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?

Yes! Many, many an exchange on these lines:

Child: Can I eat this cake?
Parent/grandparent/other adult relative: Yes, I'm sure you could eat it. I've seen you eat cake just like that before.
Child: [Baffled pause - light dawns. Slight eyeroll, rueful grin.] All right, may I eat this cake?

Fuzzy and I are clearly two 🦕 of the same stamp. People will point and stare at us in our Care Home in decades to come.

Touch base

I just can't.

There was no rueful grin, there was more ffs grandma you know what I bloody meant. And can I get is perfectly valid, I would probably say could I have. People who can't understand that language evolves are the bane of all our lives and its really frustrating when its quite clear what you meant but someone is being pedantic

Please god has 'in terms of' gone out of fashion yet?

A bit off topic but I'm seeing 'working progress' instead of 'work in progress' quite often.

If I'd sworn at any of my relatives, I probably wouldn't have lived to tell the tale. I know what you mean, though.

** 'I love using literally incorrectly on purpose for comic value:
She literally explodes'*
It is actually correct to say that:

'The adverb literally means "actually," and we use it when we want others to know we're serious, not exaggerating or being metaphorical.'

She must have left a right old mess. Who cleaned up after she exploded?

I'll join you in being a dinosaur. My teachers and my dad would correct me if I ever said "can I..." instead of "may I..."

The words I find annoying are narc/narcissist, emetophobe (it seems like everyone now has this diagnosis), and anxiety. No one gets nervous, everything "sends my anxiety through the roof". Genuine anxiety is horrible and debilitating, it isn't the same as being a bit nervous. Oh and triggering. Everyone is fucking triggered, if your anxiety is so triggered by words on a screen, get some serious help.

I can no longer use the word 'visceral' as even though I know the correct pronunciation, I can't stop saying visk-eral!

As someone who calls their mother mom not mum (like millions of other people in the West Midlands) I am constantly amazed by how angry some people get at what they perceive to be an Americanism from a British person. They are genuinely annoyed and rude about it.

I won't bore you with the fact that mom is closer to old English than mum and how we exported it to America!

I'm tired of 'beyond' as in:

'I'm beyond excited' 'I'm beyond annoyed'

Also 'excited for' as in "I'm excited for Christmas' (meaning excited about Christmas).

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

I also think the term snowflake is a horrible descriptor for a person, but I thought the Nazi connection had actually been refuted as a myth?

😆 this made me laugh - thanks for the cheery start to the day!

Terms used at work irritate me the most:
deep dive
going forward
reach out
horizon scanning
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and 'my bad' I hate so much!

Gotten
(and a sentence) "have a nice rest of your day".

Well said, PAFMO. The horror reflex at any perceivedly or actually American expression seems to go hand in hand with a perception of regional variations from standard Southern British English, particularly Hiberno-English, as being uneducated, non-standard or not 'well-spoken'. The conniptions over the incredibly useful 'yous' always amuse me.

I don't react viscerally (see what I did there) to trendy words as some seem to do, because they're just reflections of where our society is at - if there's anything to worry about, I'll worry about those things themselves rather than the words that reflect them.

One thing I have noticed, and I find quite interesting, is the expansion of 'decline' to cover both its original meaning and 'refuse'.

'Star' used by MSM

Toxic. A relationship can't just be bad, it has to be toxic.

Like others here, I hate ‘I have anxiety’ for ‘I feel anxious’.
Also ‘I don’t feel safe’ for ‘someone has expressed an opinion I disagree with.’
Deep dive, agile, nimble, double down are all corporate expressions I loathe.
And then ‘iteration’ for ‘version’; ‘iconic’ for ‘well-known’; ‘good’ as an adverb instead of ‘well’.
‘Disrespect’ as a verb.
I think I need to get out more.

Incel for a man.

It seems to be the go-to word if a man disagrees with something a woman has said.

Bearded that, just the overuse of acronyms in business!

Overused fashionable words describing current most trendy and talked about social issues/phenomena/
-the winner of the year 2022 is: Privilige
-2021 - everyone and their dog was having ‘Mental Health Issues’
-2020 was of course Unprecedented
-2019 was all about Empowering
-2018 was indeed very Blessed

All variations of trauma, when used in an exaggerated fashion (obviously absolutely fine to use in genuine medical use cases!)

Thank you! As someone who lives with actual medically diagnosed PTSD it really irritates me that so many people use the words trauma/traumatised when what they actually mean is something upsetting happened or they felt upset. It is not the same thing at all. It's like using "depressed" interchangeably with "fed up".

Gifted is really grating on my nerves at the moment. Nothing is ever just 'given' any more.

Also 'medalled' instead of 'won a medal'. I always hear it as 'meddled' which has very different conotations, but any noun turned into a verb is irritating.

Issues . People have issues . When be people stop having problems , difficulties?

Another thing I've noticed is people using 'they' instead of 'he' or 'she' when it's clearly not about how the person they're talking about identifies. I've seen it used about very young children on here. I don't think it's for privacy reasons either - being female or male isn't exactly a very identifying characteristic.