Trendy Words I Do Not Like

[dismalist]

Sourced!

As in: "Enjoy our full breakfast made with locally sourced ingredients".

How about just "made with local ingredients"?

[mamselle]

Or, "I am sourcing this job...." from a temp agency email.

You're....what???....

Oh, you're recruiting for it.

Why not say that?

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My beef du moment:

If everything's "amazing," soon nothing is "amazing."

I'm underwhelmed by the number of "amazing" things I'm being asked to attend to in online articles, at present.

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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.

That word always makes me think of sea cows.

M.

[fishbrains]

"Okay, let's do this thing!" is starting to wear pretty thin on me, especially coming from people my own age (later 50's).   

[dismalist]

Meaningful.

I appreciate that that's generally a kosher word, but I began to notice its overuse a few years ago. Now I came across a college's propaganda that promised meaningful success.

Well, yeah!

[apl68]

Meaningful.

I appreciate that that's generally a kosher word, but I began to notice its overuse a few years ago. Now I came across a college's propaganda that promised meaningful success.

Well, yeah!

Meaningful success as opposed to a Pyrrhic victory, I guess.

[FishProf]

Now I came across a college's propaganda that promised meaningful success.

Is there any other kind?

[fishbrains]

Sourced!

As in: "Enjoy our full breakfast made with locally sourced ingredients".

How about just "made with local ingredients"?

I'll add "clean" when used in terms of food. The people who pick your organic vegetables don't wash their hands after taking a dump in the field any more than the people who pick the non-organic veggies. The cooks in restaurants that serve "clean" food aren't much better in terms of hygiene. By all means, we should eat less processed foods, but "clean"? Really?

[dismalist]

Sourced!

As in: "Enjoy our full breakfast made with locally sourced ingredients".

How about just "made with local ingredients"?

I'll add "clean" when used in terms of food. The people who pick your organic vegetables don't wash their hands after taking a dump in the field any more than the people who pick the non-organic veggies. The cooks in restaurants that serve "clean" food aren't much better in terms of hygiene. By all means, we should eat less processed foods, but "clean"? Really?

Goodness, I hadn't come across that term used in conjunction with food before. Some googling yields the Mayo Clinic -- yes, the Mayo Clinic -- opining on what is best to eat: Mayo Food

I think they mean for people to eat healthy foods, or to eat healthily. That last word clearly has one too many syllables, so healthily becomes clean in contemporary English. No wonder nobody in America speaks English! Like no way, duh.

[lilyb]

I'll add "clean" when used in terms of food. The people who pick your organic vegetables don't wash their hands after taking a dump in the field any more than the people who pick the non-organic veggies. The cooks in restaurants that serve "clean" food aren't much better in terms of hygiene. By all means, we should eat less processed foods, but "clean"? Really?

Now we have influencers like Gwyneth Paltrow calling certain overpriced sunscreens "clean." As dermatologists pointed out, a good sunscreen is one with a high SPF that people apply properly.

Is there no end to her daft ideas and products (i.e., the jade vaginal egg)? I'm always happy to see doctors shut down her foolishness.

[Hibush]

Sourced!

As in: "Enjoy our full breakfast made with locally sourced ingredients".

How about just "made with local ingredients"?

I'll add "clean" when used in terms of food. The people who pick your organic vegetables don't wash their hands after taking a dump in the field any more than the people who pick the non-organic veggies. The cooks in restaurants that serve "clean" food aren't much better in terms of hygiene. By all means, we should eat less processed foods, but "clean"? Really?

I see "clean" used even more abstractly for food. Ethically clean (not ethnically cleansed!) as in not exploiting labor and protecting the environment.

BTW, the taking a dump in the field is pretty much gone. When many farmers take a hit of tens of millions of dollars every time someone else causes an outbreak, that kind of thing stops fast. Farm portapotties have handwashing stations on the outside so everyone can see that you don't skip that step.

[Langue_doc]

Here is "source" again, in a NYT article on motels: "...custom headboards and bedspreads were sourced from independent designers".

The excerpt is from the caption below the third photo in the article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/travel/motel-hotel-demand-reputation.html

I stopped reading after seeing "source" used in such a pretentious manner.

[fishbrains]

BTW, the taking a dump in the field is pretty much gone. When many farmers take a hit of tens of millions of dollars every time someone else causes an outbreak, that kind of thing stops fast. Farm portapotties have handwashing stations on the outside so everyone can see that you don't skip that step.

Good to know! I was using dated knowledge. Back in the day, we couldn't have said this.

[mahagonny]

birthing person

[Hibush]

Here is "source" again, in a NYT article on motels: "...custom headboards and bedspreads were sourced from independent designers".

The excerpt is from the caption below the third photo in the article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/travel/motel-hotel-demand-reputation.html

I stopped reading after seeing "source" used in such a pretentious manner.

Sourcing is a critical part of supply chain management. Covid disruptions caused many businesses to figure out new places to get parts, component, ingredients etc. Sourcing in that context has been very much in the news. Granted, sourcing custom bedspreads sounds a lot more pretentious than sourcing the right size cardboard box.

[Cheerful]

{PC Alert.}

From CDC:  Pregnant people should get vaxxed.