Up Tick?

[davidc4430]

where has this new (to me anyway) term come from?

i keep hearing people being interviewed saying "Up Tick" about things.

blah blah blah thats an Up Tick!

to me its a new bit of spin wording dreamt up by a media relations person teaching pollies ect how to answer questions 

"throw in a few ""Up Ticks"" mate, just to make ya point its a great idea"

[davidc4430]

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@rogespeed wrote:

American professional jargon from 1938 , not street American slang . 

of financial services - means a small increase upwards or improvement ie " increase in the price of a financial instrument since the preceding transaction" 

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/uptick.asp

used particularly by professional listers ( can not use class anymore ) 

Seems spreading to more common usage in Australia...

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yep, i bought some new socks, big uptick to me

[shoppingbag*]

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@zanadoo_56 wrote:

Sounds like something American.  I hate these buzzwords as suddenly they are used ad nauseum.

I mean Up Tick?  Clearly you can't have a Down Tick.

My other pet hate is 'Going Forward' tacked on to the end of statements (much loved in businesses and sport).

What's the reverse comment - Going Backward?  Actually that would do to describe the government.

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It annoys me that there are a lot of sheep in this country who have to follow everything American, so we can act like America's little brother. In the meantime our Australian identity is disappearing. I am hearing "downtown" a lot lately. Also many people wrongly referring to our dollars as "bucks" which is an abbreviation for the American greenback. On the subject of pet peeves, it annoys me that many reporters and politicians cannot put a sentence together without several ums and ahs, and I can only wonder if it is because the brain has to catch up with the tongue.

[davidc4430]

we have been subject to americanization since ww2

most phrases have a basis in some fact, like buck for money ect

but 'Up Tick' is just a nothing

if you have a 'to do' list, you TICK things off as you do them

ive never 'Up Ticked' anything ever!

if an idea is a good idea you can say it gets the 'Tick of aproval'

but no one ever said 'thats a great idea, give it an up tick'

its just to me an anoying thing to keep hearing supposedly intelligent people saying.

its to me as bad as hearing a person say 'like' a hundred times in a 1 minute sentence.

[icyfroth]

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@shoppingbag* wrote:

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@zanadoo_56 wrote:

Sounds like something American.  I hate these buzzwords as suddenly they are used ad nauseum.

I mean Up Tick?  Clearly you can't have a Down Tick.

My other pet hate is 'Going Forward' tacked on to the end of statements (much loved in businesses and sport).

What's the reverse comment - Going Backward?  Actually that would do to describe the government.

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It annoys me that there are a lot of sheep in this country who have to follow everything American, so we can act like America's little brother. In the meantime our Australian identity is disappearing. I am hearing "downtown" a lot lately. Also many people wrongly referring to our dollars as "bucks" which is an abbreviation for the American greenback. On the subject of pet peeves, it annoys me that many reporters and politicians cannot put a sentence together without several ums and ahs, and I can only wonder if it is because the brain has to catch up with the tongue.

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LOL...agree with all of the above.

re the ums and ahs.. they give the mouth time to catch up with the brain...

re Aus being the "little brother" of the US...it's more like the Chinese put it...we're the dog of the US...they whislte, we come...look how we're putting in a protest march about the recent race va police wars there...I mean, really!

https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-george-floyd-protest-black-lives-matter-102334894.html

Why are we setting up protest marches against an incident in the USA that we have no control over?

[imastawka]

Stay on top of current affairs, Icy.

We have plenty of black people of our own, dying in custody.

And we have our own "I can't breathe" aboriginal death in custody - David Dungay

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-01/david-dungays-family-traumatised-by-death-of-george-floyd/123...

And this is not the thread to bring it up.

Unless, black lives don't matter to you.

[lionrose.7]

Think people did it because we do NOT like what is going on in America.

You can turn your back and say well it is not me so I dont care, it is still there.

I care about all people, dont care what country it is

We all live on Planet earth, we are all related.

I

[zanadoo_56]

I don't mind buzzword.  It's a single noun with an easily grasped meaning, instead of using a more wordy phrase.

As for up tick and going forward......you don't NEED these words.  Especially going forward which is usually tacked on to the end of sentence where the meaning was already clear.

[rogespeed]

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@shoppingbag* wrote:

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@zanadoo_56 wrote:

Sounds like something American.  I hate these buzzwords as suddenly they are used ad nauseum.

I mean Up Tick?  Clearly you can't have a Down Tick.

My other pet hate is 'Going Forward' tacked on to the end of statements (much loved in businesses and sport).

What's the reverse comment - Going Backward?  Actually that would do to describe the government.

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It annoys me that there are a lot of sheep in this country who have to follow everything American, so we can act like America's little brother. In the meantime our Australian identity is disappearing. I am hearing "downtown" a lot lately. Also many people wrongly referring to our dollars as "bucks" which is an abbreviation for the American greenback. On the subject of pet peeves, it annoys me that many reporters and politicians cannot put a sentence together without several ums and ahs, and I can only wonder if it is because the brain has to catch up with the tongue.

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Also seems every new Govt scheme or dept name change , ie search mygov using duckduckgo search engine and click more results

[icyfroth]

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@zanadoo_56 wrote:

I don't mind buzzword.  It's a single noun with an easily grasped meaning, instead of using a more wordy phrase.

As for up tick and going forward......you don't NEED these words.  Especially going forward which is usually tacked on to the end of sentence where the meaning was already clear.

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As for 'buzzword", I don't mind it. Back in the day, I think we used to use the term "word on the street".

But we've "moved forward" from that.because we converse on the internet these days,not on the street or over the back fence...

Times change and so do expressions.

I guess "moving forward" kind of means what we used to say as "what we'll do from now on"...which works for me either way.