New words for old things

[MerryMarigold]

I've just been looking at swimwear and spotted the 'monokini' on quite a few sites, which is .... wait for it....a swimsuit.

I mean... why? Is it supposed to sound more glamorous?

Any other new, irritating words to describe something which has had a perfectly good name for a long time?

Criticising something has become 'critiquing' it

Being part of something is now "being apart of" it which means you're not a part of it which is really confusing and weird.

It's a swimsuit.

It has a cutout design and you could call it a cutout swimsuit but really it's just a swimsuit

Wild camping just means not on a campsite with electric hook ups, shower blocks etc.

You wild camp a lot on Scotland as you can camp in more places.

I noticed when I visited America ten years ago that they use "swap out" to just mean "swap" and I think this is another adopted Americanism. (USA of course)

We've also adopted "gotten"

Well wild camping it is. If someone said they were going camping I'd think they were going to a campsite.

We have yet to wild camp in our VW and it will be a different experience to camping.

Maybe they've given "gotten" back.
It was in common usage in Britain when the first settlers took it to America. They kept it, we adapted it.

Vegans do eat a plant based diet but they ALSO have a philosophical way of life about how they treat animals. It's not restricted to what they eat. They can eat junk as long as it's plant only (animal concern come first in their lifestyle)

The non-junk diet is Whole Food Plant Based which restricts oils to those found in the food itself (nuts etc) and no processed food. They are not necessarily vegan (health comes first)

In the UK any food labelled plant based should be suitable for vegans to consume but some might reject it due to the factory not being vegan or the ethics of the company.

Vegans do eat a plant based diet

It's not plant based though, it IS plants! Plants aren't the base of the diet. It's an odd phrase.

Isn’t it just basically having a working brain? Usually when I see people talking about the ‘mental load’ they reference things like thinking about what’s for dinner and making dentist appointments. That’s just having thoughts, isn’t it?

People 'winning' things. No, you paid money and you bought it. It's not a competition, it's capitalism.

I think the point about carrying the mental load is that you have to do all the fucking thinking for everyone in your household.

You don’t though. I mean obviously parents do for your small children, but some examples I’ve seen on here are just people being total martyrs. Saying things like that they have to ‘carry the mental load’ by buying birthday gifts from their husband to their MIL. But you don’t have to do that. Obviously you can marry a useless lump of flesh and try to squeeze it into human clothes and make it a regular person, and call that ‘carrying the mental load’ but you don’t have to do it at all!

It’s always been “can’t be arsed” in my family/friend group/school days. In our accent “asked” has a flat A, arsed doesn’t. It goes with “I’m not arsed” = I’m not bothered.