to be sick to death of wanky language?!

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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!

Deep dive 🤬🤬

I absolutely hate Genre, what's all that about?. It makes my blood boil.

what genre of music do you like, what genre of film do you like, what happened to type?.

Rhetoric and optics.

“curated earrings” or “curated piercings”
Why are people paying other people to pick out some jewellery? Like fucking hell, have you lost all originality or just brain cells?

Because when you use wanky words to make yourself sound fancy then you take away from the richness of language.

E.g. using the example below, saying you "sourced" your ingredients when you went to a single bog standard supermarket and bought them takes away from the meaning and picture created by the use of sourced which implies that it was hard to find, you had to look, probably in several places, there was effort.

Removing language from its specific content just makes it all ordinary (and often wanky).

DP once got into the habit of ENDING his sentences with 'so' in a trailing off, somewhat desultory manner.

'And then when I asked how much the repair would cost, Pete said 85 quid including VAT, so ...' 'Tesco didn't have any coriander, so ...'

'So ... what?' I would ask, feeling we were not being being our best selves or using our best words here.

Luckily he stopped doing it. Or should I say, he truncated his verbal crapscape.

@friendsinplaces - it's "our truth" lol

I haaaaaate this phrase!

Yes bully for me :)

Nobody talks anymore, we're all communicating. Look at so many relationship threads "did you communicate this to him", ffs what's wrong with "talk to him".

Anyone mentioned how it's become trouser and lip rather than trousers and lips? I may also have seen jean.

Colourized

Burglarized

Just aaaaaargh!!! Burgled is a perfectly good word and also shorter than burglarized and colourized (or colorized which is even worse!) makes no sense whatsoever!

My dp does this weird thing of stopping mid word if he's listing lots of things to make a point.
"I do all the cooking and washing and driving and ironing and clea....."
"the kids just keep fighting and arguing and whingeing and moa...."
"Boris is forever lying and stealing and hiding and chea..."
I cannot bear it when he does this, just leaves the word hanging in the air, like a sneeze that won't come, for dramatic effect. So far I've not said anything but as I approach peri-menopause I suspect this will be my grounds for divorce

It seems to have begin with the wanky TV chef programmes where they didn't fry or saute any more, they had to 'fry off', pan fry (there was no other way to fry in those days) etc. All began with a prick with a fork with ideas above his station.

I’m fairly ancient so every time I see ‘newborn’ I wonder what on earth was ever wrong with ‘new baby’.

I would bet a lot that I'm more ancient than you but when I look at MN there seems to be a whole new, contorted vocabulary for the brand new, never been done before, activity of having a baby or should that be growing and birthing a baby! FGS, you grow tomatoes and berth a boat!
Someone actually used 'curate' in real life, a pretentious woman said in the pub that she was going into town to curate new shoes, someone laughed and said Curate shoes? Not the Elgin marbles then?. She wasn't a happy bunny.

began not begin

I also loathe this trend for turning words into verbs - gifting and newness, I'm looking at you.

It works both ways. Verbs turned into nouns.

Invites and recommends being two prime examples.

Agree with you OP, though more annoyed by exaggerated language and over qualifying. A birthday is 24 hours long regardless of what age you are, it's not a 'big birthday'. You can be sorry as an apology, it does not need to be qualified, maybe other than being very sorry.

Wanky language I hate at the moment...

Speaking 'my own truth' 🤮

Being 'my authentic self' 🤮

'im just wondering if...' 🤬

'im curious about ...' 🤬

I've just seen one I had forgotten about. I wfh and we are mainly working on teams - why are people always jumping?

I'm just jumping onto another call
Can you jump onto that call and let them know I'm delayed

My hairdresser used to ask me if I was enjoying my new haircut/colour...ffs it's a haircut not a ruddy jam donut.

Oh this thread has really cheered me up!

I fear that the younger generation use this language v naturally if my 14 yr old DD is anything to go by. She's been having friendship drama and was talking about "reaching out" to one of her friends. I had to bit my tongue so hard. I am fighting a losing battle I fear ...

See also: Side Hustle

Aka a second job.

I hate this too. I really wanted to ask the annoying friend, talking about 'unpacking' her relationship, if she had left it in her suitcase. I'm a coward, I just sat and listened. She says it a lot.