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?

I’d say the increased usage of the words is a result of following trends.

Could it be that the roofer was about to fall off his ladder, but your neighbour 'reached out' of the window and pulled them back?

Or the plumper was at risk of being swept away down an inspection chamber when your neighbour 'reached out' and saved them?

Or... well, you get the idea. 😁

I occasionally use the word empathy in context but don't the others. I do know someone who uses brutal freely

I agree, and one hears literally millions of examples of this every day. 😡

Oh, I'll put the mop away then. 😐

I can’t stand “I’m an empath”

my friend will describe herself as an empath and says it makes her vulnerable. she’s only an empath to men, never to her daughter, her family or her friends.

Yes I hate 'deep dive'. It's an 'official' term at work for one of the tasks we do a lot and I hate having to hear it repeated over and over again.

When I was at uni everyone seemed to use the word 'mortified' far too often. Always said in a hugely overly-exaggerated way too. Still can't bear to hear it now, many years later!

I think a lot of people use literally and obviously as 'filler' words because they have a limited vocabulary rather than it being a trend. I'm not being critical here, I fully understand that we haven't all had the same opportunities and education - I am quite limited in vocabulary myself.

Dupe, no it's just a cheap version of something well made!

I liked random. But I've noticed that the yoof of today is using "chaotic" in exactly the same way that we used to use random circa 2003.

The one that annoys me is "obsessed" used to mean "I really like that".

In context, obsessed has a meaning. An obsessive fan, an obsession with a subject, a drive to spend every waking moment with the thing for instance.

But people use it on e.g. a dress they have literally just seen for the first time "I'm obsessed with your dress!"

No, you're not. You like the dress, fine. But you're not obsessed with it. You might be obsessed with, for example, 1950s style. Then you could say "I'm obsessed with dresses like that!" but it is not correct in any sense to say "I'm obsessed with your dress [that I've never seen before]"

I think they think it means besotted??

Inspiration or inspirational. Anyone who does anything that social media pick up on is suddenly an inspiration. Half the time they haven't even done much.

I agree but it's more phrases for me eg 'reach out' 'deep dive' 'catch up' (as in I'm having a catch up with friends. Not sure why that annoys me so much but it does. Ooh and curated. In fact there are so many I need a lie down now!

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REACH OUT AGH

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ACTUALLY used in every sentence.
Eg,
Because, actually,.........

Urgh the NHS is one of the worst for trying to be 'cool' with language.
When I first started I got berated for using the word sympathy...we all had to be empathetic listeners which then fell out of vogue and we all had to become 'active' listeners.
Help was also a bad, bad word so instead of 'helping' a patient (how very dare we) we had to 'encourage' or 'maximise potential' or 'enable' but never, ever help!
Likewise absolutely not allowed to show any kind of love for our patients but show 'unconditional positive regard' so, so much bullocks spouted from 'the top down to grass roots'
Then came 'sweating your assets' and more latterly we have 'reaching out'
Argh just fuck off with all this pseudo shite.
I do actually love my patients, it's what makes me good at my job, and because I love them I don't need to 'reach out' Or be an 'active listener'. I will bloody well help them if, you know, it actually helps them, but I'm a crusty old git now and just ignore the 'sound bites' it's all about 'pragmatism' after all.

I’ve never heard that one - overwhelm obviously is a word (as in “that may overwhelm him”) but feelings of overwhelm is very weird usage.

I can't stand the dramatic use of "traumatised" when people mean "a bit upset". There is a woman on my class WhatsApp group who claimed that her DD was "traumatised" by the Y6 puberty lesson. I was so pleased when another mum whose children had witnessed their father collapse and die in the living room called her out on what trauma really is.....

I heard this for the first time the other day and it confused me. I had to go back and think about the context before it clicked.

To me, a dupe is a gullible person.

Being obsessed with. Can no one be fond of anything anymore?

Optics. Especially when applied to politics.

Those words aren't so bad, at least they're not awful metaphors (blue sky thinking) or usually incorrectly applied (vintage).

Not words, but phrases... the one I keep seeing at the moment is "light touch". It really irritates me.

Oh actually, blessed. Fucking blessed 😡