At the risk of coming across as too self-serving, I'm going to mention that this is one theme/meaning of my now twice-edited piece in Memoir "How Ya Doin'?"
The word "surreal." Hear it a lot when people are interviewed on the news. "When Grandma was blown away by the tornado it was just surreal." "Watching little Suzie win the gold medal was surreal."
feminine masculine Call it being fed up with identity politics or arbitrary classifications, but I just don't really like either term.
Phrases and words and what not that should be banned: bae, yolo, hashtag, and anything created by the fucking idiot kids who don't know how to use proper English.
When people are about to say something, but guard it with a defensive set up, somehow thinking this makes what they're about to say acceptable. I'm talking about statements such as: "Look, I don't want to offend you, but..." [then go on to offend you] "Listen, I'm not sticking my nose in your business here, but..." [and then proceed to stick their nose in your business]
I'm not sure, but just to be safe we ought to verify that that it is not a strategy of the unvirtual realm. Periscope up! Maybe get a snack and empty bladder too, if I must trek outward.
to die for, Example: "That new Greek yogurt is to die for!" Umm . . . No, it's not. I would die for my children. I wouldn't die for yogurt, ever!
I dinna like the word "fap." Sounds disgusting. I think I've complained about that on here before. I also hate basically anything the stereotypical white teenage girl says. "Oh MY GAWD. I totes can't wait to go ---" *smashes* Someone complained about people using the phrase "revert to" and the context they used it in made me even more confused. What does that even mean!?
I hate all kinds of yogurt. They make my tongue feel weird, almost like it dries it out or leaves a film of gross-ness. Even those Dan-stuff yogurt drinks are gross.
If I was desperate, I would take yogurt in playment for doing brave and dangerous things. So I sort of would.
When someone says "What's up" or even worse "Sup" How lazy can they get, are they going to eventually walk by and hiss at me? "ssssssssss"
Exploiting human weakness is called "social engineering," but calling it "hacking" isn't much of a problem. Still, I agree that jumping on a co-worker's machine when they fail to log out is kinda cheap. A better example which has been done includes throwing several USB drives in a company's parking lot. Employees find them and get curious, so they pop them into their business computers to see what is on them. Mitnick was at a security conference. He acquired the student roster and which room each student is staying. He then called them early in the morning and pretended to be the front desk. With them being dead tired, he was able to talk them into giving him their credit card info. The next day, as he taught, he posted this information for each of these poor souls.
The verb I use is "compromise", as in "he wasn't the one posting all that spam on Facebook -- his account was compromised." Interestingly, this is the URL to Facebook's page for people with compromised accounts: https://www.facebook.com/hacked But it uses "compromised" in the page text:
And..? A person hacks (or, better, engages in social engineering or uses an exploit or takes advantage of a vulnerability (which is not to imply that all exploits and vulnerabilities are related to social engineering)). An account is compromised.
When people use the word 'suffer' in relation to a condition/disability that really doesn't hurt them. For instance, I've severe hearing loss and mild vision loss. I don't suffer from them. They cause me no pain or annoyance, it's just something I'm used to. Now it could be that I just misunderstood the meaning behind the context, but I'd be a bit miffed if someone said that I suffer from hearing and vision loss.
Misplaced "just" and "only" (as in "I only drink water" (I don't bathe in it) as opposed to "I drink only water" (I don't drink beer)).
"Don't you think that...." as a false interrogative wrapper in order to make a statement and leave oneself room for a quick "I was just asking" escape in case it goes tits up. Have the fortitude to state what you're going to state. This kind of syntax provokes in me a very special kind of scorn for the person speaking.
