Why so like that?

As the year ends, people start to compile lists. One website, the Texas-based Global Language Monitor, tracks new words that have entered the English language. Among its offerings this year are:

wikileaks (derived from the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks)... "information that is leaked into the public sphere from anonymous sources".

refudiate... this malapropism, from the mouth of Sarah Palin, is presumably a conflation of "refute" and "repudiate".

vuvuzela... that South African plastic horn with its ear-piercing sound that made its world debut at soccer's 2010 World Cup.

snowmageddon, snowpocalypse... no need to explain these. Just see the pictures of airports in the newspapers.

twenty-eleven... apparently, this is the preferred way to say 2011, not "two thousand eleven". Abuthen.

But, okay, now that we know these words came into vogue, so what? I'd much rather compile a list of words that we actually use daily, like "abuthen" above (for the Singlish phrase "ah, but then" or "it's so obvious, man!".

Some other Singlish terms I find useful are "chope", "can/can?", "cannot/why cannot?", "got or not?/got/don't have" "how?", "why so like that?" and "die, die, must...".

There is one (non-Singlish) expression I used to dislike: "It's complicated." But now I think it has its uses. Why? It's complicated.

Another meaningful compilation is "the most irritating words or phrases", because people who become aware that these words do irritate others, should stop their sloppy habit! Among the many such meaningless manglings are:

at the end of the day
going/moving forward
at this moment in time
with all due respect
to tell you the truth
absolutely
whatever (said dismissively, usually with accompanying body language like roll of the eyes, hand gesture, etc)
like
you know (the double whammy would be "like, you know...")
actually
basically
literally
ironically

and the one that takes the cake:
needless to say!