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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts) Mon Apr 4, 2016, 01:44 AM Apr 2016

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People who use the word "resources", when they actually mean "money".....

.... should be taken out and *shot*.

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People who use the word "resources", when they actually mean "money"..... (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus Apr 2016 OP

I don't have the resources to properly address this issue A HERETIC I AM Apr 2016 #1

Mo' resources mo' problems. Socal31 Apr 2016 #2

I feel the same way about "optics" in place of "appearances" Orrex Apr 2016 #3

May I add to the list? Ron Obvious Apr 2016 #4

When I was a kid we used to goof on what we called 'cop talk'. Smarmie Doofus Apr 2016 #5

A HERETIC I AM

(24,373 posts)

1. I don't have the resources to properly address this issue

Reply to Smarmie Doofus (Original post)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 02:38 AM

Apr 2016

Socal31

(2,484 posts)

2. Mo' resources mo' problems.

Reply to Smarmie Doofus (Original post)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 03:08 AM

Apr 2016

Orrex

(63,219 posts)

3. I feel the same way about "optics" in place of "appearances"

Reply to Smarmie Doofus (Original post)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 07:12 AM

Apr 2016

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

4. May I add to the list?

Reply to Smarmie Doofus (Original post)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 09:37 AM

Apr 2016

"Populace" instead of "people".
"Utilise" instead of "use".
"Whilst" instead of "while".

I'm sure I can think of others, but this will be sufficient to be getting on with the purges.

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)

5. When I was a kid we used to goof on what we called 'cop talk'.

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 10:06 AM

Apr 2016

Example: "We apprehended the perpetrator as he was exiting the edifice."

That was in the 70s. Now everyone talks this way.

George Carlin has a good snippet on you tube re. the corruption of language ( and, by extension, of THOUGHT) achieved via the gradual accretion of syllables. Carlin's most memorable example: 'shell shock' has evolved since WWII to "post-traumatic stress disorder."

The psychology seems to be: "The more syllables I can come up with.... the smarter ( and more convincing) I sound."

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