Thursday, August 21, 2025

PLEASE Make These Words And Phrases Disappear!

Right now, we are being inundated with a set of words and phrases (mostly perpetuated by an endlessly imitative media) that need to disappear before we all go apoplectic! Here are some of them:

existential - as in existential threat]

dysphoria - as in gender dysphoria

drops and dropped - as in The book drops tomorrow or The movie dropped this weekend.

eponymous - as in launching a new, eponymous label

unpack - as in Let's unpack this story.

dystopian - as in a dystopian society

sourced - as in locally sourced

disrupt, disruptor and disruptive - as in He's a hopeless disruptor.

diaspora - as in They are part of a growing diaspora.

gaslighting - as in They're gaslighting you.

triggered - as in He was triggered by that.

takeaway, takeaways - as in takeaways from a news conference

cringeworthy - as in a cringeworthy scene

thoughts and prayers - as in our thoughts and prayers are with

sustainable - as in sustainable energy




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