# Trendy Expressions That Need to Die! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469 "2007-01-18T17:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/101 "2007-01-21T19:19:49Z")
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry] Ohhhhhhh, yes! Along with other “business shorthand” that makes me crazy: “I am taking a vacay” - it’s a vacaTION, you dipstick. “We’re going to have a convo” - I’m **sure** you mean conversation. [/QUOTE] I first noticed it with words like situation becoming “sitch.” It doesn’t bother me that much because I don’t hear it very often. However, I’ve never heard these words cut off at a vowel sound. Vacay and convo would quickly begin to bug me. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/102 "2007-01-21T19:29:34Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Vacay and convo would quickly begin to bug me. [/QUOTE] Even a great big convo, rockin’ thru the night? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/103 "2007-01-21T19:44:46Z")
Just out of curiosity, what are you supposed to call what an executive producer has done? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/104 "2007-01-21T20:33:24Z")
Leeching? :dubious: And can we get rid of _locked and loaded_ anytime soon? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/105 "2007-01-21T21:06:53Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Just out of curiosity, what are you supposed to call what an executive producer has done? [/QUOTE] I don’t know. 😛 It’s an adjunctive title to someone’s name: i.e., “Jerry Wald, Executive Producer,”, or “Executive Producer: Jerry Wald,” so I suppose one would say something along the lines of “The movie’s executive producer was Jerry Wald” or perhaps “The movie’s excellent/incompentent executive producer was Jerry Wald” or “An excellent/poor job by executive producer Jerry Wald.” It’s a title or position, not an activity; much the same as vice-president or president. For example, one would say that Bill Clinton was president through most of the nineties, but they wouldn’t say that the U.S. was ‘presidented’ by Bill Clinton through most of the nineties. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/106 "2007-01-21T21:26:49Z")
But people don’t say “the film was executive-producered.” They change producer to the verb. We don’t say the President presidented, we change it to the verb and say he presided. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/107 "2007-01-21T22:05:53Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] But people don’t say “the film was executive-producered.” They change producer to the verb. We don’t say the President presidented, we change it to the verb and say he presided. [/QUOTE] But Executive Producer is a title, not a verb, even though the title contains what would otherwise be a verb. A person fulfilling that role may be producing but he/she is not ‘executive producing’, as executive producer is a noun phrase, not a verb. Perhaps a better analogy would have been vice-president…one wouldn’t say that a vice-president vice-presided. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/108 "2007-01-21T22:23:52Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] But Executive Producer is a title, not a verb, even though the title contains what would otherwise be a verb. A person fulfilling that role may be producing but he/she is not ‘executive producing’, as executive producer is a noun phrase, not a verb. Perhaps a better analogy would have been vice-president…one wouldn’t say that a vice-president vice-presided. [/QUOTE] But you could say vice-presided, couldn’t you? It might sound strange, but technically you could. Or not? Are you okay with executively produced? How about vicely presided? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/109 "2007-01-21T22:30:46Z")
I think you hit it, Levdrakon. It’s a simple first-order analogy. Adjective -\> Noun :: Adverb -\> Verb Thus, the executive producer executively produced. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/110 "2007-01-21T22:34:14Z")
Vicely presided won’t work, because vice-president is one (hyphenated) word. It’s practically an agglutination. But the veep does preside (over the Senate). ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/111 "2007-01-21T22:35:46Z")
Watching what little of the Bears game that I have-may I add to this list the phrase, "anytime you’ve got a [fill in the blank]? It seems to be one of the commentators favorite phrases. I’m down with that. I feel ya. And “super!”–an old, old 80’s expression still used by someone I know. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/112 "2007-01-21T22:47:00Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I think you hit it, Levdrakon. It’s a simple first-order analogy. Adjective -\> Noun :: Adverb -\> Verb Thus, the executive producer executively produced. [/QUOTE] Yeah…datt’l woik! 😉 Perhaps we could find an English maven to weigh in so we wouldn’t have to speculate. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/113 "2007-01-21T23:04:48Z")
Another one that’s driving me crazy: You need to… instead of Please… “You need to sign here”, “You need to hold” ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/114 "2007-01-21T23:31:01Z")
I don’t think “you need to” replaces “please”. I think it replaces “bitch” or something. I take “you need to hold” more like “hold, bitch”. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/115 "2007-01-22T00:32:30Z")
Hoping that’s a joke, or else you don’t understand my usage. Just in case, when a store clerk answers the phone with “You need to hold [click]” or she hands you your credit card receipt and says “You need to sign here” or a restaurant hostess says “You need to come this way” as she seats you. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/116 "2007-01-22T01:31:18Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] I think \*\*e-bow \*\* was simply observing that the rest of us hate young black people with MBAs. I know that’s what I meant to convey with my contribution, anyway. Dang, I always thought that was the whole point of the reference-- the implication that one’s “peeps” are such close friends that they might as well be joined at the hip, just as the marshmallow variety often come fused together in a row. Not that I ever use the expression myself, of course-- I’m no young black MBA. [/QUOTE] \ Mmmm, peeeeps\ ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/117 "2007-01-22T02:30:25Z")
“Good Call” I heard this from my twenty year-old employees, all very smart, college educated young women. I’m a rather easy-going manager, so perhaps it was a case of the informal, but, often, when I would tell someone to do something, usually elaborating on the Why’s of it so they would learn more, was answered with “Yeah, Good Call…” Umm, yes, why, it Is a Good Call, because I know my job. It bugged me at first, but then saw that it was really, in current lingo, they were just saying “OK, Gotcha, I hear you” etc. But, what a strange way to say it. I never would have said “Good Call” to a supervisor when young. Quite arrogant, therefore a might stupid to say. Feel free to enlighten me as to it’s easy meaning, ya whippersnappers. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/118 "2007-01-22T02:41:21Z")
Peeps is a clipped form of “peoples.” Like “mods” for “moderators.” ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/119 "2007-01-22T02:42:55Z")
“Don’t be a hatah.” (hater) My roommate uses this on me whenever I don’t agree with him about something. **Levmate** :\* I love watching Jerry Springer.\* **Lev** : _I can’t stand that show._ **Levmate** : _Don’t be a hatah._ Argh! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/120 "2007-01-22T06:03:43Z")
One of my coworkers (who I thankfully don’t have to work directly with) says to me EVERY TIME we pass each other “Having fun yet?” And I mean EVERY damn time. I mean, what is that? Unfortunately, she seems to be spreading it around the floor, because i’ve heard various other sheep use it now as well. It’s almost as bad as “It’s definitely Monday.” Shut the fuck up and start having FUN already so I don’t have to hear it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469.md?page=7)