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What are some words you swear people use to try and sound smart?

Mine is - Algorithm. Ever since people have learned some of the inner workings of how content is suggested to them, that became the new spammed word that easily got exhausted within the week of it being used.

Yeah, an algorithm does indeed pitch you things of what to watch or listen to. But there's more going on than that, but people all the time just stop at that word and expect everyone to suddenly understand it. Sadly, most people just buy it at face value.

LarkinDePark ,

Anodyne.

hyacin , (edited )

Digress/Digressed

theshatterstone54 ,

A lot of examples people here are giving, are types of doublespeak: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP07oyFTRXc

frauddogg , (edited )
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“Whataboutism” (a term for that already existed; it’s called “getting called on your hypocritical bullshit”), “disinformation” (this term is literally just the BlueAnon answer to the MAGAt’s “fake news”), jesus christ “fallacy” especially (Merely calling out a fallacy like you’re an NFL ref at the Super Bowl is the same kind of sophistry as the fallacy you address if you’re not gonna spend the time to dismantle it).

masterspace , (edited )

When people use industry specific jargon and acronyms with someone not in their industry.

It is a very simple rule of writing and communication. You never just use an acronym out of nowhere, you write it out in full the first time and explain the acronym, and then after that you can use it.

Artificial diamonds can be made with a High Temperature, High Pressure (HTHP) process, or a …

Doctors, military folk, lawyers, and technical people of all variety are often awful at just throwing out an acronym or technical term that you literally have no way of knowing.

Usually though, I don’t think it’s a conscious effort to sound smart. Sometimes, it’s just people who are used to talking only with their coworkers / inner circle and just aren’t thinking about the fact that you don’t have the same context, sometimes it’s people who are feeling nervous / insecure and are subconsciously using fancy terms to sound more important, and sometimes it’s people using specific terminology to hide the fact that they don’t actually understand the concepts well enough to break them down simply.

TheImpressiveX ,
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Krusty: So he’s proactive, huh?

Network Executive Lady: Oh, God, yes. We’re talking about a totally outrageous paradigm.

Writer: Excuse me, but “proactive” and “paradigm”? Aren’t these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I’m accusing you of anything like that… [pause] …I’m fired, aren’t I?

Roger Meyers, Jr.: Oh, yes. [gets up to leave] The rest of you writers start thinking up a name for this funky dog - I don’t know, something along the lines of, say, “Poochie”, only more proactive!

Krusty: Yeah!

— The Simpsons S08E14 “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show”

scytale ,

Corporate-speak especially on linkedin from the types of users who use it as an influencer platform. “Synergy” for example.

Diddlydee ,

Per se. Vis a vis. Erudite. Juxtaposition. Elucidate.

masterspace ,

For each of these, what would you use instead?

Bougie_Birdie ,
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I’ll take a crack at this one. For what it’s worth, I think the first couple are just loanwords from another language which sometimes gets used incorrectly, and the last three are uncommon words in conversation. Know your audience.

“This isn’t a meeting about the budget per se”

“This isn’t exactly a meeting about the budget”

“The victim met their demise vis a vis poodle attack”

“The victim met their demise by way of poodle attack.”

“Steve’s a real erudite.”

“Steve’s a real reader.”

“Tom and Jerry is a fun cartoon because of the juxtaposition of the relationship between cat and mouse.”

“Tom and Jerry is a fun cartoon because of the oppositeness of the relationship between cat and mouse”

“I don’t understand, can you elucidate on that?”

“I don’t understand, can you explain?”

Nemo ,

Right now, “demure”.

My boss, specifically: “stonefruit”.

Glide ,

Alright, I’ll bite: what exactly is a “stonefruit” in this context? Google just says “fruits with large seeds that are basically rocks in the middle”, which I suspect is not the pseudo-intellectual flex your boss is going for?

Nemo ,

No, that’s it. But it’s every single wine she tastes. They don’t all have stonefruit notes!

NauticalNoodle , (edited )

Peach, plum, cherry, apricot, pluot… and it goes on extensively. There are lots of different stonefruits out there all with very different flavors.

Tangentially related there’s an artist that has been trying to make a tree with the most diverse number of storefruit producing branches grafted onto it.

A Tree Grows 40 Different Types of Fruit

The_Che_Banana ,

Lol. Grapes. Wine smells like grapes.

It is a great experience to have someone explain to you what you should smell, taste, etc. when you are drinking a wine varietal, but apart from that everything else is just fluff & marketing.

TheAlbatross ,

Milieu

Pastiche

That’s all I can remember now, I gotta ambulate my way over to the kitchen and make some coffee.

Nemo ,

Do you percolate your coffee?

TheAlbatross ,

No I use la Press Français

Nemo ,

How cosmopolitan!

Tolookah ,

Ambulate is a great one to use when your dog has already learned “walk” and is learning “hike”.

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