"100 Words and Phrases that Ticked You Off in 2012"

I have no idea where YOLO came from.
task instead of ask
functionality -- function
utilize -- use
it's and its (too late for that one)
proactive -- useless word


A bit unrelated maybe:

Guess another one that has kinda bothered me for years, and many other people I'm sure, is the use of "lucky" for someone who survived something awful. It's an old and common cliche in TV shows and movies, haven't really heard it much in real life. I was just reminded of this by a TV show about killers, where some guy describes a victim as "incredibly lucky" to have not died at the hands of her rapists and torturers, but to have been let go and able to live with that for many years to come. Lucky indeed.

''ménage a trois'' is an expression that ticked me off much earlier then that but I thought I will put it on anyway.
I find it interesting in an odd way.

The inconceivable amount of like's people can say in a sentence (in my language the equivalent is "ke'ilu" and it sounds just as bad).
When I catch myself saying it I just stop mid-sentence, and correct myself: "I apologize, it's not like, it actually is...), goddamit I'm in a freakin' bad mood and I feel like punching someone in the face.

One of our bosses likes the old corporate garbage, as do some others. A word I particularly disliked for some reason was "realia" which simply means real stuff you use in the lesson.

"Moving forward" was in an e-mail from the boss this week, and another one I don't like is "moveable feast" which means, (if anything at all), that you get different things depending upon conditions.

Having sid that I don't like these phrases, I have to add that I like it when they are used because I can go on about them in a variety of ways - grumpy, amused, cynical etc.

Lol. Realia sounds particularly annoying. I don't think I'd like moveable feast either, but maybe because I'd want it to be used in a more poetic manner. I used to feel the same way about sea change-why are all these corporate types using it? It's not their word!

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Originally Posted by Charles Darnay

How is YOLO not on this list. I can't stand that.(particularly out of context).

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I cannot stand YOLO. Just because some rapper used it in a song, it's all of the sudden the coolest thing ever.