Overused Words I hate Part 2

@Fishy [media=https://youtu.be/bRgauB32Oi8]

@SheCallsMeCrushDaddy [b]The Self-Educated Do Nazi Grammar; the College-Indoctrinated Do Not See Grammar[/b]

The same goes for the media-created wrong meaning for "oxymoron." These Jurinalism majors are so stupid that they have shallowly associated it with something said by a moron. Its real meaning is just the opposite: a clever pun in which the words would be contradictory if used in a completely different context, such as "boneless ribs, less (clutter) is more (clarity), paid volunteers, donut holes, etc."

Those who got into media from their college hideouts never listened to the previous generation's media before they became professionals, or else they would have frequently heard "a (claim that something is) contradiction in terms." [i]Oxymoron[/i] is a rare literary figure of speech. Irradiated soil could be called "clean dirt," which would be the informed use of "oxymoron."

@GeistInTheMachine I was gaslighting you by pretending that you were gaslighting her.

Meta on meta.

@Burnley123 Cheeky bastard...😂

@GeistInTheMachine I'm a smart-arse 😇

@DearAmbellina2113 99% of the time people use literally, it is actually metaphorically lol

@DearAmbellina2113 People who misuse the word literally make me want to literally punch them in the face.

@ravenwind43 Fuck I'm sick of woke.

@ravenwind43 This is an annoying workplace one: socialize.
"I will socialize this information to the other business units"

Why not just "I will tell"

You would think when people become adults we would not be prone to using fad words.

@JimboSaturn I haven't heard that one! Lol
My recently retired supervisor used to use the word "advise" over and over. "Let them know" would work just as well.

@Magenta oops I just used that one :P

@JimboSaturn 😄 bad boy. 😏

@Magenta

@ravenwind43 That's a good thing if you're gaming.

@ravenwind43 I never heard that one but it sounds like how a lot of self absorbed SWs would describe themselves

@Thevy29 Gaslighting is where an abusive person lies about the psychological abuse they inflict, in an attempt to try to convince the other person that they are imagining things. It's almost always much more harmful than the abuse itself, because the end result is to convince the other person that they're crazy.

It comes from a movie of the same name. In it, this woman's husband literally messes with the gas lighting in the house, turning it down just a little bit at a time, and when she asked him if it's darker than it used to be, he tells her the light is right where it always was.

In politics, the meaning of the word gaslighting has gotten muddied and mixed up, and now is being misused to describe a politician who is a liar.

@LordShadowfire I know people like that. But I call them A Narcissistic Pretentious C#nt.