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?

Reached out, curated, super, blessed, gifted, medalled
The more I read here, the more I think yes, that too.

"Narrative". People say it when they just mean "story" but want to sound clever.

"Utterly". Utterly overused on here, along with vile and naice.

Oh god yes, "gifted"! So annoying! That is not what gifted means. It's going the way of "revert".

Trigger - unless you have serious mental health conditions like PTSD, anxiety disorder etc then you aren't triggered, you are offended or upset.

Anxiety - anxiety disorder is debilitating to people who actually have it. Stop minimising it.

Keep the momentum going on this - stupid work place phrase used over and over again.

Agency

People having their own agency. I know it's a word of course, but has it only just started being used? I feel like I heard it for the first time about 2 years ago and now it's everywhere and used all the time!!

Thank you thank you @PAFMO ! And it’s not just about ‘can’ versus ‘may’. North American me spent some time in English schools a couple of decades ago and my classmates would criticize my saying “have you got” instead of “do you have”.🙄

I can’t get worked up about literally - I tend to exaggerate for comic effect and that’s just part of it - but some of these, especially the business jargon ones, are really grating. Does anyone remember the Martin Lukes character invented by Lucy Kellaway in the FT, who would use every jargony word possible? It was hilarious.

These are obvious the sentiment behind my thoughts not what I actually said to my grandma (or my teacher who used to say this on repeat)

Ah Gaspode, we will be feted throughout the care home world as "that Classy Pair who remember when Grammar Really Was Grammar".

The only word/description that annoys me out of any of them.

"Obviously" and "basically" for things which are neither obvious nor basic.

"Low-key" in front of words is a new one, I actually heard "he low-key sexually assaulted me" the other day.

Yes yes to narrative. Previously a word used exclusively in English Lit essays. Now it's everywhere to describe everything. I can't really work out what it means anymore.

Also, woke. Apologies if this has already been mentioned. Originally arrived on the seen to describe people who were aware and willing to stand up for injustice. Now it has morphed into a derogatory term for anything and anyone who says something remotely left of field. I have no idea why. Seems such a shame (wonder if it has replaced the term 'leftie' as favoured by previous generations).

It’s not a grammar issue though - the objection to “can I get” is a style one. I don’t say it personally as it feels rude to me but it makes perfect sense grammatically.

The words OP mentioned are perfectly good ones in context, but I agree about bandwagon-jumpers using them in a scattergun fashion and often without much thought

My own especial dislike is "haterz" with the z, often used as a catch-all for anyone with a view different to the writer's and doubly so if they're more articulate than the writer would prefer

Ok, you win the Pedant of the Year award. But possibly not the Understanding Being Lighthearted for Humourous Effect one.

In that case I will be sure not to be caught on threads boasting of my understanding being lighthearted for humorous effect skills. 🤓

Basically
awesome
It is what it is

Having dialogue
Reaching out

Fuckety off!

Uptick

Why can't we just say "increase" anymore?

' it's kind of like......'

I say 'that was brutal' all the time.

If I never read "grim" again I'd be very pleased.

Yes. Even worse are the ones who resort to a mix of capital and lower case letters, to suggest the person they disagree with is functionally illiterate, I suppose, or has espoused views that only a very unintelligent person would have.

Just seen this one on Twitter, for example. 'The quote tweets are a cesspit of people with rEas0naBLe cOnC3RnS ...'.

Fashion bloggers adding "a pop of colour" really winds me up but just don't know why

For that matter just add the word ‘pop’, as in pop of colour, pop in, pop by, pop on…

Narrative now seems be replaced with “narrative arc”. Equally annoying.