Words and Phrases You’ve Come to Hate
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F-bomb, f-you, f'd up, etc., either say the word or don't, but don't try to curse without cursing, it just makes you sound like you need permission to curse...grow up!
I'm with mso, anything starting with "So...". Not sure where it came from, but it seems recent. Some even start posts with it. Why? I have no idea. "So I went to my local B and M to buy some pipe cleaners...". I think every response should simply be So?.
Literally is another that makes people seem not very bright. In the UK, At the end of the day gets on my nerves.
Literally is another that makes people seem not very bright. In the UK, At the end of the day gets on my nerves.
"To be honest with you,..." Had a boss eons ago who used that. Certainly he was dishonest in many of his other communications.
Bespoke is a perfect word for very limited situations. How it's now entered the US coinage is beyond me. Who can give the most extreme example of its misuse?
Bespoke is a perfect word for very limited situations. How it's now entered the US coinage is beyond me. Who can give the most extreme example of its misuse?
"Closure" in relation to some sort of resolution of ones grieving for someone who has died. You might have worked through your grief, but I doubt people achieve closure, or that they would want to. The departed often play an active role in our lives and should.
perdurbo, I take your point, but getting into religious doctrine the discussion could go on forever. But it happens that I too have reservations about Paul's role in the church. He rode away from the Sermon on the Mount in a big hurry, so to speak.
perdurbo, I take your point, but getting into religious doctrine the discussion could go on forever. But it happens that I too have reservations about Paul's role in the church. He rode away from the Sermon on the Mount in a big hurry, so to speak.
"Spoiler alert" still has its meaning but is getting threadbare. And it is as if giving away plot points is the key to any drama. Nonsense. Only in dramas where the plot is the only feature. Many of Shakespeare's plays pretty much give the plot outline at the beginning, and the interest is in watching the narrative unfold and the characters develop. Plot is the key to punchlines in jokes and in children's books, but shouldn't play big in adult drama and fiction. Tell me how it ends. So what?
"At this point in time." Unless otherwise specified, I'd assume you are talking in the present. If you are referring to a previous or future date, give that.
"I'm going to be honest with you," "let me be honest," raise suspicions that much of what you have said and will say is definitely less than honest, perhaps total prevarication.
In order to avoid saying "um," "actually," or some other time killer, JFK used to say "Let me say this about that." Pure pap, but at least he made up his own time killer. It illustrates that our culture has forbidden the pause to think. Among some Native American tribal nations, it was a requirement to pause before speaking to show that you were thinking over what others had said, so the pause wasn't giving up the podium or failing to respond, but a simple responsibility. Obviously, they were intelligent in a way that our culture is not.
"I'm going to be honest with you," "let me be honest," raise suspicions that much of what you have said and will say is definitely less than honest, perhaps total prevarication.
In order to avoid saying "um," "actually," or some other time killer, JFK used to say "Let me say this about that." Pure pap, but at least he made up his own time killer. It illustrates that our culture has forbidden the pause to think. Among some Native American tribal nations, it was a requirement to pause before speaking to show that you were thinking over what others had said, so the pause wasn't giving up the podium or failing to respond, but a simple responsibility. Obviously, they were intelligent in a way that our culture is not.
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