Words/Phrases You'd Like to Banish for 2022

[TomAiello]

What's your opinion of "literally," especially when it's used to mean: figuratively? As in:

"I literally couldn't even."

It figuratively drives me crazy when people misuse the word 'literally'.

[TomAiello]

"vaxxed"
"unvaxxed"

Yes.

How on earth did we get to using those in place of vaccinated and unvaccinated? It (figuratively) drives me crazy.

While we're at it, I'm sick of the term 'jab' which got imported from some third world country where they don't even speak proper English.

[Bolster]

[Bolster]

Some of these may have been banned
in previous years but did not take.
Others may be cogent tropes
that should not be banned.

New phrases that may be coined in 2022
and that may be banned:
"black hegemony"
"medical industrial complex"

Very clever! Now what to do about those phrases that don't go away, even after we ban them?

[JonLeBlanc]

Does your team of thought leaders have the synergy to leverage its velocity in a sprint situation and maximize its agility when managing robust workflows?

[ladybug93]

we should banish words like, banned, canceled, boycott, etc. and get back to being willing to hear each other and have the difficult conversations. otherwise we'll never learn anything of value. it's far better to suffer a completely ignorant attack on your position than to retreat into an echo chamber fed by confirmation bias where you never have to think.

[Bolster]

Does your team of thought leaders have the synergy to leverage its velocity in a sprint situation and maximize its agility when managing robust workflows?

Good point, Jon. We need to make a window to reimagine our contingent-forward paradigm shifting, and pivot toward systemised strategic approaches.

[ladybug93]

from a work standpoint, i'd love to see "sync" and "sync up" die. stop trying to make a meeting to prepare for a meeting to prepare for tasking sound cool. i know what's going on and there's nothing cool about it.

[TkoK83Spy]

I heard it on the radio this morning driving into work "It's raining cats and dogs out there"

I mean really, how did this ever become a thing, and WHY!? Though some obituaries would be interesting when those St Bernard's started falling!

[JonLeBlanc]

Does your team of thought leaders have the synergy to leverage its velocity in a sprint situation and maximize its agility when managing robust workflows?

Good point, Jon. We need to make a window to reimagine our contingent-forward paradigm shifting, and pivot toward systemised strategic approaches.

Yeah, that would align with best practices and would lead to seamless integration with all stakeholders.

[Ramonade]

I'd like to banish "social distancing", almost nobody is using this term correctly. This is especially true (in France at least) for medias and politics !
Bonus : can be accompanied by "physical distancing", since this is the one people are confusing it with.

[TomAiello]

I heard it on the radio this morning driving into work "It's raining cats and dogs out there"

I mean really, how did this ever become a thing, and WHY!? Though some obituaries would be interesting when those St Bernard's started falling!

Some parts of my wife's family refer to the weather condition of rain falling while the sun shines (which I always called 'sun showers') as "The Devil is beating his wife." That's actually roughy analogous to the expression I learned to describe that weather when I was living in Budapest (veri az ördög a feleségét), believe it or not.

https://www.theidioms.com/the-devil-is- ... -his-wife/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshower

[AlexRus]

I'd like to ban "Transaction declined. Your card has insufficient funds"

[JSumm]

I'd like to banish the word "Spidieflick", as well as "drop shutty"

We need to submit this banishing to YouTube.

[sok]

"just sayin'"

I resemble that remark. Wait.. I hate that phrase too.

[kobold]

Per se.

[Mad Mac]

Hard to believe we are on the third page
and yet no one has mentioned
woke, wokeness or wokeism.

[Naperville]

I'd like to banish "social distancing", almost nobody is using this term correctly. This is especially true (in France at least) for medias and politics !
Bonus : can be accompanied by "physical distancing", since this is the one people are confusing it with.

What's worst is when after read several articles on the spread of COVID through droplets, and you know the safe distance is actually 10ft to 15ft and the powers to be say stay 6ft apart, and you get to the checkout counter and there is a guy on your tail 2ft from you with no mask.....

[Naperville]

I'd like to ban "Transaction declined. Your card has insufficient funds"

[Bolster]

Hard to believe we are on the third page
and yet no one has mentioned
woke, wokeness or wokeism.

We were waiting for you to mention it. We're all terrified of being banished to Siberia.