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Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: chai tea latte on March 02, 2014, 12:55:03 pm
I defy anyone to find something more terrible than "webinar".
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: montrith on March 02, 2014, 01:21:42 pm
"cyberprise"
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: EYE OF ZA on March 02, 2014, 02:08:24 pm
tumblelog, what each tumblr "technically" is.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: cyclopeantrash on March 02, 2014, 02:10:07 pm
Mansplaining. It's a pretty terrible word and the reason for it existing is depressing.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Boots Raingear on March 02, 2014, 02:47:58 pm
Mobisode
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: crow on March 02, 2014, 02:55:46 pm
Mansplaining. It's a pretty terrible word and the reason for it existing is depressing.
MicroMissles, March 02, 2014, 02:10:07 pm

What the hell is mansplaining anyway, I thought it was someone telling a SJW something they don't want to hear.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: cyclopeantrash on March 02, 2014, 03:17:15 pm
Mansplaining. It's a pretty terrible word and the reason for it existing is depressing.
MicroMissles, March 02, 2014, 02:10:07 pm

What the hell is mansplaining anyway, I thought it was someone telling a SJW something they don't want to hear.
Smoking Crow, March 02, 2014, 02:55:46 pm

That's usually how it's used, yes. But really it's a term that means men being condescending dicks to women because they're women.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Baldr on March 02, 2014, 05:28:51 pm
I hate MOOC, pronounced as "mook (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mook)", an acronym for "Massively Open Online Course".  It's pretty clearly derived from the equally terrible MMORPG, which means I associate it with mindlessly grinding monsters for magic underwear in shit games.  MOOC has become ubiquitous in higher education; I hear or read it once a week.  I think it's telling that Sebastian Thrun doesn't even like the word, and he runs one of the largest companies that offers online education.

The term was coined by some guy with a master's degree in education, who you can see here:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Dave_Cormier_at_Skolforum_2012-10-30.JPG/318px-Dave_Cormier_at_Skolforum_2012-10-30.JPG)
One PowerPoint slide and I can tell this is the sort of useless dick who spends an hour screwing the audience by telling them the most obvious information and acting like he's discovered teleportation technology.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Moriarty on March 02, 2014, 06:26:51 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Dave_Cormier_at_Skolforum_2012-10-30.JPG/318px-Dave_Cormier_at_Skolforum_2012-10-30.JPG)
One PowerPoint slide and I can tell this is the sort of useless dick who spends an hour screwing the audience by telling them the most obvious information and acting like he's discovered teleportation technology.
Healslime, March 02, 2014, 05:28:51 pm

Someone really needs to tell him it's possible to type text directly into Powerpoint without drawing it in MSPaint first.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Sherlockian on March 03, 2014, 01:03:11 am
Mansplaining. It's a pretty terrible word and the reason for it existing is depressing.
MicroMissles, March 02, 2014, 02:10:07 pm

What the hell is mansplaining anyway, I thought it was someone telling a SJW something they don't want to hear.
Smoking Crow, March 02, 2014, 02:55:46 pm

"Mansplaining is a portmanteau of the words "man" and "explaining" that describes the act of a man speaking to a woman with the assumption that she knows less than he does about the topic being discussed on the basis of her gender. Mansplaining is different from other forms of condescension because mansplaining is rooted in the assumption that, in general, a man is likely to be more knowledgeable than a woman." Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining)

If you're curious about the original definition, one of the original posts that touched off discussion of the concept-- though she doesn't name it-- is Men Explain Things To Me (http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175584/).
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: fluffy on March 05, 2014, 10:24:20 pm
"Ask" as a noun. e.g. "What's the ask?"

I always respond with, "Do you mean, what's the request or what's the question?" because fuck if I can figure it out sometimes.

Also, "socialize" as a transitive verb, e.g. "Let's socialize that idea with management and see what they think."
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Lemon on March 06, 2014, 11:09:09 pm
The word "leverage" isn't a neologism, but the widespread misuse of it is. I've been in a whole lot of meetings and read a number of statements of work where the word "leverage" is assumed to be a synonym of the word "use".
These are all basically verbatim quotes, and none of them are right. "Leverage" is a finance word, and outside of that you're saying that whatever it is you're speaking of has enough clout as to give you an unfair advantage in the marketplace. Which means it doesn't apply to goddamn pencil sketches somebody drew up at 10 in the morning.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on March 07, 2014, 02:25:11 pm
Staycation.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Boots Raingear on March 07, 2014, 02:38:38 pm
Staycation.
jack-chick, March 07, 2014, 02:25:11 pm

Is that worse than funemployment?
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on March 08, 2014, 07:01:19 pm
Staycation.
jack-chick, March 07, 2014, 02:25:11 pm

Is that worse than funemployment?
Boots Raingear, March 07, 2014, 02:38:38 pm

Yes.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Runic on March 08, 2014, 07:20:45 pm
Gaymer is one that really gets on my tits. Not the existence of gay people who play video games, mind you, just the neologism. But none of these things mentioned are worse than webinar. Webinar is the worse.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Ansemaru on March 09, 2014, 01:09:20 am
Bromance. Because apparently "no homo" was one word too many.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: cyclopeantrash on March 09, 2014, 03:05:05 am
Otherkin.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on March 10, 2014, 05:30:00 pm
Technovangelism.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: chai tea latte on March 18, 2014, 08:41:11 am
just discovered i also hate "Britcom".
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Ansemaru on March 18, 2014, 03:47:06 pm
just discovered i also hate "Britcom".
kal-elk, March 18, 2014, 08:41:11 am

Misread that as "bitcoin," which means the thread streams are crossing.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: montrith on March 19, 2014, 07:49:01 am
"blogaversary"
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: cyclopeantrash on March 19, 2014, 12:18:17 pm
"blogaversary"
montrith, March 19, 2014, 07:49:01 am

This can't exist. I can't believe this is a word people would use.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on March 19, 2014, 02:00:44 pm
Still not over "feminazi".

Or "lulz" for that matter, but that's mostly because I understand it to have originated from Encyclopedia Dramatica/4chan and they can eat a sloppy dick.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: A Meat on March 19, 2014, 02:20:02 pm
Still not over "feminazi".
CuddlePLEASE MAKE IT STOP SNOWING, March 19, 2014, 02:00:44 pm

Do you prefer "veganazi"?
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on March 19, 2014, 03:52:24 pm
Still not over "feminazi".
CuddlePLEASE MAKE IT STOP SNOWING, March 19, 2014, 02:00:44 pm

Do you prefer "veganazi"?
A Meat, March 19, 2014, 02:20:02 pm

(insert joke about Hitler being a vegetarian)
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Mister Smalls on April 11, 2014, 11:10:14 pm
"Heteroflexible".
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: count_actuala on April 13, 2014, 06:51:56 am
Bromance. Because apparently "no homo" was one word too many.
Ansemaru, March 09, 2014, 01:09:20 am
Thank you. You've saved me a paragraph.

That said, the word 'blog' still makes my skin crawl even though there's really no better word to use.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Baldr on April 13, 2014, 11:49:58 am
I just encountered "techsploration" for the first time.  It's actually kind of useful, as it allows me to immediately dismiss anyone who uses it as an idiot.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: nigeline on April 17, 2014, 02:26:31 am
I just encountered "techsploration" for the first time.  It's actually kind of useful, as it allows me to immediately dismiss anyone who uses it as an idiot.
Healslime, April 13, 2014, 11:49:58 am
Aaaa, that's even worse than "slidecast", which is about the most administratively douchy term there is.

I also hate people who use "gift" as a verb - it's give, GIVE.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: nilvoid on May 27, 2014, 12:16:26 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/JBYex3L.png)
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Mister Smalls on May 27, 2014, 12:34:03 pm
Thanks, Dick Dorkins.
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: chai tea latte on May 28, 2014, 02:40:32 am
"raddition", as in "we are looking for a raddition to our communal household"
Title: Worst neologisms
Post by: Boots Raingear on May 28, 2014, 07:37:45 am
I also hate people who use "gift" as a verb - it's give, GIVE.
nigeline, April 17, 2014, 02:26:31 am

Gift has been a verb for at least 500 years.