Very genre!

Ooh, get her!

Very odd

and meaningless

It was ' very fun ' .Where did that come from?

In the recent past i used to count how many times genre was mentioned on r4, it seemed to be the’ in’word and was used repeatedly. Seems to have burnt itself out now and i dont hear it anywhere near as often. Glad about that as it did get on my nerves a lot.

I keep hearing milieu from actors.

I think miles is the next big thing. It's been the answer to a clue in the Times Crossword twice recently!

Bloody phone not miles but milieu!

was it an iconic milieu?

I think genre is Steve Wright's (Radio 2) favourite word.

What about homage and the way it is pronounced in the French way? My understanding is that it is only correct, if a little pretentious, if it being used as a noun e.g. This exhibition is an homage to Dali. I am happy to be corrected though!

Oh for me the very worst thing from anyone vaguely in the arts is "the narrative." <puke>

EVERYTHING has a narrative. It's like bulls*it bingo.

I agree about homage. I think it was the Hairy Bikers who started it. They also get on my nerves when they describe a dish as being 'unctuous.'

Have they ever looked up the definition?

Day6 "Bullshit bingo"

Yes why do cooks on TV use such pretentious descriptions, makes me long for a nice plate of egg and chips.

And who needs the detail they put on menu choices either.

Totally agree about ‘very fun’, I think it’s American.

genre - kind, type - probably leading to 'in fashion', 'typical for these days'. etc

people with allergies?

Isn’t unctuous oily?

Words do go in ‘fashion waves’ don’t they? So genre is the in word now? Followed by milieu? Then homage.Or all together.....
Very unique is another howler.

yygd I suspect Pat is talking about the ridiculous menus that start ‘Beef a la mode’..... delicate frissons of beef soaked in amaretto for 12 hours before being hand beaten,and breadcrumbed in a herb mixture of chef’s own award winning herbs, then panfried with rare seaweed and served with perfect tiny peccadillos and a flambe sauce’ ?

I occasionally buy the weekend Le Figaro - a french rightwing Sunday paper. There's usually a restaurant article and the one I remember was the fashion last year for charred vegetables. Jamie Oliver likes that fashion too.

Homage is a noun, and surely can't be used as anything else, however you pronounce it?