This is true.
But, this is a topic that should be dealt with routinely and harshly... the only way we can correct the language and suppress it's organic growth is by exposing and banning every new usage as it occurs... Isn't that what the French do?
― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Melly E (Melly E), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Monday, 29 December 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Monday, 29 December 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 December 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.
Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 29 December 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
― ermes marana, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link
As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― stelf)xxx, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link
When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Or a colon.
COINKY-DINK, "guestimate," and any time someone ends an interrogative sentence with "at," as in "Where's my keys at?" or "Where's your head at?"
― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
"hating on"
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link
"Action" used as a verb. (Especially with regards to some annoying little thing I had already been doing.) "Can you please action this?" Actually, no I can't. Action is a noun. If you would like me to DO it, then just ask. Argh.
Especially when coming from the same irritating marketing bods who last week asked me to "manage the relationship" with one of our suppliers. Fuck. Right. Off.
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link
A term of address directed at Turkish shopkeepers by 13 year old boys and directed by Turkish shopkeepers at everyone else. The most annoying ever.
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link
DON'T MADAM ME, YOU LITTLE...!!! OK, according to Watching The English, this means that they have socio-status assessed me as middle class or higher. But it irritates me because it makes me feel old.
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
'Whilst'
― estela (estela), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link
"AARRGGHHH!!! I certainly hope it will be taking off longer than that - we're flying to London!"
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
'colourway'
https://imgur.com/Oggx5G2
seem to be running into this a lot lately when reading about/watching news on tech or fashion. completely superfluous.
"this is the new macbook pro in a space black colorway"
― maelin, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 01:46 (three weeks ago) link
...not sure where my jpeg is, but it's the trend graph of the word's usage from google...
― maelin, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 01:47 (three weeks ago) link
in 2024, everything is feral or potentially feral
― z_tbd, Friday, 13 September 2024 13:41 (three weeks ago) link
also while i'm at it, and this is one i occasionally use, but about 10 years ago many of us realized it wasn't a good practice to call everything "crazy" all the time in a positive way. "wow, they won the game? that's crazy!" etc. i think it was fine to move away from it, "crazy" has some issues and the word had a good run. but now, everything is "wild". wow that's wild. everything is wild and potentially feral. i still say "wild", so i'm not trying to make anyone reading this feel bad. this thread's wild! but yeah i might just start seeing "good"
― z_tbd, Friday, 13 September 2024 13:43 (three weeks ago) link
Anything new and distinct that everyone starts using all at once usually annoys me, and then I eventually surrender and start using it as well. That's how "wild" has for me recently.
― beard papa, Friday, 13 September 2024 18:40 (three weeks ago) link
Fire
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 13 September 2024 19:28 (three weeks ago) link
Also never forget “will be wild”The podcast by the same name was also quite good tbh
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 13 September 2024 19:54 (three weeks ago) link
'inspo'
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, 23 September 2024 17:56 (two weeks ago) link
"love on" in place of "to love," or "to give affection." As in "You gotta love on your babies" or "
This seems to have taken hold in anodyne Christian mom-land sometime after I departed that scene and has now escaped captivity and is everywhere. It conjures images of rubbing up against something like a cat. Probably not what the user has in mind.
On Googling, it seems this was broadcasted to wider America by the Duggars. So I was right, and also eurrgh.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 23 September 2024 18:09 (two weeks ago) link
Oh I love “love on” as a way of describing expressions of care. My former student Linda thanked me for loving on her at graduation and I’ve liked it ever since.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 23 September 2024 18:11 (two weeks ago) link
It’s a way of saying “showered with affection” which is to me a wonderful (and rare) thing.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 23 September 2024 18:12 (two weeks ago) link
I think of "love on" as a Southernism, because I don't think I ever heard it until I moved to Tennessee. But I don't know if that's true or just my experience.
― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Monday, 23 September 2024 18:14 (two weeks ago) link
"love on" in place of "to love," or "to give affection." As in "You gotta love on your babies" or "This seems to have taken hold in anodyne Christian mom-land sometime after I departed that scene and has now escaped captivity and is everywhere. It conjures images of rubbing up against something like a cat. .
― sarahell, Monday, 23 September 2024 18:22 (two weeks ago) link
Gross!! It was not like that w Linda. She’s a mature Black woman in her 50s and she was proud of graduating. I won’t let some xtian mommies or gross imagery destroy my memory of how proud I was of her on that day 🏆
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 23 September 2024 18:26 (two weeks ago) link
Sorry, LL! I believe you. I can hold two contradictory things in my mind: The way I feel about that expression, and respecting Linda and everything that you mean to each other.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 23 September 2024 18:40 (two weeks ago) link
We keep in touch! I just love the idea of showering someone with care and can’t find it gross.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 23 September 2024 18:49 (two weeks ago) link
"that tracks"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 September 2024 21:49 (one week ago) link
Well does it?
― H.P, Saturday, 28 September 2024 00:39 (one week ago) link
I didn’t like “cook” in its new verb form until I started using it myself. Now I’m cooking with it most days.
― H.P, Saturday, 28 September 2024 00:40 (one week ago) link
awaiting the linguistics paper on the rise and fall of 'serving _____'
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2024 00:46 (one week ago) link
How about an undergraduate thesis titled "Serving C*nt: an Intersectional Historical Look at the Reclamation of a Taboo Word"? (Though I guess that's less about the "serving" part.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 28 September 2024 00:57 (one week ago) link
i love u jaymc
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2024 01:00 (one week ago) link
:)
― jaymc, Saturday, 28 September 2024 01:05 (one week ago) link
“Cunt-curious” give me a break. Of COURSE this was from Claremont.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 28 September 2024 04:47 (one week ago) link
"____ is worse than you think"
This is every headline and video title now.
― jmm, Sunday, 29 September 2024 10:58 (one week ago) link
"actors" used to describe non-thespians definitely having a moment
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 1 October 2024 00:31 (six days ago) link
really? that's so common as to be unnoticeable for me, 'various actors in the region' I wouldn't even notice it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 October 2024 00:36 (six days ago) link
area actor
― a mysterious, repulsive form of energy that permeates the universe (ledge), Tuesday, 1 October 2024 07:37 (six days ago) link