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irritating new words

  • 19-07-2020 11:01pm
    #1
    Pythagorean
    Registered Users Posts: 244 ✭✭


    I have noticed recently that some new, and to my mind , irritating, words are becoming increasingly prevalent,. Two examples ---- "get-go" instead of start, and "uptick" instead of increase. I have seen and heard these used on mainstream media now. I cringe when I hear them. :(


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  • #2
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    Aaaaaall the covid ones.


  • #3
    Heres Johnny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Heres Johnny


    Cancelled


  • #4
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,837 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Heres Johnny wrote: »
    Cancelled

    Cancelled is a new word?


  • #5
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Cis


  • #6
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Pythagorean wrote: »
    I have noticed recently that some new, and to my mind , irritating, words are becoming increasingly prevalent,. Two examples ---- "get-go" instead of start, and "uptick" instead of increase. I have seen and heard these used on mainstream media now. I cringe when I hear them. :(

    According to Merriam Webster, uptick was recorded in use in the 1950s and get-go in the 1960s. Hardly new! Though I don't dispute their cringeworthiness.


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  • #7
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Hashtag (in its relatively new twitter-like meaning).
    Guesstimate (again, not *new* new).

    And I agree with S1ippy, aaaaaaalllll the covid ones.


  • #8
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    'optics' ....they're usually not good apparently


  • #9
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Selfie. Sounds so poxy.

    To thine own self be true



  • #10
    J Madone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭J Madone


    Hustings,
    A real Americanism


  • #11
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    App, too! Too difficult to add a few more letters and say application instead? Oh, and whatever happened to computer programmes? Do computers have only apps, too, now?


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  • #12
    ampleforth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭ampleforth


    GenZ ... I prefer 'snowflakes' instead.


  • #13
    New Home
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    Aaaargh!!! Snowflakes!! (and not the precipitation ones).


  • #14
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Pythagorean wrote: »
    I have noticed recently that some new, and to my mind , irritating, words are becoming increasingly prevalent,. Two examples ---- "get-go" instead of start, and "uptick" instead of increase. I have seen and heard these used on mainstream media now. I cringe when I hear them. :(

    Ever heard someone say or type 'from the gecko" rather than 'from the get go'?

    Such cringe. It's up there with 'pedal stool' and 'damp squid'


  • #15
    ampleforth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭ampleforth


    New Home wrote: »
    Aaaargh!!! Snowflakes!! (and not the precipitation ones).

    Fecking aye!


  • #16
    the-island-man
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭the-island-man


    Said this before in a similar thread.....Eatery, f***in' aule American bull****.


  • #17
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    J Madone wrote: »
    Hustings,
    A real Americanism

    Nope, apparently it dates back to the Vikings in at least the 12th century and was used by Dickins in The Pickwick Papers in the 19th century. Origin of the word explained here.


  • #18
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    So the Vikings got to America first and brought their words there with them?!? Shocking! :D


  • #19
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Curate (not new but now used for ****e like ‘a curated wash bag’)


  • #20
    ampleforth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭ampleforth


    Second wave... sounds like fun, but isn't... :(


  • #21
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Curate


    As in, a kind of priest? Or as in curate an exhibition? Neither are new, but if there's another meaning then I stand corrected.

    rtron wrote: »
    Does "New normal" really mean "the way things are now, instead of before"?


    Yes.


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  • #22
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    New Home wrote: »
    As in, a kind of priest? Or as in curate an exhibition? Neither are new, but if there's another meaning then I stand corrected.





    Yes.

    Curate is of course not new but it is now used for ****e like ‘a curated wash bag’


  • #23
    no.8
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭no.8


    'Touch-base'


  • #24
    New Home
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    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Curate is of course not new but it is now used for ****e like ‘a curated wash bag’
    Good grief, now I'm sorry I asked... are you serious? Ok, I agree with you.

    no.8 wrote: »
    'Touch-base'


    Yes.


  • #25
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Ever heard someone say or type 'from the gecko" rather than 'from the get go'?

    Such cringe. It's up there with 'pedal stool' and 'damp squid'
    "Here here"

    Got that on a whatsapp group the other day, how does one arrive at adulthood and not encounter that written correctly.

    (nice reference btw)


  • #26
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Ever heard someone say or type 'from the gecko" rather than 'from the get go'?

    Such cringe. It's up there with 'pedal stool' and 'damp squid'

    Upsetting the apple tart.
    Hoisted by his own leotard.
    Mute point.
    Excetera.


  • #27
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Embiggen


  • #28
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    KaneToad wrote: »
    Upsetting the apple tart.
    Hoisted by his own leotard.
    Mute point.
    Excetera.

    Damn squid.


  • #29
    Pythagorean
    Registered Users Posts: 244 ✭✭Pythagorean


    Excetera is a true abomination, and so is exasperated, instead of exacerbated. Both are commonly heard on radio nowadays.


  • #30
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,750 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Exasperated and exacerbated are two completely separate words with completely different meanings?

    One means (loosely) fed up and the other means (loosely) made worse.

    I don't think this is a thing.

    On the other hand, I am not liking the increasing use of the word "woke" used to describe someone who has been awoken. It should be "awoken". I know it isn't woke to say this but the participles mean something to me. At least I can say they done.


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  • #31
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    hullaballoo wrote: »
    Exasperated and exacerbated are two completely separate words with completely different meanings?

    One means (loosely) fed up and the other means (loosely) made worse.

    I don't think this is a thing.

    On the other hand, I am not liking the increasing use of the word "woke" used to describe someone who has been awoken. It should be "awoken". I know it isn't woke to say this but the participles mean something to me. At least I can say they done.

    Oh you haven't been listening Hullaballoo, I have heard people saying exasperated when they mean exacerbated, I doubt they are even aware that exacerbated is a word!

    I do struggle with the word 'woke' though in the social media sense, its a word that does not mean anything to me, it doesn't inform me.


  • #32
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Mod: Hi folks, just a gentle reminder to look at the title of the thread - we are looking for 'irritating new words' - which could include existing words given a new use - like 'woke' - or entirely new inventions. Malapropisms and egghorns are entertaining but not really on topic for this thread. Thanks!


  • #33
    Pythagorean
    Registered Users Posts: 244 ✭✭Pythagorean


    Here's an irritating new word then ; "Bootilicious" or maybe "Bodacious", another is "Chillax". Nouns which have been turned into verbs, eg. "tasked with" , "concerning" in the sense of worrying, or a cause for concern.


  • #34
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Embiggen

    That's a perfectly chromulent word.


  • #35
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    The recent proliferation of "staycation" everywhere has started to bite me hard, and I'm starting bristle when I hear it.

    Also the use of "addicting" rather than "addictive".

    Oh and one that made me properly twitch, "preciseness". The irony wasn't good enough to stop me making an audible groan.


  • #36
    1874
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,404 ✭✭✭1874


    Pythagorean wrote: »
    I have noticed recently that some new, and to my mind , irritating, words are becoming increasingly prevalent,. Two examples ---- "get-go" instead of start, and "uptick" instead of increase. I have seen and heard these used on mainstream media now. I cringe when I hear them. :(

    uptick has been on the go for around 15 years,maybe it just took that long to find its way into more mainstream or common usage, first I heard was in relation to an increase in insurgent attacks in Iraq around 2005, I was in a multinational then and within a few months I heard it being used commonly, but they were already fairly heavy on the corporate bull$hit lingo.


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  • #37
    byronbay2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    Pythagorean wrote: »
    Here's an irritating new word then ; "Bootilicious" or maybe "Bodacious", another is "Chillax". Nouns which have been turned into verbs, eg. "tasked with" , "concerning" in the sense of worrying, or a cause for concern.

    These are the new words that annoy me. Most of them seem to come from American sports reporters/commentators but have been integrated into British sport now. A good example is: To win a medal ----> to medal, e.g she medalled at the last Olympics.


  • #38
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Cosplay.. now there is one irritating word


  • #39
    Former Coach
    Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭Former Coach


    ‘Would of’ rather than ‘would have’......


  • #40
    Mearings
    Registered Users Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Mearings


    Yeah-no. (With apologies to RO'CK.)


  • #41
    Duckjob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    An IT specific one that drives me nuts is "build out".
    e.g. as soon as we get approval to go ahead we can start building out the API.

    WTH is wrong with just saying build, code, or write ?

    American sh*te.


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  • #42
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,629 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Intersectionalist.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #43
    the-island-man
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭the-island-man


    Staycation.... because people are too Fu***** lazy to say "I'm spending my holiday in Ireland"


  • #44
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    The recent proliferation of "staycation" everywhere has started to bite me hard, and I'm starting bristle when I hear it.

    Also the use of "addicting" rather than "addictive".

    Oh and one that made me properly twitch, "preciseness". The irony wasn't good enough to stop me making an audible groan.
    the-island-man wrote: »
    Staycation.... because people are too Fu***** lazy to say "I'm spending my holiday in Ireland"

    Amen brother!


  • #45
    I see sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    'Cohort' is used very ofter now and I find it irritating.


  • #46
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,213 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Booty.
    It’s always arse in Louth.


  • #47
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Duckjob wrote: »
    An IT specific one that drives me nuts is "build out".
    e.g. as soon as we get approval to go ahead we can start building out the API.

    WTH is wrong with just saying build, code, or write ?

    American sh*te.

    So many **** terms in IT now, We've a rake of consultants in at the moment, and they're hilarious.

    "On-board"

    "Socialize"


    "Orchestration"

    "Go on a journey"

    We had one genius today actually come out with the terrm "See to the horizion and then beyond that" I had to bite my tongue


  • #48
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    ..just north of...'

    Nothing is ever 'just over' or 'just above' anymore.


  • #49
    two wheels good
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭two wheels good


    Other nouns to verbs:
    "headquartered" as in "Company X is headquartered in Dublin."
    I've heard "officed" also.

    "Reaching out" is gaining popularity. In place of "contacted/emailed/phoned".
    I've been hearing it on RTE radio1 recently.
    It has its place when referring to canvassing a community I suppose but not when it means emailing an individual.

    Once again .. bloody americanisms!


  • #50
    Pythagorean
    Registered Users Posts: 244 ✭✭Pythagorean


    Even though not strictly new words, I find the new usage of "conversation" rather than debate or discussion, and "journey" referring to a life event etc, rather irritating. Also why does everything have to be "absolutely amazing" ? .I was watching a TV soap, and the boss said to her employee "would you like to take your lunch break early? " "that would be amazing" she replied.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
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    Banter


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