# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 14
**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, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/261 "2016-04-19T22:35:30Z")
“I’m not (blank), but…” ---
**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 24, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/262 "2016-04-24T21:59:44Z")
I just read a new one and had to share. “A great hang” Use it in a sentence: “Our apartment is _a great hang_,” meaning it’s a great place to hang out. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/263 "2016-04-29T20:31:58Z")
An annoying term I hear in radio advertising all the time: “turn to”. As in, “When you have a problem with X, turn to the professionals at Y!” ---
**Author:** ![BundleOfStix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BundleOfStix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BundleOfStix)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/264 "2016-04-30T22:41:17Z")
Using “invite” as a noun: “let’s send Carlos an invite.” No, it’s an “invitation .” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/265 "2016-05-01T03:49:21Z")
STEM. as a math professor, I will never get away from it. ---
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/266 "2016-05-02T04:07:12Z")
“Suspension of disbelief”. It’s getting really hard to find a Sci-fi movie/book review without this overused phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/267 "2016-05-02T04:23:05Z")
> [@BundleOfStix](#): > > Using “invite” as a noun: “let’s send Carlos an invite.” No, it’s an “invitation .” Heh. eVite’s use of “invite” so pissed off a friend of mine that he harassed their support staff until they changed all instances of it to “invitation.” Can’t really fault him on that one. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/268 "2016-05-02T12:09:47Z")
Right now, I’m hearing “optics” way too much, in the sense of “image.” Also, as others have said, “curated.” ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/269 "2016-05-02T14:28:03Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I back \*\*MsRobyn \*\*fully in this. > > When pro sports changed from a competition to a soap opera about the players and a serial novel about the teams as protagonists they totally lost my interest in the yak yak. > > I still watch and enjoy the games, but spare me your tiresome patter you loathsome ESPNers. You’re welcome to dislike their presentation style, but the kind of sports “story” I described long predates ESPN. It’s seen in 19th-century newspaper baseball coverage, for example. **MsRobyn** was just misunderstanding what the word means. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/270 "2016-05-02T21:11:31Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > “Have a good one!” “Life is too short!” I would love to see these blowup into > smithereens . I am really sick of hearing both of these expression . No snark intended but, as I approach 60 yrs I’m starting to understand the “life is too short” thing because it is too bloody short:) ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223/271 "2022-08-12T07:38:30Z")
Cringe, and woke. Any right winger that says, writes, etc. woke should have part of a sattelite hit them. A BIG part of a satteline. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-buzzwords-that-you-wish-you-could-just-blow-up-into-smithereens/749223.md?page=13)