I hate the new usage of the word OPTICS. For example, "The optics of that situation were terrible." Many newscasters and pundits use it to describe a situation or someone that is not telegenic.
Another one is GRANULAR, describing something that is complex or overly detailed. For example, "Did you listen to her describe every insignificant detail of her date last night? Damn, that chick got granular."
I hate the new usage of the word OPTICS. For example, "The optics of that situation were terrible." Many newscasters and pundits use it to describe a situation or someone that is not telegenic.
Another one is GRANULAR, describing something that is complex or overly detailed. For example, "Did you listen to her describe every insignificant detail of her date last night? Damn, that chick got granular."
never heard either of those phrases ERIK. Must be the drugs LOL!
And frankly, that whole vain self-interviewing rhetorical question thing ("Do I believe it's outrageous? Yes. Do I believe it should be banned? No") is a pain.
The phrase that really bugs my on British TV is....pan fried. Once upon a time frying food in a frying pan was looked down on, in fact there was ads on the telly telling people to throw their frying pans away & do some proper cooking. Now we have all these chefs on the TV, they've just switched the words around, & now it's the most sophisticated thing you can do! " We take this small cornfed chicken & we.....pan fry it, yes...pan fry it, aren't we cleaver"
poiticians saying an opponent's views are "out of the mainstream" what's wrong with that? dissent is healthy it leads to innovation and progress damn politicians!!!
"Honestly,..." or "In all honesty..." and all variations thereof.
What do you mean, everything you've said before this was a fib?
Apart from stressing the truthfulness of a statement (which doesn’t invalidate all other statements), it can be short for something like “If you ask my honest opinion …”, indicating that something more frank and possibly controversial is following.
It’s just a way of speaking, and, like all such phrases, can be misused or overused, but I don’t really see why the expression “needs to go away”.
And celebrities who think they're "all that" and try to talk as though they're intelligent and so proper by saying "she and I" or "her and I" when it was supposed to be "me and her."
