Every year, Lake Superior State University publishes a list of overused words from the year before. The list is below, but for the reasoning behind each one, check out the official list.
Perfect storm
Webinar
Waterboarding
Organic
Wordsmith/wordsmithing
Post 9/11
Give back
Author/authored
‘Blank’ is the new ‘Blank’ or ‘X’ is the new ‘Y’
Surge
Black Friday
Back in the day
Decimate
Random
Sweet
Emotional
Pop
It is what it is
Under the bus
(btw, i used 15 of 19 in that subject line! c’mon, i dare ya to try to beat that!)
bonus: words i overused in 2007…
disequilibrate/disequilibration
dude
bro
totally
incredible/incredibly
double bonus: because i’m feeling snarky tonite, words blog friends overused in 2007…
kurt johnston: simply
bob carlton: neat; bluh
mark riddle: inFERence
scot mcknight: part (as in “part 43, part 44, etc”)
doug pagitt: fantastic!
how about you? what words did you overuse?
However.
(Probably could insert ‘but’, ‘think’… ‘community’ too).
c’mon. who doesnt like the word “decimate”. it rolls right off the tongue.
Shat.
Balance (as in, “let’s find a balance between these two extremes.”
Uber (as in, “that burrito tasted uber-gross.”
tash — funny, i almost added you to the list when i wrote it, with “sweet as”; but i sure can hear you saying “however”!
narrative or conversation.
i also think the words Al Gore were overused in 07.
dude, can you really over use the word “dude”. I think not.
Hey now – surely sweet as cannot count as it’s a cultural phenomenon. It’s practically another language. ;-) yup, however. I didn’t even realise what a language crutch (you know, the words you use to fill the gaps when you’re too lazy to construct a better sentence) ‘however’ was until you made this post. Phew. You’re making the world a better place one word at a time Marko.
“I” – Seriously…
“dude” is mine.
just
As in, I just think, I just want, I just can’t…
I’m ready to be done with that word!
“dichotomy”
Seriously… I did.
yeah yeah yeah.
my snarky friend with lots of blogging bandwidth.
SAD and Jesus Junk!
‘flesh out’ & ‘story’
COOL!
I know, it’s old, and I feel a dark sense of shame every time I say it, especially at work.
And we try not to throw our bosses under the bus, EVER.
Oh, BTW, Shane’s word of the week is “imperative.” Cracks me up every time.
You have always been “incredible” type guy!