"Use your words" Wtf?

[Gymnopedie]

Disclaimer, the nearest I get to social media is on MN. I don't have Fb, Insta, Twitter etc and the only other forums I go on are subject specific, so I've only seen it on here. I get that it may be internet wide. But where's it suddenly come from? What happened to talk to/discuss with/speak to/tell them? They were perfectly descriptive ways of indicating how an issue might be addressed, we didn't need a trendy phrase to replace them.

As you might have gathered, I don't like it!

in a recent thread a poster said (& I think it’s already been referred to) that a friend had asked for money, then kept the change from buying drinks, then asked for petrol money & one response was effectively it’s your fault, you’re a wet lettuce, you should’ve used your words. ‘Use your words’ is quite often used on MN. It’s pointless & unhelpful.
I was in the newsagents last year & a child was trying to ask her parent which mug would be best as a Mothers Day present. The father was too busy looking at his phone, the child started crying & was then asked to explain her problem by ‘using her words’. She shouted ‘you stupid stupid poo willy bum’. Certainly her words, but not what was expected I suppose.

She shouted ‘you stupid stupid poo willy bum’. Certainly her words, but not what was expected I suppose

Excellent use of her words there!

I have definitely used it to a 'friend' who's so relentlessly pass/agg about what she wants and won't just bloody spit it out that I lost all patience. She was of the "those that ask, don't get" school of thought. I'm more a "no one is a bloody mind-reader, just ASK" person.

But why not say ‘what do you mean/want’? ‘Use your words’ is just odd.

This is the first time, I have heard of 'use your words' and it irritates me already!

I have a child who has selective mutism, I remember someone asking him something at the bus stop and she said 'cat got your tongue' continued with 'rude child' honestly I wanted to punch her!