OK, so I run across this list of banished words for 2006 (well, words and phrases really). Several of the choices I can applaud. Let’s banish the term “person of interest“: Either call him a suspect or find another term that doesn’t make everyone think that he is a suspect. Likewise, “first time caller.” I agree, who gives a rip that this is the first time that someone has called a talk show.
But I’d like for you to tell me what words, phrases, or expressions you would like to see banished, and, if it is not inherently obvious, why.
I’ll get the ball rolling by saying that I would like to banish the word “tons” for anything other than defining how much something weighs. You do not have tons of software residing on your hard drive, please.
Oh.. and Happy New Year.. from me. :-)
Oh…..I dunno……
“I get no spam” comes to mind
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Happy New Year guys
How about the people who call to tell you your water is contaminated by some pollutant or another and you have to boil everything before consumption. Then they tell you to “have a nice day.” You’ve been drinking turd-water for a week, and we won’t fix it any time soon, but……..have a nice day!!!!!!
When life gives you lemons……..
choke on lemons and die, stupid lemon eaters.
sorry, I’ve been having a bad week.
Happy new year guys.
“Due to” has been pissing me off for about 60 years. It’s been common parlance in the US so long that it’s now become accepted pretty much around the world. But, “due” is supposed to have a temporal function.
“Owing to” or “because of” is correct. “Due” is for returning library books or telling someone when you’ll arrive.
And a Happy Hogmany!
Sith gun robh so!
blog and any derivitive word. Never liked the term and never will.
While it’s impossible I REALLY wish we could ditch using the terms liberal and conservative in place of political party names. Hell, I’d be at least somewhat happy if people simply started using them correctly. Bush has been the most liberal spending president ever, not to mention his foreign policy doesn’t exactly reek of conservativism either. For those and many other reasons, he’s about as liberal as they come. But instead, “liberal” has become an insult and “conservative” is a term of endearment, having nothing to do with what the terms are supposed to mean.
Banish “411” for anything other than telephone information.
“Oh my God!”
“Know what I’m sayin’?”
“It’s like soooo….(rad, cool, hot)”
“Wassup?”
“At that time…”
“Not at that time”
“Closure”
“Absolutly!”
“Don’t go there!”
But most of all: “OhhhhMyyyyyyGoooood!”
“As big as a football field comes to mind. ” When did a football field become a uint of measurement anyway? My favorite was “thats as big as 800 football fields” as if a person that needed this reference was capable of imagining 800 football fields
I vote for disenfranchised. A buzz word for the imaginary notion that minorities rights were not being catered to, especialy in elections when the desired out come was not realized.
“High rate of speed” when used by tv reporters to describe a fast moving car. Rate of speed means acceleration, not velocity.
get rid of “Git R Done”
Web 2.0
“… and much more” when extolling the virtues of some product.
“Your call is very important to us ….”
“For xxx, press 2140837”
“Your call may be monitored or recorded…” for some lame excuse
“ongoing investigation” – whenever an official doesn’t want to talk to the press they cite an “ongoing investigation” as the reason for being tight lipped.
“my bad” – meaning my mistake. Whenever I hear some one say “my bad” I immediatlely think ” my bad grammer.”
blogosphere
Tom “The Hammer” DeLay
“Scooter” Libbey
Any Bush/Cheney outrage about a security “leak” – which the NY Times informed them of a year ago – but regarding which they apparently did nothing. Those guys had an entire year to identify the source – in secret – and now the “Justice” Dept is “independently” starting an investigation? A year after the fact? Shut the fuck up!!
I nominate: “Intelligent Design”.
“utilize” what’s wrong with use?
“line, item” which is it? line or item?
Heart of America
Metrosexual
LoL
your killing me larry!
The Whole Fox News Channel
War on christmas
“Can you give us a ‘sense’ of what’s going on?”
Drives me OVER the wall!!!
Declaring War is getting old. By declaring war on everything, it makes us sound like war mongers.
I’m glad the word ‘downsize’ is fairly cliche’d out by now.
Except I will confess that there have been a few times lately when I’ve driven up to the fast-food joint window and said, “Downsize me!”.
(blank stare…)
I hope I never hear the words “hurricane katrina” again in my life!
Celebreality-those people are not celebrities. If they were, they wouldn’t be doing a reality show…they’d be W-O-R-K-I-N-G.
Reality Show-maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m the freak, but my MY reality is nothing like their reality.
Ok, I vote for âIntelligent Design.
And honorable mentions for:
âFair and Balancedâ. ’nuff said on that one.
âduh !â show some intelligence instead of sarcasm.
âSporty Carâ adding some sparkley wheels and a logo will not make (your sedan) a sports car. Very few cars have earned the GT stature, and a Pontiac GT is not one of them.
Any oxymoron like âFree Giftâ. ’nuff said.
âmetricsâ How about performance or standards.
Evildoer – since it is so relative and subjective that even ‘evildoer’s’ use the term.
Miracle and Hero – two of the most overused words of 2005 that have come to the point of meaning odd and ordinary respectively.
Bubble – instead of too many extreme risk takers looking to get rich quick who will cry foul when the insanity stops and their ignorance is revealed
I’m sure there’s more but those have been the most repeated words to the point of normality and numbness.
IBM Compatible
I don’t even know where to start.