Which buzzword, phrase, expression, jargon, slang term is "bugging" you right now---political or not...

[hlthe2b]

You know something that has entered/reentered the lexicon is driving you nuts, so which is currently your most irritating?

I'll start:

LEVEL UP!

Okay, I know it started with video games, but damned if I didn't hear it on at least six different commercials yesterday and... even among news spokespeople/pundits. Uggh. It has become so inane in my book.

Yours?

[MiHale]

1. Bombshell...everything seems to be presented as BOMBSHELL!!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

2. "INFLUENCER"............(ptlui!)

I despise that one.

"ICONIC' is also over-used.

[hlthe2b]

4. Oh, gawd yes. Not just the "term," but the entire concept....

It only underscores the increasing disdain for education, credentials, and credible experience--when so many idolize those who self-proclaim themselves to be this--solely because they manage to get YouTube or social media "views."

I think they will be around watching the world burn (as they tell the rest of us otherwise, or what to wear, or how to look)--a bit like the cockroaches around with the dinosaurs.

[hlthe2b]

23. How foolish to follow every word of a stranger who self-proclaims expertise as a "Influencer"...

Do you not see a difference between "content creators" and self-proclaimed "Influencers?" Because I certainly do. And for their own well-being and the survival of others, I suggest viewers learn to discern the difference.



This might be sorely apropos (for some)

[only a paper sun]

26. It's foolish to follow anyone blindly.

IDGAF how edumacated they are.

[hlthe2b]

27. No one said education automatically equates to expertise, but lack of education sans equivalent experience

almost assuredly DOES.

And the trend of following some stranger with no evidence of the prior based solely on the number of views already achieved (popularity) is the most absurd (and deleterious) trend I've ever seen emerge in a segment of our society. Your contempt for education is noted, however. That is a real "tell." Not subtle.

[only a paper sun]

30. A grad-school dropout is chopped liver to you?

Oy vey...

[GP6971]

31. Drum roll starting now.

[hlthe2b]

33. *

(I gather you see what I am seeing)...

[GP6971]

34. Sure do.

[hlthe2b]

36. psst...

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=380600

Pretty sure it was the infamous "Library Girl" from the posts and avatar. 'Guess MIRT agreed.

[GP6971]

37. Ahhh...she's gone!! I miss her already!!

[hlthe2b]

32. Try reading again. I said nothing of the kind. Experience can replace formal education in many many

areas of life. So stop your (apparently) misrepresentation of my post. I will assume that it may have been accidental, but it comes off as very trolling.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. "On the radar!"🤬

[yorkster]

5. Circle back.

Agree with level up.

[DFW Dem]

6. Unprecedented

Since the first time he was in offfice, we have all heard unprecedented use of the word unprecedented. It truly is the right word, but we need another one. Please.

[cloudbase]

7. Content creator.

Epic.
Awesome.

[justaprogressive]

8. DOGE nt

[Tetrachloride]

9. Secure. Seamless. Connect. Viral.

[mwmisses4289]

10. All the acronyms that get used,

especially because many of them can refer to more than one thing. For example, CIA refers to both the u.s. Central Intelligence Agency and the Culinary Institute of America.
I have to keep looking them up, and then check context to see what is being referred to.

[lastlib]

11. From NFL and NCAA hoops tournament: "Physicality"

Not even a real word! - - - -

[LogDog75]

13. From the Merriam-Webster dictionary

physicality
noun
phys·​i·​cal·​i·​ty ˌfi-zə-ˈka-lə-tē
plural physicalities
Synonyms of physicality
1
: intensely physical orientation : predominance of the physical usually at the expense of the mental, spiritual, or social
2
: a physical aspect or quality

[only a paper sun]

20. Of course it's real.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

42. I hate that, too

Once one of them starts saying it, they all do.

[mitch96]

12. I'm a geezer and it drives me cra cra when the younger generation end a sentence with an upward inflection.

Like they are asking a question but making a statement.. I have noticed people in Australia do that a bunch..

[bif]

14. Do you want to come with?

Leaving out the Me or Us at the end of the sentence.

[hlthe2b]

17. Yes. That's a BIG one with me too.

[only a paper sun]

22. You DO know

that it is Midwestern vernacular, right? So regional and probably limited to Illinois, Wisconsin and maybe Minnesota. And hardly new.

[hlthe2b]

24. So? That does not make it less ridiculous.

[ShazzieB]

43. It may sound ridiculous to some.

But it's not a buzzword. It's regional slang, which often sounds weird to those outside the region(s) in question.

For example, I'm from Illinois, but I spent 3 years in eastern North Carolina, which included getting used to the regional slang there. Instead of saying they needed to get in touch with someone, people would say, "I need to get up with so-and-so." Sounds pretty weird till you get used to it.

In Illinois, people say "come with" all the time, so it sounds perfectly normal to me. "I'm going to [name of place]. Do you want to come with?" is just our shorthand for "I'm going to [name of place]? Do you want come with me?"

[3catwoman3]

45. Never heard this until we moved to Illinois in 1994. I grew up in western upstate NY - Rochester

IT still sounds strange to me even after 30 years here. I never say it.

Another odd regional word usage which puzzled the hell out of me when I got my nurse practitioner job in 1996 was hearing mothers say variations of, "He had a fever for 3 days, and then he got sick." I'm thinking, "If he had a fever for 3 days, wasn't he sick already?"

It took me the longest damn time to figure out that no one around here likes to use the word "vomiting," or any of its common slang options - puke, barf, throw up, heave, etc. Odd.

[GP6971]

25. Well Hello Sunshine!!!

[mwmisses4289]

28. Actually, Pacific Northwest and texas use it also.

[only a paper sun]

29. Cool.

I love that kind of stuff. Minored in Linguistics.

[bif]

47. It's big here in Michigan

But I still cringe every time I hear it. I always have the urge to finish the sentence for the person who says it.

[LogDog75]

15. Yada-Yada-Yada

I know this came from a Seinfeld episode and it was use as a method to shorten retelling something. But people using it today in normal conservation make themslves sound like idiots.

[bif]

16. What's the "ask"?

[pansypoo53219]

18. deep state. idjits

[10 Turtle Day]

19. As a baseball fan, velo

Short for velocity. Broadcasters use it all game long for the speed of the pitch, the speed of the hit ball, the speed of the batter’s swing, etc. It drives me crazy. It’s so overused I wish that the technology to measure these was never developed. I guess they think it sounds cool or something, but to me it’s just laziness and sounds pretentious. Now it’s like some unwritten rule that they can never say the full word velocity.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. If They Want To Have A Shorter Word...

...than velocity, there's always "speed". Only one syllable, so spoken it's shorter than "velo".
I agree with you about it being annoying.

[LearnedHand]

38. Except speed and velocity aren't strictly interchangeable

Velocity is technically speed + direction, in math and physics anyway.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. We Can Disagree About That

Yes, one is scalar, the other is a vector. But in the context used in baseball, it's a distinction without a difference, as the direction is implied & understood.

[LuckyLib]

39. The word "like" inserted at least every fifth word in a sentence. Folks from ages 10 through 60.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

40. "Legacy"

Everyone's gotta have a legacy. Do this for your legacy, buy that for your legacy. Feed the egos everywhere by pretending there's a "legacy" that will honor you or even remember you. It's everywhere and it's preposterous.

"Tush push." Just NOPE.

"At the end of the day..."

"Elite."

Anything and everything Chris Collinsworth says.

[catbyte]

44. "That's fire"

When something is really good. Way overused, especially on YouTube.

[3catwoman3]

46. I intensely dislike the word impactful.

I find it clunky and awkward. Influential /or effective are more than adequate and sound more polished.

In my career area (nursing/healthcare), to be impacted means to be severely constipated, colloquially referred to as FOS - full of shit. In my first job, I once had to digitally/manually disimpact a very constipated patient. This may well have something to do with my dislike for this word.

I also have trouble with "unctuous" having taken on a positive meaning. I hear it all the time on various of the cooking shows when chefs are speaking favorably of enough fat content in a food they are judging. I can't break the habit of its original definition of oily/greasy/soapy - not a characteristic one would find desirable in food. Weird.

[Aristus]

48. "Research". "I was doing some research." - "Do your own research!" - "I did my own research!"

Almost always when it is appended to some ludicrous argument about vaccines, or autism, or COVID-19, or fucking Roswell, New Mexico.

"Research", to these half-wits, fuckwits, and chuzzlewits, is watching a Youtube or TikTok video hosted by some similarly brainless grade-school dropout who likely still eats Elmer's Glue, and with whose views the "researcher" already agrees.

I hate the way the misuse of the term diminishes and demeans the noble and rigorous process of actually trying to accumulate and interpret data. Thus increasing the sum total of human knowledge and wisdom.

Every dipshit waste of human protoplasm with an internet connection fancies him or herself a "researcher".