The document discusses various buzzwords and filler words that are commonly used in modern English. It provides examples of words like "awesome", "epic", "huge", and filler words like "you know", "like", and "I mean" that are used frequently in everyday speech and marketing. It also discusses the changing meanings and popularity of certain words over time, such as "uber" being used to mean "superior" rather than just "above" or "over".

1. BUZZWORDS
Do you embrace everything awesome, edgy
and huge?
Buzzword is a a word or phrase, often an item
of jargon, that is fashionable at a particular
time or in a particular context: the latest
buzzword in international travel is
„ecotourism‟

2. BUZZWORDS IN ADS
1. What are the buzzwords mentioned in the
video?
2. What’s the fashion history of the words?
3. What are the ads buzzwords nowadays?
4. What word was popular in 90-s?
5. What word was popular in 80-s?

3. FILLER WORDS
Thing You know
Content word Senator Clinton – keeps
Function word using “you know”, whether
She doesn‟t care how hopefully or desperately,
she looks; she‟s not into as a plea: “Please see it
the fashion thing my way – because we
share the same
worldview”

4. FILLER WORDS
Like I mean
1. I was like exhausted, like Top 100 words
really, really tired
2. He was, like 50 years old
It‟s now, like 2.30
Bob: These guys are just
She‟s like, I‟m leaving for
terrible at basketball!
Washington tomorrow Arthur: I mean, they look
like they've never
played before!

5. FILLER WORDS
 And I was like, you know what I mean – that
divorce thing

6. ANNOYING WORDS
 What are top 5 annoying words mentioned in
the video?

7. ABBREVES - CALL YOUR FIVE FAVES FOR FREE
Decaf
Sched
Fave
Fab
Zine
Hood
Meds
Glam
Comfy

8. UBER
This website is über-informative
My new sneakers are uber-cool
Many parents believe in giving their children
every opportunity to better themselves, to
excel, to become uberkids.
The movie stars the uber-cool Jean Reno.
a world of uber-consumption

9. HUGE
 ‘You know, cooking is not one of my huge
things‟ (M.Obama)
 Ned: Oh gosh, look at that sunset.
Betsy: Woah, its huge!
 Paris Hilton‟s word

10. GINORMOUS
Gigantic+
enormous
A word used when
"gigantic" or "huge"
or even "enormous"
just isn't big
enough.

11. MY BAD
Oh, so sorry. It's my bad. It's so my bad.

12. YUMMY
That’s a yummy
chocolate cake 
You can buy yummy
sweaters in that store
for only $25
The little hotel is a
yummy and
convenient place to
stay.

13. EDGY
We’ve reached an all-time high of usage
with it (even more now). Everything is
edgy, everyone is edgy. It’s so
pretentious!
Harper‟s Bazaar

14. AWESOME
“How was the movie?” – “Cool, exciting, hip –
the movie was awesome”
“She‟s awesome at cocktail parties, she‟s
great at public speaking”
“What an awesome night for you!”
(Bush to Obama)

15. ICONIC
He is a pop icon
designed for the
movies and video
generation
Well, it's one of his
most iconic works

16. EPIC
 There are too many "epic" examples to
count, just go walk onto a college campus
and listen closely.
 Epic fail - similar to fail, but at an even
larger, more pitiful scale. Sometimes so
pathetic, some will either sympathize that
person or will not say anything, due to the fail
being so large that words cannot describe it.

17. EPIC

18. MIND-BLOWING
Spending a week in the
jungle was a mind-
blowing experience
I just heard some
pretty mind-
blowing news
mind-blowing, life-
changing news

19. PSYCHO- TALK
“We must now all embrace our inner garbage”
He embraced his wife and kissed his
children These kids want to embrace what
they learn and integrate it into their own
lives It‟s all about embracing our
differences and imperfections and seeing
them as beautiful and acceptable

20. PSYCHO-TALK
Celebrate your inner child !
Jane was about to buy a Chanel handbag for
$ 3,000, but her inner censor stopped her
right before she reached the cashier
I found my inner athlete – and lost 30 pounds

21. DYSFUNCTIONAL
Dysfunctional couples/parents
The dishwasher is now dysfunctional – it
won‟t dry the dishes properly.
He won the race for governor promising to fix a
dysfunctional state government.
The play is about a dysfunctional family – the
father is an alcoholic, the mother is a drug
addict, the daughter ran away and the son
tried to kill his father.

22. I CAN’T RELATE TO
I can’t relate to X= I don’t understand X
I can‟t relate to his desire to move to Boston
I can‟t relate to his new girlfriend at all, she‟s
such a bore
The kids need a teacher who can relate to
them.
You're looking for a job? I can relate to that!

23. BADLY
There's nothing that I can't have if I want
it badly enough
You don't know how badly I need to believe
that

24. DO THE MATH
To figure something out. To come to a solution
or conclusion based on other facts.
We will be without fuel in two hours'
time, you do the math.

25. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX
think in a creative, non-
traditional way
Claire is always coming
up with original ideas
and thinking outside
the box. She thought
up a staggered
schedule which lets all
of us take off two days
a week every day.

26. MULTITASKING
The secretary is good
at multitasking. She
can answer the phone
while she‟s working on
the e-mail and putting
new entries into her
boss‟s calendar.
There is an epidemic of
multitasking on the
road. Driving and
talking are automatic.

27. QUALITY TIME
Even if you only spend
fifteen minutes a day
with your child after
work, that has to be
quality time

28. CELEBRATE
The USA really does allow you to celebrate
who you are
Celebrate soy: work in two servings of soy
into your diet a day.
Celebrate Canada: It‟s a wonderful country

29. CELEBRATE DIVERSITY

30. WALK THE WALK
We see that President
Obama can talk the
talk. What we all need
is that he walks the
walk.
You can‟t count on love
just happening. You
need to walk the talk.

31. AT THE END OF THE DAY
He's smart, and he needs the work
and at the end of the day, he is a good guy.

32. DISCUSSING THE WORDS

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41. REFERENCES
 «Слова-хамелеоны и метаморфозы в
современном английском
языке» Линн Виссон, «Р.Валент», 2010 г
 Urbandictionary.com
 corpus.bye.edu – American soap operas