1) "Wassup?"

2) My bad

3) "jumped the shark"

4) I agree with LGrant, but I would also add "walk-off homer" from baseball. It takes the emotion out of the moment.

5) I've never heard of those 2 Brian.

"Could care less".....think about it......shouldn't it be "couldn't care less"?

Really!

6) Just sayin'....

7) Scott- I am almost persuaded that "jump the shark" has seen its better days.

LimeyGeorge- good point.

8) I hear the next phrase, which will replace "jump the shark" when it jumps the shark is "nuke the fridge." Have you seen the new Indiana Jones movie?

Other phrases that bug:

in the pipeline - upcoming
email blast - send out lots of emails
synergy - I still not sure- ususally there's lots of hand-gestures when people use the word

9) This one takes the cake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

10) "Shut Up" in the fashion diva tone

11) "dude" and "like" Brian, if you could get those words out of the English language by August 18, I'd really appreciate it. I don't know if I can stand listening to those words hundreds of times a day again.

12) Let's see - I can add IDK and STFU to the list - I am tired of hearing letters instead of words

13) Add "JK" to that list!!

14) Oh...and "u". (Granted that's in writing not speaking.) How difficult is it to add two more letters?!

15) At the end of the day....

16) 'whatever', 'fo shizzle'

I actually have thrown up in my mouth...a few times. I thought they were called sour burps?

17) Limey George, it actually is "couldn't care less" ... I'm always correctingpeople about that. It's kinda like when teens started saying "ignorant" (only it came out as "ig-nert" about 10 years ago to mean rude/stupid. (Oh the irony!) Didn't quite fit. Thank God that one ended!

I use the word synergy sometimes - but it's kind of necessary in PR/comm.

18) Mrs. Shoo, you hit most of mine! Like and dude have certainly worn themselves out in sentences lately. Another annoying one is "hella".

19) Hayley-

I'm always correcting people about 'couldn't care less'. There are other phrases or words that I might never notice when people use incorrectly, but something about that one gets under my skin. It bothers me more when I have to thoroughly explain why it's wrong.

20) Another good one lately and I've found I slip with it too. "Whatever"

21) "Touch base"
Its OK in baseball, otherwise generally not.

22) I think, "I could care less" is the sarcastic version of the phrase said in Bill & Ted language. I tend to say "like" a lot, something that I have always done. I do also use, "whatever."

My boss says, "at the end of the day" all of the time, but that is only because I got onto him about saying "six of one, half dozen of the other."

23) I"ve nearly given up on the "couldn't care less" one. The people I hear using it wrongly are not doing it in a sarcastic fashion. They are just using it wrongly and not realizing it.
As for "threw up in my mouth", I haven't heard that one, but 'round here we call that a verp (vommit burp).
And as for "dude" and "hella", those are very Californian, and I would bet a pretty penny that they will not be excised from my vocabulary anytime soon. Sorry!
Oh, and Meg... I might use STFU, but only in typing, never verbally.

24) girlcarew - wait until you have teenagers - you will get to hear them talk in letters all the time - LOL

25) I just threw up in my mouth isn't actually the act of throwing up in one's mouth; it's like saying "OMG, that's so gross, i just threw up in my mouth" ... when i used that expression i'd always says "a little" at the end.

As frustrating as it is, I continue to correct people about "couldn't care less" ... and they will argue with me over it and I just keep saying "if you could care less, that means you care at least a little bit! if you couldn't care less...you have no cares about the situation AT ALL".

Here's one: Ping. I hate this expression. My boss is always saying "ping" this person, "ping" that person. Isn't "Ping" a golf accessories company? Since when did "ping" mean to get in contact with? Let's start saying "poke", like on facebook. "Hayley, Can you poke Jermaine?"

Of course, when men are doing the "poking", that may come off wrong.

26) niki, I've gotten into the habit of saying "like" just because I'm around teenagers so much. I picked it up, and no matter how hard I try, I can't get it out of my vocabulary.

27) Hayley, I'm glad you mentioned that one. I hate that expression. My boss loves that one too. I think it is very dehumanizing. You ping servers and computers--not people. I don't care if we are IT--it's a very negative expression.

28) Mrs. Shoo- I promise to labor day and night to remove those 2 words from the English vocabulary in the next 3 weeks. For my labors, I expect handsome compensation. Thanks.

some of these abbreviations make me wonder if texting is starting to jump the shark. I'm 31, and I still don't see the point, unless you're in a meeting or something.

An oldie but baddie (not goodie) for me is "OMG"- I fail to see why any kind of worshipful expression is necessary just because there's a 2 for 1 deal at Old Navy or your favorite American Idol contestant wound up in the bottom 3. Please, like, dude, stop using this. I even saw a commercial for some product that was supposed to help for all your "OMG" moments. At the end of the day, I could care less about this phrase.

29) Oh, and I should note I have never heard "hella" before in my life, that I can recall.

30) I've started to see the abbreviations in formal essays. It makes me nuts. Chris's grandfather just sent me a link to an article about it. It seems relevant to where the discussion has gone. (Thanks mostly to me, I think.)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121729233758791783.html

31) I think the “Abbreviation Age” started about 10 to 15 years ago. I can remember Chat rooms being the Hot New Thing there for awhile. Everyone would sneak into Mr. Bruno’s Home Room and we would take turns harassing people in chat rooms. I was totally new to the chat world and chat abbreviations, and I remember having to ask what some of the more common abbreviations stood for, because I had no idea! “ttyl” “lmfao” “brb”…yeah, I know we all know NOW what these abbreviations stand for. But, do you remember when you didn’t know?

I feel, the same goes for the new age of abbreviators. Text messaging has taken center stage for a fast and easy way to communicate. We are all guilty of sending a text message instead of just calling. First of all, if you are going to send out a mass text message, you manage to relay the same message to as many people you want, instead of calling each individual person. I’m personally guilty of sending a text message because I honestly don’t want to get caught up on the phone with somebody for 40 minutes or longer taking.

There is a time and place for abbreviations and sayings. Like for example, I did start saying “Hella” But that was only because South Park’s Cartman started using it, and he only used it because he made fun of those who used it. I send very few text messages, and I find abbreviations and people talking in letters INCREDIBLY annoying, and I just want to pull my hair out. Kind of like Ebonics…? Why is this accepted? If anyone wants to be taken seriously they should learn to speak correctly and not accept abbreviations and letters as a form of communication. I guarantee that if you end your cover letter with “ttyl” your Resume and cover letter would go directly to the trash bin. Once people start using abbreviations as their language, the correctly spoken English becomes a secondary thought, and you have to pause and learn to speak correctly again.

P.S. Anything that Chris Mathews says was soooo last season!! LOL

32) JMD, couldn't agree with you more!!
For a while there was a movement in schools to accept Ebonics, "country" and other dialects as acceptable English. Just like you said, there's a time and a place for everything...and using "gunna" and "ya'll" in a formal essay isn't acceptable.

33) I'm not sure I'm sick of it but I'm always mildly amused when I hear people use "arks" or "axe" instead of "ask"

34) My kids get mad because I make some sort of "ax" joke when they say that instead of "ask." Bugs me too, LG.

35) Oh that drives me Crazy!! My mom and I were almost jumped in an Aldi Grocery Store Parking lot for making fun of people who said "Ax" ...Good Times