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    irritating new words

    • 19-07-2020 11:01PM
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      Pythagorean
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      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
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      Aaaaaall the covid ones.


    • #3
      Heres Johnny
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      Cancelled


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      callaway92
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      Heres Johnny wrote: »
      Cancelled

      Cancelled is a new word?


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      Rodney Bathgate
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      Cis


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

      And I agree with S1ippy, aaaaaaalllll the covid ones.


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


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      Purple Mountain
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      Selfie. Sounds so poxy.

      To thine own self be true



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      J Madone
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      Hustings,
      A real Americanism


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      New Home
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      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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      ampleforth
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      GenZ ... I prefer 'snowflakes' instead.


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


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      o1s1n
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      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'


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

      Fecking aye!


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


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      Zaph
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      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.


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


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


    • #20
      ampleforth
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      Second wave... sounds like fun, but isn't... :(


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      New Home
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      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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      Rodney Bathgate
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      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’


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      no.8
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      'Touch-base'


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      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.


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      s1ippy
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      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)


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      KaneToad
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      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.


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      ShooterSF
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      Embiggen


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

      Damn squid.


    • #29
      Pythagorean
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      Excetera is a true abomination, and so is exasperated, instead of exacerbated. Both are commonly heard on radio nowadays.


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      hullaballoo
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      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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      looksee
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      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.


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