Is the English Language being bastardized?
- Thread starter JLM
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English stayed the same for years because of the King James bible. It's fallen off and so now the language evolves faster than it normally would. I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't really care except for how things are translated now. It changes that. That can be an issue.
A previous occupation I was in used the term "previously enjoyed" instead of
"pre-owned" or "used."
I like that. I was previously enjoyed...
but now, sorrowfully ignored.
Waaaaa!!!
Pre-owned is the term we use for wastewater/sewage. When somebody's sewer backs up into their basement, we call it off site storage.
I liked that septic tanker that had "Yesterday's Meals on Wheels" written on the back.
Just as places ask for your "gently used" items for donation! I guess it's the nicer way of saying - don't bring us your crap!
It's funny, and some people sort of buy it. If it's not a total wreck I suppose. But pre-owned is what they often use instead of used by used car dealers.
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What kid ever "gently uses" his toys? What kid really cares (as long as it works).?
I collect Fisher Price toys and once dropped off a box of "well played with" toys at the children's hospital.
The wooden ones never break -unless of course, you provide the child with a saw, hammer and nails as well!
It's quite sad how these wonderful wooden toys - never got there. I just sell them now.
We recycle boxes here at work but they call them "previously loved".
In that context, I guess I've recycled a few people as well.
I just heard a beauty (repeated five or six times) on C.B.C. radio this morning. A woman was talking about restoring an old cemetary and trying to locate the old graves and was explaining how equipment was being brought in to determine where people were "interned". :lol:
Another one you see quite often is "mute" for the word "moot".
Another one you see quite often is "mute" for the word "moot".
