There are some words and clichés, moving forward, that should be banished from the earth. Just sayin’. Without further ado, I’m going to mention some of them.
That was three right there. Do you agree? And if you just said, ‘Absolutely!’, then that’s four.
It would be awesome (#5) if we all just dropped these from our vocabularies for ever, right? (#6). Totes (#7).
Words in vogue get overused. Sometimes they’re misused and often they are generally useless.
One of these is ‘journey’. A journey is a physical act of travelling from one place to another, so it’s easy to understand how a journey was once a trip by horse and cart to get water, but it now describes a profound transformation. There are spiritual and personal journeys to a more enlightened state of mind, and life-changing journeys like massive weight loss or overcoming serious illness.
I get that. I’ve set out on journeys, completed journeys, and definitely liked a quote about journeys. It’s a well-used word; it’s when it’s misused that it ruins it for everyone.
Magazines and television shows (especially reality ones) are full of reflective stories that shouldn’t be called journeys. Libby Trickett’s experience on Dancing With the Stars was not a journey.
‘Write about a journey in your life’ is today’s prompt in Clairey Hewitt‘s I’m Blogging Every Day in May! And it’s okay that I just said all that, because Claire hates the word ‘journey’ too.
Have you been on a journey you’d like to share? Or do you have a word or phrase that you, like, so want to see gone from this planet (#8)?
Writing by Larissa Patton 
You MUST add proactive to the list. Really, can’t we just actively do something.
Let’s actively work on the people to remove proactive from their vocabulary. I admit, it could be quite the journey, but it would be totes amazeballs.
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LOL (#9). Amazeballs – I never could get that one either. Whatevs.
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“We will take that on board”….arh, no you won’t!
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Oh yes, Sam. That’s a bad one!
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Yes there are so many buzzwords that we fall victim to – but there were 30 years ago as well, it’s just the way society is!
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Selfie. Or maybe I am just over seeing them! Also the word hero in reality TV. Hero of the dish, hero of the room… Blah blah blah.
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Oh hero of the dish! That’s bad. And selfie is there with tweaking – I’m over those too! Actually ‘It’s all good’ can be banished while we’re at it.
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“Surreal” & “Oh My God”
I won’t even venture to add the annoying words my ten year old uses ALL the time – epic/useless/meh!!! (ok so I mentioned a few)
Christine
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OMG – I bet we’ll hear most of them from our kids!
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For me it would be Reaching out, perhaps a hangover from working in an American company for too long!
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