Can you spot vintage slop?

Slop is nothing new. For decades, we’ve been taught to avoid clichés and jargon in our work. AI just made the list of slop-coded words a bit longer.You might be surprised by the words and terms other generations questioned that we perceive as normal (and human).While scanning my grandparents’ records, I recently discovered a program from my grandma’s 50th high school reunion in 1983. I wanted to share two insightful pages with you.A list of “50 Things Unheard of 50 Years Ago,” which is just inherently interestingA list of terms “no one said in 1933,” which is a rare look at what was considered slop to the “Greatest Generation”It reminded me of the many times George Carlin joked about new (to him) terms like “senior citizen” and “hopefully.” Spoiler: he wasn’t a big fan. He famously complained, almost four decades ago, that modern soft language and euphemisms, “take the life out of life.”I think that’s a better argument against slop than anything I’ve heard in the AI era.It also makes…

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