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

Only the I curate . . . rising prices. and thé last paragraph is mine. The 1st and 3rd were AI.

Oh I see that was AI
🙄

I curate my shopping with an emphasis on expertise and insight, to create a specific effect at mealtimes or to convey, via the bill, a particular message to DH about rising prices.

Ha ha Mollygo
Excellent.
(I'm assuming that you wrote this, MG)

AI
To "curate" something means to select, organize, and present items (like art, information, or products) to create a specific effect or convey a particular message, often with an emphasis on expertise and insight.

I curate my shopping with an emphasis on expertise and insight, to create a specific effect at mealtimes or to convey, via the bill, a particular message to DH about rising prices.

The process involves gathering content, choosing the most relevant pieces, and arranging them thoughtfully for an audience.

It would be helpful if the contents of links could be curated (copied and pasted) and arranged so posters without subscriptions could read them.

Curating items of beauty just to please seems OK to me.
I spent a whole day in between various jobs "curating" some photos I'd bought years ago...

They are six large black and white ones taken by the same photographer and I moved them into different configurations maybe 20 or more times to see which way showed them each off to their best.
They look lovely - as near perfect as likely to be - and give me such a lot of pleasure every day when I look at them.

If this is curating (like items on a shelf) I do understand this slight shift in meaning.

I think we're supposed to curate our possessions on our shelves so we can take "shelfies" to post on social media. Not something I'll be doing.

I thought 'curate' referred to clothes, furniture and so on, going round Sainsburys is 'sourcing' food isn't it, a bit like Hugh Fernley Whittonstall in the hedgerows. We're all hunter gatherers these days, sourcing everywhere.

Hello Oreo - I agree (again)

Baggs

Buzz words can be ignored.

Absolutely 😁 and I shall be ignoring the curate one.

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?

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.

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'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

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.

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NotSpaghetti

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

You need to read The Guardian and Private Eye then.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Language changes all the time, and always will.

We have to keep learning how to communicate effectively.

NotAGran55

They talk about curated ears on MN.

Oh crikey, what does that mean?

No, sorry, you GRAB it!