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  1. 03-13-2010, 11:01 AM #1
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    Default When Did The Term "Favorite"...

    ...come to mean "I love this for all of five minutes?" I'm listening to an interview with a celebrity (wow, I guess I'm on a real celebrity kick right now -- weird!) and the interviewer has said, about six times, "This is my favorite (fill in the blank) right now!"

    I was always under the impression that "favorite" actually meant "most loved of all, ever."
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    I hear what you are saying, and my guess is that celebrity favorites change based on who is currently sponsoring them...

    ...HOWEVER...

    According to your definition, you could never really pick a favorite anything until the last minute of your life. Things are changing so quickly in todays life...there is always something new.

    My favorite movie maybe be X right now, but next month, when a new one comes out that I like better, then my favorite may change. We've been trying different foods at our house that we haven't eaten before. Favorites are changing every day as my cooking improves.

    I think "favorite" is a term that can be in flux, based on the changing times.
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    I've always been really reluctant to call things my favorite or even tell people my favorites because it always seems to fickle to me when people flip-flop on favorites.
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    Or maybe they are like I am in interviews. I have a "favorite" word or phrase that I overuse during the entire interview. Usually I revert to valley girl talk when I'm nervous, so I end up saying words like totally, like, wow, amazing, cool, dude, right, absolutely, ya know, omg, etc. etc. over and over and over. Afterward when I listen to it, I'm mortified. And this gets worse depending on who I'm talking to and how nervous I am. LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sara Noel View Post
    Or maybe they are like I am in interviews. I have a "favorite" word or phrase that I overuse during the entire interview. Usually I revert to valley girl talk when I'm nervous, so I end up saying words like totally, like, wow, amazing, cool, dude, right, absolutely, ya know, omg, etc. etc. over and over and over. Afterward when I listen to it, I'm mortified. And this gets worse depending on who I'm talking to and how nervous I am. LOL

    That reminds me of when Rachael Ray was still just local talent. She said the Today show called her out of the blue, needing a last minute replacement for a guest. She did a spot with Al Roker, and said the word "groovy" over and over again. Al even commented on how much she must like that word.


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    Celebrities all seem pretty "flaky" to me... I'm not surprised at the misuse of the word.
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    Was "favorite" the replacement word for "actually", which was another over-used word, along with "like". We all get caught up in words/phrases from time-to-time, and they become bad habits.

    Maybe the book The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them is in order.

    For more commonly overused cliches, words and phrases, check this link out:

    Commonly Overused Words and Phrases
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