JollySipper Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 Thought you guys would have fun discussing some of the "new" words and phrases that have emerged lately...... "Bump-Dialing" I'll get a call occasionally and it's someones Smart Phone in their purse or pocket calling...........
mikemodeler Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 "texting""snap chat""facebook me""follow me on Twitter"
Ace-Garageguy Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 (edited) Click bait, bromance, cloud computing, crowd funding, fracking, Obamacare, presbo... I dunno. Are these new enough? Seems like 20 years ago was last week. Edited June 23, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy
Snake45 Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 Awesome used to actually mean awesome, not just "sorta cool.""Binge watching" for TV shows.Bluetooth.Wi-Fi.Starbucks.Millenial, a noun referring to some sort of people.
MrBuick Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 Man...20 years ago was the 90's...crazy. Anyway - "Google it" (and "Bing it" etc)"fam" (apparently it's an abbreviation for family, but not literally...it's supposed to mean "friend, pal, etc")"Lit" (means either drunk or high or maybe it just means inebriated...something like that)All the "politically correct" terms for Welfare and Food Stamps"The 1%"
Harry P. Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 And my nominee for the all-time most annoying, overused, most clichéd phrase ever..."at the end of the day"...God, every time I hear that I want to just strangle the doofus who just said it!
MrBuick Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 And my nominee for the all-time most annoying, overused, most clichéd phrase ever... "at the end of the day"... God, every time I hear that I want to just strangle the doofus who just said it! There are sooooo many phrases that are overused, annoying, or don't even make sense, but at the end of the day, I try to just ignore it
SfanGoch Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 And my nominee for the all-time most annoying, overused, most clichéd phrase ever..."at the end of the day"...God, every time I hear that I want to just strangle the doofus who just said it! God didn't get that message. He was busy networking.
JollySipper Posted June 23, 2016 Author Posted June 23, 2016 Butt dialing. Wouldn't that also be called a "booty call"?
Snake45 Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 And my nominee for the all-time most annoying, overused, most clichéd phrase ever..."at the end of the day"...God, every time I hear that I want to just strangle the doofus who just said it!That one WAS around 20 years ago. I distinctly remember it coming in at the beginning of the Clinton administration, which would have been 1993. And I think it was common in Britain long before that.
Snake45 Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 "Ginormous" "Disastrophe." I find five or six reasons to use it almost every day. Unfortunately.
SfanGoch Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 That one WAS around 20 years ago. I distinctly remember it coming in at the beginning of the Clinton administration, which would have been 1993. And I think it was common in Britain long before that. "At the end of the day" has been used for longer than that, Richard. Urban Dictionary has the best definition:An irritating verbal crutch, indicating closure or synopsis, for morons who are incapable of finishing a sentence without incorporating at least one tired cliche.
Ace-Garageguy Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 (edited) "At the end of the day" has been used for longer than that, Richard. Urban Dictionary has the best definition:An irritating verbal crutch, indicating closure or synopsis, for morons who are incapable of finishing a sentence without incorporating at least one tired cliche. That's like totally awesome. Edited June 23, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy
Harry P. Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 Frenemy... manscaping... thrown under the bus... speaking truth to power...
plastic trucker Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 How about, "It is what it is." I'm getting sick of hearing it.
SfanGoch Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 How about, "It is what it is." I'm getting sick of hearing it. This is a one-size-fits-all, multi-purpose definition suitable for most of these words/phrases: An irritating verbal crutch, indicating closure or synopsis, for morons who are incapable of finishing a sentence without incorporating at least one tired cliche.
Ace-Garageguy Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 An irritating verbal crutch, indicating closure or synopsis, for morons who are incapable of finishing a sentence without incorporating at least one tired cliche. Damm. Dude be speakin' truth to power.
Tom Geiger Posted June 24, 2016 Posted June 24, 2016 (edited) That's actually like ummm, like, totally wow! Ummm! Edited June 24, 2016 by Tom Geiger
Harry Joy Posted June 24, 2016 Posted June 24, 2016 "Ginormous"That word has been around a lot longer than 20 years. I'm 50, so it's easy for me to date some of these, but Google says it came out in the 1940s.
SfanGoch Posted June 24, 2016 Posted June 24, 2016 WWII-era British military slang first put to print in the "Dictionary of Forces' Slang" in 1948.
Ace-Garageguy Posted June 24, 2016 Posted June 24, 2016 "Speaking truth to power", one I hadn't heard before (!) was apparently coined as a phrase in a publication by the Quaker movement in 1955.
SfanGoch Posted June 24, 2016 Posted June 24, 2016 Say.......Richard Nixon and Montgomery Clift were Quakers. So is the guy on the oatmeal box. I smell a conspiracy. Never mind. That was me. I had jerk chicken for dinner.
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