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Post by onlyMark on Apr 18, 2018 15:18:34 GMT
Shouldn't it be 'soccer parent' nowadays anyway? It moves away from the sexist connotation.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 18, 2018 16:40:17 GMT
Or "soccer caregiver".
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Post by lagatta on Apr 19, 2018 1:15:06 GMT
Well, I guess I can be Livia's calcio human as she bats all manner of things around the flat. Now she is obseseed with clean and balled socks. Thought she viewed them as prey, but she is making that strange mummy cat yowl. No, Livia, they are not your kittens.
Unless we are discussing child care or parental responsibilities, very often there is no reason to mention whether an adult human is a mum or a dad...
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2018 3:58:34 GMT
I'm also nnoyed by how often female is used when woman would be more appropriate. I even heard this on a tv show: "My husband is seeing another female." Shoot -- that could mean heterosexual bestiality.
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Post by bjd on Apr 19, 2018 5:03:55 GMT
As much as I dislike the word "gifted" as a verb, I thought it was recent usage. But in Scotland, in a town called Peebles (love the name!), we saw a plaque mentioning a building that was gifted to the city in 1884.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 19, 2018 5:35:04 GMT
I'm also nnoyed by how often female is used when woman would be more appropriate. I even heard this on a tv show: "My husband is seeing another female." Shoot -- that could mean heterosexual bestiality. It certainly would in French. "Femelle" is reserved for the sexuality of animals.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 20, 2018 13:44:19 GMT
It can sometimes refer to a "human woman", but it is very derogatory.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 20, 2018 13:58:25 GMT
In France, when it is used that way, it is not necessarily derogatory but it is definitely a bit crude in every sense of the term, for example to compliment physical attributes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2018 16:40:32 GMT
In Spanish you identify your pets as male or female, but your children as man or woman, as in "I have two men and one woman", rather than "two boys and a girl". Even though to English-speaking ears referring to children that way sounds funny, it doesn't sound as awful as "I have two males and a female" sounds. Well, since in English we say we have a boy or a girl even if the child is an adult, that must sound funny to Spanish-speakers. At any rate, I found yet another example of female being used where woman would be more appropriate: This is the title of an MSN news story: Tired of 'tech bros,' she founded female-only island
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 28, 2018 0:25:04 GMT
I hesitate to even include this in "words that you hate" because it's not even a real word, although of course all kinds of people who should know better have pounced on it. I think it's been around for at least a couple of years, but since I just saw it used in a Guardian headline ........ moreish
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2018 0:52:45 GMT
I hate most if not all words with the adage "ish" although, I do confess to using some.
In what context was the word used if I might ask?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 28, 2018 1:03:13 GMT
Here it's used in connection with a recipe: Maggie Beer's plum tart is rustic, simple and utterly more-ish.
And here is The Guardian's tv review that flipped my switch:
Bodyguard review: Jed Mercurio’s latest thriller is as dark and moreish as we hoped
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Post by lagatta on Aug 28, 2018 2:41:18 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 19, 2018 19:03:09 GMT
I despise the expression "baby bump."
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Post by lagatta on Oct 19, 2018 23:53:29 GMT
It is a detestable expression. Pregnancy is at once a marvellous and very dangerous condition, even in modern countries with excellent health care. Neither the mum's uterus nor the foetus is a "bump".
My vet friend used to have a blog about health and healthcare matters, human and otherwise animal, and spoke about the "critical" nature of pregnancy for all mammals. She also has two ... boys? ... currently a teen and a young man.
It is a cutesy term that gets dragged out for celebrity and royal birth stalkers.
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Post by questa on Oct 20, 2018 9:51:13 GMT
"Oooh...your baby bump is getting bigger!"
"You mean my uterine fundus height is rising, don't you?"
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Post by bjd on Oct 20, 2018 11:49:02 GMT
I don't remember exactly when pregnant women stopped being dressed by Omar the Tent-maker and started wearing tight long t-shirts to emphasize their bellies.
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Post by questa on Oct 20, 2018 13:58:50 GMT
Didn't Demi Moore do a photo shoot displaying a late term belly. Cover of a magazine??
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 20, 2018 14:19:22 GMT
Yes, but I'm not sure if that was the turning point.
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Post by whatagain on Oct 20, 2018 14:20:19 GMT
If the child is finally unwanted does it become a baby dump ?
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Post by questa on Oct 21, 2018 2:05:06 GMT
Could be worse....Baby Trump???
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 23, 2018 22:33:20 GMT
I despise the expression "baby bump." Oh, ditto ditto ditto!!! I don't remember exactly when pregnant women stopped being dressed by Omar the Tent-maker and started wearing tight long t-shirts to emphasize their bellies. Right. Isn't there some happy medium between those two styles? I've probably ranted about this before, but what the heck ~ what is the damned deal with women stroking, stroking, stroking their pregnant stomachs? It's genies that come out that way. Somebody needs to clue them about birth. And related to that is the infinite annoyance of seeing women hold their pregnant stomachs. What the hell -- do they think they're going to pop open like a seed pod. The fact that both of these things are learned trendy asininity, probably from blogs, makes them even more irritating.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 19, 2018 20:44:35 GMT
I already hate the term "no filter" and I had barely begun to hate the term "filter."
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Post by lagatta on Nov 20, 2018 14:18:44 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 20, 2018 14:29:00 GMT
Well obviously -- I used a coffee filter for years, basically for guests and my parents. I no longer have a coffee maker since I have no guests and no parents. You know what kind of filter I mean without resorting to pedantry.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 20, 2018 14:50:58 GMT
I’ve probably ranted about this before, but what the heck ~ what is the damned deal with women stroking, stroking, stroking their pregnant stomachs? It's genies that come out that way. Somebody needs to clue them about birth. And related to that is the infinite annoyance of seeing women hold their pregnant stomachs. What the hell -- do they think they're going to pop open like a seed pod. The fact that both of these things are learned trendy asininity, probably from blogs, makes them even more irritating. Might it not be communicating with the pre-born, similar to talking to and playing music to babies in the womb? And isn’t a 20# lump attached to ones midsection enough reason to hold it? I have never been pregnant, but that’s a lot of extra weight to carry around.
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Post by bjd on Nov 20, 2018 16:16:04 GMT
Well, it's not like you suddenly hoist a weight onto your stomach -- it develops slowly.And anyway, most women seem to complain about back pain, since as the child gets bigger, your posture changes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 20, 2018 16:21:47 GMT
Thanks, Bjd!
Maybe the idiocy of people holding their pregnant abdomens developed from watching tv & movies wherein actresses use prosthetics to appear pregnant. Possibly they unconsciously held the fake pregnancy to keep it from slipping, accidentally causing a monkey-see, monkey-do reaction.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 21, 2018 11:40:46 GMT
Well, it's not like you suddenly hoist a weight onto your stomach -- it develops slowly.And anyway, most women seem to complain about back pain, since as the child gets bigger, your posture changes. Wouldn’t supporting a weight attached to one’s front side ease strain on one’s backside? And breasts grow gradually too, but some well-endowed women choose breast reduction surgery to ease their backaches.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 21, 2018 12:37:50 GMT
Not if they're about to nurse a baby!
I've never gone through a pregnancy Once I was pregnant but had a miscarriage - I'm RH negative and would probably have to undergo certain measures if I actually wanted to carry a foetus to term. Was relieved not to have to undergo an abortion.
Backache was indeed something I feared. Of course if one really wants to be a parent, one deals with it.
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