Real Words or Bo**ix?

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Being an old grumpy pedant, I can’t help but get animated when I hear “new” words that sound like they’ve generated by a computer.
For example, today (from over the pond)... ”intergaging”. From the context in which it was used I think it’s merging of interacting and engaging.
The list goes on!
 
Better than - in some countries that had new child names based on the initial alphabets in parents' names. The child of Anthony and Alessia was named Anal. #headbang
 
Some years ago The Economist produced a glossary of British Eduspeak.

Satisfactory means unsatisfactory
Inadequate means dire
Excellence and enjoyment are mutually exclusive*
Gifted and talented means top 10%
A specialist school could refer to most comprehensive schools
An independent government-commissioned review is one designed to find what the government wants it to find.

*“Enjoying reading” and “excelling in music” are howlers in eduspeak.


Translating eduspeak

What they mean when they say
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kurienp said:
Better than - in some countries that had new child names based on the initial alphabets in parents' names. The child of Anthony and Alessia was named Anal. #headbang
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When I worked in telecoms my boss wrote an email without keeping an eye on her spell check and "analogue" got changed to "anal log".
 
Amarillo said:
Some years ago The Economist produced a glossary of British Eduspeak.

Satisfactory means unsatisfactory
Inadequate means dire
Excellence and enjoyment are mutually exclusive*
Gifted and talented means top 10%
A specialist school could refer to most comprehensive schools
An independent government-commissioned review is one designed to find what the government wants it to find.

*“Enjoying reading” and “excelling in music” are howlers in eduspeak.


Translating eduspeak

What they mean when they say
www.economist.com www.economist.com
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Satisfactory .... when used in appraisements is a good example!
 
The American word to describe being robbed?

Burglarised!
 
You tube kids is the one I hate for language my 5 year old has decided that I take the trash out for the garbage truck where he dumps his candy wrappers. I have to count to 10 to let my boiling blood cool down
 
Jay gas said:
You tube kids is the one I hate for language my 5 year old has decided that I take the trash out for the garbage truck where he dumps his candy wrappers. I have to count to 10 to let my boiling blood cool down
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Mom next!
 
Well said ArunAlan
Impact has become the most inappropriately used word of the decade... (Impacted is even worse!)
How many words have grown the -ality suffix to create new and unnecessary words - functionality, musicality, neutrality, generality!
 
Here in this part of the midlands, “mom” is the normal spelling. Not sure if it has changed or been that way for a long time.


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Amarillo said:
Words and even whole sentences in English and American can mean completely different things.
For example, consider the word "rubber" in English and American, or the quite natural question asked by a smoker in an English pub "I'm feeling a little queer, could we go outside together so I can bum a fag?" and the possible misinterpretation if asked in a San Francisco bar.
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each to their own.
 
In January alone some 550 words and phrases were added to the English Oxford Dictionary and over 2500 the year before. I would have thought that the English language has evolved such that it is more than adequate to cover any requirement. Apart from the technical and medical areas very few new words are needed judging by the examples I have seen. Maybe these new 'words' could instead be added to a new separate dictionary so as not to pollute the common dictionary. Maybe this is progress :confused:
 
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