# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/141 "2014-09-07T21:44:35Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Also, please count me as another vote for “baby bump”. If this nonsense continues, I shall start referring to my rounded tummy as an “ice cream bump”. Is just ‘bump’ OK? Because otherwise, what are you supposed to call it, in contexts like ‘Could you switch on the cooker? I can’t reach over the ----- to the switch’ or ‘We can’t sit in a booth, my ---- won’t fit.’ Fecund uterus? Developing foetus? Or what? Also, OH DEAR GOD ‘reach out’. The first time someone used that in an email to me, I could not figure out what he was talking about. I barely know you, we’re only professional contacts, there’s no deep emotional connection here, I’m fine and as far as I know so are you; why the hell are you ‘reaching out’ to me? It took me two reads to figure out that he meant ‘contacting’. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/142 "2014-09-07T21:48:22Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I think it’s an industry term that needs to stay within the industry. If you are trying to develop a fat-free version of something, there’s a subtle difference between texture and “mouthfeel.” Texture might have more to do with hiding fiber in something without it seeming to be high fiber. > > But yeah, the distinction doesn’t matter if you are not a food chemist/developer or whatever those people are called. Someone making a fat-free Oreo is not a chef, or even a cook. > [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > Mouthfeel isn’t just texture - it includes viscosity, hardness, brittleness, stickiness and other factors. It’s a legitimate term that has become a vogue word among foodies. It’s like the word “caramelize” - people use it to show off. See, I still don’t see the difference. Texture, to me, includes all those factors as well. I may well be missing some subtle distinction, but ‘mouthfeel’ still makes me twitch. ---
**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 7, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/143 "2014-09-07T22:30:57Z")
> [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > Is just ‘bump’ OK? Because otherwise, what are you supposed to call it, in contexts like ‘Could you switch on the cooker? I can’t reach over the ----- to the switch’ or ‘We can’t sit in a booth, my ---- won’t fit.’ Fecund uterus? Developing foetus? Or what? How about “stomach”? ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/144 "2014-09-07T22:35:46Z")
But it wasn’t my stomach. That’s a whole other thing. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/145 "2014-09-07T22:37:45Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > … > So, I take it you’ve never been to Minnesota, then?🙂 I mean a very specific usage of “So,…” as though the speaker fancies him/herself as the holder of a Great Truth about to be explained to a 2 year old. > [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > Is just ‘bump’ OK? Because otherwise, what are you supposed to call it, in contexts like ‘Could you switch on the cooker? I can’t reach over the ----- to the switch’ or ‘We can’t sit in a booth, my ---- won’t fit.’ Fecund uterus? Developing foetus? Or what? > … I nominate “Big Fat Gut” as a replacement. 😃 ---
**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, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/146 "2014-09-07T23:04:37Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > “No problem” in response to “thank you”. Were you raised by wolves? > Also, please count me as another vote for “baby bump”. If this nonsense continues, I shall start referring to my rounded tummy as an “ice cream bump”. Oops. I say “not a problem” in response to “thank you” quite often and I wasn’t raised by wolves. 🙂 I also often respond to “excuse me” or “sorry” (as in, grocery store shopping cart conflicts) with “not a problem” or “oh, you’re fine!” “Thank you for sharing.” In any context. It just feels demeaning. I have never heard “baby bump” IRL. I thought it was just a tabloid term. Do people actually say this, in spoken speech? ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/147 "2014-09-07T23:29:30Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > “Thank you for sharing.” In any context. It just feels demeaning. Unless you’re talking about cookies. ---
**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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/148 "2014-09-07T23:32:25Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Unless you’re talking about cookies. Naw, even then I would just say “Thanks! So, nom nom nom. Awesome. Superb mouthfeel.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/149 "2014-09-07T23:36:27Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Oops. I say “not a problem” in response to “thank you” quite often and I wasn’t raised by wolves. 🙂 I also often respond to “excuse me” or “sorry” (as in, grocery store shopping cart conflicts) with “not a problem” or “oh, you’re fine!” I don’t mind the second usage – it just irks the crap out of me in the first usage. (I never said it was logical!) And I’m one of those annoying people who says “no worries” in response to “excuse me” or “sorry”, so you know. We open our mouths and annoy the crap out of someone. All the time. I also say “So…” a lot, mostly because I really am thinking back to something else previously said. Or thought. By me. eclectic\_wench: I don’t mind just “bump”. Or ignore the reason and say “I can’t fit in the booth/I can’t reach the stove controls.” If we can tell you’re pregnant, we’ll know what’s in the way. (And if you just have an ice cream bump, come sit by me!) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/150 "2014-09-08T00:58:15Z")
**Closure**. Every time an unsolved murder pops up in the news I wonder whether the family is seeking closure. They always are. **Touch base**. Unless you are wearing cleats and a jock, please don’t tell me you want to touch base. **Whole nother**. Nother? Really? **Sherbert**. Say it and I will pound you about the head with a sherbet scooper. I don’t care what Wikipedia says. mmm ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/151 "2014-09-08T01:29:20Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Makes for a nice [gag shirt](http://www.zazzle.com/noam_sayin_tee_shirt-235269383110322344) though. Websites have got to stop running popup ads for their own crap. This one was the worst since it covered up the entire screen and included no X button or anything. You had to scroll down and click outside of it to get back. You want me to share something after reading an article or sign up for your newsletter, put it straight in the text or video. And avoid it entirely before you start reading, because that will just make people leave. And, yes, I know it’s off topic, but at least it’s still something that ought to be retired. ---
**Author:** ![huitzilopochtli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e99b99/32.png) [@huitzilopochtli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/huitzilopochtli)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/152 "2014-09-08T02:01:39Z")
It’s really sorta… I hate this so much. I haven’t ever heard it in real life but Hollywood types say it so much. I really sorta hate them. If something is really, let’s say, organic, then it’s not also sorta organic. Also, sorta? Fuck you. I hang out with someone who hangs out with with Hollywood people and they always seem to say this instead of " I can’t bother to find the right word so I’ll use a buzzword" So, (and I hate that too), so Quentin says " I wanted Uma to be naked and she understood because it was really sorta organic" 3 words in a row that mean nothing ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/153 "2014-09-08T02:45:10Z")
Here are a couple from the public education arena, South Georgia style- pre-planning (or preplanning) and post-planning. All planning is, by definition, pre-, as it is done before that which is planned. Preplanning is a repetitiously redundant term! Post- means after, which contradicts the inherent pre-ness of planning, so I say post-planning is a contradiction in terms. I did see a guy post plan once. He then set up the posts and erected his fence! Using the term post-planning as a label for those days at the end of the school year when the teachers attend but the students don’t is just silly. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/154 "2014-09-08T02:55:54Z")
cromulent grok sammich ---
**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 8, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/155 "2014-09-08T03:06:22Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Here are a couple from the public education arena, South Georgia style- pre-planning (or preplanning) and post-planning. All planning is, by definition, pre-, as it is done before that which is planned. Preplanning is a repetitiously redundant term! Oh gawd yes, I’m going to start skeet-shooting “pre-planning” every time it pops out of someone’s mouth. Also, “pre-owned.” This would refer to the time _before_ it was owned. If it’s used, it’s used. Deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/156 "2014-09-08T06:51:37Z")
I recently heard someone say, “color me surprised”. I haven’t heard that expression since the disco days of the seventies and early eighties. I thought the speaker was intentionally dredging up a retro (there’s another word we could live without) expression, which was fine as most people today were not alive back then. then I reralized he thought it was still a hip thing to say. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![Dante\_1111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@Dante\_1111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_1111)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/157 "2014-09-08T08:06:40Z")
Bromance. ---
**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 8, 2014, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/158 "2014-09-08T10:44:53Z")
> [@Dante\_1111](#): > > Bromance. Then can I nominate “Bronies,” and all relationship portmanteaus based on the names of the participants, eg, Sheldon + Amy = Shamy. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/159 "2014-09-08T11:29:24Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Guy Fieri preparing a brisket for the barbecue: “Let’s get this bad boy on the fire!” I think we can put every cooldouchebro thing that Guy Fieri says on the list. Same with management jargon, recovery jargon, and all other kinds of jargon. > [@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 hate “it is what it is.” It’s usually used as filler, often by athletics, law enforcement, or military types, or people who have that kind of manner. > [@jabiru](#): > > That’s just stupid. I’m know I’m thinking a bit too concrete but a mother is a mother (or mama, if you\* prefer) regardless of marital status. > > - Not YOU, you. Your “mama” is _your_ mother. Your “baby mama” is the mother of your child. She’s not your girlfriend, wife, partner, or anything else. Your only relationship with her is that she is your child’s mother. The same for “baby daddy.” > [@](#): > > I’ve thought of another expression which bugs me and I’m not sure why it does: “date night”. If you’re going out to dinner with your husband ( **not** hubby - that’s another which drives me nuts), you’re going out to dinner with your husband. Why the need to cutesify it? The origin of this is in married couples who are pushing back against the idea that because they are married, they no longer can/need to have time alone together like when they were dating. It’s a way of saying “this is our time as lovers and friends, not as spouses or parents” and people use it to prevent others (family, friends) from encroaching on their “date night” time. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 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. Yeah, that’s what I was trying to say. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > “Out” may not be what the original legislator said, but it’s more logical than you give it credit for. > > When someone is “out” in baseball, they’re removed from play. When a felon is put away for life, he (or occasionally she) is removed from play with the rest of us forever. They are out of society. And since that’s where the rest of us live, they are out of our environment. And I was going to say this also. Though it might be overused and annoying at this point, “three strikes and you’re out” is a legitimate metaphor. “Three strikes and you’re in” doesn’t mean anything. > [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > “No problem” in response to “thank you”. Were you raised by wolves? Sorry, but “no problem” is a perfectly legitimate response to “thank you.” In fact, I like it better than “you’re welcome.” The more I think about “you’re welcome,” the weirder it sounds. Plus, non-Americans get confused when you say “you’re welcome.” “I’m welcome to what? To thank you?” ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/160 "2014-09-08T13:02:20Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > _Hashtag_. It makes me want to punch someone in the throat. What do you want people to say instead? It’s a way of tagging things using a hash symbol. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609.md?page=9)