Quick - just off the top of your head, what are some of the phrases and words that need to pack up and leave with 2014? I bet you're thinking what I'm thinking:
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| Gotta put my favourite Divergent characters to even out the atrocity of bae. |
1. Bae
Number one word that needs to be snuffed out as soon as possible, with a pillow and an ice-cold bucket.
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| Not this kinda game. |
2. ___ game too strong
It came as a whirlwind that has possibly died down a little. It's an interesting pet phrase that should remain in popular culture and that's it. I fear for the survival of the English language, as we go onto the third point:
3. I can't even
I've probably raged inwardly and expressively at this repeatedly over the year, but let me do it again. "I can't even" should be placed onto a missile and fired into outerspace. What can't you even? Uttering this word makes the user seemed inept and silly, which makes me feel very confused on its popularity. The English language exists for a reason, use it.
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| Go get your own. |
4. Relationship goals... or "ship"
I am the last person you should get your relationship advice from, but this idea of relationship goals is really stupid. Every love story is different and why should you aspire to have someone else's? It just doesn't make sense.. everybody else is already taken, so get your own. Or 'ship'-ping a certain couple is another one of those words that can illustrate why the aggregate human population IQ is falling even when the global population is increasing.
Probably the only exception who can tread along sensitive topics without getting overboard. 5. Variants of the word - ebola
I must be a particularly serious person, but I don't get how variants of this word is even funny.
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| You only live once, and you also only die once. |
6. YOLO
I think YOLO initially surfaced in 2012, but there has been remnants of its usage even in 2014. It is overused and my ears burn every time I hear it. You've got to...
7. STAHP IT
Is it cute? Or cool? I'm not sure. I used it a few times when I first got to know it, and then it felt like hitchhiking blind on the Siberian highway, so I stahp-ed.
8. Friendzone
The friendzone has evolved from a "space" that a woman places a man, to one that's not gender-specific, and therein sprouts its spinoffs - sisterzone, brotherzone, and more. You get the idea. It's not exactly very helpful as it indicates a certain permanence in this status, which is not very true in reality unless you make it to be.
9. Anything -porn that's not really porn, and anything -fie other than selfie
This one is obviously first inspired from foodporn, the frontrunner of this set of portmanteau. The first few times #sunsetporn appeared it might be interesting and creative, but randomly creating words with the suffix -porn is just overkill. Yup, definitely something that needs to be left behind in 2014. Same goes for the spinoffs of selfie which used to be fun, but then it got out of hand: wefie, shoefie, catfie, dogfie, pawfie, uniformfie. Moderation obviously isn't programmed into the modern man's psyche.
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| There are some pretty good ones anyway. |
10. O-O-T-D
Having heard this in a Chinese New Year song probably broke the last straw for me, but having painfully succumbed and exposed to all kinds of OOTD shots, I observed that this is becoming more of what-I'm-wearing-everyday rather than a special sharing of an interesting fashion getup. It used to be interesting... but now it's a lot of basic tops and jeans as OOTD. Like I can't even? Just, stahp it. Whoops, overused words game too strong. I know right? Yeah, I know right should totally be number-eleven, but it's so 20-13.