# Words And Phrases To Stop Using In 2009! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 3, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752 "2009-01-03T22:58:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [January 6, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/61 "2009-01-06T19:35:56Z")
> [@Stauderhorse](#): > > Another one that irks me to no end is “making love”. Holy crap, are you really that afraid to say the words “having sex”? It isn’t dirty or wrong or shameful, unless you make it out to be so. I understand if you don’t want to go around saying “we fucked again last night” or “we humped like rabbits till the morning”, but just please do not use such a horribly cutesy euphemism. “Sleeping together”, while somewhat more accurate, is little better. If you leave the dinner table to go to the bathroom, I don’t want to hear you say, “Excuse me, but I’m going to go take a shit now.” Why not? After all, it’s not wrong or shameful; it’s a natural body function. Well, I don’t want to hear about yours. Why do you feel it’s necessary to force the image on someone by saying “having sex”? Sure, sometimes that’s the right phrase, but sometimes “making love” is the right phrase. We choose words for the occasion like we choose clothes for the occasion. I might take a shit, take a crap, defecate, have a bowel movement, go to the bathroom, or feed the toilet, depending on the situation and who I am talking to–even though they all mean the same thing, the way you choose your words also is part of the message. Polite society requires euphemisms. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/62 "2009-01-06T19:44:49Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > …Polite society requires euphemisms. And American society eschews them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/63 "2009-01-06T20:09:43Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > If you leave the dinner table to go to the bathroom, I don’t want to hear you say, “Excuse me, but I’m going to go take a shit now.” Why not? After all, it’s not wrong or shameful; it’s a natural body function. Well, I don’t want to hear about yours. Why do you feel it’s necessary to force the image on someone by saying “having sex”? Sure, sometimes that’s the right phrase, but sometimes “making love” is the right phrase. We choose words for the occasion like we choose clothes for the occasion. I might take a shit, take a crap, defecate, have a bowel movement, go to the bathroom, or feed the toilet, depending on the situation and who I am talking to–even though they all mean the same thing, the way you choose your words also is part of the message. > > Polite society requires euphemisms. Ok, you’ve got a point. Maybe I’m just not fond of euphemisms because they seem like a waste of time to me. “Making love” is just so cutesy and almost childish, which I don’t think applies to “going to the restroom”. I’ll take back what I said about “sleeping together”; it’s a good, non-offensive, non-gag-inducing term. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/64 "2009-01-06T21:19:56Z")
I also watch way too much HGTV, and agree with the “pop” and a bunch of the other HGTV-isms. I’m getting kind of tired of “opens the room up”, normally used to describe the results of demolition. It’s a perfectly good descriptive term, I just hear it too damn much. I should probably change the channel. In general use, I’m ready to hear the last of “toxin” except when used in an actual clinical setting or in a technical article. I’m really tired of hearing it in conjunction with colon cleansing and foot pads and other snake oil woo-woo. ---
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/65 "2009-01-06T21:37:11Z")
> [@Stauderhorse](#): > > Ok, you’ve got a point. Maybe I’m just not fond of euphemisms because they seem like a waste of time to me. “Making love” is just so cutesy and almost childish, which I don’t think applies to “going to the restroom”. I’ll take back what I said about “sleeping together”; it’s a good, non-offensive, non-gag-inducing term. I don’t mind the fact that my parents made love in order to produce us children, but boy do I mind them fucking. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SharkB8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@SharkB8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharkB8)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/66 "2009-01-06T21:47:59Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > **You betcha.** Okay, first of all, you’ve just pissed off a tractor-load of Minnesotans. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/67 "2009-01-06T21:52:17Z")
Think outside the box. Having said that… Yummo! Cow-worker. At the end of the day… Have a good one… ---
**Author:** ![SharkB8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@SharkB8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharkB8)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/68 "2009-01-06T21:52:34Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > \ > > I do hear people say “oh-nine” or “oh-seven”, and so forth, but “two thousand” still seems to dominate for years 0 through 9, and “twenty” for years thereafter. I hear “oh-ten” more than you could ever imagine! ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/69 "2009-01-06T22:08:18Z")
Back in the day. Makes me want to punch whoever is saying it. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/70 "2009-01-06T23:52:16Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Would you prefer “Later sucker!” or “Fuck off and die.”? I prefer “Fuck off and die”, but it’s becoming a bit passe itself. Good ol’ “Fuck off” or “Fuck you” are timeless. As for “making love”, I used to giggle every time I’d hear “When we make love…”, the first words of some country song, I think. I’d always think to myself, "What he _really_ wanted to sing was, “When we fuck doggy style”. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/71 "2009-01-07T00:41:28Z")
My personal resolution is to stop answering “thank you” with “uh-huh.” ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/72 "2009-01-07T00:58:37Z")
> [@purple\_haze](#): > > Irregardless is another one. Is that even a word? No, but it is a [cafe in Raleigh.](http://www.irregardless.com/cafe.html) ---
**Author:** ![CAT\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@CAT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAT_1)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/73 "2009-01-07T01:13:10Z")
Like the OP, I watch a lot of HGTV. However most of that stuff doesn’t bug me too much. What I can’t stand anymore is the term “Clean Lines”. They overuse it on so many shows, that it doesn’t mean anything anymore. Not every single room design or piece of furniture has clean lines! For myself, I wish I could stop saying, “like” so much. I don’t know when or where I picked it up, and it surely isn’t used like valley speak, but I use it a lot, and I know it is irritating. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/74 "2009-01-07T01:29:29Z")
Grow, as a verb. “Use our software to grow your business!” Urg. But above all, “Fail.” Look, I’m a gamer and know leetspeak and lolcatspeak and all that, but in most cases, it is utterly lacking in wit or style or anything else worth having. When something is so obviously fail but all you can muster is “Fail”, you’re better off saying nothing at all. I hate Failblog for this reason. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/75 "2009-01-07T01:34:39Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Yummo! Yes! Anything Rachael Ray says a lot, including, “How good is THAT?” and "Delish! and “EVOO.” Pretty much, anything she says, ever. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/76 "2009-01-07T03:41:03Z")
Calling everything on TV an “event.” “Come to the Toyota sales event!” “Tonight’s episode of _24_: a special two-hour event!” ---
**Author:** ![MsJinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@MsJinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsJinx)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/77 "2009-01-07T04:05:22Z")
Supposibly Supposively instead of supposedly. * * * Should of ## instead of should have Where I used to work, though, it was easy to tell who typed anonymous stuff because of the misspellings and errors. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/78 "2009-01-07T05:23:45Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > No, but it is a [cafe in Raleigh.](http://www.irregardless.com/cafe.html) And a most excellent one, at that! Had brunch there a year ago October and plan on doing so again at the end of the month. Best Bloody Mary and vegetarian fare ever! The waitstaff are charming, gracious and fun to hang with! I got my husband and “Irregardless” apron for Christmas. They were more than happy to ship it to me. Can’t wait to go back! ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/79 "2009-01-07T13:40:54Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Calling everything on TV an “event.” “Come to the Toyota sales event!” “Tonight’s episode of _24_: a special two-hour event!” Yes! I hate this with a burning passion. Not everything is an event. When I get up in the morning and wash my face, is that a cleanser event? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752/80 "2009-01-07T14:19:12Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Yes! I hate this with a burning passion. Not everything is an event. When I get up in the morning and wash my face, is that a cleanser event? If it’s televised, _of course_ it is! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-in-2009/479752.md?page=5)