# Trendy catch phrases you've had enough of... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336 "2012-06-16T13:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/101 "2012-06-19T02:20:10Z")
I am really getting tired of seeing replies of ‘this’, ‘that’ and ‘+1’. It isn’t really enough for the pit, and if the poster further expounds, it isn’t too bad, but just to quote a post and reply ‘this’, isn’t very meaningful to me. And besides, you kids get off my lawn. Bob ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/102 "2012-06-19T10:14:28Z")
“I was all”. As in, “He asked me to the prom, and I was all, ‘Woo hoo!’” When phrases like this start to show up in commercials for large telcos is when it crosses the annoying boundary for me because it’s no longer just an eccentricity of my teenage daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/103 "2012-06-19T10:31:25Z")
> [@Jman](#): > > The only thing that I’ll agree with here are the ‘baby talk’ type things (like ‘sammich’) which drive me crazy. The rest of the rants just sound like a bunch of old people complaining about those youngins with their crazy speech and no respect for their elders! > > Colloquialisms are a fact of life and will continue for as long as language exists. I mean, really… 😉 This isn’t about people not liking some new form of speech you youngsters have come up with. It’s about those new forms of speech getting old and overused. Equal opportunity griping, open to all ages. > [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > There are so many reasons to want to slap the smirk off Christopher Kimball, but “mouthfeel” is not one of them. > In addition to the explanations upthread, mouthfeel can also be used to describe the change in how the food feels when it warms in the mouth. OK, I acknowledge that it has a particular meaning for foodies. (Uh oh. :D) I’ll just use a different reason when I mentally slap Christopher Kimball from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/104 "2012-06-19T13:28:12Z")
I thought people had forgotten about “teachable moment” but I heard it again this morning. Arrrrgh. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/105 "2012-06-19T19:55:31Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > The only one I’m really tired of is, “It is what it is.” I’m much more of a fan of “we are who we are” (actually “We R Who We R”), because that’s a Ke$ha song. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/106 "2012-06-20T00:01:53Z")
My most hated right now is “ginormous” (or however you’re supposed to spell it). It’s just an abomination. I mean, the words “gigantic” and “enormous” are already pretty darned close to interchangable. Looking at [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com), it seems like the point of departure is that “enormous” can be used to describe extent, while gigantic is pretty much restricted to describing size. So what the hell do we need a combination for? What does “ginormous” add to the language? What hole or need does it fill that the other two words don’t already? The only answer is in the OP, i.e. it’s trendy. If you say “ginormous”, you show that you’re hip and with it. The word serves no other purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/107 "2012-06-20T00:14:44Z")
I’ll go along with most of what’s been said (“baby daddy” sounds like it came from the deep intellectual bastion of journalism, _People_ magazine, “it is what it is” is lazy thinking, and “ginormous” sounds like something a five year old would say: “I have a ginormous bunch of eleventy-gazillion blocks!”). Damn, now I forgot what I was going to add, so I’ll add the enormous number of punctuation marks!!! Like on Facebook posts, some moron will post “I don’t want to go to work this morning!!!” and his/her friend will post, “I know, right???” I’ve posted about this before, but it annoys me to see a dollar sign and the word dollars after it: $100 dollars. I’ve even seen it in a USA Today article (not that they’re really any higher journalistically speaking than _People_, but I do think more of a newspaper than a celeb-watching magazine). ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/108 "2012-06-20T05:48:26Z")
While I agree that some of these are annoying, as several other posters have said, none of them are “trendy”. A few are really old, such as “awesome”. That one’s been around since I was a kid in the 60s. And a few are positively ancient, such as “easy-peasy” and “cutie patootie”. Hardly baby talk, they’re old style (1920s-ish) “trendy” sayings, akin to 23 Skidoo and “the bees knees”. Personally, I like them both just for that reason. I love stuff that’s from that era. And I’m sorry, I’m going to anti-rant for “I know, right”? Such a useful saying. A good for instance, the light rail had issues a week or two ago, and we had to take a bus up to a different station to get the rest of the way into town. I’d been riding near some tourists with whom I’d been chatting before the train stopped. As we (finally, after a good half an hour wait) got on the bus, this guy just PUSHED his way past everyone already on the steps of the bus, all of us pushed aside made I contact and this old grandpa-ish guy says “I know, right”? It was completely of the moment, every single person was instantly connected by the same thought, and one tiny (and very quick) little phrase, just said it all. And the old white dude saying it was cute and funny. A lot lighter, more fun, and time-saving than standing on the steps of the bus discussing “well, that fellow was rather clueless wasn’t he”. “Why, yes, we believe he was, and rude too”. I get that over-use of popular sayings can be annoying, but they’re popular and well-used for a reason, they have a place, and they can make sense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336.md?page=5)