and “spot-on” and “one-off”
“blood and treasure” has finally faded
walk back
pushback
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…and IT’S stupid cousin “weak sauce”.
It may not be trendy, but saying “utilize” instead of “use” makes me a bit nuts. My wife does it.
Well, to me, “reach out” has a more expansive meaning. It means attempting communication in some way, including via an intermediary. It can be talking, it can me email, it can be snail mail, it can be via a relative, etc. It also has the connotation of friendly communication.
These have been mentioned, but I’m REACHING OUT in a ROBUST manner from MY WHEELHOUSE. I’d like to reach through my TV and punch everyone at CNN in the snout.
"Moving forward/going forward" makes me crazy. Really? How else would one move? The past? (And, yes, time is an artificial construct . . . but still).
"Onboarding" is the newest buzzword on campus for getting students to use our new course planning software. Ahoy, maties! Welcome to Pirate U!
I think (hope) that “interrogate,” the fave word of every author in the humanities, may be in its death throes.
Hacktivism
Emoji
Chillax
Game-changer (and it’s even worse cousin, change the narrative)
Grok
hack - in anyway that doesn’t involve a computer security breach
They can also retire ‘gravitas’ now too. It was nice they found that nifty word in the thesaurus, but enough already.
Over here in the social sciences, we have “contest,” “engage,” and “negotiate.”
YES. I dislike those “clever” political slurs too. It makes the speaker/writer look like an idiot, no matter what their political affiliation. :smack:
Whatever Guy Fieri says.
Reminds me that I forgot to include “reiterate.” My memory is faulty today (lack of sleep due to puppy), but remember that science guy who wrote an totally impenetrable article of gobbledy-gook that was accepted in a prestigious humanities journal?
I also vote “core assessment outcomes/any phrase resembling” off the island 
Ah, here 'tis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
“Somewhere there cumbers this fair earth with his loathsome presence a man who, for the common good, should have been destroyed in early childhood. He is the originator of the hideous vulgarism of using contact as a verb. So long as we can meet, get in touch with, make the acquaintance of, be introduced to, call on, interview or talk to people, there can be no apology for contact.” F.W. Lienau, 1931.
Using “ironic” to mean “so very mildly amusing it’s not even worth mentioning.”
So why not just say: I talked to him, I sent him an email, I sent a letter, I asked my son to talk to her? “Reaching out” implies some sort of emotional content to me, as when you communicate with someone who is grieving, or providing some sort of assistance to someone who is suffering. But when a news reporter says something like “We reached out to Mr. Edwards and asked him about the pedophile charges”, it makes me homicidal. Well, perhaps not.
So, does anyone else troll these threads to find interesting, new words or phrases to say? No? Okay then. I’ll just back out slowly now.
Yep, and I make sure to include some of the most reviled in my posts.
That one severely annoys me too – for heaven’s sake, use “emoticon” or “smiley”!
It was not all that long ago that I first encountered “emoji” – on another board, with a thread headed “Putin Considers Outlawing Gay Emojis”. Initially, I was plain baffled: pondering on whether there might be in Siberia or the like, a little-known tribe called the Emojis, with a preference for same-sex partners?
An emoticon is not the same thing as an emoji.
I looked (quickly, admittedly, on Google) – could you explain, what’s the difference?