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

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"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?

At work colleagues use the word ‘playbook’ all the time, when really they just create a presentation.

I hate that, not least because whenever I hear it, I have the fab Four Tops track of that name in my head for the rest of the day.

Fantastic song, but it gets wearing when it's a constant ear worm.

Even worse than "medalled" is "podiumed" imo.

I have no idea why, but it just sounds more ridiculous.

I really don’t like it when people start a post on social media with the word “so”.

”So I was waiting in Sainsbury’s the other day when suddenly my toddler smashed a jar of pasta on the floor omg fml”

I don’t mind it in speech and it does have a function - indicating a change of topic. it never indicates the start of a conversation so why do we use it like this on social media?

I might be alone in this one.

The twitter ones annoy me when somebody decides to announce that they are going to write an article broken up into 20 140 character chunks Just get a blog FFS

I'm sick of TV cooks and judges wanging on about one ingredient being 'the hero of the dish'. Looking at you, Paul 'I'm not sure the custard is the hero' Hollywood.
The 'reaching out' thing became really obvious to me when I binge-watched Elementary. Holmes and Watson we're reaching out here, there and everywhere.

The only time in my life I used the word synergy, was in 1988, and my boss queried if it was a real word. I checked, and was surprised to find it wasn't in my dictionary. (I decided the dictionary was wrong!)

I hate, "Needs gone." I see it on Facebook Market Place a lot. I dislike the use of Super instead of So, "Super late" "Super hot" or "Super tired"

At work “ratify” is used so much
and I can’t stand the misuse of genuinely/generally. Starting sentences with Basically….. is also so overdone and very rarely basic.

It's super annoying, no? 😉

@Jourdain11 that's interesting because I hate the word 'so' used in that context. "It's soooo annoying."😂I think "really" is better, but I'd rather 'super' than 'so.' I imagine American movie high school kids talking about how everything is "sooo boring."

I actually say super annoying, super good, super quick, super hot (etc) all the time. In French it is really (super) common and I've never been able to cut it out 😃

That’s Scottish phrasing. I have a very well educated friend who originates from Aberdeen and who will always say something “needs done” rather than needs to be done. I’ve become accustomed to it over many years.

Grim and brutal were both brilliant, expressive terms in my Edinburgh childhood. Local schoolkids still use them, and quite right.

Let's hope 'toiling' never gets trendy, that's another one we used all the time 😊

We have to be passionate about something in the workplace. No!

Sadly my memory fails me but I read recently on a news thread that amazing XX had been dropped on the YY show - which to me means something has been dropped off a schedule but it meant that this new feature had been dropped into the schedule. Annoying.

Before “get in the bin” it was “get in the sea”!

I am old, I am old
I will wear my trousers rolled

Sourcing
Curating
in the ‘new’ senses

I know it’s very un-MN to say so, but ‘deep clean’, which used to be reserved for the likes of operating theatres.
What happened to the good old ‘thorough’ clean?

The NHS seems very keen on 'signposting' things, as do schools. I wish they weren't.

I have noticed that a lot of MNers are ‘terrified’ of things, when what they mean is slightly worried, or a bit concerned, or not looking forward to something.

They usually end up ‘literally shaking and crying’, so perhaps terror was the correct response? 🤷‍♀️

Just u.

I hate the phrase that pops up on here if you are browsing without having logged in - "We're all short on time."

The expression is "short of time".

Ugh!! I bet they also "go forward" with an agreement.

Iconic is overused to the point of having lost all meaning.

“Identity” and “Identify as.” Always means “delusional at best and more likely indulging in fantasies, or in short, lying.”