Phrases/terms that need to be retired immediately (2 Viewers)

[nirad3]

I watch a lot of ESPN and NFL-Network. Listen to a lot of NFL-Radio on SiriusXM.

Right now, the go-to phrase is "to your point...". I hear this 25 times a day from various talking heads.

This is still going on, maybe even more so.... anyone else notice this overused schpiel?

 

[falguy]

Watching MLB playoffs and think I've heard the term "sweeper" about 956,000 times. Which is about 955,990 too many. It's bad enough having to suffer through "cutter".

 

[Keerock]

Just got back from my annual physical. The phrase "you should lose some weight and eat better" should be retired immediately.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I referenced "littles" upstream, but now hear kids referred to as "littles" "middles" and "bigs," for elementary, jr. high, and high school respectively.

We still need a Mr Yuck emoji.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I've had quite enough of "Let's go." Just stop.

Ironically.

 

[arrow1]

Referring to someone as "my ride or die" best friend.

 

[El Floppo]

Leverage.

 

[Osaurus]

Connective tissue

 

[mr. furley]

"hits different"

DIE. DIE. DIE.

 

[JohnnyU]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

 

[arrow1]

Spatial Awareness

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Jim

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Jim

It would be great if just one time Romo substituted "Mr. Nantz"

 

[JohnnyU]

Bro or Brohan

 

[shuke]

Bro or Brohan

WRONG

 

[JohnnyU]

Bro or Brohan

WRONG

Touch a nerve?

 

[Snoopy]

"hits different"

DIE. DIE. DIE.

German for the, the, the.

 

[Osaurus]

Spatial Awareness

You’re talking about my profession here

 

[JohnnyU]

Spatial Awareness

You’re talking about my profession here

Or the Super Bowl telecast saying facial awareness a million times.

 

[mr. furley]

Spatial Awareness

You’re talking about my profession here

i think he meant spacial awareness like knowing about the movie Spaceballs or Carl Sagan

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

 

[JohnnyU]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

 

[mr. furley]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

 

[JohnnyU]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

I think the 80s was when valley girls might have started it.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

It sure was. I caught myself doing this in the 70's for about two weeks. Stomped that s*** out right quickly.

 

[JohnnyU]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

It sure was. I caught myself doing this in the 70's for about two weeks. Stomped that s*** out right quickly.

Never heard anyone doing this in the 70s and I graduated high school in 77. I could be wrong about the 80s however, thus the reason I brought up valley girl talk, which started in the 80s if memory serves.

 

[Osaurus]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

I think the 80s was when valley girls might have started it.

Go back a few more years and report back

 

[JohnnyU]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

I think the 80s was when valley girls might have started it.

Go back a few more years and report back

Nope, I grew up then, I would know. No one I knew talked like that in the 70s, high school or otherwise. Or at least not with enough frequency to be noticed, if at all. I often wonder how someone gets hired talking that way in an interview, but then it dawned on me that the person doing the interview is the same probably.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

I think the 80s was when valley girls might have started it.

Go back a few more years and report back

Nope, I grew up then, I would know. No one I knew talked like that in the 70s, high school or otherwise. Or at least not with enough frequency to be noticed, if at all. I often wonder how someone gets hired talking that way in an interview, but then it dawned on me that the person doing the interview is the same probably.

I also graduated high school in '77. Maybe it was more regional back then.

 

[Osaurus]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

I think the 80s was when valley girls might have started it.

Go back a few more years and report back

Nope, I grew up then, I would know. No one I knew talked like that in the 70s, high school or otherwise. Or at least not with enough frequency to be noticed, if at all. I often wonder how someone gets hired talking that way in an interview, but then it dawned on me that the person doing the interview is the same probably.

I also graduated high school in '77. Maybe it was more regional back then.

That’s what I’m thinking

 

[JohnnyU]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

I think the 80s was when valley girls might have started it.

Go back a few more years and report back

Nope, I grew up then, I would know. No one I knew talked like that in the 70s, high school or otherwise. Or at least not with enough frequency to be noticed, if at all. I often wonder how someone gets hired talking that way in an interview, but then it dawned on me that the person doing the interview is the same probably.

I also graduated high school in '77. Maybe it was more regional back then.

Most people think the word “like” dates back to the 80s, as typified by the Frank Zappa song Valley Girl, in which his daughter, Moon Zappa, impersonates a California bimbo, ad-libbing that: “I, like, love going into, like, clothing stores and stuff, I, like, buy the neatest miniskirts and stuff. It’s, like, so bitchin.’”

It’s true that young women in the 1980s probably invented the quotative “like”, but they are far from the only group to use it now. And research suggests that the discourse particle “like”, the one that comes in like the midpoint of a sentence, is used more by men than women.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

I think the 80s was when valley girls might have started it.

Go back a few more years and report back

Nope, I grew up then, I would know. No one I knew talked like that in the 70s, high school or otherwise. Or at least not with enough frequency to be noticed, if at all. I often wonder how someone gets hired talking that way in an interview, but then it dawned on me that the person doing the interview is the same probably.

I also graduated high school in '77. Maybe it was more regional back then.

Most people think the word “like” dates back to the 80s, as typified by the Frank Zappa song Valley Girl, in which his daughter, Moon Zappa, impersonates a California bimbo, ad-libbing that: “I, like, love going into, like, clothing stores and stuff, I, like, buy the neatest miniskirts and stuff. It’s, like, so bitchin.’”

It’s true that young women in the 1980s probably invented the quotative “like”, but they are far from the only group to use it now. And research suggests that the discourse particle “like”, the one that comes in like the midpoint of a sentence, is used more by men than women.

attached a google search result on this whole use of "like" subject

though it appeared long ago - it became heavily used by the "Beat Generation" in the 50s ...

 

[JohnnyU]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

I think the 80s was when valley girls might have started it.

Go back a few more years and report back

Nope, I grew up then, I would know. No one I knew talked like that in the 70s, high school or otherwise. Or at least not with enough frequency to be noticed, if at all. I often wonder how someone gets hired talking that way in an interview, but then it dawned on me that the person doing the interview is the same probably.

I also graduated high school in '77. Maybe it was more regional back then.

Most people think the word “like” dates back to the 80s, as typified by the Frank Zappa song Valley Girl, in which his daughter, Moon Zappa, impersonates a California bimbo, ad-libbing that: “I, like, love going into, like, clothing stores and stuff, I, like, buy the neatest miniskirts and stuff. It’s, like, so bitchin.’”

It’s true that young women in the 1980s probably invented the quotative “like”, but they are far from the only group to use it now. And research suggests that the discourse particle “like”, the one that comes in like the midpoint of a sentence, is used more by men than women.

attached a google search result on this whole use of "like" subject

though it appeared long ago - it became heavily used by the "Beat Generation" in the 50s ...

I was born in 1959, so I can’t speak to the 50s or most of the 60s, but I never heard people talk like that in the 70s.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

I was born in 1959, so I can’t speak to the 50s or most of the 60s, but I never heard people talk like that in the 70s.

so Johnny U is from the school of "it didn't happen to me so it didn't happen - **** them pinko books" -

jk - but give it up on this one though big guy

Class of '76 Rules!!!!!!

 

[JohnnyU]

I was born in 1959, so I can’t speak to the 50s or most of the 60s, but I never heard people talk like that in the 70s.

so Johnny U is from the school of "it didn't happen to me so it didn't happen - **** them pinko books" -

jk - but give it up on this one though big guy

Class of '76 Rules!!!!!!

I bet most over 62 agree with me that people didn’t use “like” in the 70s like they do now. If they did where you were it had to be regional.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

I bet most over 62 agree with me that people didn’t use “like” in the 70s like they do now. If they did where you were it had to be regional.

you are a dog with a sock.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

though it appeared long ago - it became heavily used by the "Beat Generation" in the 50s ...

Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.

 

[JohnnyU]

I bet most over 62 agree with me that people didn’t use “like” in the 70s like they do now. If they did where you were it had to be regional.

you are a dog with a sock.

No just speaking from my personal experience of the 79s.

 

[fatness]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

definitely a thing in the 80s

I think the 80s was when valley girls might have started it.

Go back a few more years and report back

Nope, I grew up then, I would know. No one I knew talked like that in the 70s, high school or otherwise. Or at least not with enough frequency to be noticed, if at all. I often wonder how someone gets hired talking that way in an interview, but then it dawned on me that the person doing the interview is the same probably.

I also graduated high school in '77. Maybe it was more regional back then.

I graduated in '70 and it was in use since at least the late 60's.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

I bet most over 62 agree with me that people didn’t use “like” in the 70s like they do now. If they did where you were it had to be regional.

you are a dog with a sock.

No just speaking from my personal experience of the 79s.

Johnny U also likes to be specific.

 

[FarFromHome]

Yolo. My teenage daughter says it constantly. At first i thought it was cute. Now I don't.

 

[JohnnyU]

Yolo. My teenage daughter says it constantly. At first to though it was cute. Now I don't.

I stopped my granddaughter from saying it by calling her out on it every time she did it. She got mad at me, but she stopped doing it. We raised her since she was four.

 

[El Floppo]

Using “like” as a filler word every fifth word spoken.

That's been a thing since the 60's. Ugh.

No it hasn’t. Never heard it in the 60s, 70, or 80s.

It sure was. I caught myself doing this in the 70's for about two weeks. Stomped that s*** out right quickly.

Never heard anyone doing this in the 70s and I graduated high school in 77. I could be wrong about the 80s however, thus the reason I brought up valley girl talk, which started in the 80s if memory serves.

I did. 70s, 80s... To infinity and beyond.

 

[JohnnyU]

I can’t imagine saying “like” 76 times in a 4 minute conversation can possibly be good for a professional career.

 

[El Floppo]

In grad school, we used to have to present our architecture projects to juries of professionals, some of them pretty well known (to other architects at least)... Always on zero sleep.

My friend Jay presented his- beautiful, kick-*** project- but every other word was "like, um, you know" in his description. He finished, and the best known juror- Robert Stern- led off with "like... Um... You know... Like... ARE YOU DONE?" It went south from there.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I bet most over 62 agree with me that people didn’t use “like” in the 70s like they do now. If they did where you were it had to be regional.

you are a dog with a sock.

No just speaking from my personal experience of the 79s.

And I think you may be right. I may be conflating "like" with "you know" in the Null Sounds Olympics.

 

[shuke]

Bro or Brohan

WRONG

Touch a nerve?

No. Just telling you you're wrong.

 

[shuke]

I was born in 1959, so I can’t speak to the 50s or most of the 60s, but I never heard people talk like that in the 70s.

Like, zoinks, JohnnyU! Like I don't think you watched cartoons in the 70s.

 

[SWC]

I can’t imagine saying “like” 76 times in a 4 minute conversation can possibly be good for a professional career.

you seem like a lot of fun brohan take that to the brobank

 

[fatness]

I like, like this thread.