The WB that would refer to a new episode of a show as a Fresh episode.
“Up next, a fresh episode of the Gilmore Girls.”
Does that infer that reruns are rotten?
“Ummm…”
As in any post on a message board that starts “Umm, actually…” or “Umm, no.” It’s so friggin’ smarmy I just wanna smack the taste out of whomever’s mouth.
Troop – when it implies a soldier, sailor, marine, coast guardsman, national guard member, or some other individual engaged in military service. Our troops need our support but if one person becomes a troop I think they need to be elminated. Trooper is okay, but it doesn’t seem to be the word of choice among the ones who like to use troop.
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Two that are far too entrenched to even bother getting riled up about anymore (but which I still hate) are “24-7”, and “Taking it to the next level”.
But what really makes me want to start setting fires is the mindless use of the word “surreal” to describe any unexpected or “neat” event. I hear this most often from movie stars who have just met or worked with an older movie star that they admire. “Working with Hoffman was just so surreal”. No it wasn’t. Unless, during your tenure with Dustin, he pulled seventeen, elk-shaped bars of soap from his mouth while singing Ukrainian butter-churning songs, riding bare-back on a flaming bicycle, and furiously masturbating with a stoat, it most decidedly was not surreal.
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This is lovely. Just lovely. 
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This caused me to think of one that has passed cliche’ and is headed for the record books:
So and so, after weeks of not commenting on why he murdered his three toddlers, his wife, her mother, their dog and the neighbor’s cat, has decided to break his silence tonight at ten.
How often, instead of having some inane comment to make over some trivial occurrence, do celebrities break their silence?
Whether intended or not, it just makes me think they farted.
If we don’t already have one, now’s the time for a username of Broken Silence. We already have a Broken Wind, or else we did have a while back.
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Still here Zeldar! (breaking my silence)
I’m sick of consultant-speak: “high level”, “big picture”, “the 50,000 foot view”, “pushback”, “win-win” Aggghh!
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Impact (where affect or effect would be more accurate)
Orientate (isn’t orient what you mean?)
Commentate (what a commentator does?)
Literally (when figuratively is meant)
Analyzation (it’s analysis)
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My ultimate pet peeve in this vein is conversating. JAYZUZ but it grates on me.
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Still here Zeldar! (breaking my silence)
I’m sick of consultant-speak: “high level”, “big picture”, “the 50,000 foot view”, “pushback”, “win-win” Aggghh!
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Glad to hear you’re still here. Every time we have one of those “whose username do you like best?” threads, I usually forget to include yours. It’s one of the best, along with Hugh Jass, Ellis Dee, Shirley Ujest, and about a dozen others I can usually remember to include.
There’s a sublime magic and je ne sais quoi in Broken Wind that makes me smile every time I see it.
Thanks for speaking up.
Mr. Stuff hates challenges. He is also not a fan of issues.
I was reading a series of books recently, and the author’s favorite way to portray an upsetting moment for the strong, silent hero was to say that “a muscle jerked in his jaw.” I swear, a muscle jerked in that man’s face or his jaw at least once a chapter. It was a pretty good series otherwise, but I wanted to call her publisher and beg for her editor’s name so I could strangle him. How could you not see that? HOW?
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My personal unfave is “issues.” “She has issues.” Magazines have issues, people have problems – and changing the name doesn’t minimze them.
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“Some people have issues. She’s got a damn subscription.”
“Ownership” - As in “we need to take ownership of this project.”
“Steering” - As in “Steering Committee”
“Apples and Oranges” - 'Nuff said.
“'Nuff said.” - What is this? A 1970’s Marvel Comics editor’s note?
“Ballistic” - As in “He is going to go ballistic when he finds out we’ve switched paper vendors!”
“Spirit” - When used in any sort of corporate internal sloganeering.
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The WB that would refer to a new episode of a show as a Fresh episode.
“Up next, a fresh episode of the Gilmore Girls.”
Does that infer that reruns are rotten?
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Similarly, albums are no longer “released”, or even go on sale. Now they “drop”, which makes me think they’re coming out of a vending machine.
Frankly, if I never hear the word “frankly” again, I’ll be a much happier man.
If we’re going with author’s overusing words…
King:
Rivulets (as in rivulets of blood)
Arc-sodium (usually preceded by the “sickly yellow-pink glow of…”)
Koontz:
Taciturn. He must have used this word 9 times in one chapter. I think the book was Forever Odd. Must have been the word of the day.
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Harmonious Discord
I have never heard the word “gifted” used to describe people with developmental disabilities (aka retarded). What I have heard overused for a long time is the term “exceptional”. When I was in college decades ago, there were courses such as “Psychology of the Exceptional Child”. Yes it meant retarded but couldn’t the term “exceptional child” also mean a genius?
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Another version–“twice exceptional” – the high IQ person with a learning disability.
As the parent of a TE, I was seriously squicked the first time an education professional called my progeny by the term.
“Have a good one !”
I really hate “It is what it is.” It’s business speak for “My point is self-evident.”
Also, the same people who say “It is what it is” tend to say “The earth is flat”. I don’t know exactly what this means, but judging from context and the fact that it’s based on the title of a book by Thomas Friedman, who seems to be a drooling chiclet-dick master of the painfully obvious, I’m guessing it means “everything’s changing and I have no fucking clue what’s going on, but I heard this situation can easily be rectified by electronical computorz and the intarweb, so get cracking. I want this done by lunch.”
Also, “hella”. This just screams “20-year-old blogger” for some reason.
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I was reading a series of books recently, and the author’s favorite way to portray an upsetting moment for the strong, silent hero was to say that “a muscle jerked in his jaw.” I swear, a muscle jerked in that man’s face or his jaw at least once a chapter. It was a pretty good series otherwise, but I wanted to call her publisher and beg for her editor’s name so I could strangle him. How could you not see that? HOW?
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Kinda reminds me of Mark Twain reading Leatherstocking Tales.
first and foremost.
speaks volumes
“The plural of anecdote is not data” - generally used in a smug, superior manner by people who probably think “anecdotal evidence” is an oxymoron. It makes me thing of someone who can’t actually refute the evidence presented so they dismiss it as irrelevant.