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"Paradigm"
(A meaningless buzzword unless it is followed by the word "shift" and preceded by an ACTUAL Paradigm Shift. Not a corporate hierarchy reorganization. Not a department renaming. Not a change in the color of a letterhead. A paradigm shift is what happens when your entire industry has been instantly rendered obsolete, and you have to do something much, much more drastic that do any of the three things listed above.)

"Synergy"
(Normally a cool word. It even has TWO Y's in it! But its used by the same whistleheaded Brooks Brothers Straightjacketed metadrones that misuse "Paradigm"; and in similarly flawed and sloppy fashion.)

"...On a going forward basis..."
(AAAAGH! As opposed to WHAT!? A Going Backwards Until We All Delolve Back into Monkeys Basis? Every damned thing is on a 'going forward basis'. For mortal humanoids time only goes in ONE direction! You silly, Tassel-loafered dinosaur!)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 26 September 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

(*Custos vents the remaining steam, and the entire thread suddenly looks like a Turkish bathhouse.*)

I also second that vote for "Touch Base"
Damn that is such an obxious phrase.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 26 September 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

IT'S BANGIN' SON

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 26 September 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah. Someone already beat me to the "Paradigm" and "Synergy" problems.
Someone please remind me to always click "Show All Messages" first.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 27 September 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

"copacetic" makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
Copacetic™ might not be right for everyone. Serious side effects may include terminal annoyance and gouging out of the eyes. Talk to your Doctor to see if Copacetic™ is right for you.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 27 September 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Bitch', as used on ILX in thread titles such as, 'Who all up in this bitch is Jewish?' gives me the absolute heebie-jeebies. Of course the irritation increases exponentially when it's spelt 'beyotch' or similar.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 28 September 2003 08:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

People who use "formally" instead of "formerly". Also the "would / should / could of" thing.

And apostrophes (not that misuse of apostrophes really falls under this category but I just wanted to get this off my chest)! I went to buy an anniversary card for mr ailsa the other day, and I found one which said "for all the year's we've been together". I mean, WTF? Who proof-read that one?

I also once had a colleague who insisted, as an administrator, her job involved administrating things. IT'S ADMINISTERING!! Idiot. (she also misused the word "literally" and overused "basically" until I wanted to throw things at her. She also claimed that her spellchecker was wrong and that "seperate" and "apparant" were correct spelling and went out to buy a dictionary to prove herself right. Ha fucking ha.)

However, Colin is my new hero for his dismissal of the concept of steep learning curves, and I am going to point this out next time someone uses the phrase in my presence.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 September 2003 09:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

My ex-wife's solicitors claimed a while back that they would "revert" to me shortly. It was a surprise to discover that they had formerly been me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 28 September 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

the phrase "passers by" pisses the hell out of me as one that screams "see! See how literate and gramatically correct I am!" when, in fact, the opposite is usually true and "passers by" is the only proper form they know.

― ModJ, Sunday, 28 September 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

It so doesn't scream that! It's just what people learn and repeat accordingly. No one says 'passer bys' just because it would sound weird.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 28 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

"RBIs" (arr bee eyes) referring to "Runs Batted In" (a baseball statistic that measures a batter's performance when other people on his team are in a position to score).

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 September 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Quite right. The correct plural form is "RsBI" (arrs bee eye).

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 28 September 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.hayesart.net/images/fantasy/bee-pirate.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 September 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Arrrr! Aye, bees be we!"

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 28 September 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Arrrr! Aye, bees be we!"

I'm so going to use that as a title of a song someday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 28 September 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

"so" can be quite an annoying word sometimes

― freedom dupont, Sunday, 28 September 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait, Vik, what about "fuckbuddies"? Do you like them? Or do you prefer fuckfriends?

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 28 September 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bedbuddies, Buttbuddies, Rumprangers.
Sure, those words are juvenile, puerile and possibly homophobic, but they are so mellifluous and conjure such comical imagery.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 28 September 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.fuzzlogic.com/flex/a/119.php

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 29 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Word that most annoys me when others say it: Bam!

― ScottRC (ScottRC), Monday, 29 September 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

(As in, "I took one look at her and Bam! I knew I was in love." It seems to be a "guy thing" -- creating the illusion of interesting dialogue by inserting action movie/comic book sound effects.)

Word I hate to use and avoid using whenever possible: Feet. But only if I'm referring to human appendages; I can say "feet" without a care in the world when I'm talking about measurements. If I'm talking anatomy though, I'll say "legs" or "ankles" or "shoes" or whatever, even if it's not quite accurate, to avoid calling feet feet.

― ScottRC (ScottRC), Monday, 29 September 2003 03:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sweet. Especially when Mr. Flipflops McBusinessmajor casually shouts it into his cellphone. "You goin' out? Sweet, buddy..."

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 29 September 2003 03:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Spoken like a man/woman who.... [x]"

Makes me think of either Pierce Brosnan trying to put the moves on you or some dilapidated old granny fruitlessly attempting to be charming

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

"interestingly"

THE WORST!!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I still hate "enlighten me."

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

What about "enlighten me, BIATCH!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

what about it?

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well I think it's a-ok! Cause "enlighten me" has this sneery passive-aggressiveness to it that you can't exactly hold the speaker accountable for.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

on the $$$

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

"dream kitchen".

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love the idea of a dream kitchen! A whole kitchen where I can sit around creating and cooking up dreams! But would it be dreams, in the sense of "goals you hope to achieve" or in the sense of "fantasies" or the sense of "strange half-digested thoughts that flap through your head at night"?

Either way, it's still a great phrase. "Dream Kitchen" would be a great name for a studio. DON'T ANY OF YOU THINK OF STEALING MY NAME FOR THAT!!! I've now copyrighted it by posting it. So hah! My next studio will be called the Dream Kitchen.

― kate (kate), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like it better when you put it like that, but it never is. It's always "Win your dream kitchen!" "Buy your dream kitchen with nothing to pay until January! Yes! Next January!"

I resent the implication I have nothing better to do than dream about kitchens. I may waste too much time on ILX, but this is far more rewarding than fantasising about work surfaces.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

This leather sofa, just seven nine nine.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hate that when the price is just less than a round hundred. Do they really think we are so stupid as to think this makes a difference?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hadn't even thought about that (and you're right, of course). It's more the fact that they can't be arsed to say seven hundred and ninety nine pounds that gets me.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I assume that 99 thing does work, as it is extra work for the sellers. I kept finding it with estate agents - I'd say "It's a two bedroomed flat at a hundred and fifty thousand" and they'd say "We don't have any at that price - do you mean the one at one four nine, nine nine five?"

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tell them yes but that you intend on tipping them five pounds for their attention to detail!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 10 October 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Burger

― Aaron A., Friday, 10 October 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Burgher

― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Write me'

andy

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 11 October 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Literally. That literally does my head in. My work colleagues are literally the worst offenders at misusing it at literally every possible opportunity.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 11 October 2003 10:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...

1) "Pazz"
2) "Jop"

― jazz odysseus, Monday, 23 February 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

"up close and personal"

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

"Partner", in reference to a boyfriend or girlfriend.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:11 (twenty years ago) link

grotty

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago) link

detritus
vacillate
uproarious
human spirit
afterglow
dreck
shockah
cultural

― Le Coq, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:26 (twenty years ago) link

I hate the word 'admits' used in the Hello magazine sense, as in:

Victoria Beckham admits that her children are the most important part of her life
Jennifer Aniston admits that she is very much in love

You should only admit to bad things.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

People not only say mimimalist when they mean minimal but some people even say MINIMALISTIC (which isnt even a word). Makes me want to throw up.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

Supercaliminimalisticexpialodocious.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

I think Ronan, mentions it upthread, but "son" as an address at the end of a sentence and "sonned" make my SKIN CRAWL. There is nothing worse than an attempted belitting that is paternal and patronizing by someone mentally beneath you. Oh and if someone younger tries to use that on me, well, let's just say that their uppance will come.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

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