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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 Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭✭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 Posts: 28,012 ✭✭✭✭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: 76,310 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: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


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


  • #9
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 12,990 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Selfie. Sounds so poxy.

    To thine own self be true



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


    Hustings,
    A real Americanism


  • #11
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,310 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 Posts: 383 ✭✭ampleforth


    GenZ ... I prefer 'snowflakes' instead.


  • #13
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


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


  • #14
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,367 ✭✭✭✭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 Posts: 383 ✭✭ampleforth


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

    Fecking aye!


  • #16
    the-island-man
    Registered Users Posts: 488 ✭✭the-island-man


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


  • #17
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,268 ✭✭✭✭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: 76,310 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 Posts: 383 ✭✭ampleforth


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


  • #21
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,310 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
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    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 Posts: 3,156 ✭✭✭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 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: 18,707 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 Posts: 28,012 ✭✭✭✭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.


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