The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132499   Message #4178403
Posted By: leeneia
03-Aug-23 - 08:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Here's another term that irritates me: "broken," when it's used to make sweeping discouraging claims.

Somebody has a YouTube about one psychologist at Harvard who supposedly faked some data, and the heading is "Academia is broken." I asked if the YouTuber actually knew everything about the hundreds of universities and thousands of teachers and students that constitute "academia," but I didn't get a response.

Then we find The South is Broken, and How to Fix the Broken Supreme Court.

Somebody started a thread saying the Mudcat is broken, yet here we are, chatting, and the DT is still working. Plus the Singaround has been going for about two years.