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To hate the term nuanced?

20 replies

Starryskiesinthesky · 07/04/2019 09:20

At the moment everything seems to be nuanced and have a narrative to go along with it! I am fed up hearing it! AIBU?

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hazell42 · 07/04/2019 09:25

Thinking outside the box, in the blue sky, I'd have to say, no you're not.

Its a bullshit way of saying 'complicated problem'.

Corporate speak always makes me think that the speaker has no real clue what he is saying (once had a line manager who did this. Totally crap at his job. Always sucking up to senior managers. The dick)

SaskiaRembrandt · 07/04/2019 09:28

It doesn't mean 'complicated problem' and if anyone is using it that way they are wrong.

It means 'subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound'.

ifeellikeanidiot · 07/04/2019 09:30

I really overuse the word nuance Confused

julensaor · 07/04/2019 09:32

I feel the same with the term reaching out to someone.

Camomila · 07/04/2019 09:34

I really like both the word nuance and narrative but I usually use them in sociology essays rather than in real-non uni- life.

Oh and when talking about Brexit!

whifflesqueak · 07/04/2019 09:34

“Nuanced” isn’t corporate speak. It’s just a normal word.

Starryskiesinthesky · 07/04/2019 09:52

I think it has become corporate speak and also is used to mean complicated!

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BluishMoon · 07/04/2019 10:00

Rhetoric and narrative are my current most disliked words due to overuse

BertrandRussell · 07/04/2019 10:03

Nuance isn’t corporate speak. It’s just something we as a society have forgotten about.

TheFallenMadonna · 07/04/2019 10:04

Nuance and reaching out do not belong on the same thread.

MuseumofInnocence · 07/04/2019 10:09

I’m on the side of those who think nuance is a perfectly normal word (assuming it is used properly). I think the world benefit from a lot more appreciation of nuance

StrawberrySquash · 07/04/2019 10:12

It's a normal word being used in corporate bollocksy ways.
I used to work with people who constantly talked about finessing thing. Translation: it's shit. Need to fix it.

Slowknitter · 07/04/2019 10:14

Just because something is a proper word, that doesn't stop corporate types twisting its meaning and adopting it for their own management-speak.

Skyzalimit · 07/04/2019 10:18

Hmm, it depends on the contextual details

Skyzalimit · 07/04/2019 10:20

Seriously though, it's a mistake to reject nuance. That leads to stereotyping and it's also what landed us with Brexit. Ie, we were invited to vote on an entirely unclear proposition.

malmi · 07/04/2019 10:26

Let me check and revert to you tomorrow.

wafflyversatile · 07/04/2019 10:29

Depends. I mostly see it in response to people putting forward overly simplistic arguments so it's perfectly valid.

Slowknitter · 07/04/2019 10:29

Being irritated by the overuse or misuse of the word has nothing to do with rejecting the actual concept though. I am often irritated by the misuse of the word 'literally'. That has no effect on how I view 'literalness'.

CalamityJune · 07/04/2019 10:30

@MuseumofInnocence Hear, hear!

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 07/04/2019 10:32

I like the term nuance, I find myself writing it a lot in my ministerial submissions. It's definitely a word that can be applied to the academies programme. I also use complex, which sounds a bit simplistic add a descriptor but covers a multitude of sins Wink

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