Do you use words like ghosting, gaslighting, cancel culture? Do you understand them?

Personally, I think they are just stupid. After a while I learn what they mean, but I would never use them.

Am I just getting old? I know there are new words from time to time, fine. But some words just sound stupid.

What do you think?

 

 

Nope, don't & won't..... I've made it this far without the "woke" disciples and their finger pointing stupidity.... I'll just trudge on along without feeling the need to be included with such tripe.....

The alphabet people, cancel people, & their zombie like acolytes won't miss me....

 

Rubbish, woke words.... never use them 🙂

"ghosting, gaslighting, cancel culture"

 

All seem pretty useful and fairly precise.

They don't bother me.

 

What drives me crazy is when people use verbs as nouns.

For example "That is a very big ask" when they mean "that is a very big request".

Ghosting is fairly benign I think - simply ceasing contact with someone online I think.

Gaslighting isn't an intuitive term to me and when I see it I have to look it up. Nothing wrong with it I suppose if used in the right way but is one of those terms that maybe gets used when other words would suffice.

The term Cancel culture can be appropriate but I find is often used like a sledgehammer - an excuse for not thinking through an issue and deciding yourself whether it is or is not reasonable that someone calls out someone else on what has been said or done. 

Barely know what they mean. Most westerners are morons and really don't care what they think. Look at the politicians they vote in. The average person doesn't know much at all about the world.

I don’t use those words.

I don’t really know what they mean.

You are getting old.  I am getting old - I may have a head start, or maybe I’m quicker at what I’m good at.

none of the words you mentioned are new. My dear old auntie Kate had gas lighting when we stayed in her house on our trip to London. (If it’s relevant she may have been Late Auntie Kate). Slang use of any word should be suspect, in my opinion.

People who use words maybe sound stupid, but you cannot blame the word. The stupidity is in the person that misuses it.

Only the nutters of the left use those terms.

 

It makes them feel cool, hip, politically correct and with the in crowd.

 

In reality it makes them look more stupid than they actually are.

Like you , I understand them but wouldnt use them as i dont wish to be seen as some simpleton trying to be a generation younger than he is.

 

Language evolves, words are invented and dropped or just change meaning. Look how younger people use "literally" nowadays.

1 hour ago, nikmar said:

Look how younger people use "literally" nowadays.

I don't know how they use that word. Did I miss anything? 

On 7/3/2024 at 8:32 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

Do you use words like ghosting, gaslighting, cancel culture? Do you understand them?

 

 

 

 

Yeah have heard the words, I have no idea what they mean though.

 

 

8 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I don't know how they use that word. Did I miss anything? 

 

 

I remember some years ago watching a football game where one player in particular was having a good game. The commentator remarked that he was “literally on fire today”.

 

That was the first time I noticed it. But it’s gotten to be quite common, I think.

 

Examples Ive heard from young folk, recently –

“I’m literally starving to death” (In a McD’s – 2 American lads getting impatient in a queue.)

“I literally lost my mind.” (Something on social media – a young lad talking about an argument with a girlfriend)

 

It seems “literally” is now more often used to give emphasis to a point.

 

Surely, I’m not the only one to notice.

 

9 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

I don’t use those words.

I don’t really know what they mean.

You are getting old.  I am getting old - I may have a head start, or maybe I’m quicker at what I’m good at.

none of the words you mentioned are new. My dear old auntie Kate had gas lighting when we stayed in her house on our trip to London. (If it’s relevant she may have been Late Auntie Kate). Slang use of any word should be suspect, in my opinion.

People who use words maybe sound stupid, but you cannot blame the word. The stupidity is in the person that misuses it.

 

Misuse of words.  The same as the misuse of 'queer' and 'gay'.  Why couldn't the homo community make up a new word instead of 'stealing' existing words that had a benign meaning?

11 hours ago, simon43 said:

 

Misuse of words.  The same as the misuse of 'queer' and 'gay'.  Why couldn't the homo community make up a new word instead of 'stealing' existing words that had a benign meaning?

Sometimes you just have to look the other way.

 

On 7/3/2024 at 5:50 PM, susanlea said:

Barely know what they mean. Most westerners are morons and really don't care what they think. Look at the politicians they vote in. The average person doesn't know much at all about the world.

Everybody just generalises everything, nowadays.

Nothing at all wrong with these terms, though I agree that "gaslighting" is not really intuitive and needs a dictionary to understand the meaning (and I still don't know why it is called "gaslighting").  One wishes there were a better term that captures the same meaning but there is not, that know of.

 

Ghosting is quite clear and not all that new, people have used it for at least a decade and not just young people. Kind of came into being with the proliferation of different types of media - text messages, social media etc etc. More ways to contact people means also more ways to  ignore/dodge someone than the old days when all someone could do was not return phone calls.

 

Cancel culture refers to a cultural phenomena that is fairly new so of course it is a relatively new phrase, wasn't needed before. But I think quite understandable in meaning. Contrary to what one poster wrote, it is a phrase used mainly by the right/Conservatives. Fox news folk rant about it no end.

On 7/3/2024 at 8:32 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

Do you use words like ghosting, gaslighting, cancel culture?

No.

People tend to pick up stylish phrases from the media and reiterate and over use them 

28 minutes ago, novacova said:

No.

People tend to pick up stylish phrases from the media and reiterate and over use them 

Back in the day, that was a whole new paradigm.

38 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

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Cancel culture refers to a cultural phenomena that is fairly new so of course it is a relatively new phrase, wasn't needed before. But I think quite understandable in meaning. Contrary to what one poster wrote, it is a phrase used mainly by the right/Conservatives. Fox news folk rant about it no end.

Cancel culture is great.  It gives us the opportunity to hide how we achieved prosperity at the expense of others, deleting traders’ names from public buildings, and to hide how old-fashioned was progressive humour in the past, burying lampoons like Alf Garnett and Rigsby.

Back in the day, people would look up “lampoon”.

On 7/3/2024 at 8:32 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

gaslighting

Gaslighting is what has been happening to me, for quite some time, thanks to a very major multinational, as I continue to ask for service of a major household appliance.

 

I guess, in the future, I will never buy from this gaslighting company, ever again.

 

Gaslighting is a terrible thing.

 

Just ask Ingrid Bergman....

 

Chomsky on Cancel Culture....

 

 

ghosting and cancelling are new terminologies, but gaslighting has been around for quite a long while. problem is most people dont understand what it actually is. 

 

gaslighting is like living with someone with Alzheimer's. they will try to deny doing or saying something and try to convince you you are wrong. but with people with Alzheimer's it is a serious illness. for people who deliberately gaslight it is a way to enslave others' wills

On 7/3/2024 at 4:36 PM, Fat is a type of crazy said:

Ghosting is fairly benign I think - simply ceasing contact with someone online I think.

Gaslighting isn't an intuitive term to me and when I see it I have to look it up. Nothing wrong with it I suppose if used in the right way but is one of those terms that maybe gets used when other words would suffice.

The term Cancel culture can be appropriate but I find is often used like a sledgehammer - an excuse for not thinking through an issue and deciding yourself whether it is or is not reasonable that someone calls out someone else on what has been said or done. 

 

"Gaslighting" is from the movie "Gaslight" with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.

Boyer tries to make Bergman think she is losing her mind.

Might help to remember the meaning.

Gaslighting is very overused. Rather than it being an intentional manipulation, it's now used for any mild disagreement. Same with cancel culture.

 

"You say we eat sushi a lot? I think you're gaslighting me".  You disagree with me? Stop cancelling me". I don't think these terms will be with us much longer.

 

Ghosting will have a long conversational life because it is so vivid -and something that people actually do/have happened to them.

 

I recall around 1970 hearing the term "rip off" for the first time and thinking it was very funny. Rip off is still with us. 

8 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

Gaslighting is very overused. Rather than it being an intentional manipulation, it's now used for any mild disagreement. Same with cancel culture.

 

"You say we eat sushi a lot? I think you're gaslighting me".  You disagree with me? Stop cancelling me". I don't think these terms will be with us much longer.

 

Ghosting will have a long conversational life because it is so vivid -and something that people actually do/have happened to them.

 

I recall around 1970 hearing the term "rip off" for the first time and thinking it was very funny. Rip off is still with us. 

I view all these modern words as mainly used by the LGBT community.

4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I view all these modern words as mainly used by the LGBT community.

Another zoomer word that gets beaten to death is toxic. I used to think my parents were just clueless oafs.

 

Now I know better that they were toxic.