Trendy Or Contemporary Phrases And Or Words Of The Last Few Years That Rub You The Wrong Way

What other word would you suggest for the practice known as vaping?

Vaping seems straightforward descriptive.

"The New Ivies”

"Holding space"

Not to pile on, OP, but farm-to-table has been a popular restaurant hook since the aughts.

I nominate “the ick”, “standing on business” and “old money style”.

Space, rather than room

Primary bedroom

generational wealth, rather than "Old Money"

BCE/CE....please! BC and AD had also become secular

Mx

cisgender

I forgot “based” (the 2020s version of “dude, you’re getting a dell” for radicalized twerpy incels) and “the global majority” (which feels even more flattening than “Person of Colour”and “BIPOC”).

Slaps

Fire

Shooketh

Give "grace"

Thirst Trap

Housing insecurity comes to mind.

White Christian nationalism, Make America Great Again, "Trump is still alive."

All hideous.

The newish trend of TikTok, IG reels starting with POV in the transcripts. Half the time it doesn't make sense.

Unalive

“Single origin” signals “artisanal.” It also implies “fair trade.”

Unhoused

I always loved the word curate, NOW I FUCKING HATE IT.

"UNALIVED"- Fucking hate that shit.

Thought Leader. EAT ME.

Oh- and - Use Case.

Overused at my company.

What is this “use case?”

Tradwife.

Just say housewife.

An example of why/how someone or a company would use your product and then you use that as an example to sell more product-

A real life example..

Trad Man

gender is a (social) construct (not biological)

Latinx

Unhoused

House-made instead of homemade

Holding space

Queer spaces

non-binary

BIPOC

Intersectionality

Problematic

They/them

"Hack." As in "Here's a new hack for cleaning your kitchen faucet," or whatever. Where did this come from??

"Self deletion" instead of suicide.

R16 Tradwifery is not the same as housewifery. The former implies dedicating oneself to "traditional" homemaking practices and skills--cooking all food from scratch, cleaning with as little modern technology and chemicals as possible, growing, harvesting, processing, and preserving as much food as possible by hand, home-birthing and schooling all the children, etc.

It's basically a way to send women back to the days of tedious, back-breaking domestic slavery so as to temper the hysteria, and convincing them on social media that there's nothing more to it than a bit of cosplaying Little House on the Prairie.

"Crafted"

"Shined"

As in, "The sun shined in the sky."

The sun spit morning...

"rub you the wrong way."

food insecure for hunger.

R11- So what.

I don't like the word Artisinal either and Fair Trade sounds suspicious to me like Free Trade.

I used to hate "food desert" until I lived in one, briefly.

Jane Fonda is no longer an actress.

She's an ACTOR

Use Case from upthread is the stupidest fucking made-up term I've heard in a long time.

It's also just awkward as hell to say.

For years I've hated any meme that starts with "Absolutely nobody: "

I don't know why it bugs me so much, but it does.

"Unalived" was started because "suicide" and "murder" gets you demonitized on youtube. Crime tubers came up with it.

Uncoupled

Anyways.

Cis

"My pronouns are" - sorry, but this isn't your decision and it's not optional with variables.

"Global South"

Was anyone actually offended by the term "developing country?" It doesn't even make sense given Australia and New Zealand.

Developing Country was once the old euphemism for Third World Country

Are people still getting their labia all foamy over the trans? I thought Project 2025 had soothed all those terrors.

Really tired of the use of "masterclass" to define even the most mundane display of skill or talent. For example: "Melania Trump farting at the state dinner last night was a masterclass in farting." And while I'm at it, "be like" is another phrase that has outlived its use.

A series of concerts described as a “residency.”

I think “developing” can only be used for so long before it becomes a lie.

R42 But that’s what a residency is you dumb cunt.

“Based off of” instead of “based on”

Op I feel you on influencer. I mean that’s what those cunts are and I respect many of their hustles but the handful I met in person need to cease to exist from a horrible grease fire. 🔥 Cunts so insufferable that now I can’t stand to hear the word.

R18 Yet some people alter their biology to conform to the construct. The eternal "trans" contradiction.

And "cis" man/woman is as redundant as saying "human" man/woman. It's stating the obvious.

“Craveables” as a menu heading. What does that even mean?

R31 I had to chop off my tatas to be called one. It’s not fair.

Some of you cunts on this very thread some very Problematic.

[quote] Anyways.

I find that one similar to “All’s I know” and “who all”, which I both find utterly grating.

I am "Authentically and organically" .... shit storm. Meghag, Prince Harry's skank overuses these terms. She will never be authentic or organic. GTFU.

Unalive what was wrong with the term Suicide?

Exclusive being used instead of expensive to describe a hotel/restaurant/condo building. If it's open to any human with enough money, it's not exclusive.

Feels like journalists doing pro bono PR work.

“Rising” to refer to school kids' grade level. “Conor, a rising ninth-grader, hopes to join the chess team.” Why rising? Is this a term used only in the summer? If so, just say “entering ninth grade.”

Annoying.

"Welcome in"

and ... "Following!" (short for "can I help the following guest?")... what was wrong with "Next, please!"?

R43 Well there is the word undeveloped.

“No problem..”

for

“You are welcome.”

I hate when you must now address a SUPER MORBIDLY OBESE woman as

Plus Sized- like that broad in California who was mocked by the gay male in short shorts 🩳.

"Couple goals," or "___ is goals" 🤮

Almond moms, wine moms, tiger moms, mama bears...

Swole

"Elevated" as a food descriptor ("Elevated Asian fusion street food in a contemporary upscale setting")

[quote] Unalive what was wrong with the term Suicide?

R53 - You'll need ask YouTube which also has rechristened rape as "grape". How is that less offensive when it completely erases the horror of such a crime?

What's worse is that people on reddit will voluntarily say SA'd, r61. They could talk about rape like adults but they choose to use baby language. I wonder how many rape survivors appreciate that.

[quote] "Elevated Asian fusion street food in a contemporary upscale setting"

R60, LOL

Reminded me of this scene:

It’s the site censoring these words or it causes the videos to get demonetized or hidden.

Died by suicide.

(It's as if someone else killed the victim, and denies the agency of the word "committing."_

"Truth to power."

"Authentic Life."

"Existential Threat"

All these make me want to smack a bitch upside the head.

Ben Platt at r44.

Bearking.

Living my truth

My authentic self

Living my best life

[quote] Died by suicide. (It's as if someone else killed the victim, and denies the agency of the word "committing."_

Disagree. “Commiting” comes from the idea that suicide is a sin or a crime. Outdated ideas.

"Lived experience"

As if there's any other kind.

"Storied".

STORIED!!! What the fuck????

r58 de nada

r70 That is the reason, but the real definition of committing just means to put into action. No judgement.

Again. Disagree. Commit means to “deliberately put into action” in a legal or moral sense. You would not use that word to simply mean “do.” One commits shoplifting. One does not commit lunch. One commits adultery. One does not commit an affair.

"No worries."

Younger people adding "real quick" to requests. I don't get it.

"Just one question, real quick..."

Can I use your bathroom real quick?"

People calling you "boss."

"Thanks, boss."

People calling you boss isn't contemporary in the last seventy-five years.

You can hear it in old movies all the time. I cannot imagine being annoyed by it, but they got rid of "master bedroom", so I guess its days were numbered!

"This space," i.e., "we are doing great work in this space." WTF?

Oh Dear!

R80

You meant e.g, not i.e. (id est).

R79 I haven't hear it used this way in old movies. Just random people calling you boss for no reason. (Usually young men.)

"Um...what?"

r61 Was there a "bunch" of them?

Young men of color call me boss all the time. And they don’t work for me. Maybe it’s my height and hair.

I really don't want to be called "boss" unless I'm someone's boss.

Somehow "dad" and "mom" have replaced "father" and "mother"--I don't mean as names people call their parents, but rather as the way the world in general refers to someone's parents. "Brad Pitt's Mom" instead of mother. "How is your dad doing?" rather than father.

"Stockist" - meaning a business/place that stocks a certain item. I ran across it a couple times when looking at various spirits (gin, tequlia) online. I'd go to the brand website and instead of "where to find," there was a list of "stockists." I'm not sure how widespread this is, but I've seen it, and think it's stupid.

“Exponentially” is often pretentiously overused to describe the rapid growth of something.

What a strange thing to be obsessed with, r87.

R90 Yes, it would be, if anyone was obsessed with it. But I'm not.

Oh, please, r91. You're always bringing up the mom / dad thing. You might as well sign in as the Mother & Father, not Mom & Dad troll.

“Ask” and “lift” as nouns

“Give,” “gives,” or “giving,” as in, “that pant gives generous, yet streamlined”

And I will second “based off of” instead of “based on”.

Right R89 , “exponentially “ it is even used by serious media. They have no clue what the underlying math is.

“Pant” to refer to a pair of pants.

R87- I've mentioned that myself in similar thread to this one about new words or names that have replaced old ones.

When I was a kid in the 1970's and 1980's no one referred to their mother and father to friends as my mom and dad. It was always my mother and my father- when I was 7 or 14 or 21.

"Luxury Apartments" - no, they're just new and there's decent-looking cabinets and finishes that don't cost a ton.

There's nothing luxury about the apartment. It's a modern apartment - that's it. And it's modern because it's new.