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Most annoying word or phrase in 2017? Whatever
The Sacramento Bee ^ | December 19, 2017 | Anthony Sorci

Posted on 12/19/2017 1:52:34 PM PST by EveningStar

The most annoying word or phrase used in casual conversation this year? Whatever.

According to the annual Marist Poll released Monday, for the ninth consecutive year, “whatever” takes the prize as the most irksome word, 33 percent of Americans say.

Rounding out the top five were “fake news” (23 percent), “no offense, but” (20 percent), “literally” (11 percent) an “you know what I mean” (10 percent), according to the poll.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: 2017review; fakenews; language; literally; nooffensebut; topten; whatever; youknowwhatimean
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To: OKSooner

Anything with “as f___” added to it.


21 posted on 12/19/2017 2:01:52 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: EveningStar

It’s the So People that annoy me the most. You know, the predominantly young who preface every utterance with “So,.....” The reporter asks the young woman who witnessed the accident what she saw and you get “So, I was texting on the sidewalk and this car......” What horrendous laugh-track diversity-compliant cast shitcom did this “so” conversation perversion come from?


22 posted on 12/19/2017 2:02:00 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: EveningStar

WTF ever....


23 posted on 12/19/2017 2:02:03 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: EveningStar

1. BOOM!
2. It begins

Aaaaaggghhh!!!!!!


24 posted on 12/19/2017 2:02:47 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: bagster
Nazi

white supremacist

social justice warrior

Hillary

25 posted on 12/19/2017 2:03:11 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: EveningStar

1. So (before ever sentence)
2. Yea, yea, yea


26 posted on 12/19/2017 2:04:12 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: VietVet876

oooo nice vent, sir.


27 posted on 12/19/2017 2:04:17 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: EveningStar

3. People who always reflexively say “Yeah. No. Yeah.”

Which is it? No? Yes? That verbal tick drives me NUTS. The old saying “Engage Brain Before Putting Mouth In Gear” was never truer. Or, in NetSpeak, EBBOM.


28 posted on 12/19/2017 2:05:16 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Inyo-Mono

Agreed, instead of no problem they should say, my pleasure.


29 posted on 12/19/2017 2:05:18 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: EveningStar

So mine is the word “so”, but only when it is used to start a sentence.


30 posted on 12/19/2017 2:05:20 PM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: 1Old Pro

Like, yeah, they are like, you know?.............


31 posted on 12/19/2017 2:06:39 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: EveningStar

Resist


32 posted on 12/19/2017 2:06:49 PM PST by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: EveningStar

At the end of the day....

Wait,what.....

Your instead of You’re....


33 posted on 12/19/2017 2:07:00 PM PST by COUNTrecount (If Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could only talk.)
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To: dfwgator
Anything with “as f___” added to it.

Dude!

You just took away half my lexicon.

that's messed up as....ooops.

:(

34 posted on 12/19/2017 2:07:11 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: EveningStar

‘Newspaper’ — ‘litter bin’ — ‘litter bin’ — dreadful *tinny* sort of word.


35 posted on 12/19/2017 2:07:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: COUNTrecount
Wait,what.....

Good call. I second.

36 posted on 12/19/2017 2:08:13 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: EveningStar
Diversity.

Inclusive.

Sustainable.

37 posted on 12/19/2017 2:08:32 PM PST by red-dawg
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To: lerker

Yet you still took the time to reply


38 posted on 12/19/2017 2:09:11 PM PST by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: EveningStar

“Russia”


39 posted on 12/19/2017 2:12:13 PM PST by MortMan (I can resist anything, except temptation. /sarc)
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To: EveningStar
The obvious choice is "unpack". Any narrative of the left uses words that we all understand, but they choose to mean something else. These problematic words need to be "unpacked".

"It's okay to be white". Talking about this phrase means you need to "unpack" what the word white means. Of course white doesn't mean white, it mean white oppression and everything that goes along with this idea. Therefore the phrase doesn't mean "It's okay to be white", it really means "It's okay to be an oppressive white supremacist."

Unpacking really means to interject all of the bias of the left into normal words and it means to accept the worst possible interpretation of the left onto the right.

I really wish they would just repack and leave.

40 posted on 12/19/2017 2:12:17 PM PST by Tao Yin
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