While I’m on the awesome subject of Awesome, here’s what I wonder. Is there any word in addition to awesome that you would like eliminated from our collective vocabulary for just one day? And please keep it clean.
While I’m on the awesome subject of Awesome, here’s what I wonder. Is there any word in addition to awesome that you would like eliminated from our collective vocabulary for just one day? And please keep it clean.
J Canseco
Amazing.
August 7th, 2012 4:51 pm
Dennis Driscoll
How about Dude? Just to see if it would be possible.
August 7th, 2012 5:24 pm
mark
“it is what it is” and “at the end of the day”
August 7th, 2012 5:29 pm
StevenG
Extreme.
August 7th, 2012 5:42 pm
CohnZohn
mark, I so agree. At the end of the day drives me nutty. Toward the end, Don Nelson was always saying it is what it is. I wondered what “it” he was referring to.
August 7th, 2012 5:45 pm
Streetglide
“Beast.” I’m so sick of hearing some guy “is a beast.” Give it a rest will ya?
August 7th, 2012 7:22 pm
reagtanajeb
I vote for the word “epic.” In the vernacular of today’s teens and young adults it’s used so much that it has become watered down and meaningless. Few things are truly epic…the Grand Canyon, the Pacific Ocean, the universe…yes. The latest Nickelback CD, Xbox 360 game, or the neighbor’s dog relieving himself on my lawn….no.
August 7th, 2012 7:30 pm
Capts
Lew Wolff.
August 7th, 2012 8:02 pm
Sean Nolan
More a phrase than a word but it annoys me enough warranting inclusion. Voiced mainly during TV weather forecasts:
“…tomorrow will be clear as a bell.”
Ever tried to look through a bell?
August 7th, 2012 8:26 pm
loneraider78
“sexy”
When I hear someone use “sexy” when talking about a draft choice or a statistic or the fashion in which a team won, I can’t stand it.
“it’s not sexy” “it’s not a sexy pick” “the way they won wasn’t sexy”
You know why it’s not sexy? Because it’s not supposed to be!!
August 7th, 2012 8:50 pm
lameduck
“It’s all good”
And i’ll raise you a “really?”
August 7th, 2012 10:52 pm
Werner
‘like”.
As in, “like I saw this thing that was awesome”.
August 8th, 2012 6:46 am
Dennis
I vote for “totally”. “Awesome” doesn’t bother me as much as it bothers you, though I agree that it is over used. But “totally” makes no sense what so ever.
“It is what it is” doesn’t bother me at all. I actually like it. To me ‘it’ refers to the situation being discussed and it is a very polite way of saying “accept it because this is what you have to deal with”.
August 8th, 2012 7:36 am
Peter
“Obviously”. Usually spoken in a condescending tone.
August 8th, 2012 8:12 am
latopia
Second “epic”. Also, will see your “awesome,” and raise you “word”. And double-down on of-ten (I know it’s acceptable esp. among some Brits). When you say of-ten, I dare not lis-ten, for brains thus sof-tened, demise must hase-ten (sic)
August 8th, 2012 8:23 am
Stan
I’ve used Dude..but only as in “So they will understand”..in their own language. Otherwise,never use the word.
How about “Hell-a” as in Hell a good,hell a bad”,etc…I know that started in the early 90′s,like Rap, I thought that would die off..but I still hear it.
August 8th, 2012 9:24 am
Stan
This might be pushing it…but for some reason KNBR allows Bob Fitzgerald to call people “jerkoffs” I swear Lowell,its not rare..he does it all the time. To the producer,to callers. He said it yesterday talking about the ‘Games to Radnich.
I also hate “pissed”..another KNBR word-I KNOW you hear them use it Lowell..Ralph beat it to death.
Maybe I’m just too sensitive.
August 8th, 2012 9:39 am
Stan
Lowell,they might be offensive…but 50,000 watts uses them everyday when Kindergartener age can hear. No censorship.no call delete.
August 8th, 2012 9:45 am
Tiburon Dave
“No Worries”
followed closely by…
“It’s all good”
August 8th, 2012 10:00 am
NeverWrong
Risible. It used to be used technically in philosophy. It’s become a pretentious way to say “funny.”
August 8th, 2012 10:06 am
Brian in Oakland
I would like to eliminate “In my opinion…” yeah, that’s phrase, but boy is it useless.
August 8th, 2012 11:36 am
EZ
For athletes:
“Back in the day” or “Most definitely”
For anyone: “That’s how I roll”
August 8th, 2012 11:45 am
Pablo
I’ll toss in: “no problem,” when I say thank you. I didn’t ask the person if I caused them a problem.
Hearing, “you’re welcome” is now a rare occurrence.
Also, “where I’m at.” A simple, “where I am,” would do. There’s no need for the extra word, “at.”
August 8th, 2012 12:06 pm
Pablo
Also the word “impacted” used as a verb. Ugh!!
August 8th, 2012 12:08 pm
KauaiRobert
Wait a minute people!
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I’m a child of the 80′s and you guys are trying to take away all of our greatest useless words.
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We had to up with ‘super’, right-on’, ‘crazy’, and others that came before us and ‘fresh’, ‘stupid’ ‘sick’ and others that came after us.
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They’re all just different ways of saying something is ‘cool’.
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(‘Cool’ is timeless, it seems.)
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Let us hold onto our cheesy 80-isms please.
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*ALOHA*
August 8th, 2012 1:46 pm
KauaiRobert
Pablo:
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I agree with the ‘at’ thing.
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I hate it when people end sentences with prepositions.
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Annoying.
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*ALOHA*
August 8th, 2012 1:48 pm
Paul
Everything my wife says, after I’ve had too much wine.
August 8th, 2012 2:00 pm
Stan
“At the end of the day”…means nothing and is used by some sportscasters endlessly. Nothing worse then BOTH hosts saying it to each other in a conversation. I wont name names. You know who’s.
August 8th, 2012 2:28 pm
lameduck
How about “Honestly” or “Let me be honest with you” – what’s up? Were you lying to me before?
August 8th, 2012 3:23 pm
Exeterfan
Phenomenal, especially when used to describe wine.
August 8th, 2012 3:38 pm
Jeff McMullin
LC: you asked for one word and “amazing” wins easily—nothing else close. But hey, it is what it is dude.
August 8th, 2012 5:54 pm
Stan
Supercalifigidexesexpealidocious.
ooh,That Mary Poppins gets on my nerves…get off it Mary-its been 50 years of it!
August 8th, 2012 6:01 pm
Stan
That last cute one was for my sister. She thought she was big cheese in the 60′s because she could say that and I couldn’t. Sisters,always have to bully the little bro..lol..
August 8th, 2012 6:03 pm
Stan
And here’s the irony. She got her college degree 25 years ago,worked for California social services..and became head of some department after years, Now she bully’s deadbeat dads!
I can’t make up this stuff.
August 8th, 2012 6:09 pm
Hamp
“brilliant” isn’t.
August 9th, 2012 7:51 am
lameduck
It’s a heat wave…No worries. Awesome comments! They are Fabulous! Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious brilliant!
Phenomonal! At the end of day, it’s not longer anti Awesome day…Back in the day, is how we roll. Epic comments…
Although Stan’s sister disturbs me, I do get pissed at those jerkoff’s.
Stay Cool.
August 9th, 2012 8:59 am
Stan
Ok,I got one. Neverwrong mentioned pretentious? Every time the several local sports host say “Due diligence” instead of background,research, and plain old “I know what I’m talking about” has been replaced with due diligence. Papa and Kruger beat that one..and for awhile it was beaten to death like it was a newly invented hot phrase.
Oprah was the same with Epiphany…she got a banana..and THAT was an epiphany. Like that..
August 9th, 2012 4:42 pm
Johnc
How about the word “Challenged” ? If there is a deficiency then you are “Challenged”. Height challenged, mentally challenged, resource challenged ( broke). etc.
August 9th, 2012 6:03 pm
Stan
I think John..when its used that way..its just a joke. Like Domestic engineer. You ever see a housewife with blueprints on the kitchen table?..schematic drawings of the toaster? Doing CAD at the computer while watching Family Feud?..you get the idea.
August 10th, 2012 10:25 am
Stan
Along those lines,everybody is a technician. A stocking shelves “technician” ..a McDonalds server “technician”..and you add the rest…
August 10th, 2012 10:27 am
Fritz Q "Pepe" Newman Jr, PhD
Someone up above nominated ‘no worries’, but I would like to add that if you’re from Australia , you can still use it. A friend of mine hails from there and it just sounds right when he says it.
Another one that I don’t necessarily want to see retired, but simply wish it was used correctly is ‘ironic’. Gotta be the most misused word in the language.
August 10th, 2012 11:24 am
Mrs. Alleywager
Relavant article in May 14, New Yorker, The English Wars: The battle over the way we should speak. War between prescriptivists and descriptivists.
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http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/05/14/120514crbo_books_acocella
August 11th, 2012 12:21 am
D. Kreisberg
Ab-so-lutely…
August 11th, 2012 6:58 am
Stan
“ALOT”…
August 12th, 2012 1:48 pm
Tex
when athletes say they give 110 percent…….why not 111 percent or even 112?
August 12th, 2012 4:58 pm
Peter
“Literally” Olympic volleyball today, Russia vs Brazil. I turned it on late to understand that Russia was making a come back: “.. Literally coming back from the grave.”
Seriously.
August 12th, 2012 8:54 pm
John Sousa
You know what this is like? This like playing a drinking game like 3-man or A-Hole where the king makes a rule that no one can say the word “drink” so everyone starts telling the person below them to “consume.” I HATE the word “consume,” so I always ban that word when I get to make a rule. Also, have you seen Louis CK’s bit about banning the “n-word?” Funny stuff.
August 16th, 2012 8:18 am
Stan
Your probably the only person in the world who will read this post Lowell…but,just a second ago Kuiper on KNBR told Murph that he was “pissed” at the loss of Cabrera. Really that ties in with TWO posts I’ve made. The words,and the station who’s hosts sound so alike I didn’t list any as very good.
August 16th, 2012 9:47 am
Stan
And..they dont have you on…but they read your blog like its a bible..
August 16th, 2012 10:19 am
Stan
Mike Krukow on KNBR “I’m pissed”..so, that’s a lot of urine talk I dont hear on THEGAME..Do you Lowell hear it used on THEGAME the last few days?.
Show me somebody who uses that word a lot..and I will show you somebody who has a chunk of ignoramus in them.
August 17th, 2012 4:07 pm