Quote Originally Posted by alexB
знаковый as in знаковое явление в нашей жизни.
The word I hate!
Maybe someone knows better and will clear things up a bit so that I could stop despising the word so much.
A possible way to stop hating that word is to start hating another. I suggest "передёргивать". That's the last word in my vocabulary and меня передёргивает every time anyone's telling that I'm передёргиваю something. Of course, you have other candidates such as "беспонтовые понты", but that's a whole other story.