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Agamemnon · Joined: 24 Jun 2014 Posts: 34

Stumbled across this recently, made me think, apart from "husband" got no real beef with them, some of you may feel differently.

Take a look

http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2014/these-words-will-get-under-your-skin-youll-be-lucky-if-you-ever-hear-these-words-the-same-again-we-cant/
I really can't stand "Awesome"!

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Totally. It seems that completely and absolutely have become redundant in the land of the free. Possibly the fault of Bill and Ted:

Bill: It is indeed a pleasure to introduce to you a gentleman we picked up in medieval Mongolia in the year 1269.
Ted: Please welcome, the very excellent barbarian...
Ted, Bill: ...MR. GENGHIS KHAN!
[All the students applaud wildly for Khan]
Ted: This is a dude who, 700 years ago, totally ravaged China, and who, we were told, 2 hours ago, totally ravaged Oshman's Sporting Goods.

Captain Logan: [Being possessed by Dead Ted] Whoa. Okay, dudes... Oh, I mean, fellow policemen. My son, Ted "Theodore" Logan, and his friend Bill S. Preston, Esquire, have been murdered and replaced by evil robots from the future.
Dead Bill: You totally did it dude.
Captain Logan: [as Dead Ted] I totally possessed my dad!

Tudor · Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 339

Couldn't be bothered watching the video - if it had been an article, I'd have read it - but I also completely and absolutely abhor "awesome".

It's so over-used nowadays that it simply has no effect anymore. I hear people describe the most mundane events as "awesome" such as lending somebody a pencil or passing them something. I wonder what word these cretins would use if they were to go to the Niagara Falls or experience something genuniely worthy of the word. They'd probably still say "awesome" or, even worse, "totally awesome dude/bro/man/blood etc".

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

"iconic"

likwid_777 · Joined: 04 Nov 2012 Posts: 411 Location: NA

"Awkward"... Surely borne out of social ineptitude, a result of the computer based nexus of socialising. It's not "awkward", you just can't handle it... haha.

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

I totally hate the way issues has gained a negative connotation in recent years. What's wrong with saying problems?

HLJHLJ · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 1218 Location: Ecuador

I'll add super to awesome, e.g. "the test was 'super' difficult", it puts my teeth on edge.

Janiny · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 199

While I can deal with 'grow' as in 'grow our company' because it makes some sense in terms of sticking to the original meaning, I dislike it because it seems to me those who you use it learned it from Fox News or some other less than semi-literate media giant.

The word I really hate is 'impacted'. I have always thought, 'impact' was a noun. I don't get why people just can't use 'affected' or 'influenced' when they say 'impacted'. I'm sure they know these words too.

'Impacted' can be an adjective to describe the condition of one's wisdom teeth or what a meteor might do, but fails as a synonym for 'affected' - a perfectly good word that needs no replacing. When people say 'impacted' I think of crushing violence. It's lacks affected's light touch.

Janiny · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 199

steki47 · Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 1029 Location: BFE Inaka

"trending"

johnslat · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 11:38 am Post subject:

pro-active - I mean, active is active. It's such an "over-hyped" buzzword.

Or, if you see pro-active as a vital addition to the language, then let's have a pro-passive. too. Very Happy

Regards,
John

JoeKing · Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 519

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Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:29 am Post subject:

Normalcy.

Whatever happened to normality?