To think sometimes people use words without fully understanding them?

[Oodiks]

There were a few examples in my previous AIBU thread. Including, but not limited to:

Genocide
Antisemitism
Zionism
Ethnic Cleansing

These are strong trigger words for many people, myself included, but I think they are often misused and/or misunderstood.

Thoughts?

Mansplaining
Gaslighting

Decimated.
Literally.

Well yeah. The majority of the world see these words only in use by others or in newspapers so often misunderstand their exact meaning. It’s hardly surprising.

These

Narcissism

You don't think people know what these words mean when they use them?

Average
Typical

Unique

Often together, "It was, like, literally decimated" when they mean it was slightly damaged.

What do you mean pacifically OP?

Especially, "that's really unique" as if something could be just a bit unique.

OMG - I had a colleague who used that to 'pacifically' wind me up!

Did your last thread not go how you intended? What is happening in Gaza right now meets the definition of 'genocide'.

People frequently misuse the word mortifying. Also mixing up the words weary and wary which have very different meanings.

Wery different

Toxic. Everyone and everything is toxic.

Normal and abnormal.

Percent, as in "I gave 110% effort"

Giving over OP. People know.

OCD

Trigger, triggering, trigger warning.

Stuff someone doesn't like.

Narcissistic
Gaslighting
Abusive (when people disagree with someone else reasonably but original person claims they are being abused)
Toxic
OCD
Literally

You are ascribing intention where there was none.

As horrifying as the apparent death toll is, it is nowhere near the horrifying toll on Jews, Romas, and other 'undesirables' in Nazi Germany or Tutsis in Rwanda, so not at the level of genocide in my opinion.

There is also the question of numbers as Hamas does not differentiate between combatant and civilian lives lost so it's hard to know what's really going on. Killing combatants in a war is sadly fair game, and I've read that the combatant to civilian death ratio in this conflict may actually be quite low.

This one unreasonably irritates me, along with the word literally.

"I literally died!"

No you fucking didn't, if you had literally died you would not be standing here literally annoying me to the point where I want to punch you

This!

Mortified
Nonplussed