Trendy Words I Do Not Like

[RatGuy]

Bestie, Based, Tradnapped.

[Langue_doc]

I can't stand bestie either. Are you supposed to have just one "best" friend?

Here's a word that I do like--hellmouth to describe a gaping sinkhole.

https://gothamist.com/news/early-addition-another-hellmouth-sinkhole-has-emerged

[dismalist]

to double down

Are there that many Blackjack players?

[the_geneticist]

Bestie, Based, Tradnapped.

Tradnapped?

[Hegemony]

I can't stand bestie either. Are you supposed to have just one "best" friend?

I think that is indeed the meaning of "best." Better than all the others.  If you don't have one, that's fine, but if you do have one, "best" is the word for it. It's like "unique" — it means there's only one in that category.

[Parasaurolophus]

While I do think that 'best' carries a conversational implicature of uniqueness, I think it's a little weaker. It seems to me that it can be equalled--perhaps because 'the best' typically denotes a class of objects rather than a particular individual (e.g. "the best knife is...").

[dismalist]

I can't stand bestie either. Are you supposed to have just one "best" friend?

I think that is indeed the meaning of "best." Better than all the others.  If you don't have one, that's fine, but if you do have one, "best" is the word for it. It's like "unique" — it means there's only one in that category.

Ah, unique! No, most unique.

[fast_and_bulbous]

I used the word 'peformant' (exhibiting good performance) in a paper and got away with it.
It just fit in that sentence, what can I say. I'm not sure it's a real word. Then again, all words started out not real words.

[dismalist]

I used the word 'peformant' (exhibiting good performance) in a paper and got away with it.
It just fit in that sentence, what can I say. I'm not sure it's a real word. Then again, all words started out not real words.

It is a word!

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/performant

Apparently, it wasn't 10 years ago.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38945/what-is-wrong-with-the-word-performant

Perhaps jargon now. Still, what's not to like?

[fast_and_bulbous]

I used the word 'peformant' (exhibiting good performance) in a paper and got away with it.
It just fit in that sentence, what can I say. I'm not sure it's a real word. Then again, all words started out not real words.

It is a word!

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/performant

Apparently, it wasn't 10 years ago.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38945/what-is-wrong-with-the-word-performant

Perhaps jargon now. Still, what's not to like?

Well now I feel vindicated. One of the reviewers wanted it gone but I persisted. Let's hear it for words!

[sinenomine]

Verticals. Iterative. Both are go-to terms for administration at my place of work.

[fishbrains]

"Excused" as a magic word that makes coursework somehow disappear.

As in "since a COVID quarantine absence is 'excused,' I've done nothing in the class for 10 days, including taking 30 seconds to send an email. What should I do now?" or "Since these are 'excused' absences, be sure to work with students."

It's hard to work with students who ain't there in any capacity. Grrrrrrr . . .

[dismalist]

A post on the "favorite student emails" thread reminded me of  "I'm confused".

"I'm confused" used to be a confession that one was, well, confused. Nowadays, it is used as an accusation, in the sense of "you have caused me to be confused". How did that happen and why?

[downer]

A post on the "favorite student emails" thread reminded me of  "I'm confused".

"I'm confused" used to be a confession that one was, well, confused. Nowadays, it is used as an accusation, in the sense of "you have caused me to be confused". How did that happen and why?

Sorry, that was me. I phrased my comments to visiting speakers as "I'm confused. You said X but then you said Y, but X implies not-Y." It seemed politer than "You are taking nonsense."

[marshwiggle]

Verticals. Iterative. Both are go-to terms for administration at my place of work.

I've been thinking about this for a while. What other word(s) would you use to describe a process that goes through many cycles to improve and/or get closer to the final solution? So far I haven't thought of any. (Having done lots of programming, it's a really familiar word in that context.)