# Trendy buzzwords that you wish you could just blow up into smithereens **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223 "2016-03-17T00:39:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/181 "2016-03-28T23:36:13Z")
Another one: “trending.” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/182 "2016-03-28T23:46:11Z")
“Analytics” — which apparently means data and/or statistics and statistical analysis “Current Awareness” — which means … umm … news? “Disruptive” — yeah, that doesn’t sound as cool as your enthusiasm makes it out to be ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/183 "2016-03-29T02:48:11Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Does anybody know what the hell “left shift” is supposed to mean? One of my managers just used it in an email that would have been good for Buzzword Bingo. I do know that it’s a medical term for a pattern of white blood cell counts that is characteristic of inflammation. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/184 "2016-03-29T02:50:00Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > It’s exactly that, clinical, distancing, and objectifying. My earliest encounter with it was with police jargon. “Young, black males,” and all that. These days, “females” is very common with PUA and MRA types. I’ll take “female” over “womyn” or “wimmin” which was very popular in the 1990s. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/185 "2016-03-29T02:52:17Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’ll take “female” over “womyn” or “wimmin” which was very popular in the 1990s. :rolleyes: Is that the extent of the options? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/186 "2016-03-30T00:32:49Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > BOGO used to be buy one get one free I actually did not know what “BOGO” meant! Thank you. (Why isn’t it “BOGOF”?) > [@Ale](#): > > Also, “whatever- **gate** ” for scandals, was this ever witty, amusing or original? Perhaps once, a decade or two ago; but today this needs to die. “A decade or two”? It was tired back in the 90’s, when Bill Clinton couldn’t fart in the Oval Office without a [something]-gate being spammed over talk radio. :rolleyes: > [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Hack/hacking. > > Folding your socks in a neato way is not a “hack”. This made me LOL. 😃 Probably because I’ve used it for something very much like that. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/187 "2016-03-30T02:04:15Z")
“Feels” as is “It hit me in the feels” or “It gave me all the feels”. Makes me want to hit someone, but not in the feels. Unless they keep their feels in their neck. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/188 "2016-03-30T02:06:24Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > “Feels” as is “It hit me in the feels” or “It gave me all the feels”. [retch] That’s horrible, too. People really need to pay attention to parts of speech. After all, verbing nouns weirds language, as Calvin said. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![funky\_little\_lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@funky\_little\_lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funky_little_lee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/189 "2016-03-30T04:08:40Z")
“_X_ is the new\* Y\*”, just makes me want to puke and scream at the same time. “It is what it is.” TAUTOLOGY is what it is! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/190 "2016-03-30T13:34:40Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > “Feels” as is “It hit me in the feels” or “It gave me all the feels”. > > Makes me want to hit someone, but not in the feels. Unless they keep their feels in their neck. This makes me think of Phoebe on _Friends_. Marginally acceptable when she says “it gives me the feelings” because she’s supposed to be a weirdo but from most anyone else it sounds as if they’re trying way too hard to be cute. “Females” reminds me of the dumbasses you see on Judge Judy or whatever(yeah , I know, if I’m watching it what does that make me) who use it to try and sound intelligent, or professional or whatever. There are definitely instances where it’s appropriate, say if you’re issuing an APB or doing an autopsy, otherwise women or ladies will do. BOGO is not BOGOF because it doesn’t necessarily mean get one _free_ (though I think it did originally). These day’s it’s more likely to mean “buy one, get one at\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ price”. [QUOTE=ThelmaLou] Don’t know if these have been mentioned. \ has your\* back. [/QUOTE] This and it’s annoying cousin “I’ve / we’ve got you”. McDonald’s (I think) is using this as their catch phrase. For some reason this just completely grates. Also, the similarly sounding but different meaning “I(ve) got this”, like you’re a super hero about to save the day or something. Grrrrrrrrrr. Just go take care of whatever the situation is and stfu already. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/191 "2016-03-30T14:06:57Z")
dadbod you do you ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/192 "2016-03-30T14:30:05Z")
“My Bad” (Your bad what?) Om Nom Nom ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/193 "2016-03-30T17:24:19Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > “Feels” as is “It hit me in the feels” or “It gave me all the feels”. > > Makes me want to hit someone, but not in the feels. Unless they keep their feels in their neck. My favorite poem is this Ogden Nash gem: I like eels except as meals And the way they feels 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/194 "2016-03-30T23:42:11Z")
I just got my termination notice. When I can be bothered to finish reading it, I’ll post the full list. So far - ‘Restructure’ ‘Streamline’ ‘Resource Adjustment’ (that’s me, apparently) I’ll get to Section 2 eventually… ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/195 "2016-03-31T00:28:18Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > This hadn’t been on my radar until I saw the new _Rocky_ movie the other day. In one scene, the young boxer’s lady friend asks him “How many females have you been with?” Seems rather. . ._clinical_; she may as well have been asking him “how many bitches has your rottweiler copulated with?” > [@Acsenray](#): > > It’s exactly that, clinical, distancing, and objectifying. My earliest encounter with it was with police jargon. “Young, black males,” and all that. These days, “females” is very common with PUA and MRA types. > [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I am always amazed at the lengths people will go to to find something supposedly offensive in a common word. And I’m always amazed at the lengths people will go to to deny that context, or culture, or the social environment has any relevance with respect to the meaning of words. And at the lengths people will go to to insist that “I can’t possibly be saying or implying something offensive because I don’t consciously intend to be offensive.” That’s not how language works. No one has to go to any “lengths to find something supposedly offensive.” “Females” was not a “common word” for women or girls. It has become more widely used under the influence of those distancing usages. It doesn’t take any reaching it all. It just takes observation. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’ll take “female” over “womyn” or “wimmin” which was very popular in the 1990s. :rolleyes: > [@Acsenray](#): > > Is that the extent of the options? That wasn’t a rhetorical question, but I’ll go ahead and supply the answer: It’s _not_ the extent of the options. The common, ordinary word for “adult human female” is “woman.” Besides the fact “female” calls for a species to be specified, it in fact is an alienating usage. And many women have commented that it makes them feel dehumanized, and well it should, because of how it’s used and by whom: “Let’s go out and get some females”—that’s inherently objectifying. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/196 "2016-03-31T13:13:19Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Om Nom Nom This has begun to mutate into other parts of speech, I’m sorry to say. I’ve seen more than one blogger use “nomage” to mean “the act of eating.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/197 "2016-03-31T13:28:18Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > I just got my termination notice. When I can be bothered to finish reading it, I’ll post the full list. > > So far - > ‘Restructure’ > ‘Streamline’ > ‘Resource Adjustment’ (that’s me, apparently) > > I’ll get to Section 2 eventually… Does it mention that “employees are our most valuable resource”? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/198 "2016-03-31T16:36:22Z")
I can’t believe (unless I missed it) that nobody has mentioned “perfect storm” yet. I keep hoping it will go away but I just heard someone use it on the radio again today. ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/199 "2016-03-31T16:44:18Z")
Stupid safety lecture buzzword: “If you see a ‘Near Miss’, please report it to your Safety Coordinator.” How in the world can you nearly miss and not hit something? In the wise words of [George Carlin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKdvTecYAM): ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/200 "2016-04-09T13:46:20Z")
Phenomenal. And no, that’s not a comment on the previous post (although it _was_ a Perfect Storm of a post.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223.md?page=11)