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.
Right now, “demure”.
My boss, specifically: “stonefruit”.
I’ve never seen anyone use “demure” in a serious context. It seems to always be used to convey a mocking tone.
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?
No, that’s it. But it’s every single wine she tastes. They don’t all have stonefruit notes!
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
Sure, but she just says “stonefruits”, not any specific one. shrug