I am afraid my own verbal ticks include many a "like," "um" and "yaknow." I wouldn't mind having better control of that.

I don't mind the word "hot," but I'm pretty tired of "hot mess."

I'm tired of the current racist connotations of the word "immigrant."

I am tired of hearing people say the tea party is "libertarian" when it simply is not - at least not socially.

I am sick of the term "politically correct" used as a get-out-of-jail-free card for saying awful things.

I am tired of hearing the word "retarded" used casually to refer to anything or anybody a person doesn't enjoy.

Can't is one that gets on my nerves, especially when it is just used as an excuse with a bunch of rationalizations that can be overcome.

Big difference between someone saying I can't that really can't and someone that just doesn't want to do something. just say [B]I don't want to! or No![/B]

I think I may have a crabby hang over from the election results....

:seeingstars:

But, But, But......
 

Akin to "can't" is "BUT".

"I'd would do that, but......"

How about "I would do that and I'm not going to...."

AND is a better substitute for the word "but", which should be entirely eliminated from western vocabulary.

"But" and "can't" are EXCUSE WORDS.

Addendum:
BUT is a wholly unnecessary word. However, "butts" can be very nice.

Addendum, et al.:
I think "fuckery" is a useless word as well <ducking>

Sara Palin

I'm tired of patches

Assumptions.

rigor and relevance
specificities
Work-related acronyms that no one knows what the fuck they mean


AAAAND...

drama

unless it's about a llama

in red pajamas.

LOL... I hated work related acronyms! Even more, I hated when those that used (and made them up) did so with smug attitudes and would have that don't you know this look on their face when using them.

I guess after working a lot of years in education and government related jobs before going on my own put me in the midsts of this behavior. Then it happened anyway, but not as much.

Yes.. drama is another one. Get the general gist of it, but sometimes that isn't enough to understand what is going on.

Llamas are nice....

ROTFL.. Ut, Oh.. bet I get dinged!

Is mainstream starting to bother anyone else?

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Obligation
"but"

I'm in education. There should be a dictionary of acronyms. And I really super love it when they change the acronym to another acronym.

There's lots of drama in elementary school classrooms! :seeingstars: Fortunately, it's usually "easy stuff," just tiresome.