good question
I may have transgressed with “awesome”, somewhere.
This a million times.
Also “awesome.” (I’m lookin’at you, Ming Tsai.)
Well, then maybe I don’t use the phrase in a way that would drive you homicidal. It does carry the connotation of emotional content to me, but not necessarily quite as strong as what you’re describing. I wouldn’t use it in the way you described in your news quote, but it’s also something that wouldn’t necessarily register for me. To me, “reaching out” can include asking for help, a favor, that sort of thing. Like, “I’ll reach out to Mr. Smith and see what I can do.” But the term “to reach out” simply means “an attempt to communicate.” It doesn’t have to be a successful communication, that’s why I find it quite different than the substitute phrases you’ve listed. Like, if I say, “I’ll reach out to Mr. Smith” and he never calls me back, that’s still “reaching out.”
“No problem” needs to go. Especially if I just thanked someone for something.
Lately a friend’s e-mail included a comment to the effect of:
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Casual use of “amazing”, “awesome”, “world-changing”, “epochal” for mundane things. I wonder, if some day Jesus comes down or the Aliens land or Cthulhu wakes up, it’ll sound pretty weak describing it in the same terms as you used just yesterday for a late-season sports trade or the newest iPhone.*
I’m forced to use “assessment” several times a week, sometimes more often than that.
I, too, had to look up “thought leader” – and I, too, thought of Kim Jong .
Err, none of those would qualify as “trendy buzzwords”, except maybe in the 1920s?
“Slow your roll!”
(shudders with anger)
And I have never heard or read the word “bae”, not even on facebook. But I expect it’d be something like, Be my Bae Bae, cray-cray.
For the corporate side - “Meet and greet”, as in, “Hey, sounds great! Let’s do a meet and greet Wednesday.”
Should be swing over, or let’s meet up, or come over and check out our office. Meet and greet should only be used for community centers offering unemployed, alcoholic single buffoons who just came out of house arrest to find a friend.
“Dude.”
I think “hack” is okay when it’s referring to something you do to tree branches with a hand ax.
I hate “lean in”. So cringeworthy.
Louis CK did a whole bit about that.
“Fam”
Fun fact: everything during the Cold War happened “at the height of the Cold War”.
So true! I’ve heard this phrase used to describe the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s.
My contribution: I’m having trouble getting used to “with” without. That is, “with” without an prepositional object: If you’re not doing anything tonight, why don’t you come with?.
Maybe this is a regionalism (we’re new to the Upper Midwest), but I’m guessing it’s a new thing them whippersnappers like to say.
I’ll be darned – “come with” IS an Upper Midwest regionalism, influenced by German settlers.
Okay, kids, you can come back onto my lawn now.
I thought the “come with” was because “come with me” was incorrect grammar?
BOGO used to be buy one get one free
Using it for anything else is a travesty!
that started bugging me a few months back…grrr
There may be a difference but they’ve become inter-changable with Emojis being the replacement for Emoticons/smilies
I simply do not like the term “emoji” since it seems to be not only the catch word but make people think it is the official term or even just some techy/nerdy snotty ass replacement term.
Once you’re looking for it, you can even find events in the 1940s described that way. Heck, google “in 1990, at the height of the Cold War” and danged if there isn’t a hit.