"Current year" terms that piss you off

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I just read the last few pages and I can proudly say I don't even know what the fuck most of you are talking about or where it's coming from. I guess it pays to live under a rock and have a small but loyal and like minded friend group. Seriously where the fuck are some of you hearing this gibberish if not on the internet? Do people really say any of this shit in real life? Rizz? Boyfie? Coded?
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Yes.

Unfortunately, the speedy decay of the English language has breached containment ever since the internet went mainstream mainstream. What was once escapable by turning the screen off and leaving the house is now forever part of the unenlightened majority. People don't talk like people anymore, they seldom use their own words.

Have a problem with this and you're "upset about something you're reading into too much", and "the English language is evolving!".
If I had a nickel...

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Flaming Insignias said:
I disagree. A remake takes something old and puts it on newer hardware, so a fangame that turns a game into something for a low-spec system would be making a “degraded” game. You're de-making a game by turning it into a game for an older system.
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That's my understanding of the phrasing too. While I do think saying "demake" is stupid, I can see why people would. "remakes" with respect to games have a connotation of improvement on stuff like specs and visual design. If you're deliberately going backwards on that stuff then "remake" in this sense doesn't seem to apply. I'd still call it a "remake" but I can see I'm being more literal than intuitive as it applies to games.

To each's own. Just because I think it's stupid doesn't mean anyone else other than me has to phrase it differently.
 
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SugarSkullWishes1989 said:
Unfortunately, the speedy decay of the English language has breached containment ever since the internet went mainstream mainstream. What was once escapable by turning the screen off and leaving the house is now forever part of the unenlightened majority. People don't talk like people anymore, they seldom use their own words.
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It's because people are too stupid to realize Internet shit should stay on the Internet. You wouldn't catch me dead meming irl.
 
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Whenever some faggot on Reddit/Twitter says "we are so back" in reference to some "retro" thing having a revival of sorts i.e. FFVII Rebirth shipping out on two discs "just like in the old times, we are so back" is peak cringe and sounds faggy as hell.

Also I fucking hate that faggy "chef's kiss" meme for the same reasons.
 
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Aunt Carol said:
"Experiencing" folded into person-first language, which is already odious.

Most frequently hearing it in "persons experiencing homelessness."

It's like picking up the word you want with a set of verbal tongs.
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I love the visual, because that really nails what it's like when I hear someone use this stupid affectation.
My industry does a lot of this and I can't stand it. I feel like I'm being unclear. It makes it difficult when you're already having to say something complex about a certain group of people, to then add on several words just to identify the group you're talking about. Person first language is helpful how?!? If I was a homeless person, I can't imagine I'd feel one iota better that someone called me a person experiencing houselessness. I'd think they were a patronizing retard (person experiencing different thought patterns.)
 
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Lady Bizness said:
If I was a homeless person, I can't imagine I'd feel one iota better that someone called me a person experiencing houselessness. I'd think they were a patronizing retard (person experiencing different thought patterns.)
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Does anyone feel better when they're targeted by person-first language? I know handicapped people hate it.

It's for the benefit of the user, a person experiencing self-righteousness.

Maybe gender people too, but I repeat myself.
 
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Dwight Frye said:
“Unalive” and “delete oneself” because just saying dead or suicide is apparently too scary.

I kinda get deleted yourself if it’s in some video trying to bypass YouTube’s retarded filter, still stupid but at least I can understand why it would be used. Unalive just sounds like straight up Orwellian Newspeak
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That's hardly the worst youtube newspeak. I want to punch every youtuber who talks about a woman/child being "a victim/survivor of essay"
 
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Chao Garden said:
every time i hear "guys, gals, and nonbinary pals" or some variation of it i think a little bit of my lifespan is shaved off
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I'm glad never to have heard anyone say that irl but only read it on the Internet.
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It's for the benefit of the user, a person experiencing self-righteousness.
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They need to knock that shit off unless they want to be a person experiencing a sock in the jaw.
 
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For me it's "Next  Level". My grandmother & I like to watch the cooking channels from time to time, & chefs claiming to bring some established dish to the "next level" drives me up the fucking wall. It can be used interchangeably with "Game  Changer". The talk show The Kitchen is the worst offender of this, but that's a rant for another thread.

AnOminous said:
I'm glad never to have heard anyone say that irl but only read it on the Internet.
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I go to the local ren faire. The man who's dedicated his life to looking like William Shakespeare & puts on abridged comedies of his plays addresses the audience as such.
 
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Trombonista said:
Goyslop and niggercattle. There, I said it.
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I agree. I appreciate having the forum to talk about the world, but then you start getting these assholes that insist that you should do nothing but read theory and work out 24/7 before eating nothing but boiled fish and cabbage or else you're a brainwashed and complacent cuck. They're not brave warriors fighting against the system, they're just assholes with their own version of a superhero fantasy.
 
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The term "inclusive" is annoying Current Year speak for sure.

ToroidalBoat said:
I really do think there's an effort to "cancel" this world before Current Year or maybe even before 2020.
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confirmed:

A school district in Canada has reportedly removed all books published before 2008 in an effort to ensure that the library books available to students are sufficiently inclusive, according to a report from CBC.​

- Canadian School Library Removes All Books Published Before 2008: REPORT | The Daily Caller

And how is excluding the past "inclusive" anyway? I guess "inclusive" seems to mean "not wrongthink" -- like "diversity" means "not white" -- in wannabe-communist-speak.
 
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