Trendy Words I Do Not Like

[FishProf]

I've always found instinctual to be annoying and unnecessary.  Instinctive is sufficient.

Also, it sounds like victual.

[ergative]

I've always found instinctual to be annoying and unnecessary.  Instinctive is sufficient.

Also, it sounds like victual.

'Instittle'?

[FishProf]

I'd like it better like that

[Hibush]

I've always found instinctual to be annoying and unnecessary.  Instinctive is sufficient.

Also, it sounds like victual.

What we eat instinctively? I can see a new diet book with that title.

<obpedant> It looks like victual. Sounds completely different.</obpedant>

[Sauvignon Blanc]

Okay, maybe not "trendy," but I hate "paradigm."

[dismalist]

Okay, maybe not "trendy," but I hate "paradigm."

Anybody got change for a paradigm?

[apl68]

Okay, maybe not "trendy," but I hate "paradigm."

Anybody got change for a paradigm?

Surely somebody does.  After all, paradigms shift a lot.  It's what they do!

[Economizer]

cicadasial rhythms

[Myword]

  I hate-----overusing evil, toxic, iconic, narcissist, red flags, "heart of"-- dysfunctional, hilarious, awesome, sexist, racist and ironically, the word hate itself. Billion dollar corporations are now "evil". ha ha. And everything is iconic, whatever that means.

[FishProf]

<obpedant> It looks like victual. Sounds completely different.</obpedant>

I did not know that.  I know vittles.  Never knew the victual spelling was the same.

So, thanks.

[the_geneticist]

Mentee.
As in "you will all be assigned to a mentor.  Mentees should be contacted by their mentor within a week."

The word they ought to use is protégé. Mentee makes it sound like you're a tiny copy or offshoot of the mentor.

[apl68]

"Gaslighting."  I understand that it's a problem.  I've had someone do it to me before.  However, I get the impression that some people are starting to make accusations of "gaslighting" any time they hear any criticism or other uncongenial feedback directed at themselves.

[sinenomine]

Iterative.

[lightning]

Iterative.

"Iterative" was trendy and annoying ten years ago, but for some reason, usage of the word escaped ridicule until recently.

[marshwiggle]

"Gaslighting."  I understand that it's a problem.  I've had someone do it to me before.  However, I get the impression that some people are starting to make accusations of "gaslighting" any time they hear any criticism or other uncongenial feedback directed at themselves.

This is just what happens with the usage of anything ending in "-ist" or "-phobe"; it's a preemptive dismissal of anything a person says by the implication that they are of bad moral character. (As though Harvey Weinstein saying "2+2=4" would automatically make the statement unbelievable and unworthy of consideration of its veracity.)