Kathy is guest blogging over at Small Dead Animals and she wants to eliminate half the words I use in every blog post:

Let’s start the new year off fresh and dump the comfy clichés once and for all. Some of the ones below always sucked; others have worn out their welcome like an incontinent grandma.

I say we pinky-swear not to use the following words when we blog, as of midnight, New Year’s Eve:

* asshat
* moonbat
* sweet
* MSM
* idiotarian
* heh

Seriously though she is right. These words are overused. But they are not the only ones.

How about “whinge” which is used now instead of whine? It is grammatically correct and is more common in the UK but writing it is the equivalent of affecting a British accent, it makes you look like a pompous idiot.

There are more but lets not stop with blogging here’s some that I wish people would stop saying in general:

2. It is what it is.
Ok, what is it?

3 I could care less
No, you mean I couldn’t care less.

4 Orientated

Should be oriented.

5. Frickin’ and Freakin
If you don’t have the balls to say friggin then don’t. I remember when TV networks started doing this in the late 80’s. It sucked then and it still sucks.

6 R’s BI
Sportscasters don’t say RBI any more now they say “Rs BI” because you see it’s “runs batted in” ok if that is the case why do you still say “an RBI”? Shouldn’t it be “A RBI” because it’s ” a run batted in” not “an run batted in”.

7 Dirty Blonde Hair
Why do women describe their hair colour as “dirty”. For a group that is universally fastidious about its appearance one would think that it wouldn’t be a good image to conjure up. Yet peruse any personal ad and you’ll find it more often than “likes long walks on the beach”. Funny how every woman who places an ad in the personals lives near a beach.

8 It’s all good.
I feel like strangling people who say this. I don’t know why. I just do.

9 Gobsmacked.
I am not British but I know what “gob” is and this word is friggin disgusting.

10 Grassroots
Every time someone mentions “grassroots” my eyes start to glaze over. Can we find a better way of describing the average person?

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