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Post by onlyMark on Oct 8, 2020 6:52:01 GMT
I went to the butcher's this morning and bespoke (bespeaked) my Christmas turkey.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 15, 2022 4:54:23 GMT
... one that puts my teeth on edge: "mom" instead of "mother", as in "She is a busy mom and entrepreneur." No. Her "kiddos" might call her Mom, but she is generically to the outside world a mother. I wrote that almost a year ago and now it appears the word mother has been completely replaced by mom. I just finished reading a news story about a murder victim. She was referred to as "the mom of three". Okay. I would not have believed this if I had not read it with my own eyes -- eyes which are in danger of rolling completely out of my head. This is part of a description for a watch: Mom of pearl
godinheaven!!!!!!!!
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Post by bjd on Mar 15, 2022 7:56:23 GMT
Obviously the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
My French daughter-in-law is always surprised when our grandson, who just turned 4, says "ma mère" instead of "ma maman". He gets it from our son, of course but it's a bit unusual for a little kid.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 15, 2022 10:14:04 GMT
Mère, pouvez-vous je vous prie me prêter quelque attention...
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Post by bjd on Mar 15, 2022 12:12:30 GMT
Not like that. He'll say, "je suis allé avec ma mère" when he is talking to somebody else.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 15, 2022 16:10:37 GMT
our grandson, who just turned 4, says "ma mère" instead of "ma maman". So your grandson, who probably can't even read yet, speaks more properly than journalists and other writers presumably trained in the niceties of language!
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Post by bjd on Mar 15, 2022 16:32:50 GMT
Bixa, it's probably my doing. I used to feel stupid saying I was the "maman" of one the children when they were small, so said "mère" and my kids just picked it up and passed it on.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 15, 2022 16:41:51 GMT
It is definitely a case of how people are raised. I always referred to my mother to outsiders as "mère" because "maman" was a private family word. But some of them would ask how my "maman" was all the time, because that was the only word they used for anybody's mother. I did not take offense.
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Post by questa on Mar 16, 2022 22:53:10 GMT
Former and Ex- . I know my teeth quiver when I hear people refer to "My ex-husband" when they mean "my former husband" and I can't work out why! Can anyone help? Former has a hint of finality in the word but ex (to me)sounds more temporary.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 17, 2022 1:12:30 GMT
Well, a lot of people, male or female, straight or gay, say "my ex". I view the very short, brutal descriptor as a way of expressing finality, though you never can tell with humans.
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Post by questa on Mar 17, 2022 10:56:20 GMT
I think it is more grammatical...something like you can be ex a position or rank ...I'm an ex nurse, for example. However I am a 'former nurse' sounds awkward
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 17, 2022 11:16:40 GMT
I find "ex" more optimistic, too, because a lot of people hook up with an ex again. Former makes it sound like there is no going back.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 23, 2022 1:39:49 GMT
“Hook up” is a term I despise. (Or maybe it’s the act itself I despise. Intimacy between near strangers is a foreign concept for me, and a rather revolting one.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 23, 2022 3:43:43 GMT
A former spouse or lover would hardly be a stranger. And many people hook up with near strangers and live to tell about it .... maybe even do it again. Anyway, hooking up has other meanings, often benevolent. If you're trying to get something done -- maybe you want to dye your hair -- a friend might say something like "I can hook you up with my stylist".
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 23, 2022 6:34:34 GMT
“Hook up” is a term I despise. Me too, but I thought it was appropriate to describe what people of weak moral resolve do with their exes.
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Post by casimira on Mar 23, 2022 16:38:07 GMT
wowed (one hears this when describing something such as a garment on the red carpet whatever) "So and so wowed" with a pink gown etc.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 23, 2022 17:15:47 GMT
Definitely a term for people with limited brain cells.
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Post by questa on Mar 23, 2022 23:18:53 GMT
Really, every occupation has its own jargon and references. Sometimes they slip out of their limited use and fly around in the general public's awareness until they die out. Some take decades to disappear, others last a mere season.
Capisce?
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Post by lagatta on Mar 24, 2022 1:32:05 GMT
There are far more expressive passive verbs in French, English and other languages I speak and obviously many more I don't.
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Post by casimira on Mar 26, 2022 17:21:07 GMT
glam (presumably an abbreviation of glamorous)
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 26, 2022 17:27:27 GMT
Words like that always sound as though the person is trying too hard to be with it. Is that why words like "fab" won't go away?
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 26, 2022 17:57:27 GMT
“cool” is another one.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 26, 2022 18:02:28 GMT
Much as we may dislike glam, fab, cool, & the like, I find them preferable to the incessant use of the word "cute", which appears to be the word of choice for almost anything by under-30 women, in the US at least.
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Post by biddy on Mar 26, 2022 18:41:22 GMT
My personal pet peeve - outrage. I am constantly hearing about people being outraged. It has become so overused.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 26, 2022 19:16:56 GMT
Internet headlines are extremely guilty of this since it is a word that makes you click on the subject even when you have no idea what they're talking about. For example "Outrage at Buckingham Palace" -- even I click on things like that and then discover that they are talking about things like the serviettes being folded wrong.
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Post by casimira on Mar 27, 2022 17:03:31 GMT
I agree Kerouac. It seems to have increased over time and people continually take the "bait" thus the continued use or rather misuse of the language.
It is especially prominent with gossip about the Royals.
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 27, 2022 19:21:38 GMT
Of course, there was an occasion when an appropriately named footballer got into a scrap at a match at Crystal Palace, so a newspaper was entirely accurate in headlining the story "Queen In Brawl At Palace". My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by lagatta on Mar 28, 2022 15:27:28 GMT
Hilarious!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2022 15:32:26 GMT
And that is almost certainly before it was click bait.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 28, 2022 22:05:24 GMT
"anywho", it comes out of their mouths almost like "anywhooo" as opposed to anyway or any how. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! We have a neighbor who says “anyhoo” a lot. Definitely in place of anyhow. Kinda cutesy, I think. I have just got off the phone with a dear friend who said “anyhoo” several times during the conversation. I just realized that both she and my neighbor are from Michigan. Maybe that’s where it comes from. I also know two people from Michigan who say “bogue” in place of “bogus”, Michigan must invent its own slang.
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