Anti Word of the Week: Whatev

Posted by Jack on 01.09.2009 at 4:32 pm

No, I did not forget to include the end of that word. Today’s anti word of the week is “whatev.” Sometimes you’ll hear it as “whatevs” or sometimes it will be merely represented on your phone as “wtvr.” Regardless of which version you encounter, you can be sure of a few things:

-You don’t want to hang out with the person who wrote it/said it if you’re looking for a real conversation
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Anti Word of the Week: Totes

Posted by Jack on 12.19.2008 at 4:22 pm

Based on my perusing of Urban Dictionary, “Totes” appears to be the abbreviation of totally. This word is typically used by a hipster crowd that feels that there is some irony in pretending to speak like Paris Hilton. At the same time, this group will claim to like pop music and some types of popular rap even though they normally hate the musical selection of others. This is totes crap.

Totes in this context does not appear to be related to the umbrella company.

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Anti Word of the Week: Besties

Posted by Jack on 12.12.2008 at 12:53 pm

Because I’m a total curmudgeon, this will now be weekly feature in which I rail on modern language and the destruction thereof.  In a recent blog post, our Queen of all things reading related, Dana Barrett, used the expressions “…your book club besties.”  Now I am no old fuddy-duddy or anything of the sort (although I certainly fall in the Harold Bloom canonical works category than Oprah kitsch pick of the month category), but is this a commonly used term?  You would think, considering that I am still ID’d at rated R films, forget about liquor stores, that I would be more in touch with such vernacular.

I sauntered over to the wasteland of casual verbiage that is Urban Dictionary to find this:

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