{"id":282,"date":"2011-02-15T13:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T21:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T21:07:46","slug":"10-wordsphrases-that-id-like-to-see-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/10-wordsphrases-that-id-like-to-see-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"5 words\/phrases that I’d like to see banned"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the five words\/phrases that I’m entirely sick of right now, and that I’m seeing too much in the tech press and in my Twitter list.<\/p>\n

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  1. “Curate” and its variants. \u00a0People, please. \u00a0Selecting a few things doesn’t mean that you’re curating anything. \u00a0You’re making a list, let’s not pretend that it’s anything more than that. \u00a0Skip the pretension. \u00a0See this list right here? \u00a0It’s not curated. \u00a0It’s me being cranky.<\/li>\n
  2. “Epic”. \u00a0The Odyssey<\/em> is an epic. \u00a0The Loma Prieta earthquake probably qualifies as epic. \u00a0The dinner you had last night? Not epic. \u00a0It might have been good, or even great. \u00a0Let’s reserve “epic” for something that truly is awe-inspiring instead of devaluing it by using it on that’s even slightly good (or slightly bad).<\/li>\n
  3. “Fail”. \u00a0This is so very overused, especially when it’s all in caps. \u00a0And when combined with the previous entry, it makes me think that you just have no grasp of what a failure actually is. \u00a0Your boyfriend didn’t buy you flowers for Valentine’s Day? \u00a0Not FAIL. \u00a0Comcast missed their window for appearing at your apartment? \u00a0This is so expected that it can’t even remotely be considered a failure.<\/li>\n
  4. “Revolutionary”. \u00a0Egypt? Revolutionary. Your new iPhone app? Not revolutionary.<\/li>\n
  5. “FML”. \u00a0You forgot paper towels at Target? \u00a0Your kid is having a tantrum? \u00a0Barely worthy of an obscenity, let alone a repudiation of your entire life (unless you’ve got the saddest life ever).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    These are the five words\/phrases that I’m entirely sick of right now, and that I’m seeing too much in the tech press and in my Twitter list. “Curate” and its variants. \u00a0People, please. \u00a0Selecting a few things doesn’t mean that you’re curating anything. \u00a0You’re making a list, let’s not pretend that it’s anything more than … Continue reading 5 words\/phrases that I’d like to see banned<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nadyne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}