'Viral' tops list of overused words. Post words you think should be added to the "official" list

[Better Believe It]

Lake Superior State University 2011 List of Banished Words


VIRAL

EPIC

FAIL

WOW FACTOR

A-HA MOMENT

BACK STORY

BFF

MAN UP

REFUDIATE

MAMA GRIZZLIES

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

I'M JUST SAYIN'

FACEBOOK / GOOGLE as verbs

LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST

Read why these were placed on the list at:

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

Here's two words I'm tired of reading or hearing:

NARRATIVE

DISINGENUOUS

Add yours!

[Speck Tater]

1. "Friend" as a verb. "I friended him but he didn't friend me back." nt

[JVS]

38. gift as a verb.

the word is give people

[Speck Tater]

43. I Agree, but "re-gifting" is even worse! nt

[Drale]

2. I got 4

Kenya
Real Birth Certificate
Sarah Palin
Anything on Fox news

[Billy Burnett]

3. Moving forward.

A fully embracing corporate meme.

[femmocrat]

4. "At the end of the day."

x(

And "robust"--- geez, everything is robust anymore!

[Rage for Order]

23. Let's circle back to it at the end of the day

Because I need to talk to Jim about it, but he's out of pocket right now. Hey, it is what it is.

:)

[Sabriel]

5. "Manscaping" and "Mancave"

And "meme."

[petronius]

6. 'Meme' was my first thought. I also think 'pwned/owned' need to take a break

[CTyankee]

26. "Mandals." Last summer President Obama wore mandals in Martha's Vineyard.

nt

[Midwestern Democrat]

7. I'm really sick of the phrase "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" - I cringe everytime I

hear it on television.

[Duer 157099]

8. I'd give all of those a pass, if they'd just get rid of "Homeland" n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Whenever people talk about Homeland Security, I just

translate it for them.

"You mean the Heimatssicherheitamt?"

Sometimes somebody gets the point.

[Odin2005]

9. What is wrong with using Google, Facebook, and friend as verbs?

That is a very common feature of English, "verbing" nouns (see, I just did it there!).

Now "Homeland", that's a word I hate.

[Better Believe It]

11. Here's what was written at the link regarding your question.

"Facebook is a great, addicting website. Google is a great search engine. However, their use as verbs causes some deep problems. As bad as they are, the trend can only get worse, i.e. 'I'm going to Twitter a few people, then Yahoo the movie listings and maybe Amazon a book or two." Jordan of Waterloo, Ont.

[Odin2005]

18. And so?

There is NOTHING wrong with verbing nouns, it's a natural aspect of English.

[spanone]

10. 'robust' - fookin' hate it

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Nuanced

as a synonym for "can't get it into a sound byte."

[Better Believe It]

13. I'm also tired of that one.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. When did "viral"

go viral?

Jackpine go flog self now.

[IDemo]

16. Jobless recovery, Sarah, Palin n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

17. "Sexting"

Talk about a word perfectly designed to combine the Fartland's terror of both unbridled teen libidos and newfangled techmology.

[Kingofalldems]

19. It is what it is

[lpbk2713]

20. "Bottom line is ... "

At the end of the day ...

Think outside the box.



I thought all those would fade away long ago but they are still with us. :eyes:

[CurtEastPoint]

21. Yo.

[PurityOfEssence]

22. "Awesome" needs to go

It's most un-excellent. It's every third word in modern American speech.

[CTyankee]

28. It's being replaced now with "amazing." I don't say either any more.

I suggest "astonishing." It's so, well, astonishing....

[Hannah Bell]

24. michael vick sarah palin

[Electric Monk]

25. Epic viral fail. I'm just sayin'

Man up, language!

[Canuckistanian]

48. I googled it

And I refudiated all the back stories on Mama Grizzlies. The narrative is - live life to the fullest.

Just sayin'

[Stevenmarc]

27. Pwned

Totally fucking annoying and for the most part usually never lives up to the promise.

[TwilightGardener]

29. "Amazing" and the phrase "there for me" (as in "he was always there for me"). Ack.

[Pancho Sanza]

30. All the above plus "hugh"

hahaha

[CTyankee]

31. OPTICS. Please, no more...

"The optics aren't good." Mika B. says that a lot on Morning Joe. Doesn't she have another meme for her narrative, at the end of the day?

[CTyankee]

32. "That being said" or "That said..."

It means, I said that but what I really meant was (the opposite).

[Confusious]

33. *para* *dig* *im*

paradigm

I Phase out when I see the word, 'cuase I know some hucksters going to be trying to sell me a shit sandwich.

[Sabriel]

34. "I'm just sayin'" was used in The Pacific

Talk about an anachronism.

[demosincebirth]

35. "He/They disrespected me,"

[pipi_k]

36. "These tough economic times"

Like people really need to be reminded every half hour that the economy sucks.


Also...

THE terrorists.


Like it's some well-defined group of individuals...

The Smiths. The Browns. The neighbors.


THE terrorists. You know...."them".

yech. That one seriously makes me want to slap the person who says it.

[frylock]

37. "the"

[Better Believe It]

39. Like

As in:

"Like, I really have to go."

"Like, I really like it."

"Like, I'm going to be late for the meeting."

"Like, did you see that?"

[provis99]

40. two that I hate:

"Vetted" (as in Palin wasn't), and "grow" the economy (as though it were a plant).

[Release The Hounds]

41. Woot

[Forkboy]

42. "Official"

[Prometheus Bound]

44. zip, nada, nothing

[proud2BlibKansan]

45. republican

[ohheckyeah]

46. I watch too much HGTV

because I'm sick of hearing 'make it our own'. When the house is a dump and you are forced to do renovations it really isn't about 'making it your own'.

Oh, and, light and airy. Every damn room is light and airy. UGH

[TuxedoKat]

47. My bad..... Word.....(nt)

[DenverDad]

49. Kardashian

[toddaa]

50. Teachable Moment

Please explain how some moments can be taught and others cannot.

[Obamanaut]

51. "My personal opinion" If it is *my* opinion how can it be anything other than personal? What is

wrong with the plain *my opinion*?