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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 3:47:07 GMT
Could go in with the pet peeves but will put here. Those words whether they be trendy or ''le mot du jour".Only a word though,phrases perhaps later. This week alone I have continued to hear and read the word "artisanal" more times then I care to count. A lovely word upon first hearing it. Not in my dictionary however,curiously enough. Obviously from artisan. Overused.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2009 5:04:14 GMT
unique
Extra points if it's used with a superlative!
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 5:54:20 GMT
"meltdown"
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2009 6:16:41 GMT
awesome
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 11:20:16 GMT
closure
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 14:04:20 GMT
"waterboarding"
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 14:11:42 GMT
global
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2009 15:56:15 GMT
czar (used politically, as "he'll be the auto czar" -- makes NO sense)
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Post by imec on May 24, 2009 16:04:38 GMT
gate - Around here, any controversial issue becomes a "-gate"
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 16:13:05 GMT
most certainly regional but I can't overlook: recovery
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Post by gyro on May 24, 2009 18:55:19 GMT
I hate the description 'Nine Eleven', and the subsequent English version 'Seven Seven'. They sound waaaay to cutesy for such tragedies, and somehow combine to trivialise the whole affair.
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Post by tillystar on May 24, 2009 19:13:39 GMT
going forwards
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Post by gyro on May 24, 2009 19:25:29 GMT
Another one that gets on my tits, and is waaaaay overused at work is 'heads up', as in "I just thought I'd give you a heads up.."
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2009 23:25:58 GMT
24/7
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2009 23:26:57 GMT
we should be waiting to do these examples of more than one word, shouldn't we? (sorry!)
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Post by Jazz on May 24, 2009 23:32:03 GMT
totally
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 1:13:07 GMT
I thought it'd be fun to start with ONE word and then some of them could even be combined when we move into two and three word phrases...
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Post by gyro on May 25, 2009 5:21:21 GMT
"Credit crunch"
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Post by hwinpp on May 25, 2009 7:55:33 GMT
Awesome, totally, closure... I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks these words are overused.
Much worse, IMO, is the usage of germanified English words when speaking German. God, I hate "signifikant".
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Post by gyro on May 25, 2009 8:09:52 GMT
Le Weekend ... ?
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 13:14:38 GMT
contraflow
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Post by bjd on May 25, 2009 16:45:48 GMT
hopefully
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 17:00:03 GMT
"to impact"
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2009 0:13:37 GMT
whatever
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Post by imec on May 26, 2009 1:19:24 GMT
racist
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2009 1:59:27 GMT
thankfully
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2009 3:13:35 GMT
"something" as in a person's age,fiftysomething,WTF is that?
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Post by gyro on May 26, 2009 5:31:25 GMT
In the same vein as #24, another term that's overused, and often applied incorrectly, is 'Anti-Semitic'.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2009 7:54:38 GMT
"czar" -- as in manager of a government department (drug czar)
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Post by gyro on May 26, 2009 8:05:04 GMT
K, see post #7 .......
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