ERD50
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This is more of a syntax issue than a buzzword, but it annoys me when I hear people starting out a sentence with "So....." almost as of they were telling a story.
"So.....I just got my car detailed."
"So.....how is your new job?"
"So.....I hear your house sold."
"So.....what are you doing this week-end?"
So....what is with that? I find it annoying.
There was a LOT of follow up on the use of 'so' in this thread. Funny, I had noticed that in the Science Friday podcasts (mentioned in the linked article). It seems that these really smart people did a lot of "so..." to explain things. It didn't really bug me, but it happened enough to make me notice, and I did think they were trying to frame it as a story ("So the next thing we thought of was...." "So if you want to go to Mars....", "So when these two chemicals combine...).
Not so much a buzzword, but I HATE it when people use the word "literally" when they describe something figuratively.
Co-worker, returning from lunch: "We literally starved to death waiting for the waiter to bring our lunch."
Me: "Oh, can I have your stapler then?"
-ERD50