# 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:** 13
**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 15, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/241 "2016-04-15T21:58:14Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > “Lawyer up.” Christ, just hire an attorney. You hear this on cop shows all the time, so I’ve kind of gotten used to it. But yesterday morning on NPR, someone referred to someone else as being “well lawyered.” That’s just going too dang far. ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_John\_Cobham\_Salad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Jan\_John\_Cobham\_Salad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jan_John_Cobham_Salad)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/242 "2016-04-16T05:29:34Z")
“Prayers sent” So heartfelt. It’s like the condolence version of “yawn” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/243 "2016-04-17T05:13:36Z")
(Make a) “Joyful noise” ---
**Author:** ![Blackstock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@Blackstock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackstock)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/244 "2016-04-17T05:28:24Z")
Blazé. Saw this word in an e-mail from this snot-faced editor of an online magazine, and it caused me to not reply to his e-mail for a week, which ultimately resulted in ending our collaboration. Good riddance. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/245 "2016-04-17T05:31:24Z")
> [@Blackstock](#): > > Blazé. Saw this word in an e-mail from this snot-faced editor of an online magazine, and it caused me to not reply to his e-mail for a week, which ultimately resulted in ending our collaboration. > > Good riddance. You mean _blasé_? That only annoys me when it’s used incorrectly. It’s correct when it’s uses to describe someone’s attitude towards something. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/246 "2016-04-17T07:39:28Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > To hold off on a current discussion or plan of action for the moment. Like you’re pinning a reminder to a board to pick the topic up later. That makes more sense than my understanding - I thought it was a metaphor that had something to do with trying to put the pin back in a grenade (ie, let’s stop this thing from happening right now). Which seemed odd to me, as trying to put the pin back in a life grenade (even one where you haven’t thrown it or let go of it, so the fuse hasn’t armed yet) is Not A Recommended Course Of Action. Many of my personal hates have already been mentioned, including click-baity headlines of the “ [things] you didn’t know existed” (I’m willing to bet useful sums of money I was, in fact, aware of those things) variety, along with “Australia loves/hates/loses its collective shit over [thing]” headlines, because there’s 26 million people here and many - possibly most - of them (including me) don’t care about the [thing]. “Going Forward” drives me mental too; I prefer “In the future”, especially because it lets me sound like The Great Criswell or someone similar when I say it. I’m also not a fan of “reaching out” You’re not ET. You can “get in touch with” or “ask” or “contact” someone. ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/247 "2016-04-17T13:37:07Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > Let’s put a pin in this. > [@pulykamell](#): > > What does this one mean? > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > To hold off on a current discussion or plan of action for the moment. Like you’re pinning a reminder to a board to pick the topic up later. I’ve always heard it used to shoot down an idea and stop discussion. Pop the balloon type pinning. Follows the “devil’s advocate” phase. Or used to disillusion someone, end their fantasy / hypothetical idea roughly and without debate. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/248 "2016-04-17T14:13:43Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > You mean _blasé_? That only annoys me when it’s used incorrectly. > > It’s correct when it’s uses to describe someone’s attitude towards something. How is it misused? I can only think of it in that context. ---
**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 17, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/249 "2016-04-17T14:42:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Inner Stickler** > To hold off on a current discussion or plan of action for the moment. **Like you’re pinning a reminder to a board** to pick the topic up later. My bold. This. Pinning something to a board as a reminder. As in pinning a thread (“sticky”) to the top/beginning of a forum so people don’t forget the admonitions contained therein. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/250 "2016-04-17T15:19:38Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > How is it misused? I can only think of it in that context. A lot of people use it to mean that something or someone was boring or uninteresting rather than that someone was bored or uninterested. I have also heard it used this way “blasé, blasé” instead of “blah, blah, blah.” ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/251 "2016-04-17T18:19:44Z")
“Ramp up”? You mean “increase”, right? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/252 "2016-04-17T18:31:12Z")
Arguably Unarguably Artisan to describe anything other than something actually made by an artisan. “Artisan Bread” for example. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/253 "2016-04-18T17:58:36Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > “Lawyer up.” Christ, just hire an attorney. Except a suspect “lawyers up” when he/she requests or demands an attorney during questioning whether or not he/she has hired or retained one already, and it’s supposed to end questioning until (inherently **before** ) the attorney shows up. “I want a lawyer” =/= “I’ve already hired an attorney.” So “lawyer up” = “invoke one’s right to counsel” but easier/shorter to say, which is usually the reason why a new word or phrase is invented. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 19, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/254 "2016-04-19T01:51:59Z")
IIRC “datalytics” hasn’t been mentioned. Heard it for the first time today, on NPR, and almost rear-ended someone, then onto the sidewalk, taking out some recycling bins and end up vertically, stuck in a drainpipe ditch. Analytics I’m only _slightly_ getting inured to, hearing it out the freaking yin-yang in sports programming, especially hockey. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/255 "2016-04-19T04:54:56Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Except a suspect “lawyers up” when he/she requests or demands an attorney during questioning whether or not he/she has hired or retained one already, and it’s supposed to end questioning until (inherently **before** ) the attorney shows up. “I want a lawyer” =/= “I’ve already hired an attorney.” > > So “lawyer up” = “invoke one’s right to counsel” but easier/shorter to say, which is usually the reason why a new word or phrase is invented. 🙂 I understand what it means. But no suspect ever says, “I’m lawyering up.” He says, “I want my attorney,” or, “I want my lawyer.” Or perhaps just, “Lawyer.” I still can’t stand “lawyer up.” I can’t stand the phrase, “change it up,” either. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/256 "2016-04-19T05:51:19Z")
“What happens next will make your jaw drop!” ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/257 "2016-04-19T06:06:27Z")
“If I can do it, anyone can do it!” I hate this for too many reasons. ---
**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 19, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/258 "2016-04-19T13:20:20Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > “If I can do it, anyone can do it!” > I hate this for too many reasons. No kidding. That’s right up there with “you can be ANYTHING you want!” and “it’s NEVER too late!” Yeah, sometimes it IS too late, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/259 "2016-04-19T13:23:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You hear this on cop shows all the time, so I’ve kind of gotten used to it. But yesterday morning on NPR, someone referred to someone else as being “well lawyered.” That’s just going too dang far. Maybe the speaker just couldn’t pronounce “dressed like an onion”! ---
**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 19, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/260 "2016-04-19T14:28:25Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Maybe the speaker just couldn’t pronounce “dressed like an onion”! Or maybe “battered and fried”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223.md?page=14)