"Current year" terms that piss you off

[George Floyd Sneed]

“Shitty”

It’s a meaningless pejorative description for things that is just a synonym for “bad” or “something that I don’t like.” It also comes across as childish to me, sorta like a quasi-grown up way of saying “icky.”

It’s because that is about the only term that has no political or social justice interpretations. Eventually coprophiles are going to bitch about how “shitty” makes them feel otherized and that term will be dropped.

Anyway, the most insidious term right now is “equity.” Most people conflate it with equality but they are very different. Equality gives people the same opportunities but equity gives people the same outcomes. Since people are going to be different in their abilities, that means either those who come up short need help to get to the same point, or those who do better get restricted. Since we are a society that prefers to tear down, equity just means attacking and shitting on anything because inequitable outcomes must be for reasons other than individual ability. We’ve gone past 1984 and straight into Harrison Bergeron territory and it is going to have profoundly negative impacts on our society.

 

[Sped Xing]

"Equity" is latinate for "fair," and is indeed a weasel word for people to insist that their idea of what's "fair" should be mandated by threat of violence.

 

[Let's Love Lain]

"Dog whistle". Anyone who says this is like a huge neon sign that they are a schizo.

 

[Vingle]

Cohort, even seen people here write it. Ahem, you mean group.

 

[Let's Love Lain]

Cohort, even seen people here write it. Ahem, you mean group.

To add on to this, "ilk". It sounds like the word itself is spitting on you.

 

[Sped Xing]

Cohort, even seen people here write it. Ahem, you mean group.

A group of legionaries.

 

[ClownBrew]

Calling gypsies "The Roma".

 

[Billy Beer]

Doggo/fur baby
Any word relating to anything to do with Covid
Boomer/Zoomer/Gen X
Modern gaming terms
Any internet slang and most internet speak
cringe
People offended by swearing

 

[Let's Love Lain]

"Whataboutism". Terminate the argument and sweep away the hypocrisy of what you're saying with one word.

 

[Meat Target]

"Whataboutism". Terminate the argument and sweep away the hypocrisy of what you're saying with one word.

This and "Bothsidesism". Anyone who uses that word is tacitly admitting they are not capable of comprehending that opinions or positions other than their own exist.

 

[Local Fed]

The term "My truth" never fails to make me want to kick the person saying it.

 

[Meat Target]

I've really come to hate Hanlon's Razor and misusing "don't judge" or "only God can judge me". Those are used to excuse and avoid consequences for bad behavior.

 

[Let's Love Lain]

"Haven't seen this in a minute. "Been a minute since I saw this." This one annoys me more than it has a right to. Just say "a while" instead, "a minute" is too specific and it just makes you sound ike you're trying too hard.

 

[Toolbox]

"Haven't seen this in a minute. "Been a minute since I saw this." This one annoys me more than it has a right to. Just say "a while" instead, "a minute" is too specific and it just makes you sound ike you're trying too hard.

Where did this term even come from? It's one of the worst word replacements because it doesn't even make any sense. Are you trying to say it's been a literal minute? That it's been a short while or that you feel that it's been little time? Because most of the time I've seen it used it's in replacement of while so it just sounds retarded.

 

[Sped Xing]

Article titles that start with "So. . ."

E.g., "So your dog ate chocolate."

 

[Local Fed]

Article titles that start with "So. . ."

E.g., "So your dog ate chocolate."

Or the unholy combination of "So we need to talk about..."

 

[Let's Love Lain]

"and I'm here for it." Be somewhere else.

 

[ClownBrew]

Fake-chummy language in general. "Hey there, friend!" either to a complete stranger or used sarcastically to someone Aiden doesn't like.

 

[CrippleThreat]

Fake-chummy language in general. "Hey there, friend!" either to a complete stranger or used sarcastically to someone Aiden doesn't like.

Well, that's how "Ally" is used.

But, it's half-comrade, half-letmeintoyourgroupplease.

 

[Real Gay Autist]

Where did this term even come from? It's one of the worst word replacements because it doesn't even make any sense. Are you trying to say it's been a literal minute? That it's been a short while or that you feel that it's been little time? Because most of the time I've seen it used it's in replacement of while so it just sounds retarded.

Like a lot of these terms associated with woke Twitter culture, 'been a minute' originates in African American English. You can hear it in early 2000s rap, e.g. Snoop Dogg 'Those Gurlz'. It's ironic because the people who say "it's been a minute" are exactly the type who level accusations of cultural appropriation, 'digital blackface', etc. I think next time I hear one of these holier-than-thou types say that I'll hit them with the taste of their own medicine: "So, can we, like, talk about your appropriation of linguistic culture. I feel like you need to do the work to be a better ally."