One of the great mysteries - if “q” makes the sound Q - what precisely do the twin sets of “ue”'s do?
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Awesome (overused)
Exciting (overused)
The “ueue” in “queue” is a great mystery. Maybe the person who came up with it was standing in line (pun intended) so long that he or she accidentally wrote the “ue” twice. Maybe the candle had died and they could no longer see the page upon which “que” was written. haha
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Bruh
(every time my son calls me bruh I make him kiss my cheek)
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Just sayin’ is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
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The word “hack” when used to describe a new and different way to do almost anything, as in:
AMAZING laundry hack
BEAUTIFUL new manicure hack
INCREDIBLE omelet hack
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Irregardless
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Life Changer
I agree with so many of the above. Phrases from my working days that I don’t ever want to hear again:
Take a deep dive
Let’s unpack it
Ugh.
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I’m waiting on ___
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This is mine too. It feels like disrespect.
Let’s circle back
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I agree with most but:
FOMO. Not sure what else captures this concept, let alone so succinctly.
Ghosting. Again it takes a lot more words to convey the same concept any other way.
Like. Agree if it’s a word filler. But like it (pun intended) as an approximator or or notice of exaggeration.
“Katie has like a dozen siblings”
“I don’t remember what I said when they told me I won I guess I was like “Are you effing with me?”
Where are you at? Well more commonly it’s “Where you at”. In a linguistics class I took a few years ago at a lifelong learning center the professor who studied vernacular especially in texts and felt that it conveyed to the reader a less pressing question. That receivers of “ where are you?” messages tended to read it tonally as “ Where is the heck are you” Whereas “where you at” seemed less demanding to the reader.
Starting a response to a question with “So,” as in:
Q: How are you doing?
A: So, I am not doing well.
and
“Google is your friend.”
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“We’re pregnant”. I’m fine with “we’re expecting” but pregnancy is a physiological condition that (usually) only one person is going through.
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“Lived experience” as a means of dismissing the possibility that others in similar situations may not have the same experience with the situation. I.e. just because your “lived experience” with COVID-19 was an ICU stay or a minor cold does not mean that others experience COVID-19 the same way you did.
I had a supervisor who frequently said “the reality is” for things that were HER OPINION!
I dislike most words used to refer to women’s breasts that aren’t the word breasts
Rug rats for children
Fur babies, etc. or referring to me as my dog’s mother which my vet/kennel does – although my son bought me a mug that says “Fur Mama” because he knows I hate that phrase, but I really like the mug so I use it anyway
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“My truth.”
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I could care less.
That’s incorrect, but everyone says it this way. That means you actually DO care, which is the opposite of the sentiment.
The correct expression is “I COULDN’T care less.”
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“Before she died”, I met (insert name of dead person here) or “as she said before she died”…Really, who meets someone once they’re dead and who talks while dead. This is so redundant but I see it in papers all the time.
“Pregnant person”. An insult to women.
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