This is something Matt Groening does yearly (I think) in his "Life In Hell" strip, which could be some fun for English nerds. If not, then it's just a fun little rant for me.

Basically, it's calling out pop-culture phrases that need to be retired. Classic examples from Groening are "Get over it." "Don't go there." "That's the bomb." "Been there, done that."

It's the idea that once news reporters start using a phrase in fluff pieces, or the phrase shows up in a McDonald's ad it is freaking dead already.

Non-US Plimates feel free to rant about the "abuses" of American English.

I'll start out:

"Bling." (For ANY reason.)

"At the end of the day..."

"Is/is." (The difficulty is, is that we need to...etc.)

"Gunoo." (If you're American, you probably say this, and don't know it. It happens when you pause, mid-word, and try to make an informal contraction out of "going to," and somehow forget about the word "gonna." "Well, I think we're gunoo...probably go on home.")

"Anti-semetic."(sic) (More of a pronunciation problem. The word is "semitic." I've heard Smigel and Jon Stewart screw this up several times, which is kind of messed-up.)

"Temblor." (Used in earthquake reportage. No one but reporters seems to use this word--probably to lazily add variety [rather than economy] to their copy. It's not a certain type of earthquake--It just means "earthquake.")

"Boots on the ground."

"Rubber meets the road."

Should have been taken out the back and shot through it's mangy head moments after it was squirted, wet and mewling into the world but somehow the phrase:

Moving forward

persists in business speak.

Blue sky thinking

F**k.Right.Off

same with 'go ahead' (and do that) ... no I am going to move back and catch :P

I don't know about anyone else but in my workplace we have "issues", not problems, not disasters but "issues".

I will get a call on my day off:

"we have had a minor issue where the ceiling has caved in and destroy a car in the loading bay"

It's not an "issue" ffs.

I have similar - if one of our monitored sites goes down it's not a fault or an outage, it's an incident.

As if some in the group were about to move back in time. It's a favorite of some comedy friends of mine.

I think "lol" should be banned.

I got an email from my grandma with "lol" in it. To me, that means "lol" is dead.

I also think the use of "fly" as an adjective should be banned. It's old, overused and dead to me.

Are we discussing words only, or is this thread to include phraseology also?
I have a problem with have/got. "I have got to buy one of those". or "I have got some new shoes." How do you have/got something?

I almost included noticeable IRC-speak in my post. If you are a grown, adult human, and you write like a 13-year-old...creepy.

It's nonsense in the first example, but Her Majesty's English in the second. That's what I was taught in school, although it has worn off by now. It kind of makes sense even:

Have is an auxiliary here, got is past participle in British English. So it's closer to "I acquired new shoes" than to "I own new shoes", meaningwise. It's present perfect, since an event from the past is still affecting the present state. Or something.
Dude, I remember times when have wasn't even a full verb in Europe. You needed that got after it, otherwise your sentence lacked a predicate.

Good times. Mid 90s.

Sir, you justified my crush on you for another week.

I'll submit that 'hawt' should fall by the wayside. Any verbal meme started by a bimbette should not attain popular usage.

Needless to say? Well then don't f**king say it.

That was uncalled for.

Either you missed my point or I missed yours I'm not sure.

Literally,
The word it self isn't so bad, it just annoys me that people can't seem to use it correctly.

Awesome and whatever,
these two speak for them selves.

I have got to the conclusion that our schools in the U.S. suck when compared to Europe.


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"Let there be no mistake..."
"Let there be no doubt..."
"Let me be clear..."

and any other attention seeking variance that Bush and Obama speech to death.

Ditto... I think I'm the only geek that uses that anymore :X

"Oh snap!"

"Oh no you/he/she/ didn't!"

"YEaaaah Booyyyyyyy!"

how about "let me be frank"

for one 98% of the time the user of said
phrase is not named Frank... it irks me

i detest people who say "anyways"

anyways is not a word, anyway is ok though.