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Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot
Not so much a word, but a phrase:
"Lean in" to something meaning to embrace or accept a challenge. To persevere in spite of a difficulty. I don't know why, but this phrase irritates me. I have a feeling that Brene Brown popularized it fairly recently, because I think I've heard her say it and I've been noticing it a lot lately. It's a little vague, and gives an impression of something without actually saying anything. I get this mental image of a person actually leaning in to a conversation people are having in order to eavesdrop on it. The term distracts me. There are so many different words you can use. I wouldn't mind never hearing it again.
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OK I answered my own question. The term took off in 2013 when Sheryl Sandberg, a CEO, wrote a book about women being assertive in the workplace called Lean In.
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I have a phrase, too, but first: What happened to the rest of this subject? With all the previous words?
It has been around for a long time I thought, but this is "new".
A search for "words that need" comes up empty.
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Now I found monster's similar question down in Meta.
Weird.
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I have a new one, not a word but a phrase.
"Let's goooooo!" ... (when a good thing happens in youtube about a video game)
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eta: and yes, the original thread, started by me, has been disappeared. I can't find it anywhere, it's gone
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yeah mine's not a word either but I am so over IYKYK already. bang bang.
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So it looks like undertoad strikes from the grave.
Phrase to be shot:
"And make sure it never happens again."
Used mainly by politicians and news folk. Has it ever worked?
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trope
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Flint wrote:
I have a new one, not a word but a phrase.
"Let's goooooo!" ... (when a good thing happens in youtube about a video game)
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eta: and yes, the original thread, started by me, has been disappeared. I can't find it anywhere, it's gone
I think you started the original thread in the original cellar, but UTI started the continuation here and so it disappeared with him
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UTI...
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Impact, as a verb...
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I see you were impacted by that
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Battleground state.
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I've had enough.
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"addicting" instead of addictive
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But that's such and impactive and utilizable word
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Can we unpack it a bit?
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"Being Mindful of" is a phrase that needs attention in the woodshed area. I refuse to be mindful of repetition if I have mentioned it before. ....but I used it (to amuse myself) in an email to and interviewer who was being a twat and I suspect from their reply it even pissed them off which means it's definitely too powerfully irritating to be allowed to live
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at the end of the day I think we have to chalk it up to human nature
(my horoscope said I'd get a fortune cookie which said that)
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at the end of the day I think we have to chalk it up to human nature
(my horoscope said I'd get a fortune cookie which said that)
only if Mercury is in retrograde
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I don't understand the joke. Sorry, I'm a Capri Sun.
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C'mon you guys, these phrases are exceedingly useful.
They are excellent indicators of how much bullshit is woven into the statement being run up the flagpole.
Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.
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I don't understand the joke. Sorry, I'm a Capri Sun.
well I'm half Libral half Virginal so on balance we're not fucked ....(probably something worse)
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