Expressions you cannot stand

[Anonymous]

"leverage" in corporate -speak. An extremely annoying term.

[Anonymous]

"Around" in business-speak: "Gather your thoughts around this issue and we'll discuss it later" or "Let's schedule a meeting around that topic." ABOUT! ON! IN REGARDS TO! But please, no more around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Around" in business-speak: "Gather your thoughts around this issue and we'll discuss it later" or "Let's schedule a meeting around that topic." ABOUT! ON! IN REGARDS TO! But please, no more around.

Point taken, although maybe "in regard to...."

[Anonymous]

I hate when people use the word "tremendous" incorrectly. Always in a business setting. People as a way to describe a person, like "he is a tremendous leader." I always picture a leader who is 20 feet tall and a thousand pounds.

[Anonymous]

A family member incorrectly uses "good" all the time...as in... "you eat good!". Did you sleep good?". Ugggg...it's WELL! Also she never uses adverbs...as in, "let me go quick" instead of quickLY, "he wrapped that nice!" instead of nicely....bugs me so much!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kiddos

"We're pregnant."

The use of "do" in place of another verb. For example,

"We do Thai on Friday nights."
"I don't do Georgetown on the weekends." Ew.

Not an expression but this: "incentivize." Not a word.

All of above, plus

preggers

hormonal

little ones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UGH

ARGH!

ARGHHHHHHHHH

UGH!

women (and it's always women or gay men) who use this in print think it adds emphasis (My inlaws gave us a long list of foods they won't eat. UGH!) (I lost my SmartTrip card - ARGH).

but it's always superfluous. we can accurately guess without the guttural pirate loogey noise that you aren't delighted you lost your SmartTrip card.

Yikes! Had no idea I was so annoying. Ugh. Sorry.

Don't you mean "so very sorry?"

[Anonymous]

Irregardless

literally (when it's actually figuratively)

just sayin'

I know, right?

Right?

[Anonymous]

All of the above terms X1000 when it's my mom using them in her FB status to try to sound cool!

[Anonymous]

Preggo...ew.
Hubs...eeeuw!

[Anonymous]

stakeholders

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A family member incorrectly uses "good" all the time...as in... "you eat good!". Did you sleep good?". Ugggg...it's WELL! Also she never uses adverbs...as in, "let me go quick" instead of quickLY, "he wrapped that nice!" instead of nicely....bugs me so much!

This is probably one of my biggest pet peeves. I have to stop myself from correcting people when I hear "good" used incorrectly.

[Anonymous]

It works for my family...

[Anonymous]

My cousin, who is 41, says "my bestie" all the time to refer to her friend. Holy crap.

Easy peasy. I hate that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Not an expression but this: "incentivize." Not a word.

um, it is a word. what bothers me is people who instead use "incent" as if that is a real verb.

Uh... incent is a verb - it's used with an object. From dictionary.com



in·cent
? [in-sent]

verb (used with object)
incentivize.

The market doesn't pay people what they are worth and what they need to incent them to work.
Now, one might say that this is good because it will incent them to find more oil.
He wants to incent homeowners to retrofit their homes to become more energy efficient