Originally published at: "Cringe-worthy" is cringe-worthy, makes 2024 banished words list - Boing Boing
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- Impact — “Especially as a verb, why use this word when we have a perfectly good word that makes more sense: ‘affect?’”
Because most people can never remember if it’s ‘affect’ or ‘effect’ - and the ones who do got tired of getting flack for pointing out when people used the wrong one.
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From the rarified world of sports analysis the recent abundant use of the term “physicality” could be happily ‘banished’.
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Me, seeing several phrases in a list of banished words
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People have been complaining about this use of “impact” for at least 30 years. It’s absolutely here to stay, and probably should be listed as the #1 definition for both the noun and verb, at least in American English. OED has the first usage in 1817.
Steven Pinker is cringe-worthy…
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now, don’t be obsessed. it could impact you at the end of the day.
instead, try this one iconic hack.
wait for it…
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if the list only included “Cringe” and “Hack” i’d be happy. both of those drive me up a wall.
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Can we level up this list by circling back to “cringe-worthy”? And changing it to “cringe”?
(Guess which two overused and overbaked phrases burn my britches.)
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People complaining (not you, this is generalized, non-directional grumbling) about how something is “cringe” never seem to realize that the cringing is their reaction. It’s their weakness, and not anything about the thing they are complaining about.
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( So is this. 
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Glad to see “Iconic” here. It’s a perfectly cromulent word, but overused to the point of meaning “something I like”.
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