to be sick to death of wanky language?!

[PyongyangKipperbang]

Late shift so cant sleep and this has been bugging me.

Loads of examples I am sure but the two that are currently pissing me off is "curating" and "sourcing".

When did "buy new clothes" become "curate a fresh wardrobe". I do not curate, I am not a curator. I need clothes, I buy clothes, I wear clothes. End of. Also clothes do no go off, they go out of fashion but if that is the case then you are buying the wrong clothes, timeless classics never go out of fashion. You do not need "fresh" clothes.

When did "going to do the big shop" become "sourcing ingedients". Has anyone ever said "I am going to Tesco to source our ingredients"? Have they fuck! If I am making stew or salad or lasagne or.....dog shit on toast (an option I have occassionally offered the kids when they were pissing me off about dinner options) I will go shopping and buy what I need. I do not "source" beef and vegetables, or lettuce or bloody pasta. I will concede that the dog shit may need more in the way of sourcing.

You need stuff. You buy stuff. Why the need for bullshit language to make this boring life task into an "experience".....actually that's another one, I didnt "experience" a restaurant or a stately home or whatever, I visited it.

Now I cant sleep even more because venting has made me more angry!

One that I thinkis an Asian/SE Asian thing (feel free to correct me) is referring to members of the public who post comments on social media/websites asNetizens.

For some reason, Ibloody hate that word

See also: Netiquette

Ah but was it a pie , or was it just a spoonful of steak and kidney with a square of 'Butter enriched putt pastry ' plonked on top ?
I would like to reach out to the chefs and double down on them and ask them to extrapolate the difference between a pie and some filling with pastry plonked on top.

I agree about the fake pies. I’ve had ready meals described as caseroles where the meat was introduced to the gravy and veg until it hit the container. Do they not think we can taste the difference?

I agree , they must think we are daft.
Also deconstructed anything food wise , deconstructed rhubarb crumble , sickly sweet pink gloop with very dry tasteless crumble mix sat next to it NO !
It should be chunks of sharp rhubarb, with sweet crunchy crumble baked on top served at burn the roof of your mouth temperature and custard .

Sorry for derailing the thread

The photo and the description on the menu of the fish and chips my Dh ordered at a chain pub attached to a premier inn we were staying in the other day should have been done for abusing the trades descriptions act.
'Flaky and Succulent with hand cooked crispy chips ' ( or something like that anyway ) it most definitely wasn't ( more like warmed up leftovers from that days lunch menu)
They love flowery language on a menu.

I have heard “can you speak more too….” Loads recently and hate it. Just say can you explain x or y to me.

We have an early 20s intern who speaks good English although it's not her first language. Every second word out of her mouth is "like" which makes her sound like an utter idiot but she clearly doesn't realise it.
I just do an internal eyeroll and groan under my breath.

My pet hate:

“Tend to your locks”
”Luscious locks”
”Groomed locks”
etc etc

It’s hair for Christ’s sake. Just call it hair.

Oh and when a document needs more detail….saying “it’s a bit thin”.

Thin?

You mean lacking detail, insufficient or superficial. Use the correct words in your sentences!

Grrrrr….

Redouble my/your effort
Unless you have tried, failed and then doubled your effort, you cannot redouble

And then there are a set of words being mispronounced, particularly by ITV news reporters, but by no means exclusively (and no, they are not dialect or culture-associated):
Wembelley
Assembelley
Westminister

Creative 🤢

The phrase "Wanky language" is a bit wanky language 😀

A colleague asked my opinion on a draft email. She wanted to write "deep dive", as in deep dive into a document or some such shite.
I said please do not write that and made other suggestions in actual non-wanky English using real words.

Another common newsreader mispronunciation is “nucular” for nuclear, more common in the US but I also hear it regularly on mainstream UK news.

‘Back in the day’

I say “back in the day”, sorry!

But I am more likely to use the west country’s imprecise and all-encompassing “back along”, which means “at some point in the near or distant past”.

ScottBakula · Yesterday 12:23

Also deconstructed anything food wise ...

It's not deconstructed at all, is it? Have they made a pie, then dismantled the bloody thing? No!

Or when people use ‘of’ instead of ‘have’

I could of gone to x, y, z….

Also “Of an evening I usually do x, y, z….” grates on me.

MavisMcMinty · Today 11:10

Another common newsreader mispronunciation is “nucular”

G Dubya Bush seems to have started that one.

And not a single Radio Newcastle presenter can pronounce vulnerable. They usually say "vunwaboow."

Yanbu. Last week I watched a YouTube video that asked if I had considered adding micro drinks to my hydration journey.

That took a while to process. It really did.

I agree.

Many make their posts unintelligible by failing to stick to clear and simple language and too often, this gobbledygook is often accompanied by poor spelling and little or no punctuation.

Whenever someone writes, 'I verbalized' or, 'I communicated' instead of ,' I said'-I usually think that the person is a bit thick, knows it and by trying to use a longer word, thinks that they look smarter than they are.

Alternatively, they are a bit thick, don't know it and believes that this is prove of their intelligence.

Space! As in, work in the tech space

It's the change to job titles. You can barely tell what the job actually is from the ad.
I saw one for client care co-ordinator in my profession and thought is was a new role. Nope, just receptionist rebranded.
Same goes for:
Nike athlete, so shop assistant
Tesco colleague, shop assistant
Mixologist, that'll be bar tender
And yep seeing a lot of 'talent'
So fucking wanky.

This is so true ! It should be unconstructed but I'm not sure if that's a word let alone a wanky one

@MavisMcMinty
Oh, agreed, re nucular.. drives me crazy.
Can no-one say 'burglar' either? Or specific?