[Closed] Words that are used so often that they pretty much mean nothing!

I love you

Artisan.

Victim.

Literally.

Tartlet

Sorry.

Perfect !

It's not though, is it?

I'm literally dying at this question.

Plush.

Do mean words like like, like?

Snowflake.

Patriarchy.

Genius

Could of.

Should of.

'Mate'.

Upgrade

Brexit

Icon

Will of the People

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Hero

Funsponge

Actually.

Epic.

Mate - to which the correct response is 'my name isn't mate and I'm not your mate' or 'You call me mate so I'm sure you won't mind if I call you scrote'.

Just saying

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Yes no

deliver

invest

cascade

rewind

reboot

So.

I hate the current trend of starting a sentence with this ..

Tartlet

That made me smile! Which dates us both!

Also: awesome. As in “ossum!”

So.

I hate the current trend of starting a sentence with this ..

Glad it's not just me!

Ending a sentence with

, no?

I worked with a guy called Mate. Ok it wasn't pronounced the same which spoiled the gag really.

Jobbie.

"Pretty much".

To be fair.

Why do so many people now, seem to punctuate their speech with "to be fair"?

You wouldn't write it like that.

Election Promise.

Do I win ?.

Pie

May the gods smite down those who put a top on a casserole.

"Honestly..."

Am I to believe that everything else you've been saying is a lie then?

Vegan

Craft

So.

Guilty.  Sorry.

Troll

Showcase
Solutions
Skillset
Vulnerable
Iconic
Epiphany
Partnership
Disruption

Phrasing.

Phil have you considered the problem is yours?  Each of the paragraphs in your OP contains its own overexcited hyperbole without any obvious awareness of the irony?

did Jesus really cry at evolution of the language?

is it really pointless to describe a positive or uplifting story as inspirational, or does it help to “market” the story to those who wish to be uplifted (and equally allow the permanently miserable to avoid such inspiration!)?

does legendary imply longevity of the person? Surely not.  Surely it is about tendency for the story to be retold repeatedly, and the character in such a story to become renowned.  It’s clearly just as “wrong” to presume that someone becomes legendary just because they have been around for a very long time as it is to suggest that extreme fame for a short term period deserves the label.

Phil have you considered the problem is yours?

No but I'm going to go with ,by page 2 a fair few others have all played along nicely till you happened. YAWN

Kinda

Traitors

I think that ^^ is the single most disturbing picture posted on STW ever. *shudder* -could we hide it behind a {spoiler} tag or something ??

Legend

Super (as a prefix) (my current HATE) (if you use it I hate you)

Anything that leaves Carlton ‘the king of the cliché’ Kirby’s gob. He’s ruining yet another grand tour for me.

Decimate

1 through 40 instead of 1 TO 40

"Can I go toilet?" instead of "Can I go TO the toilet?"

Floor used to describe the flat thing you walk on OUTSIDE!  (It's the GROUND FFS.... floors are inside)

Replacing "TH" wif an "F"

Swop out

the list goes on......

hero

Replacing “TH” wif an “F”

So [i]accents[/i] are "words that are used so much they mean nothing"?? I don't fink so.

Inspirational , as in story, JEEZUS WEPT, it seems getting out of bed is an inspiration to others these days.

Did he? 😉

Slight tangent, but where I work the term 'development opportunity' has pretty much universally become code for 'this task needs to be done, but there is no personal development value in it, so I'm handing it to you because I'm not touching it with a bargepole'.  People have stopped using it, as it only has negative connotations.

Unprecedented.

Floor used to describe the flat thing you walk on OUTSIDE!  (It’s the GROUND FFS…. floors are inside)

The pavement?

Never heard anyone say it was the floor. Never in my life.

Insane.  Hnnnggggh, gets right up my bugle. It should only be used for descriptions of mental health.

Literally.

Iconic.

Negative Reality Inversion.

Sure.

Community.

They use it about every tenth word on my local evening news programme.

For example it seems you can no longer talk about farmers, only the 'farming community'. You can no longer be a gay person, but rather are 'a member of the gay community'. No longer a Rabbi, but a 'Jewish community leader'.

"my house is worth. ......"

Can we extend this to phrases?

If we can then I nominate "with all due respect".

Exponential growth/rising exponentially when it isn't. Just say growing or rising FFS.

In the bike world, slang for components. e.g. stoppers and anchors for brakes; lid, brain dome for helmet. Necessary if you are writing a magazine review of a set of brakes, to avoid using the word brakes in every sentence. Not necessary in any other context.

Amazing. Everything has to be “amazing”

Shit

Democracy

Freedom...

Innovation

Awesome!

No it's not.

Can we extend this to phrases?

If we can then I nominate “with all due respect”.

See, I like "with all due respect."  It sounds like you're being respectful even if the respect you actually believe is due is "none whatsoever."

You have to be careful with "with all due respect", sometimes you'll be speaking to someone that doesn't know what it means- an American, possibly- and they won't realise that what you're actually saying is "You're a know nothing arsehole"

That sounds like a terrible situation and one I'd totally want to avoid.

Basically.

In the middle of a discussion the phrase

'to be honest'

pops up. Does that mean you haven't been honest till you said that? Bah!!

So.

I hate the current trend of starting a sentence with this ..

I never used to think anything of this, but just recently it seems like nearly everyone on telly prefaces a sentence with “So...

Even consecutive sentences! 🤪

@poly - exaggerating much?

See, I like “with all due respect.”  It sounds like you’re being respectful even if the respect you actually believe is due is “none whatsoever.”

I like to use the word 'ambitious' when someone is proposing to do something ridiculously stupid

Literally!!...

I gave my daughter grief for using it for almost every other word over dinner with a friend before a trip to BPW.

That weekend he returned the favour by pointing out that I said it almost as much..this then started a trend of everytime anyone said it we'd jump in and point it out. even to people we hadn't seen in ages... it became quite annoying!..

"Reaching Out"

Two emails received this week starting with this simply after asking a product question.

As in ..Hi Thank you for reaching out to us....

no no i didnt, my pc was well within arms length , i simply emailed asking you a question no Reaching out was needed at all..

Arrghhhh

Please and thank’s

perhaps not.

Decimate

People using "data" in the singular must make your head explode.