Comments on: Banned words of 2010

By: constance

constance — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:23:56 +0000

Gwen, I found out that “conversate” is not used to mean converse or communicate. It has a particular application as a build up for a sexual encounter. You conversate as a prelude to a one night stand, usually with a complete stranger.

By: jim t

jim t — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:06:05 +0000

How about “bring” when they mean “take”, as in “We advise you to bring your cat to the vet to be spayed.”

By: Gwen

Gwen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:56:13 +0000

How about the words, “reinterate” for reiterate, “supposably” for supposedly, and “conversate” for conversation or communicate or communication?

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:42:10 +0000

How about awesome. I hate that word.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:58:42 +0000

Great and witty response.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:30:26 +0000

How about a limit on the percentage of times the word, “like,” can be used? Like, you know how, like, young people use “like”? Like, this, like, really bothers me.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:01:50 +0000

All great suggestions! I would also like to add the following to the list:
“My bad” – have hated this from the first time I heard it
“Human Capital” – very degrading and dehumanizing

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:42:08 +0000

Everyone in my office says things are “HILARIOUS!” No, usually not. Overused to the point that it’s completely lost its meaning.

By: gene

gene — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:16:38 +0000

This has probably come up previously (I certainly hope so!) but the use of “fun” as in “that was so fun”, still drives me up the wall!

By: Janie

Janie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:03:10 +0000

Nouns indiscriminately turned into verbs because someone thinks this sounds cute or catchy, e.g. let me noodle on that (translation: let me think about that).

By: S Ryan

S Ryan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:05:20 +0000

Really? The renewed and constant use of “Really?” didn’t make the banned list?

Anyways, that’s AMAZING.

Good list, great comments!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:57:10 +0000

“now more than ever”

By: C Hubbard

C Hubbard — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:30:42 +0000

I heard the term “vetting, vetted” etc. about every 5 minutes during the prelude to the November election, and had never heard it before that. I hope to never hear it again. Surely some other term was used before this year?

By: Scott Chancey

Scott Chancey — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:38:17 +0000

Going forward, please ban “going forward”.

By: Mark Goldfain

Mark Goldfain — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:32:11 +0000

The phrase I’m hearing a lot lately that seems to be just filler is:

“… that being said …”

By: Debbie Cox

Debbie Cox — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:57:59 +0000

Please include the word AMAZING. It has truly lost it’s punch because of it’s over use.
The other phrase that annoys me is the word ‘connection’ like “I knew we had a connection”

By: Keith Segerson

Keith Segerson — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:45:26 +0000

My favorite to be included in the next list of banned words is, “what not” – who came up with that phrase anyway?

By: Fatima Parsons

Fatima Parsons — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:33:36 +0000

Please include this word on the word banishment list. “anyways” I don’t understand how and why it is used. It it a pain to the ears.

By: Pam Shafer

Pam Shafer — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:07:54 +0000

What about the over-used phrases “reach across the aisle” and the analogy of what happens on Wall St (or elsewhere) vs Main St. Please…. enough.