I despise that one.

"ICONIC' is also over-used.

It only underscores the increasing disdain for education, credentials, and credible experience--when so many idolize those who self-proclaim themselves to be this--solely because they manage to get YouTube or social media "views."

I think they will be around watching the world burn (as they tell the rest of us otherwise, or what to wear, or how to look)--a bit like the cockroaches around with the dinosaurs.

Do you not see a difference between "content creators" and self-proclaimed "Influencers?" Because I certainly do. And for their own well-being and the survival of others, I suggest viewers learn to discern the difference.



This might be sorely apropos (for some)

IDGAF how edumacated they are.

almost assuredly DOES.

And the trend of following some stranger with no evidence of the prior based solely on the number of views already achieved (popularity) is the most absurd (and deleterious) trend I've ever seen emerge in a segment of our society. Your contempt for education is noted, however. That is a real "tell." Not subtle.

Oy vey...

(I gather you see what I am seeing)...

areas of life. So stop your (apparently) misrepresentation of my post. I will assume that it may have been accidental, but it comes off as very trolling.

Since the first time he was in offfice, we have all heard unprecedented use of the word unprecedented. It truly is the right word, but we need another one. Please.

Epic.
Awesome.

especially because many of them can refer to more than one thing. For example, CIA refers to both the u.s. Central Intelligence Agency and the Culinary Institute of America.
I have to keep looking them up, and then check context to see what is being referred to.

Not even a real word! - - - -

Once one of them starts saying it, they all do.

Like they are asking a question but making a statement.. I have noticed people in Australia do that a bunch..

Leaving out the Me or Us at the end of the sentence.

that it is Midwestern vernacular, right? So regional and probably limited to Illinois, Wisconsin and maybe Minnesota. And hardly new.

But it's not a buzzword. It's regional slang, which often sounds weird to those outside the region(s) in question.

For example, I'm from Illinois, but I spent 3 years in eastern North Carolina, which included getting used to the regional slang there. Instead of saying they needed to get in touch with someone, people would say, "I need to get up with so-and-so." Sounds pretty weird till you get used to it.

In Illinois, people say "come with" all the time, so it sounds perfectly normal to me. "I'm going to [name of place]. Do you want to come with?" is just our shorthand for "I'm going to [name of place]? Do you want come with me?"

IT still sounds strange to me even after 30 years here. I never say it.

Another odd regional word usage which puzzled the hell out of me when I got my nurse practitioner job in 1996 was hearing mothers say variations of, "He had a fever for 3 days, and then he got sick." I'm thinking, "If he had a fever for 3 days, wasn't he sick already?"

It took me the longest damn time to figure out that no one around here likes to use the word "vomiting," or any of its common slang options - puke, barf, throw up, heave, etc. Odd.

I love that kind of stuff. Minored in Linguistics.

But I still cringe every time I hear it. I always have the urge to finish the sentence for the person who says it.

I know this came from a Seinfeld episode and it was use as a method to shorten retelling something. But people using it today in normal conservation make themslves sound like idiots.

Short for velocity. Broadcasters use it all game long for the speed of the pitch, the speed of the hit ball, the speed of the batter’s swing, etc. It drives me crazy. It’s so overused I wish that the technology to measure these was never developed. I guess they think it sounds cool or something, but to me it’s just laziness and sounds pretentious. Now it’s like some unwritten rule that they can never say the full word velocity.

...than velocity, there's always "speed". Only one syllable, so spoken it's shorter than "velo".
I agree with you about it being annoying.

Velocity is technically speed + direction, in math and physics anyway.

Yes, one is scalar, the other is a vector. But in the context used in baseball, it's a distinction without a difference, as the direction is implied & understood.

Everyone's gotta have a legacy. Do this for your legacy, buy that for your legacy. Feed the egos everywhere by pretending there's a "legacy" that will honor you or even remember you. It's everywhere and it's preposterous.

"Tush push." Just NOPE.

"At the end of the day..."

"Elite."

Anything and everything Chris Collinsworth says.

When something is really good. Way overused, especially on YouTube.

I find it clunky and awkward. Influential /or effective are more than adequate and sound more polished.

In my career area (nursing/healthcare), to be impacted means to be severely constipated, colloquially referred to as FOS - full of shit. In my first job, I once had to digitally/manually disimpact a very constipated patient. This may well have something to do with my dislike for this word.

I also have trouble with "unctuous" having taken on a positive meaning. I hear it all the time on various of the cooking shows when chefs are speaking favorably of enough fat content in a food they are judging. I can't break the habit of its original definition of oily/greasy/soapy - not a characteristic one would find desirable in food. Weird.

Almost always when it is appended to some ludicrous argument about vaccines, or autism, or COVID-19, or fucking Roswell, New Mexico.

"Research", to these half-wits, fuckwits, and chuzzlewits, is watching a Youtube or TikTok video hosted by some similarly brainless grade-school dropout who likely still eats Elmer's Glue, and with whose views the "researcher" already agrees.

I hate the way the misuse of the term diminishes and demeans the noble and rigorous process of actually trying to accumulate and interpret data. Thus increasing the sum total of human knowledge and wisdom.

Every dipshit waste of human protoplasm with an internet connection fancies him or herself a "researcher".

supports their belief which they would never admit.

The best I could hope they mean is literature review (I asked someone once). The response was…. What’s that ?

Never mind.

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People often use it when they really mean "overlooked."

the person likes more than others, even where everyone extols the talents of the artist and no criticism exists. It doesn’t matter - if everyone doesn’t revere the musician /actor the way the person thinks they should, they are automatically underrated.

The word should be banished!

At work, everyone is reaching out. "Thanks for reaching out. You need to reach out to your manager, or HR, or IT."

What not what?

Hate that phrase.

Everything from toothpaste to Viagra.

Ending every other sentence with Right? sounds like panhandling for concurrence.

Just make your point and I'll decide whether you're right or not.

...is used whenever two Democrats offer non-identical points of view on an issue and suggests that Democrats, not Republicans or non-voters, are responsible for Trump's sociopathic behavior.

As in "Are you kidding me right now?" It's totally unnecessary. It's like a verbal tic. I won't be sorry when it goes out of use.

Used in several commercials and it's so pompous it makes me sick.