Music To My Ears.

Here are some of the worst words to use in any experience with your job hunts, making friends, dates and more.

1. STILL or YET. This is the worst. All kinds of things spring to mind. The main problem with this , is that it makes you sound underachieving or that you haven’t reached your goals yet. It’s as though you haven’t met their standard, their expectations. If you say it yourself, then it sounds like you are fed up and are not strong enough to make a change. There are a few positive ways to use it, for example. “Lady Gaga STILL won’t let me give her back her shoes.” “The White House STILL is not serving my soup hot enough” “Kylie STILL keeps posting my pics on her Instagram”.
2. Jedi/Ninja/Guru. It STILL isn’t good enough. You can flaunt your success and achievements another way , with a different status, without having to use these titles.
3. Heck/Crap/Shame – Heck is like you are too scared to say hell. Crap is like you are too scared to swear. Shame sounds fake. Avoid these unless you can pick a sufficient replacement that doesn’t make you come across this way.
4. Totally.Awesome. – Unless the job, your new BFF, or potential significant other is in a real life Clueless scenario, then it’s advisable to avoid using these words.
5. Adorable. Only use this for animals or babies. Never describe a guy or a girl, or a picture as adorable. It sounds as though you find it cute enough to be acceptable and meets your needs of cuteness. But without going any further than that.
6. BAE. After some research, it turns out that Bae actually is Swedish for something else. Unless you want to jump on a passed phase of basic already, then read a Swedish dictionary and you will never use that word again.
7. “Googled” – As in past tense, searching for. There’s something about this that some people can find horrifying. It can come across as obnoxious and a bit of a know it all. We are all doing it. We do it at 2 am in the morning in the middle of our sleep and at 8pm in the shower. We know you googled it. We also know what Google is , so don’t say the G word unless you are going to say the G word itself.
8. WiFi/Broadband/Connection – Can we please come up with one word, just one word to describe all of this. It all means the same thing really. One of them is in a public place and the other one is in your home. And a connection just means you are connected. It is preferable not to use 3 different words to describe 1 thing.
9. Saying the word HASHTAG. Who and WHY would you do that? Back when we were all newcomers to social media and you wondered , of all the punctuation in the world, why would we choose the hashtag to stamp all over it, it would have been acceptable. Unless its very precisely related to the subject on hand, avoid saying it aloud at all costs.
10. Talking in abbreviations. There’s one million and then some but to have a conversation of a string of them is really horrific. BRB, K AFK LOL JK, IKR, K, OMG,LOL FBF TBT TMI K BYE.