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Bullsh*t words/expressions that have got to go! 2020 Edition
Bullsh*t, non-English expressions that make people irredeemable to me as soon as they use one. Their original English language meanings have been distorted beyond recognition, and in many cases they now exude that unctuous quality that Our Overlords use to conceal their insidious totalitarianism.
No free thinker as defined as such in 2020 should ever use these cringeworthy expressions. They belong to the mob.
Feel free to add. We need a complete list. I am sick of:
validate
platform, especially as in “give a platform to”
share
problematic
move forward
reach out
story/stories
conversation
inclusive (x 1000000000!!)
diverse/diversity
community/communities
privilege
listen
support
ally
voice(s)
brown
I am actually tempted to add “white” and “Black.”
Those definitely don’t mean what they actually are.
Published in General
Got another one:
empower / empowered / empowerment
Another, courtesy of Dad: consensus opinion (especially as related to science, which is not, or shouldn’t be, about consensus).
Did anyone mention “intersectionality” yet? Ack! Nails on a chalkboard.
“Self-styled”
”blah blah gate”
Anything with “Social” in front of it.
Or “Studies” behind it.
Thanks to Chris Wallace for these:
Unpack. Explain or analyze or even disentangle would be good meaningful words instead.
In the weeds. It may not be used so much now, but confused is a good meaningful adjective. And for get in the weeds, delve too deeply or over-analyze is fine.
I complained earlier about “ask” as a noun, but a co-worker helpfully reminded me that “get” as a noun is just as awful.
I hate “reveal” as a noun (as in the big reveal . . . ). Bleecch! The noun “revelation” works just fine.
Yes.
It’s a special moment for a football receiver to achieve the all-time record in touchdown
receptions“gets”.ALERT: $5,000
reward“get” offered for information leading to the arrest and convict…I’ve been seeing it in the context of something like “Oh, Famous Person is speaking at your event? That’s quite a get!”
Maybe he meant “git.”
“Reveal” as a noun is fairly common in my work. If you put accent strips in concrete walls, they’re called reveals.
I’m late to this party, but this one has got to go.
Bring back Covfefe!
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/3f03aeb8-778f-49b4-a490-51c4b353ab04
Liberal is not used correctly anymore.
I am starting to think leftist isn’t good anymore either,
“Insurrectionist.”
Or maybe just “Enemy”
Exactly. We are way beyond bickering about the Head Start program at this point.
You know, perhaps coincidentally, before the Wuhan, I thought that elections would be more or less fair, and politicians would sugar coat their agendas and things would be more or less civil and potentially winnable. But now it seems that the election will be “won” by the mob of hecklers vetoing it, and politicians are spouting praise for their new clothes, and the people know he’s lying, and are applauding.
And rationality and truth are considered historic evils.
Rationality and truth are White Privilege.
To which politician are you referring? I hope it isn’t Trump. Or I will cry.
Those who are subverting the election process and will only accept the results if the Democrat wins. Funny thing, they are accusing Trump of trying to subvert the election but it is really they who are doing it.
Projection is a very long tradition among the left.
I thought so. Thank goodness. Just like it was trump who wouldn’t accept Hillary’s loss. Haven’t seen Hillary accept it. Everything that’s happening is linked to the fact that she lost in 2016.
Actually, I think Flynn is the one constant in the whole anti-Trump media and lawfare campaign. It was known that Trump was going to make Flynn his National Security Advisor, and Flynn had clashed with the CIA since 2014, when as head of the DIA, he wrote a report condemning Middle East policy, and coincidentally was first set up by the CIA with Svetlana Lokhova. It was also known apparently that Flynn, as incoming National Security Advisor, wanted to audit the CIA. So they wanted him taken out.
For more, per wikipedia:
“Ask” as a verb when the speaker really means “force” or “require.” As in, “We are going to ask the wealthy to pay a little bit more,” when they really mean, “We are going to raise taxes on the wealthy.”
Makes me think about the boss in Office Space: “Yeahhh… we’re just going to have to ask you to get those tps reports in …”
Anglo-saxons are experts at that passive aggressive, demanding quality. French are very formal and when needed are cold, but that’s much more authentic than this corporate “Hi can we just get” speak.
Utilize has a specific meaning but people don’t realize that. They use it because they think it sounds smarter than ‘use.’ In reality, people sound much smarter if they stick to ‘little words’ that they know, and avoid ‘big words’ they are not comfortable with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzPooqlZ84&feature=youtu.be&t=3018
That’s right up there with “I’ll let you help me with the dishes.”