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01-01-2003, 11:21 AM
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Phrases that Should Just Die!
I would have to disagree with one point though. People most certainly have died timely deaths.
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01-01-2003, 05:37 PM
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So where is the link to the complete list ??
What kind of half-assed 'news' provider is this half-way.com ??
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Oh, wait, it is there...they can't make it a link ?? geesh !
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08-26-2005, 02:06 AM
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08-26-2005, 09:21 AM
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08-26-2005, 12:17 PM
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A little heavy-handed there with the banning.
I didn't like the word "blog" when I first heard it. I actually prefer "weblog" in speech. But "journal" doesn't cut it. "Have you read my journal today?" That sounds ridiculous. Of course I haven't read your diary.
Okay, so "have you read my online journal today?" Do I have to call it an "online journal" all the time?
Give it up - it's a weblog. Or a blog.
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08-27-2005, 01:37 AM
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Yes, but blog also can be a verb and "weblogging" sounds too kludgy. |
08-27-2005, 10:42 AM
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Thus, "blogging."
Sorry, this is how new language is formed.
Making a list is fun, for humor purposes. Fun for lampooning language we don't like. But realistically you have to offer alternatives (and popularize them) for things that really do not have decent equivalents.
The reason Bushisms are such a target is because he doesn't seem to know or can't articulate the phrases that people already use for what he's trying to say.
Terms for relatively new things (the rampant trend of "online journalling" among them) fall into a different category. More like slang.
I understand hating a term like "blog" (heck, I'm glad that "'puter" seems to be dying an all-too-slow death) but terms remain based on how pertinent they are. And "blog" will be around for a while. |
08-27-2005, 11:35 AM
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08-27-2005, 12:48 PM
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Funny, we used "Uber" as a prefix when I was in high school over 20 years ago, and that trend lasted like 2 months.
I guess we were ahead of the game in adopting and rejecting it.
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12-23-2005, 04:11 AM
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I think of those 'Banished Words' should not have been placed on that list.
Some have reasons for their wordin.
But example enemy combatant: combatant means any person who is a participator, competition, yes enemy also, but it also means soldier. I am a combatant. When used in discussion it ensures that someone knows it is the enemy soldier or any other discription of the word.
Improvised Explosive Device: yes commonly known as a bomb or mine. But those are expansive words for it and leaves much to ask. Improvised- in other words means the bomb is very spontaneous and unplanned, and very makeshift. Devised by anything in within contact and means. By just saying bomb could mean pre-made ascertain. Now a prepared explovise devise, is also still a bomb, but it is organized, equiped and more operational then improvised.
Pocket of resistance: pocket also means to take for yourself, then again it also inidicates something small and compact.
I suppose it is all in how you see it... But I do agree with the blog, webinar, wardrobe..., and some others..
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