I used to think it was a female thing but now I hear guys saying "perfect," to inane things all the time as well. You especially hear it at stores, gyms, and other places where people gather. Usually it's a person working or saying it.
It also seems to be a millennial or teen using the word. It is starting to drive me insane!
By the way, it is rare to find something perfect!!!
Your post is perfect.
Perfecto! wrote:
Your post is perfect.
^Perfect reply.
OP sounds like a bundle of negativity.
Ah...ya....like ah....ya know....totally.....for sure.....
...also included with "vocal fry" intonation...as in....
"...ah...ya....per..fect..."
Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:
I used to think it was a female thing but now I hear guys saying "perfect," to inane things all the time as well. You especially hear it at stores, gyms, and other places where people gather. Usually it's a person working or saying it.
It also seems to be a millennial or teen using the word. It is starting to drive me insane!
By the way, it is rare to find something perfect!!!
Ah, but you are perfect, little sunshine.
I don't know anyone who does this
I wish I knew because I say it.
The other one is during an interview where the interviewee says "Good question..." or some variation.
It starts and is primarily used by service and sales techs entering numbers codes etc in a computer and when computer finds something because the number or code is correct it is PERFECT , It is the password , code , number world we live in being confirmed
ditsleg wrote:
It starts and is primarily used by service and sales techs entering numbers codes etc in a computer and when computer finds something because the number or code is correct it is PERFECT , It is the password , code , number world we live in being confirmed
Praise inflation. People all expect more affirming language to be used, so its absence now seems abrupt.
If an employee emails me about an idea, and I respond with "ok," they will actually walk away from the exchange thinking that I did not like their idea. This is baffling to me, but can be solved by replacing "ok" with "perfect."
His hair was perfect!
Loved it when Catwoman said, "purrrrrfect"!
luv2run wrote:
The other one is during an interview where the interviewee says "Good question..." or some variation.
Haha what?
Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:
I used to think it was a female thing but now I hear guys saying "perfect," to inane things all the time as well. You especially hear it at stores, gyms, and other places where people gather. Usually it's a person working or saying it.
It also seems to be a millennial or teen using the word. It is starting to drive me insane!
By the way, it is rare to find something perfect!!!
Must be campus jargon. Run into it a lot with students and faculty.
Mr.Perfect back in the WWF day's used a move called the perfect plex.
My testicle to scrodem proportions are perfect
Steve on a Cell in Brooklyn wrote:
Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:I used to think it was a female thing but now I hear guys saying "perfect," to inane things all the time as well. You especially hear it at stores, gyms, and other places where people gather. Usually it's a person working or saying it.
It also seems to be a millennial or teen using the word. It is starting to drive me insane!
By the way, it is rare to find something perfect!!!
Must be campus jargon. Run into it a lot with students and faculty.
Maybe that's it.
Excellent
Amen. I agree with you.
I first started noticing people, mainly young women (less than 35), saying "perfect" repeatedly in a single conversation about two years ago. It has become more prevalent since then. I recently began to wonder where this new "thing" started. So I asked a bank teller today in a very nice way where she picked up saying "perfect". She did not know. She did not even realize she was doing it. A couple of months ago I asked another woman the same thing and she did not know either.
I figure there must have been something in the recent past that influenced this relatively new constant use of the word, often misuse. But I have not found anyone to help pinpoint why this started and has "caught on".
CAN ANYONE ANSWER HOW REPEATEDLY SAYING "PERFECT" GOT STARTED?
I also wonder where "like" got started too. But that one is too likely old to figure out where it started.