Reply #31: American use of the term "fiancee"

[last_texas_dem]

Totally irrational hatred of mine... I'm not anti-French at all. I like the language; took four semesters in college, though still nowhere near fluent. And I don't mind other French expressions used by Americans. But for some reason this term just grates on me. Probably 'cause I hear a lot of pretentious-acting people with tiny vocabularies who toss this fancy-sounding word around so casually. Because of a few annoying people using it, it got to me to where I don't like to hear English-speaking people saying it at all. I also don't like the term "my bad." Just always thought it sounded dumb...