Asklemmy

"Completely different" when the two things are actually very similar

"Hence why"

Syntactically makes no sense. Just say "that's why," that's what you are trying to say.

Queer. Not all gay men (the one group I can safely speak about) like to be associated with an ex-slur and its connotations.

"Oftentimes"

Its always interchangeable with Often. Just use Often.

Starting every sentence with "So". "So" being the way to indicate the beginning of a sentence.

Kiddos, especially when used by people in professions that work with kids. Right up there with people who unironically say pupper or doggo. Just say kids.

Trump, Zuckerberg, Musk, Gates....

People that use question marks in non-question sentences just to be extra snippy and condescending. Fuck that.

Property, when referring to a house/home.

Whatever nonsense gen alpha started saying these days.

People thinking their clever by making up words that already have a meaning.

"Lawfare" meaning chargingnrich white assholes for the crime they committed

"Disinformatsiya" or however libs spelled it to mean pointing out the hypocrisy of American nationalists.

"Sanewashing" to describe media putting their thumb on the scale for the fascist who wants to cut their taxes.

It implies it's a new phenomenon and not just the current version of whatever propoganda apparatus has been chugging along for decades.

Liberals complain about "sanewashsing" and then in the same breath talk about how cheyney and bush weren't exactly the fucking same as Trump.

“Not me” doing something.

Just say you’re doing something, and accept that it may be a bit hypocritical or shameful that you’re doing it.

Game Changer, a stupid phrase that is so overused it has become meaningless

SME (pronounced smee)

My company is flooded with SMEs who aren’t even good, let alone experts at anything