Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

long articles?

Ugh can someone concise mordys post 4me pls

or any new yorker article

there's a website that specializes in these: http://longform.org nb they probably should've just called themselves essays.org

yes i understand that the term has some currency

i find it a useful term to lump in all narrative, investigatory, or literary nonfiction articles that are over a certain length - i.e. the kind of stuff lots of people, including myself, want to read.

admit that there's something aesthetically displeasing about the term

there's also longreads dot com which popularized the word i think
i use it as a way to get my reading-averse students interested in reading

Just got out of a meeting, maybe this belongs on some business jargon thread, but "client-facing." As in, " Please don't include the Search Channel Specialists on client-facing emails." This started popping up frequently in the past few weeks, is it a buzz word now?

-facing is a common usage these days (outward-facing = public? vs internal i guess)
idk

jargon is disgusting

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When the tedium is intense, business jargon can inject some brief excitement into the day. embracing it with real enthusiasm is a sign of desperation.

Otm re 'stop by', also e.g. 'the Forget singer will appear...'

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Well isn't "appear" as in an "appearance"? I thought that was more of a professional term.

I meant the phrasing 'the X singer' where X is literally any song they have released; I really hate it and it's everywhere

Alternative to client-facing?

emails that may be seen by clients?

as I sit here at my desk I am (roughly) facing the north pole. while it would be accurate to call me a north-pole-facing ilxor, this seems to say something more than it does.

what's a search channel specialist?

Client-facing is useful b/c it succinctly describes a lot of different things that are intended for, likely to be used by clients, as well as positions that involve directly interacting with clients.

It's a neologism but that doesn't mean it's bad, and it's not even jargon, IMO.

I guess "client-side" preceded "client-facing," but the latter isn't any worse.

"raise awareness", "provide support"

basically all modern uses of "support" as some vast vague sea in which the concept of "help" is drowning

that's my job man :/

I mean yeah you are right these thoughts have occured

yeah it's not the delivery of it or its existence - more like... why can't we explain it more clearly?

sometimes weak laws or legal blind spots lead to weak language though, so perhaps i'm blaming the victim...

(sorry if i seemed dismissive - i'm coming at it from the side of helping people also!)

nah it doesn't seem dismissive I have had literally the same thoughts

also I have to explain to people quite often what "support" isn't i.e. magical bypassing of somebody's actual abilities

i guess it feels like an inevitable failure when the state tries to find a universal language to talk about helping very individual problems

what's a search channel specialist?

Where I work it's support for search engine marketing campaigns.

army brat

I keep seeing internet nerds using "nonsense / nonsense on stilts" -- I'm sure that sounded witty when Jeremy Bentham first said it but now uuuuuuugh.

"Convo" for "conversation." Just around the corner: such-and-such a player is "in the convo" for MVP.

"mic drop"

"no fucks to give" in relation to Obama is waaaay played-out

visioning

pretty much any of those annoying bloggy idioms becomes 10x more noxious when used in political commentary. It always reminds me of the college student govt kiss-asses trying to be cool

the false excitement of "pop-up"

turning nouns into verbs by adding "up."

manning up
changing up

shut up

(sorry couldn't resist)

The worst is "cowgirl up"

I'm afraid to ask what that means

Not really. What does that mean?

variation on "man up"

I got IA at "blew up" used sixteen times in an NPR piece today e.g. "it blew up on social media"

"grow a pair"

ok what is a "fuckboy" -- it feels like a failed attempt by resentful dorks to slut-shame more attractive men.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2015/08/18/what_does_fuckboy_mean.html

I now don't understand at all.

"a worthless human" is the only definition you need to know

insult that sounds like a homophobic slur, but really it totally isn't!

Rather than resentful (male) dorks, I think it mostly comes from the mouths of resentful girls these days.

I hit the point recently where the word "intersectionality" makes me want to throw a television out a window. I think it's a combination of (1) its frequent use by condescending little shits (2) the sense of wheel-reinvention it has (as though this is the first generation to notice that there is interplay between race, class, gender, etc.) (3) its vaguely pseudoscientific ring, as though it were describing something you could plot out on a graph or chart and (4) the fact that it often seems to be used in place of actual insight into the ways race/class/gender/sexuality, um, intersect, like instead of actually saying anything thoughtful about the topic, you can just say "intersectionality" and be done. I got particularly mad when some young blogger accused Gloria Steinem of not understanding intersectionality, as though the debate about race and class in feminism hasn't been going on for decades, like it has never occurred to Gloria fucking Steinem before that such a thing exists.