What words have been ruined for you this past year?
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November 29th, 2017
I love snow, but whenever I hear the word snowflake now I cringe. Republicans have ruined snow for me.
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Like It used to be a word for your actual dad and now it’s a kink.
There’s a kink for everything. I just saw one about heartbeats
Played spades recently. Going over the rules for someone new was a little less fun than it used to be. Kept having to say a certain word.
Jeruba beat me to it! :)
Yeah, I can’t say “snowflake” anymore either. I guess “snow crystal” will have to suffice.
I never said “fake news” to begin with, but the term is just a colossal joke now, even if started out as a useful term.
Luckily after a while we won’t have to use the word “millennial” again for another 1000 years…
@Soubresaut, it’ll never be the same. It’s gone. Like a whole lot of other things. I’m anticipating that some other word, whether a variant or a metaphor or a completely different term, will emerge to take its place in card games and other contexts, including the Bible.
I do believe that we have in the past year seen as definitive an end to an era as 9/11 was, marking an irrecoverable loss—not of innocence (that went a long time ago) but of some accepted standard of “normal” that we never thought we had to defend.
Cue Big Yellow Taxi.
“allegation” has been bastardized to mean “unquestionable truth”
Nioplangitude.
I just now made it up, and I’m already so glad this post is the only place where I’ll ever see it!
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@Brian1946, I believe it’s _neo_plangitude, and it means a new or resumed instance of whining and moaning. Plenty of use for that these days.
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@SergeantQueen My husband’s 40-something daughter calls him “Daddy.” It creeps me out.
SQUAW was ruined for me. I always though it just meant a mature, married Native American woman, but apparently it’s slur.
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