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Originally Posted by roachboy
random, used as an adjective.
to wit: "he/she hooked up with some random guy."
the phrase "he or she was all like..." as a baroque substitute for "he or she said..."
lol. and all it's heartier derivatives. and emoticons. all of them.
the net-slang bot who is responsible for these should roast eternally in a specially designed quandrant of hell.
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Oxford's Top 10 Most Irritating Phrases - TFP Thread]
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Oh, I thought of another one: "impacts."
It's irritating when people use it as a synonym to "affect/effect."
i.e. "It will be interesting to see how it impacts the children...."
Those poor children....  They never saw it coming. Now look at them...they've been crushed to death. 
So the lesson is: "impact" when used as something other than literally "striking with force" should be used carefully.
"The program had an impact on the children."
"The impact of the program is evident on the children."
NOT
"The program impacted the children deeply."
"The program is impacting the children on a large scale."
"We will see how the program impacts the children."
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Any phrase that uses the word impact as a verb when it doesn't have to do with physical forces.
e.g.
"How does the Internet impact you?"
"I think it greatly impacts all of us."
Ouch. I hope not.
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Just thought to bring about the complete circle of how much Baraka_Guru hates it when you tell him how something of literal dealings, has "impacted" your life, in the non-literal fashion. Come to remind myself of it, (and along the same means as B_G previously stating almost no-one uses the word 'ironically' in the right context anymore) I'll state that I'll be more likely than not to just excuse myself from any conversation immediately thereafter hearing the off-handed utterance (and usually wrong) of 'literally'. This word's meaning has become so bastardized from so much common overuse that no one, in any normal conditions, can use it, and not be made to look as a fool. That is, though, if anyone, anymore, nowadays, were to care, as well as know inherently, that this word should just vanish for a decades' time, be brought back via its
literal definition in the almanac/dictionary/encyclopedias of records, and then I won't have to be the only person in the recognized world seen as crazy for trying to convince all others, in that the way you use literally in your day-to-day phrasings of the mundane, is rarely ever used correctly, and it shifts to the opposite scale of the meaning.