What is wrong with the original word is that it’s used by us oldies … younger people want to sound vibrant and new … not old fashioned … I used different new-sounding words and phrases when I was younger so I sounded cool and hip and different to my parents. For a while I even spoke in a faux scouse accent so I sounded like the Beatles 🤪
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I understand what you’re saying @Dovefromabove, ( and agree), but it’s nothing new is it, wanting to sound “vibrant” and “new” - we’ve all been there, no doubt, thinking our word or phrase is so much better 😂, but sometimes, I think the old word said it as succinctly, but of course, it’s not “cool” (is that still a fashionable word, or old hat now 😂😂).
It seems that any suggestion of how to do something is now referred to as 'a hack', even if it's something everybody, apart from the person making the suggestion, has been doing for years.
'Hack' came into modern terminology as a way to get around the normal functioning of software with things like cheat codes for games.
Can't say I've been aware of the ( over) use of the word ' hack'.Plenty of other new words though are dribbling through our language which, if it's through a desire to be 'cool', then let them have it. I don't think I was consciously very aware of being ' cool' . I never changed the way I spoke. People always see through you anyway. Young folks are speaking their normal language of this era....probably as many of us did in 'our' era ( or as we were brought up.)
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