# Words/expressions I want to be eliminated from usage RIGHT NOW TODAY ENOUGH ALREADY! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609 "2014-09-05T20:02:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/41 "2014-09-05T23:56:47Z")
The use of “purrfect” in advertising for cat products. Once upon a time, long, long ago, it may have been clever and original. Now it just makes me want to open the garage and break out the guillotine. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/42 "2014-09-06T00:01:21Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > Even worse is “Ya know what I’m sayin’” – after every other sentence. > > ISTM that this came out if the black community, so it’s even more amusing to hear white guys use it and imagine they’re sounding really hip. Makes me want to scream “if I didn’t know, I would ask for clarification!” ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/43 "2014-09-06T00:03:55Z")
**Reach out** I don’t want anybody _reaching out_ to me. You can call me, text me, email me, contact me. You can even come by and knock on my door, but you go _reaching out_ to me and I’m running away. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/44 "2014-09-06T00:04:53Z")
“lol” used as a nervous tic; every damn sentence ends in “lol”. “Boy, it’s sure a hot day today lol.” “Good luck on your pregnancy lol.” WTF?! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/45 "2014-09-06T00:13:09Z")
I’d just like to share that I am really tired of people sharing with me. This one has been around a long long time (long long long) but it’s still happening. DON’T SHARE! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/46 "2014-09-06T00:26:23Z")
Never heard the term “baby bump” before this thread, and already I’m sick of it. Another major pet peeve of mine is all those cutesy words used to describe various minority classes – “little people”, “exceptional”, “developmentally challenged”, etc. Primarily because what’s considered P.C. today will become taboo in just a few years! :mad: > [@Chefguy](#): > > _It is what it is._ No shit? Now this one, I must wholeheartedly disagree with. When used correctly, it’s the perfect example of “damning with faint praise.” Like Miss Manners said, you should always try and find something nice to say about someone/something, and if the best thing you can say is IT EXISTS, well… how can you get more dismissive than that? (The key is that the phrase must be used correctly; **LSLGuy** gave an example of a thoroughly incorrect use.) Oh, and I also hate the word “wholeheartedly.” But sometimes, no other word fits. It is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/47 "2014-09-06T00:29:05Z")
It’s on like Donkey Kong. You go, girl! I can’t believe anybody still says those two early-90s phrases, but I surely wish they would stop. ---
**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/48 "2014-09-06T00:50:03Z")
at the end of the day… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/49 "2014-09-06T01:03:46Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > Even worse is “Ya know what I’m sayin’” – after every other sentence. > > ISTM that this came out if the black community, so it’s even more amusing to hear white guys use it and imagine they’re sounding really hip. Especially hate the way it’s said: **Nome Sane**! Did David Bowie put out a new album? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/50 "2014-09-06T01:09:02Z")
Dither The American People Homeland ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/51 "2014-09-06T01:11:59Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > Even worse is “Ya know what I’m sayin’” – after every other sentence. > > ISTM that this came out if the black community, so it’s even more amusing to hear white guys use it and imagine they’re sounding really hip. Makes for a nice [gag shirt](http://www.zazzle.com/noam_sayin_tee_shirt-235269383110322344) though. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/52 "2014-09-06T01:20:34Z")
> [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > You’re gonna need to brace yourself for this one. > > It’s a present that a guy gives his wife/partner/whatever after she has their baby. For pushing, right? > > There are so many things wrong with this that I can’t even. It seems to be an entirely US thing - I’ve never heard it here in Ireland; I think I learned it on this board - which is an excellent reason for living in Ireland. Oh. That is bad. So bad. I have no words for how bad. I thought “push present” was some new tense, like past present or present participle. THAT I could have lived with. > [@chiroptera](#): > > I listen to NPR most work days. Most guests who persistently start sentences with “So…”? I hit the off button until I am sure they are gone. I hate it THAT much. > > And they are usually younger, hyper-educated academics with interesting things to say. But “So…” is right up there with “and he’s like, then she’s like, and I’m like…” in irritation factor for my 50-something year old brain. I simply refuse to tolerate it. Yes, you’re exactly right. It grates on my 60-something year old brain, too. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > My interpretation of “It is what it is”: > > “I’m in management and here’s a screwed up situation we could easily correct which I intend to ignore and treat as if it was some immutable property of the Universe. So you peons just put up with it and quit your bitching. Besides, the status quo works to my benefit.” > > So yes, the phrase and the thought behind it, is hereby banned in my kingdom. I agree with the “immutable property of the universe.” The way I most often hear that expression used is when someone refers to a hopeless situation that s/he is in. Maybe on death row and no lawyer will take the case, something like that. It’s a statement of utter resignation to one’s crappy fate, mixed with so much anger that the person wants to punish the whole world by not even considering looking for a way out or an alternative. It’s a pseudo-intellectual equivalent of “I’m going to eat worms and die and show everyone,” said while sticking your tongue out. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/53 "2014-09-06T01:37:15Z")
This is a fairly old one, but I just heard it again and I had to come share. I’ve only heard it from Californians, and it is seriously a deal-breaker for me. Use it on a first date, and we’re done. You can take your Nobel-prize-winning, independently-wealthy, sensitive and good-looking self right the hell home if you start to describe something and say: “It’s so very, very . . .” Now, I can’t really express in type the particular brand of pretentiousness that inevitably goes along with this, but there’s a distinctive elongation of the “sooooo” and then a sort of cocked-head staring off into space which is meant to look intellectual but actually only reminds me of the RCA dog. ("His Master’s Voice!) “Very” in and of itself is a crutch, OK? There is almost always a perfectly good word available which means “Very” whatever you were about to say. “Very hot” = Scorching, “very small” = tiny, “very, very” = excruciating. Don’t say it. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/54 "2014-09-06T01:37:32Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I’d just like to share that I am really tired of people sharing with me. This one has been around a long long time (long long long) but it’s still happening. DON’T SHARE! I remember a saying, Good Christians don’t gossip, they share concerns. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/55 "2014-09-06T01:45:21Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I’m still waiting for a definition of “food babies”. > > I refuse to Google it because I might start seeing those stalky picture-ads afterwards, and they might be food babies. That would be ooky. People who say that basicallly mean,“I feel nauseous and unwell because I’ve just eaten a dozen cheeseburgers like a disgusting, gluttonous cretin, which I am. I am going to now moan and complain about my gross swollen abdomen, even though this is all my fault because I have zero self-control.” I’ll add one related to “furbaby”, and that’s ‘pet parent’. No! Just no. That animal is not your child, nor is it a living doll that you can dress up in some silly costume. If you are not mature enough to give your dog or cat the dignity and respect it deserves, you don’t deserve to have a pet at all. ---
**Author:** ![no\_evidence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@no\_evidence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/no_evidence)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/56 "2014-09-06T01:53:51Z")
Was oh, so glad when Yada, yada… finally went by the wayside. Now the one stubbornly hanging in velcrolike is, …“Can’t wrap my brain…my head… my mind around it.” Commonly used by HLN panelists. Enough of the wrapping. ---
**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/57 "2014-09-06T02:01:01Z")
I use “it is what it is” fairly regularly, mostly in dealing with my kids. My use (and the way I tend to hear others use it as well) is as a sort of sympathetic “suck it up” when someone (or even directed at myself) is lamenting something unchangeable. “Crap, I wish we’d gone to the butcher before the drycleaner so we’d have gotten there before they ran out of sausages.” “Ah, well. It is what it is.” ---
**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:** [September 6, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/58 "2014-09-06T02:15:52Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’m not opposed to the concepts expressed by these words, but I’m so freakin’ tired of hearing and reading them. Find another way to say this stuff for pity’s sake!! Freakin’ ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/59 "2014-09-06T02:16:13Z")
> [@TimeWinder](#): > > Both of those are just an excuse for saying “I don’t want to buy this” without coming right out and saying it. No, at least not in my case. Leaving out the details, but these are women who really wanna spend 20 to 60 bucks, vacillate a bit, but are afraid to spend money without their husbands consent. Pathetic to witness. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/60 "2014-09-06T02:38:04Z")
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