Society & Culture Over-used words/phrases

[Gough]

Working families.

 

[SugarShane]

Obviously is the big one. Listen to the average person being interviewed, they say the word obviously about 20 times a minute, in reference to things that are not obvious. I’m not really sure why it is.

I noticed AFL players in particular use it a hell of a lot. Once you notice it you can't unhear it and then it becomes more of a distraction.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I noticed AFL players in particular use it a hell of a lot. One you notice it you can't unhear it and then it becomes more of a distraction.

Yeah sportspeople are the worst. I dunno, I think maybe it’s a nervous thing, they say “obviously” before everything, as if to acknowledge that “what I’m saying may be stupid, but relax, I knows it’s stupid”. But it just becomes second nature and they say it before everything, including things which are definitely not obvious.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

"That's what she said."

Although I fully endorse it's overuse.


I use "basically" a lot. My boss uses "in theory" way too much.

 

[Caesar]

'Whenever is convenient'.

Convenient isn't a temporal deadline. Just tell me when you actually need it, and I can easily work it into my schedule so that it happens. If you REALLY want me to leave it until it's convenient, it's going to sit in my in-tray for the next month until I have a genuine lull in my workload.

 

[I bleed Blue]

Yeah sportspeople are the worst. I dunno, I think maybe it’s a nervous thing, they say “obviously” before everything, as if to acknowledge that “what I’m saying may be stupid, but relax, I knows it’s stupid”. But it just becomes second nature and they say it before everything, including things which are definitely not obvious.

Yep they do that alot.

Also when you are listening to any sports people being interviewed they always say "I think"

"I think we played pretty well today. Full credit to the opposition but I think we just had the legs to run the game out. Obviously coming into any match you know its not going to be easy but I think today we really had to be at our best. I think our pre-season has really given us the legs to run out games"

Yes mate. We know thats what you think. You are the one saying it.

 

[Roobs321]

I think the use of 'obviously' maybe makes a speaker more confident in what they are saying.

While more often than not used as a compliment, the biggest insult anyone could say about me is to say I am 'cultured'. Something about that word, and what it implies, makes my skin crawl.

Now we have that My Kitchen Rules silly on TV going on about how PROUD he is of being 'cultured'. 'Cultured' as an aspiration. Mark my words, 'cultured' will be claimed by the 'bogans' over the next 5-10 years.

This probably sounds a little controversial, but something about the term 'cultured', while said as a compliment, just sickens me. Infact, I cant imagine a genuine intellectual ever describing oneself as 'cultured', it's decidedly anti-intellectual. Bogan catchprase, here we come.

 

[Caesar]

Nobody would describe themselves as cultured mostly for the same reason they wouldn't describe themselves as an intellectual. It's horribly self-aggrandising. 'Cultured' makes me think of yoghurt, but it doesn't really make me cringe. I like yoghurt.

On the other hand I think calling someone cultured, particularly in Australia, is often something of a backhanded compliment. More than simply conveying that someone has intelligence or knowledge, it's a word that carries connotations of class distinctions that we generally sneer at. To call someone cultured is often a polite way of implying they are pretentious and (for men) somewhat effeminate and lacking in more 'down to earth' male skills.

 

[courtjester]

My favourite word at the moment is "convoluted". I'm trying to use it as much as I can...

 

[Roobs321]

My favourite word at the moment is "convoluted". I'm trying to use it as much as I can...

It's good for describing an impossible to follow plot. ie. hardboiled Raymond Chandler noirs like The Big Sleep.

Or maybe a teenage girl telling her friends about so and so who said so and so was cheating on so and so with so and so...

 

[Gough]

My favourite word at the moment is "convoluted". I'm trying to use it as much as I can...

I try to slip discombobulated into the conversation as much as I can.

 

[Kram]

Bogan.

 

[Slax]

Have a personal hatred of
"At the end of the day ...."

 

[Kram]

Have a personal hatred of
"At the end of the day ...."

I guess you don't like Ross Lyon then

 

[Caesar]

Have a personal hatred of
"At the end of the day ...."

I blame Schonberg.

 

[childeric]

I turn on SEN at 4.40 today and the first thing I hear is a girl saying "surreal"

Also whenever a footballer is out injured he is called a "injured (insert club) star"

Overused internet forum word - "straw man"

Also "troll" used to describe anyone whose opinion differs from yours

 

[Cruyff14]

I turn on SEN at 4.40 today and the first thing I hear is a girl saying "surreal"

Also whenever a footballer is out injured he is called a "injured (insert club) star"

Overused internet forum word - "straw man"

Also "troll" used to describe anyone whose opinion differs from yours

TROLL PART. SO TRUE.

 

[Keys]

Obviously is the big one. Listen to the average person being interviewed, they say the word obviously about 20 times a minute, in reference to things that are not obvious. I’m not really sure why it is.

Yeah, nah.

 

[wce4premiership]

"RAPE!!!"

Why make all that noise?

 

[thekelvin]

"Dribble" when the person means "drivel". This one is so bad that dribble has even become an accepted term by many over the past few years to explain when someone is talking rubbish.

What about when someone is dribbling sh*t?

 

[frantelle]

I try to slip discombobulated into the conversation as much as I can.

My fav word to use. Can be difficult to bring it up though

 

[NarklesHelmet]

What about when someone is dribbling sh*t?

It's not the same though. The use of dribble I am talking about is when people use it like "He was talking/writing absolute "dribble" when it is, until a few years back, always drivel. People can still be dribbling sh+t of course but that is a different use of the word dribble.

 

[wce4premiership]

I often use the word cromulent, it embiggens every conversation.

 

[Papa Juggs]

"carbon"

Used to be a cool scientific word. Now it's been pimped up, down and around the world it's just worn out.

 

[thekelvin]

et al.
When people use it incorrectly.....
cars, trucks, buses et al....
WTF!!!!