Most over used words!

[r0lan6]

Simon's thread of "Life's Ironies",

http://www.ukcigarforums.com/showthread.php?t=7024

, just gave me an idea for this thread. When watching TV, talking to friends, clients, colleagues, et al... what do you think is the most over used word that keeps popping up? A word that you just find so damn annoying in its over usage.

For me its "...ABSOLUTELY..." From BBC journalists, lecturers, interviewers, to friends and colleagues. Can something really be that absolute? :p

[tippexx]

.... easy one rO.

Delivery
Robust
Celebrity

[patrickspark]

"like"
"awesome"
"cool"
"you know"

[El Catador]

For me, its:

"supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

I just think its, ahem, atrocious.

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[tippexx]

Oh and I forgot the other one .....

Target.

Which theses days is a euphemism for something which might be desirable but can never possibly be realised by the idiots in charge of the aim.

[bambini]

"Solution"

It's never just a chair these days, it's a seating solution. It's not tippex, it's an error resolution solution :p Case in point:


http://www.pidexsolutions.ca/images/BusinessSolutionsLifecycle.jpg

What does it even mean? Man, I hate management speak.

[Gary]

I'll second "Celebrity" usually used to describe anyone who gets their name in the paper or is on TV for 5 minutes, when in actual fact 99.9% of people described as a "Celebrity" are highly annoying, zero talented nobody's who would go to the opening of an envelope!

Sorry for the rant, just can't stand all the so called "Celebrities".

[tippexx]

[QUOTE=bambini;110763]"Solution"



http://www.pidexsolutions.ca/images/BusinessSolutionsLifecycle.jpg

What does it even mean?

The diagram? The clueless chasing their tails!

[satch]

The latast expression amongst, er, "young people" seems to be"sick".
As in "Wow, sick work in the tube there, dude!"
I think it means "fab".
Could be wrong of course.

[eggopp]

I think people can cut conversations down by 50%, especially when your in a hurry... If only they would stop saying

'err'
'um'

between every 2nd or sometimes 3rd word.. of course there are also those that use it in conversation consecutively.. as in err err err um um um..

[Boss Hog]

I know these are more than one word but how about

"welcome to UKCF"
"Ooo those look nice"
and
"shuckins just bombed me again"

[Drewmidorn]

"My Bad" bugs me.....

However not as much as made up scientific crap they put on digestive drinks/washing powder/hi fi cables/skin products.

[Simon-JG-hr]

"f***"

Now, I'm partial to a bit of swearing myself, but this word seems to be primarily used for the sake of using it, rather than to actually emphasis anything (just listen to a chav).

[r0lan6]

Yes, the two words being "Shuckins" and "bomb" definitely comes to mind! - but in a good way!!! :biggrin1:

[El Catador]

My greatest 'vocabulary' irritation ("of teeth gnashing, give me a machine gun and let me exterminate the bloody lot of 'em!") http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-misc-001.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons.php) is the trendy 'fashion' of the terminally tragic to deliberately mispronounce the 'TH' sound.

As in:
'I think' becomes 'I fink',
or, for a slightly longer example:
'I don't think he thought it through' becomes 'I don't fink he fought it frew'.

Once-upon-a-time, any knuckle dragging neanderthal http://www.millan.net/anims/giffar/giffar2/blook.gif who spoke like this would've been pitied or ridiculed (Jamie Rednapp - I'm looking at you), but what was once a 'Speech Impediment' has now actually become an 'Accent' for tossers wishing to sound 'Cool'.

Speak 'English' ya *******

[Aussiewaz]

F**k that! A Shuckins Bomb being welcomed to UKCF? Those look nice methinks. Oooopppsss! My Bad. LMAO:smoke::p

[tippexx]

My greatest 'vocabulary' irritation ("of teeth gnashing, give me a machine gun and let me exterminate the bloody lot of 'em!") http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-misc-001.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons.php) is the trendy 'fashion' of the terminally tragic to deliberately mispronounce the 'TH' sound.

As in:
'I think' becomes 'I fink',
or, for a slightly longer example:
'I don't think he thought it through' becomes 'I don't fink he fought it frew'.

Once-upon-a-time, any knuckle dragging neanderthal http://www.millan.net/anims/giffar/giffar2/blook.gif who spoke like this would've been pitied or ridiculed (Jamie Rednapp - I'm looking at you), but what was once a 'Speech Impediment' has now actually become an 'Accent' for tossers wishing to sound 'Cool'.

Speak 'English' ya *******


Yeah, bufor dem offus dat come from Dagnum it aintapediment itsa Creedenchal .... ask my mate El Tel.

[r0lan6]

You should check this out! :biggrin1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA578yQ5g

[bambini]

F**k that! A Shuckins Bomb being welcomed to UKCF? Those look nice methinks. Oooopppsss! My Bad. LMAO:smoke::p
I fink that's, like, a sick overused word solution :rolleyes:

[Aussiewaz]

I fink that's, like, a sick overused word solution :rolleyes:
LMAO. Between us I fink we got most the posts. :smoke::closed_2:

[G-man]

You should check this out! :biggrin1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA578yQ5g
Now this link was taken from my childhood !

[Soulmanure]

"Cheers" when Americans say it and 'synergy'. Though the latter is used less often now, it has always struck me as shorthand for 'I have nothing to say but I must make it look like great things are happening'.

Also, 'value-added'--I see it increasingly used, and the aspect that I find absurd is that nobody defines said value in the first place.

[satch]

Peaple wuo can't say 't', as in li''le bo''le.
They have to say"uh" in the middle. Pure laziness.

[r0lan6]

What about "sure", "okay", and "erm..." :biggrin1:

[Soulmanure]

What about "sure", "okay", and "erm..." :biggrin1:

yeah.

[r0lan6]

Very good, yes - that too! :rolleyes:

[nicwing]

I really hate "very much so".

Doesn't say anything does it?

My wife has permission to shoot me if I ever say it!

[eggopp]

I really hate "very much so".



Oh i say that alot in my line of work, its sort of criminal justice slang

[Big_T_UK]

"Hero" is overused to a point that it is now meaningless.
"British Army" because we do not have one. The laughable numbers mean it is strictly speaking a self defence force, we no-longer have a standing army.
"Royal Navy" because it is just a fishery protection fleet.
"Politician" because they are actually just a lot of self aggrandising criminals.
"Comedy" because sod all of it is funny!

[El Catador]

I think somebody needs a 'hug!'.

C'Mon... there... there... it'll be alright.

[Soulmanure]

Another overused term: Tragedy.

Not only is it overused, for everything bad is somehow tragic, it is used in a technically false way: the idea that the 'tragic' event stems from a fatal flaw in the character/actor is completely gone.

[Big_T_UK]

Oh good one, utterly agree.

[r0lan6]

But rhetoric is what we live for in the civilised world! :yo:

[Soulmanure]

But rhetoric is what we live for in the civilised world! :yo:

Though it is mostly empty. I am, however, often spoiled by my country's concept of eloquence:

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[r0lan6]

I actually had to look away halfway through as I just felt so embarrassed for her. How did she do?

[Soulmanure]

I actually had to look away halfway through as I just felt so embarrassed for her. How did she do?

She abruptly decided that she would have no more debates. One wonders why.... However, the election isn't until November, and she's the only Republican in a conservative state. As well, she signed into law the controversial though locally popular immigration law that more or less allows police to ask anyone for immigration papers, which in that state means Latinos. All told, she has a pretty good chance.

[TJCoro]

:usa2: She's a Yankee Doodly Dandy.....

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[Pipe Dude]

"At the end of the day...."
"To be perfectly honest with you...."
"....going forward."
"There's your *thing* for yourself."

Gotta agree about synergy and value-added.

[Smallclub]

This is an interesting thread for someone whose English isn't the native language and is still trying to learn… :pop2::stupido:

[nev coss]

virtually, seems like virtually every one says this
footy, uni, too many people watching "Neighbours"