Annoying words
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I don't think I've ever seen this usage!
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I hear it a lot: "We know what happened in the board room, but the optics look bad from a PR standpoint."
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Exactly.
This comes up a lot in the news, political news, where everyone is worried about PR.
Bad enough for people to say "It's a bad look" ... I still say variations of the perfectly good word "appearance."
(And don't get me started on "Let's take a deep dive" or "Let's unpack this")
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"every little breeze..."
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"Lean into" and "live into" are phrases that I hear at church a lot these days. Still not entirely sure what is really meant by it.
Haha! You obviously should move.
(Or is this all on TV?)
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Oh, I am so ready for "unpack" in the metaphorical sense to fall out of fashion!
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I had no issue with the word until it became the subject of a scene in an an Academy Award-winning romantic comedy (enough clues yet?). The issue was about how to spell the word 'Conscience'. They ground on the fact that it is made up of two words (one prefix and one word, actually) 'con' and 'science'. Now whenever I read or hear that word, it's like someone hit the 'replay' button of that scene and then it becomes an 'earworm' until I can refocus on something (anything) else.
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It was a useful term in the academic sense when I was in grad school AND I do think the concept of digging into underlying meanings and implications is super important in these days of misinformation and disinformation and hot takes and glib takes everywhere, but yeah, overused.
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Since Weird Al’s “Mission Statement” song, I’ve never been able to take buzzwords seriously.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
Cheers,
Chris
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
Cheers,
Chris
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I realized when I recorded a chapter last Sunday that "little" always throws me in a sentence. I can say it fine by itself, but that isn't very useful.
I was going to nominate fissiparous, because I had to pronounce it like a first-grade teacher, lest the listener will think I'm mispronouncing "vociferous", but then I realized that it was just the last straw, coming as it did on top of annoying syntax and an annoying proposition...
Michael
... but I don't have anyone else to blame for my choice of a solo project.I know not whether it may or may not be worth while to add that every passing word I have since thought fit to utter on any national or political question has been as wholly consistent with the principles which I then did my best to proclaim and defend as any apostasy from the faith of all republicans in the fundamental and final principle of union, voluntary if possible and compulsory if not, would have been ludicrous in the impudence of its inconsistency with those simple and irreversible principles. Monarchists and anarchists may be advocates of national dissolution and reactionary division: republicans cannot be. The first and last article of their creed is unity: the most grinding and crushing tyranny of a convention, a directory, or a despot, is less incompatible with republican faith than the fissiparous democracy of disunionists or communalists.
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Yowch! That paragraph is a killer!Kazbek wrote: ↑May 30th, 2021, 11:28 am I was going to nominate fissiparous, because I had to pronounce it like a first-grade teacher, lest the listener will think I'm mispronouncing "vociferous", but then I realized that it was just the last straw, coming as it did on top of annoying syntax and an annoying proposition...
... but I don't have anyone else to blame for my choice of a solo project.I know not whether it may or may not be worth while to add that every passing word I have since thought fit to utter on any national or political question has been as wholly consistent with the principles which I then did my best to proclaim and defend as any apostasy from the faith of all republicans in the fundamental and final principle of union, voluntary if possible and compulsory if not, would have been ludicrous in the impudence of its inconsistency with those simple and irreversible principles. Monarchists and anarchists may be advocates of national dissolution and reactionary division: republicans cannot be. The first and last article of their creed is unity: the most grinding and crushing tyranny of a convention, a directory, or a despot, is less incompatible with republican faith than the fissiparous democracy of disunionists or communalists.
Michael
. Awesome!SonOfTheExiles wrote: ↑May 27th, 2021, 1:05 pm Since Weird Al’s “Mission Statement” song, I’ve never been able to take buzzwords seriously.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
Cheers,
Chris
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