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To HATE the phrase "lived experience"?

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 03/03/2025 06:36

Pet peeve incoming:

By definition, experience is lived! You can hardly have an experience without living it, fgs! And what's the opposite of lived experience? An experience that you've had, yet haven't lived? It's complete nonsense. It's used to sound falsely clever when an argument is weak, like "In my personal experience." Well, of course your experience is personal! You would hardly say, "In my neighbour's experience, I find Florida too cold in December."

And it's officially wrong, because it's a tautology. Like "top-floor penthouse."

I don't know whether it's the innate stupidity of the phrase or the fact that it's a linguistic fad that annoys me the most.

"stamps off"

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 04/03/2025 22:55

Must. Stay. Quiet.

To HATE the phrase "lived experience"?
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ThisFluentBiscuit · 04/03/2025 22:58

The above is supposed to be a gif.

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Emberemember · 05/03/2025 01:33

ThisFluentBiscuit · 04/03/2025 22:58

The above is supposed to be a gif.

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Zippy has lived experience of his zip while you just have experience of zips in general, OP Grin

ThisFluentBiscuit · 05/03/2025 03:35

Emberemember · 05/03/2025 01:33

Zippy has lived experience of his zip while you just have experience of zips in general, OP Grin

Mmhmhmm-MHHMHMHMMMMM! 😂

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 05/03/2025 03:39

Really fighting the urge!

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LillyPJ · 05/03/2025 09:40

LeaderBee · 04/03/2025 15:34

I've got experience of the middle ages because I read some books about it; I don't have a lived experience of it, because I wasn't around back then to see how it "Actually" was.

You do not have experience of the Middle Ages though. Reading about something isn't experiencing it.

Grammarnut · 05/03/2025 13:44

ThisFluentBiscuit · 04/03/2025 17:45

😱

Thanks, happy with bad style. Don't like being beaten over the head by someone's lived experience, however.

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