Words and phrases to cancel

[Leo]

Also...90% of the things people call surreal aren't actually surreal at all.

 

[william_kent]

Also, can we cancel "literally"?

literally beat me to it

 

[Mr. Tea]

Also...90% of the things people call surreal aren't actually surreal at all.

While this is no doubt true, I feel we're only a cunt-hair away from complaining that most of the situations described by Alanis Morissette in 'Ironic' are not, in fact, particularly ironic.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Nice tags btw, whoever did those.

 

[Clinamenic]

Nice tags btw, whoever did those.

 

[Benny Bunter]

"weaponized"

 

[Clinamenic]

Let's cancel articles while we're at it, definite and indefinite.

 

[Clinamenic]

And adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions.

 

[william_kent]

"incentivized"

this didn't use to be a real word, plus it would really piss off one of my former bosses who objected, strongly, to any use of Z in English words when, according to him, an S is the proper usage even when confronted with the OED definition and etymology

but what is wrong with just 'providing incentives'?

 

[Clinamenic]

Transition words, verbs. prepositions.

Nouns.

 

[Clinamenic]

👺

 

[william_kent]

language is a virus anyway, let's just vaccinate it out of existence

edit: drunk joke, ignore me

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's alright being a Victor Meldrew I reckon cos you've properly earned your resentment by that age, what you don't want to be is a Jeremy Clarkson or Piers Morgan.

 

[pattycakes_]

Words, cancelled

 

[Benny Bunter]

I like to think that a lot of young people hate all this bollocks as well, it can't just be us old cunts surely?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Been reading a load of Philip Larkin today and feeling more and more the connection with him which maybe should be worrying but it's actually been quite delicious.

 

[version]

That said, I quite like 'gaslighting' when properly applied, it's just been overused

Someone came up with a term for this, 'concept creep'.

 

[Leo]

Thank me later.

 

[shakahislop]

twitter (where some of these entries surely emerged) is going to look fucking horrendous in retrospect. what the hell are we all doing?

possibly a lot of the woke terminology as well. i think that might date quite quickly at least, and some of the opinions, or maybe just the ways of expressing them, that people hold are going to feel like wearing flares or top gun or big 80s echoey snare drums. i think people might be a bit embarrassed about it in ten years.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Someone came up with a term for this, 'concept creep'.

Yeah "Emotional labour" is a good example (just looked on Wikipedia, Haslam apparently)