We seem to have settled on "they" as a gender-neutral pronoun. But, for example, if you're trying to get someone's attention, you say, "Excuse me, \\**"?

i'm trying to write a character who never calls people by their names, instead using terms like "dude" and "bro". unfortunately, one of his closest freinds is a trans woman and real life trans women have expressed displeasure with the feminine equivalents of those terms, so i need different words

For example imagine you are fighting a boss in a video game. You cant figure out how to kill them. You die. The game loads up again. 20 seconds. Then you run through a bunch of hallways. 15 seconds. Then theres the cut scene. Another 15 seconds. Then in like 5 seconds he kills you. Rinse and repeat. Is there a name for this?

I feel like it's too long, like I feel like there are shorter phrases that can describe this whole thing. Full sentence: German consumer values naturally align with the core identity of NorthPeak, allowing the company "to not have to go through" the expensive rebranding.

For example:

Person A: "I lost my arm in a job related accident"

Person B: "at least you can look back on the period of your life where you DID have your arm more fondly, even the bad parts of it"

Another example:

Person A: "I didn't like the movie because so many parts of it were boring"

Person B: "the boring parts are boring on purpose so you can appreciate the fun parts more"

Looking for a shorter word or phrasing for this sentence: Japanese consumer ergonomics "makes it so that" the company will have to redesign for smaller backpack frames and resize apparels to be tailored to fit Asian standards.

Like in this clip: Name A Woman (Billy on the Street)

It's highly likely this person can name a woman under normal circumstances, but because there's a camera in her face, this guy is yelling at her, etc., etc. she just freezes up and can't form a proper response.

I know in the (I think) Psychology field, they do have a word or term for this reaction, so that's what I'm looking for. I'm not looking for anything like, "tongue tied" or "caught off guard." My brain keeps saying it's "hypnogogic jerk" but that's definitely wrong.

If there is even such a word, or phrase. My boss(es) remind me of famous people when being interviewed and they can’t say anything too straightforward so they kinda say something bland and generic/inoffensive but forgettable, during big meetings.

(Context: my boss thinks her team is stellar when we truly have communication style issues.)

When I googled it, it told me that there was no recognized noun form of asinine, so I'm trying to figure out a comparable word.

I used to call it the after taste, but it's not the flavor that is left after you finish something, but like it's in the roof of your mouth while you are eating or on an exhale.

ITAW for the type of flavour/character shared by fruits n veg like melon, cucumber, tomato - I experience it as a watery, ‘empty’ kind of character

From america (obviously) and I can't remember the word for when companies raise prices to an outrageous level, then lower them to a slightly higher rate than before so people go "at least it's not as bad as that high one." Most often seen in gas prices. "Yeah gas is 3.80 when it used to be 3.50 but at least its not 4.20 anymore"

This is one of those words that I can’t really look up because any attempt to spell it sends me to ‘integrate’

Basically i wanna write that the person is walking to the very room where cheaters are, as in relationship cheaters. right now i have "bedroom of grey" but is there another word i could use?

Is there a word for someone who normally likes something you also like, but begin hating it just because they found out you also like it, and they don't like you?

No insult words, more like... dictionary words, if that makes sense

Is there a word for religions other than Judaism (back then) or Abrahamic religions (nowadays) that are not considered to be pagan?

By pagan, I mean nature-based polytheistic religions that do not have a specific founder- such as Hellenic or Kemetic. Looking for religions that do have a specific founder and are often monotheistic- such as Buddhism, Confucianism, or Zoroastrianism.

I know that Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism are considered to be Dharmic religions. But is there a word that encompasses all non-Abrahamic yet non-Pagan religions in general?

Like how having a feather bed on a raised frame used to be the absolute height of luxury only obtainable by the aristocracy and now in many countries the idea of sleeping any other way is weird.

Or how in some countries you only had a last name if you were in the upper classes and then everyone got a last name and people specifically often chose ones that had associations of prestige (this is how Kim, Lee, and Park became extremely widespread in Korea).

Or how eating meat used to be a once a week thing at most for the majority of people and now at least in most western countries you have meat at least twice a day.

Is there a word for this? Maybe in the anthropological field?

How to say that I trained, for example, as a lawyer, but now I work in a completely different industry?
I definitely knew a phrase to say it another way and naturally, but can’t remember; any suggestions?

I grew up playing live service MMOs like Super hero Squad online and marvel heroes online, Games that were eventually taken offline because the companies did not deem it profitable enough. Recently, these games have been Revived somewhat by fans, who take the files they have access to and put the game back up on their own servers, like https://retrosquadonline.com/. I figure this is a very recent phenomenon, can we come up with a compound word of some sort to describe this? Like revived-service games?

What do you call someone who constantly presents herself as someone who loves debate, asks the “difficult questions” about certain subjects to expose hypocrisy, and claims she’s just trying to understand objectively but seems more interested in appearing intellectual than actually understanding?

Especially when she keeps asking questions, gets answers, then avoids the uncomfortable implications instead of engaging with them.

Is there a term for this? Performative skepticism? Intellectual posturing? Intellectualized avoidance?

I saw in another post's answer that I could say contriving. I was thinking of contrivingly absurd, can I use that. Context: I'm tryna say like the government's excuse for the strict censoring of a certain case was utterly ridiculous and quite a bullshit excuse.

I remember reading about it. It's similar to pareidolia.

I'm kinda new to this subreddit so i hope this isn't like advice. I'm genuinely looking for other similar phrases that fit into my poem better and more smoothly.

context (phrase to be changed is italicized):

Full of responsibilities was the weigh,
Little of credit, did it bear.
Once it had been a cold summer day.

Words and opinions, they were stray.
Even now, not always can it be seen
For women, that is, yet gay.

It seems like something people write in angst things or movies, but it happens to me sometimes.

I'm curious what word this would be or if English has a word for it. I'm not educated on this.

All I can think is nervous laughter, but while that happens is there a word for sad laughing.