tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post3311071253170176021..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: WORD-QUIRKTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-80537038658250782682015-04-17T00:16:36.254-05:002015-04-17T00:16:36.254-05:00mike ~ It' back to "We're all mad he...mike ~ It' back to "We're all mad here" isn't it? <br /><br />"Words are all we have" (as the song goes), but they are being mangled at an increasing rate, like most other things humans have relied on since the year dot. :-/<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-41268448024324728392015-04-16T19:45:10.061-05:002015-04-16T19:45:10.061-05:00So...(LOL)...if postmodern is weird, how about neo...So...(LOL)...if postmodern is weird, how about neomodern? This Wiki paragraph has it all:<br /><br />"Neomodern architecture continues modernism as a dominant form of architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries, especially in corporate offices. It tends to be used for certain segments of buildings. Many residential houses tend to embrace postmodern, new classical and neo-eclectic styles, for instance, and major monuments today most often opt for starchitect inspired uniqueness."<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neomodern<br /><br />And "starchitect"!?!?<br /><br />"Starchitect is a portmanteau used to describe architects whose celebrity and critical acclaim have transformed them into idols of the architecture world and may even have given them some degree of fame amongst the general public. Celebrity status is generally associated with avant-gardist novelty."<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starchitect<br /><br />A Latino friend told me that when he arrived in the USA, he thought he had a decent command of the English language, as he studied it thoroughly prior to immigrating. His first job in the states was cleaning offices and his boss told him to "dust" the furniture one night. Fortunately, he asked for clarification and was told to remove the dust (not add it), but his boss told him that his questions were "rubbing him the wrong way". LOL. It's easy to get into trouble with words.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-10602146373300750132015-04-16T09:29:41.005-05:002015-04-16T09:29:41.005-05:00Sabina ~ LOL! Oh yes, I should have included tha...Sabina ~ LOL! Oh yes, I should have included that I realise the origin of the hashtag menace - I have a Twitter account - used mainly to read Tweets of a handful of others, mostly I'm a silent bird. I'll occasionally glance down the list of hashtagged "Trending" topics, sometimes spot that someone famous has died, before I've seen the news elsewhere - oh yes, and I do enjoy the Tweets of God. ;-)<br /><br />The hashtag menace to which I was meaning to refer is the use of the word outside of Twitter, jokingly (I guess) in normal, real life conversation, usually between young people. A strange creeping menace?<br /><br />The "so" thing is just... erm... SO silly, it has to be caused by some new intrusion of a human parrot gene.<br /><br />I agree on the other examples you mention - I can't see how or why those "caught on".<br /><br />Another annoyance came to mind as I'm typing - "very unique" is creeping in. Something is unique or not unique it can't be very unique.<br /> Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-19679020276450710572015-04-16T01:35:24.522-05:002015-04-16T01:35:24.522-05:00Hashtags in convos usually refer to hot twitter or...Hashtags in convos usually refer to hot twitter or instagram topics, viz:<br />https://support.twitter.com/articles/49309-using-hashtags-on-twitter#<br />You can say a little bird told you so ;P<br /><br />I too have noticed that everyone begins sentences with 'so' these days - even scientists on our CBC radio program 'Quirks and Quarks'.<br /><br />Another usage that drives me to distraction is what I term 'doodoo' speak, where simple straightforward verbs like work or play have been replaced with 'do' work and 'do' play.<br /><br />Or how about the replacement of 'patients', 'clients', 'students', etc. with 'consumers' and/or 'stakeholders'. Ugh ugh ugh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com