Trendy Words I Do Not Like

[dismalist]

From CDC:  Pregnant people should get vaxxed.

And my wife, the doctor, informed me that babies no longer breast feed, they chest feed.

Well, it's all consistent.

[mahagonny]

dismantle

No overused word like this one that highlights as well the fact that there are very few solutions, mostly tradeoffs. The idea is supposed to be 'dismantle this and build something better.' But what they propose to build often doesn't sound too promising.

[Myword]

    ICONIC has to be the most overused word!  Is there anything that is not "iconic"?  Why not say famous?

Except that famously is used instead of notable or well-known. He famously said, go post a note on TheFora.
   

[Liquidambar]

birthing person

Is that a gender-neutral term for midwife?

ICONIC has to be the most overused word!  Is there anything that is not "iconic"?  Why not say famous?

I think I've been using "iconic" when I mean "paradigmatic," so I am part of the problem.  Sorry.  Unless that's a valid use of "iconic"?  Can "iconic" mean a standard example of something?

[downer]

WhiteX

[marshwiggle]

WhiteX

Is that like Latinx, so there's a gender-neutral term for white people, which it already was?

Please tell me this isn't a thing.

[downer]

WhiteY is the more commonly used term.

[apl68]

ICONIC has to be the most overused word!  Is there anything that is not "iconic"?  Why not say famous?

I think I've been using "iconic" when I mean "paradigmatic," so I am part of the problem.  Sorry.  Unless that's a valid use of "iconic"?  Can "iconic" mean a standard example of something?

Well, since "iconic" IS so overused, it would probably be just as well to use "paradigmatic" instead anyway.  Although "paradigm" itself has gone through phases of being trendy and overused, thanks to people seizing on Thomas Kuhn's ideas.

[dismalist]

Anybody got change for a paradigm?

[poiuy]

Anybody got change for a paradigm?

Do you need social change for a paradigm?

[mahagonny]

'Hate on.' Says nothing that 'hate' didn't say, but takes more time.

[mahagonny]

'Mx.'  I went in for my COVID test, presented my ID  and the screen said 'Hello Mx Mahagonny' and then some instructions. 'Mx' is not an honorific. It's some jackass's politics. We need to start objecting to this taking over of the language.

'mostly peaceful protest'  I think you already know what I'm gonna say about that one.

[marshwiggle]

'Mx.'  I went in for my COVID test, presented my ID  and the screen said 'Hello Mx Mahagonny' and then some instructions. 'Mx' is not an honorific. It's some jackass's politics. We need to start objecting to this taking over of the language.

'mostly peaceful protest'  I think you already know what I'm gonna say about that one.

That's actually even stupider than WhiteX. Or maybe we'll get to where everyone will be referred to as simply X, whose ethnicity is X, and then we're never in danger of "mis<whatever>ing" anyone.

[dismalist]

I've occasionally come across the term independent living facilities for the elderly. Click, click. What seems to be meant is dependent living, not to say concentration camps for the well off.

["When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."]

Long run, I don't expect the messing with definitions of words to do anything except make a bit of trouble for a while. Nothing more.

[downer]

I guess they are not technical terms -- more terms created by the industry to sell products.

I've visited an independent living apartment complex for the rich, and it was very pleasant. The dining facilities were a bit tiresome -- even a dress code, and I wouldn't like to do eat there for every meal. But they would also deliver to the apartments if you wanted.

Isn't the contrast for independent living assisted living?. Then there's residential living and long term care.

The issue of how to spend one's final years is on my mind because it will take some preparation, and it can be horrible. The discomfort we have over the terminology is more about the reality of the experience. Children often can't or won't have their elderly parents living with them, and at some point, the old people have to move somewhere where help is available.