  Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 7740 Registered: 02-2007 |
"save up to __% AND MORE!" | ||
1st_sgt Member Username: 1st_sgt Post Number: 201 Registered: 11-2006 |
"Whatever" | ||
Wally Member Username: Wally Post Number: 649 Registered: 12-2003 |
This one is overused: "Pot, meet kettle" Excuse now me while I violently blow chunks. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 8775 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Along these lines, calling a room a "space" so you can sound like a pretentious interior designer. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 8776 Registered: 10-2003 |
"Information Architect" because graphic designer just wasn't good enough for you. Anybody who calls themselves an Information Architect should be beaten by mobs of real Architects. | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 7742 Registered: 02-2007 |
any and all phrases used by posers of any stripe, including poseur | ||
Larryinflorida Member Username: Larryinflorida Post Number: 2965 Registered: 02-2007 |
Similarly, it someone corrects you and says "No, Web Developer", when you call them a web-designer, chuckle loudly, please. (Message edited by larryinflorida on October 01, 2008) | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 931 Registered: 09-2007 |
Meltdown (anything other than pizza or burrito) Blog (as a verb) Mainstream Media (period) | ||
Crystal Member Username: Crystal Post Number: 297 Registered: 05-2007 |
Misuse of "hallowed". It is hallowed ground, not hollowed ground... unless there is a big hole in the ground. On a travel show about Gettysburg, at least three reenactors referred to the battlefields as hollowed ground. | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 933 Registered: 09-2007 |
I constantly shake my head in disbelief with people who refer to Alzheimer's as "old timers"; many of these otherwise well-meaning folk actually believe that's what it's called. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6598 Registered: 12-2005 |
Tonight I heard two different national newscasters refer to McCain's behavior as "erratic." They both pronounced the word as "erotic." Disturbing on multiple levels. | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 2794 Registered: 01-2006 |
Didn't take long for the "Wall Street/Main Street" bit to grow long ear-hairs, did it? I'm with Wally, on the "pot, meet kettle" saying. Besides, I wonder if today's younger folks, who grew up seeing their moms using stoveware in every color from persimmon to periwinkle, even understand the damned thing. Rb336, hey! I use "poseur!" Of course, everyone already knows that I am little more than a high-handed bullshitteur. | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 7817 Registered: 02-2007 |
anything ending with "gate" | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 7818 Registered: 02-2007 |
"...15 minutes are up" | ||
Wally Member Username: Wally Post Number: 670 Registered: 12-2003 |
How about one of the most overused taunts on this very board? [ smarmy remark goes here ] but do keep trying! | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 7836 Registered: 02-2007 |
a legend in his own mind | ||
Dfd Member Username: Dfd Post Number: 736 Registered: 09-2004 |
Can you do this real quick? (in reference to a task that takes a half hour) | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 3315 Registered: 01-2004 |
"Similarly, it someone corrects you and says "No, Web Developer", when you call them a web-designer, chuckle loudly, please." But they are so not the same thing. I am a designer, not at all a developer. My brother is a web developer, and our skillsets are nothing alike. So, perhaps chuckle to yourself. Now, when someone claims to be a web ARCHITECT...Well then, please do chuckle away. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3394 Registered: 07-2004 |
LOL über-anything "quite the" "offering up" metrosexual "at the end of the day" foodie hipster pwned "on the ground" "at that point in time" funky | ||
Crystal Member Username: Crystal Post Number: 299 Registered: 05-2007 |
General misuse of homonyms. The example below is from a memo from a Detroit health insurance carrier: "Loner laptops are no longer available from the Clinical Program Documentation and Instructional Design area as of October 8, 2008. In the past, I had a laptop to loan for meetings, however, unassigned laptops have been returned to storage as part of Performance Transformation. A loner laptop must now be obtained from the Audio Visual department behind the auditorium or personal laptops must be used for meetings. The contact person is (name) at extension (x) during regular business hours of 8:30 to 4:00 Monday through Friday." | ||
Thames Member Username: Thames Post Number: 254 Registered: 02-2007 |
"Free gift" "Over exaggerate" | ||
Tkshreve Member Username: Tkshreve Post Number: 627 Registered: 07-2006 |
When it's all said and done...... | ||
Crystal Member Username: Crystal Post Number: 300 Registered: 05-2007 |
skill set | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 4747 Registered: 11-2005 |
quote: Is that a laptop without any friends? | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 2804 Registered: 01-2006 |
I really love this thread. Suddenly, one of the Hot New Words is "vet." Apparently, it is used as a verb. I first heard it in reference to John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin, when someone on the radio questioned whether or not she had been sufficiently "vetted." The remark caused me to wonder if candidates for office are required to have "gotten their shots," and upon further investigation, I noted that there have been times in Palin's past when she did, in fact, seem to display some of the symptoms of distemper. Still, just that quickly, I now find the word to be popping up with great frequency, and in a variety of situations. Of course, I felt moved to check into it, and sure enough, it's legitimate: http://www.merriam-webster.com /dictionary/vet[2] The thing which frosts my ass is the way a little trifle of a word, like that one, can lay pretty much totally dormant for decades, and because some stuffy pseudo-intellectual decides to pull it down from the attic and use it as though everyone is familiar with it, a whole bunch of clowns all pile into the New Favorite Little Car and, suddenly, we're hearing the damned thing constantly. While I'm at it, I have another entry for our list: "Face time." I think I know what that means, but due to the fact that I really don't give a damn, I'm not "for sure." I'm just tired of hearing it & seeing it; also, it has a vaguely rude sound to it, in my ears. And why does every professional sports team have a "nation?" | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1116 Registered: 01-2008 |
Championed (an idea no one else liked) Concentrate on core operations (Buh-bye jobs) We need new tools (We're incompetent) Win-Win situation (those who hear this will lose) Customer-centric (abysmal sales) Value-added (stealth exaggeration) Pass the smell test (masking the stench) Redeployed (BFE's BFE) Incremental (snail's pace) Parse (a representative blowing smoke up your ass instead) My Friends... (gullible undecided voters) Double-down (publicly deny a denial) (Message edited by Flanders_field on October 12, 2008) | ||
Crystal Member Username: Crystal Post Number: 301 Registered: 05-2007 |
"move forward" "stay the course" (Message edited by Crystal on October 13, 2008) | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 2552 Registered: 07-2007 |
change from welfare to tax rebate (same thing) from capitalism to socialism | ||
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob Post Number: 2047 Registered: 10-2003 |
Unnecessary exclamation points drive me up a wall. Exclamation points are the literary equivalent to yelling. Don't use them unless you're typing something that in person, you would be yelling. | ||
Crystal Member Username: Crystal Post Number: 302 Registered: 05-2007 |
All caps Are they like an exclamation point? Do they indicate yelling? Does the writer think the reader can't see the lower case characters? Initial caps have their place, but all caps should be used sparingly. |
