Most overused/meaningless words/phrases in contemporary language

[Wanderer]

Yesterday we did the Akropolis, tomorrow we're going to do the Delphi. For tonight, some soaking up the Plaka atmosphere. What a delightful country this Greece is! 

Tourists (mainly of the cruise ship variety) have been known to get into taxis at the foot of the Acropolis and ask to be taken to the Colosseum next. 🤷🥳

[71 dB]

'No worries' (used instead of yes)

Actually I have loads of worries 

- Do you have worries?
- No worries.

[foxandpeng]

- Do you have worries?
- No worries.

haha. I do this all the time. Duly noted

[71 dB]

Almost always used by people who insist on being fed a constant stream of fantasies rather than anything resembling news.

Fake news = Any news that tells negative things about "me" or/and positive things about people "I" don't like. The existence of "fake news" means you can only trust "me", because I am the one pointing at fake news.

In the US almost all news are about manufacturing consent in order to maintain the status quo. The news can choose to prop up Biden or Trump for the next President, but whatever they choose they can't prop up someone like Marianne Williamson, because her presidency would seriously challenge the status quo. If it is a fantasy, it is the fantasy of the greatness of crony capitalism.

[Florestan]

Tourists (mainly of the cruise ship variety) have been known to get into taxis at the foot of the Acropolis and ask to be taken to the Colosseum next. 🤷🥳

Had I been the driver, I'd have told them "Sorry, for that you need a plane, not a taxi, unless you are willing to pay the cost of me driving you all the way to Rome!" 

[71 dB]

Gaslighting has lost its original meaning by people not only using it too much but also in inappropriate context because they don't understand what the phrase means.

No wonder as a person whose native language is not English I have always found this term and how it is used funky. I have sensed people don't always use it correctly. Often people seem to use the term as a synonym to "muddying the waters" or "creating controversy where there shouldn't be any."

That said, I think for example MAGA people have been gaslighted so badly that they have lost touch with reality and can therefore be considered insane to some degree.

[BWV 1080]

Somewhat related, this annoys me. Is this something only English speakers do?

[ChamberNut]

Somewhat related, this annoys me. Is this something only English speakers do?

100%!

[krummholz]

Might have already been mentioned, but my pick is "exponentially", which doesn't mean what most speakers who misuse it think it does.

[DavidW]

Might have already been mentioned, but my pick is "exponentially", which doesn't mean what most speakers who misuse it think it does.

Yes I hate that!  My students will say that about any plot that possesses concavity.  And then finally when we do RC circuits they'll describe it as quadratic even as they make a semi-log plot.

[Jo498]

Somewhat related, this annoys me. Is this something only English speakers do?

No. Most people probably oscillate between mangling foreign words by their native accents or by overenunciation. It's not easy to avoid unless one has lots of practice in the foreign language/s and I am sure I have been guilty of both kinds of error myself, although probably more often of sloppiness/German accent than of overdoing.
I'd guess a main reason that English speakers do it more often, is that they are usually badly trained in foreign languages, so the oscillation amplitude is higher... (I don't think they are more pretentious than others).

[ChamberNut]

A recent one I saw, although perhaps it belongs more appropriately in @Cato Grammar Grumble thread is:

Way-ment

A short version of "Wait a minute"

[Wanderer]

Somewhat related, this annoys me. Is this something only English speakers do?

It is indeed annoying (...and more annoying still, to be using anglicised vowels in Italian or Greek - e.g. "ei" for "a"). It's usually combined with another phenomenon, the apparent inability to not accent/stress every...single...syllable.

And since I mentioned the word "phenomenon", I often see the indiscriminate use of its plural form "phenomena" for both the singular and the plural number. Unwarranted, to say the least. 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Seems I have another one to add to the list that I am hearing a lot lately on social media:

"Rage farming"

Haven't heard that expression before!

PD

[Wanderer]

Neither have I.

[Florestan]

It is indeed annoying (...and more annoying still, to be using anglicised vowels in Italian or Greek - e.g. "ei" for "a").

Peirergei and peireilaipomenei... 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

'No worries' (used instead of yes)

Actually I have loads of worries 

Oh, I hate that expression!

Another one of mine:  "No prob" or "No problem" as a response from someone when someone says "Thank you" rather than replying something like "You're welcome" or "My pleasure to be of assistance".

PD

p.s.  Particularly when this person is being paid by a company to which you are paying for their services/products!

[Florestan]

Neither have I.

Nor I.

[ChamberNut]

Oh, I hate that expression!

Another one of mine:  "No prob" or "No problem" as a response from someone when someone says "Thank you" rather than replying something like "You're welcome" or "My pleasure to be of assistance".

PD

p.s.  Particularly when this person is being paid by a company to which you are paying for their services/products!

I am guilty of using "no worries" or "no problem" instead of "you're welcome". 🙈

[Florestan]

I am guilty of using "no worries" or "no problem" instead of "you're welcome". 🙈

Don't mention it (pun).