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Annoying modern phrases
Posted by Richard Lowe on 20 November 2010 - 5:10pm.
Sorry to be a bit G.O.M. - and on the whole I'm all for new phrases and what have you - but must the bottom three places in the league be known as the "drop zone".
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Going Forward..
that's the one that makes me want to hit the speaker.
What's G.O.M.?
my guess:
grumpy old man
Broken Britain...
Could you start saying something else now please? I'm really rather bored...
grumpy old man
Didn't Kate Middleton use "going forward" at her press thing?
Forgiven in her case. "Tidy boiler" as those "warm-hearted Geordies" would say.
Camilla used "wicked", but I think she was joking.
I like her because she smokes. Which just goes to show what a shallow fool I am.
To be fair to Camilla
She had just presented the prizes at something called the Wicked Book Awards for Young Writers, which is sponsored by the producers of the Wicked musical. So it was a joke, but most of the coverage ignored the context to make her look like a out of touch granny trying to keep up with the kids.
Organic legend
Why is everything suddenly Organic ? "I tried to do it Organically" "my art is Organic".
Adrian Durham has a lot to answer for but his constant use of the word 'Legend' drove me mad "Gillingham Legend Terry Cochrane....." a good player,maybe but do Gillingham supporters sit round mourning the days of Legend Tel.Now thanks to Adrian i heard someone talking about Legendary comedian Duncan "Chase me" Norvelle.
Man Up
ie to get a grip and stop being a wuss - just gives me the image of bodybuilding jocks calling people 'girlymen'
Young/Modern/New
Oh, I hate 'modern' phrases too. Why can't everything be like it was before when it was much better? It was good when I was young, when young people were brilliant, bright and interesting. Now young people are just annoying with silly modern phrases.
Why oh why did it have to change? It never changed before.
Will this do?
Ouch
Don't remember criticising young people. Or saying things used to better than they are now. Or whatever.
Just remarking on a silly phrase that has crept into football coverage that I heard a couple of times today.
Sorry to offend. Maybe it's time to be a bit more economical vis a vis chipping into this blog.
It was aimed at you...
...and sorry if it was harsh. It wasn't personal at all: I didn't even notice who had posted it, just making a general point. Honestly.
I simply don't understand what people have against language changing. It always does and always will. Meanings will always change and new phrases are introduced all the time. Having re-read your OP, you weren't really making that point, were you? So, my mistake.
Don't let my opinion make you leave the board. Not everyone can agree all the time can they?
Flounce?! Moi?!
I love reading the Word blog and chipping in from time to time. But getting told off for things you haven't said or done is a bit much. Still, what the hell. I don't do finely-chisselled posts, just spur-of-the-moment rubbish and this one is, I admit, both piss-poor and crying out for misinterpretation.
Peace & Love to You & Yours.
p.s. I heard my favourite pice of gormless youth slang today, courtesy of a friend of my daughter's. Life is too hectic to waste three syllables on the word to describe the day before today: it is now "y day".
I blame the parents.
Peace & Love to You & Yours.
too, and thank you for forgiving my acerbic nature.
I rather like 'y day'.
I heard a young girl on the bus the other day who obviously felt as if her personal space had been invaded stroll past the bloke and just hiss: "Spatial!" at him. I think that's great.
I'll now bristle every time I hear 'drop zone', I expect, now it has been brought to my attention.
Spatial?
just brilliant.
He just said what he said
and it was taken wrong and now its all this. all he said was (Neil) Young was better in our day
OCD
I've nothing against the term, but it should never be used as an adjective, for example, "I'm a little bit OCD about that".
If that's expanded, it looks quite ridiculous.
"I'm a little bit Obsessive Compulsive Disorder about that".
Other hobby horses, the misuse of the word disgusting ("I fink it's disgustin'"), and "Absolutely" instead of the much shorter "Yes".
Can I be the first
to continue the ongoing gag:
It should be CDO - because then it's in alphabetical order
still makes me chuckle, every time...
Anal that
When people say they are "actually quite anal", do they realise what they are saying? Come to think of it though, they do tend to resemble the appearance of an anus, so it's nice to know early on in the (ring!) piece.
Anal..
Without turning to Wikipedia..
I seem to remember that Freudian personality types were classified as "anal-retentive" or "anal-expulsive" depending upon what they did with their jobbies as infants during potty-training, the retentives being those who developed obsessive personality traits as adults.
Try labelling someone as anal-expulsive now. See what happens.
It's a nice example of the way language morphs. One term is assimilated into the lingua france, the other dies on the vine.
Which is all totally tubular. I'm spammed. Marvy. Groove out, you hep cats. Grodie to the max.
Breaks the ice at parties
I like the thought of asking people to clarify whether they mean they are "anal retentive" or "anal expulsive".
How delightful
Pass the After Eights.
I think it was in Annie Hall
That Woody Allen described himself as "Anal"
Diane Keaton responded with, "That's a polite term for what you are."
I've used it severall times.
Maybe it's The Apprentice and X Factor
But I am really fed up with people saying they are "passionate" about everything. Even Alan Sugar uses it. "Devastated" is another one that makes me die a little inside too.
Mind you, you should sit through the number of corporate presentations I have to. The crew have been known to play Buzzword Bingo. Everyone gets a sheet with corporate buzzwords on it. the object of the game is to listen to the presentations and check off the words (pushing the envelope, EBITDA etc). don't get carried away and shout Bingo though, you're supposed to be working.
What Richard's on about..
I submit, is the teeth-grinding overuse of phrases JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE NEW. Not, I imagine, any criticism of change per se.
Listening to German football today, for instance, perfectly good ways of expressing things have been uniformly replaced, so the ref blows for a penalty is now the ref didn't hesitate for one second, and player x steps up to take the penalty is now player x takes the responsibility, and on and on and on. See? The uniformity just drains the life out of it and makes you feel embarrassed for listening in the first place.
Not just a phenomenen in English then.
"So..."
as in:
Q. Could you expand a bit on what the concept of quantitative easing really means?
A. So, it's....