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What Overused powerwords/talking-point words in the news (zeitgeist) have been annoying you?

Forums: Language, Zeitgeist, News, Talking Points, Buzzwords
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Ragman
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 10:42 am
@farmerman,
Agreed. Like the new ads for 'Artisan' pizza from Dominos? It's not like they can even draw a pizza, right?
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snood
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 11:05 am
"Trending".

News programs are so full of people telling you what and who is immediately popular that they barely remember to broadcast any other information.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 11:17 am
Thinking 'outside the box,' or 'blue sky,' thinking.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 11:30 am
@izzythepush,
drawing inside the lines
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 12:28 pm
@snood,
Excellent suggestion Snood. And paralleling that is when so called news anchors and reporters use "hashtag" to condition a trending news item du jour.
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roger
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 01:11 pm
"Folks". When your politician starts using the word 'folks', he's into emotion 'cuz he's out of facts. When he adds 'hard-working' hang onto your billfold.
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Ragman
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 01:47 pm
How about when you hear the phrase (from politicians) "to be honest with you"... that is when you prepare for getting a load of bullshit.
roger
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 03:18 pm
@Ragman,
Yeah, and it does sound a little incongruous considering from whom it is coming.
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Finn dAbuzz
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 04:14 pm
Working class
Meme
Electibility
We can't wait!
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snood
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 04:21 pm
demagogue
'the base'
mojo (as in "he/she got it back")
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 05:07 pm
zeitgeist..
talking points

Well, those haven't been annoying me.

I've others, will have to work up a list.
Meta is one.
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Butrflynet
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 05:18 pm
"Drilling down" -- used by TV news readers to infer that they are going to go in-depth on a subject when what they're really going to do is a Google search to see what everyone else is saying so they can interview each other about it.
msolga
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 06:26 pm
best practice (as in world best practice)
deliverables
enable(r)
mission statement
push the envelope
team (dynamics, player, building)
key player
win-win
intellectual capital
core competencies
roger
 
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Reply Fri 28 Oct, 2011 06:45 pm
@Butrflynet,
I hate that one, too. I wonder if it was started by Peachtree Accounting programs. They use it exhaustively, but within their programs, at least it does have real meaning.
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sat 29 Oct, 2011 03:08 pm
"Man up" is getting a tad bit on my nerves:
From the critically blasted Tim Allen sitcom, http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1828238/;
As a marketing term supposedly aiming its target product to men only,
http://online.wsj.com/video/volkswagen-new-beetle-mans-up/2A46E7C2-4B66-410A-9EFB-AA018A6C9783.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_mpvidcar_1
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sat 29 Oct, 2011 03:11 pm
@msolga,
msolga wrote:

best practice (as in world best practice)
deliverables
enable(r)
mission statement
push the envelope
team (dynamics, player, building)
key player
win-win
intellectual capital
core competencies


Some of these have been around for awhile. Not saying they're excused from qualifying here but that after their years of usage that they are a proven commodity or carcinogenic powerwords.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sat 29 Oct, 2011 03:14 pm

HOW OFEN shoud the wheel be re-invented ???????
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Eorl
 
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Reply Sat 29 Oct, 2011 04:03 pm
Can't remember the last time anyone publicly used the phrase "in future", not now we're all "going forward" or "moving forward".

Even in countries where baseball is rarely mentioned, we are still expected to "step up" when required.
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RileyRampant
 
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Reply Sun 30 Oct, 2011 11:34 pm
@InfraBlue,
pointing tip
boxing out of the think

the armies of folks who expound at great length about kid stuff
(zombies, blood-suckers, comicbook (now movie) superheroes, american idol, our shitty pop cultural whoops and wharfs of every sort)

my kid just t'opther day had an ACT practice question regarding zombies.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 2 Nov, 2011 07:53 pm
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:

I am so sick and tired of the overuse of the word "ARTISAN" when talking re: foods .
(This is marketing rather than world news but I find it annoying)



Quote:
Hand-Crafted Hype: How ‘Artisan’ Food Became Forever Debased
11/2/11 at 12:00 PM

http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2011/11/artisan-word-downfall.html?e=grubstreet--20111102
An article that maps the last 10 years of corporate misuse of the word, artisanal.
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