What word or turn-of-phrase would you eliminate from the world?

Don’t get me started!

‘Nuff said.

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

init – hate it used the way it is instead of using something like – this that correct or is that right?. The only acceptable use of ‘init’ is as two words ‘in it’.

Posted over 2 years ago by cobo04

This that correct? WTF?

I nominate everything Cobo04 says, plus WTF and LOL.

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden tipped with 1K

Functionality.

what word makes your hackles rise what phrase really gets your goat

Posted over 2 years ago by livewire

I’m not a huge fan of ‘chav’. In fact its use winds me up. I’m a Birchill in the making.

Posted over 2 years ago by Babb

Thinking out of the box, across the whole piece, basically, my bêtes noire (yes, yes, I know) include paradigm, “interfacing” with people, synergy, and I second BNM about LOL.

Posted over 2 years ago by pottytime

Oh, and “winning hearts and minds”

I’ve been hearing that at work a lot and it makes me want to throw up.

Posted over 2 years ago by Babb

Adding value.

bullshit bingo

Posted over 2 years ago by yossarian

If you’ve ever used the expression “get on!”, you are ipso facto a cunt, I’m sorry.

Posted over 2 years ago by SuckMonster

‘Get on’ joins ‘get in’ and ‘back of the net’ as irritating expressions used predominantly by males. They have largely usurped the equally irritating ‘result!’.

Preceding every question with the word ‘so’ is barely excusable in conversational English; when written as part of a question posted here it really gets my goat’s back all the way up.

A quick search reveals that Pandini has already covered the ‘so’ issue:

http://kudocities.com/cities/london/conversations/so

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

Like like, like.

init

Posted over 2 years ago by purpaboo

Overuse of like is like so not cool. It’s a whole world of wrong.

Actually, I’ve yet to become annoyed by the phrase a whole world of wrong. That’s because so far I’ve only heard it uttered or written by people I respect. As soon as it appears in Metro it’ll have become, like, so last year.

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

I agree with all of the above.

In relation to overuse/misuse of “like”, there’s a specific use of it that particularly deserves scorn and utter vilification: “And I was, like, ‘OMIGOD!!!’”, or “And I was, like, ‘whatever’…” or similar.

It’s not really the “like”, the “OMIGOD” or the “whatever” that bothers me most (in fact a well-used “whatever” can be precisely what’s called-for sometimes). It’s the laziness of using “I was, like…” to describe speaking. Our language has many perfectly good verbs for different ways of speaking. “I said…”, “I shouted…”, “I screamed…”, “I exclaimed…”, “I mumbled…”, and “I burbled…”, for example. Avoiding having to use any of them by using the verb “to be…” in the past tense instead is so lazy it annoys me so much that I’m, like, use a proper verb!

Posted over 2 years ago by My_Left_Foot

I am soooo with MLF, Purps and BNM on the use of “like” to indicate a feeling or reaction. It would appear that any media type is incapable of expressing themselves any other way. And “soooo” is soooo wrong too.

Other misused and much hated words loved in my industry (IT Consultancy) are generally used to obfuscate and make us sound more intelligent than we are, for example: “artefact” for “document”.

And I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned “touch base” yet.

Posted over 2 years ago by pottytime

I was about to mention touch base. Truly. But the thing is I now use it myself as everyone I work with says it a fair bit (an American company). And one that really makes me cringe is “sanity check”, when used to refer to testing a product or checking to see if a document makes sense. I’m not sure why it irritates me so much, maybe it’s because I think the word sanity should only be used to discuss a person’s mental state. But my pet hates are “blue-sky thinking” (yes I know it’s probably common parlance) as someone I worked with used to say it in a really ponderous fashion as if he’d just discovered it, and used it so much that it seemed as if he thought that saying it enough times would makes us come up with enough creative ideas to meet his criteria.

And I have a guilty secret. I use LOL a lot, even been known to type the words RLOL. But I’ve tried to limit it on here as instinctively I knew you’d shun me.

do you know what I mean

Posted over 2 years ago by ellie

I hate it when people say “your bill, sir”.

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

It seems, so far, that one KCLer’s meat is another KCLer’s poison.

Lol has been one of my nicknames for many years but I do often not laugh out loud about it or PMSL

Posted over 2 years ago by CarmenM

FridayCities. Oh no – too late. Then how about anything with ‘i-’ stuck in front of it in a pretence to make it ‘hip’.

Can I still say hip?

Posted over 2 years ago by BoutrosBoutrosBoutros

or e- anything.

What happens after the vowels run out??

now where did I put my iPod??

Posted over 2 years ago by cobo04

It’s next to your U-matic. You got part of your T-bone steak on it, so you’ll need to clean it with a J-cloth and some Q-Tips. I once saw someone do it in an X-rated B-movie, just after the starlet had used the F-word because her boyfriend once again missed her G-Spot. Later, I watched The A-Team bust someone out of H-Block by passing him a hacksaw through the U-Bend. I downloaded the episode onto my C-Drive, if you’re interested.

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden tipped with 3K