cataloging words and phrases that seem to pop up everywhere all of a sudden

coding works! also 'unpacking'

cognitive dissonance, sometimes

disconnect, sometimes (I no like)

all options are on the table

cascade (verb) occasionally

I think I used the term "muscular urgency" the other day in a review. Didn't know it was trending.

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

remember when everybody on ilx was 'strawmanning' each other

"if we go in hard"

blame ke$ha for this more than cameron

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

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

never said "yeahno" like it's a particular thing but "yeah, no -" as a prefix in conversation all the sodding time. bad tic

'yeah-nah' is de rigueur here, it just means no

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.

"And she goes like, you know? Yeah nah, she goes like, you know, mental man it was like, yanno? Yeah nah it was wicked"

"root and branch" is probably quite old but i feel it's around a lot lately.

'yeah... oh yeah nah... look yeah nah i'm all right'

agricultural, maybe specific to ILF

'codes as'

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

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I've been hearing "due diligence" a lot lately.

have gotten good and sick of seeing "imperial" on ILM

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.

that's the proper usage of 'dude' iirc

that is not a last few years thing. that is a since dudes been talking baout dudes thing.

that usage seems to be all over p4k rap reviews xp

Dayo's nailed it - it's a total "goons" thread phenomenon

knock it off with the "first world problems" already

^^

http://i.imgur.com/CgBGk.png

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

I sure wish you never invented, and constantly employed, that stupid phrase "Tumblr whites."

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.

Tumblr ilxors

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.

"HAT TIP"

what the fuck is a hat tip?

STOP SAYING THIS, PLEASE.

A hat tip is used to signal one's satisfaction upon the execution of a hen fap.

like you're tipping your hat to someone who showed you something cool/interesting/whatever

http://i.imgur.com/3yuw8.jpg

yeah I know what it means

it's just dumb. say "courtesy of" like a normal person.

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

I think it's just funny imagining people tipping their top hats while using the computer

WHO TIPS THEIR HAT IN 2012?!?

Gentlemen.

this is only british people obviously but "innit" please stop saying this

poors, olds, dumbs

"game changer"- very tedious.

wheelhouse

There was a real "herding cats" thing goin on abt this time last year

My boss is a herding cats fanatic. I'd barely heard it until he started dropping it into almost every third phone conversation.

I'm afraid I use this phrase on occasion. It's quite apt, so what ya gonna do?

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.

I used "herding cats" twice this week at work. u_u

yeah, i heard it too the other day.

i used it unironically last week

were you herding some cats?

sure why not

was actually herding cats "like herding cats"?

I actually used this in my personal statement for grad school apps. Unironically. But in quotes. I am a horrible human being.

imperial phase

'Labour's Union Links' is a golf course, right?

closed shop sossidge innit

the new normal

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?

"kill (it / them / him /her) with fire" seemed to be popular a few weeks back but thankfully I think it's died down.

Our postgraduate offering is really good.

Right-sizing

Sigh

I'd never heard of Right-sizing before!

amaright-sigh-zing

Our postgraduate offering is really good

"offering" i could live with but "offer" seems to be the preferred word of the evil

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"

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.”

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.