Overused.

I just have to get this off my chest. Truly. In the digital age especially, there are some words used that just really need to have limits.

Thanks to social media (I'm guessing, anyway), we now have the written word all over the damn place, and thanks to laziness (again, guessing), we have overuse of certain words. I mean, really...(and yes, that's probably one of them right there!).... We are all adults. Many of us are (over?)educated...I like to think most have at least a high school education (diploma or GED).  Did you know that newspapers and magazines generally write to a 4th or 5th grade reading level? I remember learning that in grade school and being rather surprised. I understand periodicals needing to reach a wide audience, though.

The thing is, we need to use our brains a bit more. Instead of using the same tired old phrases, let's try to work on some vocabulary and heck, even creativity.

Can we please find another word for "yummy"? Pretty please? I am so tired of it. Same for "noms", "adorbs", "totes", etc. It's not cute. It's not hip. It's pretty damn annoying.

And how about "too cute", "too funny", "TOO" anything?  Do you mean it's too whatever, so much so you can't handle it? Like maybe you shouldn't even be looking at it?

(oh, I know "like" is another one...but so help me that one is hard to remove from speech, much less writing.)

And please...for the love of God...learn how to spell "DEFINITELY". It's really not the same thing as "defiantly"...and "definately" is not a word.  Also - there are two "a"s in "separate", not three "e"s.

Ooooh, another one:  AWE is a feeling of reverential respect/fear/wonder. AWW is a polite noise one makes when one sees or reads or is told something that causes an emotion (e.g. something is very cute, or very saddening, etc.)  This one drives me up. the. wall. And yet NOBODY seems to get it.

Sigh... That's all I can think of right now. Any others?

Update: Thought of a couple more. :)
"Kiddo" is a word that for some reason grates on my nerves. I know, it's a cutesy way to talk about your offspring and/or others'.

"Sweet". Surely we can find other words to describe the kindness of others? "My sweet husband..", "my sweet friend", etc.