Words that have become fashionable for no apparent reason.

[randombloke]

Your chance to lament the execrable words or phrases that are creeping into the English languge.

Starters for ten:

Resource. Do you mean person?

Init. I've got a job init. Oh sorry do you mean you are working in the Information Technology department?

Text speak of any kind.

[randombloke]

Or indeed the English language....

[Brendan]

110%

Fuck off.

[legalbeagle]

I, like, really like think that like some words have like really been a bit like overused, no? With that, like, really annoying American/Australian intonation at the end which like makes the like tone of your voice go up like everything you are like saying is actually like a question?

[YellowC]

'Gotten' - as in, 'The music's gotten a little loud'.

'Awesome'

[Narnia]

Like it.

[randombloke]

Winningest.

[Narnia]

I hate 'cool'.

[legalbeagle]

I once had a boss who I nicknamed Lord Flashheart because he really was just SO macho. I asked him whether one of our colleagues had arrived from the US for a meeting yet. He said he'd spoken to him and he was just about to:

"de-plane".

[Ted Max]

Quality.

Used as a universal blokey term of approbation. Absolute quality, mate. In football, a good pass was always a quality ball.

Then "quality" became a value in itself. Spain, for instance, have "quality" all over the park. I'm pretty sure I've heard one pundit describe a team's "quality" as quality. "Their quality is just quality."

Anyway, that's enough qualitative analysis from me.

[randombloke]

Any product with the prefix i in lower case for no reason whatsoever because they are not made by Apple Macintosh

Toyota iGo

iGoogle

iPlayer

ishould coco

[Brendan]

and iKea.

[*Bob*]

'For yourself', instead, of 'you'

As in "Right then, sir, what I can do for yourself today is.."

[Lost Yorkshire Man]

I'd like the Forumites to start using the word 'morky'.

i.e. that girl never smiles - she is right morky!

or

Eater81 is just miserable about London. Why is he being so morky!?

[OliviaDee]

i hate 'rock up'

[KidKruger]

"Resource. Do you mean person?"

Resource can be people, cash/funding, space (factory space, desk space), raw materials, skills (again, implying people), time, knowledge - any input to an activity which can be consumed and therefore needs to be obtained and lined-up. So in the wider sense when running (say) projects or planning, a 'person' is one kind of resource and during conversation about that kind of 'resource' the term will be used interchangeably with the normal descriptive word. admittedly, often by folks half way through their part-time MBA.

I hate:

- I'm 'loving' it

- 'So' going shopping tommorrow

- 'Sick'. As in, "yeah I went to the festival last week, man it was sick". (which means it was great).

Makes ME 'sick'..

[*Bob*]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> - 'Sick'. As in, "yeah I went to the festival

> last week, man it was sick". (which means it was

> great).

I don't think yourself should be including things which might indeed be ridiculous but only serve to replace equally ridiculous things you said when you were 'of an age'.

[Narnia]

Wicked.............tell me why?

[Jah Lush]

I really hate Chillaxed and people who say cool all the time.

[*Bob*]

What was yours, Narnia?

'Peachy-keen'?

[Brendan]

Like just rock up dude it'll be sick.

[Narnia]

My what *Bob*?

[brum]

woodchip

edited to say: oops wrong thread!

[Vik]

Adding the phrase 'good times' or 'bad times' to the end of every sentence.

'Me thinks.'

[citizenED]

"Going forwards..." Government Ministers and BBC Correspondents are using this term!