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LJ Idol Week 17, in which we have a word. Or several. {This year my word is...}

Apr 08, 2016 18:55

Each November or thereabouts, a committee in charge of the Oxford English Dictionary chooses a "word of the year" - a newly minted vocabulary word that has recently entered the English lexicon and reflects the personality, trends, and general vibe of the year and culture that gave rise to it ( Read more... )

wordplay crimes & pun-ishment, lji

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halfshellvenus April 9 2016, 07:17:46 UTC

Douche Ex Machina
Hahahaha! This should have been an actual term for, like, two decades already!

The-Sore-Ass
Or oblivious, sometimes? Can I tell you how much respect I have lost in the last year for people who use "ask" as a FREAKIN' NOUN when they mean "request" or "question"? It's like a virus that affects people in management.

Or how many times I've responded to people who say "incentivized" with "motivated!" o_O

Uncle Spanky's Porn Palace... somehow, I feel as if I will never be able to unthink that. :D

ryl April 9 2016, 10:05:18 UTC

There are people who use "ask" as a noun? That makes my slappin' hand itch. >:(

halfshellvenus April 9 2016, 18:57:54 UTC

Mine too! I feel myself transforming into an old man with a cane that needs to be used when people do things like that. :O

porn_this_way April 9 2016, 14:15:29 UTC

How in the seven hells do you use ask as a noun??

halfshellvenus April 9 2016, 19:05:48 UTC

Yargh.

The first time I heard it was in a large office presentation, during Q&A, when an upper-level manager responded to a question with, "That's a good ask."

A WHAT? It's a QUESTION, not an 'ask.' Use words like a normal person!

And then it proliferated into areas like, "One 'ask' that the hardware teams has of us is..." Do you mean, REQUEST? Which is also an actual word? The correct one?

Now my son is talking about forming an "Ask" to ask a girl to the prom. By which he means, a proposal or an invitation. Which are also words that exist!

It's maddening. This is the kind of thing you could barely fathom coming from someone whose first language is not English. But from people in their 40s and 50s who have been using the language all their lives?

I um *koff* might have a ranty problem on this particular topic. :O

gratefuladdict April 11 2016, 04:00:09 UTC

My company constantly uses ask as a replacement for request.

The ask was that we blah blah blah. I don't think that's an unreasonable ask.

They've beaten it into me over the course of a decade. But I don't have to like it.

halfshellvenus April 11 2016, 18:41:03 UTC

Oh my gosh. I didn't realize it had been around that long! My exposure has been over about the last 12 months. Of stupidity. Gah!

one_time_pad April 10 2016, 11:26:47 UTC

The new one here is "solutioning." Which ... #icanteven

halfshellvenus April 10 2016, 18:52:50 UTC

Ouch!

Do you have "signage"?

By which, people mean "signs"? So why can't they just SAY that?

Also popular now is phrasing such as "There's been some talk 'around' that" (or "discussion 'around'").

Instead of using about. Which makes it sound as if they don't want to actually talk about something, they want to AVOID talking about it by employing evasion or obfuscation. \o?

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