Paradigm. Zeitgeist. Resolution. Oh, and gawd almighty, actually. All of these are words that I hear repeatedly, day after day, from the people I interact with and the internet. I don’t expect everyone to have the same experiences (especially since “zeitgeist” is a mighty specific term that I myself use quite often), but everybody knows what it’s like to have that nails-on-a-blackboard feeling from an overused word. I used to work for a man who used the word “truly” incessantly, saying it like a mantra to hide the fact that everything he said was literally a lie. But I’m not bitter, I’m just here to raise today’s rhetorical query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) actually likes to say “paradigm”, simply because it’s pleasing to the ear and sounds like it’s about money, asking: What’s the most woefully overused word in your day-to-day world?
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“Narrative”.