Word or phrase from contemporary lingo you'd most like to see retired

[Bossy Monkey]

Apparently "At the end of the day" has been voted most irritating phrase, presumably by people who don't own TVs.

I'm leaving off "President George W. Bush," "bring it on," "girly-men," etc. We all know who we're voting for here.

Others: Miss Thang, thinks s/he's all that, tinfoil hat. Holler real loud and maybe I'll change a few below if I don't fall asleep.

[last_texas_dem]

1. 24/7

I've never cared for that expression. I'm also not too fond of "my bad" although I'm not sure that one's even particularly contemporary...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. shiznit

[SidDithers]

24. yup, and "izzle" anything...

Sid

[punpirate]

3. Gee, didn't see two of my pet peeves...

... "impact" as a verb, especially in the perfect and past tenses, and "pro-active," a non-word meaning nothing.

[Bossy Monkey]

6. Hate those, too

but you just pinpointed the difference between jargon and lingo. Different poll

[punpirate]

13. Both primary definitions refer to...

... insider language of a particular group, profession or field:

lingo:

1. the language and speech, esp. the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual: gamblers' lingo.

jargon:

1. the language, esp. the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.

The two are basically synonymous.

What makes you believe that the two examples I cite fall into a particular definition is that they are both terms related to business, but, as the definitions suggest, business is a field, and a profession, so the terms are more or less interchangeable as definitions.

At any rate, these days, it's a fine distinction.

Cheers.

[Bossy Monkey]

14. I generally refer to both as moronese n/t

[Nightowl_2004]

4. What-ever!

I have no clue who the hell started that! And frankly, They better be happy that I dont know who they are (grrr.) It has to be the most retarded slang phrase in the history of humanity.

[UdoKier]

7. What-ever! has been around since the 80s...

From the Valley girl fad, but it was revived by an SNL skit. David Spade and Chris Farley used it a lot in their sketches about the "Gap girls".

I think it's pretty funny, since you're supposed to be making fun of people who talk like that when you use it.

[UdoKier]

5. "Sweet!"

also, "think outside of the box" Basically any gang-originated black lingo when spoken by clueless white suburbanites.

Oh, also, "XYZ has got issues."

[UdoKier]

8. I despise "dawg"

esp. when used by white people. It just sounds so stupid.

[drhilarius]

9. When I heard Karen Hughes say "Shake it like a polaroid...

picture" I knew it was time to retire that one.

[Dogmudgeon]

19. Outkast is a GOP fave

It seems that at least one of the Outkast members is a major Republican activist.

(sigh)

--bkl

[drhilarius]

20. That's a rumor (touchy subject as I really like Outkast).

It's not andre 3000;
<http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1490733/20040902/outkast.jhtml?headlines=true>

He was also seen sporting a gore shirt in 2000.

[GiovanniC]

21. Even With Lyrics Like THIS?

I'm seein just how they lyin to the general population
Don't be patient, get up and stand up for your life
Don't you agree or understand we lost some rights at 1-1-9?
Come dumb, come young, come blind unwind confined
to the situation, we facin, cause in time, tick tick boom

I refuse to sit in the backseat and get handled
Like I do nuttin all day but sit around watch the Cartoon Channel
I rap about, the Presidential election and the scandal
that followed, and we all watched the nation, as it swallowed
and chalked it up, basically America you got FUCKED
The media shucked and jived now we stuck - damn!

[Swamp Rat]

10. "Like"

The favorite filler word for the semi-literate.

[MissMarple]

11. "No problem"

as a response to thank you. Arghhh.

[Dem_Loyalist]

12. no more kool aid please

[MirrorAshes]

15. anything that ends with izzle

lol

[VOX]

16. "You go, girl" "What up" and "at the end of the day"...

Three that grate on my nerves lately.

[Dogmudgeon]

17. MEME

The invention of the word meme alone should earn Richard Dawkins about a thousand years in purgatory being talked at by legions of millions of computer geeks, Sci-Fi fans, Libertarians and college students.

(Just like I was in the early 1980s.)

--bkl

[Dogmudgeon]

18. "Nothing to see here"

Popular right here at DU.

Ack!

--bkl

[Dogmudgeon]

22. And a few more

Peak Oil ... it doesn't even start to describe the situation we're facing with respect to our use of energy. Sometimes I spell it "Pee Coil" for sh*ts and giggles.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming): And its many pieces of sub-jargon, like "anchoring" and "installing custom (mental) states". It is in vogue among get-rich-quick writers and internet-based seduction experts (usually called "Jedi Masters of Speed Seduction" or something similar). A thoroughly offensive perversion of psychology. Spelling it as "Anal Pee" is a pleasant pastime.

Skep-speak: "Debunk" (now used as a synonym for any refutation, not just that of fraud), "Occam's Razor", "Falsifiability", "Extraordinary" anything, "Peer Review", and dozens of little catchphrases and maxims that are chanted in response to everything that members of the Junior Science Club find objectionable, from UFO worship to "Urban Legends" to Feminism. Skepticism™ is to Science as Fundamentalism is to Theology.

Wicca jargon: "Thank Goddess!", "Goddess Bless You!" and the whole Jehovah-In-Drag routine for alleged ironic effect. Just shoot my sky-father-worshiping, earth-mother-raping ass NOW, please.

"Cleansing" in New Age jargon: A lot of New Age jargon grates against my tender ears, but "Cleansing" usually means one of two things: 1) recreational enemas for health; and b) the death of over 5 billion people when the Earth is "cleansed" by a Pole Shift, alien invasion, or possibly a burst of gamma rays from a local pulsar or galactic core eruption. Makes Rapture theology seem rational and humane.

Speak(ing) Truth to Power: Better than Ipecac for its unintended effect on the human stomach. Remember Mao's epigram, "Power comes from the barrel of a gun."

Mobilize; Mobilization: In reference to public protests. Haughty, highfalutin' speech from bourgeois radicals who ought to know better.

Take Back The Streets: See Mobilize.

People of Faith: Well, I'm a member of the People of Reason. Nyah, nyah!

My Heart Goes Out to/for ...: I'm quite sympathetic to people in the throes of sympathy, but can't they take a few minutes to find new words for the experience?

... and the very worst ...

Cat fetishism: Make it stop, for the love of God, please, make it stop!

That's all for now. But with all those fingernails scraping on the chalkboard of my mind, you know I'll be back.

--bkl

[Evil Liberal]

23. invented by the Bush administration, it seems..

Weapons of Mass Destruction.

and Spin, especially when issued from the lips of Bill O'Whiney..

(actually, ANY word issuing from O'Reilly's lips) x(

[Bossy Monkey]

32. Welcome to DU, Evil Liberal

and isn't that a delightful turn of phrase?:)

Spin as far as I recall debuted with the spin doctors from both sides in the '92 election. The band Spin Doctors turned up at the same time; either they were actual overnight sensations or they changed their name over the course of '92 or they had incredible foresight about political catchphrases. Hmmm, according to this:
http://www.legacyrecordings.com/spindoctors/story.html
they had the record out under that name by '91, so maybe it was the '88 election where the term first came up.

[LWolf]

25. bitch; pimp;

anything ending in "izzle;"

There are probably more, but those will do for a start.

[TOhioLiberal]

26. The absolute worse...

...by far, is <drum-roll, please> 'My Bad'. :grr: makes me want to :spank: people when I hear it!

[Surf Cowboy]

27. Some_________ have claimed that....

Kerry didn't earn his medals;
The military memos are fake;
Kerry shot himself;
Kerry shot J.R.

It's a shame that we report accusations now, as if the accusation was the news.

[mrboba1]

28. "lingo"

:evilgrin:

no seriously, "can you hear me now? Good."

Does anyone seriously think that's funny anymore? It's the same damned joke every time a mic goes out for a sec. All you hear from the audience is a very uneasy laugh...

JUST STOP!!!
:crazy:

[jonnyblitz]

29. chillin n/t

[Commendatori]

30. "Keepin' it real," and "the bomb"

The one that really gets me is "the bomb," as in "that movie was the bomb."

However, I've heard "I'm just keepin' it real" about 50 times in my life, and it always sounds stupid.

[flvegan]

31. Bling and bling-bling...

[lpbk2713]

33. Good to go.

Never have liked that one, right from the git go.

[NoBorders]

34. "Speak to" a subject

I hear this a lot. What's wrong with 'speak about'? Or 'I can address that...'

[nini]

35. 'My Bad'

I HATE that :P

[NanBo]

36. the use of Mayhaps and Me thinks

and, always in a slightly southern accent, "Well I tell ya what..." used often by sports casters.

Jump the shark

Meta anything

Shout out

My Bad

Thanks for letting me vent these :)

[Christof]

37. "Fo shizzle," "fo real," "shizzle ma nizzle..."

What the hell do those phrases mean anyways?????

[Chovexani]

38. Metrosexual

I hate that fucking word, it was never even in the same zip code as clever, but ever since Queer Eye blew up everybody and their brother is saying it like they're hip or something.

Besides the entire concept is just deeply offensive to me. "Let's co-opt popular gay male culture, without actually being gay!" It's like suburban white soccer moms talking about their "bling". :argh:

[gpandas]

39. hottie

[asthmaticeog]

40. Extreme.

If potato chips can be extreme, nothing is extreme.

Corollary: "Rush." As in "Extreme flavor rush."

[Taverner]

41. "Low Hanging Fruit"

or any other variant of marketingese