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2025 Banished Words List
- slowhadoken 2y ago"ick" also needs to die.
- mrayycombi 2y agoI'm glad this list dropped, these words are so cringe.
- OldGuyInTheClub 2y agoThe annual list of words and phrases that have worn out their welcome.
- selimthegrim 2y agoRizz?
- steveBK123 2y agoOnly if you don’t have any
- dvh 2y ago[flagged]
- DougN7 2y agoWaiting for you to get attacked for using “blacklist”.
- kube-system 2y agoThere's no way that wasn't satire
- Freak_NL 2y agoI'm looking forward to the day when a group of trolls, ahem, I mean concerned netizens, manages to find the right words and hype to declare 'main' an extremely harmful and hurtful word we should all avoid™. Fortunately, for the primary git branch (which seems to be called 'main' occasionally) a good neutral alternative already exists: 'master' (like a master copy or a master key). Crisis averted. (U+1F37F)
- jprete 2y agoIt's not that kind of banished-word list.
- nyokodo 2y agoThe list isn’t about politically correct speech but more about the perception of what words have fallen out of fashion and/or become cliches.
- dang 2y agoPlease don't do this here.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoAt least in my local sphere, cringe still has meaning, and I've not heard of the uses in the article although admittedly I live under a bit of a rock. The same goes for era. I've never heard of skibidi, sorry not sorry, dropped, or IYKYK. But I do agree that "game-changer" is overused.
- TuringNYC 2y ago>> I've never heard of skibidi Oh my, you need to meet some of the Gen A crowd
- vouaobrasil 2y agoTo be honest I am not even sure what Gen XYZ even means any more...too many free variables!
- Minor49er 2y agoThe article sounds like someone complaining about words that they don't like to hear, but framed in a way to try to get others to stop saying them. It makes me cringe bigly
- summermusic 2y agoIt’s official, cringe is dead :)
- binarymax 2y ago100%
- Dilettante_ 2y agoPeriod.
- andrepd 2y agoThe end of the cringe era, 100%, period.
- Retr0id 2y agoThe fact that nobody knows what skibidi means implies it has more life left in it
- Der_Einzige 2y agoWhen I learned that the youngest were keeping source engine animations alive in the most hilarious way possible I appreciated it. Not my kind of humor, but I remember the 420 MLG era. Brainrot is universal.
- thefz 2y agoMLG parody videos were a parody. This is... not?
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoFor me, skibidi is always going to be connected with John Scatman first, Little.Big second, and there is no third for now.
- TuringNYC 2y agoMost people who use the word skibidi dont remember Scatman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8kmNEo1i8) and were not even born when the song came out :-)
- Der_Einzige 2y ago"Ground breaking", "Delve", "Kaleidoscope", "Symphony", Testament To" Pretty much everything from here: https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler/blob/main/slop_phrase_prob_adjustments_full_list.json https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler/blob/main/slop...
- Freak_NL 2y ago'Slop' on the other hand has a bright future ahead. I picked it up just last week, and it is so incredibly apt at what it does. I like it (not the thing it refers to though, i.e., AI generated content and imagery).
- softwaredoug 2y agoWhatever boomer. This list is pretty cringe
- lsaferite 2y agoI know this is a joke, but it makes curious. Is "boomer" just used a derogatory term for people older than the speaker now? I ask because the youngest boomers are 60 now and in practice I see the term used against people younger than 60.
- throw5959 2y agoIt's used to describe an attitude or behavioral stereotype, rather than strictly to refer to that demographic group in the US.
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoYou just imagine some little shit say these words to you in precisely the way that makes your fists itch to make a dent in their face. That said, if your antagonist evokes the “little shit” vibes without you consciously thinking that, it’s probably only fair that you evoke “boomer” vibes for them. Well. (It’s also apparent that “boomer” has evolved to mean any old fart.)
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoIt's amusing that the phrase "Don't trust anyone over 30" gained popularity when the Baby Boomers were under 30 but now the sentiment is focused against them (and Gen-X and Millennials).
- kube-system 2y ago> the youngest boomers are 60 now and in practice I see the term used against people younger than 60. In those cases the term isn't being used because the speaker is attempting to accurately identify the age of the person they are referring to. It is name-calling.
- softwaredoug 2y ago
- Andrex 2y ago> A classic offender, “utilize” proves that longer is not always better. Why complicate things when “use” works just fine? Everett from Cumby, Texas encourages readers to “Write like you talk,” and added, “Lord, I hope you don’t talk like that.” Reading an article when suddenly a random personal attack appears.
- slowhadoken 2y ago“Optics” is at its peak. I can’t wait to see it go.
- OldGuyInTheClub 2y agoLikewise since I work in the field of actual optics. Made the list in 2019: https://www.lssu.edu/resources/about-lssu/traditions/banishedwords/year/ https://www.lssu.edu/resources/about-lssu/traditions/banishe...
- slowhadoken 2y agoMy maternal grandmother was a psychologist. I grew up watching pop-psychology become a thing and it drove her crazy. I thank god she passed away before "toxic" became wide spread.
- janmarsal 2y agocringe
- shermantanktop 2y agoWhere’s “iconic”? That one had a very rapid ride from wherever it came from to the lexicon of Madison Avenue.
- OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago2024 and 2009: https://www.lssu.edu/resources/about-lssu/traditions/banishedwords/year/ https://www.lssu.edu/resources/about-lssu/traditions/banishe...
- reaperducer 2y agoI'd be happy if people on HN would drop "Learnings." It just shows you never learned the word "lessons." Somewhere on the internet I once ran across a HN BINGO card. From memory: Walled garden Regulatory capture An unreasonable... So... Period. Full stop. There were a bunch of others. Enough that the grid was expanded beyond B-I-N-G-O.
- OldGuyInTheClub 2y agoOh, hell yes. The anonymous author of "The Unendurable Horrors of Leadership Camp" agrees as well. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2016/06/the-unendurable-horrors-of-leadership-camp https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2016/06/the-unendurable-...
- theandrewbailey 2y ago> I'd be happy if people on HN would drop "Learnings." It just shows you never learned the word "lessons." Agreed. Using that "L" word makes one look out-of-touch to me, and I'm disinclined to trust anyone using it. Same for "performant". There are many ways that something can perform. Are you trying to tell me that something is fast? Why can't you just say that it's fast, and leave it at that?
- scotty79 2y ago> Learnings Sounds like something from Borat
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- boogieknite 2y agoutilize been on my internal list for about a decade. always has the opposite effect as intended on me. i question if the writer is playing intellectual dress up. our CEO does it A LOT. a personal emperors new clothes scenario. anyone ever confront upper management and correct language that signals they dont know what theyre talking about? it seems to me that many small business ceos are emperors in new clothes talking amongst themselves so i rationalize thats just how they speak and expect to be spoken to. confronting not worth risking a knee-jerk-response to an injured ego
- golly_ned 2y agoIf your ceo saying “utilize” instead of “use” is your most trenchant criticism of your ceo, consider yourself blessed. Better to let this one go.
- busterarm 2y agoIf your CEO is always saying "utilize", I'd just make the "doin it" finger motions every time until he stops.
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoLet me interject for a moment to tell you about our lord and saviour, “leverage”.
- OldGuyInTheClub 2y agoAnd disciples "reach out", "touch base", and "circle back."
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoDon’t mention them in vain, lest you call Synergy from the deeps of oblivion! Best of breed, of course.
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- egypturnash 2y agoUnless you are Taylor Swift, it might be time to leave “era” behind. The term’s overuse has made every fleeting moment feel like it demands a historical marker. Leah of Holland, Michigan submits, “Thanks to the name of Taylor Swift’s tour, now there is an ‘era’ for everyone and everything! ‘He’s in his fatherhood era’, ‘She’s in her pottery-making era,’ etc., etc.. It’s overused and tiring.” I’m moving on to “aeon” now.
- SoftTalker 2y agoI haven't really noticed this one. I guess I've missed out on the "era" era.
- cess11 2y agoWhich ominously opens up the possibility of aeonics.
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoThough somewhat different than the intent of the list, I'm amazed at the rise of "payed" in place of "paid". I rarely ever saw this error before a couple of years ago and now it's become commonplace, even with people who formerly used paid correctly. I keep expecting to find out it's some recent cultural reference but so far that doesn't appear to be the case.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoThey're phonetically identical in my dialect so I think this is simply a spelling/transcription error, not usage per se.
- thih9 2y agoIs there an opposite list, a list of underused and trendy words? Or does this sort of recognition already ~makes it cringe~ sorry, disqualifies the word?
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- freitasm 2y agoLeverage and outcomes should be there.
- thefz 2y agoLet me add: "Aesthetic" "Energy" (when used outside physics)
- treetalker 2y ago- journey (cf. era) - highly (used as an intensifier)
- RecycledEle 2y agoIs this a list of some college dean's pet peeves?
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- LinuxBender 2y agoWhen will Masters Degree be banished?