uh without the “e”, that is.
Speaking of typos -
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Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
“Scrum”, “sprint”, “agile” and other jargon related to the trendy development style de jure.
That should be de jour. (or at least nothing legal here, we hope)
Yeah, to hack a recipe…gross…wrong. I’m still used to how it was said decades ago, meaning “to tough it out”.
“Going forward”
Even worse … “On a going forward basis”
I despise:
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[li]price point;[/li][li]wellness; and[/li][li]gift/gifting instead of give/giving[/li][/ul]
I have no problem with “pushback”. I was in a situation several years before I ever heard that phrase when it would have been extremely useful. Instead I had to invent some cumbersome metaphore to explain what I was experiencing.
Ugh, sounds very 1984 to me.
[retching] Please kill this one with fire, ice, and anything else you can get your hands on.
I listen to a lot of podcasts and I hear these All. The. Damn. Time.
“Curated” somethings. “A carefully curated collection of whatever we’re selling.” No. “Curate” is what experts do with paintings at a museum or art gallery. Choosing magazine articles or snack food or movies is not curating. It’s choosing.
“Unpack” for “discuss”. “Donald Trump’s latest speech has a lot to unpack.” No, you’re going to talk about the speech. You unpack luggage, grocery bags, cars, and meat. You don’t unpack a speech.
“Circle back” for “Get back to you.” “Can I circle back before the primaries to see if your schedule changes?” No. You may not call me back. Fuck off and take your shitty candidate with you.
Depends on where upper midwest is
Saying “come with” just bugs the shit out of me
This isn’t a catch phrase but my SIL always uses the “we went and got” or “I went and
got”
Drives me up the wall!
If I have to use that sort of phrase, I say “We went for” or “we went over to get” “we went there to get”
“and got” just bothers me!
What’s wrong with this one? “Got” is the past tense of “get.” Are you expressing a problem with something like “We went and got a pizza”? That sounds perfectly normal to me. There’s nothing wrong with “got.” People sometimes get irritated when it’s used as a synonym for “have” (as in possession), but as a past tense of “get,” there’s nothing at all objectionable about it.
I swear, as I said above, I use at least 80% of the words and phrases listed in this thread regularly enough. Now, stuff like “clean eating” (never heard it) and “thought leader” (ditto) or “I have an ask” (again, never heard it) would probably bug me, but the rest? I feel like I should never open my mouth around Dopers.
Awesomesauce.
Let’s put a pin in this.
Don’t know if these have been mentioned.
<Someone> has your* back.
*his/my/their
Also, let’s retire “leap of faith” applied to all possible situations.
What does this one mean?
Some of these may be trendy, but they also date back a looooong way.
For example: “Awesome,” in the sense of “really good” or “impressive” rather than “inspiring a sense of fear and wonder that goes beyond the confines of our own world”?
CS Lewis used it that way in a letter to a child in 1954. “Eustace as a dragon is your best picture yet. Really awesome!”
“went and got” dates back to Elizabethan times: “therefore he went and got him certain slips…”
“Gift” as a verb appears in the writings of folks like Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Louisa May Alcott: “Some new terror seemed to have gifted him with momentary strength.”
“Thank you for picking me up.” “No problem.” – from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982
Anyway, just pointing out the historical antecedents for a few of these phrases and usages. Not that I’m intending to spoil anyone’s fun, far from it. Peeve away! I’m all about the crank… 
Yes, very common in the Upper Midwest and certainly very common even in Chicago, where I grew up. I now live in NY state and get funny looks when I use it.
Reading a little further along, I see that I’m not the first to say this or to include the Chicago connection. So why am I posting? Because for some reason I had the impression that you (JKellyMap) live in the city where my mom and most of her siblings were born, and where some of my cousins still live, and where my childhood best friend’s father came from. Don’t know where I got that idea from, as you only name the state in your location field, not the city…
In any case, the folks I referred to above use “come with” at every opportunity, putting even us native Chicagoans to shame; indeed, a more dedicated group of “coming with”-ers you would never hope to see.
So if by some chance you do indeed live in that city (in the western part of the state) be assured that you are at ground zero for that phrase.
To hold off on a current discussion or plan of action for the moment. Like you’re pinning a reminder to a board to pick the topic up later.
Ulf, I’m flattered to have left any “impression” at all. I did indeed live in Chicago, but only from 1988 to 1992 (undergrad at the U of C). I avidly read the Dope on in the Reader (ink on paper!). I guess I wasn’t there long enough to notice the “come with” thing (and only a few of my fellow students were Upper Midwesterners).
The rest of my life has been spent in New York, Mexico, and Kansas. I’ve lived in La Crosse, Wisconsin (as you say, within the western Wisconsin - southern Minnesota heart of “come with” territory) for less than a year.
I hate it when I’m in a meeting and someone says, “Um, we need to come up with a list of action items. Does anyone have any action items? Action item #1 is…”
There’s just something about “action item” I really hate.
NFL version:
game changer
difference maker
elite
prototypical
NBA version:
“He can do that!”, usually right after someone does that particular thing. I usually mutter “No shit?”
Me, too. Bugger is a nice epithet for those situations that are not quite bad enough for shit!. Or even sheee-yit!
Arsed, as in, “I can’t be arsed to look it up” is a fine and useful addition to the American lexicon. Thanks, BBC America!
I will admit to being guilty of whatevs.