No longer do we choose, select or pick anything........

I’ve never heard anyone say this

I've never heard this used for anything but art!

I have never heard of this either. I “cruise” around I often say 😂

Buzz words can be ignored.

I am sure there was a curate in the last book I read.

They talk about curated ears on MN.

Never heard it here but then we are a long,long way away. We have our own weird language.

I have not heard it used except in the traditional sense.

No, sorry, you GRAB it!

NotAGran55

They talk about curated ears on MN.

Oh crikey, what does that mean?

Language changes all the time, and always will.

We have to keep learning how to communicate effectively.

Another dose of sarcasm and misanthropy from windmill.

Curate just means to select, organise and present.

It has been used since the 1800s to refer to museum and gallery collections e.g. someone has curated a collection of Roman artefacts or pre-Raphaelite paintings for others to see and enjoy.

For the last 25 years or so its use has been extended to collections of other things that one person might present to others. It might be a restaurant menu, a collection of programme on TV or content on a website e.g. someone working for GN has curated a collection of features on health, skin care, diet etc that they think will be of interest to the site’s members.

It comes from the classical Latin cūrātor meaning keeper, supervisor or overseer.

I don’t see the problem or why the horse is laughing - unless he’s sitting in front of a screen watching a curated collection of cartoons, TV shows and films about horses. Mister Ed maybe.

It would make a horse laugh
I don't know this expression. Is it new?

NotSpaghetti

NotAGran55

They talk about curated ears on MN.

Oh crikey, what does that mean?

It’s a collection of different piercings on ears. I had to look it up the first time I read it!

I really dislike 'grab' - this is something shoplifters do, or those who 'grab' your handbag or phone if you are mugged. What is wrong with 'collect' a coffee, 'buy' some lunch, 'pick up' a newspaper - why are we 'grabbing' everything? As for curate - I'm still trying to work that one out. I thought it related to collections of artefacts - wrong, and so uncool again, it seems.

I agree with 'PaynesGrey*. 'Curating' is not the same as 'choosing'. It's second level selection, so you could choose songs you like to download onto whatever you use to play music, but then curate them into playlists for different occasions.

A department store will have various items in stock and on the shelves, but will curate them for a window display to 'showcase' (I assume that is an annoying word too?) the Autumn collection, holiday essentials or ideas for Christmas gifts etc.

It's not a buzzword, it just has a more specific meaning than the words in the thread title.

TBH I only really see it on clothing ads for shops. Everything is ‘carefully curated’ now.

NotSpaghetti

I've never heard this used for anything but art!

You need to read The Guardian and Private Eye then.

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Curated involves organising one thing in relation to another. I have no idea how you can "curate" shopping...
Maybe people are choosing items for size, shape, colour?

Curate is such a beautiful precise activity. What a dumbing down of this very special act.

Yes, an editor may "curate" short stories or poems... but even this sounds a little bit strange to me.

I've popped over to the Guardian- which I do read, albeit like Private Eye, not religiously,

Here's an article from 2015:
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/18/david-balzer-curation-social-media-kanye-west

windmill1

NotSpaghetti

I've never heard this used for anything but art!

You need to read The Guardian and Private Eye then.

I subscribe to and read both (not because I need to but because I choose to) and I am not aware of seeing the word curated used except in the traditional sense in either publication. I am clearly missing something.

I clicked on the link to the old Guardian review of Curationism

I was not a regular reader of The Guardian back in April 2015 when the book review came out. I don't tend to read book reviews in Private Eye as they nearly always seem to be negative and unhelpful.

Oh, here's another article, Magenta - just a little earlier.
I missed this phase I think as it was probably when I was actually buying the paper in paperform and not at all every day - a few times a week.
www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/aug/05/curated-cobblers

Maybe it's still going on then?