Tuesday is the New Monday
by Sherra on October 27, 2009
in Finding the Funny
Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself.
Whatever.
That is one of my new favorite words. Especially since living in the land of the teens.
Then I read this article a few weeks ago and find out that it’s very annoying.
The popular slacker term of indifference was found “most annoying in conversation” by 47 percent of Americans surveyed in a Marist College poll released Wednesday.
Oops. Here we go again being uncool AND annoying. Always a day late and dollar short. Yep, that’s us.
I’m telling you at least once a day, sometimes more often, I get a text message from one of the lovely teens with one word.
Whatever.
They are precious, aren’t they? It always makes me laugh a little. I never really found it annoying. In fact, I find in useful to dish it right back to them on numerous occasions.
“Whatever” easily beat out “you know,” which especially grated a quarter of respondents. The other annoying contenders were “anyway” (at 7 percent), “it is what it is” (11 percent) and “at the end of the day” (2 percent).
I think they left off the most seriously annoying word on their survey. See if you can guess what it is.
Here’s my like take on this like annoying word because like I know annoying like anybody’s business so like I just want to like tell you that I like think there is a much more annoying like word than like whatever.
Did I mention like that I like was a substitute teacher like for the last two years at like one of the biggest high schools like in the country?
Yeah, maybe like I didn’t mention that like on this blog. Because I was sort of like afraid that they might like find out I like have a blog.
Like I am an expert on what is annoying.
And it’s not like…
Whatever.
If we’re going with an annoying phrase vs. a single word which it seems the survey did not distinguish between, my personal fav is…
“Let me be honest”
Always makes me raise my eyebrow and wonder how often the person speaking is dishonest.
Hmmm, food for thought. I love words.
What’s your favorite overused annoying word?
One year ago..
“No worries.” That seems to be the new trade slang amongst anyone who does work for you that falls short of being done correctly. Oh, they’ll fix it—”No worries.” I guess it’s supposed to reassure you, but like it just leaves me you know kinda more concerned ’cause you know at the end of the day they haven’t developed any new skill to like do the job better and so you haveta find someone else to do it you know right or just decide that it is what it is and live with it.
It would be a tie between “anywayS” and “been there, done that.” How irritating!!
I read where an English teacher said that AMAZING was a word he would not let his students use–very overused these days. I agree, but am also guilty!
@julieann–That’s a good one that I hadn’t thought of. Now, of course, when I hear it I will laugh and think of you.
@Ann–”Anyways” would be in my top 5 for sure! “For sure” isn’t in my top 5. But I am now getting paranoid.
@Karen–With the words they do overuse and the negative tones they use, I would think “Amazing” would be a pleasant relief. But maybe it’s the tone they use it? Guilty here too. Whatever.
“like” and “you know” drive me crazy! Of course I have been guilty of overusing them myself at one point. It’s really hard to like you know retrain yourself to quit saying them!
On another note, have you ever seen this blog?
http://scrapbookmamma.blogspot.com/
mom of multiples (quads no less) that scrapbooks. hmmm.. rather novel idea. I think she must have been inspired by you! I told some ladies this past weekend on a scrapbook retreat that I was fairly certain that we had come up with the idea originally. Don’t you? We should go back to Pine Mtn. to reminisce..