One that  have seen used a lot on facebook recently is.......

"Chillaxing"

Also drives my partner nuts, she really does hate it.

Craig🙂

ojibway wrote:

I thought I'd throw this one in!

Do you have a pet hate word that has been doing the rounds in 2010?

I do:   "Absolutely"

It is the most absurd, overused and mis-used word I've heard in a long time. 😭

A simple "Yes" would do

Happy New Year 😕

I have to admit: I use that word too often. 😳 There are lots of words I hate. Especially "proactive" Sadly it has been with us for longer than just 2010... Let's hope it will disappear in 2011!

I'd like to see the back of 'text speak' which has killed or maimed many words in the English language..

My 22 year old sister will often text me to say something like 'yeh, woz wicked - now off to town wiv ma mates' - which makes me want to find her, snatch the phone from her hands, stamp on it until it becomes but dust on the pavement, then hand her a dictionary in its place..

That aside - one word which is thankfully now unfashionable, but i'd like totally eradicated is 'BRAINSTORM'

Surely a storm is a negative event where things fall down, get blown over and collapse - or smash to pieces.  However, when you get a room full of people who have to get together in order to think of things they can't quite do alone, it becomes a 'positive event' !!   Well, bless my Top Man suit and loafers Daz, let's have a brainstorm and go sell some mobile phones.. 

Lee

Hey, Lee

you've hit on two I've had to hit on the head more than a few times.

When I was a lecturer (design) I had, on many occasions, to correct student written work for using "text speak".

And, as for 'BRAINSTORMING'. It was a forbidden word in my class. You see, when it comes to thinking up new shapes and designs, brainstorming relies on what you already know so the outcome will be thus limited. I always encouraged developing ideas and designs from outside stimuli - so a fresh source of inspiration leading to shapes they hadn't dreamt of (or preconceived).

Mike

"Iconic"

Everything has to be iconic (in UK).  I cannot imagine how things like sound or an event can be iconic, but they apparently can be.

Just heard another one on the news..

" THINKTANK "

Even when you try to dissect that word and make sense of it in the sum of its parts, or try and meld them into something which reflects its true meaning - it still leaves you with a constipated look on your face.

To be honest, i reckon a 'thinktank' is the name for a place where 'brainstorms' take place, which serves only to elevate it's position in the hall of crap words...  ❓

Lee

Roadmap.

Not 2010 but still being used. Grrrrr😭

Very interesting which words are used too often or in some kind of wrong usage. 

Lee, I would have a problem understanding your sisters` - 'yeh, woz wicked - now off to town wiv ma mates' - but please be ensured that we have similar abbreviations in Germany and to be honest I do not like them. 

One more thing which comes to my mind while I am writing that post is ... using three points or any other punctuation to end a sentence without really ending the thought in the sentence. 

Larskoelle wrote:

Lee, I would have a problem understanding your sisters` - 'yeh, woz wicked - now off to town wiv ma mates' 

.. and i have a problem with it too.  There, we have crossed international boundaries! 😂

to translate though..

yeh = yes

woz = it was

wicked = excellent

now off to town = i am now going to travel to the city centre

wiv = with

ma = my

mates = friends

As an addendum, i can honestly say that 7 years of reading posts by our very own Peter (Doctor) has improved my English beyond recognition.  I have been dragged from the gutter and now sit on the kerb thanks to that man!  A true English Gentleman, personally as well as online.