# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/101 "2014-09-06T19:34:33Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Zombie anything. Vampire anything else. Sick to death (or undeath) of the whole genre. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/102 "2014-09-06T20:11:40Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Note that I did not say I was defending the usage. I have just been “corrected” in this manner before. Some people seem uneasy with the fact that sometimes yes, two words really do mean exactly the same thing, so they have to invent subtle differences. I know someone who insists that a present is given in person, and a gift is either sent, or given in person, but to be opened at a later time, when the giver is not, well, _present_. He just can’t accept that two words mean the same thing. I know you weren’t defending it. I’m just shocked people can be so anal about something they’re so clearly wrong about. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/103 "2014-09-06T20:52:15Z")
> [@ayatollah yawuntz](#): > > it’s “closure” that pushes my buttons. +300,000 ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/104 "2014-09-06T21:07:31Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Does she have a child under 5? sometimes the talk spills over into the real world, unfortunately. Give her time. If not, well, maybe dope-slap her. > > . Re: the baby-talking. No, no kids and she is in her late 40s. I suspect it’s something to do with her relationship with her husband who calls her “baby girl” and other such nauseating terms. Dope-slapping would be nice. She’s an otherwise really great employee and speaking properly isn’t part of the job description so I just grit my teeth and stay silent. A lot. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/105 "2014-09-06T21:47:55Z")
I currently mute the new McDonald’s commercials with their freain’ Eco-nom-nom-nomics". The nom nom nom thing is IDIOTIC! What are you? 12? If someone says it to me, I will never ever talk to them again. I keep HOPING some people will say it to me so I have an excuse to not talk to them ever again. It’s my current “Missy’s going to go off if you say it” phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/106 "2014-09-06T22:02:58Z")
“…but I digress”. Dunno why I hate it so much. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/107 "2014-09-07T00:07:31Z")
“Bestie” :mad: ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/108 "2014-09-07T00:14:34Z")
> [@velvetjones](#): > > +1 for removing “baby bump” from the lexicon. I also don’t want to see anyone’s pregnant belly. No one. Except possibly my daughter and even then I won’t want to see it unclothed. In our family we have 4 generations of 8 month pregnant ladies in bikinis. They all are proud of this set of fotos. It resides at my mother’s house. She is 85 and not in the series. ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/109 "2014-09-07T00:18:14Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > _Easy peasy._ How about screwy youie. > > _It is what it is._ No shit? > > All variations of “awesome”, i.e., awesomesauce, awesomelicious, and the like. > > _I know, right?_ You’re stupid, right? Actually said to my daughter 25 years ago. “There are 2 words I’d like you to stop using, one is awesome and the other crude.” She replied, “Sure daddy what are they?” ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/110 "2014-09-07T00:23:52Z")
> [@DingoelGringo](#): > > Actually said to my daughter 25 years ago. “There are 2 words I’d like you to stop using, one is awesome and the other crude.” > She replied, “Sure daddy what are they?” Ha! So is she still complying? ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/111 "2014-09-07T00:24:20Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > 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. I always hate it when a person says to their dog or cat, “Come to Mommy” or Daddy. I had thought it was something that women said who’d never had a baby, but the last few years it has seemed to be ubiquitous, this idea of being the parent of a dog or cat. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/112 "2014-09-07T00:32:36Z")
> [@DingoelGringo](#): > > I always hate it when a person says to their dog or cat, “Come to Mommy” or Daddy. I had thought it was something that women said who’d never had a baby, but the last few years it has seemed to be ubiquitous, this idea of being the parent of a dog or cat. Well, it’s easier than ‘Please Master, will you consent to come to me?’ ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/113 "2014-09-07T00:35:37Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > What does that even mean? Yes, I do realise I’m showing my age. My understanding is it means the mother of your child if the pair of you aren’t married. Just like knocked started out meaning getting pregnant when one was not married, but now seems to mean any pregnancy. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/114 "2014-09-07T01:12:13Z")
Hm, let’s see. Somehow “cool” now means “shut up, I’m done listening” and it irritates me to no end. Cool, so… totes amazeballs awesomesauce all the whimsical Facebook-speak… “the ask”, “the spend”, etc. “a thing” instead of “a phenomenon.” C’mon, I know it’s a big word, but literally everything is a thing. “I get it”. A synonym for “I don’t get it, but please shut up.” ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/115 "2014-09-07T01:13:40Z")
I think it’s a little more than that. “Baby mama/daddy” is the other parent of your child when the two of you have no other relationship. Your wife? Your ex-wife? Your girlfriend? Your fiancee? none of those? someone you hooked-up with at a party, and the condom broke, and the two of you decided to parent together despite not knowing each other’s last names? Baby mama. Yes, I know that sounds judgmental-- but I have nothing against hook-ups, although I don’t personally do them, having been young and unattached when HIV was a really scary thing, but I do have something against people who use the term “Baby mama/daddy.” If you really need a special term to communication your lack of a prior attachment, please come up with something else. Yes, I also know other people are starting to use it, but really, it is not cute or funny to refer to your pregnant wife of four years as your baby mama, and it also isn’t a good way to refer to your surrogate either, Tina Fey movies aside, because people are going to think she got pregnant the old-fashioned way. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/116 "2014-09-07T01:18:38Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > I hate the proliferation of Internet lists titled “\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ you didn’t know”, followed closely by the similar “\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ you won’t believe”. > > You won’t believe what I don’t know. You left out “\_\_\_\_\_ you’ve been doing wrong” and “\_\_\_\_\_\_ will make you cry.” ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/117 "2014-09-07T04:41:59Z")
Eclectic. OK, its garbage with parts from all over. It’s a nice word to know -_ **But not to see 10 times a day!** _ News outlets are now getting into the act - and not just in the “reviews” section. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/118 "2014-09-07T05:08:08Z")
Flavor profile - before every food writer in the world latched onto this phrase, the word “flavor” or “taste” seemed to work just fine. It makes people who use it come across as food snobs who can break down flavors better than the rest of the masses. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/119 "2014-09-07T05:11:51Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Zombie anything. While I have an exceedingly high estimate of my own post, this one tops even mine. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/120 "2014-09-07T05:11:54Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Flavor profile - before every food writer in the world latched onto this phrase, the word “flavor” or “taste” seemed to work just fine. It makes people who use it come across as food snobs who can break down flavors better than the rest of the masses. For that matter, “mouthfeel.” Every time I hear that I want to stab something. Also, “sexting.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609.md?page=7)