Another one: “trending.”
“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
I do know that it’s a medical term for a pattern of white blood cell counts that is characteristic of inflammation.
I’ll take “female” over “womyn” or “wimmin” which was very popular in the 1990s. :rolleyes:
Is that the extent of the options?
I actually did not know what “BOGO” meant! Thank you.
(Why isn’t it “BOGOF”?)
“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:
This made me LOL. 
Probably because I’ve used it for something very much like that.
“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.
[retch] That’s horrible, too. People really need to pay attention to parts of speech.
After all, verbing nouns weirds language, as Calvin said.
“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!
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”.
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Don’t know if these have been mentioned.
<Someone> has your* back.
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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.
dadbod
you do you
“My Bad” (Your bad what?)
Om Nom Nom
My favorite poem is this Ogden Nash gem:
I like eels
except as meals
And the way they feels
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…
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.
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.
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.”
Does it mention that “employees are our most valuable resource”?
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.
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:
Phenomenal.
And no, that’s not a comment on the previous post (although it was a Perfect Storm of a post.)