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Posted: March 25 2015 at 18:43

Way too much "like" though, yeah.

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:14

Hipster.

Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:19

The Sloth wrote:

I get totally cheesed by word and phrase trends. The biggie that's currently making the rounds:

It is what it is

A completely valueless thing to say, in the same light-poetic sphere as "at the end of the day." So annoying.

Disagree. I use this phrase often. What is a better alternative? "Deal with it"?

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:23

Horizons wrote:

Hipster.

True. It has so many definitions that it has become people's word for just about anything. That table. It's so hipster.

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:36

TeleStrat wrote:

"My bad."

This and its annoying counterpart; "It's all good".

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:45

I guess my problem with it is, I'd say 99/100 times, a good point is not summed up with "it is what it is." There's a defeatism and last second faux-dignity to the phrase that I really can't stand.

Another one I hate is bat sh*t crazy.

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 21:24

The Sloth wrote:

I get totally cheesed by word and phrase trends. The biggie that's currently making the rounds:

It is what it is

A completely valueless thing to say, in the same light-poetic sphere as "at the end of the day." So annoying.

Doesn't bother me. It's just another way of saying: "That's just the way of the world." Some people have difficulty dealing with reality, with facts. There's nothing wrong with defeatism when there are very few things you are in control of.

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chopper wrote:

preponing (as in the opposite of postponing)

The phrase instead reminds me of that redhead on That 70s Show.

Me too.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 25 2015 at 21:38

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 21:30

irrelevant wrote:

When people use the term "self-indulgent" to criticize music.

I can kind of understand why they use the word - a musician indulging himself way too much, implementing writing/playing devices in a manner that he can lose the listener. (Here "kind of" is not a filler. It's just another way of saying "I think I can understand why ... .") Then again, there's a chance that "self-indulgent" can just be in the mind of the listener.

Here are some words I just don't care for: pretentious (as was already mentioned), grandiloquent, pompous. I've said it before, I'll say it again: those words don't mean anything in the context of a music discussion. They don't make any sense. Where does all this come from? Even professional music critics use these words. I've never understood this kind of diction. Those words are supposed to describe a human quality, not a musical one.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 25 2015 at 21:40

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 21:41

"Streamlining the workforce" - nice way of saying "canning a bunch of people and throwing them to the street"

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 21:42

inb4 crowdsourcing (or whatever other word that was coined in the 21st century), which I'm perfectly fine with.

irrelevant wrote:

Way too much "like" though, yeah.

Bugs me too every now and then, especially in writing (which is so unnecessary).

Edit: one more, and this one is rather a case of misuse: trifecta. Look, people, it's not a synonym for a general "three-piece" or "three-fold". I see this kind of thing in TV shows and hear it on comedy albums. No, read the definition.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 25 2015 at 21:54

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 22:32

Forgot to mention when people refer to a group of men as "bros". I feel a huge urge to slap them.

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 22:33

Dayvenkirq wrote:

Ouch, been using this wrong my entire life.

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 23:52

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Forgot to mention when people refer to a group of men as "bros". I feel a huge urge to slap them.

Oh, that's another master stinker, this "bro" sickness, I never knew my parents were so promiscuous ! LOL

I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 23:53

I am bored

to date I still don't understand why anyone would say that.

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 23:57

They have holes in them, Kati. Bored! C'mon ! LOL

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Posted: March 25 2015 at 23:59

Kati wrote:

I am bored

to date I still don't understand why anyone would say that.

It's just this generation - "Generation Me". A lot of us want to tell the world how we feel.

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Dayvenkirq wrote:

Ouch, been using this wrong my entire life.

I only suppose it's because of things like misuse and loose slang-like diction, a word gets another meaning to it or its meaning changes. Case in point: bully.

OK, I feel like I'm taking this one to outer limits. Let's just stick with the topic.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 26 2015 at 00:04

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Posted: March 26 2015 at 00:10

sublime220 wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

Ouch, been using this wrong my entire life.

I only suppose it's because of things like misuse and loose slang-like diction, a word gets another meaning to it or its meaning changes. Case in point: bully.

OK, I feel like I'm taking this one to outer limits. Let's just stick with the topic.

[/QUOTE] While you are looking at bully, I'm sitting here marveled at the garbage one. Stern Smile

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Posted: March 26 2015 at 00:20

tszirmay wrote:

They have holes in them, Kati. Bored! C'mon ! LOL

HAHAHAHAHA, Tszirmay, hihihi yes it's very odd indeed hahaha

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Posted: March 26 2015 at 00:23

tszirmay wrote:

sublime220 wrote:

Forgot to mention when people refer to a group of men as "bros". I feel a huge urge to slap them.

Oh, that's another master stinker, this "bro" sickness, I never knew my parents were so promiscuous ! LOL

Ewww

that is a bad one ....

hahahaha but seriously trying to block that out of my mind right now lol

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Posted: March 26 2015 at 00:29

Dayvenkirq wrote:

Kati wrote:

I am bored

to date I still don't understand why anyone would say that.

It's just this generation - "Generation Me". A lot of us want to tell the world how we feel.

sublime220 wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

Ouch, been using this wrong my entire life.

I only suppose it's because of things like misuse and loose slang-like diction, a word gets another meaning to it or its meaning changes. Case in point: bully.

OK, I feel like I'm taking this one to outer limits. Let's just stick with the topic.

Dayvenkirq, being bored is ones own fault and why should this not matter to others, I do not get why people say this, if one is bored it's their own fault, I can think of so many things to do and it does not include spending money.