Research Taps Folksonomy as "Most-Hated Web Word"

That folksonomy you found out in the blogosphere? Was it on a blog or a wiki?

Yahoo News points us to a "study" of oft-used web words that incite. The results tell us that my lead sentence is really pissing someone off.

This news reminds me of a new business presentation where a client told us he was concerned about my then firm's "globality." I later told the firm partners to simply inform the prospect that we're globalicious.

What are your least favorite words? I'll start out by noting some non-web words that bug me -- slacks, moist, blouse, pro bono, scrod (the fish) and ream (of paper). Yeah, Freud could have a field day with those, huh?

Comments

[Kami Huyse]

Kevin; I posted about this today too. Great minds...?

[John Whiteside]

Anything 2.0.

Twitter.

The phrase "tasked with."

"Take-away" when it refers to an idea, not a curry.

[Kevin Dugan]

John - Good additions. Tasked with reminds me of a whole slew of corporate speak.

Kami - Great minds indeed!

[Sarah Wurrey]

The corporate-speak that always drives me batty are the metaphors. "Low-hanging fruit" or "a heavy lift." I also always despise any use of "At the end of the day, ..." I also thoroughly agree on the word "moist."
:)

[Johnny Inkslinger]

"Proof points" - it makes me think of baked goods. Or pudding.

"Syner-anything" - particularly "synergistic." I'm always surprised that the word, given how it has been widely ridiculed, continues to be used at all.

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