Annoying new trend in verbal communication, especially among academics: "Vis a vie."

Vis a vie. As in, "What do you think of Theorist A's idea vis a vie Theorist B's idea?"

It's now used as lazy shorthand to replace "in comparison to" or "as opposed to" or "as compared to."


Annoying!

:nuke: <-- Obligatory nuclear emoticon - a shorthand to express my annoyance. :P

to catchy new jargon that anything that annoys you now will fade out of favor relatively quickly (for example, I haven't heard the execrable "praxis" for I don't know how long). Eventually, the whole buzz-word game will cease to bother you at all...

practice informed by theory, love it

curriculum vitae, won't you?

If you are an educator, praxis is a perfect way to understand your craft, or any job or art for that matter, since it requires you to reflect upon your actions and how they are structured and then to modify everything accordingly. Most professions are entirely theory driven, whether you recognize it or not. Unreflective practice, or practice that claims that it is not informed by theory, is reactionary.

Praxis is the first step toward liberation.

by several orders of magnitude.

I've been reading all morning. :hangover:

Knowing French and so on. Aren't you embarrassed, now, I mean vis-à-vis spelling corrections?

fiy: The earliest known use of the phrase in English dates from 1751. Hardly a "trend."

I had a poli-sci faculty adviser who used it all the time. Maybe these things come in cycles. But he only used it in oral communication, not written.

:P

Half a bee, philosophically,
Must, ipso facto, half not be.
But half the bee has got to be
Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see?

But can a bee be said to be
Or not to be an entire bee
When half the bee is not a bee
Due to some ancient injury?

Singing...

La dee dee, one two three,
Eric the half a bee.
A B C D E F G,
Eric the half a bee.

Is this wretched demi-bee,
Half-asleep upon my knee,
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric the half a bee!

Fiddle de dum, Fiddle de dee,
Eric the half a bee.
Ho ho ho, tee hee hee,
Eric the half a bee.

I love this hive, employee-ee,
Bisected accidentally,
One summer afternoon by me,
I love him carnally.

He loves him carnally,
Semi-carnally.
The end.

Cyril Connelly?
No; semi-carnally!
Oh.

Cyril Connelly.

"Good evening. I have with me Mr. Arthur Frampton, who has... Mr. Frampton, I understand that you... er, as it were... have, er... well, let me put it another way: I believe, Mr. Frampton, that whereas most people have... er, two... two... you... you..."

"I'm sorry?"

"Ah, yes, yes, I see... Um, are you quite comfortable?"

"Yes, fine, thank you."

"Er, Mr. Frampton, vis-à-vis... your... rump."

"I beg your pardon?"

"Er, your rump."

"What?"

"Your posterior.... derriere... sit-upon."

"What's that?"

(whispers) "Buttocks."

"Oh, me bum!"

"Sshhh! Well, Mr. Frampton... I understand, Mr. Frampton, you have a... 50-percent bonus in the... in the region of what you said."

"I got three cheeks."

:D :hi:

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Vis-a-vis is the French expression for "face to face."

It means you want to or are having a face to face, personal conversation with someone. The telephone or a letter just won't cut it. s

The idea that two concepts can be "vis a vis" is wrong, IMO.

and even then, it was the really hard core political scientists, the ones who lived and breathed on political theory and statistics.

I think academics and other intelligentsia have been saying that for decades...

:hi: you.
:pals:

:P

hee hee! I see that all the time. :)

It's the new "frisson"

Another example....


http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/08/most.annoying.words/index.html


NEW YORK (CNN) -- Nearly half of Americans surveyed said they find "whatever" to be the most annoying word or phrase, according to a poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

-snip-

"The list was so long so we said 'why not do a poll,' " Azzoli said.

"You know" was the second most annoying phrase.

That phrase was spotlighted last winter, when Caroline Kennedy was being considered for the U.S. Senate seat from New York, vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

-snip-

At one point, Kennedy said "you know" four times in one sentence.

"You know, I can tell you, you know, in my family, you know, there was a sense, you know, we have to work twice as hard," she said.

Politico.com said Kennedy used the phrase 142 times in the Times interview.