Words or phrases you will never say or repeat

[hbelkins]

In my case, "Roll Tide."

[Max Rockatansky]

I can't picture myself actually ever finding the occasion to say "yeet."

[JayhawkCO]

Not as popular now, but "hella".

[Max Rockatansky]

Not as popular now, but "hella".

I've never even heard anyone in California say it.

[1995hoo]

I don't want to use those phrases, so I can't very well repeat them here.

[GaryV]

"Please pass the asparagus"

[elsmere241]

"24/7" though I haven't heard it that much lately.

[ethanhopkin14]

"24/7" though I haven't heard it that much lately.

I hate that one.  Won't repeat it!

[formulanone]

Two that I hear far too often:

"Things happen for a reason."
"Part of God's plan."

Each time I hear someone saying that, I get the idea they weren't paying attention, and lack the ability of abstract thought.

[webny99]

I don't want to use those phrases, so I can't very well repeat them here.

[NWI_Irish96]

"24/7" though I haven't heard it that much lately.

I hate that one.  Won't repeat it!

I'll use that phrase when it's meant literally, as in "this store is open 24/7"
I won't use it when it's meant figuratively.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Go Pack Go

[Big John]

y'all

[Scott5114]

I would never say or repeat any racial slurs out loud, even if I were quoting someone else who said them.

[ethanhopkin14]

"24/7" though I haven't heard it that much lately.

I hate that one.  Won't repeat it!

I'll use that phrase when it's meant literally, as in "this store is open 24/7"
I won't use it when it's meant figuratively.

Even then, I say the store is open 24 hours.  That's what you said when I was growing up. 

[DTComposer]

"I'm just sayin'"

[skluth]

y'all

I find y'all to be one of the most handy expressions. I never used it growing up in Wisconsin but when I lived in Virginia in the mid-aughts I started using it. I say it closer to "you all" and with my Midwest accent but it still comes out as one extended syllable. I hate (file under 'minor things that annoy me') that you is used for both singular and plural second person, and y'all helps avoid the confusion.

[Scott5114]

I try not to use "y'all" too much, since it tends to be associated with a sort of person I'm very much not, but I can't deny that it's handy enough that I will use it if it's the best option.

On an unrelated note, I stumbled upon an interesting discussion on Reddit among people in the St. Louis area, who had anecdotally experienced increasing use of the word "y'all" correlated to an increase in political conservativism in their area.

[Takumi]

y'all

I find y'all to be one of the most handy expressions. I never used it growing up in Wisconsin but when I lived in Virginia in the mid-aughts I started using it. I say it closer to "you all" and with my Midwest accent but it still comes out as one extended syllable. I hate (file under 'minor things that annoy me') that you is used for both singular and plural second person, and y'all helps avoid the confusion.

Of all the languages I've learned even a little bit of basic vocabulary in, English is the only one that uses the same word for the singular and plural second person. I believe "ye"  was once second-person plural but I don't know when or why it fell out of use.

[gonealookin]

y'all

In that same vicinity, "okie dokie".

[ran4sh]

The main issue I have with "24/7" is that some people use it when they really mean 24/4 or 24/5 or something like that. "It's open 24/7 during the week but it closes at night on weekends" That's not 24/7 then. That's 24/4 if it goes from Monday morning to Friday evening.

As for "y'all", I really don't see the issue with it. I don't associate it with conservatism, because there's plenty of left-wingers here that use it. And I've even heard it used on TV by people who have never lived in the South (e.g. born in the North and live in the West).

[Scott5114]

As for "y'all", I really don't see the issue with it. I don't associate it with conservatism, because there's plenty of left-wingers here that use it. And I've even heard it used on TV by people who have never lived in the South (e.g. born in the North and live in the West).

Well, sure, in the south everyone uses it. What the people in St. Louis were saying is that its use was once rare there, until conservatives began using it as a speech marker, presumably to show agreement with Southern values.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Y'all has gained popularity among some liberal non-Southerners as a gender-neutral term for a group of people, trying to phase "you guys" out of their vocabulary.

[1995hoo]

"24/7" though I haven't heard it that much lately.

I hate that one.  Won't repeat it!

The Beatles Channel on XM claims to broadcast 24/8.

[hotdogPi]

That one about Brandon (no, not the forum user) that I won't say both because not saying or repeating it is the point of the thread and to avoid a thread lock.