Terms I Don't Use

[Kevin]

Here are a list of terms (not all inclusive...yet) that I don't use because either:

A)I think I'm too cool or

2)I think they sound goofy, overused or just bug me in general. For starters:


bling
epic
POTUS (although i do call our mayor MOKIN)
chill
social media/networking
interwebs


you?

[Sally, la reina]

Interwebs. I like.

[RandomAnthony]

I would also assert that no grown man should wear a jersey with another man's name on the back.

I don't know what Potus is.

[Sally, la reina]

Is it an acronym?

[Mark]

RandomAnthony wrote: "I would also assert that no grown man should wear a jersey with another man's name on the back.

I don't know what Potus is."

I agree with everything including the IDK as to the meaning of Potus.

[Rebecca]

POTUS: president of the United States

[~Geektastic~]

And the even better FLOTUS.

OMG.
Epic Fail.
True Dat.
Fo Shizzle (although this is only still around for ironic hipsters, who are also ridiculous)
Trending.
Hashtag/ # or anything remotely twitter-related.

[Kevin]

RandomAnthony wrote: "I would also assert that no grown man should wear a jersey with another man's name on the back."

shoot. guess i have to file 13 my ANTHONY brewers jersey

[Kevin]

i also have heard a very disturbing way the term raped is used on twitter/facebook and prob in real life. high school kids are using it to say things like "man, i raped that cheeseburger" or "i'm gonna rape that math test tomorrow". not only do i not like it in general, i think it desensitizes this word/serious issue

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

Appalling.

[Jim]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "i also have heard a very disturbing way the term raped is used on twitter/facebook and prob in real life. high school kids are using it to say things like "man, i raped that cheeseburger" or "i'm g..."

I don't much care for this either. There are just certain words that carry negative connotations that are used in every day life that just make me wonder why they were ever accepted that way. Bitch, whore, rape etc.. Guess I am just showing my age.

[~Geektastic~]

Jim wrote: "Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "i also have heard a very disturbing way the term raped is used on twitter/facebook and prob in real life. high school kids are using it to say things like "man, i rap..."


It's disgusting, and unfortunately my younger brother has been picking it up from his friends. I've been trying really hard to get him to appreciate the fact that he has two sisters and how that word is not funny, no matter how you use it.

Although I have to admit, I throw the word "whore" around a lot without really thinking about it.

[Janice]

I dislike anything that becomes a catch phrase. For a while I hated "innovate/innovation". It seemed like every time I turned around I was being told to be innovative. "Let's be innovative and come up with some innovated ideas." The word was being flung around like people actually knew what it meant or that is was a four letter word.

[Lori]

The new word is meme. Suddenly it's everywhere.

[~Geektastic~]

Janice wrote: "I dislike anything that becomes a catch phrase. For a while I hated "innovate/innovation". It seemed like every time I turned around I was being told to be innovative. "Let's be innovative and c..."

My boss prefers "proactive," as far as over-used office lingo goes. I'm not sure if he knows what it means.

[Charlotte]

Not a term, but the phrase, "Is it what it is" can send me off the deep end. I never use it and hearing it makes me want to go screaming down the hall and jump out the nearest window.

[Jim]

Well I guess your opinion is what it is Charlotte :-)

::stands back to watch Charlotte run screaming down the hall::

[[deleted user]]

Diss
Dude
Dungarees
Davenport
Mad skills
"Axe" in place of "ask"
Homey
Hook up
Dawg
Suh-weet
Word to your mother

[~Geektastic~]

Clark wrote: "Diss
Dude
Dungarees
Davenport
Mad skills
"Axe" in place of "ask"
Homey
Hook up
Dawg
Suh-weet
Word to your mother"

Holy crap, people still say "word to your mother"?

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

Off the chain

Never quite understood this phrase.

[Jammies]

Jim wrote: "Well I guess your opinion is what it is Charlotte :-)

::stands back to watch Charlotte run screaming down the hall::"

Funny, that phrase makes me run screaming toward the person saying it, and not so funny, I usually have an axe in my hand when I do.

::runs toward Jim::

[~Geektastic~]

Oh, and "loltastic." I just learned that one today, and I already don't like it.

[Jim]

Jammies wrote: "Funny, that phrase makes me run screaming toward the person saying it, and not so funny, I usually have an axe in my hand when I do.

::runs toward Jim:: "

::goes to run away and slips on banana peel on the floor, wonders who left the banana peel under my feet::

[~Geektastic~]

Myles wrote: "Braces
Britches
Cool beans
Peace"

Braces as in suspenders?

And my granddad always called pants "britches," so I'm partial to that one.

[Suefly]

Amber wrote: "And the even better FLOTUS.

OMG.
Epic Fail.
True Dat.
Fo Shizzle (although this is only still around for ironic hipsters, who are also ridiculous)
Trending.


Ditto on all. The use of 'epic' irritates the living shit out of me.
Hashtag/ # or anything remotely twitter..."

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I don't use epic fail, but I do say fail every so often. You all know how I feel about asshat.

For computer/typing :

Lol

ikr?

[Jim]

You may be correct Bun, never in my life did I anticipate me using the word brachiate, yet there it is in one of my sentences.

[Rebecca]

I dislike the word "reveal" used as a noun. We already have a noun for that, called "revelation." I also hate "fail" used as a noun. We have a noun for that, called "failure."

"It is what it is" makes perfect sense in a Buddhist context. In fact, it's much closer to summing up the essence of it than the one people often use mistakenly, that "life is suffering."

[Mary]

I have to say it-I dislike lol and never use it.

[Félix]

24/7

[Jammies]

Welcome back, monkeyboy.

There are a lot of words and phrases I don't use, but other than "It is what it is" I can't think of any that I avoid like the plague. Mostly, I tailor my speech to my audience.

[Félix]

You have an audience?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I loathe it when people say "out of pocket" to mean unreachable, unavailable, rather than in a financial sense.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Vajayjay

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Mother Nature

[Jonathan]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I loathe it when people say "out of pocket" to mean unreachable, unavailable, rather than in a financial sense."

I don't think I've ever heard anyone use "out of pocket" that way. People say, "I'm out of pocket today," and they mean you can't contact me by phone or email?

[Félix]

I've heard it used that way a lot. But I never say it.

[Phil]

Jim wrote: "::goes to run away and slips on banana peel on the floor, wonders who left the banana peel under my feet::"

::whistles innocently::

[Phil]

Lori wrote: "The new word is meme. Suddenly it's everywhere."

Spreading like a meme, is it?

Well, it is what it is.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Yes Jonathan, basically. You probably don't hear it much in the art world but in the business world, people throw around a lot of meaningless phrases.

[[deleted user]]

It hasn't made it to this business world.

[Jonathan]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Yes Jonathan, basically. You probably don't hear it much in the art world but in the business world, people throw around a lot of meaningless phrases."

We have meaningless phrases too--a lot, actually--but just not that one.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Gail, you live in a dreamy, unpolluted snowglobe.

[Félix]

I couldn't live without meaningless phrases. Just not that one.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Jonathan wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Yes Jonathan, basically. You probably don't hear it much in the art world but in the business world, people throw around a lot of meaningless phrases."

We have meaningless phr..."

I believe it. Yours are probably more likely to be academia babble.

[Jonathan]

Mostly that, yes. It happens more in writing about contemporary art than the sort of stuff I usually deal with, but empty verbiage spreads like crabgrass, and it's hard to control.

[Kevin]

they prob say stuff like "pop goes the easel" and other clever things of that nature

[Phil]

And they speak in broad strokes, with bold use of colorful language.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Or they spatter words violently, like spittle.

[Jonathan]

Lots of spittle spatter, to be sure.