Lake Superior State University has just released its “2011 List of Banished Words.” Check it out here. It’s pretty good. I’m especially pleased that they included “Man up.”
But they left out so many awful words and terms, including one of my personal annoyances, “reach out to” as a synonym for “contact.” Or what about “no worries!” in place of “you’re welcome?” Didn’t that use to be Australian? Why do I need to have it in Los Angeles?
Here are some words I don’t want to see or hear in 2011:
Amazeballs
ridic
Margiela
Shearling
Kardashian
Iconic
Curated
Trending
In This Economy
Foursquare
Lanvin
Girl-Crush
Crazy – (anything)
Minaj
Which ones have I left out??
‘Hard,’ As in: ‘I fell so HARD for those totally ridic Margiela boots with the killer shearling lining.’
Much Love
x
Hold on, people is on the list, what the fuck?!
Shop, as in shop a store not shopping in a store or shopping a closet.
Rocking, instead of wearing, you can wear an outfit, and look great in it, but you can not rock it…pleeeease.
A trouser or pant unless you are one legged , they are trousers, or pants.
There are so many more. My brain buzzes with the annoying way people use our language.
I really really hate reach out to mean contact, that must be one of the most annoying.
o man everything…. manpurse mantrum to mean tantrum
I imagine people is on because it tends to be used to address groups of people in an annoying fashion, am I right people?
Insanely fabulous, insanely anything.
ok i will stop now or go and think it out properly.
sick- as in “those shoes are sick!!!” to mean “so great” or “incredible”
“my bad” when you make a mistake or “epic fail” in the same vein
this or that is “amazing” which is used for just about anything to mean that it’s so good you can’t believe it. See also “insane” above.
My “boo” to mean your significant other. Started by Beyonce, i think, and is only credible when SHE uses it to refer to Jay Z.
Give me some time, I can probably come up with more.
I’d like to add “time of restraint” – which I hear at work at least 3 times per hour. Time of restraint means, we try to save pennies (no Christmas lunch this year – time of restraint!) at the same time throwing thousands out of the window (we need to hire a consultant to add credibility to our proposal. $13,600.00? No problem!). If I hear it one more time in the New Year, I’m ready for a restraining straight jacket!
left out “friend” used as a verb. “so and so asked me to friend her on facebook. What should I do?”
covet, crave, obsess…can we ban an entire way of speaking? You know that kind of baby Kardashian valley girl talk where they stretch out the last word forever? Like “I am totally obsessed with those Margiela shaooooes.”
It makes me want to punch, especially when I hear it in Toronto.
Icon
Chic
Classy
Classic
Bryan Boy
Jel (as in jealous)
“It girl”. No more.
Calling the victims of horrible disasters heroes. They are not, the people who risk their lives to save them may be heroes, but a hero is not some one who has really bad things happen to them. And… what about fallen hero, there is nothing wrong with that, except it seems to have become a cliche. There must be other ways to express this.
I do also know how foolish it is.. because i butcher the language like no other.
“Man Cave.” Ugh. SHUT UP!
insane
obsessed
curate (outside of a museum environment)
organic
trouser (the annoying fashion-singular)
tragic
sick (unless in context of illness)
made up words like diarize (to make a note in your diary – I go to too many meetings) and the phrase ‘at this moment in time’ (use the word now for all of our sakes)
misspellings not picked up by a spell-checker such as sneak peak (make me scream at the screen).
I also hate people using terms like bi-polar and schizophrenic when they have no fecking clue what they are talking about.
I can probably think of many more but I need to go and lie down for a while ….
I forgot the …
“un-politically correct attitude of French Vogue”
and oppressed (when used in the context of I can’t do exactly what I want)
‘rad’ It was cute when I was 7 in the 1980s, not anymore.
‘fuckyeah’ as a preface to anything. It’s a real nerve grater.
‘curate’ Don’t even need to explain why this one needs to go to the trash heap.
The most annoying word of 2010, and one I hope to never hear again (as if):
Twitter
My prediction for the 2011 honor (and let me know if this is just me):
Man-Repeller
‘hate on’
“Let me be clear…” (You don’t need permission.)
“Paradigm” (Oh yeah? Define.)
“Valuation” (Oh yeah? Define.)
“Game-changer” (I’m not playing.)
“Peace Process” (War Process.)
“Piggy-back” on a discussion point (No. Get the hell off.)
“Literally” (Figuratively.)
“Socialist” (Capitalist.)
I dislike words used as verbs that shouldn’t be (party, traffic, pleasure, Google, etc.). Big agreement with you on Minaj. Get that useless bitch outta here.
I feel my third eye throb with annoyance when people start or finish a sentence with “at the end of the day”
What day? The day you started talking bollocks? The day when you did something amoral and are now trying to backtrack?
The day you started judging other people whilst having no clue what you are talking about?
What fucking day?!
I also get angry when people say like in-between other words
For example: “So, I was so like about to like hate on him, but like, at the end of the day, I just like walked away”
My daughter picked it up from school and EVERY TIME she said like, I would shout in an angry yob way.
I wouldn’t shout anything in particular, just guttural, chanting noises that you hear a collective make at a British football match.
I explained that what I was doing made about as much sense as her saying like for no reason
Supermarket, school playground, dinner table, I was there, shouting.
She soon stopped.
What can I say? As my oldest daughter loves to tell me, I am the most immature adult she knows. An accolade I am proud of.
any american slang that ADR uses on her blog, any new slang my sister has picked up in her six months back east, TROUSER (thanks E) so..obviously also PANT, “pow pow” is something limited to Colorado probably….but I’d add that in as well, “presh” (precious,) photobomb, awk, “so good” to describe fashion stuff.
the “so good” is the worst.
How about “ah ha moment?”
Nevermind, they took care of it. ^
Vintage- For anything that is less than 100 years.
Effortless
Thrifted
Your mom.
I know it’s two words, but still.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Your_mom is pretty funny though.
Reading fashion blogs is one of the easiest ways to develop horrible writing habits. Everyone ends up using the same slang and catch-phrases in their attempts to be engaging writers. I’m reminded of cheesy columns in fashion magazines, packed with puns and alliteration. It makes me groan.
I like these posts, you (and everyone who comments) make me think about my own bad habits (I have many!) and I want to try and weed them out. At one point I found myself using ‘insanely’ and ‘ridiculously’ and I felt ashamed and quickly cut them from my vocabulary. I use the word ‘just’ all of the time, even though it’s rarely necessary. I’m guilty of ‘my bad’.
I’m tired of hearing:
-chic
-hipster
-statement piece
-achingly
-the internet referred to as the ‘internets’
– fail, and worse, EPIC FAIL, especially written in all capitals.
I’m most annoyed with ‘fashion journalist’ and ‘fashion magazine’ style writing. I’m tired of reading posts full of beauty and style tips, sentences starting with ‘listen up ladies!’, trend reports, rhyming, anything reminiscent of Sex and the City. I hate it all.
Oh oh oh how cold I forget?
Bucket list.
Can you hear the retching sound from there?
Crap.
Could. How could i forget? This stupid iPad keeps fixing my typos wrong.
shoe lust and “chic”. chic needs to be outlawed.
I’m tired of,
“no worries” instead of “you’re welcome” – hate it. same with “no problem” instead of “you’re welcome”. I once told a waiter “thank you”, he replied “no problem” so I told him he better not have a problem with it.
another of yours – “reach out to” instead of “contact”
is “share” on the list? I’ve always hated “I want to share with you”, just say “I want to tell you”.
“as well” instead of of “too” or “also”
Trending
Thrifted
Ridiculously
Insanely
That said
That being said
Having said that (all of these three are becoming grossly overused)
lol, and all the other texting things when used in e-mails at work
Braindance. I agree. At ‘the end of the day’ it is 11.59 and nothing else. Nothing else! No realization will be forthcoming, no wisdom revealed, it is only 11.59 or one minute to twelve and nothing else.
i’d listen to sentences containing nothing but all these horrible, meaningless, overused words all day if i never had to hear the word “literally” ever again.
and another- “this is SO MAJOR!!!!”
internet referred to as the interwebs. What is that?
To add to the impressive lists above:
“Going forward”
Split infinitives
To gift
To diarise
There are so many that annoy me.
‘Absolutely’ – here in the UK I’m sick of hearing it, it seems to be replacing a simple ‘yes’……….I fear it is on the increase.
I’ll go ahead and do that… just do it.
at the end of the day
at this hour..
most of the stupid meaningless phrases that newscasters use to fill up the time.
“i’m just saying” or “just saying/just sayin” – hate all versions of this term.
i work with a girl who refers to surfing as “being in the green room”….that might be an all time low.
gifting and gifted… What happened to “I gave a gift.” ?
Monika,Dylan on 90210 used to call it that too.
POP – as in “the green will just pop against the black background” “the colour makes it pop”.
Pop puts me in a murderous rage.
I am tired of “awesomeness” and “ridiculousness.”
eeeewww ‘pop”
“Totes” instead of totally.
“Literally.” Most people use it incorrectly. There are better ways to say what you mean than using the word literally for everything.
Calling your child your “little.” Young, hipster mothers tend to do this. Your baby is your child – someone you care for and nurture – not your BFF. You have to wait until they’re at least 18 and catch you smoking pot before your kid can be your BFF. And at that point, they’re no longer little.
“Don’t get me wrong.” – Always irksome, not just in 2010.
When indicting someone or something: “I’m looking at you, __________.”
This is great – I’m getting educated about all this. I’m so in my own world and out of touch, I knew none of this shit! NONE! Well, maybe a word or phrase here & there. I especially love the one about “trouser” and “pant.”
I’m guilty of using my own little private list of words incessantly. For some reason I’ve latched on to incontrovertible, inalienable, trenchant, and foment.
It’s interesting about like – when I was a kid my friends & I used to imitate the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs character on the “Dobie Gillis” show, using “like” about every 5th word or so, and it was hysterically funny to us because nobody we knew ever actually talked like that, and we were absolutely sure nobody ever had or ever would. Hunh.
Caz- Horrible.
patni – Insanely ONLY belongs in descriptions of the psychotic.
the real andrea – Oh god, “sick.” Hate it.
CRicket9 – Ugh, haven’t heard much of it but take it away.
Iron CHic – Horrible.
Chandra – “Jel” ?!? Fuck!
Aja – It anything, awful.
Julia – Eeoow, Man anything, hate it. Except for Manbag, which I like.
E – Oh no, diarize?? I don’t want any ize stuck onto any nouns. “Incentivize” etc etc etc. No.