Politically Correct, Oui?
Discuss Ting.

‘I love him/her to bits’

Literally

Creeper, GPOY, LBVS, Drake, Doobie

My all time No. 1 enemies:
1. It wasn’t my intention…
2. If (prefacing an apology as in: If I ever offended such and such)

transparency

look (used at the beginning of a sentence) as in “Look, Obama said that once and now every newscaster, pundit and forum host uses it to preface a point.”

I say we banish banishment!
Modo iacor (because some people don’t like kids or teens saying “JK” or “just kidding,” I changed it to the Latin approximation), although we really need to take a look at how our lexicon has evolved, and whether that evolution has really brought too many overused words. One I dislike (besides “JK”) is “What!” when used as an interjection (as in my quotation marks). Really, we understand what you’re saying without yelling it into our faces. It’s as though they’re asking us “What can you do/ say/ think/ text better/ faster than what I just did?!”
Another thing I think is often overused is the exclamation point. Must you exclaim that you know? (“I know, right?!?!” does not need the exclamation points or second question mark.)
Other than that, I think you’ve already named it: ironic, epic, and awesome were my top three.

“At the end of the day…”

Unreal

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Unprecedented
Forewarned

Just sayin’

“aye”

epic,fail and word

Noob. (Thats the Most Improperly Used Word Of All Time)

supbitches

mine is
AND…

1. Capiche
2. swag
3.double entendre

What ever.

“Awkward moment”
“Totally”
“Ironic”- unless it is used correctly
“Literally”- see above
“Legit”
“True story”
“Fabulous”
Abbreviations in general conversation (LOL, BTW…)

Back in the day

Football announcers talking about open field tackles or runs as
“In space”. There is no gravity in space nor is there oxygen, therefore
not much football will occur there.

Troll, haha.
What about “Like” and “Kind of”

how about “happy”

“No offence, but…”
“Like” (When it is not used in a comparison)

I use almost half of these words.
Ultimate, Eco-friendly, Not gonna lie, Channel your inner _______ (though usually as a joke), Organic, Swag, Actually, Hipster (I recently started using this one, also as a joke), No problem.

These lists are asinine. People should just suck it up and deal with it, they’re just words.

Just Sayin’

But then I took an arrow to the knee

Legitimate
“That’s legit, bro”

1. “In regards to” (how about saying “regarding” instead?!)
2. Irregardless (not really a word, but the world seems to think it is)
3. “Where you at?!” ARGH!!!!! How about “Whare are you?” WHY do people insist on ending sentences with “at”?! (Disregard the sentence I just ended with that word, of course.)
4. “Trickeration” (again, not really a word but ESPN analysts insist on sounding stupid by saying it ALL THE TIME).
5. “Like” as in used 45 times in every sentence spoken by any girl between the ages of 13 to 25 (or thereabouts).

I’m sure there are many others, but those are the ones I can think of now.

My bad, outside of the box, theoretically, beer-thirty.

Can anyone tell me why the word is “sightseeing” instead of “siteseeing” please?

proactive.

what about things such as the words ‘like’ or the name ‘hobo’?

“yo mamma”
“epic fail”
“we be trollin”

“Really?”

I dry heave whenever I hear someone use it like that.

My number one word is “like”. You want to know why, right. So here it is, I was at a restaurant and I heard some college kids saying….. ” Like ya man like he kicked it like extremely hard like at the goal .” There that’s my reason.

bro as in “cool story bro” or “come at me bro”

Any time they put an “s” on the end of a word where it doesn’t belong. eg:
communications, technologies, synergies, efficiencies, anyways, etc.

“Literally.”

People need to look this up in the dictionary before they use it. You did not “literly” jump through the roof, or “literally” die laughing, or “literally” urinate on yourself.

Having watched Bill O’Reilly’s show for many years, I’m ready to banish “pithy”, “dopey,” and “what say you?”

I detest the phrase; “It is what it is…”

Also, I hate the word “texted”. Tell me why it doesn’t work just to say. “Yes, I just text Bill”. or “I text you three times.”
“Texted” just sounds awkward and wrong and I even hear it in phone commercials.

OK, buy saying these words should be banned, it’s telling alot of people to stop talking. These days they are used so much, there is no point in banning them.

“happy days”

i think ‘ legit ‘ needs to go….

How did not ‘epic’, ‘fail’ and any combination thereof of these exact words not make it? Also ‘pwn’. Shakespeare is doing backflips.

“visibility” in the sense of the ability to see rather than to be seen

Quality. Quality is SO 2010. Who said epic was to be taken out? EPIC is such a cool word.

i know right, cool story bro

how could you banish SWAGG! LMFAO

“Déjà vu” is the most misused phrase in American English. To make it even worse, some people say, “Deja vu all over again.” The mistake is not understanding the sublime nuance of this French term as properly used in classic English, originally fashioned by French psychic researcher Émile Boirac. Yes, “déjà vu” does mean “already seen” but that simple idea can be expressed in normal conversation without saying it in French.

To a well educated person using the term “déjà vu” implies the special meaning coined by Boirac, opposite of “jamais vu”. Misuse by ignorant repetition of not only the wrong meaning, but exact opposite of what it was meant to convey, is spoiling this marvelous phrase. To misuse déjà vu in print, a business meeting, speech or at a cocktail party is a blunder equivalent to saying “fox paw” to mean faux pas.

“awks”

“burn” as in “ooooh, buuuuurn”

“totes”

physic and swagger and are u dumb should go

the word epic is greatly misused. The word means heroic, not awesome. When using it as “That’s epic.” it’s actually similar to “That’s heroic.” and not “That’s awesome.”

Legitimate or legit and epic

How about the phrase (on menus nationwide) “with au jus?” In translation, “au” means “with.” To say both is simply redundant and ridiculous.

1. iconic
2. Kick the can down the road. If I hear one more politician say it my ear may combust.
3. Wait – as in, “Wait, what?”

My new word to ban is “Lawl” (as in “LOL”)

Historicus, I can’t believe you are against “Deja vu all over again” — that is one of Yogi Berra’s famous quotes. It’s right up there with “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”

fer dayz
beast

Awesome, a whole list of words to use to annoy people. Thanks for submitting your own pain and suffering…just sayin’ like.

Mine are “Legit” and “Like”. First of all, both sound silly, and people use the word “like” , like, way too much. like in these two sentences, for instance. heheh

@Traveler: It’s ’sightseeing’ because one is seeing sights (things that are seen), rather than ’sites’ (places).

awkward.

please, please just erase this word, ugh.

technically. Nobody I know uses this word in fitting situations. Just today I was telling my friend that the Russian Constitution was my favorite constitution. (Russia is my favorite country.) And somebody standing next to us said “well, technically, shouldn’t it be America’s?” And once, in German class, we were split into two teams playing against each other (in one on one rounds) and we didn’t know who’s turn it was and somebody said “Technically, it’s your turn.” I have more, but I don’t want to bore you.
Well, technically…..

Just kidding!

NUMBER ONE OVERUSED AND INCORRECT WORD OF 2011: Racist

Acknowledging that there are other races or that someone is of another race is NOT racist! A friend (Friend 1) and I were trying to describe someone to another friend (Friend 2) and we said things like what she was wearing, how tall she was, her hairstyle, and around the fifth thing to come up was me saying that she was black. Immediately, everyone stopped and stared at me. Then, Friend 1 goes, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, don’t single her out for being black!” BUT THAT’S WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO! We were DESCRIBING her!

I very rarely actually hear a racist comment, but people call each other racist all the freaking time! It is so annoying!

“Come at me!” “Epic Fail” “That’s BEAST!” “Ninja.” (“How’d you do that?” “I’m a ninja!”) “That’s hot.” (said sarcastically, like when your friend makes a disgusting burping sound, you reply “That’s hot.”, to which your friend will most likely reply with something along the lines of “Totally!”) “Like, OMG! I can’t believe she, like, really did that!” (you get the point- “like” is so abused!)

Alright these are all really overused words! People need to know when it’s just overkill…

To be honest, swaggerjack (as to steal someones style), Taylor gang or die, errday, pretty much any retarded rap slang

gone/went viral

I don’t think we should get rid of words, rather speak grammatically correct English. Just my opinion, and one that I need to apply.

“cool story bro” “come at me bro” “classic” “vintage” “mi hermano” (when used in an english sentence)

i think
1. epic
2.beast
3.baller
4.Awesome
5.stalker
6.bad a**
7. monster
8.she said___
9.sexy
10.hot

are most commonly used in school, which I think is PRETTY sad i think those words should be BANISHED the most

“Literally”, “like” and “smooth” are probably the three words which annoy me the most

HAHAHA! I can’t belive “that’s what she said” was on the list XD

why do people have to think that have to rid of these words when it it the people who chose to say what they say and half the time it is what they have grown up listening to

you’re mom.

Ey Dictionary.com, I’m pretty sure you spelled Swaqq wrong. I’m also astounded that Awkward didn’t make the list.
“Yesterday I tripped in front of my teacher.”
“Wow, awkward!”
No…..

bro as in ‘you mad bro” “come at me bro” and “cool stroy bro” even though i say all these at least three times a week

No offense, but…

Mad (when used as a adjective)

I would say that the word “ironically” is rarely used in the correct context. It is a quite common word, but it doesn’t–as many think–just mean “funny” or “odd”.

Actually, defined at dictionary.com, the word “irony” means, “The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning”.

Think about this definition before you use it!

These lists are pointless and completely unnecessary. It’s just a place for people who ~don’t like certain words~ to rant like prissy little assholes about how utterly awful it is when others use them.

But I guess whatever suits your fancy…

awkward/awks. legit – legitimately. noob. troll. swagg.

For free when they mean free of charge
Podium when they are referring to a lectern

‘no offense’
‘lol’ (saying in real life, not typing)
any word that is even remotely anoying…

The word hipster is innocuous as itself but the vagabonds and flotsam of humanity that tout that word as a mark of pride should be removed from the face of this earth

both legit and legitimate.
Everybody always uses them in the wrong context.

“Fail” used as a noun.
“Much” at the end of a question (such as “Angry much?”).

scott a noob is a new person tht not inappropreit

1)LIKE 2) LEGIT 3) I KNOW HUH? 4) FOR REAL? 5) AT ALL 6) LITERALLY (used in completely opposite meaning) 7) # or “Hash-tag”

How can ‘no worries’ be on the list? Is this fine Australianism now acceptable world wide?

Please get rid of ‘going forward’.

I can’t stand the word ’sick’ being used to describe something as positive. i.e. your car is fully sick mate. It’s so stupid!

no offense

Like(when people use so many times in one sentence. e.g:
“Like, yesterday I like went to like the movie theater that’s like downtown.”

“Like”.
As in when teenagers are speaking… I have payed close attention to young people’s speech, and they can not say more than two sentences without saying “like.”
Ex: Me and my friend Miranda are like, the best friends ever! And I mean like, we spend almost like 24/7 together! And like, we talk everyday on the phone!

Ugh. Please, please, don’t abuse this word.

“Oh my God, I’m gonna die!!”

Legit or legitimate (used as slang for cool or awesome)

“Moron”, “Troll”, “LOL”, “That’s nice”, “Mhmm”, “Brosef” (as in, “Yo brosef!”)

turtles, bag, groceries

1. Boots on the ground

2. Having said that (Why not just say “however” or “Nevertheless” ?)

3. Someone mentioned “it is what it is.” I agree. Do we really need to be told that something is what it is?

4. Hello! In this case, it’s not the word, but the way it’s used and used

5. Excuse me! (See no. 4)

6. Ironic. On the other hand, it’s ironic that a web site such as this one, ostensibly in the business of promoting language and thus communication, should have a section about what words should be banned. Even in jest. In my opinion, people should be allowed to communicate with whatever words they want to use, without fear of admonishment for the words they choose to use, no matter how hackneyed or irritating. If you don’t like the way someone talks, you’re free to quit listening. Quit reading tweets. Quit reading texts. I read recently where a group of people want legal penalties for other people’s use of the word “Nazi” or words associated with the word “Nazi.” I mean, come on, that’s the very mindset of a Nazi.

All right, I’ve said my bit. Now back to the matter at hand.

7. Oh…my…..God!

8. Awesome

9. Amazing

Surely there are synonyms that could be adopted.

“It’s Deja Vu All over again.” Yogi Berra said he. “It gets late early out here.” A bit more color for free. “”It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” Another Yogi-ism we see. Yogi might have been banned in Boston, otherwise, Woof, Oui Oui!

A big peeve of mine is the phrase, “The proof is in the pudding” because it surely isn’t. If the phrase were used correctly people would know “the proof of the pudding is in the eating” – in other words, you can’t know how a pudding will taste by looking at it, only by eating it. Thus the phrase means that you can’t experience something without checking it out properly.

ban “cool story, bro”
^it gets on my nerves^…cuz sarcasm sucks this way, and if it was a cool story I’d listen to it again.

Two words from my side:

NICE – “That seems nice”, “Isn’t it nice,…”, “It looks nice….”, and so on. What does this ‘nice’ actually means. It is so general that it can be used at various places. More specific words should be used for description.

FINE – “I am Fine”, “Fine, do whatever you want”. It is more of a negative word than what it actually means, I believe. It scares me when some girl says “Ok FINE” in the conversation. Don’t really know what she meant.

“i don’t want to be mean, but…”

“I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”

“At the end of the day…”

‘Horrific’ sounds like a little kid’s word; so, not surprisingly, it’s badly overused in the media when horrible would do just fine. I

LIKE!!!!!!! (you…like….get it?)
Awesome
dude
puhleeeez
LOL

I’ve always used ’swag’ as a word that’s synonymous with ‘loot’, ‘plunder’ and ‘booty’. Huh.

“Terday” used constantly by BBC News instead of “Today”

“Fail” (especially as a noun, but is almost equally annoying as an interjection)
“Random”

I’m a middle school English teacher and these two words are easily the most overused and misused words I hear on a daily basis.

Craveworthy. Clogged. Pretty much any word on lolcats.

@Jrilett: Space more significantly means a three dimensional area in which objects or events can occur or even an area which is free to manoeuvre. Hence, when commentators use “space” they mean players making runs in that area or something like that.
Anyways my suggestions- seriously, ironic(when used incorrectly),unreal,holy,literally(again when used in a wrong context)

Unconditional as in ‘Unconditional Love’: redundant if it is conditional it is not love.
Categorically as in ‘categorically deny’ also redundant, you either deny it or you don’t.

technically

Crimbo (Chrismas)

Fun, the noun, used as an adjective, but it’s hopeless at this point: It’s so fun.
To me, that’s so error.

dear edito,
why to banish words which served their purpose in the past!

slam – specifically when used to describe political rhectoric

icon
iconic
icon
iconic
icon
iconic
baby bump
bikini body
yummy mummy
“bum” for butt
Kardashian
Snookie
Miley

“Awesome”: few things actually inspire awe in me or anyone else, especially sports figures.

And the one that really freezes my nether regions: “Literally” when it’’s not literal and should be “virtually.”

all words are cool with me even when liberties are taken with their actual meanings. what i would ban is anything written in ALL CAPS. (so annoying) and also no more than one exclamation point per paragraph, or preferably per thread. an exclamation point is intended to add a great measure of emphasis, not to be whimsically paraded around to add some kind of faux importance to what you might say. believe me, other people do not find what you say to be nearly that important:)
use words as you will but let’s respect the sanctity of font and punctuation!
(and yes, i know my lack of capitalization is annoying to some and a bit hypocritical but hey, we all have our annoying habits:)

“Hateration” please stop the fake words generation!

lol.

These words and phrases that we all love until we hate them will banish themselves and a new list of popular, and often, misused words and phrases will take their place. The annoying problem is that many people will continue to use these words after we have concluded they are no longer useful, popular, or cool. Unfortunately, this process usually takes too long and we must suffer while it happens.

Kicking the can down the road
Bottom Line
Impacted

I dislike the way “literally” has been used and abused. “Literally” means what is said is 100% accurate and it ACTUALLY happened just the way one says; people use it to mean “figuratively,” which means one is using a figure of speech to make a point or comparison.

RIGHT: If we read the poem literally, it is only about a boy on a date. If we read it figuratively, we see it as a metaphor for life.

WRONG: I was so angry that steam literally came out of my ears.

As an English teacher, I cringe every time I hear it.

As a human being, I hate “it goes without saying” because then people go ahead and say it anyway. And “I’m not trying to be rude, but…” gets on my nerves too. If you’re not trying to be rude, then don’t say the rude thing at all!

Did someone mention “good times”? Which is often repeated i.e., “Good times. Good times” and used after an anecdote. It’s funny when used playfully, but if said too often it can get annoying.

Also, “no worries”. My neighbor used to say this every time I apologize for something whether it was about forgetting to return an item borrowed, mentioning someone’s name incorrectly, or just saying something a little too forthright when involved in a “heated ” conversation.

That’s another one. “Heated”. “I was all, like, totally heated.”

I agree with everyone who mentioned “like” used incorrectly. “It was like, totally like…” ans so on. Out of all of these words, I use someone them but I cringe when I hear someone talking on the phone using the words “like” and “um” as punctuation.

1. like
2. I don’t know…like a word that sounds like like

NOT! As an expletive that somehow unwinds everything that has been said before.

Using sporting terms in business.

Lets “touch base”
I need this report “By end of play”

I find these very annoying

By the way, the official definition of “like” should be:

“What I am about to say is a hopeless cliche, but it’s the best I can do . . . ”

Also should be banned.

DELETE ALL THE WORDS!!!

Per se. People use it when they mean to say ‘precisely’, whilst the term in fact means, ‘in and of itself’.

*** nonplussed***

Please banish ‘fashion forward’! What does that mean anyway?

Legitimately. Or any form of it (legitimate, legit, legitly, etc.)

Oh, please get rid of “legit”. It’s not even a word. But how is “organic” or “bucket list” misused, overused, or abused? Also, I could fight for several of these words to remain since part of them are just connected to internet. I mean with “troll”, what would be a better way of calling someone who rights uneeded comments on a blog and just sounds ridiculous? I think it’s a creative term as a title. Of course, most of these terms should not be used anywere but the internet. If your going to ban normal words, then ban paparazzi from making portmanteaus of celebrities like “Brangelina.”

“Typically”

nucular instead of nuclear

“No problem.” I don’t like my expressed gratitude response to with “100% no problem.” If I thought it was going to be a problem, I most likely not put you in a position where it would be a problem. Like the kind folks at Chik-fi-le respond, how about “It was my pleasure!”

Fair enough. I detest this little phrase. Its used improperly and most of the time its NOT fair enough. Grrrr….

Beast….

“Just saying”

“Legit” has got to go

Epic!!!!!!!!!! I’m so tired of hearing the word epic.

The apostrophe used in the wrong places should be banned forever – common errors such as:

50’s
typo’s
tomato’s
CD’s

Arrgghh it drives me mad!

The overuse of ‘basically’ is also annoying.

“Story of my life.” This is most commonly used as a vast exaggeration. No one thing can be a story of one’s entire life. Lives are far too complex to be summed up in something as simple as a sentence.

Literally, basically, and utilized should be eliminated. They’re overused.

I absolutely hate it when people say, “But at the end of the day…”

Ahhhhh …Gets me every time!

starfish – they are not fish, they are sea stars

And guesstimate/guestimate – is that really a word now? Sign of the coming apocalypse: when gibberish becomes Merriam-Webster-approved.

I think that “I know, right?” is TOTALLY overused. Also “totally”. Also, really, seriously (is that how you spell it?) and like are overused.

Last but not the least

LIKE! This word is so obnoxious (i luv how im saying this and i am one of those people who ALWAYS subconsciously say ‘like’ in every sentence) it needs to GO!

also “huh?” (as in a question)

at the end of the day
crazy
like
quality of life

‘All new’ as in “Wednesday show is ‘all new’. Of course. You wouldn’t mix up an old story with a new one, would you? I mean the phrase just doesn’t seem to make sense. Of course, I could be wrong. My mind wanders (or wonders) sometimes because I am newly old.

I am also getting really tired of ‘at the end of the day’.

u know people r still going to say those words no matter what

I think banning words would create a kind of dystopia as Orwell presented in “1984″. Each word gives it’s own meaning, it’s own set of emotions. Banning them would detract from those emotions and the personality of the individual whose says it.

Misuse of “literally” bothers the hell out of me. “I literally jumped ten feet in the air when he scared me.” Really? Literally 10 feet? Come on. I’m pretty sure that never actually happened.

My newest pet peeve is people who misuse the word “myself.” As in, “If you have any questions, you can email Peter, Bob, or myself.” You can’t do things to myself. It’s a reflexive pronoun. Only I can do things to myself. You can email Peter, Bob, or me. Not myself. It drives me crazy. And now that it does, I see it everywhere. Seeing it in books, especially, makes me angry. Editors should know better. Authors should know better.

The word Moist is terrible. It just sounds so wrong to my ears. It should be taken out of the human language

Definitely “politically correct”.

Let’s banish “incredibly” when it simply means “very”

This is getting old Dictionary.com!!! Could we please move on from this nonsense and talk about other better topics!! I am sure not the only one who feels this way!

Not going to lie, at this point in time there are too many trolls to channel your inner peace. But in this crisis the ultimate key to no worries, is to be eco-friendly, organic, and to live your hipster life. Put that on your bucket list, for it’s the newest trend. At least that’s what she said. Actually there’s no problem at all, just keep your swag in this journey and make sure your bandwidth is sustainable. The ask is all options are on the table.
I know, right? A Nightmare.

“Absolutely” – I’ve notced, of late, almost everyone on the Dr. Phil show says, “Absolutely” to everything he suggests & it irritates me!

Rebecca:

I agree 100% about the use of “myself.”

I also do not like, “Drinking the Kool-Aid.” Most people who use this phrase were not even alive in 1978, so they have no real idea that hundreds of people, including children, were forced to drink Kool-Aid or a similar drink that was laced with cyanide and they died. It was a horrible thing; not something to trivialize when trying to insult someone.

“Gobsmacked” in British English, the most awful, over-used word ever

Nerd and geek! People get confused, it hurts peoples feelings and it frequently gets mixed up!

“Seriously?” “Really?” “Are you serious right now?” Get a lot of over-usage. I am also not a fan of any word that Rick Perry makes up.

“Beast” “Ninja/That’s Ninjee” “Powned” “Bestie” and using “OMG” “TMI” “BTW” while speaking are on my list.

Although it seemed to die down for awhile, “Bow, chicka, wow, wow” is trying to resurface, and “That’s what she said” just won’t leave.

Lastly, using the word “cereal” in place of “serious/seriously” is NOT acceptable!

“Amazing”…EVERYthing is all of a sudden AMAZING! AND: “Hero”…I am over the word HERO! ANYone who does ANYthing is suddenly a Hero! “The 12 year old girl didn’t make a sound as robbers moved through her home, where she was alone. She dialed 911 and stayed quite until police arrived…truly a Hero!”…HUH?

come at me bro?

What about ‘you know’ which many people use excessively and ‘I mean’. I cringe when I listen to some interviews on radio and TV – often more than one ‘you know’ per sentence. Thankfully it seldom appears in the print.

Most definitely LOL. I hate that term, even in a txt. People use it so flippantly, that even when they have the driest expression and haven’t made a sound for the past three hours and didn’t even smirk at the txt they received – they txt back ‘LOL.’ It’s way worse when someone is talking to you and says “LOL!” I think, ‘For goodness sakes! Just laugh!” LOL gives a really insincere feeling from being so abused and overused.
‘Like’ is also overused, especially in those either overly talkative or just plain thoughtless youth that throw it in ever third word or so.
Also the phrase ‘If you need anything, just let me know.’ That has become something people say when another is in a predicament just to make them feel good about themselves without actually helping. I mean, someone’s house had burned down and the neighbor pulled by and said ‘If you need anything, just let me know…’ and drove off. The person just stood there gaping, because basically all the person was doing was going over his checklist and as he said that phrase he felt as if he’d done his duty in offering help without really offering it. I mean, OBVIOUSLY that person needed help – his whole house had burned down!
There’s so many phrases to go through, and what’s the use of it anyway? People have their own ways of doing things, and we could talk to them till both of us are blue in the face – and they’ll still go on with misusing or abusing words and phrases. …it’s not such as life…it’s such as how most people are now – careless, independent, and calloused to others opinions.
This is the world of ‘ME’.

ah leggo

“Belligerent” does not mean drunk and rambunctious.

Hahhaahahah
Because, Well,definetly

Transitioning, efforting, and ROBUST

I can’t believe sustainable made the list! This is a word that literally needs to be used and implemented more often!!

This thread is bound to be trolled for the addition of “troll” to the suggestions list. Oh, the irony. -Me, a 13 year old guy.

I love how the majority of these words/phrases are ones used by the younger generation.

People, we talk like this because its pretty much its our own new language, I’m not saying it’s Shakespeare or anything but seriously, just deal with it. Swear down adults used to tell kids off for saying “that was smashing!” instead of “I found that enjoyable” or something, this is just the same thing but with different words.
Do we sound kind of uneducated when we say LOL you are all fails seriously – yeah. But heck, who cares? We have our slang, you had yours. Not everybody likes the new slang, but whatever, its not like you have to use it.

” you know what im saying”!

I agree with “It is what it is;” annoying and total nonsense.

Another one I hate: “(Blank) is the new (blank).” That means absolutely nothing!

Those are the two teeth-grinding examples I can think of right now.

To je idiotski!

Words to Banish in 2012:

1. Kim Kardashian

Actually, that’s the only word (well, two) I vote to banish this faithful year. The remaining quarter-million words in the English language are really quite delightful. The two abovementioned, however, make me want to banish myself.

These aren’t even words, but people still insist on using them constantly…

- Recessionista and, on that note, fashionista
- Luv
- Omgzz (especially when used to poke fun at somebody’s enthusiasm. For example, Sam says, “I love cats!” and to make fun of her, Ben says, “OMGZZZZZ I’M SAM AND I LOVE CATS!”)
- Haters/haterz
- Swagg is the dumbest thing I have ever heard
- Lawl (even in its written form)
- Za (as opposed to “pizza”)
- Photog

I also agree with what somebody said earlier, about using “that’s hot” to describe something gross another person did, often while inspecting their nails or picking their split ends or popping bubblegum whatever.

“beast” (awesome)
“boss” (incredibly awesome)
“meh” (i don’t really care)
“haters gonna hate”

“bad boy” when speaking about inanimate objects, especially food.

“Retarded” needs to be used correctly. I am tired of hearing people say “You’re so retarded!” all the time.

Moving forward- is a meaningless phrase. It basically says nothing or conceals everything. Nobody stands still. My suggestion is to embrace and employ English’s vastly descriptive language to explain the how and why of movement, change or whatever is happening.

Going forward … Argh!

“legit”
“totally”
“literally”
“awesome”
“like”
“bro”
“fail”
“skill!!!”
“sooooooooo”
“sure”
“no offense”
“ya know what…”
“I’m sorry BUT”
“Everybody’s so mean to me”
“My life sucks!”
These all bother me………

@ Creep:
I agree, the few that have appeared on this list are some of my favorite phrases and words.
Banishing words and phrases is close to banish books and censorship, both of which I do not approve of, period.

Legit. It’s the most annoying word ever

oh ya plus this one:
“it goes without saying”
cuz then they always say it anyways

Killed me to death.

I seriously call bollocks on this list. In my personal opinion, having an abundance of words available to you creates variety in a language, and using a word incorrectly eventually leads to that word acquiring a new meaning. Ban no words, just use language how you would normally use language.

‘awkward’, ‘legit’, and ‘oh my god’.

“my bad”

drives me bonkers

“legitimately,” and “literally,” should be used less often…I hear these words used all the time, and they’re “legitimately,” and “literally,” used out of context!

oh, and fanbase-based phrases, such as OMB for Oh My Bieber are annoying the hell out of me.

The only people who don’t want to hear the word “hipster” ARE hipsters. There are enough of them that there’s a word to describe them, and they hate admitting they’re NOT unique/creative/ironic/whatever-word-they’re-describing-themselves-with-now.

“No, dur,” and sick, as in cool.
Legit is getting old, too.

Ummm…, Dude…, Like
Lol…, Very…, You know
Whatever

Those are ones abrase my ear when I hear.

As usual nice article.
Thank you.

*dude
*legit
*swag
*bro
*beast

I just realized something: Because so many people seem to dislike the phrase, “At the end of the day…” they should go join Rat from Stephan Pastis’ comic, “Pearls Before Swine.” He hit a character on the head with a stick because the man used that phrase. So, if you don’t like it, just hit them with a stick!

Also, I would like to point out that I called “At the end of the day…” a phrase; most of you seem to think that it’s okay to categorize the phrases you dislike as words if the rest of the list includes words. For example, here is what Amberlynn said:
“I use almost half of these words.
Ultimate, Eco-friendly, Not gonna lie, Channel your inner _______ (though usually as a joke), Organic, Swag, Actually, Hipster (I recently started using this one, also as a joke), No problem.” “Not gonna lie, Channel you inner _______…, No problem” are all phrases, though she said she uses these “words.” This really annoyed me, although when I went back up through the comments to search for an example, I realized there actually weren’t many of you doing this.

I also agree with Allie, naming someone’s race or talking about the differences between races is NOT racist; racism is treating someone differently based off of their race, sex, sexual orientation, or anything else about them that makes them different. Ergo, Allie was not being racist.

And Ross Odom, do you know the meaning of ironic? You said:
“6. Ironic. On the other hand, it’s ironic that a web site such as this one, ostensibly in the business of promoting language and thus communication, should have a section about what words should be banned.” This is not ironic, as irony is “the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning” (as Dictionary.com says). They aren’t necessarily promoting language, nor are they banning words; they asked the readers what words should be banned. Therefore, if anyone is to ban the misuse of ironic, I think they would need to know irony and be able to correctly apply it.

Thank you for reading my rant, if indeed you did.

hah! that’s what she said is sooooo not a word!

Just as I was ready to ask if anyone here had anything better to do w/their time instead of sitting around pondering which words should be axed, I read Veronica’s choice: Moist. I loathe that word. I suppose I don’t have anything better to do with my time either–jk, oops! Just kidding! oops!

Aight, instead of alright.
Is it so hard to put one extra letter in the word?

the phrase “How come?” is my biggest pet peeve

“No, dur” and sick, as in cool.
Legit is getting old, too.
Also aight, istead of alright. Is it so hard to add one extra letter to the word?

I think we should just mix words!

Ex:Blue + Purple = Blurple

We should ban the word “Um”

My bad
Epic
Epic fail
Win
Epic win
Cool story
Takes one to know one(because basically you’re calling yourself whatever you were just called…)
HMU

Awesome

I agree that most of the words on this list and on the former list should be “banished” at least for a while, excluding “organic” and “eco-friendly” (please leave them in the lexicon, as they refer to vital issues!), although you cannot hinder people from speaking them. I am confident that their temporary absence will not lead to a dystopia, as described in a novel of George Orwell. My personal pet peeves are:

1) Curse/cuss words
2) SMS abbreviations
3) “legit”, “like”, “ain’t”, “for real”, “totally”, “seriously”, “swag”, “sup”, “hippie”, “forever”, “baby” (second sense of the word), “in oblivion”, etc.
4) “That’s what she said”
5) Typos that even some teachers make
6) Prolonged “yeah…..heh” when not knowing what else to add
7) Awkward neologisms made up on the spot, when the word that is necessary to use in a sentence is forgotten.

cupcake (its really just a insecure muffin hiding under sprinkles and frosting!!!!) cool, omg, like, why?, why me?, gawd, awesome, insane, sick (as in “Woah, sick dude!(dude is another one(so is another))), ill (should really never be used!) wow!, ughhhhhh, dreamt (or is it dreampt???)apps (why not just say utilities!?), beast, surpised, pestimestic, unibrow… and the worst of them all “SWAGGER”

I nominate ‘dollars’ for banishment. As in “We don’t have the dollars for the project.”
We don’t have the money, we don’t have the financing in place. Pull a toonie out of your pocket, you now have the ‘dollars’ but I bet it’s not enough to pay for the project., unless it’s a Tim’s coffee.

“You know”
As in: I thought, you know, that I would, you know, ask my wife about our, you know, relationship. She didn’t think, you know, that she wanted, you know, to talk about it, you know, right now. She felt that, you know, sometime later, you know, would be, like, you know, better.

No…. I do NOT “know”, you know?… that’s why you’re telling me!

One word i wish I could KILL has to be, “deets”. Really? I mean come on, doesn’t this aggravate you sooo much?! For example: “KayKay, I’ll just text you the deets later?” Or, ” Whats the deets for your party?” Even just today, my friend (friend A) were just standing around talking about another friend’s( Friend B) party. Suddenly, Friend B comes up to us and says to Friend A, “Ya know about my party right?” Friend A: ” Yeah . . . .”
Friend B: ” Kay so like, I’ll just like, text you the deets later, Kay
THERE SHOULD BE A LAW MADE SO YOU CAN”T USE THIS WORD!

Sick as an adjective for “awesome” or “cool”
Gay as an adjective for “stupid”

I want to try something. The next time I feel the need to precede something with, “It goes without saying…” I’m just going to stop there. I think it would really confuse people. Hahaha.

that’s nuts. keep the words

We should ban “I swear to God.” People say this and 9 times out of 10, they’re lying.

I’m surprised no one said “drug.” It’s the most vague, misused, abused word I know.

that akward moment when…..
stalker
stupid
idiot
oh my god
shut up
sit yo butt down
you is stupid…
I LOVE JUSTIN BIEBER
I HATE JUSTIN BIEBER
mindless behavior is epic
roc royal is mine girl
princeton is mine!
imma marry (insert name)!

these are the most irrating stuff i hear…

Oh bless her heart!

THAT WAS RAW!
awesome
epic
totally
i know right
beast
oh wow
dang
oh sh-
imma smack you in next year or next week
beastie
awwwwwwwww
like
lol
(insert name here) is fine!
your ugly as i dont know what
sit yo a** down
anyways
terrible
fashinable (is that a word???)
oh crap
HOLY CRAP
HOLY SH-
i should throw a rock at you

‘-’ a longer list

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH SAMANTHA!!!!!!!!!

nightmare

Does not a good …. make.

As in, “Speaking backwards does not a better point make.”
Why the sudden screwy syntax? I see this on blogs all the time. Ugh, blogs.

“Bleep” should be bleeped from common usage. I detest watching a censored program, not because some words aren’t offensive and shouldn’t be aired for children and conservatives, but because it makes me feel like I did in back High School–not cool enough. Okay, so I did deliberately tear the seam off the heels of my jeans so it appeared as if my boots wore them to strings, and sure, I might have cloroxed a copehagen ring in my back pocket–all so I could be a Kicker. Yes, I may have developed a tiny self-esteem issue because I was bleeped from all the other cliques and only the Kickers would have me. Words are often created and then used by the “in” crowd for the purpose excluding the “out” crowd. Then the “out” crowd find out about those secret words and start using them–it’s not long before someone suggests a banned list (probably an in-crowder). Bleep!

What about when teacher say ,”There is no stupid question”

And everybody’s favorite, “ramped up.” This is a non sequiter anyway, in that it’s a bastardization of “amped up.” “Ramped up” absolutely no sense whatsoever.

What about when teacher say ,”There is no stupid question” ?

specific

You Gotta Skate, Mojo, the phrase “uh and uh” overall, “uh”. “Wait” when talking to a higher up. Say that to your boss and you will have a relatively ticked off boss.

I think that any interjection of spanish words (besides stuff like patio) into an english conversation is stupid sounding

Not Bandwidth, because what else would you call it? Internet-speed-Ability-?

And can you REALLY ban words?

All right, then ban “like”, not as a word, but as in “He was like, like, agghhhh!”

Also ban “Random”, because it in itself is no longer its definition

No offense, but reading these comments literally made me lol. I basically agree with, like, some of them. And it’s a pretty legit article at the end of the day. But “bucket list”? Seriously? Random much? It’s not an EPIC fail, per se, but it is a fail. Just sayin’. I mean, I typically wouldn’t say that “bucket list” has really impacted my life, or whatever. It just is what it is, no worries.

Moving forward, I don’t think “swag” should be banned either, you know? But I could be wrong about that one, and if so, my bad. The ironical part is that I’m technically wrong about literally everything that I ever say. Story of my life. Good times, good times. Moist.

the word “shawty” as in slang for a girl should be banned

“and I/he/she was like,”

Oh my goodness. “Like” and “Legit” seriously need to be on this list. They are way overused, especially by kids.

akward has to be THE most overused word

at the end of the day
it is what it is
moving forward

^cool story, bro

“one of the…” (best, most, etc)

one of the laziest least noticed cliche and weasel-phrases for stupid unfocused reporters slamming against a deadline used to falsely import fact, reasonableness…worthiness of attention…
certainly one of the most disgraceful proof of the ignorant arrogance and linguistic mediocrity of many of the yapping classes…one of the most important things you will do this year is to realize this…in your daily life one of the most important actions you can ever take is to notice how this overused and under-required verbal camoflage is often used as a filler of no relevance or importance…one of the most lying imputations of authoritative statement ever used to mislead Americans ever…

awkward (unless used appropriately)

It is used so often for things that aren’t actually awkward, that sometimes I cringe when I hear it.

everyone, you are driving me up a wall. sometimes this is just how people talk. i think you all underestimate how difficult it can be to completely change your pattern of speech. while, yes, it can be annoying, you should understand that there are plenty of words that you probably abuse too, and maybe people find you annoying.

Disinterested instead of uninterested.

BANISH:

Tru dat
awesome
stupid
beeteedubs (that’s how people say it and it’s weird)
nerd

Note:
Tired of everyone saying OMG? Say OMJuice instead. it’s going to confuse everyone around you! All hail JUICE!

you can also use:
Lolephant
Idkorn
kkake
jkaramel
and a couple more I can’t remember…
OH
and
brbarbeque

I agree with almost every word that was proposed. These words do get really annoying when used out of context. Even my English teacher uses these words out of context.

“Y’know?” when said inbetween words continually in speech; it’s the new “um.” Also, same lines, “Y’know what I’m sayin’?”

“K”
It’s a letter, and though I know the original term came from an abbreviation i.e. a letter, one can’t help but hear (or see, as it often is with texts) this and imagine a limp wrist.

“To Be Honest”

Legitimate!!!!!!!! People say that wrong all the time!

Legit. That is a very commonly used word. My friends won’t stop saying it no matter how much they try.

“I legit fell down the stairs.”
“My mom like, legit yelled at me.”
“My sister is a psycho – legit.”

The issue is not the problem. Rather, the problem is the misuse of the word “issue.” Have I stated the problem correctly, or will this become an issue?

‘Just Saying’, ‘No Offense’, ‘Basically’, and ‘Literally’ are stupid and redundant . No one seems to know the meaning of the words ‘Modern’ and ‘Indie’.
‘Swag’ and ‘Hipster’ have become cliche to the point of complete incoherence.
‘Retarded’, ‘Gay’, and ‘Faggot’ used derogatorily and without literal context.
People should know the literal meaning of words they’re as idioms before they claim the figurative meaning is the literal meaning.
I’ve not spoken to one American who knows the difference between ‘British’ and ‘English’. Also, why are there so many groups of countries essentially considered to be one country? For example; Someone from any country in Latin America/West India considered to be “Mexican”.

1. Cool
2. Pathetic
3. aka

Epic and “awkward moment.”

Epic fail / Epic. Legit. For realz.

If this words that are “legitly” overused aren;t on this list, it will be an “epic fail.” “Like”, “For Realz”

The word “gay” being abused and used as to describe something idiotic or unlikable to the speaker

“I turned round and said”

“She turned round and said”

Are these people constantly spinning during conversation? :/

Abbrieviations in general.

Mad (as an adjective.)
I absolutely cannot STAND when people say stuff like “That was MAD AWESOME” or something along those lines.

>:O

PWN
Just kidding I use it ALL the time

Awesome

What’s the most annoying word?
LITERALLY.

“No, literally, she literally said hi to me, literally just this morning!”

It bugs me to DEATH.

Another phrase:
NO OFFENCE.

It doesn’t matter if you say “no offence.” People are still going to be insulted.

Would love to banish

Literally
Have a good one

i think that “cuz” is overused when people don’t feel like explaining
also, literally. people just use it incorrectly

ME:hey, why are you shooting at those cars?
PERSON:cuz.
ME:cuz why?
PERSON:cuz
ME:you better answer me CORRECTLY or i’ll hit you with this shoe.*pulls off shoe*
PERSON:are you literally gonna hit me?
ME:never mind.

Who cares. Censorship won’t stop use.

I think we should banish

1.private
2.Owned
3.Epic

Like
awesome
legit
touche

SAME DIFFERENCE

“My bad”

When did “bad” become a noun?

oh and just sayin

“Fail” used as a noun
“Epic” used as an adjective
“Awkward silence” used to describe what is just regular silence
“Random” to describe anything remotely spontaneous or unique.

fer(using it in the place of “for”)
good
the phrase”WHAT TIME IS IT????…. ADVENTURE TIME” ( HATE THAT SHOW!!)
no offense…but

1. Like!!
it is the most used word in the wrong places. and i have to admit i use it too much to.
i like the word epic ☺☻♥

um, like, and totally are soooooooo anoyinng!!!!!!! cant you think of ANYTHING interesting?

“moist” I’ve always hated that word.
Also “grody” I don’t know if that’s how it’s spelled.

1. Legit
2. Epic
3. Awkward Moment

Fail (as a noun)
Epic fail
Separating phrases into three one word sentences, e.g. “Greatest. Novel. Ever.”

these are the words and phrases i hate the most:
epic
fail
swag
chill
legit
i know, right
awkward moment

Also…

“Nasal Delivery technology”
and “Meh”

The most common, annoying word of them all is “like,” when it is used to replace mindless chatter. If a speaker feels the need to consistently insert this word in her conversation, she should tote a travel-sized thesaurus around in her purse. Because the Kardashian family are famous for this trend, they should endorse this as a new movement for better communication.

The second most commonly used word, which is not a word in the English language, is “conversated.” There are so many people who actually believe this is a true verb. Even when they type it and the red, wiggly line indicates the word doesn’t exist, they ignore it and continue to use it.

And last, the use of the word “mines.” This correct way to use this word should be a question on the ACT and SAT that appears several times. It will not shock me how many high school students (college students and adults) will get this wrong.

SERIOUSLY!!! THEY”RE JUST WORDS! geesh…
i use:
That’s what she said
I know, right?
Nightmare
Actually
No worries
Journey
No problem

and what’s ‘channel your inner __________’means?

Justin Bieber

BANISHED

I know the following words have been suggested previously, but I feel the need to emphasize the banishment of these nonwords.

1. irregardless
2. mines
3. conversate
4. unresponsible
5. texted

Like and K
Facebook and Twitter (Tweet)
the and and
Word and Comment
Sales and Money
Beast and Awesome
IPhone and Kindle

The list goes on…

“You’re Fired.” -Used in a way that is not terminating someone from a job.
“Epic Fail.” -SO sick of this.
“I know, right?” -I hear this too often.

And everyone uses these in the same tone so it’s especially annoying.

Remove
Hi

1. Homies
2. Peeps
3. Blood
When either of those are used instead of friend, it makes me cringe.
4. Blunt
It means dull, or without sharp edges, as in “He was wounded with a blunt object.”
It’s not a marijuana cigarette.
5. Like
At the beginning of every statement and in front of every other word in a sentence usually followed by
6. You know
At the end of the sentence.
7. axed
As in “I axed him a question.”
8. Honestly
Professing one’s honesty thus is akin to a shady used car salesman saying “Trust me!”

I remember taking an English Lit. class in university as a “Mature Student” well over a decade ago and I was shocked. I asked the professor, “What happened in the past couple of decades? Did they stop teaching English in elementary school?” She replied “Basically, yes!”

I agree with several posts here in the overuse of “basically.” Try this: with permission, record a conversation between yourself and some friends to see how many repetetive phrases and long, run-on sentences you and others fall into, sometimes to the point where it makes no sense. I became especially aware of this when I did transcription.

Like, ya know, I was tryin’ a say, I was gonna say, I was fixin’ a say, I was fin to say, I’ll tell you what, guess what, ya know what? Um, basically, ya understand what I’m tryna say?

I cringe at so many misuses of words (don’t say “marinate” if you mean “ruminate”) and so much incorrect grammer. “Hisself” is not a word; the word is “himself.” “An” not “a” should always precede a word beginning with a vowel, and if you make such a mistake, don’t say “my bad.”

“creeper status” and “thats beast!”

1. Heart (as a verb)
2. Like (as in “I was..like..going to..like..the store you know.”)
3. Noob
4. Fail
5. “I’m just sayin’…”

I know heart was recommended for banning as a symbol in 1984 and as an emoticon in 2009 (<3) but increasingly I see "heart" used as a verb in place of "love" (e.g. I "heart" him so much!).

I'd also like to ban the two-hands-as-a-heart symbol (with bent fingers touching and downward thumbs touching), as I've seen it used in several different ads this year.

1. Heart (as a verb)
2. Like (as a nonsense filler)
3. Noob
4. Fail
5. “I’m just sayin’…”

I know #1 was recommended for banning as a symbol in 1984 and as an emoticon in 2009 (<3) but increasingly I see it used as a verb in place of "love".

I'd also like to ban the two-hands-as-a-heart symbol (with bent fingers touching and downward thumbs touching), as I've seen it used in several different ads this year.

And how about including “As a matter of fact”

Awkward Silence

T.B. (too bad)

I just can’t stand the following words:
1) LOL
2) BTW
3) My Bad

I forgot to add the most irritating word of all times:

KEWL.. Nadir of word tampering..

Seriously?
Bro!
Skyrim
It’s so good, it’s ______
it’s so ____ that it’s not even funny

This is why i only go to dictionary.com for school assignments and urbandictionary for out of class terms.

I really don’t want to get rid of any words, except vulgar and swear words. Now those words are pointless and make you sound absolutely ridiculous… but other than that, I think it’s kind of dumb that people want to get rid of words. I’m fine with keeping “overused” words.
Whatever people…

Also, I totally agree with “SnoopDog12 on January 12, 2012 at 3:08 pm”.
Nothing more to say.

Noob; fail; bomb [as in "that's the BOMB"]; not to be….; Wait, what?; legit; To tell you the truth….; Y’know?; OMG; Jk; True That.
Yes.

“Have a nice day.”

Smarted (as in it hurt)

dictionary

hawk-ward

“ironic” for incorrect usage, “Rick Roll” or “Rick Rolled”

“Big words” referring to words too complex to understand, “I can’t wait” meaning not wanting to wait, “I don’t care” when this is uttered I think ‘If you truly don’t care, then announcing how you don’t is contradictory in and of itself by displaying enough care to show the person you’re telling this that you do care enough to inform them.’, “same difference”, “ironic” the misuse of this word has gone on far too long, “cool story bro” pisses me of so much that I make fun of the phrase in front of the people that use it by making up creative phrases that rhyme with it like ‘drool horny Moe’, “bro” and any other derivative of that term like ‘broseph’ ‘bromance’ etc., “rowdy” is so stupid sounding my little brother uses that word a lot like ‘this is some rowdy Chinese food.’ and so many more.

“go” instead of said.
“like” instead of thought or reacted.

Epic
Fail
Epic Fail
Noob
Beastly
pwn
pawnt
Apparently
pedo
“So random!”
ftw
____________
And many more.
Jeez, that’s a lot.

And, most of them are memes…maybe I just don’t like memes.

i really hate “O my gosh”

Banish ALL swear words please!! When did it become so acceptable for people to say”F” and “S” in normal conversation?!

IDK has to go ASAP

please include

poverty
politics

please include

can do…… why cannot……shhhhhhhhhhhhhh………….. sick and tired of this words………..

Really? You could’nt put this on your list? Everybody STOP asking “Really?” It’s very annoying.

As of 2012, I EXPUNGE:

+”nucular”
+”whole ‘nother”
+”irregardless”
+”munincipal”
+”volumptuous”
+ the disgusting way of pronouncing “niche” as ‘nitch’
+ vague words like “nice” and “pretty”, that are used as adjectives.

moving forward

Holistic, exactly, awesome

Abuse of the poetic “I” seen on Californian reality TV show “The Hills”.
ie.
“Would you like to come to dinner with John and I?”
Anyone who does not understand basic grammar because they were slapped around by their schoolteacher thinks they should always use “I” instead of “me”.
Please pass the salt to John and I
Please pass the salt to (John and) I
Please pass the salt to I

Aha moment

the calling of scallions “shallots”

“Absolutely” used as an affirmation

“Vista” used by realestate agents when they mean landscape or panorama

Banish “basically” and punch people who use it.

You should only use the following words if you can work out what they mean and where to use them, don’t just parrot other people who also get it wrong consistently:

“Gung Ho” – means solidarity, togetherness, especially in business. Soldiers who have too low an IQ to do a job that doesn’t entail a risk of death mistakenly used “Gung Ho” as a battle-cry and their fellow civvies assumed it meant “GO TO WAR! GIVE EM HELL!” instead of simply looking it up before starting to parrot it.

“He’s a bit gung ho,” could never, ever mean “he’s overzealous, brash, bold, aggressive etc…” therefore would never make sense as a sentence. THEY can be Gung Ho but HE can never be.

“Myriad” Only me and three other people use this word correctly, worldwide. So just give up and remove it from your so-called vocabulary immediately. Replace “myriad” with “plethora” and then you won’t sound retarded to people who have ever read a dictionary in their lives.

How about the two most overused words ever, ‘The’ and ‘And’?

They could replaced with ‘Harp’ and ‘Frond’.

Harp Frog Frond harp fish both swam in harp pond.

Trust, safe, beef, dread, come at me, pce, done in, rolled

mine is -
what ever
stalker
stupid
idiot
yo
so what?!
bit**
oh my god
like
awwwww
lol
like
i know right!!!
oh crap!
dumb

It is probably futile by this time, but “hopefully,” and “thankfully” used as an opening appositive to mean “I am hopeful that,” or “I am thankful that.”

It is what it is

Keep it moving
whatever
at the end of the day
swagger

I’m surprised that no one mentioned ‘winning’. Not to mention ‘FTW’.
Folks the English language is effectively being destroyed by it’s own speakers and native cultures due to laziness and ignorance. It’s not only a shame to fail to preserve a language, it’s also pathetic the way it’s crumbling.

bob – akward is not a word

The one word that should be removed from the galaxy is “bro.”

Clearly, many of these words should be “banished”. The suggestions offered above are probably sufficient, but I want to stress something just as important: We can’t (or cannot?) expect people to speak robotically — as if they were a mass of writers or, as some would say, nerds. There’s a difference between true words and slangisms; a slangism is never considered formal by grammarians, so it’s a bit paranoid to assume that slang is a threat to English.

Every language in the world is filled with use of slang. Why? Well, two reasons are obvious: People, especially us youth, simply don’t wish to become walking dictionaries and feel like we’re politicians in our 60’s. Is that bad? The second reason is that many languages, English in particular, are irregular and bizarre by nature (look up ‘reforming the English language’), so people like to trim them and be able to breathe while speaking. Also, recall the meaning of “lingo” — Internet chat lingo is one of many lingos that will not, cannot and should not go away, unless some of it pollutes the common language (i.e epic).

Of course, accurate vocabulary and grammar is necessary, and too many misused/abused/overused words are being seen and heard everywhere, but hey, you’re never going to kill *all* of them. I think that when it comes to speech and grammar in general, we should not only hunt down overused or obsolete terms but also work on trying to sound like normal human beings when we talk or type. I cringe when I read many online articles — not because I misunderstand them — I comprehend them — but because the overuse of a massive vocabulary and perfectionist grammar reeks of ego and condescension. Weed out the words that pollute, but keep it natural either way.

on the ground

I suppose this derives from “boots on the ground.” It should be reserved for military references, not used to say simply that someone was somewhere. Let’s also get rid of “ramp up” in the place of increase.none

“doggie dog world” is annoying enough to ban it

also “administrate,” and “I knew it”

I see what you are saying – should only be used by lip readers!

soldier

I like that Wayne State University has countered LSSU with its list of words to revive. Check out wordwarriors dot wayne dot edu

http://wordwarriors.wayne.edu/

It is what it is…………Ugh!

Awesome!
What a misuse of a word. I’ve wanted to use it so many times in stories, but I just know when it’s read back it will be given that glorious and false meaning

I dislike the word ’schwa.’ It means ‘nothing’ in Hebrew, but this is a seriously misleading misrepresentation of a quietly ubiquitous and powerful vowel.

What about in book or poetry?

DONT BANISH EPIC OR FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE NEED THEM BOTH

creeper as in minecraft players: creeper, stupid, all curse words, FATTENING FOOD

nukes too

How about “conversate,” or any of the other stupid words people use every day? What happened to good grammar? What happened to using words correctly? We have to create new words because people are ignorant of their own language. “I’m just sayin…right?!?!!

i think that lot of people say stuff like creeper and stuff like that should be band but a creeper is something off of a PC game called minecraft.

my idea of bands.
1.badush
2.ur mom
3.thats what she said
4.im running out of ieas
5.epic
6.fail
7.epic fail
8.eat it
9.squeez it
10.queerer
11.gay
12.this is geting hard
13.thats what she said

BANISH ‘SAID’!!

Most definitely, it’s EPIC.

I hate hearing this word. It sounds so juvenile.

snap

So……..if I said ‘organic’ , then some Word Police would come and arrest me? Why do we banish words? I don’t get it!

Like, hate, rap,

Like, hate, rap, epic yo,

“sort after” used by realestate agents when they mean “sought after”

Tweet
Pic (short for picture)
Swag

hello how is everybody doing today

legit and so

“It is what it is”, and “not for nuthin’”

Where could I start…

Expression: Where do I start…
-He was lost for words
-I don’t want to respond to that
-There’s so much I can say, I can write a book about it (Yeh! you can…)

-Excuse me (when someone wants to pass but can’t help but insult you along the way, as if you’re in his way)
-Excuse me? (when we don’t like something)
-Sorry to bother you, but…
-Do I know you?
-I think I’ve seen you somewhere
-Do you recognize who I am?

Ban mention of these personalities:
-Justin Bieber
-Paris Hilton
-Britney Spears
-all personalities of Jersey Shore (specially DJ Pauly D, Snooky, The Situation…)
-all the Kardashians (Kim, Khloé, Kourtney, Rob

Words like:
-Aks (instead of ask)
-You know (when we are short for a word, I don’t know really)
-You know what I’m sayin’ (no I don’t really …)
-Wicked (as in this is great music)
-This is the shit (as in this is great)
-Fab / Fabulous / Fantabulous (just for anything really)
-This is so gay (used gratuitously for labeling anything we don’t like)
-Oh boy! (as an expression of surprise or disgust)
-Man! (as an expression of outrage)
-Shut the fuck up
-Shush!
-Douchebag
-OMG (as in Oh my God or Oh my goodness)
-Oh my God!
-He was like… (and you make a face expression)

In courts
-Taking the 1st amendment
-I do not recollect
-Objection your honor

Political words
-Politically correct / Politically incorrect
-Obamacare
-Socialist (as used by Republicans in USA for anything they don’t like)

In talk shows
-He’s doing Leno tonight
-Did you see him on Letterman?
-Let me finish (when debating)
-Don’t interrupt / I listened to you, now its my turn / Let me finish
-Interviewer: what is your last word on this
-Interviewer: answer with one word, just yes or no
-Interviewer: in just 10 seconds (and the interview goes on for another 30-40 seconds)
-Interviewer: If you were on an island, what would you…

Ban all biased political pundits who have ready answers with for everything and anything on the lines Republican good/Democrat bad or Democrat good/Republican bad (I am fed up with all of them and switch the channel the moment I see them)

whisperer — as in dog, horse, ghost whisperer, etc.

Word.

“Explosive” As in the number one used word on ESPN to describe basically every athlete they discuss. Just watch for 10 minutes and it will be used 10 times. There has to be atleast one more word they can use instead.

Awesome.

me and my friend ( no comment) love to play around and be silly, so we stated M/H.S.M (middlle or High school moment) & that awakrad moment when (for example) you friend (this is a different person) steals from you and then acts like s/he doesnt have another pen to use .

>:& i hate that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“true dat”

im a teenager. i use words like these all the time. i really dont understand why adults get so bent out of shape when we incorrectly use certain words or phrases, like “troll” or “derp” or “cool story, bro”. my friends and i say these things because they are funny, not to annoy grown-ups. i feel that no word, however meaningless or stupid or overrused should not be “banished” from our vocabulary. i reserve the right of freedom of speech.
and i apologize if any of you are offended by this but this is a thing that has been bothering me for a while.

mano a mano

Everyone who uses this thinks it means “man to man”. It doesn’t.

Green, as in environmentally friendly. That’s another good one to banish: environmentally friendly. Green was also banned in 2009.

The phrase “I could care less”, when what they mean to say is a negative “I couldn’t care less”.

“hero” – has been totally cheapened to where it doesn’t mean what it used to.

“baby momma”

“props” – whatever that means!

I’m delighted to learn the word “ort” today! There is a distinction between misuse of words, and words that have become cliche from overuse. Among my top nominations for both: “Impact” and “impacted”.

I suggest two phrases: “It’s all good,” and “It’s/we’re good to go,” as well as the expression, “24/7.”

“Speak to” as a synonym for “Address,” or even “Speak about.” It makes my teeth itch!

Creeper, n00b

why is everyone here so damn concerned about the uses of words??? Has everyone forgotten that most words in the english language do if fact have multiple meanings? I mean what the hell? Most of you claim to be English language experts, yet you forget that crucial detail? Do you know what you really are? HYPOCRITES!!!! The English language is built upon multiple other languages, and is therefore capable of evolution! A word may take on a new meaning over time. That’s how English works! Stupid damn hypocrites and brain-dead English majors….

“LIKE” when used in a sentence it doesn’t belong
EPIC FAIL
RETARDED

I think we’re a bit confused, we don’t want to bannish the word Hipster, but bannish actual Hipsters.

but if I were to add to this asinine list, I would have to add the true incorrect meanings of “ironic/irony” when the subject is unusual, but not in any way ironic, and “litterally” when the speaker is speaking figuratively, practically or virtually. Exempli Gratia: “That guy’s face looks really blue, like, litterally!” These really aren’t the true meanings of these words, and in fact, their meanings are nothing close to what they’re used as.

Oh just chill!! I don’t mean banish the phrase, I mean all of you just chill!! Who cares if some words are ‘overused’ in some people’s opinions. If you are understanding what the other person is trying to communicate to you, well YAY. That’s the important thing, right? And if, in this age of electronic communication, someone throws a few more exclamation marks in, or uses caps ^ to convey how they are feeling, why is that annoying to some people? I don’t even know… Am I frosting anyone’s cookies yet? Lol! JK! Don’t be a hater! I love to have convos with expressives who decorate the exchange with words that capture my imagination and even though I don’t have that bent, as you can read, I’m just as happy to communicate with words that are a little tired and overused because my joy is simply in the relationship fostered in the heart and mind by whatever words are used to get us there. I’m not saying to not have fun with words, heck, start a new fb fad phrase, by all means, but chill out on the banishment mission! What’s next? The ‘feelings’ punctuations? <3

Please banish “absolutely!

” My Bad “, “You know”, “see what I’m saying”….. PLEASE! … I know English is an ever changing, always evolving language, but some words or phrases come and go and fail to take root for the long term. I’m hoping that these are future members of that group.

As far as an older word that seems to be favored and overused in commercials and by the media idio … by the media is “hurtful”(1530-1540).
I hate the word. It’s hurtful to me.

Banished word suggestion … please stop people from saying everything is ‘awesome’ … it simply cannot be!

look…words are just words. Words like nightmare we use EVERYDAY!!!!
if you ban ANY words ban cuss words or words so simple that no one ever uses them. like “pretty”

Ban ‘utilize”, and utilize “use” instead; I have not seen a single instance where ‘use’ could not be utilized in place of ‘utilize’.

noob… the most annoying word and very frequently used wrongly and “awk,” as in a shorter word for awkward. Can you really not say awkward? It’s only one more syllable.

I suggest “quality” when misused by sports announcers and others, as in, “quality player or quality shot”. What they really mean is high quality, but are too stupid to know it. Secondly and worst of all: “everything happens for a reason”.

Seriously though, people are still going to use words whether you ban them or not…this is SOOO stupid….

HA! I said stupid….I’m a criminal… put me in jail for saying a WORD!!!!

@Cruimh- You obviously have not spoken to me, because I know English is a language, British a nationality, Mexican describes the people of the country Mexico, and others are Latin Americans if I don’t know where they’re from, just not Mexico. Wow, that sentence was long and rambling.
@Michael Stein- When people separate a phrase, usually three words long, into three sentences, they are usually trying to show emphasis. Your example says, “Greatest. Novel. Ever.” What is happening here is that the speaker is trying to emphasize how great the novel is- though I doubt any one novel could be considered the absolute greatest ever, as times and tastes change.
@Lucarleigho- It’s not just the older generations that “get bent out of shape” when young people say these things- it’s your own generation as well. For example, I am only fifteen years of age, and yet I, too, am annoyed by the misuse of certain words or phrases. When someone close to my age uses them- or rather, misuses them- adults tend to generalize it into all teens say these phrases incorrectly.
And for a personal statement of mine, i would like to agree with those of you who suggested banning swear words, curse words, or cuss words, however you phrased it. If you can’t think of anything to say that does not involve a curse, then simply don’t say anything. Swearing is a sign of low intelligence, a lack of creativity, and low moral standards, and I would appreciate it if we could all learn to curb such thoughtless vocabulary.

To everyone taking this list seriously, I laugh at you. This is just a joke. Y’all need to chill, literally chill and go do some trollin’
Ironically some people added phrases to the word list and technically they shouldn’t do that, I’m just sayin’.
And I agree with Meh:
“Awesome, a whole list of words to use to annoy people. Thanks for submitting your own pain and suffering…just sayin’ like.”
Looks like this article if fixin’ to go viral!

It’s refreshing to see so many people voicing passionate opinions about words! (Unless you’re all English majors. In that case, my advice is to get a life.)

All I really want gone is that awful “Arrow to the knee” joke, that has been overused exponentially in a short timespan. It should not only be added to a list of banished words, but should also be added to some form of “atrocities to mankind” list.

Greta VanSusteren says “candit” instead of candidate and “senter”. instead of senator. This drives me figuratively up the wall.

Ghetto in the context of
“That was so ghetto the way he beat him up!”

Sexy is a really overused (and misused) word

THAT WAS SO INTERESTING

Starting a sentence by “to tell you the truth….”
what? you lie before that??
hmmmmm – makes u wonder…..

i think we should banish the word impossible because with me around, there is no meaning for it.

~Chuck Noris

“In fact”
“of course” (as in: unless, of course…)

I’ve been told Americans, the U.S. variety (not Canadian, Middle or South), can always be identified because we use the word, ‘UH,’ so often. Instead of sitting quietly–while considering an answer or response–we will fill the silence with a word that, I suppose, means everyone else should wait patiently for our answer, before they speak. We say, “uhhhhhhhhh…”

So I, uh, have tried to, uh, eliminate the word “UH,” from my vocabulary. Uh, well, except for when I’m writing something like, uh, dialog in, uh, a story. Uhhhhhh… you get what I mean, right?!?!

For Real? This annoys me to no end. I always respond with ‘No, for fake.’

I love saying ‘No worries’ as opposed to the overly used ‘No problem’.

The phrase “That awkward moment when…..”

“Know what I’m sayin’” and “See what I’m sayin’”

Also, Execute, as in “execute our strategy” esp. when it really means “execute our employees”

“Story of my life!”

“Green” (when used as a synonym for environmentally friendly) IT IS JUST A COLOR

“_____ much?”
Used whenever you do anything. For example when you are very thirsty and you are drinking a lot and somebody says “thirsty much?”.

“Well that’s a whole nother story”

What’s “nother” exactly? Or is it “nuther?” My auto spell check is not allowing it, but is struggling for alternative suggestions…

Seriously? Seriously.

(I mean…seriously!)

Ironic/Irony/Ironically (Most people don’t use them correctly anyway.)

Okay, this has to be one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of. People misuse words, therefore, we should stop using them?

In that case, let’s banish the word “seen” since so many people say “I seen” instead of “I have seen” or “I saw.” Or maybe “much” (“too much stairs” as opposed to “too many stairs.”) Maybe we should just start actually teaching people how to use the English language instead of going “omg you misuse wurd lets banish it!11!1!11″

Using “Homeopathic” in place of “natural,” “organic,” or simply “healthy.” It means none of these things and in fact the practice of Homeopathy has no merit beyond what Voodoo or Witch Doctoring might offer, in other words, no scientific basis whatsoever. (Thank you Dr. Andrew Weil) If you see “homeopathic remedy” or some such on a label, put it down, go home, and drink some tap water.

Why banish a word?
Is it that you can’t deal with our language moving on or evolving?

To be honest the word swag is over used and made lame. I think we should just stop using it……..

Hubris, Chagrin, Ephemeral, Transcendent. I haven’t witnessed a single usage that didn’t result in a swift punch to the mouth.

I have my own opinion. No words should be banned. I think that people should be able to say anything they want using any words they want. It doesn’t matter if a word is overused. What matters is that we use correct grammar. Does it really matter if someone says cheese or Bob too much? Many people think that ‘like’ is an overused word, but I view ‘like’ as a thinking word. Words like this include ‘um’ and ‘uh’. People say like when they don’t know what to say. There is also slang. If you think about it slang is it’s own language. There have been many languages that have used grammar and even words to build new languages. English itself was built using grammar and words from other languages. Would you like it if someone came and said that English should be banned because it was created using other languages as roots. That is what’s happening with slang. Slang is just a language that is in the process of building. It may seem impossible now but someday the slang we use today could be a language of it’s own and be taught in schools if we let it develop. If you want to object give me a language that was once turned down but is now spoken and taught in schools. Yeah, there aren’t any. So if there aren’t any why should slang be turned into a collection of incorrect words. German people probably see English as a bunch of blah, blah, yadda, yadda, and they don’t say that it’s incorrect and ban it and vice verso. So then why should we ban slang. Russian and English words and grammar way different and I should know because I speak both. So, again, WHY SHOULD WE BAN SLANG. DOES ANYONE SEE WHAT I AM GETTING AT SLANG IS JUST A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE!

Could we ban the word Tebow? Talk about being overpublicized. I have nothing against the Broncos or the player either. I just can’t believe how much I keep hearing and seeing that name.

WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO BAN SO MANY WORDS! Have you ever noticed that ‘why’ is a word that is made completely out of consonants and doesn’t sound like dsqythnmhgtlkpdcvbzxqrwytfh?

literally!

“Anonymous on January 13, 2012 at 5:58 am
‘doggie dog world’ is annoying enough to ban it”

Before you can say anything about this one, you have to know how to put to together correctly.

“Dog-eat-dog world,” meaning “every man for himself,” similar to “eat or be eaten.”

I agree with Creeper god that swear words should be removed and replaced with funny words, like:
“What the frog?”
“Son of a taco!”
and all that.i also think these should be removed:
-Mum (As in “Mom”That is first on my list”)
-voucher (Sounds like a bad word)

“My bad”

“Just sayin’”

“Really?”

“S’all good”

All of the above make me wince inwardly when I hear them… which is a lot.
I agree with Sue with “props” – just what does that mean?

Ya know
Seriously
and any swear words.

Reem, totes, amaze, amazeballs and other such nonsensical words do my swede in.

@alex: not nice. you can’t say that everyone are “brain-dead english majors” when you do not personally know ONE person who wrote a comment. People are simply putting their opinions about words they do not like. And next time you try to bust someone else for English, check your punctuation, you forgot a few commas…

Anyway, I don’t like the word “legit” and how people overuse the word “like”. I know people do because I do it myself.

Stupidest this I have ever read. Go get a life morons.

x all the y’s!
for example when someone drops their phone say “drop all the phones!”

alex…how are these people hypocrites?

Anyway, (and that could be one word up for deletion) I nominate “iconic.”

@ Liberto

I agree; you have a very noteworthy point there. While we should strive to use articulate vocabulary in order to convey our messages in a more detailed manner, I still think that we (English speakers) should sound like we would in everyday speech, especially in writing. Who wants to read a book/article/essay with no voice? If I read something, I want it to sound like the person who wrote it is talking to me, but using articulate vocabulary at the same time. So, to some extent, the “banishment” of certain words is okay, as long as we don’t use so many polysyllabic (is that how you spell it?) words that we sound like walking dictionaries.

So, what are some words that we should try to stop using as much in 2012?

-”He/she was like” instead of “He/she said”
-”I KNOW, right!” How about “I agree!” instead?
-Whatever happened to “totally?” Should that come back?
-”pretty much”
-”I’m good”
-”I don’t even, like, KNOW”

“Awkward moment”
“Totally”
“Ironic”
“Literally”
“Legit”
“True story”
“Fabulous”
“For real”
“Dude”
“What the heck”
Oh and don’t ever forget the worst: “TROLL” or “troll face”

These all annoy me so much.

these are not bad words get your head on straight and get a life live with the words what do you mean troll is a bad word

“Couch” (And I don’t mean sofa.)

1. Hipster
2. Whatever (used as a rhetorical comment.)

I don’t mind the use of these words, I just mind the OVERuse of them. The worse is when they are overused incorrectly. Not because they want to use it that way but because they just lack the knowledge of what they actually mean.

All of you guys suck balls because you want to remove awesome words. What’s wrong with you people? Just get a life noobs! TROLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Fail- overused
your- misused
black- abused and misused(people regarding it with a type of person’s skin)

legit

Hypocrites, brain-dead and big mama. I mean, really people. WHY?!?!

I think the issue that grates on me the most is the lack of knowledge of the actual meaning of many words. I happens in every age group I have run across and is a particular torch I carry in raising my kids. I just wish I had the nerve to turn to more people in random conversation and ask them to look up the actual definitions of the words they are using incorrectly. I fully agree that language should be an evolving growing living thing, BUT massacring language out of sheer determined ignorance is not evolution. Obviously all of us here know that dictionaries are readily available. Maybe instead of banishing individual words we should encourage more people to develop their vocabulary through reading and discourage verbal laziness in general.

legit should be banished

Here is a short list I compiled without the walls of my house surrounding me, In the open air of the outdoors:

Gross and disgusting
Like
honestly
I dont know?
Bored
Terrible
and, um

There is many more abused, overused words,wors are exiting and people should embrace them more for they give true power and joy.

Awesomeness
Boss
Beast
“gay” to describe something you don’t like

I don’t how old people are on here, but I’m 14 and these irk me every time I hear them. :/

“crumbing”.

this is the list of words i will be using specifically for 2012

Ugh, this has to be, by far, the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. They have to be playing all of you only to see what you would do. And unfortunately, you didn’t disappoint. You fell for it. They must be having a great laugh over this.

Many of the words and expressions these nitpicking zealots have taken exception to represent minor transgressions and are for a large part innocent turns of phrase, the true meanings of which are commonly understood without the need for explicit elucidation. Do we forget that English is full of such turns of phrase – or do we have a list of those that are acceptable to us on the basis of their tenure? Can a select few appoint themselves the arbiters of selection into the library of new and emerging idioms, when in fact an idiom becomes such by repeated use among the masses?

In addition, please try not to get your knickers in a twist over words and phrases that are borrowed from subcultures and that only appear on our radar for the short time that people identify with these subcultures – as an example, “noob” has been borrowed from the computer gaming culture and probably won’t be around forever, okay?

Folks, why not take my lead: I’m off now to do something fun with my time. I may even lol as I do it.

I have to say this. I think we have more important things to worry about than banishing words, and I agree with alex. The English Language was made so we could change it, and make it what we want. We grow, it grows with us. That’s all I have to say.

Lifestyle

Let’s give a rest to nouns used as verbs; sorry, I’m old school. If one receives a gift, just say “thank you,” not, I was gifted with… One receives, one gives thanks. It’s a noun not a verb.

I want it so bad!

This phrase is so overused on TV, it is beyond annoying. And being grammatically incorrect, it perpetuates bad grammar among viewers. Repeating this phrase in it’s grammatically incorrect form has now become a fad!

I think we should banish the phrase “Turned around and said…”
The reason for this is because I am deaf and I need to lip read, I know it is not literal (most of the time) but I do not understand why people are always turning around to say things….

Ah, it’s just me then?

I have to agree with Alex….most people don’t even realize the meaning of the words they speak. I’d be more inclined to just banish ways of thinking before words….

So cute.
Like.
Every single four-lettered profanities.

@Alex. On my view, by banishing these words, it provide us, the students, more challenge when we want to write an essay or poem and the likes without using the generic, overused words. It is not on a global scale. Just personal challenge or opinion.

I am so sick and tired of hearing an individual use the phrase “…so your saying that they need to amalgamate their excretions”. This is in reference to someone “getting your crap together”. This same individual uses such high profile vocabulary to impress others. I have heard others mention that using these high profile words main purpose is to impress ladies at cocktail parties. Such words as stochastics and fibonacci. I myself do not boast at having a masters degree, but come on people, a person does not have to use difficult to understand vocabulary that 99% of the general population does not understand to get their point across. I would make the diagnosis and cannot really do so without an in-depth research project, but these people who purposely talk like this are either super intelligent, or insecure or possibly both. The choice is yours.

post-racial

all-new
I thought to myself
having said that (or any of its variations)

“That’s what she said”
“I see what you did there”
“Bro” or “man” used as prefixes (ex: “bromance,” “mancave,” etc.)
“I don’t always ____, but when I do, I prefer ____.”
“Tebow” when used as a verb
“Occupy”/”The 1%”/”The 99%”

Unacceptable when used by politicians , but what’s the alternative intolerable? Seem too severe..Thank

“It is what it is”…has to be the most over used innane and ignorant phrase ever. It’s use only serves to make the point less clear, the user sound as if he or she is only good at copying someone else’s catch phrase.

My biggest pet peeves (Hey… “pet peeve” is another one!):

“Outside the Box”

“Supposably” (instead of “Supposedly”) – “supposed” (an adjective) and “suppose” (a verb) are two different words, and should be treated as such!

“I seen” (should be “I had seen” or “I have seen”)

“Ain’t” and “T’ain’t”

But that doesnt leave out the fact that some words and phrases are commonly abused, like;
i know, right?
duh!
pffft
oh my god
what’s up? (i feel like saying “duh!” for that)
The phrase which appals me most is, Änd I was like, whatever!”

Just sayin’

Worst ever = “Know I mean?”

you think?
or
you think…?
or
ya’ think ?

just try to teach your AI ( artificial intelligence ) bot .. that concept.

I would ban:
‘Window of opportunity’; ‘We have your best interests at heart’; Green jobs’
‘Smart sanctions’; ‘Peaceful religion’; ‘honest politicians’; ‘Arab spring’ as a reference to progress towards democracy.

its funny cause……..

Irregardless.

The correct term is Regardless. The ‘ir’ is superfluous.

“incredible” — as an example of a perfectly good word hackneyed beyond the pale.

you deserve . . . . as in . . “get the (product being sold) that you deserve.” It suggests that just the act of breathing grants you special status.

Certain sayings are just extremely annoying and should be banished on principle. Such as: “back in the day” and “whatever.” Irksome.

A novel idea; with a twist. I love all words; yes, indeed. I believe banishing a word is like burning books. A person might use different words for different reasons and mostly to fit in with the in crowd at the time the word was used too much. When spoken words are used over and over again, it is annoying especially if the word they are using has no purpose in the statement they are making, in small talk. I dislike all abbreviations, all of them, lol, replaced hahaha, and the word like could be replaced with the word love. Is love over used or abused? No word is abused in my thought process, speaking is a way of communication, and for those individuals who choose to use the most popular in any given year, that’s their choice. Eventually, another will come around, and so on. The word brain dead would be my choice of words to use less frequently as it has a meaning that I feel is undesirable and equal to the word stupid. The mere reference of the word, stupid or brain dead amounts to lack of judgement by the person they are talking about, or saying it to in person. Like is ok, so long as it’s not used continually in the same frame over and over again, like, yeah…Thank you. All words are welcome, some need updating, and others more kindness long term. At least we know what the person means when they say the over used words.

alex, I don’t know that anyone here claims to be an expert. But EVERYONE should be concerned about the use of words, because that is the only way people can communicate. When a word has no fixed meaning, it means nothing.

i say foshow is overused

Jeez, it’s just words.
Can’t you just suck it up and live with it?
It’s just this thing called the English Language, y’know?
Don’t like it? Speak French.
’nuff said.

Awesome.
If the pizza was “awesome,” how do you describe the Grand Canyon. Use a real word, people! “Awesome” is used automatically when people don’t want to take the time to think up anything else– even something as simple as “thank you.”
“You put gas in the car? Awesome.”
“The cheerleaders did awesome [sic] at the game last night.”
“Stevie ate all his peas!” “Awesome!”

Whoever wrote this is stupid. You clearly don’t spend time in places like high school or college. Here are my problems with this stupid list:
Some of our favorite suggestions for additions are:
Ask (as a noun)- Never heard that
Bandwidth- Rarely hear it, and when I do, it’s necessary
Ultimate- I’ll give you this one, though it has died down a lot.
Eco-friendly- Not really used correctly. A set definition needs to be created.
Not gonna lie- Died down a lot.
At this point in time- Not that common
Troll- Trolling is fun
That’s what she said- Most are stupid, some are funny
Channel your inner _______ – Okaaaaay… no idea what this is. Rarely hear it outside of people meditating.
I know, right? – I agree
Trend (verb) – Why shouldn’t it be a verb?
All options are on the table – Well, if they are on the table?
Bucket list – What’s wrong with that? I’m sure every one has one, written or mental.
Nightmare- Rarely used unless someone actually had a nightmare. And anyways, that’s just judging people. You don’t know what someone’s personal nightmare is.
Crisis- depends on your personal definition.
organic- A legal definition needs to be made
Swag – HATEHATEHATEHATEHATE
Actually – Meh sorta.
No worries – phasing out.
Key- I like using keys.
Hipster – Hipster is an oxymoron. They’re all the same.
Journey- Is a trip
No problem- There’s not always a problem.
Sustainable- Needs to have a set definition.

The ones I said need to have a set definition, is so companies don’t just do a little recycling and claim to be Eco- friendly. Because being environmentally aware is very important.

And welcome to the age of the internetz people.
You can has a brain plz?

Well, sense everyone else is just putting words/phrases they don’t like (for the most part), I happen to hate the phrase “nevertheless”. That phrase just makes NO sense to me (and also my history teacher way back in eighth grade used to use it ALLOT). So I banish thee: Nevertheless!

“arguably”–it means that a point could be argued or questioned, not that it is definitive

“could care less” : should be “could NOT care less”

“knock yourself out”: frequently used when what is meant is DON’T knock yourself out or don’t be concerned

ALL THE KIDS WHO MADE FUN OF ME IN HIGH SCHOOL USED THESE WORDS AND THEY MADE FUN OF ME AND I’M IN COLLEGE NOW AND THIS IS THE WAY I VENT BAWAWAWAWAWA OH MY GOD WHY CAN’T I MAKE FRIENDS OH MY GOD WHY DO THEY ALWAYS MAKE FUN OF ME

“… , as it were”

Thrown in by certain teachers at the end of pretty much every explanation. It adds nothing to the sentence and actually has no meaning in most cases… It just gets very very very very very very very very repetitive.

Fashionista, recessionista, or indeed anything-ista.

To Ben: I agree with the mis-naming of things (i.e. scallions. Which are called spring onions in England, by the way), presumably because people think it’s clever to use words which they don’t really know, to impress other people. It really isn’t.

To Allie: I am astounded that there are other people who see sense! It has become fashionable to be seen to be Politically Correct, which has unfortunately resulted in many vocabulary-blunders (How to phrase it?). Also, something which is rife in England, is that whenever someone indigenously English makes a joke – or not – about a foreigner, he is reprimanded. Foreigners rule the roost. I read a story about someone’s (white, fair haired) daughter who was sitting on the train opposite a couple of (black) girls. One girl said to the other: “She looks just like my Barbie!” The daughter replied: “And you look just like my Golliwog.” It seems that spite runs in both directions.

To everyone who thinks banning words is a pointless idea: I agree that trying to rid the world of slang is a foolish idea, but half of these words are not slang. They are mis-used words or phrases which result in awful grammar and a lack of meaning. If Hot Word (who wrote the article) wants a revolution, he can write to the government and ask for an Education Reform. And that’ll never happen. So we can just sit tight and teach our children proper English. Even if it’s American English.

And thanks for reading the rant. But I don’t think it helped anyway. No one can solve a global-scale language problem!

i seen it
ginormous
i don’t have no money…correct way, I don’t have ANY money.

Oh, and racist…because racial humor isn’t necessarily equated with racism, a term defined by a HATRED for other races rather than simple recognition of the tendencies of a different culture or race. People’s accents, clothing and otherwise unfamiliar practices from their culture will provoke reactions of humor, curiosity and hesitancy. (Misused and abused)

There isn’t really any words I want banished as long as they are used correctly and spelled correctly. Bad spelling ticks me off.
Example:
Friend: Does he go 2 r scool?
Me: * Does he go to our school?

legit. I hate that word with a passion D<

Some of those words shouldn’t be banned, people should start using them properly. Other than “swag”. When people say “swag” I think “dolt”

I think the expression “shut up” should be banished. Why would anyone use those words to express interest in what’s being said?

Words are words to me but yeah I can understand how irritating some can be. Freedom of Speech (if it’s even real) changes with the times just like everything else.

My favorite is ‘LOL’
Short and sweet

why do people even start this conversation in the first place? ppl r alwys gonna use words like tht as long as theyre popular so deal wit it

“Arrow to the Knee”

“Honestly, though”, “raw”, and “flame”

“As” for “Because”

“Invite” for “Invitation”, “Quote” for “Quotation”

“Epic”, “Tragic”, “Ironic”

Chill, bro, dude, boy

“Epic,” “Fail,” “Epic Fail,” “Lolwut?” “Lolumad?” “Thumbs up if you’re watching this in 2011, 2012.” “I used to…then I took an arrow to the knee” (most people who use that last one don’t even know where it comes from and yet like sheep, they use it anyway). Anybody who uses any of these terms is a moron.

Most of these words are perfectly legit, but nevertheless, haters gonna hate!

“No offense, but (something offensive)”

Oh, and “expotential.” This is not a word. It is EXPONENTIAL.

“The awkward moment when….”

I think it’s ironic (and I do mean that literally) that people are here complaining about the misuse of words–and then saying who’s when they mean whose and it’s when they mean its and they’re when they mean their. FRUSTRATION!!!!!

“brosky.” “Bro” was bad enough. Where does “sky” even come from? I AM FEMALE! DO NOT CALL ME BRO! And pwn. if that’s even spelled right. and of course- any variations.
-pwn
-pwnd
-pwnage

Christi Noyes comment was completely and utterly stereotype! i am 14 and i do NOT say “like” at all in a sentence, much less 45 times.>=-l Christi u really need to make sure you say “some, most, the better amount of,” or something to that extent because it’s not all of us, for example i don’t know a single girl who says “like” all the time.=-)

“awkward” needs to go. Badly.

my friends made fun of me too

back in the day

also, I completely agree with you Castilda about “could care less.” I laugh and cringe simultaneously when people say that, because they don’t know that they actually mean the opposite of what they’re trying to say when they say that.

Please rid the world of “anytime soon” anytime soon.

LEAVE THIS OUT:

MINECRAFT

obviously
because
duh
lol
literally

I think “beast” or “Boss” could use some time off around me sincec it sonds so weird (used as adj.). Also, technicaly is in need of repasement.

BEAST- amazing, great, awesome, inspirational, fantastic, exciting
BOSS- the beast, first, top, the razz

“aks” FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD, IT’S A SSSSS K
“fass, pass” PUT THE FRIGGIN Ts AT THE END
“pacific ” THIS “SPECIFIC” WORD IS

Words I want to people to stop saying. 1. Haters 2. Duh 3. Sexy 4. Well yeah 5. Like 6. Swagga (used in a wrong way in other words used inpropley it really means personalty) 7.Omg (teenage girls cant get on the phone without saying “O..M..G REALLY) and worst of all young money/mula

Please one that I found very annoying is:

‘down to earth’
‘mate’
‘easy going’
‘lay back’
‘just’

it seems like a few of us are overreacting.

The point of words and language is to convey meaning to each other. No matter how overused or annoying you think a word is, if it gets the point the speaker is trying to make across, what’s it matter?
And the fact is, if a word is actually used incorrectly, so what? Words are defined by what people define them as. So if I say “irregardless” instead of just “regardless” so what? Everyone understands. Therefore, the word “irregardless” exists, as defined by English speakers, to mean regardless.

These words should not be blamed for their misuse, overuse, or abuse. And by extension, they should not be on trial. Said misuse, overuse, and abuse, while in many ways constituting legitimate grievances, is only the fault of the people who perpetrate it and the society/societies that spawn them. If the OED is going to add new slang terms and colloquialisms to its canon every year, I’d like to think that it would have more stringent standards for deleting words from the same canon. This list is based on the same pop-culture-obsessed ridiculousness that led to the aforementioned misuse, overuse, and abuse in the first place. if these “words” are so problematic, shouldn’t it be incumbent upon the rest of us to use them properly so as to restore their full and deserved meaning and significance? Words, languages, and communication itself are meaningless abstractions, mostly of the human mind; can’t we all acknowledge that and move on? If anything, words and phrases that gain certain niche importance (BY THE WAY–”NICHE” AS AN ADJECTIVE= REAL GENIUS) should be regarded as opportunities, not nuisances. I hate the hedonistic excess, undeserved egomania, and poor grammar of the Internet culture as much as the next guy, but banishing words from our own accepted canon, which is completely arbitrary to begin with, is not the way to the solve the problem.

By the way, I’m a big grammar nazi/faggot; I get it. Please don’t hate on me too much. Although I also understand and accept that me saying that constitutes an open invitation to hate on me as much as one possibly can. And I mean mean. Dictionary.com rules!

Some of these words are just plain stupid to ban. I mean stuff like “No Problem”, “Ultimate”, “organic”, and “At this point in time” are ordinary words that are going to be used whether you people like it or not. Some of these words, like 2 or 3 of them, make some sense to put on the list. The rest make no sense since everyone always uses them.

“can i get” should be banned . The correct tern is “could i please have”

I’m going to take a controversial stance on the use of the word “literally”.

An earlier poster gave an example of “I was so mad steam literally came out of my ears.” as being wrong and worthy of banishment. I emphatically disagree.

No native English speaker would misunderstand this phrase to mean *actual* steam came out of someone’s ears. Therefore, there is no danger of miscommunication when using it this way. Pretending the steam is literal allows for a certain metaphoric charm that would otherwise fall flat. What’s the alternative? “I was so mad figurative steam came out of my ears.”? Huh? Wha? I would like those who prefer to use this wording to explain just exactly what “figurative steam” is.
(Never mind, you might as well just say “I was mad.” and leave it at that.)

I believe that people who feel the need to flag the use of “literally” in a metaphor are not doing it with any hope of actually improving the English language, nay, they are only doing it to pat themselves on the back for being smart enough to catch someone in a technicality. Well, refusing to use literally in a more generous sense may identify you as being smart, but it also identifies you as being boring and pedantic.

I think we need to banish people who keep trying to ban the figurative use of the word literally!

Pretty interesting, banishing words. I don’t think we should banish any words ’cause we use them to express our feelings, etc.

1. I don’t want to say _____
2. heavenly
3. divine ( adj.)
4. I’ll take that as a complement
5. Ultimately
6. Oh My !!
7. Jesus
8. Crisis
9. Epic
10 . Tweet
11. Text
12. literally
13. austerity
14. Salafi/Salafists
15. Radical
16. Democracy
17. Free-Market
18. Ridiculous
19. Fly
20. Green
21. XO, S&M, OMG, LMFAO, (all new abbreviations)
22. Swagger like a Dagger/ Mick Jagger
23. South Sudan
24. Arab Spring
25. Protest

I thnk all these words mean something different from one person to another.. or now they have different meanings …

Thank YOU,

Blackjezuss

I cant believe that the word ‘Fabulous’ or ‘fab’ has not found its way on to that list so please banish it asap

Why banishing words?
Language is about communicating. If others can understand, what is the point of standardize everything. By the way, some slangs we use today may be in danger of someone’s banishing 5 centuries ago. It is the characteristics of language that it develops together with people’s talking habits.
This activity is really unnecessary.

Guys. I think you’re forgetting one of the most obvious ones.
“doe.”
Since when is it necessary to end every sentence with….
“wearin this tonight doee♥”
“why you so cute doee?:*”
“lol shut up doe”
This word should obviously be banished…doe :3

recent years, definitely “Twilight”, “Edward” and “Bella”.

Please banish “went missing”. How did that start? Sounds so dumb!

WICKED…. and using all caps…. Why hasn’t anyone written wicked?? I am hearing it ALL the time and it’s driving me bazook…Does it just take a long time for Floridians to catch up???

At the end of the day…

A dead horse beaten beyond all recognition, this cliche needs burial.

‘It is what it is’

i think that we shouldn’t banish anyy words i think it’s stupid to do so and who cares if people use those words!!! if it gets on your nerves then get over it!!! no one cares what you think most of the time!!!
SO…

GET OVER YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Legit.
Ugh, that word.

‘To be honest’

Ten Items or Less (it’s ‘fewer’ and only one letter more than ‘less’. A store manager told me it’s ‘less’ because there wasn’t enough room on the sign.)
For sure
Absolutely

Please banish people starting answer to questions with the word “So”. It is so annoying and comes over to me as really rude.

‘Baby Mama’

________’till I took an arrow to the knee.

I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee

@King Viz regarding ‘Gung-ho’
Dictionary.com’s definition:

gung-ho
   
adjective
1.
wholeheartedly enthusiastic and loyal; eager; zealous: a gung-ho military outfit.

literally
thing is,u can not just erase certain words from our vocabulary

“Gay” when it’s used with it’s slang meaning.

@T Jennifer Strong:

‘Nother’ is a word. Dictionary.com. Look it up.

@Sean

““Supposably” (instead of “Supposedly”) – “supposed” (an adjective) and “suppose” (a verb) are two different words, and should be treated as such!”

Sean, Sean, Sean. Supposably sounds incorrect but it is a word. Supposedly can be used interchangeably with supposably. I can’t bring myself to say it but it IS a word. Thesaurus.com. Look up ’supposedly’ and see what you find as a synonym.

“I don’t want to offend you but…”

It’s funny because “fail” isn’t on the list…

The 17th-century verb endings “-(e)st” and “-(e)th”, as well as the forms of the pronoun “thou”. More often than not, when they’re used, they’re used wrong. Just this week, I saw a newspaper article headed “Icemen cometh”–plural subject, singular verb.

“U Mad Bro” or “Cool Story Bro”

“Hear, hear !” – unless your writing of the good old days of merry.

No offense.

reem :/ should be eradicated

and “thats bear good” hate it !

I have seen many people, out of their ignorance, misuse the word ignorant. I find that extremely annoying.

EPIC and FAIL and RANDOM
enough said.

“Legit”
Get rid of it…
Erase people’s memories, make it illegal, whatever; just make it go away

Like. In the middle of a sentence. WT… “This girl was, like, ten feet tall!”

Um/er/uh in the middle of a sentence. “The thing was… uhhh/errr/ummm… cool!”

So, yeah… ending a sentence. “That’s the end of my report. Soo….. yeah. Any questions.”

ARGH!

Curse words. They’ve lost all meaning.

“In a minute…” meaning in a long time. (stupidest phrase ever!)
“Shake My Head” (No need to say it, just do it)

stoked

“absolutely!”
When people say “Am I going to….blah blah blah and then answer their own question…” arrrghhhghh

“clearly”—-when it is far from clear

“Sure”—-to agree with or patronize!!!!!!

(By the way, I love your service–fantastic, learn every day thank you!)

The word ‘uber’ makes me vomit. You’re not German.

And if you are German, speak your whole language or none of it at all.

“Like, Legit!”
OMG! Legit is the most OVERUSED word at my school!

Literally. People very rarely use ‘literally’ correctly and are often speaking figuratively. e.g. “I’m literally, like, freezing”. So very irritating.

“epic” (unless talking about something that’s actually epic- battle, poem, etc. etc.) or ” fail” (as a noun)

I agree with the first comment regarding political correctness. I vote the phrase/word political correct be banished, exiled, or even beheaded. Just get it out of the American vernacular!

Does anyone hate the phrase “that said” as in, “Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican candidate for 2012. That said, he hasn’t garnered the enthusiasm of the Christian Right.”

1. “Fail” used as a noun. It is a verb. “Failure” is the noun.
2. “Irregardless.”
3. “No offense.” I hate that one. If they say it, they have said something that is obviously intended to be offensive.

GET RID OF RANDOM!!!!!! IT IS SO OVERUSED!!!!!!

ban em’ all

It amazes me that everyone wants to ban all of these words, but not one single person wants to ban any curse words. I’m all for banning the ” f ” word. It is used too frequently and has become a noun, verb, adjective, adverb and who knows what else. Even words on George Carlin’s original list of “7 words that you can’t say on TV” is becoming obsolete as some of those words are now allowed on TV. I figure it won’t be too long before we will be hearing all of them on our TVs. It won’t matter if I change the channel, it will be on all of them. In my opinion, a person who relies heavily on curse words is only showing their ignorance of their language skills. Curse words are meant to add shock value. There isn’t any shock value if curse words are used all of the time. It just becomes annoying. Anyway, another word that bothers me is bro pronounced the surfer way as bra. It just sounds all wrong and should be disposed of as soon as possible.

“fair share” & “energy independence” — WAAAAAAYYYYYYY OVER USED BY OBAMA

“my bad”

“really?”

“…on acid”

“another day, another dollar”

“same ole”

“working hard or hardly working”

“I don’t know nothing” DOUBLE NEGATIVE = A POSITIVE

Huh, Uh-Uh, Uh-Hu, and sexy.

“Ax” instead of the word “Ask”
“So” when used to begin a sentence and pronounced SEWWWWWW.

“at this juncture”

I’d rather have words more definitively defined, to expand the language: e.g.

1. flammable (can ignite: to external flames) v. inflammable (internal flames)

2. regardless (not regarding) vs. irregardless (regarding but nevertheless…)

3. to (all the way) vs. unto (to but not all the way)

4. -ible v. -able, (passive vs. active)

5. editor (official in-charge) v. editer (a program/bot/worker that-who edits)

6. etymology back to sumero-egyptian roots (before, greco-roman).

Carbon Footprint
(who gets this anyway…all those calculations…boring!)

An currently overused phrase, by copycats, is “kick the can down the road”; politicians are guilty ones saying it.

Recently, I’ve been hearing a lot “No offense” and “irregardless”. “Irregardless” is just a stupid word. It’s regardless! The negative element “-ir” does not need to be there because of the “-less”. I hate it when people use that word! The “No offense” thing also pisses me off. People always use it before saying something extremely offensive, and the fact that someone adds that before saying something mean is stupid. It does not change the fact that it is rude and it will hurt someone’s feelings. One other word I hate is “You know?” –No, I don’t know. Please explain people!

GOING GREEN! It’s “catchy cliche”-ishness and “look at me–I’m trendy” implication is just offensive.

The person who wrote this artice has a HUGE sense of humor. =)

N homo

The slang words people often use and more likely they consider it as the real word.

I submit “omnom,” or the alternate “om-nom,” used as substitution for the word “eat.”

There are a lot of words in the English language that we have abused. “Fail” must go. “Epic” must go. “Really” needs to go. “I mean” and “you know” should probably be cut.
However, “LMFAO” should never have been allowed in. The band is awful, and the acronym is just not true. “Sexy and I Know It” has to be the most mind-numbing piece of crap my ears have had forced into them in the form of sound waves, and I’ve sen the obesity statistics – we’re not laughing anything off.

“Thank You” is alright “Thank You so much.” is not.
Thank you so much usually comes accross as disingenouos;
over the top; syrupy; sweetly ridiculous.
Few sound genuine when they say
this–the ones who mean it and there
are not that many. STOP IT!!! And it is
pervasive; it is everywhere, meaning that it is not
genuine, people are merely parroting each other.
Fake!

“In this economy”, re-gift, “Your Mom”, “Your face”

“Alls”, as in alls that I want, or alls that I need, etc. I suppose that since the word all suggests more than one item, some people just assume that it must be pluralized… duh.

Equally annoying to me is the misuse of the word “acrosst” or “acrossed”, instead of the proper word “across”. C’mon people, where the hell are you getting the ‘t’ or the “ed” from?

the word “robust” being used by boring Corpoate America empty suits

“robust”

this word is used way too much by boring types in Corporate America

as soon as I hear this word I daydream about having some “robust” coffee to keep me awake as this person drones on…

Man-cave, soooo derogatory!!

@alex- Query: How many people do you know, or have commented on this blog, that claim to be English majors? I personally have only seen a few comments where the writer stated that he or she is an English major.
And to so many of the rest of you (notice I did not say all or most of you, as the group I am speaking to now is neither all nor most, but a great deal of the rest of the group)- If you do not like the way certain words are being used, feel free to speak up about it. If you do not like how some people seem uptight about not liking certain words, go ahead and talk. But please, be civil about it. We or you are not idiots, we or you are not morons, we or you do not need to be described with derogatory remarks, for having and sharing opinions.
(Note: when I say “we or you,” I mean either we, I am including myself in your group, or you, I am not a part of your group, depending on your take on the subject.)

the phrase “it is what its is” uttered by anyone who this planet besides Bill Belichick

“it is what it is”
I heard Bill Belichick say this years ago, I know he was not the first but everyone now says it and it has gone from “that does not make any sense” to “that is very annoying and your name is not Bill Belichick!”

cool

Peeps in my spanish class keep saying “dup” then pulling their hand away and saying “shame”.
So annoying!! But sometimes funny!:)

We should probably just ban all words. All of them. Every single one. We could just use ASL (American Sign Language). That would be cool. No one would be…….uhm……angered by that, ya know? I think that’d be pretty legit. Irregardless, BAN THEM ALL!!!! No more speech!!

All hail Big Brother!!!!

Having bandwidth on the list tells us that the people responsible for the list don’t really understand what it means.

The only alternatives would be describe how big the tubes or dump-trucks are.

Bandwidth would be replaced with bitrate, but why hipster? They’re people, too.

A lot of these suggestions are embarrassing! Like? Nightmare? Actually? Could someone please answer me this- Why do people make suggestions for phrases? Is it not enough to understand each word, and use your brain to figure the meaning? I am sometimes ashamed to state I am a human, like these weirdos that suggest “no problem.”

Woah, these are suggestions for removal? I am pretty sure “All options are on the table” is not in the dictionary to be banished from. No word should ever be banished. Language evolution is crucial.

I am tired of hearing ” A WIN-WIN SITUATION” and ” MOVE TO THE NEXT LEVEL”

“No offense” should be banned. People say that and then say something offensive anyway.
Also, “go green” makes me so annoyed.

I’m sick of:
“TRUE THAT”
“LIKE YOU KNOW”
“TOTALLY”
“MY BAD”
That is just a few…:)

Top of my list to be sent into a black hole:

1) Awesome
2) Random
3) At this moment in time….
4) Folk (instead of people)
5) At the end of the day
6) Basically
7) You guys (used by TV presenters a lot!)
Issues (as in “He’s got issues”)

do any of you simple minded xenophobes have any idea what a meme is? if you dont, look it up. (its not a word according to dictionary.com. dont bother with looking it up here.)
i cant believe you people are still at this. maybe instead of banishing words, we should learn to accept the diversity of multiple words and changing definitions. it has already been said that the english language is an evolving language that has already gone through many changes. this is just another phase. dont hate the player, hate the haters! because haters gonna hate TROLL! XD

We should banish gay as a way of describing something we don’t like or retarded being used like that. It really irritates a lot of people. It’s so rude. Also, get rid of combining names of couples. I’m someone who loves romance, and that just ruins it! At least it is not being used as much now, but it irritates me! Brangeleina or whatever?! WHAT?! WHY!? And yes, I do understand what it is. Yes, no offense should be banned. Try not to say something offensive! If you really can’t hold it in, don’t say, “no offense,” everyone says that, it doesn’t sound like you mean it.

Aggressive (esp. as used in a business context).

Wow The Words That i Need To Banish From My vocab Is bad Words……

no offense, but …

also la la land

Words that are annoying(to me, anyway):
“Meep.” That’s not even a word!
“Derp.” Same as above.
“Like.” Like,you need to like, shut up.
“Annoying” (when used in the wrong context, it gets ANNOYING)
“Bruh.” Not a word, people!
“Dude.” Even though I use it almost everyday, it’s incorrect to call a girl “dude”, which basically means “male”.

lol gtg

I HATE ginormous. Luckily my son hates stupid words,too, and he is only 8.However, it speaks for my parenting that his favorite word is “fugly.” How horrid is that?

I would chose
YOLO (you only live once)
cool story bro

i recently started saying swag a lot (only when i think people got swag)
Anyway, i think its funny that “that’s what she said” was on the list. My friends and i got in trouble for saying it in class, so we came up with something new that surprisingly the teachers didnt mind. We now say “tis’ what she spoke” (we came up with it while studying shakespere) i personally dont really find words annoying other than when people say “thats retarded” or “thats gay” or any use of the word “fag”

also i think its very annoying when people type weird or say thing like “goin ta get mahh herrr done wiff mahh momma” TALK RIGHT!! >( its not word that need to be banned but spelled right and spoken right

Armpit. I think the word should be completely erased from the dictionary as well as conversation in general.

Seriously!?!!
Really?!!!
I know, right?
Literally
Actually
Dat (instead of “that”) Dese, Dem…you get the idea. Seriously.

What about…..

TROOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOL

“Going forward” has to be THE most overused, completely useless, expression, and it seems everyone’s all doing it.
One of the worst offenders is BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, presenters, correspondents and politicians alike.
They should just listen to themselves.
(Oh, that’s it. They don’t because they love the sound of their own voices too much!)

@ Brangelia: “No offense, but reading these comments literally made me lol. I basically agree with, like, some of them. And it’s a pretty legit article at the end of the day. But “bucket list”? Seriously? Random much? It’s not an EPIC fail, per se, but it is a fail. Just sayin’. I mean, I typically wouldn’t say that “bucket list” has really impacted my life, or whatever. It just is what it is, no worries.
Moving forward, I don’t think “swag” should be banned either, you know? But I could be wrong about that one, and if so, my bad. The ironical part is that I’m technically wrong about literally everything that I ever say. Story of my life. Good times, good times. Moist.”

I literally just peed myself from laughing so hard. You are awesome…

just saying

@ i’m a troll
Right on, Troll! You are clearly picking up what im putting down.

heyyy how are yall donig latly?

Keep the word troll!

iconic

Haha I’m really amused by the fact that “like” was banished in my birth year… It ended up being a word that I use and abuse so often that even I am getting annoyed by myself.

YOLO, that means ‘you only live once’… Seems to be used very often now a days.

Temblor. Blaze. Bruin. Three of THE most annoying words used by the news media, especially the print media. Who talks like that?

the words that should be banished are Awesome,not everything is awesome, and the word issues used instead of the word problem or concern

Ban “basically”.
Please.

The current office mate uses the word at least 43 times a day.
We count now… making hash marks on our cell walls, I mean our cubbies walls. Please ban it. Make it illegal to use. Please.

pet word peeves / phrases:
I “NEED” you to do this~~~ (should be I WANT or WOULD LIKE, etc.)
Nu~CU~lar instead of NU~CLE~AR.
RE~LA~TOR instead of RE~AL~TOR
Back in “the day”~~WHAT day??
“MY BAD”??? What the hell does that mean?? My bad knee? Memory? “My error” or My mistake don’t sound so IGNORANT!!
Such~and~such SUCKS!!?? Only if it has lips or a vacuum tube attached~~
Saints preserve our English language from going straight to hell courtesy of ignoramus infestations and TEXTLISH!!!

any swear word

“Zen” is being misused frequently. It originates in Japan from the Chinese for meditation,”Chan” a school of Buddism. It is used by everyone to mean limitless.

“Fiscal Cliff” and “Horrific”.

“We have to leave it there,” as in CNN, lazy journalism.

The Number One overused word in the world is the word, “Basicially”. I cannot stand hearing it over and over and over everyday.You know, you know what i mean, you know.People here do not know the proper English language very well.
It is like ending the sentence with a preposition.( I.E. “where are you AT? instead of “where are you?) I was an English Major in school.

The American people are the worst destroyers of the proper use of the English language .So many improper venaculars spoken in this country.