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Overused Network Words that Need to be Banned

posted 15 years ago by VacuumMouse
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You know how that goes, right?

Once they find a word or phrase on some networks, they constantly repeat it.

What are some of the tired and overused ones you'd like to hear banned from the networks?

"24/7" - and other numerical cliches.

"Czar" - Everybody with influence is some kind of Czar.

"Tweet" - Whatever, right?

"Issues" - If they would use the term correctly - then it wouldn't be too bad.

"Resonate" - Once Candace Bergen used it - everybody else wants to sound like her - especially on CNN.

"That said..." - Once Dan Rather used it - everybody wants to sound like him.

"At the end of the day..." - Once Nancy Pelosi used it - she never stops and same with the rest of them - because the end of that day never arrives anyway.

"Pacific Northwest" - Ummm why not "Atlantic Southeast" to complement that one?

"East Coast/West Coast/Left Coast/Right Coast" - Another CNN affectation overrun on the Weather Channel instead of like "East of the Mississippi River" and "West of the Mississippi River" although they usually refer to St. Louis as "East Coast." hmmm It probably started by substituting the phrases for "Broadway and Hollywood," but soon became meaningless. Please ban this entire set because there are citizens in Altlantic City who don't even look at the coast all day, right?

"Conservative/ Moderate/ Liberal" - You got this one already.

Mellow Salutations!

[–] Cinamon 15 years ago

"Left Wing/Right Wing"

"State-of-the-art"

[–] parriepenn 14 years ago

How about literally? I heard a woman say, "It literally scared me to death."

Being too lazy to read, I bought the Gospel of Winchester on DVD, Seasons 1-5.

[–] VacuumMouse 14 years ago

LOL Yeah, that's a good example all right.

hmmm And she literally lives to tell?

Mellow Salutations!

[–] Grayovac 14 years ago

"Filmed before a live audience" (I guess the zombie audience was busy that day!)

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[–] VacuumMouse 14 years ago

Agree. You're both right on both counts.

hmmm The pre-recorded audience also must have been pre-occupied that day.

Oh well, guess we'll just have to leave it there for now, right?

Mellow Salutations!

[–] ejnorman 14 years ago

"Going forward"

I heard a basketball commentator use that phrase to refer to the second half of the game.

Will we be teaching students that verbs have past tense, present tense, and going forward tense?

[–] VacuumMouse 14 years ago

Yeah, that is pretty uneducated of them all right.

hmmm Maybe they'll add the "Going Forward Perfect" tense for those amazing replay clips.

Another irritating new term to creep into network venacular has to be "Veggies."
- That is complete and utter baby talk - and there's a place for baby talk - but advertisers and commentators alike have picked up on it as a short-hand substitute for "Vegetables."

I can't handle hearing that word - and almost choke when I say it here for the first time ever - but can't anybody out there bother to say "Vegetables" anymore - whether with four syllables or even three, right?

Mellow Salutations!

[–] tyson6633 12 years ago

I always hate when they say "You're watching (insert station name and/or event)" Duh...really? Duh.

I even think they're starting to realize that it's stupid because more stations now just have a text pop up in the bottom left of the screen now.

They still do it with News events or Sporting Events though.

Examples:

"You're watching CNN's live coverage of the 2012 election results"

"You're watching NBC's Super Long Super Bowl Pre-game Show"

Uhhh...am I?? Wow...really?

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