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[Misc] Abundance of Caution
- Thread starter Lindfield by the Pond
- Start date
And if you **** up you can always claim you missspoke.
Like the NSC one:
Read,
Think about it,
Post thoughtful reply.
As exemplified by [MENTION=144]goldstone[/MENTION]
Wellesley
Well-known member
- Jul 24, 2013
- 4,973
Gilliver's Travels
Peripatetic
All these Yank-endangered English words...
Impacted has replaced affected. 'This will impact their travel plans'
Likely has displaced probably - even on the BBC news. 'He will likely go to Spurs.'
No more criticising - miscreants are now to be'called out'.
The verb to meet has been made intransitive, so Johnson meets with Biden.
People no longer make contact . Instead everyone's 'reaching out' (for the sickbag, possibly)
This seemingly unstoppable Linguistic Guff Stream now has impressionable young English women speaking in a weird strangled squawk, each sentence ending with that ghastly All-American death-rattle (the dreaded speech fry). Why?
And so on. Language changes, for sure. But this phenomenon is an entirely one-way valve (although some reportedly did start saying 'fab' in the 1960s).
You don't hear those darned Yankees (inventors of BS and MF, of course) using good old British swearwords, like bloody, bugger and wanker. But why on earth not?
Impacted has replaced affected. 'This will impact their travel plans'
Likely has displaced probably - even on the BBC news. 'He will likely go to Spurs.'
No more criticising - miscreants are now to be'called out'.
The verb to meet has been made intransitive, so Johnson meets with Biden.
People no longer make contact . Instead everyone's 'reaching out' (for the sickbag, possibly)
This seemingly unstoppable Linguistic Guff Stream now has impressionable young English women speaking in a weird strangled squawk, each sentence ending with that ghastly All-American death-rattle (the dreaded speech fry). Why?
And so on. Language changes, for sure. But this phenomenon is an entirely one-way valve (although some reportedly did start saying 'fab' in the 1960s).
You don't hear those darned Yankees (inventors of BS and MF, of course) using good old British swearwords, like bloody, bugger and wanker. But why on earth not?
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,432
To be fair, I've spent a number of months training some American colleagues online. I'm thrown in a WNK, a BLKS and they all understand. One even said they fancied a pint.
We got lost on "brackets" though as in (). I can't make it stick. I've to had to learn to call them parentheses which makes me feel ill, alongside "share" and "reach out".