err wrong thread
― dayo, Thursday, 24 March 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a term for this, where you notice a phrase you're not familiar with popping up everywhere all of a sudden - can't for the life of me remember the name though. aaaargh!
― lacan't (haitch), Thursday, 24 March 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
confirmation bias?
― sweet joni from saskatooooon (get bent), Thursday, 24 March 2011 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Fig leafBoots on the ground
― Alba, Thursday, 24 March 2011 09:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Moving the goalposts is an old one D! One of those horrid corpspeak things, but we've other threads for all that.
Ive noticed a few food writers using "jumble" a lot lately, like "a jumble of salad glistening with oil" and something about that word turns my stomach.
― Borads of Candida (Trayce), Thursday, 24 March 2011 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
recency illusion
― ledge, Thursday, 24 March 2011 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"tilting at windmills"
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Thursday, 24 March 2011 10:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"confirmation bias"
― Alba, Thursday, 24 March 2011 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
shit i randomly used "fig leaf" the other day
nothing striking me recently but there was a period last year when everyone started saying "storied", made me feel insane
― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
can't go anywhere on ilm these days without something "coding" as something, not really what the thread's about tho
― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
coding works! also 'unpacking'
― dayo, Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
cognitive dissonance, sometimes
disconnect, sometimes (I no like)
all options are on the table
cascade (verb) occasionally
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I used the term "muscular urgency" the other day in a review. Didn't know it was trending.
― You killed my accountant... now YOU must be my accountant (dog latin), Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
phrases in wartime also include things like
we're going in
if we go in hard
stand idly by
air superiority has been achieved
we need to know what the endgame is
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
remember when everybody on ilx was 'strawmanning' each other
― dayo, Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:52 (thirteen years ago) link
"if we go in hard"
blame ke$ha for this more than cameron
― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
on the slang tip i've been catching friends saying "yeahno" quite a bit, in many different usages. there's a vague urbandictionary entry:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yeahno
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
haha officially i can't stand "disconnect" either but it does have a kind of idiot flourish about it that i've succumbed to on occasion
― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
never said "yeahno" like it's a particular thing but "yeah, no -" as a prefix in conversation all the sodding time. bad tic
― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
'yeah-nah' is de rigueur here, it just means no
― avant garde a clue (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 27 March 2011 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno I only ever hear "yeahnah" spoken, not typed out. Its one of those tossed off annoying things like "and like", "and she goes". Ugh. UGH.
― Borads of Candida (Trayce), Sunday, 27 March 2011 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"And she goes like, you know? Yeah nah, she goes like, you know, mental man it was like, yanno? Yeah nah it was wicked"
― Borads of Candida (Trayce), Sunday, 27 March 2011 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"root and branch" is probably quite old but i feel it's around a lot lately.
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Sunday, 27 March 2011 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
'yeah... oh yeah nah... look yeah nah i'm all right'
― avant garde a clue (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 27 March 2011 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
agricultural, maybe specific to ILF
'codes as'
― frogbsclovetofu (cozen), Sunday, 27 March 2011 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Already popped up on this thread:
can't go anywhere on ilm these days without something "coding" as something, not really what the thread's about tho― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:30 Bookmark
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― Alba, Sunday, 27 March 2011 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been hearing "due diligence" a lot lately.
― jaymc, Sunday, 27 March 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
have gotten good and sick of seeing "imperial" on ILM
― lilsoulbrotherlovesdubplatestyle (some dude), Sunday, 8 May 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
I mentioned this on another thread, but I *hate* the thing from the last few years where people eliminate the word "the" before saying "dude," as in "Dude has been playing chillwave since before there was a name for it" or "dude was crazy before the ice cream tattoo" or whatever. It staryed showing up here last year-ish and now it's seemingly a given.
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 8 May 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
that's the proper usage of 'dude' iirc
― lilsoulbrotherlovesdubplatestyle (some dude), Sunday, 8 May 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
that is not a last few years thing. that is a since dudes been talking baout dudes thing.
― j., Sunday, 8 May 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
that usage seems to be all over p4k rap reviews xp
― a board in which there is lively and fuiud debate? (dayo), Sunday, 8 May 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
Dayo's nailed it - it's a total "goons" thread phenomenon
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 8 May 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
knock it off with the "first world problems" already
― r|t|c, Monday, 30 May 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^
― rolling in the mde (some dude), Monday, 30 May 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CgBGk.png
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Tumblr whites have been saying "the law of diminishing returns" like crazy in the last few months because it was on a <i>Community</i> episode
― flag post sitta (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
I sure wish you never invented, and constantly employed, that stupid phrase "Tumblr whites."
― Marilyn Hagerty: the terroir of tiny town (Abbbottt), Sunday, 18 March 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, like "first world problems", it smacks of guilt/self-loathing and says more about the utterer than the "issue" it's meant to describe.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 18 March 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Tumblr ilxors
― Mordy, Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Catch phrases have been around since time out of mind. The trick to launching your own is tapping into the zeitgeist and catching a wave of popularity. Then the sky is the limit! With luck and pluck, your newly minted phrase will live long and prosper as a canonical cliche, forever young, and shiny as a new penny.
― Aimless, Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
"HAT TIP"
what the fuck is a hat tip?
STOP SAYING THIS, PLEASE.
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
A hat tip is used to signal one's satisfaction upon the execution of a hen fap.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
like you're tipping your hat to someone who showed you something cool/interesting/whatever
― Mordy, Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/3yuw8.jpg
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I know what it means
it's just dumb. say "courtesy of" like a normal person.
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
or "shoutout to ______" or ANYTHING BUT "HAT TIP". WHO TIPS THEIR HAT IN 2012?!?
I used to say s/o but now I say h/t
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's just funny imagining people tipping their top hats while using the computer
WHO TIPS THEIR HAT IN 2012?!?
Gentlemen.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
this is only british people obviously but "innit" please stop saying this
― flopson, Sunday, 18 March 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
poors, olds, dumbs
― barthes simpson, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
"game changer"- very tedious.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
wheelhouse
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
There was a real "herding cats" thing goin on abt this time last year
― DJ Admiral Crackbar - IT'S THE TRAP!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
My boss is a herding cats fanatic. I'd barely heard it until he started dropping it into almost every third phone conversation.
― stain on the nation (qiqing), Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
I'm afraid I use this phrase on occasion. It's quite apt, so what ya gonna do?
― quincie, Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
I don't mind it, but his overuse of the phrase got on my nerves. He has a rotating repertoire of phrases he uses to make himself sound more intelligent/witty.
― stain on the nation (qiqing), Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
I used "herding cats" twice this week at work. u_u
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 November 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i heard it too the other day.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Friday, 30 November 2012 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
i used it unironically last week
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 November 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
were you herding some cats?
― Neil S, Friday, 30 November 2012 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
sure why not
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 November 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
was actually herding cats "like herding cats"?
― Neil S, Friday, 30 November 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
I actually used this in my personal statement for grad school apps. Unironically. But in quotes. I am a horrible human being.
― quincie, Friday, 30 November 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
imperial phase
― just sayin, Saturday, 13 July 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
'Labour's Union Links' is a golf course, right?
― MILLIONAIRE KING OF RAPPERS! (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 13 July 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
closed shop sossidge innit
― j., Saturday, 13 July 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
the new normal
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 09:56 (ten years ago) link
is it me or has "offer" in that horrible noun usage meaning "the services or goods a company provides" sprung up everywhere in the last 3 or 4 months?
― cite gnu answers (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 08:23 (ten years ago) link
"kill (it / them / him /her) with fire" seemed to be popular a few weeks back but thankfully I think it's died down.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
Our postgraduate offering is really good.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
Right-sizing
Sigh
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
I'd never heard of Right-sizing before!
― elegant eyes, aristocrat face, gorgeous hair (soref), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
amaright-sigh-zing
― elegant eyes, aristocrat face, gorgeous hair (soref), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Our postgraduate offering is really good
"offering" i could live with but "offer" seems to be the preferred word of the evil
― Noodzilla (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
xpost
you will...you will
it's the latest innovation that allows you to save crucial time and money by not having to say "our thing is not the correct size; we will change the size of the thing"
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
One construction I've noticed in different places is along the lines of "fascism happens slowly, then very fast" and "how do you go bankrupt? first slowly, then quickly." Googling the bankruptcy variation, I was pointed to this exchange from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises:
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
Anyway, I don't know that I'd ever heard this prior to a month ago. I was wondering if anyone else noticed the phrase recently becoming more popular, or is this more a case of me now knowing it and so seeing it everywhere.
― peace, man, Monday, 21 November 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link