People seem to be forgetting how to just talk using normal phrases!

[PuffinIsle]

'I'm not gatekeeping anymore'
'These earrings/whatever are literally life changing'
'I can't with ...'
'I'm in my * era'

I'm so sick of hearing and reading shit like this. 🤣 Any others?

"I was today years old when I..."
"I did a thing"
"it's giving..."
Using the pronoun "she" to describe an inanimate object (that's not a ship)

It's giving spending too much time on social media

It's just fashion, isn't it. We don't say jolly hockey sticks or spiffing any more, language has moved on. People hear a new turn of phrase and think it sounds a bit different, then suddenly everyone is using it and it's cringe. But it's exactly the same as any other fashion, just linguistic rather than clothing or styling.

I mostly enjoy it, I love words and language. Not to say things don’t make me cringe. I’ve been hearing “spenny” instead of expensive lately and I hate that one.

Bare feels, but it is what it is.

I’m literally obsessed

It’s giving low key cringe vibes.

language changes and evolves. It has since thd dawn of time. I don’t talk like my teens, I’d sound like an idiot if I did. But one day, they’ll be struggling to understand what their own kids are on about!

Each generation has their own vernacular, and the previous generation always hate it. It’s always the way.

Oh the 'she' thing to describe a dress, a bag, a blusher etc. Awful.

I work with teenagers.

Fie upon it! Mark you how language hath ever changed? By my troth, if it did not, we should all be speaking on this wise, like a company of mechanicals! Yet, soft! The world must onwards spin, though a pack of scurvy knaves cry out against it. For ever and a day, words shall shift and turn, as sure as the course of true love never did run smooth.

Does anyone actually say these out loud? Seen loads of it on social media but not so much in real life!

Oh yes, I work with teenagers so I know.

Me too, I frequently have to ask them what they're on about. 🤣

Narcissist, glass/golden child, gaslighting, spotlighting, ghosting, ask (for request) invite (for invitation), lived experience, newborn bubble, taking my power (unless you're actually Supergirl).

I also teach teenagers and they do not talk to me like this. Maybe they know I'm too old and I'd need an interpreter

If I hear "wild" one more time..

Or "love that for you".... 😤😤😤

Has anyone else had ‘kinda chic’?

I use them back at the teens I work with straight faced, and sometimes a bit wrong, then, if corrected say "no judgement in the mandem bro".

The cringe is a good deterrent 😂😂

I agree with the OP. Business phrases even worse as well. A deep dive should be consigned to a swimming pool or the sea, for example.

Holding space…. On read…..gaslighting….😬

How about a red lip, a wide legged jean or a white trainer? Especially when I'm out with 'this one'.

Apparently called « the fashion singular « !

Lowkey is winding me up at the moment