Trendy Words I Do Not Like

[dismalist]

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[dismalist]

best practices

Where in hell did this term come from? An MBA factory?

What, would we do worst practices?

Me, I like adequate practices.

[wareagle]

best practices

Where in hell did this term come from? An MBA factory?

What, would we do worst practices?

Me, I like adequate practices.

I'm fond of mediocre practices.  Okay practices.  Reasonably good practices.  Not bad practices.

I agree, I hate this term.  Who decides what is "best"?

[FishProf]

In my experience, "Best Practices" just means I want to do it this way, so get it line.

When I ask for details about the sources, I am just being difficult.

[dismalist]

In my experience, "Best Practices" just means I want to do it this way, so get it line.

When I ask for details about the sources, I am just being difficult.

Yup.

[lightning]

My new annoying trendy word that I have caught myself using, because everyone is using it, is "efficacy."

[BourbonRose]

My new annoying trendy word that I have caught myself using, because everyone is using it, is "efficacy."

At least it starts with "eff." That could come in handy.

[FishProf]

My new annoying trendy word that I have caught myself using, because everyone is using it, is "efficacy."

Go all out.  Start referring to "Persistently efficacious" practices.  See how long it takes someone to balk at that.

[downer]

I will admit to asking myself "what hogwash is this?" on seeing the phrase historian of the present.

[FishProf]

I will admit to asking myself "what hogwash is this?" on seeing the phrase historian of the present.

When grading student papers, I have a stamp that says WDTM? (What Does That Mean?).  I may have to start  busting it out with colleagues and administrators.

[apl68]

In my experience, "Best Practices" just means I want to do it this way, so get it line.

When I ask for details about the sources, I am just being difficult.

I've found in my administrative work that it is helpful to get advice from colleagues and then invoke "best practices" to higher-ups and staff in following it.

[mahagonny]

Here's a way to limit the growth of the number of trendy words I don't like: cut down on the number of administrators who have to find ways to justify their job. and are good enough at it.

[mahagonny]

positionality (not in Merriam Webster's online yet)

[mahagonny]

Did anyone mention "adulting" yet?

Mercy, hadn't heard or read that one yet.

Because "adulting" means "acting like an adult", "whiting" must be next.

Sometimes the reverse happens. Instead of a noun being turned into a verb, the use of a noun/verb as a verb goes out of fashion, while the noun remains. So the 1940 song 'I'll Never Smile again' had the line 'I'll never thrill again.' Seems hopelessly archaic now. Still in the dictionary, but seldom used.

[Harlow2]

positionality (not in Merriam Webster's online yet)

I found myself typing it into a paper I was writing last week  (and quickly brushed it away).  In what I am sometimes reading it has overtaken hegemonic.  (I do like Hegemony, which has a lovely sound.)