Timeline for A single word for someone who is quick to hate others
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| Apr 6, 2016 at 16:16 | comment | added | candied_orange | Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. Skiers gotta ski. Informal language users gotta informally use language. | |
| Mar 15, 2014 at 18:23 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 20, 2012 at 8:37 | comment | added | Ben Lee | So many "hater" haters in these comments. | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 13:55 | comment | added | Stop Slandering Monica Cellio | I upvoted this because I think it's a useful, increasingly mainstream term, and because I love the bemonocled tone of your paraphrasing of the statement "hater's gon' hate." Good show! :) Hater's gon' hate | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 9:02 | comment | added | Marcin | My judgment is that 'haters' has entered the casual mainstream - you can use it in the office, but not in your academic publication. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 20:41 | comment | added | Engineer | The problem with the term "hater" is that it specifies no object of hatred, and thus does not agree in a grammatical sense with the root verb "to hate", which takes an object (mandatorily). As a result, I agree that many see it as a particularly uneducated figure of speech, and certainly not something belonging in a dictionary as it flies in the face of basic English grammatical convention. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 18:20 | comment | added | Chad | That is really nothing more than an Ad-Hominim attack while they are popular they are still fallacies. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 16:23 | comment | added | Ernest Friedman-Hill | Hmmm. It might be used ironically among some educated people, but I would say that any unironic use still marks the speaker as unsophisticated. Opinions on these things might vary, but I'm really not ready to see that threshold crossed. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 16:01 | comment | added | sventechie | Actually, that word sense is consistent with current usage in the American dialect. It is used quite frequently among educated people and will likely be included in a regular dictionary very shortly. However I agree it would not yet be appropriate if one wanted to set an academic tone. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 15:25 | comment | added | Jon Purdy | @ErnestFriedman-Hill: I don’t think it’s fair to call “hater” an example of trashy slang. It’s hardly even slang: -er is one of the most productive suffixes in English, and “hater” is quite literally “one who hates”. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 15:22 | comment | added | Ernest Friedman-Hill | I think it's generally safe to assume that if someone's asking for a word here, they want standard English, not trashy slang. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 14:28 | comment | added | orokusaki | I don't think that the phrase intends to imply that they're predisposed to hating, rather that they always will hate. | |
| Oct 14, 2011 at 11:41 | history | answered | Ed Guiness | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
