The replacement of the term “conspiracy theory” with just “conspiracy”.
That’s two different things. If we equate the two semantically we can’t discuss them.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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It's not a word but '...' ok... thanks... I guess...
What do you want? Is it on our do you want something else? It's fine...
Cmon.................
“Cyber” 🙄
Ironic considering your username is almost an ASL
American Sign Language?
Please do the needful.
This one really grinds my gears! I think it's because the person can't even be bothered to describe what they want you to do, just go fix it and don't bother me with any details.
"Completely different" when the two things are actually very similar
"Oftentimes"
Its always interchangeable with Often. Just use Often.
I cringe so hard at the twitterist carebear-hugbox way of smugly claiming the intellectual high ground and shaming somebody:
"Be better." or "Do better."
The sentiment isn't terrible, but it's prevalent use is obviously just dripping with arrogance and thrown out in the most petty ways. Ugh!
"It is what it is"
I get the sentiment behind it, it's just usually so defeatist/dismissive of a situation to me.
That’s now how people in my subculture use it.
They use it to mean “it’s too late to avoid this problem; let’s talk about things we can change at this point”.
Example:
“If you hadn’t stopped at that rest area the killer never would have slashed our tires”
“Well if you hadn’t jumped for those cheap tires maybe he wouldn’t have been able to slash them with a butter knife”
“And if you’d paid for the triple A we’d have a ride by now”
“Look, it is what it is. Let’s just figure out a way to get back to town without having to follow the road”
- paradigm shift
- military grade encryption
- cyber kill chain
"I could care less" to mean "I could NOT care less"
I’ve always interpreted it as meaning that I care so little for something I can’t even be bothered to put the effort in to not care about it as much as I should… but, yeah, it’s used incorrectly way too often and makes no sense most of the time.
I sometimes say "I could care less, but not by much"
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Someone could take all the answers here and create a copypasta equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.
Not a term, but a lack thereof:
People I have to regularly interact with for work have been excluding "to be", especially with "needs", and it's infuriating.
This issue needs escalated. That report needs fleshed out. Let me know if anything needs cleared up.
To quote Shakespeare, "Or not?"
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Especially in news headlines: slams, blasts, mind-blowing, hack (or lifehack)
I'm sure there are others, but that's all my brain can handle at the moment.
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Starting every sentence with "So". "So" being the way to indicate the beginning of a sentence.
"Live. Laugh. Love." or similar.
So many things. In written form, I hate when someone writes "Period." after they make a point to mean "this can't be argued" or whatever. My good bitch, I don't think you understand how arguing works. 😆
"Full stop" is a close second.
Q.E.D.
That's fine as long as you don't spell out the periods. 😆
By the by, I'd love to be the guy with the confidence to end an argument with "thus it is proven". That'd be epic. I think I've only ever used QED humorously or ironically.
If you don’t have the periods it could just be someone saying qed really loud
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Mama, momma, mommas…
“Hey Facebook mommas, I’ve got a question about…”
I don’t know why, but it annoys the shit out of me.
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