New buzz words. Where do they come from?

[Levo-Lon]

I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations.

Pericombobulations, that needs a thread all to itself..

 

[I like Skol]

I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations.

Showing your age there, grandad!

 

[slowmotion]

Never mind all these long words, it's the clever ones that interest me.

 

[I like Skol]

In an interview last week, a candidate told me about a shared adventure on the customer journey.

I hope you gave them the job? You need idiots like that to make you look good in comparison......

 

[Illaveago]

I sometimes see them soaring way up high on thermals.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Is that a quote from Trainspotting 3?

If it is it's pure coincidence,as i haven't watched any Trainspotting films.

 

[Salad Dodger]

Who "dubs" things?
I keep hearing about some activity or event which has been dubbed with a catchy title......

 

[vickster]

Kim Jong Un makes them up on a Sunday evening while eating his cheese on toast. The new words are then drip fed through propaganda. Every dictator needs a hobby

 

[pplpilot]

Showing your age there, grandad!

in years to come it will be taught in schools much like Shakespeare is now...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations.

Greased lighting!!

 

[Venod]

Whoever came up with "dialled in" for setting the correct position on your bike was not of this world.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Who "dubs" things?
I keep hearing about some activity or event which has been dubbed with a catchy title......

I reckon it'll be the scouts, expanding their repertoire after years of merely dibbing and dobbing.

 

[Drago]

Who are the clever people who come up with this stuff?

They only think they're clever.

 

[Tin Pot]

In an interview last week, a candidate told me about a shared adventure on the customer journey.

I think I now understand the source of your rants in C&P...

 

[Tin Pot]

Recently, you could barely get through a thread on CC without encountering a blizzard of "mansplainings" and "victim blaming". Now, a howling storm of "anecdata" almost flattens you.

Who are the clever people who come up with this stuff?

It's mostly people who aren't smart enough to be grammar Nazis.

They haven't got the vocabulary or mental agility to explain themselves in plain English, so they make up words that the other cretins can nod along to, so as to give the pretence of understanding.