Each and everyone —redundant
It is what it is.
Or is it? What if it isn’t? Or won’t be? What is it, anyway? Is it what it is?
LOL, Michelle just said “it is what it is”. Changed my mind; phrase is fine.
Do you mean something like these pages?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/probing-the-moist-crevices-of-word-aversion/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153686
When a person says to me, “To be honest with you…”.
Was anything said prior to this was not honest?
When did everything start to be considered exclusively on a “granular” level? Quickly losing meaning through overuse.
“snowflake”
“The juice isn’t worth the squeeze”
“It’s been a minute” to describe something that has taken a long time.???
“virtue signalling”
“echo chamber”
“apart” used frequently on this site: “I am apart of the volunteer club.”
Apart= to separate: We took the Legos apart after building the ship.
Than/then
Than=used when comparing. I’d rather have cherry pie than apple.
Then=time or a list. The sun came out, then surprisingly, it started pouring rain.
Business lingo has always annoyed me.
Let’s unpack this.
Send up a trial balloon.
Here’s another one… ‘like’
like when people cant, like speak a complete sentence without like, saying the word ‘like’, like fifty times before the end of like, the sentence.
Prolly instead of probably. It makes me cringe every time.
Companies calling their employees “talent”.
Starting a sentence with “Look” - all politicians seem to do this and almost no one else does.
Methinks
I despise furbaby too. And preggo and baby bump. And the girls. And throwing up your mouth.
Agree business lingo is horrible. The one I hate is escalating an issue.
And I’ve always hated “It is what it is”, but I like it a little better today.
Starting a sentence with “So”.
“Pivot”
and baby bump too!
Pretty sure Michelle’s subtle pause was putting air quotes around “it is what it is.” She was definitely making a reference. ?
So glad someone brought up “the girls.” I detest that one as well.
“Push present”.
Seems like this is a term used by people who themselves are seemingly uncaring or nasty, and have difficulty seeing that other people may do caring and/or charitable acts for reasons other than appearances.
Perhaps use of the term “virtue signalling” in a derisive manner is itself a form of “vice signalling”.