What words / phrases don't you like?

Pawnless Endgame said:
A Friday night subjective thread! Everyone will have different answers, so what are yours?

Right at the top of my list is, 'social media'. It was "social networking (Facebook, Friends Reunited etc) but that got changed to "social media" in the early 2010s, and *boom*, everything online is now social media. YouTube (2004), World of Warcraft (2004), forums (pre-WWW to present), instant messengers (pre-WWW to present) are apparently classed as such. Really? It's the bloody internet!

- 'climate change' - has become a press bingo word, where us kids were taught it as global warming. The greenhouse effect. The ozone layer, CFCs, smoking etc. Global warming.

- 'cost of living crisis' - I kinda understand this one, but it's still essentially a financial crisis, which we get in most decades. The press liked calling the 2008 financial crash the 'credit crunch' (at the time).

- 'online gaming' - when it refers to online gambling. Word-swapping gambling to gaming implies that it is a an innocent pastime. Granted I do online gambling myself, but I prefer to call it what it really is and admit that I do gamble.

- 'gentlemen's club' - is another word-swap where really it's a strip joint. Again it down-plays what it is.

- 'stay home' - old news is old, but it's stay AT home. Lazy writing! I'll accept stay @ home though if you want to be internet-cool, "down with the kids", late 90s style :p

- 'deep fake' - is the press' favourite term for what is basically a "Photoshop", by Photoshopping someone's head into a video or picture.

- 'AI' - similar to deepfake images, except that everything in the press is now apparently AI.

- 'meme' - is such an over-used term. Memes were small internet inside-jokes that later went viral and had a lasting effect. There would be a few memorable ones each year. Then maybe around 2015 onwards, 'memes' only last for a day then punters move onto the next, to the point that the whole idea of a meme loses all meaning because they're forgotten.

This last one is controversial, in that I find the gender terms rather pushy and political. Like unisex (e.g. toilets / items of clothing etc) is now gender neutral, and addressing someone by a he, she or they is called pronouns (instead of an address). HR departments are going to love this because of staff inadvertently miss-gendering someone because that someone didn't put their address he/she/they in their email signature. Stepping on eggshells.
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Who refers to world of warcraft as social media? Nobody.
Unless I've misunderstood, you are saying some people refer to online gambling as online gaming? I doubt that.
A deep fake is not a Photoshop at all. It has it's own name because it's more specific.
 
"Search up" - no. It's "look up", or "search for", get it right or cut your tongue out so we don't have to listen to your stupidity you braindead inbred fwit.

People who confuse hypo/hyper. Great, so your ignorance is potentially going to kill a diabetic *slow clap*. Did it never cross your single braincell that maybe they are different words for a reason?!

"As a gesture of goodwill" - almost exclusively used by companies who have messed up and are doing the bare minimum legal requirement to put it right - usually only after you've raised a formal complaint and threatened legal action
 
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"Practice makes perfect" - I may just be pedantic but practice equates to consistency in my mind. I think we should correct this by saying "Perfect practice makes perfect". :p
 
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"This speaks to..."
"The narrative"
"By end of play"- just give me a time, fool!
"Gaslighting"- I occasionally ask people to explain what they mean this when this is used. That's always a bit awkward, but fun.
 
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