OVERUSED WORDS!

[Rustyt1953]

"Ya know?"

Ruthie can't string seven words together without using that as a place holder. I have gotten to the point that I count them to occupy myself while she has a stranglehold on the floor.

Bless her little heart.

 

[Walkin Horse]

Every driver on the NASCAR circuit has an awesome team that does all kinds of awesome things.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My wife graduated from Ohio State University, it says that very phrase on her diploma. That was in 1978, not too many years before they copyrighted the word "THE" into the phrase. If it wasn't for the tons of money involved, it would be ridiculous. I don't think they make much money on the copyrighted materials; the real big money is on Copyright Infringement!

I went to "International School Of Ministry". No "The" and no copyright. They would love for someone to mention their name or just ISOM!

Ivan

You could say I suffer from ISOM-nia. I'll go to my room now.

 

[Bald1]

Opportunity. As in there are no problems only opportunities. I once told a supervisor " Joe we have a problem " his reply was no problems only opportunities. I said I'm glad to hear that. You now have the opportunity to pay me alot of money to correct it.

 

[Chuck24]

Journey. Everybody now is on some kind of a journey. Weight loss, health, education, athletics, their all on some kind of a journey.

 

[rockquarry]

Anytime someone starts a sentence with "so."

It seems that "so" as the beginning of a sentence is pretty recent; popular with the hardcore Internet crowd. They grew up during the era when language and sentence structure had already started to deteriorate.

 

[Adk.IBO]

In my neck of the woods 'like' is over used and like drives me crazy…



The second part of that sentence is how I hear the overuse.

 

[kraynky]

AMAZING! That's just AMAZING! My wife watches so many cooking and remodeling shows, I'm totally burnt out on the word AMAZING! Everything is OMG! It's AMAZING!!!!!!

 

[BRL40]

...whatever...

ETA: That was supposed to be an overused word, glad I never tried to pursue a career as a stand up comedian, I would have starved.

You people are a tough audience.

 

[Doug627]

Reasonable. As in reasonable gun control. Reasonable compromise. This word is used by people making unreasonable demands while attempting to convince others they have their best interests in mind when they don't.

 

[625-7]

Reimagine..... makes me want to regurgitate

 

[johngalt]

One very overused word that I hope I don't have to hear for a while:

snow

 

[MTC(SS)Ret]

"Dude" and "Bro"

 

[Rustyt1953]

The phrase: "built like a tank".

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

To further the thread drift, here is a non-verbal conversational gesture that equals, without sound, the worst of the worst set forth here: Air quotes. Just can't stand 'em. With decades of public speaking and teaching behind me, I have used quotes countless times. I attribute the source then state the quoted material. No cutesy-poo fingers in the air.

What is becoming common now with a certain type of ignoramus is the verbal ""quote unquote. Want to quote someone who said "knifes?" Verbalize it as "He said quote unquote knifes."

Amazing. Yesterday I couldn't even spell grammarian, today I are one. Aren't I?

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

The phrase: "built like a tank".

Are tanks investment cast?

 

[Rustyt1953]

What is becoming common now with a certain type of ignoramus is the verbal ""quote unquote. Want to quote someone who said "knifes?" Verbalize it as "He said quote unquote knifes."

Amazing. Yesterday I couldn't even spell grammarian, today I are one. Aren't I?

I understand. It always puzzles me as to how someone can unquote a quote.

 

[LEO918]

At the end of the day.

 

[LVSteve]

Since I've moved to AZ...it annoys me to hear people...especially news people who should know and be trained better...to describe the highways as "the" 101..."the" I-40, etc. It's just "Loop 101" or "Interstate 40". Where did that get started.

Yep, it's a West Coast thing. My late wife was from SoCal, so I got to hear it a lot.

 

[Whit]

Unless I missed it in a post, the word platform. A platform is something you stand on or put something on, not shoot.

One that has been mentioned is like. Like adds nothing to a sentence. The younger generation seems to be unable to complete a sentence without at least one like…typically more than one.