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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2009 22:51:16 GMT
Come to think about it, I use the word 'wow' quite a lot myself, so just ignore me, I'm not sure what I'm on about
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 9, 2009 23:13:05 GMT
It's too late. I'm shattered.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2009 3:03:00 GMT
There are many words on this list that I find myself using. For me ,the whole jist of the thread is, when they are used by the same people over and over again,(not on here) .In particular,younger people and the media, (out there). When posting ,I often find myself at a loss for words to describe my feelings about a particular photo or thread. I hate having to resort to OMG,or "lovely","beautiful" all the time ,but don't know how else to convey "it".
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Post by imec on Aug 11, 2009 3:18:45 GMT
There are many words on this list that I find myself using. For me ,the whole jist of the thread is, when they are used by the same people over and over again,(not on here) .In particular,younger people and the media, (out there). When posting ,I often find myself at a loss for words to describe my feelings about a particular photo or thread. I hate having to resort to OMG,or "lovely","beautiful" all the time ,but don't know how else to convey "it". Well, you're not alone. You've captured my sentiments exactly - I just never seem to have the right words at my disposal to make it "special". Hence, I never mentally criticize anyone's choice of words here. ("do as you would be done by")
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Post by Jazz on Aug 11, 2009 8:02:54 GMT
There are many words on this list that I find myself using. For me ,the whole jist of the thread is, when they are used by the same people over and over again,(not on here) .In particular,younger people and the media, (out there). When posting ,I often find myself at a loss for words to describe my feelings about a particular photo or thread. I hate having to resort to OMG,or "lovely","beautiful" all the time ,but don't know how else to convey "it". Well, you're not alone. You've captured my sentiments exactly - I just never seem to have the right words at my disposal to make it "special". Hence, I never mentally criticize anyone's choice of words here. ("do as you would be done by") I share your feelings. Sometimes there are so many excellent posts that I would like to reply to in a 'special' way, that I work myself into a state of verbal paralysis!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2009 10:22:08 GMT
Well, you're not alone. You've captured my sentiments exactly - I just never seem to have the right words at my disposal to make it "special". Hence, I never mentally criticize anyone's choice of words here. ("do as you would be done by") I share your feelings. Sometimes there are so many excellent posts that I would like to reply to in a 'special' way, that I work myself into a state of verbal paralysis! I may perhaps adopt some of your words Jazz. "I'm in a state of verbal paralysis" to express myself.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2009 12:48:35 GMT
"I feel your pain"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2015 12:32:03 GMT
This thread seems worthy of refreshment.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 19, 2015 14:44:29 GMT
My candidate for an overused word had not begun to be overused back in 2009:
"amazing", as in "You look amazing." "The food was amazing." -- the new word for "awesome", I presume.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 16:27:09 GMT
"selfie" anything
Edited to exclude how "amazing" your new "selfie" avatar is Bixa, assuming you took it yourselfie
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 21, 2015 16:58:20 GMT
Thank you! I took it in the mirror, mirror on the wall, so it escapes being a true selfie.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 17:35:41 GMT
"...whose the fairest of them all?"
T. really likes it too!!!
"To thine own "selfie" be true".
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 16, 2015 17:15:53 GMT
There is something about the new overuse of this word that is soooo owlishly smug. Saw it again this morning, so with gritted teeth I present: mindful. This was today's context, which also made me think of one of Mark's candidates for overused words: curated. Once he pointed it out, I started seeing it everywhere. Mindfully curated vintage and antique finds fill this creative couple’s 850-square-foot rental in Los Angelessource
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Post by bjd on Dec 16, 2015 17:59:53 GMT
Gee thanks, Bixa. I clicked on your link and spent half an hour looking at pictures of well-designed homes (curated or not!). Then I looked at the mess around my computer desk. Nothing here is mindfully curated.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 18:08:48 GMT
Luckily, the term "curated" evokes absolutely nothing to me. So I just ignore the word.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 16, 2015 19:06:11 GMT
Of course I cannot necessarily spot an invented word from a disused one or an overused.
But what I really hate are abbreviations or shortening.
I mean - fuck - I have trying for years to understand some English and people come with - cuz - tix - dh ds bff etc.
I hate it - I find it bs written by half sob. Do I sound grumpy ?
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Post by htmb on Dec 16, 2015 19:10:39 GMT
Wtf do u mn, PW? Hearing the phrase "soak up the atmosphere" makes me want to puke.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 17, 2015 0:28:02 GMT
Don't do that, Htmb -- it would just give you something else you'd have to soak up. I hear kitty litter is good for that kind of accident. Bjd, sometimes that site is pretentious and annoying, but mostly it's good for getting inspired or getting a handle on the direction you want to take in a certain room for instance. Just so you're mindful of that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2016 21:45:40 GMT
I really despise "proactive."
And I also hate the fact that I hear "passive aggressive" all the time when 98% of the users (at least) do not have any qualification as a psychologist.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 1:30:13 GMT
Much to my dismay, having looked back at the beginning of this thread I saw the word "waterboarding", (posted by me) and, a word I had hoped would never arise again into the vernacular. It sent chills down my spine to hear it again of late in many a news broadcast.
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Post by chexbres on Nov 21, 2016 16:46:55 GMT
As of now, "Trump" is the most over-used word of all.
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Post by whatagain on Nov 21, 2016 19:55:14 GMT
Exists in French too... what I really hate is 'au jour d'aujourd'hui' - basically saying 3 times the same thing.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 21, 2016 20:51:19 GMT
Mindful is not as bad as "mindfulness", some kind of pseudo-Buddhist approach to life, Buddhism LITE™? After Kabbalah LITE™, courtesy of Madonna and other learned Judaic theologians...
Curated is of course an actual term, but refers to what curators do. Not how people arrange their home offices.
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Post by chexbres on Nov 23, 2016 20:36:46 GMT
"going forward" "moving forward" "(a short list of people)...and others"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 23:10:52 GMT
This may have already been posted but is worthy of another GRRRRRRRRRing over.
"No worries"
(at lunch today we overheard the waiter at he adjacent table use this expression at least six times. I was ever so grateful he was not our waiter.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 24, 2016 0:55:27 GMT
Yep -- that is intensely annoying. Another one that has irritatingly crept into everyday speech: "not so much".
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 10, 2020 13:37:26 GMT
I have already had my fill of "systemic."
systemic police brutality systemic understaffing in nursing home etc.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2020 15:00:43 GMT
"struggling"
Now used for anything not immediately under ones control.
"They struggled to contain the blaze" is reasonable usage.
"I'm struggling to decide on a side dish" indicates you're not ready for real life.
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Post by questa on Jun 11, 2020 3:20:42 GMT
Since the corona virus came along everything has been "unprecedented".From the shortages of toilet paper to the death numbers....count how many times the speaker uses it.
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Post by casimira on Jun 11, 2020 12:21:36 GMT
Yesterday morning not long after logging off on here I turned on the radio to listen to an interviewer whom I quite like.
Her very first sentence contained the words systemic, virtually and unprecedented.
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