Phrases that annoy you the most
Discussion
paulguitar said:
mac96 said:
Tom8 said:
M4cruiser said:
The word "Scandal".
Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
Scandal, crisis, racist, emergency.Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
All words that now lack any real meaning as they are used for anything and everything whether they are or they are not.
They are "fixed" by even more useless words like;
Task force or tsar, who have a "laser focus"(on not achieving anything at all, but will get paid lots for it.
It's always happened- see 'b
d' which no longer means child of unmarried parents!.
Hence phrases like "PC gone mad", "woke" and "virtue signalling" have just become bywords for "things I don't like" it doesn't matter what the people who use these terms would like them to mean, it matters how and the context in which they use it.
You're right that Marxist, communist and fascist have become generic insults in the US, particularly the first two.
Racist however has a specific meaning but the racists would love it to lose its meaning. So they're deliberately trying to misuse it but it's failing because enough people are using the word correctly.
captain_cynic said:
Usage is the ultimate arbiter of language.
Hence phrases like "PC gone mad", "woke" and "virtue signalling" have just become bywords for "things I don't like" it doesn't matter what the people who use these terms would like them to mean, it matters how and the context in which they use it.
You're right that Marxist, communist and fascist have become generic insults in the US, particularly the first two.
Racist however has a specific meaning but the racists would love it to lose its meaning. So they're deliberately trying to misuse it but it's failing because enough people are using the word correctly.
An amusingly partisan post...Hence phrases like "PC gone mad", "woke" and "virtue signalling" have just become bywords for "things I don't like" it doesn't matter what the people who use these terms would like them to mean, it matters how and the context in which they use it.
You're right that Marxist, communist and fascist have become generic insults in the US, particularly the first two.
Racist however has a specific meaning but the racists would love it to lose its meaning. So they're deliberately trying to misuse it but it's failing because enough people are using the word correctly.
captain_cynic said:
paulguitar said:
mac96 said:
Tom8 said:
M4cruiser said:
The word "Scandal".
Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
Scandal, crisis, racist, emergency.Ok, so the Post Office thing and the Infected Blood thing were big, and very serious.
But now it seems every little thing is a scandal.
Too much ...
All words that now lack any real meaning as they are used for anything and everything whether they are or they are not.
They are "fixed" by even more useless words like;
Task force or tsar, who have a "laser focus"(on not achieving anything at all, but will get paid lots for it.
It's always happened- see 'b
d' which no longer means child of unmarried parents!.
Hence phrases like "PC gone mad", "woke" and "virtue signalling" have just become bywords for "things I don't like" it doesn't matter what the people who use these terms would like them to mean, it matters how and the context in which they use it.
You're right that Marxist, communist and fascist have become generic insults in the US, particularly the first two.
Racist however has a specific meaning but the racists would love it to lose its meaning. So they're deliberately trying to misuse it but it's failing because enough people are using the word correctly.
Some are lost causes- most of the people accusing others of Marxism probably have no idea what a Marxist is .
Some still have their original meanig .I agree that 'racist ' still does, but misuse as abuse is eroding it.
captain_cynic said:
Dagnir said:
An amusingly partisan post...
In other words, you want to argue against it but can't."Partisan" is another word that's losing its meaning due to constant misuse, particularly in the US.
You were saying that the insults the right use against me are all meaningless but the insults the left use against the right are still ok.
Overused leftist insults still have meaning.
Overused rightoid insults have lost theirs
About as obviously partisan as you can get!
Then you hilariously follow up with "I'm correct and you're so wrong you cant even articulate it"
Which is amusingly ironic....
Muppet.
Edited by Dagnir on Wednesday 22 May 16:17
snuffy said:
21st Century Man said:
Stick Legs said:
What's the difference between English and American-English?
My keyboard is set to English English but still spell checker automatically turns it into American English even though I've typed it in correctly. Specialise is turned into Specialize and so on, and I have to correct the autocorrect. The software you are using is doing the spell checking, so you need to set that to the language you want.
For example, mine:
Office:
Chrome:
" Dying on a [ that ] Hill " is a rather popular phrase these days.
Your willingness to pursue with wholehearted
conviction and/or single-minded focus, with little or no regard to the cost.
You hear it a lot when a political correspondent is reporting that a major politician
has a lot to lose by adhering to an unpopular policy or stance.
It doesn't annoy me now, but it will eventually.
Your willingness to pursue with wholehearted
conviction and/or single-minded focus, with little or no regard to the cost.
You hear it a lot when a political correspondent is reporting that a major politician
has a lot to lose by adhering to an unpopular policy or stance.
It doesn't annoy me now, but it will eventually.
motco said:
Wheelbrace said:
With regard to politicians.
“In power.”
I wish people would refer to them as “in office,” which is exactly what they are.
Might help them learn a little humility and go some way to reminding them who they actually work for, and who they are meant to serve.
“In power.”
I wish people would refer to them as “in office,” which is exactly what they are.
Might help them learn a little humility and go some way to reminding them who they actually work for, and who they are meant to serve.
Wheelbrace said:
With regard to politicians.
“In power.”
I wish people would refer to them as “in office,” which is exactly what they are.
Might help them learn a little humility and go some way to reminding them who they actually work for, and who they are meant to serve.
"This government" started being said a few years ago, instead of "The government".“In power.”
I wish people would refer to them as “in office,” which is exactly what they are.
Might help them learn a little humility and go some way to reminding them who they actually work for, and who they are meant to serve.
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