To be sick to the back teeth of fashionable words...

[Funkyblues101]

"Empathy", "iconic", "brutal" and now "visceral". The hottest words for the bandwagon jumpers.
The use of trendy words put me off a person. Anyone else or is it just me?

And young people can't describe anything bad without the use of 'toxic'.

“I’m an empath”
Yes, this one annoys me. People who say this never consider they're a normal, boring person who can identify if a crying person is upset.

Empathy is a typical word I'd expect by 7 to be able to use, along with brutal.
Iconic is probably overused because its probably used incorrectly (most of these "iconic" looks etc never will be"

Visceral isn't one I hear but as long as they're pronouncing it correct who cares if people want to extend their vocab

Curating is one to set my teeth on edge.

Everyone curates everything these days. No, you don't. Unless you're in the business of arranging museum exhibits, you collect stuff.

The word narcissist has lost impetus. Every second person claims to know one, and still more seem to think they're competent to diagnose one. No one would imagine it's actually a very rare condition.

'Brutal' seems fairly run-of-the-mill to me. 'Visceral' slightly less so, although I see where you're coming from with 'empathy' and 'iconic'.

Your comfort should be that buzz words quickly die a death and a few years after they peak, look really silly. For eg., the word 'trendy' now really isn't.

Random, particularly when used as an nown (which it isn’t). Though it’s a while now since that became popular.

Curating and gifting
Gnarly, as used repeatedly by Jamie Oliver

Oh God, yes, I forgot ‘curated’. Especially when referring to ears (?!!)

Aren't most of these just normal words?

I suppose iconic but mostly that's just said in a more comical way these days. No one says Empath seriously anymore

Language evolves, I find it bizarre when people can't accept that

The use of the word "challenges" instead of describing things as being "difficulties" or "problems."

Can you use them in context of how a trendy person would use them compared to just a normal sentence?

A nown?

Awesome, mainly used by young men especially when I was still working with rather a lot of them.

Awesome would describe seeing the sunrise at the top of a mountain not meeting three mates down the pub that night for pizza and a pint.

In general I don't mind new fads in language coming along, but one I dislike is "sourced" as in "I have sourced some beetroot". You mean you went to the shops and bought some?!

Empower. I don’t know whether it’s fashionable, but I always seem to be hearing how something empowers people and it grates on me now!

'smashed it' meaning to achieve something, godawful!

I don't think any of the words you list are trendy, they have always been around and frequently used.

I hate hearing people referred to as 'cancelled'

I mean, some of your examples are a bit odd.

'Visceral' is quite a specific word - I'm not sure it's bandwagon-jumping to use that in the correct context. Ditto empathy - if you're talking about people using 'empath', I'd 100% agree!

'Iconic' is quite trendy used in a semi-ironic way at the moment, if that annoys you then... fair enough. 'Brutal' probably is having a little moment (outside of being a perfectly normal descriptive word) because of Olivia Rodrigo.

But generally it sounds as thought you're just... annoyed at people using words. Which seems tiring!

The one that’s irritating me currently is “overwhelm”……really?!

surely you either feel overwhelmed or your feelings are overwhelming but you don’t have feelings of overwhelm grrrrrrr

I know, it literally makes my head explode 😁

The one that's annoying me on here at the moment is 'mortified'. I'm fed up of seeing it used when there's no way the person would actually be mortified. I assume these people don't know what it means but it sounds good in a sentence so they just use it anyway.

I hate this too. It's so overused.

Oh I have loads. Mostly seen on MN.

Narcissistic, abuse and gaslighting. No love he’s just a wanker.

Sourcing.

Gifting.

Woke.

Hundred per cent, meaning in agreement to something. I want to respond “yeah, 67%!!”

“Empathy", "iconic", "brutal" and now "visceral".”

The words have existed for a considerable time but there has been a tendency to use, for example, “iconic” too frequently to describe pretty ordinary things hence the word is not being used in its original sense. It has beeen devalued. Grim and brutal are also used too often to describe the ordinary, as if the exaggeration is amusing in some way. It’s demonstrated well in the daft expression of yore “most excellent, dude”.

my only pet peeve is 'can i get' rather than 'can i have' often heard in cafes and fast food joints, thanks USA