"Use other words please."

Why is that pedantic? I don't care about the grammar, I'm just sick of hearing it.

ugh, amazeballs, that is the worst

those two words are the cool beans of today

"Burst onto the scene"

"unlock"

song lyrics or snippets or album covers are not antique secrets held in rustic lockboxes, nor are they Xbox achievements, they're promotional material a label posts, probably regardless of how much their fans do or don't tweet/Like/call. pretty minor, I know, but it's one of the more common examples of PR-speak seeping into journalistic copy and if I'm editing I kill it on sight.

Hack

"______ 101" or "dorm room _____"

(basically anything that means to imply "I have graduated from college and look back on it with bemused condescension.")

"his / her / my truth"

put "owning" in front to be shot out of a cannon

Own your truth

Describing some bit of policy as a "Rube Goldberg device/contraption"

"unhelpful"

"and that's a good thing"

seriously stop telling me what is a good thing and what isn't
similarly, "...what we've learned from this..."

katherine otm some words are just annoying but "unlock" is sinister

my dad invariably describes any movie or actor or scene he likes as "watchable" and it makes my eyes bleed

otm re: "and that's a good thing," ugh. The implied "but," as well as the implied tying of a bow around the goodness of the thing, both just seem so patronizingly "reasonable," and close off objection.

"transitioned"

"deliverable" (noun)

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/04/sotomayor-epic-affirmative-action-ban-dissent.html

Oh shit, EPIC dissent brahhhhh!

technical difficulties

i used that the other day cuz my computer crashed and i lost 2 podcast segments

"_________ is ridiculously good"

so lazy

"Sunday Funday"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Sunday_Funday_cover.jpg

"you're going to need a kleenex"

gross

"small bites"

shenanigans

That was a fun word when it was rarely used, but now I hear/read it too much for sure.

from what i can tell it's used to make ordinary (even boring) stuff people do when they're drunk sound more interesting or mischievous

are the irish theme bars called 'shenanigans' part of a chain or do they just have the same name?

No clue

earnest use of "shenanigans" def screams drama kid/poly/fedora/libertarian to me

See to me, it signals country/white hat/red solo cup.

For me it's account manager who feels her partying days are over but she still likes to drink wine and gossip and calls that "shenanigans"

curate

'Hilariously'

music writers saying a song is 'all x and y'

reveals

"putting out fires"

alt.shenanigans was a quality usenet newsgroup

exclusive

any ___splaining construction other than mansplaining (straightsplaining, whitesplaining, etc.). None of them work.

splainsplaining

ok, which one of you did it

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wrg/5176556495.html

Hard to believe there's a lack of decent copyeditors at the Time's

seeing various folks using "lane" a lot

Caramanica re Drake: And that’s true — by creating his own sound, and lane, he ensured no one could best him

agitprop
"agit-pop"

I have to let it out: stop the "at once _____ and _____", where the blanks are essentially opposites.

Everything can be summed up in terms of opposites, which is a neat notion about existence in general, but in most cases I've read this, the terms used are either too vague, or one seems obviously more apt for the music than the other, and comes off as hedged (and lazy). If you're describing music that can be at once "this" and "that", then why not also describe "the other", or each of the millions of alternatives? Or, you could just do the much harder thing, and attempt to describe what the music actually sounds like, or makes you feel, without setting these weird limits that traverse almost infinite detail.

I get why it happens, and I'm sure I've done it many times myself - performing this act of reaching for an ineffable thing. It's a construction riddled with pathos - basically trying to catch something of what "bittersweet" conjures with regard to personal experience. But not actually that descriptive... should be dashed away by the same editors who should be catching strings of effusive modifiers that are all near-synonyms for each other.

yeah, I know I've done it in the past too -- I think that's why I hate it so much

confess to overusing 'at once x & y'
also to 'strings of effusive modifiers that are all near-synonyms for each other'
(bbbbut distinct shades of meaning!)
(have to) make an effort in editing to cut that stuff out