# Trendy buzzwords that you find charming, useful, fun or otherwise appreciate...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326 "2016-03-17T22:32:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/1 "2016-03-17T22:32:15Z")
In response to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=787323), wherein participants are invited to engage in complaint, disparagement, and murderous plotting against “trendy buzzwords”, current slang and miscellaneous pop language silliness, I invite participants to share their warm and fuzzy feelings towards whatever pop language silliness you find amusing, enjoyable, etc.
If you dare…because of course if you actually state out loud that you like something the cool kids hate, the torture will be endless and you better have extra lunch money tucked in a shoe or something…
I’ll start… I actually appreciate/enjoy “bae” and “stabby”. I also really like the construction “because [noun]”. It amuses me.
I used to appreciate epic, but it’s over between us now. I’ll always have fond memories.
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### Author:  [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/2 "2016-03-17T22:55:10Z")
I remember having a little fun with ‘as if’ when it first started trending. It was such a moody teenager thing to say that it actually amusing to hear it coming out of the mouth of grownup. It did get old fast, but it had its moment…
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/3 "2016-03-17T23:02:25Z")
Good, this gives me an opportunity to ask this without being hooted off the page:
What the hell is “bae”?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/4 "2016-03-17T23:32:39Z")
I don’t know if it’s charming (I actually suspect I might be doing it to be annoying), but I have recently taken to auto-adjectivising words for effect to highlight examples of things that are superior or inferior - for example a client came in for a meeting, but quickly decided he would need to return next week with more of his colleagues. This meeting clearly wasn’t meetingy enough - we’'ll have a meetingier meeting next week then.
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/5 "2016-03-18T00:05:29Z")
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I approve, and I am amused.
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### Author:  [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/6 "2016-03-18T00:15:53Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Good, this gives me an opportunity to ask this without being hooted off the page:
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> What the hell is “bae”?
Some people say it stands for “before anyone else.” It’s your sweetie.
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### Author:  [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/7 "2016-03-18T00:24:22Z")
What a groovy topic! I bet the posts on this boss thread will be really far out. Fer shure.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/8 "2016-03-18T00:34:04Z")
10-4 good buddy! 😃
Gnarly
Out of sequence
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/9 "2016-03-18T00:44:28Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#):
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> What a groovy topic! I bet the posts on this boss thread will be really far out. Fer shure.
Oh boss! I miss boss… it was a good one… but solidly wrapped up in 60’s surfer, ain’t got no place in the world today.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/10 "2016-03-18T01:10:34Z")
I’ve used awesomeblossom. And now thanks to the other thread, I think I’ll add amazeballs and hangry to my dialogue. I just like goofy, silly stuff and life’s too frigging serious as it is. So, next up… bring back groovy, man!
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/11 "2016-03-18T01:46:49Z")
My current favorite is using adult as a verb. “I need to start adulting” sounds so much more fun than “I need to be more mature and responsible.”
I’ve also never found a good substitute for “dis” meaning “to be disrespectful to.” Compare “I can’t believe she just dissed me” to “I can’t believe she was disrespectful to me.”
I need to go to the other thread to talk about “bae”. 😃
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/12 "2016-03-18T02:02:40Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> This meeting clearly wasn’t meetingy enough - we’'ll have a meetingier meeting next week then.
hmmmm - not sure if your contribution was contributiony enough.😛
I still say **rad** occasionally, or **splunge**.
Gotta ease off the **amazing** , though.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/13 "2016-03-18T02:48:54Z")
> [@faithfool](#):
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> So, next up… bring back groovy, man!
Was “dudelar” ever a thing? It feels Fast Times At Ridgemont High ish.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/14 "2016-03-18T03:57:59Z")
IMHO, cromulent is cromulent.
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/15 "2016-03-18T04:11:24Z")
I say “craptastic” all the time. Rolls off the tongue…
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/16 "2016-03-18T07:17:44Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#):
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> hmmmm - not sure if your contribution was contributiony enough.😛
You make a fair and pointy point.
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### Author:  [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/17 "2016-03-18T08:05:53Z")
In the interest of inclusiveness, on the rare occasions I use “dudes” I’ll often add “and dudettes” or “dudesses”.
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/18 "2016-03-18T09:41:16Z")
> [@lorene](#):
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> Some people say it stands for “before anyone else.” It’s your sweetie.
Thank you.
Follow-up question: how do you pronounce it. Bay? Bye? B-A-E?
I need to know because I’m going to not use it for the rest of my life and I want to not use it correctly.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/19 "2016-03-18T13:21:18Z")
> [@gigi](#):
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> Was “dudelar” ever a thing? It feels Fast Times At Ridgemont High ish.
I don’t know, but it should be. That’s awesome sauce right there. 🙂
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-find-charming-useful-fun-or-otherwise-appreciate/749326/20 "2016-03-18T14:02:57Z")
I find “woke” useful. I don’t particularly _like_ it, but it’s useful.
I still use SA surfer-speak ([Surfafrikan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AList_of_South_African_slang_words#South_African_surf_slang_-_Surfafrikan)), which was regionally trendy but now a little dated. Not sure if any of the other Saffricans would be on board - _lank kiff, bru_. _Schweet_.
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