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Originally Posted by LJSDesigns
I love words. I think there is so much power in the written and spoken word and when they are put together well, it is a beautiful thing. Having said that, there is one word that I just don't like. It's not a bad word in any way, but it just peeves me off and that word is deserve.
I guess I just don't agree with the concept that people deserve or don't deserve things. I think people work for things and they earn them and I think bad things happen to everyone at different times and have nothing to do with anything we did or didn't do. I know it is just semantics, but there is a sense of entitlement to the word deserve that just grates on my nerves.
Do you have a regular word that just gets to you for some reason? If so, I would love to hear about it. Honestly, I want to believe that I am not the only person out there who has a strong dislike for what is a commonly used, and relatively harmless, word.
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It's funny because I was just griping about this the other day. There was one of those ads that was like "go ahead, you deserve it" or something along those lines. I hate the modern use of deserve to mean that everyone "deserves" everything that they want.
The use of the work deserve in the context of earning something you've worked for doesn't bug me though. I kind of feel like that's how it should be used -- assuming it's true.