I want my own words back 🧠 | a Thinkbait essay

Lately, I have noticed myself reaching for “landed”, or “this matters”. I've used “quietly” here and there, too, before catching myself and thinking: this does not belong in this sentence. The problem is, I've encountered it so often in other people's posts, and even in conversation, that it's influencing my own choice of words. If I wanted to write something like “complex words are quietly disappearing from our language”, what would I mean? Maybe “words might go missing unnoticed until we...