"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" wrote in
message ...
I'm really irritated by bandwagon terminology.
Words and terms like


Then don't read them, and if your hear them on TV or radio, turn the sound
down. Alas you (nor I) are not in a position to say what terminology
anyone
can/should use.


The first two are not possible.
1) One has to read them to know they are there ... one cannot then unread
them.
2) One has to hear them to know they were said - turning the sound down
afterward does not get them un-said.

3) Of course we are - it is called 'public opinion' and it can have an
effect.

Gianna

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:51:58 GMT, (phil) wrote:

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:48:40 +0000 (UTC), "Lawrence Jenkins"
wrote:

I'm really irritated by bandwagon terminology.
Words and terms like

snip

And can I add to that list the word:

Absolutely



Absolutely, and when media forecasters find some ointment to treat the "rash" of
showers and those "spits and spots", and provide protection for those that
"peck" at the coast "from the word 'go'", I might find it necessary to add
"dumbing down" to the list.


Martin

"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
...
I'm really irritated by bandwagon terminology.
Words and terms like

I am not too keen on the word 'bandwagon'.

Alan

3) Of course we are - it is called 'public opinion' and it can have an
effect.

Gianna

Indeed it can but I'm not quite so wound up about third parties using language
they are comfortable with that perhaps I personally may not use, as language is
a dynamic thing - it it were not, we'd all be thee'ing & thou'ing each other
still ;-) There'll come a time when today's irritating phrases are no longer
used and replaced by some new irritating phrases.





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"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" wrote in
message ...
3) Of course we are - it is called 'public opinion' and it can have an
effect.

Gianna

Indeed it can but I'm not quite so wound up about third parties using
language
they are comfortable with that perhaps I personally may not use, as
language is
a dynamic thing - it it were not, we'd all be thee'ing & thou'ing each
other
still ;-) There'll come a time when today's irritating phrases are no
longer
used and replaced by some new irritating phrases.



Verily thou art not wrong about that (:
It is true that the situation could be much worse. Instead of persons on tv
(and elsewhere) beginning every other sentence with 'At the end of the day
....' they might start saying things like 'At twenty three fifty nine fifty
nine ...'. This might endear them to Zager and Evans at least (if 'still
alive').

Many languages have happily retained their 'informal you' (thou) and I am
unsure why English evolved to have only a 'formal You' ... that is perhaps a
greater 'crime' than modish speech.
At that I must apologise for the use of 'thou' as I do not know you well
enough to be so informal (:

Gianna

At that I must apologise for the use of 'thou' as I do not know you well
enough to be so informal (:

Gianna

Verrily I say unto thee, there be no need to apologise ;-)



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"Gianna Stefani" wrote in message
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"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
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:


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:48:40 +0000 (UTC), "Lawrence Jenkins"
wrote:


I'm really irritated by bandwagon terminology.
Words and terms like

snip

And can I add to that list the word:

Absolutely

Whilst you're at it: basically.

Richard

Not to mention 'x is the new y' ..... I really hate that .... just got a
spam email telling me that in winter 'staying in' is the new 'going out'
..... I screamed very loudly.

Gianna



I had briefly forgotten ...... 'any-word' + 'gate' !!!!!

Gianna


Does that include any norse street called ...gate, like Northgate ;-)

Joe
Wolverhampton

Alan Gardiner wrote:
"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
...

I'm really irritated by bandwagon terminology.
Words and terms like


I am not too keen on the word 'bandwagon'.

Alan

I'm not too keen on the english language alphabet ;-)

Joe
Wolverhampton

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:
3) Of course we are - it is called 'public opinion' and it can have an
effect.

Gianna


Indeed it can but I'm not quite so wound up about third parties using language
they are comfortable with that perhaps I personally may not use, as language is
a dynamic thing - it it were not, we'd all be thee'ing & thou'ing each other
still ;-) There'll come a time when today's irritating phrases are no longer
used and replaced by some new irritating phrases.



Sooner the very patronising and irritating phrase 'significant other' is
put in the dustbin the better

Joe
Wolverhampton

I am not too keen on the word 'bandwagon'.

Alan

Exactly - whoops , there's another one.