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What are some words you swear people use to try and sound smart? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 month ago by Nytefyre@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Alice@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh shit, I picked up "per se" from Animal Crossing as a kid and never questioned it.

In my defense, Rover is a fucking weirdo, you'd never use a phrase you learned from him to try to sound smart.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(Most of these are pretty normal words to use and you shouldn't make a conscious effort to avoid them because some guy on the internet thinks you're pretentious.)

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Lol fair. I got insecure for a second because I used to get mistaken for a snob when I was actually just terrible at wording things.