive [s] before the [ʃ], too, though.

[Acid Badger]

GschCrV ? Where did you see that? Possibly you heard ɡəʃCr

Not in Standard German, no, but in fast speech, I know people - including me - who have [ˈgʃpʁɔχɴ̩] for /geˈʃprɔχən/, for example.

There's also the lovely Angstschweiß /ˈaŋst.ʃvaɪs/ [ˈaŋkʃːv̥aes]

--
What I transcribed as [v̥] sometimes verges on a labiodental stop I think.

I do most of my <w>s as [b̪] anyway
And Angstschweiß as [ˈaŋsts͡ʃb̪ajs] - a quick shift from [s] to [ʃ]

For me it's something like [ˈaŋsʃʷvaɪ̯s], with a heavily roundes sch or so. Weird word.

[Herr Dunkel]

...dammit, now I'm preoccupied with my /v/ to the point where I have no idea what I'm doing naturally.

I do have a tiny intrusive [s] before the [ʃ], too, though.

Intrusive [s] is quite... hmm...
Are you me ?

GschCrV ? Where did you see that? Possibly you heard ɡəʃCr

Not in Standard German, no, but in fast speech, I know people - including me - who have [ˈgʃpʁɔχɴ̩] for /geˈʃprɔχən/, for example.

There's also the lovely Angstschweiß /ˈaŋst.ʃvaɪs/ [ˈaŋkʃːv̥aes]

--
What I transcribed as [v̥] sometimes verges on a labiodental stop I think.

I do most of my <w>s as [b̪] anyway
And Angstschweiß as [ˈaŋsts͡ʃb̪ajs] - a quick shift from [s] to [ʃ]

For me it's something like [ˈaŋsʃʷvaɪ̯s], with a heavily roundes sch or so. Weird word.

Angsschweiß
Where are YOU from then? Hmm I have an idea about them dialects

[MisterBernie]

Intrusive [s] is quite... hmm...
Are you me ?

Considering I've spent the last 18 years in Munich (after 5 in Austria), I wouldn't be too surprised if our accents were similar

[Herr Dunkel]

Intrusive [s] is quite... hmm...
Are you me ?

Considering I've spent the last 18 years in Munich (after 5 in Austria), I wouldn't be too surprised if our accents were similar

Welcome aboard! You've spent more years in Munich than my entire life there (16 years there, recently moved to more linguistically exotic areas )

[MisterBernie]

Welcome aboard! You've spent more years in Munich than my entire life there (16 years there, recently moved to more linguistically exotic areas )

...now I feel old
Linguistically exotic? Whereto?

[Herr Dunkel]

Welcome aboard! You've spent more years in Munich than my entire life there (16 years there, recently moved to more linguistically exotic areas )

...now I feel old
Linguistically exotic? Whereto?

Don't feel old, I'm just too young I'm 17 and looking at here, I feel like a toddler in a gentleman's club.

Linguistically exotic as in Serbia, the land of 7 cases, preverbs, extreme pro-drop, clitic verbs, agreement in every single word unless random rules go against it ("The hell do you mean I have to agree this entire phrase with the nominalised number but leave an even more vital phrase in the instrumental case!?"), obscure untranslatable words (дочек рашчерупаног неодевеног обувеног обућара људи испуњених инатом - Nom. Gen. Gen. Gen. Gen. Gen. Gen. Inst., almost every word lacks an English equivalent), even more obscure ablauts and alternations that died out 800+ years ago in other Slavic languages; but no, Serbian just has to have them!

Eh... it's frustrating...

[Skomakar'n]

/hajuS/ and /bajuS/ in Hebrew, as dumb-teenage-girl equivalents of 'hi' and 'bye'. Yuck.

/ˈbɒjus/ is 'moustache' in Hungarian and /bajs/ is 'poop' in Swedish.