Overused phrases/words
 

I have found that some people annoy me with their overused phrases/words. However, I have noticed that I incorporate phrases and words into my daily usage bank. So. . .

What words/phrases annoy you?
What words/phrases do you use the most?
Do you have your own with their own meanings?

Annoying:
wanksta
love jones(crush)
random(people use this word so much I'm almost miffed)
hos(used for either a girl who does\doesn't give it up, why?)
get the skinny on it
that's thunder(a KY/IN thing)

What I say:
Ex-ACT-ly(emphasis placed on dragging the word out)
what the?!?!
flagrant disregard
facetious

My own:
justified-converted timberlake fans 'so, you're justified now?'
plagarized-copying/mocking what i do to make themselves funny. . .'you're totally plagarizing my moves'

I definitely know what you mean!

words that are used to much:
random
like
issues

ur words w/ur own meaning: that's cute! :)
i can't think of any right now though...

There are so many words and phrases that irritate me. The ones that are at the forefront of my mind are:

like
vacay (for vacation)
cas (for casual)
bennies (for benefits)
hottie
the people who poorly imitate the speech and vocabulary of the rappers/ghetto superstars they see on MTV when they are white suburbanites (especially the girl in my tennis class who kept singing 50 Cent's "In Da Club" and repeating over and over "It's your birthday!!!!")
maccing - this girl on the campus shuttle was telling her friend the shuttle driver was "maccing" on her, haven't heard that since junior high
"my boo"

Most of the phrases I use in my social circle or family relate to some ridiculous incident.

Hello Panda!
Ding How You Doing?
Don't be Jealous!!!!
Critter, and not in reference to animals.
Dragon, any mean bitchy bossy alpha female.
Boocie or Boosey
hey priddyyyy laddeeeeeee

These are the two that are bugging the hell out of me right now:

Let me find out ......
Do the damn thing!

Ugghhhh.... Who started this insanity? So not cool. To me, these are soon to take the path of "You go girl". Especially the second one.

As a business writer, it jars me to see:

Leading-edge
Scalable
Solutions
Best-in-class

And leading, period, if you run some pissant company with $5 million in revenue...flaqs, I tell you.

:rolleyes:

"And I was like..." (meaning, "And I said")

"Give it up for..." (meaning, applaud him/her)

"I'm Over It" - EVERYONE in my house says this, even when the business at hand has NOTHING to do with him.

"WHatever" - See above.

Words/phrases that I use too much:

Spectacular
Fabulous
Amazing
Like
Right on
Most definately
So (I drive myself crazy with this, it seems like I start all my sentences with it! Grr!!!:mad: )

Somethings in my house that get said WAY too much:

"I'm all about that"
"I most definately...."
"I'm down"
"He is an LOJ"

Our house started saying "Shit, son!" whenever something was weird or funny or hard to believe.... now I'm totally sick of it.

Also, I cannot handle people saying ho anymore!!!! I mean if you're referring to a skanky girl its one thing, but all my friends are always like, "What's up hoes?" "Hey hoebag," etc. It just is like not appropriate if you're sitting in your jammies in the tv room watching a movie.......

What I say:
COOL
Clearly
Freakishly

"Continue on"

My dad harps about this all the time, saying it's incorrect. Now every time I hear it, I can't stand it...just because it's been dissected at my house so much.

And I hate it when people say something that's wrong and someone immediately corrects them, and then the first person goes, "Juuuuust kidding!" in this cheesy voice.

Annoying!!!-
"peeps"- always hated this word
in IM's- "soooooooo" (i get the point. if you really need to emphasize, write SO instead of so, okay?!?

words i use too much-
seriously
definitely
probley
like (guilty!!)

I hardly ever use slang words... i'm just not comforatble using most of them, they sound so stupid most of the time

with my own meaning-
precious (thats the only one i can think of right now!)

I don't know about anyone else from Massachusetts, but I am so guilty of saying "wicked" ALL THE TIME. I've been saying it for as long as I can remember, and my relatives from out of state continually rag on me about it.

But one I don't get is "wicked pisser"... when I moved towards the south-eastern part of the state to start college, all the kids from Boston were like "that's wicked pissah dude..." meaning that's really cool (and yes it's pissah... this is Boston we're talking about... ;) )

oh yes- I'm CONSTANTLY saying "WICKED" (for those who AREN'T from MA- we use it in place of "very" and hardly ever use it to mean "evil.") I hadn't realized how often I said it until I spent a week in Dayton, Ohio last April and people thought I was strange.
I've yet to come across the "wicked pissah" thing though...

my list of annoying/trite phrases:
random (though even i'm REALLY guilty of this one)
like
"blah-blah-blah" instead of saying the full shpiel

with my friends and peers i'm REALLY sick of people saying: "yaRRR it is.." or the equivalent thereof (it's the "yaRR" part that gets to me. really think about it- freaking people from MA don't prounounce the "R" when it's ACTUALLY in the word! yet they put one in the word "YA!" (yeah)

grr!

Words and phrases I need to stop using.....

Dude, duder, sup, biotch, biznitch, shiznit, "Mother of God", "shit on a stick", "Jeez Louise", "Jeezy", and four letter words that uncontrolabky come outta my mouth.

and the most important one: "Ya'll"....it's a Southern thing I guess

For me I'm bad about saying "let me just tell you..."

My friend overuses "I know!" and "sweet ass"

And I cringe when I hear someone say "whatever" in a snotty voice.

more annoying
 

After reading the list, I must add more. . .

hellafied (description word. . .meaning a lot)
and you're telling me this because
how 'bout. . .
and see what had happened was (argh, can i shoot someone now)
pretty fly
sumthin' sumthin' (guilty)
forget about it (only like you're in a Mafia movie)
yada-yada
oy
something-or-other (what does that mean?)
how typical
mmmm. . .k
down ass chick (a recent frat boy term)
yuppie (i was called this recently)
is this really necessary. . .
i'm thinking. . .uh, no!
Hell Yeah!
Wazzzup! (people, the Budweiser commercial has run its course)


and that's just to name a few. . .

...and whatnot (always saying instead of etc, and so on...)

Delt Alum - I am a frequent user of "And I was like..." ;)

Four letter words also pop out of my mouth more often than i would like them to.

"something like that" (when i chose to be vague :D)

Coming from guys:
"Whacho name ilz?" :mad:
"Psssssst...hey girl....hey girl!"
"Do you like pop tarts? My favorite is cherry" :rolleyes:

Annoying:
"So like"
"Hey hon"
"That's tight"
"cool beans"

Things I say:
"How random"
"That's so sketchy"
"Riiiight"
"But seriously"
"Scandalous"

What are biznitches and shiznits? :confused:

Words I overuse:

Riiiight (Starlet, that's MY word! :p)
Ruthless
Wow
Like
Ay ya yai
Uh huh
I also have a major issue saying four- lettered words and the like (Not anything I am proud of)

1) "Thinking outside the box"....ARGH!!

Can we please "think outside the box" and come up with a new phrase, because this one makes me want to tear my hair out (and I don't think I would suit being bald).

2) The overuse of the term "solutions"...
I know of a company who sells "warehousing solutions"...get over it, people, you sell warehouse DOORS....argh!!

I think this starts going into the commercials slogans
People at work are always trying incorporate commercial slogans, store slogans, etc into every day conversations. . .
Some are cool. . .some I just want to say 'just shut up'

Other annoying examples. . .

Just what the doctor ordered
young jedi (i swear with every star wars release)
-friendly (they put some other word in front)

Re: more annoying
 

This commercial is a classic. "Eh you dookie, pick up the phone" will live in our hearts forever.


-Well I know she knows it's not right, there ain't no use in lyin'-

Can't remember if I answered this one yet, but I don't want to look back and see.

Anyway, because I work in the corporate world... I can't stand to hear:

"reinvent the wheel"
"latest and greatest"
"think outside the box"

and anything of the like.

I live in a world of apathy, and I am SICK AND F*CKING TIRED OF THE FOLLOWING PHRASES:

I Don't Care

Whatever

I'm Over It

I hear "I'm over it" for stuff they're not even involved with! Everytime I bring something up, I hear one of those words, it's like I KNOW you don't care, I just want your opinion.

Sorry guys, I'm just sick of people not caring about anything.

Me too!! But then I went to school in Ohio and I got made fun of so bad for saying it, so I somehow managed to stop. Now that I'm living in Boston again, I notice myself saying it every now and then.

Phrases I hate...

Anything like shizzle, biznitch, biznass.

Dope.

Fo' Sho' (for sure)

Curse words being used every other word. There is a reason there are quite a few different words in the English language.
(Example: And I was like *bleep* you, you *bleep* *bleep*!)

Wazzzup!

You best recognize.

Frickin' A!

Phrases I use... (all the time)...

"Ummm.. Yeah... "
Yes, from Office Space! It's become my latest retort to my students whenever they want to argue about something.

"You know what I mean?"
I hate having to go back track through a complete story to get someone to understand where I am coming from, so I now randomly throw this in every once and a while to see if people are following along.

"Hello! McFly!"
Again, it's a student retort.

"Da da da da da"
I don't say yada, yada, yada. I use this instead, which usually takes some people time to get used to for some reason.

I am also a frequent abuser of the "And I was like... " It's a Florida thing. :)

Annoying:

It's like deja vu all over again (used by my organic chemistry professor no less than 12 times on Monday morning)

Boo Yah, Grandma! (one kid in our house says it all the time)

Brew (used in place of beers plural...just annoys me)


Things I say all the time:

"holla!"

What's Crackin'?

good at life/suck at life...as in if I do something good I'll say "I'm good at life" or if someone screws up "Man, you suck at life"

the recent most annoying:

off the hizzey for shizzey. . .

What up?

Sweet Ass!

or just the word 'sweet' period


people amaze me at the vocabulary they can pick up

I am in agreement on the word sweet...it is about to give me diabetes of the vocabulary.

Fatty to describe things "I ate a fatty plate of nachos dude!!!"

People quoting Fifty Cent...IT IS NOT YOUR BIRTHDAY NOR ARE YOU IN "DA CLUB" WANKSTA SO SHUT UP, though I serenaded my friend on her birthday, and we sang it twice on my birthday, we were in a club at the time. It wasn't cute a month ago and it still isn't (I mean you stupid tennis class girl).

Like...So many allegedly educated people have their speech peppered with this, enough ALREADY.

Holla in any form.

Tight, unless in reference to someone's clothing.

The inability to spell and being lazy, for example: QT, UR, 4, U2, and the most offensive for being incorrect KEWL. This includes people who use their "leet" text.

Shorty

Vocabulary we are still guilty of:
Hee Haw BoDiddly - for anything hillbilly or country
SssssssssssO!
I do what I want!
Cow
Piss Off - Go away