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 ex hibitionist  Hastings 14 Jun 18 8.46pm |
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hate to be a grammar snob but I want to punch anyone who demands their employees are 'work-ready' - it's 'ready for work' you total c*nt ... I've heard jobs that give you a bit of prep time referred to as 'time-rich' ...oh please...then there's body-confident ... enough to make you sick-imminent ... examples please
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| Lakeview Lincoln 14 Jun 18 8.57pm |
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How about a school being "data-rich"! I hate this jargon nonsense, creating new gimmicky ways of speaking.
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| HeathMan Purley 14 Jun 18 11.40pm |
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That is one trouble with English - everyone seeks to modify it to create their own language (as spoken by their particular group. I have recently been corresponding with a new (USA) member of my family - he complimented me (and Margaret - 'er indoors) on our fandom (as Palace supporters). Good job he explained himself.
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chateauferret  15 Jun 18 12.41am |
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We seem to be confusing jargon (a particular kind of usage and coinage in specific subject domains) with the practice of jamming words together to juxtapose their meanings. The latter has been common in other Germanic languages for ages and in German you can do it to your heart's content: the head honcho of the company that runs steam ships on Lake Constance is der Bodenseedampfschifffahrtgesellschaftsleiter (seven elements). There don't seem to be too many problems with fishwife, catnip or even ready-made or oven-ready. And the problem with jargon is that it's too often generated by smartarses whose job it is to conceal the fact that they haven't the slightest idea WTF they're talking about. Business bulls*** doesn't have to be compound, or hyphenated, or involve adjectives. See the Wikipedia article on neologisms for examples. That said I find business bulls*** most annoying when they try to coin portmanteaux, that is words made up by shoving together a bit of one word and another bit of another. The result is usually pretty ham-fisted. This again from Wikipedia (itself a portmanteau), article on portmanteau words: "The business lexicon is replete with newly coined portmanteau words like "permalance" (permanent freelance), "advertainment" (advertising as entertainment), "advertorial" (a blurred distinction between advertising and editorial), "infotainment" (information about entertainment or itself intended to entertain by virtue of its manner of presentation), and "infomercial" (informational commercial)." A whole battery of cringeworthy coinages there. Edited by chateauferret (15 Jun 2018 1.01am)
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| Midlands Eagle 15 Jun 18 7.15am |
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Why do many people nowadays start sentences and paragraphs (on forums especially) with the word "so"
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| .TUX. 15 Jun 18 7.41am |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Why do many people nowadays start sentences and paragraphs (on forums especially) with the word "so" This bloody annoys me.
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Cannonball  High in the Ozarks. 15 Jun 18 10.49am |
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Originally posted by .TUX.
This bloody annoys me. Me too,,and people who make every sentence they say sound like a question make me want to punch their lights out.
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 Hrolf The Ganger 15 Jun 18 11.07am |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Why do many people nowadays start sentences and paragraphs (on forums especially) with the word "so" I want to punch people who do that. It's an Americanism. Then there are others who start an answer with 'Yeah,no' Stop it. Stop it now.
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| Midlands Eagle 15 Jun 18 11.59am |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Then there are others who start an answer with 'Yeah,no' Stop it. Stop it now. Starting a sentence with "look" seems to be a favourite of Australian cricketers when being interviewed but most of them will be wishing that we hadn't been "looking"
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| Hrolf The Ganger 15 Jun 18 1.10pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Starting a sentence with "look" seems to be a favourite of Australian cricketers when being interviewed but most of them will be wishing that we hadn't been "looking" Certainly seems to be a southern hemisphere thing... like cheating.
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| chateauferret 15 Jun 18 1.18pm |
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Why do people think the following are verbs? To "be like". "She was like 'we haven't any' and I was like 'why not?'". You mean "said". To "of". "We should of gone". It's "have". To "heart". "I heart Glasgow". "Like" or "love". FFS.
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| Stuk Top half 15 Jun 18 4.37pm |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
Why do people think the following are verbs? To "be like". "She was like 'we haven't any' and I was like 'why not?'". You mean "said". To "of". "We should of gone". It's "have". To "heart". "I heart Glasgow". "Like" or "love". FFS. You're mishearing it, it's a posh English person expressing their dislike for the place.
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