Buzzwords are ubiquitous. It’s hard to avoid them. We all use them, at some point or another. But sometimes they start out sounding clever or as a joke, and then all of a sudden people start using them for real and you wonder, “My god, what have I done?”

I’m always good for an annoying earworm, so I turned to my friends Gary J. Nix and Jillian Jackson for some brainstorming. As usual, they did not disappoint and before long we had a list of excellent Words That Should Be Buzzwords But Are Not.

That is, at least, until all of you start using them and we all want to punch a wall if we hear any of these one. more. time.

Authintensity

When you are so authentic that you scare people. You are authentic with the intensity of thousand suns. You are REAL. Not just real, but really real. So real, that the question, “How much more real could I be?” can only be answered with, “Authentensity. None more real.”

I mean, people, there is such a thing as oversharing.

Bediting

Content marketing — I mean, “writing” — from home. We’ve all had those mornings we’ve been extra-productive while laying in bed with our laptop, playing the entire Battlestar Galactica remake on Netflix, getting mildly annoyed whenever it stops to ask if we’re still really watching. Honestly, I mean, really, I’m in my PJs, eating Pop Tarts (do people eat Pop Tarts anymore? They come in “kale” flavor, right?) in bed, working from home. Why would I not want to continue watching Battlestar? Sheesh.

Listriction

Enough with the “Best of” listicles everywhere already, amirite? We all know that these lists were created with a series of Listrictions. A listriction is the act of leaving certain people off a “Best of” list because of a personal vendetta. Alternately, it can mean you’ve filled your list with people you want to suck up to at the next Netwerking(see below) event. Either way, this isn’t really a list of the best of anything.

Except the ones I’m on. I mean, those are gold.