Comments on: It’s That Time of Year Again: Banned Words for 2009

By: Ray Abbott

Ray Abbott — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:34:57 +0000

I mean, Like, Ya know?

By: rachelmmm

rachelmmm — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:19:58 +0000

Like is way to used. Like it is totally… Like he’s sooo hot….. Like this is so boring. and so on!

By: Agitationist

Agitationist — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:42:08 +0000

Loads more here:
http://agitationist.com/101-web-business-cliches-that-must-die-in-2009

By: williams

williams — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:03:26 +0000

We here in England are suffering a severe outbreak of You know, particularly among formerly erudite people, strangely, you know.

And as for the effect of the olympics – we have new verbs “To medal” “To Podium”, as in “He podiumed three times” (yecch) joining other awful verb converts like “dialoguing” and “main-streaming”

By: Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:05:04 +0000

Y’know, I was pretty indifferent to <3 until I saw somebody actually write out “less than three” instead!

By: bml

bml — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:22:21 +0000

team of rivals

By: Thebes

Thebes — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:48:12 +0000

“Climate change” – egads, please just call it what its supposed to be, anthropogenic global warming.

By: artbot

artbot — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:02:17 +0000

Wow, my last name is “Green”. What’ll I do now?

And “wow” should be banned, if only from my own overuse.

By: Judi

Judi — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:42:58 +0000

Random
Change

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:53:59 +0000

Green
Staycation
Meh

Three words that chap my hide.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:45:17 +0000

epic (as a noun)
twilight

By: erin

erin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:49:09 +0000

ABSOLUTLEY!!!!!!!!!

By: liphttam1

liphttam1 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:32:09 +0000

I like green <3 . It distracts me from the bailout and our carbon footprints. I can’t believe its that time of the year again to ban words. And now neatoramas on a deperate search for words to ban. I hope useing all thes words dosn’t make me a maverick. I think not so much about what I say though.

By: Carbonfish

Carbonfish — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:05:55 +0000

“Shovel-ready”

First off, how many public works projects actually require a shovel, and secondly, if all a project really needs to be implemented is money, just say so dammit!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:32:13 +0000

Where is “Change”?

By: Micky

Micky — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:39:19 +0000

I definitely think “epic” should be on this list.

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:35:08 +0000

I <3 this post. Thank you blog-monkey

By: JRob

JRob — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:28:29 +0000

“Phenomenal.” That word is every-frickin-where.

By: Skookum

Skookum — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:57:21 +0000

“…and how’s that workin’ out for ya…”, snidely put.

By: Chic

Chic — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:44:30 +0000

“czar” like the suffix “gate” is way over used. When properly used it means supreme ruler. Also used as a synonym for “king”.

drug czar (drug king)
war czar (war king)
terrorism czar (terrorism king)
cybersecurity czar (cybersecurity king)
climate czar (the person in charge of climate?)
copyright czar (the person in charge of copyrights?)

By: buddz

buddz — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:30:56 +0000

Please ban: Amazing. It’s used to describe everything from pastry to mothers. And way too often, actors use it to describe other people in their movies and it makes them sound so very wise to recognize the trait and know the (aforementioned adjective) person.

(However, you may allow Randi to continue to use it — and a select few others, pending discussion.)

By: ike

ike — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:28:06 +0000

redneck zen: “it is what it is.”

By: Bruno

Bruno — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:20:51 +0000

My votes:
“Global Warming”
“Think Global Act Local”
and finally, the most hated suffix I can think of; “Neo-(Anything)”

By: Sigilum

Sigilum — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:33:45 +0000

“my bad” I want to shoot whoever uses this phrase in the face…thats how much I hate it.

By: Shen

Shen — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:49:08 +0000

guy 1: look how green it is–
guy 2: NO YOU FOOL!! ITS EMERALD! EMERALD!!!

By: Joe Miller

Joe Miller — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:24:56 +0000

resolute (overused for about 7 years now)

By: brighteyes0309

brighteyes0309 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:11:15 +0000

i absolutely can’t stand “recessionista”

and adding the “right” onto the end of “I know” popped out of nowhere and is so annoying! (i.e. “I know, RIGHT?”)

By: dutchboy

dutchboy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:09:06 +0000

I myself suffer from “green fatigue”

By: Skull Thuggery

Skull Thuggery — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:08:22 +0000

Using <3 to mean ‘heart’ or ‘love’ used to annoy me. Now I just turn my head the other way and read it as ‘teabag’ and it’s hilarious.

Whenever I see ‘I <3 my dog’, I read it as ‘I teabag my dog’. I hope your dog’s not a pitbull, pal.

By: The Manticore

The Manticore — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:45:40 +0000

By: erick

erick — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:40:34 +0000

Great, Maverick is my FIRST name. I feel that the republican campaign has soiled my name. I use to get compliments for my name, now all name discussions redirect somehow to mccain. I’m accepting name suggestions

By: just a guy

just a guy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:35:04 +0000

I’ve always hated “bad” as a noun. as in “my bad”. but that’s not very ’2008′ specific.

Then again, a lot of these aren’t.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:27:28 +0000

(anything) 2.0

By: Sandra Curtis

Sandra Curtis — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:20:41 +0000

“With all due respect…”

By: jay

jay — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:11:07 +0000

It’s that time of year again for green carbon offsetting staycations; not so much for Maverick monkey, winner of five nominations for his desperate search for a game-changing bailout from Wall Street to Main Street.
<3 First Dude

By: George

George — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:51:39 +0000

“WTF” – It’s lewd, rude and crude!!!

By: nyahyah

nyahyah — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:49:59 +0000

czar (as a suffix)

By: ~Emma

~Emma — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:48:02 +0000

Before turning the gun on himself.

By: slickhead

slickhead — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:42:38 +0000

Really? (as a sentence)

By: Patrick B

Patrick B — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:41:57 +0000

Meh
Whatever

And on a personal note the one word I would most like to not hear is one I will hear for at least four more years. Obama

By: fiona b

fiona b — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:38:39 +0000

Yes “credit crunch”. On this side of the Atlantic its been the most overused term to describe, not a new kind of cereal, but a recession Goddamn it why don’t they just call it that?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:29:26 +0000

Fail. It’s way past its prime now …

By: roxi618

roxi618 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:22:26 +0000

closure…
change
giving back (to the community or whomever)

All 3 are way over-used.

By: Dixon

Dixon — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:20:48 +0000

Credit Crunch

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:18:27 +0000

Staycation is really high on my personal list of words hated. It’s right under relicious which means really delicious but I have only known a four year old to use it.

By: All Mi T

All Mi T — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:17:59 +0000

depression is Nipping at our Nose

By: sybann

sybann — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:16:23 +0000

Bush. ‘Nuff said?

By: CoolHead Chris

CoolHead Chris — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:04:22 +0000

And I just had Maverick put on my business cards.

By: batchild

batchild — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:57:11 +0000

Maverick is my actual middle name so I can’t drop it. First I had to deal with Tom Cruise ruining it and then the McCain campaign. Thanks a lot.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:55:34 +0000

snowmagedon.

war on christmas.

I can’t think of anymore, luckily my memory is horrible to keep this garbaged trapped in my head.