Can we PLEASE stop using the word ELEVATE?

If Ella Fitzgerald married Darth Vader, her name would be Ella Vader.

OP are you a little snowflake?

Op you just used it. You dumb un-elevated cunt.

Add “journey” to that.

then what word should be used instead?

I haven't noticed an uptick in usage as we had with other words - which I've now also forgotten about now that people have stopped using them.

I do recall that it irritated me because I actually used some of that vocabulary regularly, but sounded like a twat once everyone started using them.

I don't care, I'm just tired of seeing it used to mean "make better."

It's the new "curated" and "artisanal"

Should we instead say that we are taking things to the next level?

Art is anal, R8.

Snigger.

Here are the synonyms for elevate: boost, heave, hoist, lift, raise, and rear, heave, hoist, shove, thrust. Too crude and masculine.

These are better: advance, heighten, lift, raise

What’s with gay men and their complex about words.

Miss Fancy only takes the lift.

Say enhance instead. It sounds classier.

I prefer to escalate.

Say leveled up OP.

I always get in the deescalator when I'm not in a rush

Who uses it, exactly?

R18. We don't know, exactly.

R18 Maybe that English decorator tea-drinking guy, Mr. Fairchild or something?

I like Nicholas! I’ve been following him for several years now.

If someone says "my journey" or things like "my story is still being written, I guess you'll just have to wait and see what unfolds", they are instantly exiled.

The heavily used “game changer” is annoying. It’s used everywhere: commercials, news, HGTV shows, etc. It’s almost as bad as “you got this!"

If one more MSNBC talking head asks a guest to 'read the tea leaves' (I'm looking at you, Reid and Psaki) I'll puke.

"You got this is awful." Go fuck yourself immediately pops in my mind when I hear that.

I mean, "you got this" is awful.

How about the designers who say...I love this color/item in here..."it pops". Fucking hate the way they always use pop!

Add circle back and the one that started this we must cancel cunty catchphrases:

No worries !!!!!!!! I’m not worried you stupid barista receptionist clerk who the fuck whoever says it… I bet Kamala never said it

[quote] If someone says "my journey" or things like "my story is still being written, I guess you'll just have to wait and see what unfolds", they are instantly exiled.

Don’t you want to hear “their truth?”

i never hear this word. does OP work for a hot hair balloon operator?

What if it’s on your edibles?

I like "game changer" and find it useful.

"Elevate" is the new "kick it up a notch."

" Jjujhue it up a notch"

“Pivot”. As with all these words / expressions - they start out slightly clever but then EVERYONE picks them up and they get flogged to death.

Literally

Throw in 'journey' and 'unpack', too, please. -Excellence' finally managed to fuck off, for the most part.

Twice in fifteen minutes on 'Morning Joe' they talked about 'reading the tea leaves'. Ugggh.

But sometimes it elevates a conversation from its baser lowliness

Already three times this morning I've been served ads on Facebook that use this word; i.e. "elevate your cooking," "elevate your style" etc

Beyond tiresome already. It's as if advertisers just discovered this word.

And can we please stop with the "beyond ___" Beyond tiresome, beyond funny, beyond scary

elevate your dick to new great heights

I'd like to have shock collars on everyone at our team meetings at work. Every time anyone uses any of these insipid words they get an increasingly strong shock. It really is the only way.

It's like "nuanced" that became the "it" word during the last election.

women are out of control with these buzzwords. healing, elevate, self care, manifest, growth, journey, unpack, holistic, etc. shut up

'UPTICK' ?? Just say increase, or rise, FFS!

"Move the needle" has been used a lot recently in our office. I hate it.

I used to work for a large accounting firm that always used the term “value added”. When I hear that today my eyes water…that and “best practices”.

I'm just relieved social media stopped trying to force "cap" into the lexicon.

*Cap, as in a lie or to lie or... something.

Watch QVC and you'll hear "elevate" about every five minutes, to the point that the word becomes meaningless.

I'll never not be mad about "gifting/gifted." What the hell was wrong with give/gave? Nothing!

R48 anyone under 25 is still saying that constantly

I wish people would look up the definition of AMAZING before they use it to describe every damn thing.

I had to leave a job I liked a few months ago, because my 'new' boss described everything as 'amazing'.

"If you can send that email out to the group before you leave today, that would be amazing."

No, you dumb fuck, it wouldn't be amazing. It would be rather mundane as it's my job to do after each team meeting.

Yeah, stop it!

Well....Someone needs to elevate this thread.

Shut up and suck my pussy!

Suck my cock!

How bout I elevate my fist up yer ass!