"Overdone, Overused And Tired Words/Pharases:" Topic

Overdone, Overused And Tired Words/Phrases:
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The latest one is:
"Thank you so much."
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Like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like….
One example of like hundreds. I sat in a restaurant listening to a young like 20 something like use this word dozens and dozens of times last year like during lunch. Often more than like once per sentence. Like a million.

She was wonderfully positive, energetic, cheerful, but like her language like was so like challenged. Older adults seem to be infected now too.
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We need a new word for challenge.
Perhaps we can go back in time and reuse tough, hard, difficult, etc.
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Let me address.
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Radio Talk Shows:
"Thank you for taking my call."
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Advertising:
Let me introduce the new 2011 XYZ Rocket 380ZXK.
Introducing the new ________.
There just has to be a substitute for introduce.
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What are yours?
Respectfully,
Bill

Whenever something dreadful's happened which someone should have prevented:

"Lessons will have to be learned …."

And, otherwise,

"I hear what you say …" (unspoken: and I'm going to ignore it …)

"We've taken that on board …"

"Let me tell you …"

… and practically every phrase which falls from a politician's mouth in public – over here, anyway.

Sue K.
Cynical Old Bag in Chief, TMP.

For a single word, poor abused "impact" for affect/effect.

My least-favorite phrase for the last few years has been "think outside of the box", generally used by administrators who freak out if you suggest anything innovative to them.

Add misuse:

"Price point" when "price" is meant.

Allen

It's more the internet memes cum "cute" phrases that are driving me to distraction these days:

"Cool story, bro"
"U mad, bro?"
"U jelly?"

Many internet forums are full of pages of this sort of nonsense. I shouldn't care, but something about those trite responses makes me want to adjust the thinking of the person saying them…with a brick…

And since I know the next commenter is going to say "U mad, bro?", be advised that I just happen to have a brick handy…

"Really!"

"ya know"… Interjected into the midpoint of over sentence.

'Arguably', for God's sake, state an opinion like you mean it!

'Let's be clear here…' as they crank up the smoke generators and set the mirrors spinning.

Empower.

"The truth of the matter is…" to preface the next outrageous political lie.

Allen

The worst one lately is "I know. Right?" God, but I hate that.

"Mistakes were made…" which of course implies that the speaker was not personally responsible for the mistakes and should not be held accountable, and for that matter neither should his/her underlings who may indeed have been responsible, because, after all, they were just "mistakes" and not full-blown near-disastrous screw-ups made by a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.

"Now that is what I am talking about"

I did not hear you say anything.

Paradigm shift or shift the paradigm.
Thinking out side the box.
Anything with synergy.
Like, ya know.
I agree with Sue K., anything a politician says.

"What happened?" as a substitute for "I'm sorry I didn't hear what you said?"

I see a new batch of "Buzzword Bingo" cards in the making.

Ooops, my bad.
I'm not going to tell you how to suck the egg.
Transparency, value added.
Lean, Six Sigma, green belt, black belt.
iFollowedbywhatever. eFollowedbywhatever.
Best of Breed, Center of Excellence, Best Practices.
Peel back the onion.
Leaning forward in the foxhole (saddle).
Multitasking. Results oriented.
Challenged. Sensitivities. Gifted. Special. Differently enabled.
Hater.

Just saying…….

"Having said all that . . ."
or
"That having been said . . ."

I forgot this overused one.
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Perfect.
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Especially in television advertising for women.
Your ____ will be perfect.
Your ____ is perfect.
The perfect_____
That's perfect.
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Respectfully,
Bill

Partner or Partnering

What they really mean is I am going to screw you but don't you dare screw me.

Like, ya know, this brings CLOSURE!

"Thank you so much."

I've seen very little evidence that either "thank you" or "you're welcome" are at all overused in day-to-day speech.

"could you be anymore….?"

The "like" thing drives me crazy.

I've found a new one:

Meme.

So far it seems to be used as a fancy way of saying "fad."

But even the origin of it is suspect, as it's supposed to be some sort of overwhelming concept in the brain dictated by the interaction of evolutionary forces that define the way we think. Or something like that. (With, of course, the implication that whatever the speaker labels as a "meme" is somehow therefore logically invalid. Of course, as by definition any thought process could be labeled a "meme," including the very concept of memes, then all thought processes are logically invalid, including the concept of memes!)

In the end, it's a fancy word that serves no real purpose, except to make the speaker sound "intellectual."

Robust!

As in…"we need robust procedures" "our response has been robust"….etc.

Seems that every idiot who turns up on telly thinks that no-one will take them seriously unless they use the word at least three times per sentence!

The sinlge most over-used word in the English language is "Celebrity". Used to describe dribbling non-entities with all the value and content of an empty bin. How in Gods name is there such a thing as a celebrity hairdresser ?

This rant ends. Now.

Transparency, value added.
Lean, Six Sigma, green belt, black belt.
iFollowedbywhatever. eFollowedbywhatever.
Best of Breed, Center of Excellence, Best Practices.
Peel back the onion.
Leaning forward in the foxhole (saddle).
Multitasking. Results oriented.

You work at my company?

Any word that really means something, when used by sports announcers, like "Courage"

"Take it to the next level"

Total nonsense, unless playing an old-style platform game.

How about "epic fail"? That sort of computer-ese BS is annoying as hell.

I can't stand the way the word like is now used as you have mentioned, it's now crept into the UK vernacular from all the crappy kids shows we get from the US – I say kids, but everyone is teens at some amazing school where they never need take any lessons etc

The usage of filler words like … er … "like" isn't confined to English young people. The equivalent for French teenagers is the word "genre", which is sprinkled liberally through their rapid speech just like the word "like" for English-speakers.

Our French exchange student didn't take long to start adding "like" into her English, and now sounds like a typical Kiwi teenager.

Meme, like paradigm, has been a victim of its own success into popular culture. Eventually it will return to being a useful term.

My eldest actually says 'lol' and 'poned' (=typed "pwned"

Of course I literally died when I saw this cartoon

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