Overused and empty words

[OCClient]

Have you seen that 

artisanal bread

at Whole Foods?

So expensive.

I guess that's just the

new normal.

 

[xyz48B]

Unprecedented times

Challenging times

I know it’s hard.

[jeezifonly]

Win by a nose, Race for the _______, applied to anything other than horses or cars. 

Across the bow, First shot, Campaign, Battle, War, applied to anything other than military 

 

The Honorable __________

So yeah, no… at the beginning of a reply to a question. Or anywhere else. 
 

 

[Guest]

On 2/9/2022 at 7:24 PM, xyz48B said:

...

I know it’s hard.

[Rudynate]

On 12/26/2021 at 11:06 PM, Tygerscent said:

 

 

4). Please stop ending all sentences with “?”…. Question marks are for actual questions~? Not everything you write or say~? I just had to get that off my chest~? It’s just something I find really disturbing~? 🤷‍♂️
🤢🤢🤢🤮

It's become a permanent feature of the vernacular - there's no getting rid of it.

[+ Charlie]

On 2/9/2022 at 6:35 PM, OCClient said:

Have you seen that 

artisanal bread

at Whole Foods?

So expensive.

I guess that's just the

new normal.

 

And what's with "rustic white" bread?

[xyz48B]

1 minute ago, Charlie said:

And what's with "rustic white" bread?

Maybe it’s only partially oxidized! 😂 

[OCClient]

Made in plain and simple fashion, the old world way, handed down with care from grandmother to granddaughter, every loaf is baked with love in the same old brick oven that modern kitchens will never know. 

 

22 minutes ago, Charlie said:

And what's with "rustic white" bread?

 

[KrisParr]

After I’ve given my eight hours … and it’s time to put away my work … if I hear or read, “at the end of the day,” one more time, I’m going to hit someone.

[xyz48B]

@KrisParr– I may be guilty of using that phrase. 🙃 

[Rudynate]

The lightning speed at which some of these words and expressions proliferate shows that, before they became trivialized by the media, they were perfectly serviceable fixtures of the language.  They wouldn't have captured the public imagination if they didn't have some initial appeal.  If you notice a catchy turn of phrase in a post on your favorite social media site, it is probably only a matter of weeks before it has proliferated like a virus.   The one I have come to hate, which I actually liked when I first heard it, is the "current moment" or the "present moment."

[KrisParr]

41 minutes ago, Rudynate said:

The lightning speed at which some of these words and expressions proliferate shows that, before they became trivialized by the media, they were perfectly serviceable fixtures of the language.  They wouldn't have captured the public imagination if they didn't have some initial appeal.  If you notice a catchy turn of phrase in a post on your favorite social media site, it is probably only a matter of weeks before it has proliferated like a virus.   The one I have come to hate, which I actually liked when I first heard it, is the "current moment" or the "present moment."

Agree. “current moment” and “present moment” = “now”  

a few others: “at that point in time” = “then” or “at the time in question”

My attorney brother swears he was taught to write this way in law school. I think it was “Skillful Verbose Document Creation Unsimplified 101” 

[topunderachiever]

@Rudynateis right.

Like many cultural or social fads, most of these words or phrases are initially cool,hip,woke.  It's only when the masses catch on that they all of a sudden become just the opposite: tired,cliche,pedestrian.   Strange.  

Edited February 12, 2022 by topunderachiever

[Rudynate]

i don't remember if we received instruction in how to write.  We got lots of instruction in legal analysis, and that certainly shaped the way we wrote.  In practice, more experienced attorneys always emphasized the importance of clarity - that  a piece of writing had to be clearly understandable not only to other lawyers  but to a judge and jury as well.

[+ azdr0710]

http://www.slcc.edu/cwc/docs/resources/overused-words.pdf

and the legendary "banished words list".....since 1976 from Lake Superior State University.....go back to the late 70s and 80s for a hoot......

https://www.lssu.edu/traditions/banishedwords/

[Sydneysider]

Basically

Literally

Actually

Sickening (as in 'sickening crime', 'sickening act')

It's not about / It's all about

-I hear these from news reader on Strayan tv all the time.

[OCClient]

 came the day they decided to exercize their agency

 

 

[+ Topseed]

Curated.

Luxury condo.  (Does anyone ever build/sell a "basic" condo? Hmm.)

[samhexum]

12 minutes ago, Topseed said:

Luxury condo.  (Does anyone ever build/sell a "basic" condo? Hmm.)

Basic bitches?

[Rudynate]

On 2/11/2022 at 9:15 AM, OCClient said:

Made in plain and simple fashion, the old world way, handed down with care from grandmother to granddaughter, every loaf is baked with love in the same old brick oven that modern kitchens will never know. 

 

 

When I lived in Rochester in the 80's, there was an old Italian bakery on a little side street in the old Italian neiighborhood and all the bread and pizza were baked in an old clay oven, just because that was they way they had been doing it for decades and didn't see any reason to change.  Their bread was just amazing.

[Blade9]

Kind and kindness.

B

[Lazarus]

“Asking for a friend”.  It not funny or cute anymore(actually it never was). 

[Lazarus]

On 2/11/2022 at 4:45 PM, KrisParr said:

After I’ve given my eight hours … and it’s time to put away my work … if I hear or read, “at the end of the day,” one more time, I’m going to hit someone.

An irritating verbal crutch, indicating closure or synopsis, for morons who are incapable of finishing a sentence without incorporating at least one tired cliche.

[bostonman]

Tryna. (like it was ever a word in the first place.)

[+ azdr0710]

15 minutes ago, bostonman said:

Tryna. (like it was ever a word in the first place.)

yup....common in some social media with people tryna be badass and really cool......are they too lazy to spell out "trying to"?......or still worried about the per-character charge to send a text??!!