Let's Retire these Words!

1. Shovel-ready
2. Transparent/Transparency
3. Czar
4. Tweet
5. App
6. Sexting
7. Friend (as a verb)
8. Teachable Moment
9. In These Economic Times ...
10. Stimulus
11. Toxic Assets
12. Too Big to Fail
13. Bromance
14. Chillaxin'
15. Obama (as a prefix)
“’In these economic times,’ purging our language of ‘toxic assets’ is a ’stimulus’ effort that’s ‘too big to fail,’” said a LSSU spokesperson.
I’m afraid that I’m an offender. (I’ve caught myself, more than once, using “transparency,” “app,” “tweet,” “in these economic times” and “too big to fail.”) But where, I ask you, are the following words and phrases that should also be banned: “public option,” “unprecedented,” “OMG” and “at the end of the day”?!
Surprisingly, there is such a superabundance of useless words in the workplace that I blogged about this topic back in October. Yet every year brings an entirely brand new crop of annoying, over-used words!
1 Comments:
Suggestion for #16: "organic"!
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