'Problematic' qua academic noun has been around for ages and is unrelated to wokeness.
― pomenitul, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
i think the pinefox started a thread about it
(or anyway a discussion in a thread, he was amused by what exactly academics think they're asking when they used it -- it's usually plural in the academic sense tho, maybe)
― mark s, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
It's so concerning
will they cancel the parade?
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
"my dude"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
anthropocene
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 January 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, January 11, 2019 8:14 AM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I know both usages have been around a long time but one is correct and the other makes me want to twist someone's foot off
― Brad C., Thursday, 9 January 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
"nothing burger"
― Number None, Sunday, July 16, 2017 6:08 AM (two years ago)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:04 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
"cringe"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, December 22, 2019 11:34 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
‘we need to talk about _______’
― mookieproof, Sunday, December 29, 2019 2:33 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
any reference to Twitter as "this website"
― Number None, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 6:52 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
any reference to Twitter as "this bird app"
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 7:05 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
I haven't seen this but I like it :)
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:37 (four years ago) link
"DEEP DIVE" is becoming toxic. I didn't mind it at first (3 years ago), kinda liked it, now a contagion.
like genital warts
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link
I've noticed this for a few years now, but lots of people don't seem to understand what 'opaque' means. I just saw it used to describe a transparent piece of perspex.
― kinder, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
"[...]. That's it. That's the tweet."
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:14 (four years ago) link
I'm afraid the situation is even worse with "transparent," because it has acquired two functionally opposite meanings: the quality of not being hidden, and the quality of being invisible.
You can say that a government process is "transparent," meaning that everyone can ostensibly see what is going on.
You can also say that e.g. a cloud migration is "transparent to the user," meaning that you don't notice it happening and don't have to do anything.
It's like "oversight" meaning either carelessness or close attention.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
heartlands
― nashwan, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
all power to the overlooked organs
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
spleenlands
2020 "stop saying tonnes in metaphors when tons works fine" challenge
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
maybe liverlands should be the actual name for merseyside and thus labour's truest turf
― nashwan, Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
tuns 🛢️🛢🛢️🛢
(why no beer barrel emoji, only oil barrels)
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
my analogy don't want none unless you got tonnes hun
― i've seen no good people (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
otm re opaque and transparent, I have now given up on working out what these actually mean except when used 100% literally about the see-through-ness of a material I can actually see (through, or not) there and then
further evidence that words mean anything which means they don't mean anything, also metaphors are bad
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
also metaphors are bad
also similes are like a thing that is bad
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
no matter how many times I look it up, my brain cannot hold onto the meaning of "ornate"... it always reads as "featureless" or "plain" to me, even though I know that's wrong
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
Nothing featureless or plain about The Shape Of Jazz To Come or Dancing In Your Head.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
I always have to struggle to remind myself that "enervated" means drained of energy.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
Huh, I had no idea.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
And that nonplussed means perplexed not unimpressed
― Alba, Thursday, 23 January 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
it's all very plussing imo
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
'noisome' always confuses me
― koogs, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:35 (four years ago) link
I think the meaning of nonplussed is changing bcs so many people use it to mean unimpressed, esp. in the US(?)
― fetter, Friday, 24 January 2020 08:29 (four years ago) link
Restive another one like enervated The way ppl misuse nonplussed is so random and leaves me nonplussed - I have a crackpot theory I’ve mentioned before that it’s because it sounds a bit like “not fussed” maybe? Similar to how ppl think craven means shameless instead of cowardly cause it sounds a bit like brazen. Neither is probably true but it’s what my dumb brain came up with to explain everyone else’s dumb brains
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 24 January 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
Been reading up on kombucha brewing and every time I see Scoby I get angry.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 24 January 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
Speaking to a calendar year as if it's a person, eg "2020 you SUCK!"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
Go home, (year), you're drunk.
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
"Second of all,"
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
^^^^
makes me nuts
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:51 (four years ago) link
'aesthetic' used used to suggest one specific aesthetic
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
"Thanks for coming to my TED talk" was bad enough when it became a meme, but now it seems to get talked on to like any opinion or affirmative statement as a sort of ironical "QED" which is not what I understood the meme to even mean.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
not into the word 'eatery'
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
re: 'TED Talk' - maybe it's time to ironically revive 'Rant over' at the end of long social media posts about quotidien bugbears
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
Don't like "good faith/bad faith".
― mirostones, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
many of you would never encounter most of these phrases if you logged out of twitter
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
"trolling"
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:25 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oooh otm, gonna die on this hill
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
Folks emphatically saying 'facts!' in reply, so annoying and ironic given the general shitshow we all inhabit at the moment.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
This, along with "whomst" and "period" are good signifiers for "unfollow this person"
― Montegays and Capulez (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
The handclap icon between each word in a Tweet is the worst. And mostly morons use it
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
“...and it shows”So petty!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link