Superfluous words

[AlexaAmbidextra]

Why use one word when you can use more? Words that used to stand alone now have another word tagged on that serves no purpose.

We used to have skills, we now have a skill set.
We used to fry, we now fry off.
We used to train, we now train up.
We used to have a price, we now have a price point.

I’m sure there are many more. Just why?

To piss people like me off?

The one I hate is “return back”.
Return means “to come back”.
So people who say this are coming “back back”. Ridiculous!

Prolixity.

Not just fry off, but pan fry. What the hell else does a person fry their food in?

Yes! ‘Pan fry’ ‘oven bake’

We'll have tuna fish instead of tuna next blaming American TV

Revert back

Park up - instead of park

Pre-prepare. Just no.

To be honest. Why would anyone say this, aren’t they usually honest?

General consensus really bugs me!

Also close proximity!

Oneday "To be honest" annoys me too. I feel like saying "well what lie were you about to say?"

I REALLY hate 'pre order'. Seriously piases me off.

If you order something, it's because it's not available to you right here and now. Ie it's already in advance. I don't have to 'pre' order my tickets thankyou. I can just order them. And they'll arrive when they're ready!!

@DougalsBlueJumper would assume pan fry means not deep fried.

Price point is a general area of price rather than exact.

You train up for something, if without a goal (match, race) you just train.

Skill set is something applicable to a skills area - so my job skill set, whereas I also have skills in cooking, cleaning, yoga which aren't a part of my skill set but are skills I possess.

Fry off= begin or end with frying but not A dish cooked entirely through frying.

Am aware I'm being a dick but they all mean different things to me 😂

Revert back is just wrong.

Foreign in foreign import.

If it’s an import it’s going to be from overseas so no need to add the word foreign.

Free gift. A gift is something you get given without paying for it or exchanging anything so the word free is unnecessary.

@BlackPrism, fair point, but not sure I remember the last time I was offered deep fried salmon, rainbow trout or, indeed, deep fried steak.

Work colleague

“Lived experience” usually used by the woke bros living their best lives.

Carrier bag. What the fuck else is a bag for?

Just why? Instead of Why?

Outside 'of' really irritates me, as in 'outside of the town centre.'

'Off of' is even worse. 'I told him to get off of the sofa', etc.

Not to mention 'pretty unique', 'very unique', etc.
Something is either unique or it isn't.

Oh, and the endless superfluous 'So' at the beginning of a sentence.
So often followed by 'me and X...'.

For free

Just free is sufficient.

Just why? Instead of Why?

😂. Ha! I did that on purpose.