Per se

[YourFairCyanReader]

I first learned the phrase 'per se' when I was at school, and at that time hardly anyone ever used it. It was considered a bit pretentious.
Over the last year I keep hearing it. I even heard my teenaged kids use it. I keep seeing it on threads here.

AIBU to think Per se is now entering common parlance, for the first time?

Why is this?

Any other Latin phrases on the ascendant?

There's a cafe near me with a board outside declaring they serve 'tea, coffee, ect'. I think that's quite handy, you could have your treatment-resistant depression seen to then have a nice sit down and a cup of tea afterwards.

Haha.

My Finnish second cousin told me once that "per se" (or maybe just "perse"?) means arse in Finnish

I say it and so does my wife

I like apropos as its quicker. I like reductio ad absurdum for the same reason. I see mea cupla used a bit, usually ironically, and it makes a nice change from the hideous 'my bad'.

À propos it's mea culpa.

Lapsus calami.

Caecilius est mendax!

(That's all I remember)

Irish oil? 😆

O tempora, o mores

Yes it should have been oleum Caledoniae.

I always did mix those two up!

Haven't noticed much Latin showing up but I do love 'heretofore' and 'anon'. Especially the former as it's economical.
'Literally' is my pet peeve because it's rarely anything akin to literal.

Actually, 'ergo' shows up fairly frequently these days.

Rus in urbe too

That, and "obviously" it's never obvious. I have a colleague who starts every sentence with "obviously". I can't bear it

I know! Nails on a chalkboard 😬
When someone says 'literally' , it takes every bit of strength I have not to say, "Oh gosh, that sounds horrific! I would have assumed you meant figuratively!"

@RobertaFirmino So funny! 😂

I use it a bit. I thought it was commonly used to be honest. I say quid pro quo a lot, and vice versa. In vino veritas (love that). I've noticed DH says quasi a bit. God we sound pretentious!!

Not Latin, but the word nonchalant is making a comeback. My 12 yr old asked me if I knew of it. He thought it was a new slang word like rizz, it's used a lot by You tubers apparently.

Is that anything like squid pro quo ?

I was laughing at the family motto in the Fakham Hall parody - Incestus ad infinitum

I think it's probably just confirmation bias, OP - now you think it's being used more, you're noticing it whenever anyone does.

I think the root of butter is the Greek for cow cheese, which is boutyron, which became something like butyrum in Latin which became butter in English. The Spanish, French, Italian and German word for butter all have the same derivation.

Which is entirely useless information from a German O level lesson. Vorsprung durch Sprache 😂

Nulla sollicitudina :)

I've had enough of this thread. Nunc est bibendum.

caesar adsum iam forte

Anon as in anonymous or soon?