Emoticons are made, or can be made with text characters.
Emojis are small graphic images.
It can be confusing because some phones and other devices will automatically convert text character emoticons into the device’s default emojis.
But I am amused that we’re at a point where people are arguing for the use of smiley or emoticon as the preferred traditional term.
I think the blame goes to AT&T, and/or their then ad company, for the slogan, “Reach out–reach out and touch someone. Reach out and just say hi.” That was in the late 70s-early 80s, so it’s been around awhile.
My vote for the trendy buzzword that should be blown to smithereens: all of them.
Thanks IS, for fighting my ignorance; and in the circumstances, I withdraw the comment in my post, about preference.
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oh yes, “thought leaders” really irks me. Especially once LinkedIn started using it in their e-mail news letters.
when I hear the term “thought leader,” my mind creates a picture of a huge, open city square with large portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il on display.
I fucking hate, “The Next Level”.
Especially when combined with boots on the ground.
When did *incentivize * become a word? Is there some way to incentivize people to quit using it?
I hate “ask” instead of request.
I have an ask…NO! NO! NO! You have a request.
As a man who commutes daily by train, manspreading is real and it’s not spectacular. :mad:
I think hangry is a useful word that succinctly describes a real thing. Unfortunately, I get hangry now and then* and even consciously realizing that’s why I’m getting peevish doesn’t help, only actually eating does. 
*Taken literally, “now and then” (or “from time to time”) is fairly meaningless, but we all know what it means because it’s been around for ages and it sounds normal to us. While some of these words are goofy – what does “cray-cray” do that crazy doesn’t, and how is “chillaxing” any different than chilling or relaxing? – some actually do say something more succinctly than a cumbersome phrase made of words that happened to exist when one was in school and therefore are kosher. :rolleyes:
Moving to MPSIMS.
I agree “hangry” is, or can be, useful that way – but it makes me want to throw up ! I’d have difficulty explaining why – but this is stuff about which we aren’t always rational: we just feel the way we do.
‘Revert’ used in place of ‘respond’ or ‘reply’. I get this a lot in emails from buzzwordy people; “I’ll check my calendar and revert back to you” . No you won’t. You’ve never been me.
selfie makes me want to barf.
Damn, I thought I had a fair knowledge of current buzzwords, being the web monkey that I am. (No clue if that’s something other people say or not, it’s just what sounded right to me at the moment to describe my always-onlineness) But you have taught me much, Dope… as ever…
Thank-you…or actually maybe not thank-you.
I was going to put “reach out” first on my list.
Here are some others:
“Awesome”. Now as overused as “cool”.
“No problem”. This one really pisses me off when used as an alternative for “You’re welcome”
“Unbelievable”. Especially when used by sportscasters when describing the kind of outstanding play seen several times a season.
I have probably watched about 200-300 college and pro football games lifetime and I would say there has only been one individual play which approached the status of “unbelievable”: David Tyree’s ne plus ultra Helmet Catch in Super Bowl XLII. During the same play from scrimmage QB Eli Manning made a great scramble out of the literal grasp of the defense, but that is an example of what I mean by “the kind of outstanding play seen several times a season”. And I consider Manning’s subsequent pass to be routine for an NFL QB of the first rank (which Manning has certainly proven himself to be).
So, hangry makes you stabby, and stabby makes you fangry?
How many here admit to using some of these terms?
<raises hand> Absolutely! Not the corporate junk, never, that gives me the willies. But a good percentage of the rest have passed my lips at some point.