The use of “so” when you mean “very”;

“Yadayadayada”;

“Come to find out”:

“the whole nine yards”;

“Cut to the chase”;

pronouncing the letter “H” as “haytch”!

Here’s my pet list of things I’d die a happier man if I never heard or saw again:

1) ‘overly’, as in ‘he’s overly interested in that’, where ‘over much’ is the standard and classier phrase, though ‘far too’ is just as good. Equally objectionable is where it is used to replace ‘over’ in compound and phrasal verbs, as in, ‘He is overly qualified’ for the perfectly good ‘overqualified’. These were virtually unheard in Britain twenty years ago and now it’s everywhere.

2) ‘fun’ as an adjective.

3) The faintly ludicrous prissiness that imagines I necessarily have a toilet in my bathroom. I bath in my bathroom, wash in a wash room and relieve myself in a toilet or public convenience. Heaven alone knows what they think I get up to in a comfort break. Eat chocolate, I presume.

4) ‘Hopefully’ as a calque of the German ‘hoffentlich’, as in ‘Hopefully we’ll be there by four o’clock’.

5) ‘Presently’ meaning ‘now, currently’. Its traditional meaning of ‘soon’ is still current here in the UK.

6) ‘Already’ placed unidiomatically at the end of a sentence.

7) ‘Look’ used to introduce a statement with the import that if you disagree you’re clearly wrong, and possibly an idiot. Our late Prime Minister Tony Blair was addicted to this mannerism.

Traditional media is just a shorthand; I’m not sure what else you would call it.

For “when I was a kid” would you prefer “back in the Dark Ages” or some other euphemism?

Don’t tell me you prefer “man-caused disasters” to terrorism? Or do you subscribe to the silly notion that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter?

Anyway, thanks for sharing.