Yeah "Emotional labour" is a good example (just looked on Wikipedia, Haslam apparently)
twitter (where some of these entries surely emerged) is going to look fucking horrendous in retrospect. what the hell are we all doing?
possibly a lot of the woke terminology as well. i think that might date quite quickly at least, and some of the opinions, or maybe just the ways of expressing them, that people hold are going to feel like wearing flares or top gun or big 80s echoey snare drums. i think people might be a bit embarrassed about it in ten years.
The concept creep thing is a real problem ("problematic?") cos every time someone comes up with a genuinely great new way of expressing something that catches on, it's gonna get abused. Hard to see a way out of that really.
I recently visited the Stasi museum in Leipzig and it was shocking
but a decamp to the former DDR is my "plan B" if Scotland fails to secede from the UK
we're fucked ( UK people ) , but DMT has taught me not to worry
You in .de atm?
no, but I've been recently spending some time visiting the former DDR / GDR
if the Scottish heritage route doesn't work out then I might end up in Leipzig ( Connewitz ) or Dresden ( Neustadt )
as much as I love Manchester it seems as if i should have an escape plan in hand due to the Tory bastards
Cool, I lived in Leipzig for about 4 years. Am in Berlin nowadays but do miss it's little counterpart at times.
This is a good example of hypercorrection. Lots of Brits wrongly think that -ize is an Americanism, and therefore wrong in UK English, whereas for many words both spellings are valid here."incentivized"
this didn't use to be a real word, plus it would really piss off one of my former bosses who objected, strongly, to any use of Z in English words when, according to him, an S is the proper usage even when confronted with the OED definition and etymology
"main character energy" and "hero ingredient" are a couple of recent ones I've noticed getting used a lot
The NPC meme may have originated on 4chan, but pleasingly I think I've seen far more instances of it where the NPC is wearing a MAGA cap than I have of the original, right-wing version. In other words, it's not just reactionaries who can co-opt things.i've seen the "main character" trope a lot in memes and social media recently and it bugs me. fits in with other phrases i've seen used like "arc", "villain origin story" etc.. the idea of narrativising your life, adopting some kind of third person perspective to your "self" is obviously completely aligned with instagram and social media ("add to story") so not really surprising. but i feel like it shows how much popular social media culture is seeded by the alt-right 4chan gamer-bro types - it's basically the "NPC" (non player character) trope for the mainstream. detached individualism and a good excuse to treat other people, particularly the ones who don't seem to be as intent on narrativising their life in the same way, like shit
You don't have to pick up every new buzzword. You only look stupid if you insist on leaping from trend to trend.