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46. I intensely dislike the word impactful.

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 09:22 PM

Apr 1

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.

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Bombshell...everything seems to be presented as BOMBSHELL!! MiHale Mar 30 #1

"INFLUENCER"............(ptlui!) some_of_us_are_sane Mar 30 #2

Oh, gawd yes. Not just the "term," but the entire concept.... hlthe2b Mar 30 #4

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How foolish to follow every word of a stranger who self-proclaims expertise as a "Influencer"... hlthe2b Mar 31 #23

It's foolish to follow anyone blindly. only a paper sun Mar 31 #26

No one said education automatically equates to expertise, but lack of education sans equivalent experience hlthe2b Mar 31 #27

A grad-school dropout is chopped liver to you? only a paper sun Mar 31 #30

Drum roll starting now. GP6971 Mar 31 #31

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Sure do. GP6971 Mar 31 #34

psst... hlthe2b Mar 31 #36

Ahhh...she's gone!! I miss her already!! GP6971 Mar 31 #37

Try reading again. I said nothing of the kind. Experience can replace formal education in many many hlthe2b Mar 31 #32

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Secure. Seamless. Connect. Viral. Tetrachloride Mar 30 #9

All the acronyms that get used, mwmisses4289 Mar 30 #10

From NFL and NCAA hoops tournament: "Physicality" lastlib Mar 30 #11

From the Merriam-Webster dictionary LogDog75 Mar 30 #13

Of course it's real. only a paper sun Mar 31 #20

I hate that, too MorbidButterflyTat Mar 31 #42

I'm a geezer and it drives me cra cra when the younger generation end a sentence with an upward inflection. mitch96 Mar 30 #12

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Yes. That's a BIG one with me too. hlthe2b Mar 30 #17

You DO know only a paper sun Mar 31 #22

So? That does not make it less ridiculous. hlthe2b Mar 31 #24

It may sound ridiculous to some. ShazzieB Mar 31 #43

Never heard this until we moved to Illinois in 1994. I grew up in western upstate NY - Rochester 3catwoman3 Apr 1 #45

Well Hello Sunshine!!! GP6971 Mar 31 #25

Actually, Pacific Northwest and texas use it also. mwmisses4289 Mar 31 #28

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It's big here in Michigan bif Apr 2 #47

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