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?

Soon/later

Think so. Prefer a nice carpe diem myself though.

Nunc est bibendum.

Veneris est!

Ad nauseam and ad infinitum - normally when referencing the number of times I’ve asked my DC to do/not do the same bloody things 🙄

Carpe noctum!

Oh Times! Oh Daily Mirror!

(That's a Flanders and Swann quote for the uninitiated)

DH and I are both lawyers so we love a little latin phrase here and there. But I’d say the ones I hear most often are things like et cetera, ad hoc, bona fide, vice versa, quid pro quo, status quo, vice Vera, per capita… but none of this is new. People use latin all the time

I love Latin.

Ceteris paribus, it's gratifying to witness the confusion in somebody's face when somebody who looks and sounds like me uses Latin, Greek or makes a reference to classical civilisations.

Someone on tv recently said escape goat. First time I have actually heard someone say it. He was a grown man not a child, it made me laugh but I probably wouldn’t have corrected him in real life. (Yes, not Latin but still).

What about en route? Or on route?

Oh nearly midnight here...
Tempus fugit.

Oh nearly midnight here...
Tempus fugit.

Oh nearly midnight here...
Tempus fugit.

Problemus wifius.

It’s 100% better than the over-used “like”!

I had a brain melt today and could not remember how to spell quorum.

I can accept ect if someone is obviously referencing Molesworth. Most times they are just wrong, though.

A manager at work was asking what had gone wrong with something - "oops, mea culpa," I replied. He complained he had had to look up mea culpa, but if I'd have said "my bad," he'd have understood. I do not think he had learnt much about me in the decade or so that we had worked together, if he thought I was a "my bad" type of person. I didn't have to explain to any of my European colleagues what mea culpa meant, just the British ones, who just complained rather than thanking me for expanding their knowledge.

"...mental capacity of a loaf of bread"! I love this! 😆🤣 and agree, the people who misuse "per se" clearly don't use their loaf (loaves) at all... *

Is that something to do with prawns? 🤔

I don't like persay per se, but it's still better than "Yay or nay?"

Ut Bobus Dylanus dixit.

When I see “ect” I assume the writer has read the Molesworth books, which are deliberately misspelt. Gosh chiz.

Flavia est puella Romana

Winnie ille Pu sub nomine Sandersi solus in silva habitabat.

When I say “per ce”, my husband always replies, “Don’t call me Percy”.

The only bit of Latin I can remember from school translated to
'the Barbarians are attacking the ramparts'
I phrase I tried to get into many conversations whilst on holiday in Italy, with little effect, I just don't think they care anymore.