We've all heard the phrase "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything right now. Wait until the person is gone and then say it hilariously." However, there are some things one never needs to say anymore. These phrases have been used, misused and overused so many times, it's best to quit while we're only mildly behind. Here are the ten phrases I think need to be retired - Alida Nugent, The Frenemy
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Willowfae said on 27 Wednesday 2010 pm31 12:11 pm: Like, can we please stop using the work "like" as like a conversational spacer? It's like, only useful as an I.Q. indicator to warn potential listeners to, like, take the first opportunity to bail on like, what will inevitably be a long-winded, vacuous, self-absorbed, over-caffeinated rambling...sort of like, the same way a rattlesnake's rattle is useful to a hiker who'd like to avoid envenomation. Either event can, like, ruin your whole day. |
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Sometimes you're trying to be vague, especially if you're fooling around w/ someone who used to date someone who used to be one of your friends. Oops?
Is it just me or are people using this word a lot more than they used to? More and more, I notice people who really just means "yes", nevertheless apparently feeling the need to fill dead space with two extra syllables by saying "Ab-so-looooootly".
You probably haven't noticed yet. Listen carefully. It's start to annoy the crap out of you in no time.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071013185523/http://www.geocities.com/eirig/
or this one:
http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/boon/article.pdf
would make you realize. But no, it's the cool thing to slam Alanis and show how oh-so-superiorly you use the language. The reality is that it only shows how much of a sheep and unclever writer one really is.
Never could understand that one.