A new expression...or at least new to me...."throw some shade"

No idea where it came from...

A word I've noticed being used frequently is 'transparency.'

If I hear "My bad!" One more time, I'll scream.

I've been curious about when SCOTUS and POTUS came into common usage. I swear I never saw those acronyms until a year or two ago. Did I just have blinders on?

SCOTUS and POTUS was used frequently on The West Wing TV show that ran from 1999-2006. I don't recall if they were used throughout the series run.

Thanks, gyr_falcon. I used to watch that show, but guess I never picked up on that, or maybe just never heard or saw it in real life. I think that show is very popular in reruns, so maybe that's why folks are using it more? Or did the show use it because it was the way both were always referred to in real life?

Not everything thing good is "awesome".

They gifted us a ...

Not sure why, but this one makes my skin crawl! Don't like it, won't use it.

It is, what it is.

I laughed at Judge Judy when she stopped a Defendant from saying "like" over and over. She called it a filler word. Did the person do something "like" hitting you with his car? Or did he actually hit you? Big difference. :-)

"Gifted us" drives me nuts, as does "I reached out to...."

I despise any word that is a noun, meant to be a noun, and is used as a verb. Gifted fits in that category. Biked (uh no, I bicycled/rode my bike to my destination) is another. I despise it so much, I won't say I "Googled" something. I used the Google search engine to look something up, but I don't "Google" something.

A phrase I've been hearing a lot over the last couple of years... "felt a certain way". You dont get upset, jealous, mad anymore? It's just weird. Kinda makes me feel a certain way. :)

Another thing ive noticed in the younger generation is that when they talk about a group of women they pronounce it "woman", singular. I hear it so often that sometimes I'm left wondering if I'm the one saying it wrong.

Olychick, I'm not sure why they used it on the show. West Wing was on Netflix a year or two ago. We have the series on disc, so I didn't pay much attention, but I agree it was popular.

"have a conversation", ugh! Also what Annie said, "throw some shade" huh? And "hack" just sounds stupid.

I actually like the term "throw some shade" as it captures a certain look or attitude perfectly:

"The first known use of "shade" is in the documentary film Paris Is Burning (1990), which is about the mid-1980s drag scene in Manhattan.[2]

The expression was popularized by the American reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race.[2] In 2015, Anna Holmes of The New York Times Magazine wrote:

Shade can take many forms — a hard, deep look that could be either
aggressive or searching, a compliment that could be interpreted as the
opposite of one. E. Patrick Johnson, who teaches performance studies and
African-American studies at Northwestern University, and who has
written about the tradition of insults in the gay and black communities,
explains: "If someone walks into a room with a hideous dress, but you
don’t want to say it's hideous, you might say, 'Oooh … look at you!’'"
At its most refined, shade should have an element of plausible
deniability, so that the shade-thrower can pretend that he or she didn't
actually mean to behave with incivility, making it all the more
delicious.[1]"

Wikipedia - Throw some shade origins

Rob,

My neighbor is a Harley Davidson man, about 6'4", rough around the edges kind of guy. I'm not correcting him when he tells me he "biked" to anywhere. :)

Transparency. Easy to say, very difficult to walk.

Well here is the latest:

"cash me outside, howbow dah”

All the slang that comes out of the younger people
today simply shows how ignorant they've become. If we don't get back on
track, our society is doomed!!

I've never heard anyone talk like that pugeder. Ever. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the "current generation" (nothing beyond anecdotal) and maybe we could look back a couple of generations. Not just her parents, but her parent's parents. Why? Well, how were her mother/father raised? It wasn't spontaneous.

Okay... not ALL of our younger generation. However, this is the kind of crap that's glorified on the streets & TV. It's "gangsta" garbage. And it's pouring over into "non-gangsta" realm.

I only recall the term POTUS being used in the opening of the first episode of West Wing when messages were being sent around that POTUS had been in an accident. and the staff went into panic/action mode. He had fallen off a bike.

I had just noticed a title of a thread that had a word that grates on me and it's probably because Oprah always used to use it "your authentic self"....

Are we supposed to think it important that a reporter "sat down with" the person being interviewed?

(Why do TV producers perch people on bar chairs?)

Rob - I didn't like the "google it" thing so much I switched to Bing.