‘Slop’ - Commonly used to describe AI and is a common criticism of things people deem lacking in quality in entertainment mediums.
‘Slams’ - Commonly used in headlines to describe how critical someone’s views are towards another.
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Idk if this is just me but at my job everyone says “Correct” in this really weird way that pisses me off in a way I can’t explain. Clients, workers, everyone and it’s like, the same tonality consistently, nobody’s ever like “uh huh” or “yeah” they say Correct" now, do they think it makes them sound smart or something?!
flamiera SLAMS new age SLOP words for their ubiquity
“Drop” or “dropped” to mean something’s been released/made public/announced/appeared pretty much anywhere. I know it’s not new. But over the last few years people have been saying it for everything. New thread just dropped. I just dropped my first album. That sort of thing, but for EVERYTHING.
“Clanker”. For… reasons.
How about the more PC “Clanka?”
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Any violent or aggressive hyperbolic verb in all caps. “person DESTROYS argument for frobination”, “Unpopular politician WRECKED by simple argument (not demonstrated in this article)”
I’ve been sick of ‘unprecedented’ for a long time. It isn’t supposed to mean just ‘shocking’.
So and so “breaks their silence” on a topic. What an overdramatic way to say someone made a statement about said topic. It makes it sound like people have been waiting for a prolonged period for them to say something and they’ve been inexplicably silent. On Monday morning, I saw a headline saying the Reiner family were breaking their silence on their parents murder. IT HADN’T YET BEEN 24 HOURS! HOW SOON SHOULD THEY HAVE SAID SOMETHING? someone responds to a situation as soon as could possibly be expected and headlines call it “breaking their silence”.
I’ve also seen headlines that say so and so “breaks their silence” on things nobody was asking for their thoughts on. Oh, someone hasn’t commented on every little thing that happens? They must have been holding something back.
FreshParsnip breaks her silence on this annoying headline trend. It was so weird she wasn’t saying anything until now!
I saw one where someone “broke their silence on attack on their house.” Their house had been egged with no evidence that they were specifically targeted for any specific reason.
Unprecedented. I cannot recall a single time that word was used in the past five years to describe a situation or event that was without precedent.
“AI”.
Back in my day, AI was another term for the computer in video games, like CPU.
Huh, usually those talks would turn into complaining about the “AS” in my experience.
“Wild”
Just tired of seeing it.
Right now, that word makes me think of the start of this song
Woke, it’s an American bullshit word that means whatever the speaker criticizes. It’s a shame that it got exported to other parts of the world.
It started as “I understand and acknowledge that our society has systemic inequality and I would like to change that”. Perfectly reasonable way of stating it succinctly. As in, “I woke up” to this fact.
Right-wing lunatics stole the term and make it “anything I don’t like”.
I know exactly when that became rampant. 2016, basically the year where society had a huge meltdown in the USA.
Right-wing people stole ‘Woke’ and associated it with SJWs and along with ‘snowflake’ too. To them, being ‘Woke’ meant that you’re aware of their bullshit and the bullshit being forced by the right-wing politics about how incredibly backwards they want to take the country into. Like by allowing racism again, xenophobia and whatnot. So, anything that worked against that, then you’re suddenly ‘Woke’ to them. ‘Snowflake’ is what they called you when you have feelings and emotions, whereas they are the ones trying to be tough and were told to pull things by the bootstraps all their life.
Ironic how the tables turned on that one where these right-winged people are going into sandwich shops trying to be intimidating with their military cosplay outfits. They clung onto that shit like their security blanket and if you take it away, then they’re the ones crying up rivers over it.
On the Slop part – I wonder if the people that go around making inaccurate accusations about things being AI know how absolutely ridiculous it makes them sound. It’s at the point where it’s so absurd that I have to wonder if it’s part of some kind of triple reverse sabotage effort to discredit the people who actually do take great offense to any kind of use of generative AI.
I’m at the point where I downvote every comment that’s nothing more than, “This is slop.” or “Is this AI slop?”
I’m reading that as, “Look how smart I am! Also, I’m part of your tribe so you should like me!”
‘Slop’ is fine, it’s short and to the point and describes something for which we don’t quite have another word yet (in the context of AI) and which definitely needs to enter the public consciousness.
Agree on ‘Slams’ though.
‘POV’ - then proceeds to present something that isn’t a first person perspective.
Oh, and “positive anymore”. That’s such a bastardization. It makes me cry.
What’s the context for “positive anymore”?
Anymore is intended to be used in a negative context. You can think of it as a substitution for “no longer”. Positive anymore is a blatant abuse, and would be better substituted for “nowadays” or similar.
Correct anymore: “I can’t stand it anymore.”
Positive (super wrong) anymore: “People’s grammar is really stupid anymore.”
Oh wow, I’ve never seen that but it makes me want to file a formal complaint.
