Re: OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It
From: Dirk Bruere at Neopax (dirk_at_neopax.com)
Date: 01/06/05
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:33:08 +0000
Richard the Dreaded Liberal wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:01:35 +0000, Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:
>
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>>Bob Stephens wrote:
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>>>On 5 Jan 2005 02:11:56 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
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>>>>There are two conflicting processes working here.
>>>>
>>>>People who misuse a word look like idiots to everybody who knows the
>>>>accepted meaning, but if the idiots can drag in a sufficient number of
>>>>other idiots, their perversion of the original word changes the
>>>>accepted meaning.
>>>>
>>>>"Prestigious" is the classic example - the Complete Oxford still lists
>>>>it as meaning deceptive or illusory. I still worry about the
>>>>educational level of people who use the word as if it is related to
>>>>"prestige" in its second sense, involving (good) reputation, but they
>>>>no longer rate as idiots.
>>>>
>>>>John Woodgate probably knows even better examples.
>>>>----------
>>>>Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
>>>
>>>
>>>Two of my pet hatreds:
>>>
>>>Some idiot with a harelip around 1978 mispronounced mnemonics as 'numonics'
>>>and now I see it everywhere including college textbooks.
>>>
>>>The other one is the spoken use of 'peripheral'. 8 people out of 10 say
>>>'peripheal' these days.
>>>
>>>Oh yeah, then there's 'nucular' and 'simular'. ARRRGH!!!
>>
>>Very glamorous and fascinating.
>
>
> This is the most unique opinion I've ever heard! Very unique! Very unique
> indeed!
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