To hate the term nuanced?

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

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)

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'.

I really overuse the word nuance

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Hmm, it depends on the contextual details

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.

Let me check and revert to you tomorrow.

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

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'.

@MuseumofInnocence Hear, hear!

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