"Perfect storm" of cliches make bad English list

Reuters ^ | 12/31/07 | Andrew Stern

[gusopol3]

dittoes

[San Jacinto]

THANK YOU FOR BEING SO PROACTIVE IN SHARING YOUR FEELINGS WITH US.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Press 1 for English.

[Cap Huff]

I nominate “meltdown.”

[wbill]

Absolutely. If I had to pick ANYTHING....I'd do away with "Green" anything. "Environmental" and "Organic" would be close seconds.

For purposes of brevity, I'll stay away from GW commentary.

"Dialogue" and "Conversations" are my business buzzword petpeeves. As in "Currently, we're having conversations about buzzwords. Later, I'll dialogue with some other people about them."

Irks me to no end.

While I'm at it, I'd be glad to dispose of the word "Headcount". As in "Yo, looks like you lost some headcount when half of your department quit!" Grrrrrr....

[Charles Henrickson]

“lawyer up”

[Charles Henrickson]

“outsource”

[papertyger]

“I support the troops” has become utterly meaningless.

[the OlLine Rebel]

How about all the football teams that are going to be “physical”?

[murphE]

Other teenage linguistic indiscretions such as the often meaningless use of "random"

I have a teenager and this is like finger nails on a chalk board to me.

[the OlLine Rebel]

That’s just wrong. More than over-used.

[LexBaird]

It is what it is.

[hellbender]

My pet peeves (overused, faddish, or downright incorrect words):

"Robust" for strong. "Going forward" for "in the future." "Ongoing" for "going on," as in "negotiations are ongoing".

[SueRae]

The word ‘thwart’ got it’s fair share of overuse this past year. SHortly after Chertoff used it when describing the derailed plot to hijack airliners out of London, not a day went by when I didn’t read an article using that word.

Writers need a thesaurus.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I am what I am 'cause I ain't what i used to be
'Cause it is what it is but it ain't what it used to be."

[Paine in the Neck]

“Sooner rather than later”. Seven syllables that, if they mean anything at all, mean the same as the one syllable “soon”.

[ShadowDancer]

"x is the new y," as in "(age) 70 is the new 50" or "chocolate is the new sex."

"Back in the day"

You have no idea how much I despise these two. Arrrghhh.

[AU72]

"At the end of the day" is the latest version of those other cliches:

"The Bottom line"
"In point of fact"
"When all is said and done"
"When you get right down to it"

[johnnyd]

How about “conversate”. Needs to go IMO.

[Larry Lucido]

This topic is sooooo 1990s. These folks need to get a life. Here’s quarter, call someone who cares.

(Did I get them all?)