“Curated”

[Goingdooolally]

Just no. STOP!!!!

YANBU.

It's so wanky (unless used in its traditional sense)

@iklboo

'Sourced' - you went to the fucking shop / bought online. You did not lead a trek through the jungle.

Hahaha, so true. I sourced my hand-picked lunch ingredients from my local independent organic farm shop chain supermarket, then curated the contents of my fridge to create an artisan protein plate.

@TheOrigRights Yeah but have you curated your ear?

@AuntieJoyce

Curated is for museum exhibitions only

Yes.

Though when I first used it in the sense of "selected" I have to confess I jumped on the bandwagon and used it in relation to choosing items to feature on a Twitter feed.

Forgive me

Along with "gifted" and "impacted" - and "insightful", it's a nonsense word.

We select or choose things, we give presents, we affect things and presentations provide insight.

'Sourced' - you went to the fucking shop / bought online. You did not lead a trek through the jungle

Ha ha, loved tectonic's reply to this too!

I'd also like to take issue with "project managed" when used in lifestyle/property magazines to describe people who've done up their houses. So basically you phoned a few builders, then chose some decorations and furniture that you'd like to have in your house, and bought them. That doesn't make you a Project Manager.

It's on a par with 'sourced'. No, you bought something from a shop. You did not source it.

I fucking hate ‘artisan’. Even when it’s used correctly. For some reason it really sets my teeth on edge.

Posh word for put together/assembled to cover up for the fact it's all they could manage!

Museums are the only legitimate use. Oh and yes artisan is another pet hate of mine too - used to describe mass produced crap in posher (usually black, silver and gold) packaging at a higher price point, it may taste worse but someone person on minimum wage sprinkled seeds on it just before it went in the oven you know!

If you ever listen to these people on the phone the conversation basically says nothing about anything "So, Geoff, I'll send that over. I've sourced the statement piece and I'll email it to Frank, asap." Throw in some some blue sky thinking and thrashing things out on the next pointless zoom and I could totally do that job, while enjoying my artisan toast

while enjoying my artisan toast

Topped with smashed avocado, presumably?

Can I add:

Haul

Call out

Gifted

‘This one’ (on SM posts about a friend etc)

Pictures on SM with captions starting with ‘When’ and then an incomplete sentence.

YANBU - I had no idea this was a thing now, but now I do know I don’t like it! It sounds so pretentious when talking about a few earrings or whatever.

@tectonicplates don’t you mean smashed avo?

It's the new "edit".

The Autumn Edit = you chose some things that seemed a bit autumnal

See I don’t have a problem with it.

If someone has used their skills and put time, thought and effort into a collection and the presentation of that collection.

What other word would you use?

[quote Anoisagusaris]@tectonicplates don’t you mean smashed avo?[/quote]
Ah yes of course. I'm clearly not pretentious enough for this stuff

@TheOrigRights

You crack on. Curate your scientific data to your heart’s content

@MadisonAvenue

YA most definitely NBU!

It’s on the list with “artisan” and “ reaching out”.

all of these have my teeth on edge !!

and the people that use them think they are terribly clever. Just off to curate my Instagram page and reach out to my followers....

@CatsAndEyeliner organised, compiled, selected.

Oooh I'm do glad someone raised this, it's been annoying me each time I see it.

It's right up there with previously fashionable overused "adjectives" for announcements and promo's, such as:

Signature
Pamper
Boutique
Bespoke

In one of the meetings I minute, "surfacing" is used a lot. It sounds wanky to me but as I've no idea how to translate it I have to let it stand.

They're not talking about whales or anything, I think it kind of means "finding"

Can I add Circa?

@iklboo

'Sourced' - you went to the fucking shop / bought online. You did not lead a trek through the jungle.