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Nucky Nolan

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Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« on: May 03, 2019, 05:24:23 PM »
What words or phrases would you ban? My first choice is "problematic" ("the Robert E. Lee statue is problematic"). My second pick is "unfortunate" because it's often used in the wrong way ("the deadly earthquake was unfortunate, and it was tragic that it spilled my coffee"). Let's start a dictionary.

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2019, 05:28:10 PM »
Literally
Having said that
Asking for a friend
At The End Of The Day
Curated
Just sayin'
Starting sentences with "so"


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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2019, 05:38:09 PM »
Literally
Having said that
Asking for a friend
At The End Of The Day
Curated
Just sayin'
Starting sentences with "so"

I hope that you don't watch CNN. I doubt that their panels could even speak without using the words and phrases on your great list.

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2019, 05:47:40 PM »
People.  (As when a supervisor looks over the workforce and says, "OK people." 

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2019, 05:49:18 PM »
"Now" - overused regularly on the news because, well what is it, yesterday in the audience's mind?

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2019, 05:52:44 PM »
Super.
In 2019 Superman is meaningless.



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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2019, 05:53:37 PM »
I hope that you don't watch CNN. I doubt that their panels could even speak without using the words and phrases on your great list.

I don't waste my time with political bullshit.
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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2019, 06:05:10 PM »
Put me down for "Channels"  as in that crap you have to wade through on Yahoo to get to fantasy baseball stuff.

As in "Starlet Y channels Marilyn Monroe" 

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2019, 06:27:04 PM »
Literally
Having said that
Asking for a friend
At The End Of The Day
Curated
Just sayin'
Starting sentences with "so"

So I literally just started using curated..

Just sayin'.

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2019, 06:39:38 PM »
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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2019, 06:42:50 PM »
There's a long list of lazy and/or meaningless words and phrases I'm tired of.

Here are a few others:  Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Kardashian, LeBron, Mueller...

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2019, 07:01:19 PM »
Met a lot of people from the UK in the past year or so and they like to say "Brilliant" in place of old standards like, excellent, that'll work, great, good, nice, I appreciate that.  Really peels my paint I tell ya >:(

I would like to nominate "For Pete's sake"

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2019, 07:05:15 PM »
Met a lot of people from the UK in the past year or so and they like to say "Brilliant"

Even worse when they just go with brill.

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2019, 07:05:53 PM »
So I literally just started using curated..

Just sayin'.

Brill.

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Re: Words, Phrases You'd Ban
« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2019, 07:21:30 PM »
I nominate “Know what I mean”.....especially when someone says it after EVERY...DAMN...SENTENCE...IN...A...CONVERSATION. 😳