Also, I don’t want to “Pick the low hanging fruit”. I get the metaphor, but it just sounds subtly perverted. And it’s lame.
“Going forward”
I can’t even remember what saying this replaced anymore, but it just sounds like something some idiot corporate stooge thought up because he thought it sounded clever and trendy. “In the future” and “from now on” both sound better, and one even has less syllables. Stupid corporate-speak.
I’m always so tempted to respond with “your bad what?” and just watch for the puzzled look.
My personal least-favourite word is “empowered” - whilst I understand the sentiment behind it, I intensely dislike the implication that someone has given permission for another person to exercise what is probably their right in the first place.
Producing!
An engineer engineers.
Junior engineers, senior engineers, executive engineers, associate engineers, and assistant engineers still engineer.
Therefore, an executive producer produces, not “executive produces.”
Unless, of course, it’s a strictly management position, in which case the executive producer would manage, or oversee, or something similar.
I never want to hear va-jay-jay* again, thank you. Not cute, not clever, not funny.
- for “vagina”, in case you’ve missed out on this one
One more that I heard again this weekend: “product” when specifically referring to stuff one puts in one’s hair.
“You need to use some product to keep the frizzies down.”
“Just put a little product in and blow dry it.”
“Do you need some product today?”
I place the blame for this one squarely on the pretty shoulders of Kyan Douglas from Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. He’s cute, but that’s annoying.
The creator of Zippy the Pinhead in the Zippy comic claims to have originated “Are we having fun yet?” The late Erma Bombeck also claimed it.
If it bugs you, just look up and cheerfully say, “Oh, hi, Zippy! How are you?” 
“Sucks to be you”, especially when used seriously, as a way of expressing a lack of sympathy. It gives me the urge to set the speaker on fire and say “Sucks to be you, too !”
“At this particular point in time…”
Why not,
“At this point” or “At this time”? Why drag it out like that?
Thank God that “paradigm” has suffered a miserable, well-deserved death.
Not so much new slang, but a phrase that gets on my nerves is when someone asks for something in the way of “Can I get…?” when talking to shop clerks or something.
I think my mum just bought me up differently and would always correct me when I said something like that, so I out of habit say “May I please have…” Though, I know it might just be me it irks.
Again, not so much a buzz word, but a common turn of phrase.
Have you actually had a stranger say this to you? I only hear it from friends and family, and only as a joke. I believe I’d tell a stranger to fuck right off if they said something so rude.
My brother says this. I think he picked it up from living in San Diego. I make it a point to say the exact same thing you say (though occasionally substituting “may” with “could”.)
Well said. Thank you.
On the Internet, yes, I’ve had strangers say that to me. In person ? No, probably because that level of rudeness invites a punch in the face IRL.
I’ve also heard the variant “sucks to be them” used to dismiss the misfortunes of third parties.
actually, I think that’s a way of saying “It’s ok, you’re not in the wrong.”
I have yet to hear “sup my bitch”, and I’m 25. I don’t foresee it being said to me… anyone comfortable enough with me to say that knows me well enough not to.
Production? Executive production? Work?
As for the present tense, how about, gee, produce?
Ugh! I hate that one, too.
Never thought of it that way, but I say “Can I get…?” and so does pretty much everyone I know. Maybe you’ve got something here.
Sometimes what he does is bankroll, lend his name and image, open doors (metaphorically), and provide networks of people and resources. He’s the boss in a sense, but not the manager. He’s more like a CEO (or sometimes like a CFO). It basically just means (usually) that if it weren’t for this guy, this motion picture wouldn’t have happened.
But he doesn’t really “produce” in the sense that a producer produces. A producer (in films, not necessarily TV) is kind of in charge of everything. He hires the director and signs off on most larger aspects of the project. He’s more the manager type.
So, it really won’t do to say that the executive producer just produces.
Pithy, but not really accurate. It would be like saying that a Chief Executive executes. Please see above post.
Yup. It’s a noun created out of a verb, and now folks have created a verb out of the noun. I’m outraged myself.
I can’t believe I forgot the variation, which is worse, in my opinion!
I need you to… instead of Please…
Not exactly trendy, but still widely used and very annoying…“Happy camper”, calling Walmart “Wallyworld”, It urks me when someone tells me they have “date night” with their husband. It sounds like something Oprah or those douches on “The View” came up with. Same thing with, “me” time . I’m not crazy about “closure”.