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Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:03 pm
by JoeFalcon
Literally.
The overusage of this word literally must stop immediately to save humankind.
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:15 am
by TG1996
I've noticed more and more people saying and writing "Meantime" at the start of sentences.
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:56 am
by Tech83
Copacetic, as in "Is this work copacetic?".
Typically used by contractors trying to show they know words other than the seven words George Carlin discussed during his career.
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:09 am
by rood
TG1996 wrote:I've noticed more and more people saying and writing "Meantime" at the start of sentences.
How the heck do you START a sentence with "meantime?" Do they mean "meanwhile?"
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:30 am
by hammb
JoeFalcon wrote:Literally.
The overusage of this word literally must stop immediately to save humankind.
I love that I literally NEVER hear the word used properly!
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:05 am
by Redwingtom
Hope I am not too far off topic, but the phrase "Cool Beans" makes me want to bang my head against a wall!
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:55 am
by h2oville rocket
"haters", "it is what it is" and my current worst "baby daddy/mommy" whcih apparantly means daddy or mommy but there wren't enough letters there to please some people so they added the "baby" part.
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:56 am
by Flipper
The term "restraining order", as in "stay away from our windows or we'll get a restraining order" is waaay overused.
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:25 am
by TG1996
rood wrote:TG1996 wrote:I've noticed more and more people saying and writing "Meantime" at the start of sentences.
How the heck do you START a sentence with "meantime?" Do they mean "meanwhile?"
Actually, I think they really mean "Meantime", even though it should obviously be "meanwhile". I could go along with "In the meantime", which is correct, but it's always just "meantime" with some of these folks, written and spoken.
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:39 pm
by CapitalFalcon
How the hell has "like" like not made the list?
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:45 pm
by CapitalFalcon
Being in consulting, I have a lot of them:
Passionate "What are you passionate about"
Piggyback
Vis-a-vis
Radar Screen "Just wanted to make sure XYZ project was on your radar screen to get done"
Synergy
Good-to-know
Nice-to-have
Development opportunity
Elephant in the room
800 lbs gorrilla
30,000 feet
High-level
Bandwidth
Low-hanging fruit
Value add
Wordsmith
Believe me...I could go on...
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:20 pm
by h2oville rocket
And for the attorneys out there, I'm tired of hearing "appalled" and "Nazi thug". Next one to call me or one of my staff that might get a re-enactment of what Nazi thugs REALLY did.
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:40 pm
by Falcon Fanatic
"High Def" ...getting sick of seeing everything advertised as High Def!
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:01 pm
by hammb
Falcon Fanatic wrote:"High Def" ...getting sick of seeing everything advertised as High Def!
Spoken like somebody that doesn't have an HD tv.
*droooooool*
Re: Annoyingly Overused Words in Everyday Conversation
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:45 am
by Rightupinthere
CapitalFalcon wrote:How the hell has "like" like not made the list?
Seriously!*
* On the list.