In 2014, I wrote a piece for The SMH arguing for the retirement of annoying words and phrases like “sweet”, “just sayin”, “#firstworldproblems”, “and typos sent from my iPhone”. Looking back, I shouldn’t have worried. The lexicon we’re dealing with now is way more sinister in terms of smugness and pretension. So here is my highly subjective list of words and phrases I’d love binned in 2022. 1: I CAN’T EVEN: If you “can’t even” be bothered finishing the sentence, why am I listening?